This is a thing.

This is a reminder

Over 100 million native people were murdered.

100 million people were tortured, starved, beaten, raped, and robbed.

100 million people and we have no vast, well light, upscale museum. We’ve been given no night time specials or “holidays” commemorating our loss.

Instead we’ve been given pictures of fucking thin white girls running around in headdresses and white people telling us we need to pay taxes for building things on our own land while they live on land they stole from us.

WERE murdered? Were? Past tense? Are being murdered. There are still many communities in Northern Canada who do not have clean drinking water, even.

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Greatest plot twist to Monster’s Inc.

oh my god you know what i just realized? all of the doors in monster’s inc. are “bigger on the inside”. so if any of the monsters went through this door they wouldn’t think anything of it. and the doctor would be standing there, smiling, waiting for them to say it, but of course it would make no difference to them.

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Whole Foods Shows Customers the Bleak Future of Produce Without Bees

“The decline in bee populations has been all the buzz lately, which led Whole Foods Market to team up with the Xerces Society to show us what a world—or at least, produce section—without bees would look like. The University Heights, Rhode Island store removed all foods that are reliant upon the important pollinators, and it leaves a pretty slim selection; 52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves without bees around to help.”

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It’s time we ‘bee’ mindful of their importance

But how? Here are some tips.

1) Don’t weed or mow your lawn! This encourages wild flowers and weeds to encroach and this encourages bees!

2) Stop using pesticides! Bees are very sensitive to pesticides.

3) Consider replacing grass with groundcovers that flower. There are some WONDERFUL options out there, for virtually every climate. If you pick a native plant as a groundcover (meaning a plant that originated in your area, not one transplanted from another climate or region), you will very likely reduce the amount of water you have to use to keep it green. Grass is hard to keep green. Groundcovers are much more hardy if you choose carefully. Some, like thymes, smell delicious when you walk across them, too, which is an awesome bonus!

3) Plant native flowering plants in your flowerbeds. They’ll thrive, use less water and if you pick plants that flower and then turn into berries, you’ll attract birds to watch in the late summer and early fall.

4) Apartment dwellers can help too! If you have a balcony, consider getting a few potted plants to put around your railing, especially native flowering plants. This will provide you with some privacy from your neighbours (especially if you use plant hangers to hang plants down from the balcony above yours as well) and give you shade from the harshest sun and turn your balcony into an oasis out of the city rush!

5) Planting a tree? Pick a fruit-bearing tree native to your region. The fruit does not need to be human edible, but if it is a bird attractant, again with the pretty birdy bonus! Same goes for shrubs.

6) Don’t plant TOO many trees. Bees prefer open areas.

7) Stagger the blossoming period of flowers and vegetables you plant. This way the bees have food for the longest possible time, encouraging them to maintain longterm, large populations.

8) Have a fair bit of land? Contact local beekeepers and see if they’d like to maintain a hive on your land.

Hope this helps.

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One of the things that surprised me first time I watched the reboot of Star Trek was the deep heartache I felt for Spock Prime. Seriously, the movie’s shinny and the new crew are crazy pretty, but every time the movie ends, my thoughts linger on Prime. (this is by far the most depressing graph I have ever created.)

Years lived (so far): 157

Years knowing Jim: 28

Years trying to forget Jim: 3

Years spent as Space Husbands: 20

Years spent alone, carrying a holographic message of Jim on a pendant around his neck: 94

I am not crying…

Reblogging this because it arrived in my askbox in response to my question about what makes us so sad about Spock Prime. I mentioned this in a roundabout way when I was writing but seeing it in a graph like that really drives it home that he really didn’t know Jim all that long during the course of his extremely long life.

I am actually crying.

Imagine outliving your soulmate, your t’hy’la, by so many years. Only knowing that you were so interwoven within each others lives for 20 years of the 28 years you knew each other, and having to live on long after his death because he wouldn’t want you to give up because he’s gone. Because he was the kind of individual who put others before him, and you couldn’t do that to him- even in death. Imagine trying to forget someone so special. Imagine carrying a projection of him to remind you of what is lost and what you must keep living for.

I can’t imagine a love any more profound and real as this. You cannot deny their love for each other, it is an impossible feat. You can merely ignore it.

These two men will forever be remembered as the first slash pairing- but for much more than asthetic qualities.

They will be remembered as Space Husbands and t’hy’la.

Fuck you, I’m all teary-eyed, omfg. GOD DAMN THEM FOR KILLING KIRK. JUST DAMN THEM.

