finally someone put into words why i felt so uncomfortable with “female privilege is getting into clubs for free”
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So you know how The Search For Spock has a toasting scene in Kirk’s apartment, delivered ‘to absent friends,’ in reference to those who were lost in the battle with Khan, most notably Spock?
Yeah… Take a look at who’s in that scene.
Uhura, Sulu, Kirk, and Chekov.
After 2015, these four are the only major characters from the Original Series whose actors are still alive.
And they are there, toasting to absent friends.
If I’m crying about this, I’m making sure you are too.
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Hero Rats
THEY’RE SO CUTE AND GOOD AND SMART AND HAVE JOB
I’ll always reblog hero rats!
this same species is also trained to identify tuberculosis in samples by smell, meaning they can test for TB at a rapid rate with a high accuracy :)
The organization that trains the rats is APOPO
You can sponsor a rat and you will get adorable personalized emails telling you how well “your” rat is doing! I did this for my sister a few years ago and she’s still getting emails about Martok the HeroRat’s mine-clearing successes and called it the best gift ever.
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ufo-pilot-and-his-sexy-spouse:
This is not democracy. Officials don’t care about people’s opinion. But we won’t give up!
It’s significant to note that they included the superdelegate count in the published results from the get-go, giving Clinton the appearance of being much more popular than Sanders and making it look like it was impossible for him to come back from it despite there being, at that point, only a few primaries having occurred.
It’s also significant to note that several newspapers have reported Clinton wins and found something else to say about states where Sanders won, even when he won two states to her one.
It’s also significant to note that CNN aired a video of Donald Trump’s empty podium while Bernie Sanders was giving a speech elsewhere.
They are fucking tricksy bastards. Let’s overcome that.
The superdelegates swearing they’ll vote Clinton is pretty worrying, however it’s pretty likely that if Sanders continues to win the States voting in the weeks to come (as polls suggest he very likely could) then those superdelegates will likely switch to voting for him because of the polls pairing Sanders or Clinton against trump. This article explains it way better than I can though.
The point is, don’t give up hope. Your vote still counts and still matters, so make sure you’re continuing to support Sanders by spreading the word, and most importantly, by voting.
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It’s Science! The Perfect Road Trip
y’all think this is cute and fun looking but as a bamf that drove 3,000+ miles across the country I can tell you that its not. When you get on I90 and your GPS tells you to go straight for the next 450miles and you realize you could watch the entire Braveheart movie twice before you see anything other than cow pastures or corn fields you beg for death. I saw so much weird ass shit from towns with horses that wander like stray dogs and places where people say weird shit like “Sure dont!”. America is fucking bizzaro and a trip like this is only for the most Mad Max-iest of mother fuckers.
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I really try to challenge Canadian stereotypes at every opportunity but today I was walking down Yonge St. in Toronto and a firetruck honked very loudly and I clutched my chest and said “MY WORD” and as it drove past, a fireman leaned out of the window and apologized to me
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4’1 kid for scale
ARE THOSE AZALEAS
Thought those were Rhodies
They are rhododendrons. :)
That’s totally what my neighbor’s rhododendron would be like if they hadn’t pruned it… into a tree shape. It’s the same hot pink color and taller than their house! Not quite so… overwhelming… though. Wow.
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Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown
Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style.
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I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.
