starlightomatic:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

In this video from the Washington Post on the horrific situation in Charlottesville, white nationalist Sean Patrick Nielsen said that in addition to “standing up for local white identity” and “the free market,” his top value as a Republican was killing Jews:

This is how accepted anti-Semitism is. These monsters are so comfortable in support for their Judenhasse that they are literally unafraid to give their names to a major news outlet or to show their faces to an international audience and declare that they want to murder Jewish people. And I worry one day the rest of the world will let them—again. 

Maybe my non-Jewish followers could reblog this

gigi-tastic:

perpetualseahorse:

turless:

Hey so fun fact, my dad is good friends the woman who currently has this job and she told him that Trump’s admin is trying to force her out. They started advertising the job before they actually told her they were transferring her so she’d have to reapply.

Her name is Catherine (Cassie) Conley, and she’s a badass MIT grad that works as NASA’s planetary protection officer, which sounds super cool (though she says not as cool as the galactic administrator). The job is basically the only one in xenobiology (space life) and it’s her life’s work. She’s been doing this job for over 10 years and now Trump wants her out.

I’m beyond pissed that this keeps going around. I know it sounds like a joke job, but it’s a legitimate career that’s being taken away from literally one of the most intelligent women in the country by this asscactus of a presidency.

If ya’ll could signal boost this that’d be much appreciated. They need to know that this kind of bullshit isn’t acceptable

I was actually reading about this job in an NPR article and it sounds REALLY important. the job basically means you make sure we don’t contaminate any planets and anything we bring back like rocks or soil, etc doesn’t do the same here.

tinsnip:

ladyyatexel:

My surgeon came out and told my mom and brother on Tuesday that I’d be down and out for about two weeks. 

My brother: TWO WEEKS? Holy shit.

Surgeon: Well, consider this.  She and I just had a knife fight.  And I won.  Because she was asleep during it.  

My brother: Oh.  Yeah, okay, that’s fair.

Your surgeon sounds fucking hysterical.

esser-z:

justsomeantifas:

I’d honestly rather millions of drug addicts get safe opiates from doctors, than a single person with chronic pain go without because of the drug addiction fear mongering in the medical community. 

Notwithstanding the fact that providing drug addicts with drugs actually decreases addiction rates. As well as saves lives on all ends, because drug addicts are less likely to overdose on unsafe street drugs cut with god knows what, and disabled people are less likely to die from self-medication. 

It also decreases the spread of STDs, and so on. There’s endless benefits to it. But uh I guess keep fucking punishing disabled people and addicts because it makes yall feel morally superior or some shit–getting people killed for ideological purity.

Portugal legalized everything, with a couple caveats. If you’re found with (large amounts of, IIRC) drugs multiple times, you get a panel. The panel consists of a lawyer, a judge, and a doctor. Their job is to help you deal with addiction–not PUNISH YOU for having drugs, but help you overcome addiction.

The results? Oh baby, the results are fantastic. Portugal has far less addiction and fewer overdoses than basically anyone else. They’re treating drug problems as medical problems instead of crimes, and it’s absolutely working!

Oh, and America’s opiod crisis? Basically entirely the fault of drug corporations pushing high power painkillers on doctors/patients, including selling oxycontin with a 12 hour dose regimen when studies showed it really didn’t work that long, and refusing to adjust to the science.

And since, oops, it’s highly addictive, people end up getting cut off and then going for street opiods to deal. Instead of, y’know, being properly aided by medical professionals.

America insists on treating drug addiction as a moral failing instead of a medical condition, and it’s killing people.

linguisticsbunker:

Whether you know about Xhosa directly or not, you may be aware of the existence of several languages that use clicking sounds as consonants as well as the usual sounds found in most languages. Xhosa has three basic clicking sounds, represented by the letters X, C, and Q, and each of these sounds has several variations, indicated by consonant clusters. Xhosa actually has very few clicking consonants when compared to languages like Jul’hoan, (Botswana and Namibia) which has 48 clicking consonants. 

The presence of the clicks is sort of odd from a historical standpoint: Xhosa is part of the Nguni family, which is in turn part of the larger Bantu language family. Most Bantu languages do not have clicks, including the language Xhosa is thought to have developed from. However, San languages (from the larger Khoisan language family) do contain clicks and therefore it is likely that Xhosa had heavy San influence during its development. Most Bantu languages completely overwhelmed earlier languages and it is interesting to note that this was not the case with Xhosa. 

Xhosa is spoken in the southeastern part of South Africa and is related to Zulu, the most widespread Nguni language in South Africa. It is an official language, one of eleven, and has the second largest speaker base, with about 16% of the population listing it as a first language. It is used in primary education in areas where it is a majority language, and it is taught in universities and secondary schools as a foreign language. Most people in South Africa know more than one language because the nation is so large and ethnically and linguistically diverse.

Aside from the clicks, Xhosa is an aggluntinative language with many prefixes and suffixes. Most people who speak Indo-European languages are familiar with the concept of noun gender or different classes of nouns with different endings. Xhosa has 15 of these classes, which seems overwhelming. (Speakers of Xhosa, if you are out there, let me know. Most people I have talked to say that their noun cases do not bother them and they do not notice, but maybe Xhosa speakers will have a different answer.) 

The only reason I know about Xhosa is because of the South African comedian Trevor Noah, who hosts the American tv staple The Daily Show. A few years ago, he sang a Xhosa song that uses all three clicking sounds on the British panel show QI, and the clip is pretty funny.

Also, if you want to hear somebody speaking, rather than singing, this video shows off all the clicks pretty well. 

dykevanian:

I love that graham crackers were invented 100s of years ago as part of this reverend’s life plan of depriving yourself of anything remotely exciting (masturbation, spicy food, or just food with any seasoning whatsoever basically) and nowadays its used as a base for some of the most rich and decadent desserts ever, completely against its original and intended purpose (keepin’ down the urges). History completely owned the shit out of Reverend Graham and perverted his crackers beyond his comprehension lmfao