there is not a single role chris pratt does that jack black couldn’t do better
at the people saying jack black couldn’t play star lord: why? no really, go ahead and tell me. I think I know the answer but I want to hear you say it.
Everyone on the notes has galaxy brain energy
Can gifmakers please stop referring to the language Ayo speaks as 'Wakandan?' That's not a language. They're speaking Xhosa.
In the MCU the language is referred to as Xhosa. Even in the subtitles of Black Panther. The director, actors ESPECIALLY John Kani who played King T'Chaka and Xhosa being his native language worked too damn hard for the closed caption team of future MCU projects and fans to call that very real language 'Wakandan'. John Kani speaks fluent Xhosa and the cast felt it was right to make that the native language of Wakanda. So to REITERATE OP's point AGAIN: STOP calling the very REAL Xhosa language "Wakandan language".
ik we were on a boycott buuut
LETS DO IT
For years, Terry Gonzalez-Cano encouraged her children to get outside and play in the dirt. “I grew up doing everything outside, and I encouraged my kids to do the same thing. We played in the backyard, we gardened,” she said. “I thought I was being a good mother by forcing them to spend time outside.”
Gonzalez-Cano, 48, didn’t know that, for decades, the Exide lead battery recycling plant in the neighboring Los Angeles-area city of Vernon had blanketed blue-collar Latino communities with layer after layer of lead and cancer-causing arsenic.
In June 2015, the soil on her property in the LA neighborhood of Boyle Heights was tested for lead by the California department of toxic substances control. Gonzalez-Cano said the results had come back in April 2016, 10 months after her property had been tested: her home had more than double the 80 parts per million (ppm) that California deems acceptable. At her father’s home a block away, where she and her brother spent countless hours playing in the backyard when they were children, the number averaged over 800ppm. One neighbor’s soil tested so high that it surpassed the 1,000ppm required to qualify as toxic waste.
“When I found out, I couldn’t breathe,” said Gonzalez-Cano. “I felt like I was the worst mother in the world. I felt that I had killed my children.”
Sitting next to her on the couch at her home recently, her brother Jose Gonzalez emptied a plastic bag full of bracelets from his dozens of trips to the hospital for sinus cancer on to the floor. “Here’s Exide’s legacy,” he said. “I thought I was staying fit when I used to play football in the mud. I didn’t know it, but I was poisoning myself.”
Six years after their property was tested, the siblings say that the state has not given them even a prospective timeline for when their property will be cleaned up. They worry about the damage that has already been done, and the health problems they and their families may have that will only manifest with time.
The evidence of the plant’s contamination is not just in the soil of local homes, but in the teeth of the children who inhabit them. A 2019 study found high levels of lead in the teeth of local children, indicating long-term exposure that was passed along to many while they were still in their mother’s wombs. “Mothers in these communities are exposed, and they pass that exposure on to their children before they’re even born,” said Jill Johnston, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California who authored the study.
Despite its nearly 100-year presence, many in the community had never heard of Exide until less than a decade ago, although community organizers had been protesting against the plant and demanding action for many years. The company could not be reached for comment.
ok so !! 5 days until halloween, here’s your yearly reminder that día de muertos is NOT in any way shape or form, a latinamerican equivalent to halloween. día de muertos holds huge cultural importance in mexico (can’t speak for other countries), it is a day where we celebrate our loved ones who have passed and they can cross back over to spend the night with us. it’s important to me and many others, please do not use it as a prop for your halloween decorations and costumes
me listening to foreign music and not understanding a single word of it
me listening to music in my native language and not understanding a word of it
i know i’m op but mood
holy CRAP.
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There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but the Smithsonian… the Smithsonian is right.
People of color going “back off, demon” mode
i'm my mother's psychiatrist first and daughter second
Didn’t see it in the notes so here’s the list typed out w/ links:
BLACK-OWNED ALTERNATIVES TO D*LLSKILL
We Are Unapologetic (up to 5x)
Shami Oshun (currently closed 9/2/2020)
Karousel Kouture (up to 3x)
Gothic Lamb (up to 6x)
Ota-Q (up to 3x)
Girls from Planet Venus (up to 2x)
Adorned by Chi (up to 4x)
Playgang Gear (up to 3x)
Cozy Kids x Blvucci (up to 3x)
O’Dolly Dearest (only up to L)
Sugar Playhouse (currently closed 9/2/2020)
Jada Lebour (only up to 1X)
House of Aris (up to 3x)
One day booboo stewart will star in a successful show/movie that’s for adults and on that day I’ll truly win
its time! im finishing up my last couple of commissions and i dont wanna miss the milestone so if you’d like a chance at getting a drawing in the examples above please join the giveaway!
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