This is not soup and I don't like it!

tofu-nipples:

It’s holiday time, lots of people will be seeing family members this time of year and this is such an important thing to keep in mind. It’s not hard to respect other people. Using preferred pronouns is not a difficult task. It can literally save a life.

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mikaeled:

‘Cause obviously that’s not something you would ever do in real life. Hopefully. 
Megan Fox on Talk Stoop with Nessa

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lilwhitbit:

iwannabeadored:

spartalabouche:

just saying hello kittys ‘boyfriend’ is actually her girlfriend hes just a he/him lesbian. kitty and daniel are ur classic butch/femme couple and Thats that.

@lilwhitbit

YES

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taeltalks:

orelpuppington:

i LAUGH EVERY TIME I SEE THIS FUCKING PICTURE

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HELLO??? captain haddock asks, shoving the shower head against his face as water shoots out of it. HELLO??

Ok mais la version française est encore mieux avec “Allô ?” (à l'eau)

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jenniferrpovey:

gluklixhe:

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fluffmugger:

crazythingsfromhistory:

archaeologistforhire:

thegirlthewolfate:

theopensea:

kiwianaroha:

pearlsnapbutton:

desiremyblack:

smileforthehigh:

unexplained-events:

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago

These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

Or, alternatively, when you don’t. White people thought the maple syrup thing was a metaphor until we actually caught squirrel in the act. Depends on the circumstances.

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isneezedonthebeet:

adenasamin:

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jennamourey:

A Full Face of Rhinestones

#listen I don’t watch Jenna Marbles#I’ve never subscribed to hr channel#but there’s one thing about her that I absolutely respect#she does NOT clickbait#she fucking COMMITS to whatever bull shit she says she’s gonna do#90% of her video titles LOOK like clickbait#but then the video is EXACTLY what the title says#how many balloons does it take to life my chihuahua off the ground#I DON’T KNOW JENNA WHY DON’T YOU FIND OUT#spends entire video reporting on increasingly annoyed Party City employees#as she ties over 100 helium balloons to a sling that her dog falls asleep in#while floating 4 feet above the ground#because she fucking found out how many balloons it took#‘MY DOG RATES SOAP’ says the video title#her Italian Greyhound has some kind of soap licking neurosis and shows clear preferences#by the end of the video her dog does indeed have a favorite brand of soap#I EAT DOG TREATS WITH MY DOGS#literally does exactly that and actually enjoys like 2 of them#I don’t follow her at all but DAMN does Jenna Marbles not fuck around#she just … does exactly what she says she will#like some kind of chaotic entity that combats clickbait by being exactly as absurd as the marketing implies

I love her so much

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dimagnitemplum:

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geekandmisandry:

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azraelabyss:

endangered-justice-seeker:

Minding one’s own business needs to be a course in college…

This makes me sad. I grew up in a diverse area near the westcoast and I love casually hearing other languages. It makes me feel closer to the world and happy that they’re free to speak whatever language they want. This might sound weird, but whenever I hear them, it reminds me that strangers are real people with their own life and history. It’s a fact we easily forget. Language is such a huge part of who we are. I can’t imagine being forced to deny a part of my identity. To be told that I need to squish myself into their boxes or I’ll become the nail that needs to be hammered down. I hate this and I am so sorry this is happening to you.

If you move to an English speaking country, speak English, or better yet go back to the country that speaks your language and no one will say shit to you 🙆🏻‍♀️ the complete entitlement from immigrants when the loacals ask them to assimilate to their country. I wouldn’t go to Korea and cry like a baby because they told me to stop speaking English. Its expected I speak Korean. You people need to grow up .

While the United States is a predominantly English-speaking society, there is actually no official language.  What would you say someone speaking an indigenous language?  Also, the person who wrote these tweets speaks English?  She was speaking Korean over the phone to her cousin in Korea.  Do you expect her to speak in English to someone who might not speak it rather than a shared one because she’s in a public space in an “English speaking country”?  Do you believe that everyone sharing a public space with you owes you something?  

There’s a big difference between assimilation and integration and I don’t know how to tell you that assimilation is not a desirable thing.  

Literally how the fuck are you going to call the victim entitled? They were having a private conversation and some fucking rando told her what language she could be speaking in a private fucking conversation that didn’t involve her at all. Gtfo.

Americans literally go to other countries and expect that everyone around them should know how to speak English. Really. I’ve seen americans completely and utterly lost in Brazil because our population mostly doesn’t speak English, and the fuckers didn’t even know a single word in portuguese. Or worse, they tried spanish, and while that’s valid cause hey, it’s closer to portuguese, it’s fucking rude to say that we speak spanish cause we fucking don’t. Wanna talk about research and speaking another country’s language before going there? Make sure you fucking do that before leaving your stupid ass country, bitch. Because my english might not be perfect, but I got a 107/120 in my toelf and moved to Canada. I know 2 languages fluently e a lil bit of a 3rd, looking forward to learn a 4th. What can you say about yourself, huh?

Sorry for the politics, but I’ve seen various variations of this type of incident come across my dash and I need to say this.

This is not about speaking English. This is about racism.

I’m a white woman, with two white kids, and I’m an immigrant. I often speak my native language ( Danish) to my children.

Now, I live on the West Coast, in an area with lots of immigrants and that might play a part, but all I’ve ever heard when doing this has been variations of “what language is that?” “That is so cool” “making sure your children are bilingual are such a gift to them”

Everyone arguing that you should speak English in the US can delude themselves all they want, but they don’t really care if someone speaks English.

It really is about racism. When I was in highschool in my English class I spoke Dutch as much as English to people because many of us spoke it or a broken Dutch but the teacher would yell at kids for speaking Spanish or Portuguese.

This was not an uncommon occurrence

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kateordie:

thenearsightedmonkey:

By Lynda Barry  May 2016

Every time I see this I love it more

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