hahahahahahahah god damnit spock prime feels
this is painful enough at face value but hold on a second while i make it 384765876436 times worse for you:
take a moment to consider spock prime’s obvious guilt over altering the timeline

for a long time when i thought about the ‘new timeline’ i thought of it in terms of an alternate timeline running alongside the original one (much like mirror!verse timelines because that’s what we’re accustomed to with trek) or harmless instances of time-travel where people go back and come forward and all that’s really changed is that some whales are missing and the day is saved
and this is probably because the new movie doesn’t throw it in your face that anything is fundamentally changed
the whole movie what you see is characters from the original series coming together despite their circumstances being drastically different and being awesome and achieving great things
so you come away with this wonderful feeling of rightness and you’re like ‘HELL YES OMG EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE, EVERYTHING IS FALLING INTO PLACE’ and why should we feel any different? i mean you can always go back and watch TOS and be like ‘ha yeah the reboot is pretty cool but TOS will always be star trek for me’ because that’s how we experience it

but the timeline is not alternate, it’s altered

jim kirk in the reboot movie is more ~edgy~ and ~modern~ and that’s really all i noticed at first but the more i watch the reboot the more it becomes apparent that his entire life has been different and he’s had different experiences and as such he will react to things differently/make different decisions/essentially be a completely different person
because honestly your experiences make you who you are

and that’s all well and good (i like reboot kirk a lot let’s not even go there this post is long enough as is) until you realize the implications of it

spock went back in time and changed everything, changed jim, and now the jim kirk that he knew and loved enough about to carry in a pendant around his neck for 94 fucking years, literally does not exist and never will

because of him

and he knows it
the line where he says “because i failed” kils me every fucking time i just want to jump through the screen and be like NO COME HERE IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT OK and give him a hug

like that guy in the photo up there probably lives every day of his life with some small part of him acknowledging that his mother and his planet and all of his friends and jim are either dead and gone or completely different - because of nero, obviously, but nero wouldn’t have ever done any of that shit if spock hadn’t made that single, tiny, minuscule mistake that started it all

and that’s why i have spock prime feels

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Dido Elizabeth Belle

Scotland (1779)

oil on canvas

Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)

Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.

This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.

The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.

Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.

Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.

Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.

Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.

My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

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OMG OMG OMG I’m so excited for this movie!

nothing in the world is gonna stop me from seeing that movie

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12-year-old girl:

I don't want kids when I grow up.

Society:

You'll change your mind when you get older. You're only 12. You're too young to know what you want.

16-year-old girl:

I'm pregnant.

Society:

How could you be so stupid? Do you know anything about safe sex? You should be ashamed.

20-year-old woman:

I'm a single mother with an infant son.

Society:

You should've gone to college first. You need a stable career before you can support a child.

33-year-old woman:

I'm married and my spouse and I both have stable careers. I have two young daughters now.

Society:

You're not staying home? Who's going to take care of them? You're just going to put them in day care while you work? That's selfish of you. You can't expect to raise decent kids with a full-time job.

45-year-old woman:

I just had my first child.

Society:

Why would you have a child when you're that old? Do you realize the health risks of being pregnant at your age? When your kid is a teenager you'll be a senior citizen. That's inconsiderate of you.

60-year-old woman:

I haven't had any children.

Society:

Your life must be so unfulfilling. Is there something wrong with you? Why didn't you want kids? How strange.

On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World

If he were a politician, college students would be his base. Instead, he is something more: a figure from their early days in front of the family TV, a beloved teacher and, more and more these days, a warrior for science. They, in turn, are his fans, his students and his army.

I wonder if this was all part of his master plan. Get in at the ground floor. Make a goofy, fun science show, try and get kids excited about science. Then back off, learn a lot, make a lot of connections. Wait until those kids are getting out in the world, then spring on them and give them a boost EXACTLY when they need it most. When they’re hitting the point where they are actually adults and are going back to school in the hopes of bettering themselves and they need a *push* because they have now seen the bleak, horrifying reality of the world he saw coming years and years ago and he knows we are now ripe for the scientific picking. When they are settling down and starting families and sending children off to school.

This man is a genius of foresight.

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Gwendoline Christie is the actress for Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones. She stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall and took swordfighting, horseriding, and stagefighting lessons for her part, as well as gaining 14 pounds of muscle, to accurately portray Brienne. (x)

She was also terrified of cutting her hair because she’d spent her life believing it was one of the only things that would make people see her as feminine despite her height. In an interview with TV Guide she said:

I struggled for a long time with [cutting] my hair, but then I’m grateful for the opportunity to realize that femininity doesn’t have to come from hair or any of those traditional female archetypes of appearance, So, that’s been exciting actually. I can’t speak with any kind of authority whatsoever because I’m just an actor and I only have my opinions, but I do think it’s really refreshing to have a woman depicted on a mainstream TV show that doesn’t obey typical aesthetics of females and the way they have been portrayed in the past. And I’m really excited to be portraying one of those women. And I hope that her popularity signals a greater expansion of people’s views about men and women and that gender types can be more flexible.

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your-favorite-merc:

so just found this. thought I’d leave it here. ~~you’re welcome~~

My king

Avenger Fandom RULE #1: Reblog your Fandom’s CREATOR.

MARVEL FANS, BOW BEFORE YOUR KING.

THE ALL-FATHER.

And he’d be a better father than Odin.

All hail the All-Father. We tremble before his magnificence.

//omg this is hysterical

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Why I think my dad’s a hunter

novvak:

novvak:

He “works” with guys named Sam, Dean and Crowley

He has a really huge “hockey bag” that we’re not allowed to look in

We have an outrageous amount of salt in the basement

(that’s just the start, there’s more in the garage)

He also really likes his leather jacket.

UPDATE: HE’S ALWAYS ON BUSINESS TRIPS AND ONCE CAME HOME FROM A “HOCKEY GAME” WITH A HUGE CUT ON HIS NECK

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