caucasianscriptures:

Thats a lot of wood.

the-penandpaper:

Link to info of Crystul Kizer’s Case

enigmatic-fool:

seccasaurus:

tilthat:

TIL that the hoatzin is the last surviving species of a line of birds that diverged from all other birds 64 million years ago, just after the dinosaur extinction event, and that hoatzin chicks have claws on their wings

via reddit.com

Me: okay but how weird could this bird actually be

Oh

Huh

They are perfect and I love them.

agingerwithaseoul:

I hadn’t seen any English reports on this but its too good not to share.

So right now there are pretty crazy right-wing nationalist sexists in Japan. They’re dressing up in WWII military outfits, they’re standing outside of Korean schools (in Japan) shouting that Koreans should be killed, and just generally being horrible human beings. For reasons unknown, the Japanese police haven’t done anything to stop them, and when people get physical with the right-wingers and a fight breaks out, it’s not the right-wing people who get punished.

Enter: the Yakuza.

Yakuza, for those who don’t know, is the name for the world of Japanese gangs, commonly known for being covered in tattoos. A few retired yakuza members (most of whom are notoriously and vocally conservative) got tired of this extreme right wing BS. They believe that picking on people who are weaker than you, like the children at the Korean schools or refugees, is embarrassing, and not something to be proud of. They want these right wingers to man up (the group is almost entirely men) and shut up.

These old retired yakuzas start showing up at the right wing protests and intimidate the hell out of these guys. When they feel like it, they’ll use physical force too. The police don’t mess with the yakuza so these right wing protesters become human punching bags. All their talk of killing Koreans or their superiority to just about everyone flies out the window when these gangsters roll up.

It started with only one or two yakuza who were bored and fed up, but more and more started to come. They started training in boxing and street fighting, and wouldn’t you know it…the number of right wing protesters got less and less.

Then, people of other walks of life joined in too. With the yakuza throwing the police off, professors could join by writing about the issues profusely. Suddenly a ton of otakus joined too, using their art and community to protest. They’d show up in droves and stand behind the muscle (yakuza) and make a ton of noise. They literally staged an “otakus against racists” rally.

Slowly, the protests have seen the right wing attendance drop more and more and I am living for these “manly men” being trashed by retired gangsters and fans of Love Live.

In conclusion:

First, I’d like the extreme right wing to gtfo

Second, I’d like a manga, then an anime, about these yakuza who befriended professors and otakus to fight neo-nazis. K? cool. 

While this is surprisingly wholesome, don’t forget the Yakuza is still an active gang network and they make much of their money off human trafficking. So much for the “don’t attack the weak” moral

ollebosse:

Alaskan state bird Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) blending in with winter landscape. Photo: Anthony Madden.

fakehistory:

Martin Luther publishes his 95 theses (1517, colorized)

henstomper:

YA novel: what if you were sorted into an arbitrary category at birth and that defined your entire life and you were harshly punished for trying to break out of it

me in like 8th grade: wow this is really compelling and relatable for me.         and theres no possible reason why

averagefairy:

i love when dudes are like “of course i respect women, i have a sister and a niece” like what does that even mean. there isn’t a person on this planet who isn’t related to a woman like what is Your Point

xenosagaepisodeone:

beaky-peartree:

the only DB Cooper theories i accept:

• he died cuz he was an idiot who jumped out of a fucking plane during a rain storm in the middle of the night
• it’s tommy wiseau

• there’s no proof he hit the ground so he could still fall on us at any time
  

lesless:

Look at this steppe rhino (Elasmotherium)

Him big

That fence will never contain that unicorn

zaku-too:

officialtomselleck:

weirdrussians:

It’s a pine fall day today in Russia.

Things just happen in Russia in a unique way that I’m not sure can ever be explained. Like how a fucking meteor landed in the middle of the Russian wilderness and resulted in the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off but no one really even noticed.

russia requiring drivers to have dashcams for insurance purposes is literally the best law ever enacted bc we get to see shit like this

chewybitart:

chewybitart:

This is an old personal piece I did a few months back after having through the lotr books- there are a lot of things I would change going over it again, but I love it still

And this too, cuz I love it

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

me: hey you know how you can’t ration insulin because diabetic people literally need it to survive, and rationing it kills people?

the us government: yeah

me: so we agree we shouldn’t put people in positions where they need to try and ration it

the us government: what

the us government:

The disabled are being hit hard by the government shutdown

and medical care WILL REJECT YOU in the USA if you can’t pay.

reimenaashelyee:

Tattoo artist 🦇

rockintwink:

catchymemes:

Worlds largest single firework shell

That’s not that bi-hoLY SHIT

(Source: catchymemes)