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Do you have anything about capybaras?

The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1914

The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, March 12, 1910

The Day Book, Chicago, Illinois, April 29, 1914

The Daily Notes, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, August 1, 1935

The Daily Chronicle,De Kalb, Illinois, June 28, 1897

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BAHAHAHAHA my anxiety has blindsided me and taken over my weekend and I want to hide under a blanket but I did go to Trader Joe’s and left with a bunch of crap and the cold sweats. Huzzah.

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Truly uplifting to know there are capybaras in a little hot spring in Japan listening to Patsy Cline.

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Caption:  “On this day in 1953, two young men announced Rosalind Franklin’s stunning work on X-ray photography of the DNA Double Helix.”

Internet: We saw what you did there, and we approve.

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Because sometimes what you need most is baby hippos, lots of baby hippos.

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Photos by/via tomotomotomomo, Ken Bohn, ruger78, imgur, John Wilhelm, Ken Bohn, Steve Bloom Images, kozanetMelik, /r/aww, and ED OUDENAARDEN respectively.

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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

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ok universe, i’m ready to feel good things. make me feel good things.

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Where

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I’ve been seeing headass headlines this for the past few days, and I simply ignored it bc the media does shit like this for money and clickbait. But I realized this is more than the media tryna get their coins, this is a blatant attack on black women and other woc. So @ white women? I think it’s time we have a little chat. 

1. Beyonce has gone through a miscarriage, and thousands of other women have been through it as well. It is a terrible experience that no one deserves to go through. But Beyonce is a FAMOUS PERSON, and she has one of the largest fanbases in the world. So when she delivers news such as being pregnant with TWINS, of course the beyhive is gonna to go above and beyond when it comes to the reaction.  Ya’ll dragged her through the mud w/ her first pregnancy trying to say it was faked. Now that she’s pregnant for a second time, she’s doing all these photo shoots to further prove the accuracy of it. And now ya’ll are criticizing her for it????? Tryna cover your asses for how you treated her 5 years ago??????? Get the fuck over it, because ya’ll didn’t say shit when these women did THIS w/ their pregnancy announcements: 

2. Serena Williams has been demonized and ridiculed for her body type since FOREVER. People say that her body is “too masculine” and how she’s “built like a man”. It’s fucking gross because Serena is one of the most hard working athletes in the WORLD, and her body type shouldn’t be affiliated with the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into her career. White women, you can’t say that you’re an advocate for equality when you criticize a black woman’s photo shoot, deeming it “soft porn”, and yet you praise THESE photoshoots: 

When a white woman, or hell even a non-black woman does shit like this, ya’ll are so quick to write article about how “empowering” they’re being. But when a black woman does it ya’ll all of the sudden wanna further sexualize and make it about “soft porn”??? Get over yourselves and let a black women love herself after receiving massive amounts of slander for her body type. 

3. The role in Ghost in the Shell is definitely about race. If her character’s mom is Asian, then why tf couldn’t they just get an Asian person to play the character in the damn first place???? 

She should’ve just said “a woc deserves the role more than me, but unfortunately I can’t control who they cast” and then moved on. But nope, she had to make it about herself and disregard the fact woc are hardly ever represented in movies, especially Asian women.   

4.  You can’t criticize a movie you don’t even relate to on a cultural level. Moonlight takes the components of black struggles, black culture, black life, and puts it into a true cinematic experience. You don’t have to like the movie, but the movie itself is more about whether you “like it” or not. It’s whether you relate to it, whether you feel with it, and whether your experiences correlate with the character’s experiences. A “better plot” wouldn’t do shit Becky, you either get it or not. Not to mention Camilla Long was kissing La La Land’s ass: 

So the point of this post isn’t to slander all white women and shame them. The point of this post to to show how frustrated black women are with white feminism. White women can be just as racist as white men, and they sure as hell benefit off that privilege. This is why a lot of black women these days kinda go side eyed when a white women says she’s a feminist. Are you a feminist for all women? Or are you a feminist for WHITE women. Please don’t call yourself a “advocate” for women if you’re gonna spend all this time bashing black women and other woc. Just say you hate black women and go. 

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Went shopping for interview/hopefully new job clothes today. How exhausting. I’d better nail that interview, because I’m going to need that pay bump to cover today’s “damage.” 

Dressing professionally (or trying to, anyway) is maybe impossible when you’re bottom-heavy? Or maybe I just haven’t invested enough time in to it, because my current workplace is jeans-friendly. Trousers are a joke hanging off my ass. “Straight-leg” is absurd. And honestly, I shouldn't complain- I can still shop in straight-sized stores (maybe this is one of my problems). Also, fuck most button-ups. 

Hubs also up for new gig- yay! But it’d be a HELLUVA commute- boo. At least it’s not Boston.

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2nd Line Dancing in New Orleans ❤

Just in time for Blackout

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“Why you so shy” bitch I just met you 13 mins ago relax

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OMG so I just figured out the word “hurt”

it’s past, present and future

you will be hurt

you are hurt

you were hurt

BECAUSE IF SOMETHING TRULY HURT, IT NEVER REALLY STOPS

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Just in case y’all needed any more reasons to loathe and despise Donald Trump, he just appointed an FCC chief who is expressly anti-net-neutrality and gives zero shits about the potential of cable companies merging to form a monopoly over both TV and internet.

Best hope social media and regular media/news sites are in the first/basic tier of internet packages, because that’s what’s coming without net neutrality: cable companies will prioritize traffic to certain websites, and websites will have to pay more to make their site prioritized, and we will probably be sold the internet in much the same way we are sold television: in packages and tiers of channels, based on how much you’re willing to pay. Imagine a world where you paying your cable bill no longer gets you access to an open internet, but rather, you must pay extra to get access to certain levels of information on the internet. Imagine people with less money getting a smaller internet, with less information and less access. Because that could be what’s coming.

I will fight, tooth and nail, against this fuckery. Not in my lifetime. Not in my country. Access to information is a right. An open, accessible internet is not something we can compromise on. Net neutrality is a must.