IMAGE ID: An empty basement room with beige tile; in the background are stairs going up into the rest of the house and draped on the wall is a sparkly banner saying Happy Halloween. In the foreground are three young Black men in shorts and t-shirts and socks, all three keeping sync as they dance joyfully to the song. The shortest guy smiles so big and so much for most of the video you can’t not smile back. END ID
Every single time I watch it. Every single time I smile. They’re perfect. THEY. ARE. PERFECT.
I think that for every episode of bake off that has a foreign country as a theme there should be a special third judge that is just a grandma of that nationality and they should be equipped with an air horn they can toot in paul hollywood’s smug face whenever he confidently says something completely incorrect about a bake’s construction, flavour, texture, etc etc
I don’t think this goes far enough. I think we should give the grandmas guns.
Artistic representation of how the lemon was invented in the first place
“citrus are whores” is not something i expected to see on the hellsite today
I’m not wrong though they are EASILY the sluttiest fruits. You don’t see Rosales pulling this shit. I mean yeah apples will breed weird new apples but nothing fucks around like citrus.
i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:
compare with the real kanji
座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”
This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes
First up we have:
Compare with
太
The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the
コ “ko” and ロ “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.
Then we have:
Compare with
会
The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”
And of course another social distancing one:
Compare with
話
This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.
At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!
Martha Crump was a biologist who studied the elusive golden toad extensively. They lived only in a four kilometer range in the Costa Rican hills, and spent almost all of their lives underground. However, once a year at the start of the wet season, the male toads would emerge and begin to sing for the females. It was described by Crump as a forest floor full of jewels; hundreds upon thousands of toads in a chorus of sound.
The 1980s saw a sharp decline in population. Whether it was human or climate driven is still unknown, but the mating pairs dwindled drastically. In 1988, Crump witnessed a singular male toad exit a burrow, climb onto a nearby rock, and begin it’s song. When the night was over, the toad descended back underground, alone. In 1989, Crump returned to the area, and again found the singular male. Again it climbed, sang it’s tiny song to a vast and empty jungle, and vanished back underground. It was the last ever sighting of the golden toad. Crump believed it was the same male from the year before.
The golden toad was declared extinct in the early 2000s. The story of the lone male toad helped usher in the species as a hallmark of modern conservation. It is gone, but not forgotten. May we do better with those that are left.
So I’m rewatching Avatar, like any normal person right now, and I’m pretty sure that when Zuko’s trying to join the Gaang–after following them around the world for almost a year…..
he doesn’t know Aang’s name
oh my god, now I’m just imagining this scene happening and he’s not even listening to the second half of Katara’s threat, he’s just trying to figure out who the fuck Aang is
if high waisted jeans go out of fashion one day my life is doomed
nothing’s out of fashion if you don’t give a shit
Fashion designer here! Fashion is completely made up. It’s major social function is to highlight class division and express allegiance to various subcultures. Wear whatever the hell you want as often as you can, and donate to ethical resale outlets
imagine going to your job and one of your coworkers is the drinking out of this motherfucker:
what a power move. like, if nobody else says anything you can’t call them out because then you have to reveal your own degeneracy. you just have to sit there knowing that that smug bastard got away with it.
“Neat logo! Is that a gaming company like Razer?“
“Eh, more of a toy company, actually.”
no literally i work with a dude who wears his bad dragon logo stuff to work. has a bad dragon sticker on his car. like when i was training the guy i saw his lanyard and was like ‘ah. noted.’ and we went about our business. and this was how literally everyone was about it for months.
then one day this kid we work with was like ‘wHy do you have a BAD DRAGON lanyard!?’ and bad-dragon-lanyard-guy was like ‘*shrug* i enjoy their products.’ ‘bUT they sell DILDOS???’ and i’ll never forget just the LOOK bad-dragon-lanyard-guy gave this kid when he was like ‘yes, i’m well aware’ with the tone in his voice just like ‘people are gay, nolan’
Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.
Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.
Well then, let’s bring that name back.
Bayard Rustin, openly gay, human rights activist, proud black man.
(the guy on the left in case you wondered)
Yeah he was literally the guy who was the head of planning the March on Washington.
If you want to learn more about him, there’s a great documentary on him called Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
I did a research project on him, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin and Stokely Carmichael comparing their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement to the lack of recognition and misrepresentation they received in commonly used high school American History textbooks. All of these people played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement—almost on par with MLK—yet they go largely unnoticed or unfairly pushed aside not only during their time, but even now in classes on American History.
These men and women deserve to be remembered.
I would also like to add Jame Baldwin to this list: writer, activist, and openly gay black man:
People they’ll never tell you about, may their stories be told now
