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me, with no hint of irony: balsamic vinegar is so poetic. it tastes the way i imagine decay and rot would taste yet it’s so delicious. i’d like to write a poem about how balsamic vinegar is the natural world’s cycle of life and death in a microcosm. it is a symbol of continuance, of constant change. there’s something decadent, opulent, about how dead it tastes.

my mother, extracting the bottle of vinegar from my hands: please stop talking. go back to studying. you know so many words and still have no sense whatsoever.

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“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.” (Richard Adams, Watership Down)

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something i'm always scared about in writing fiction is someone realizing that i write the whole thing just so i can have long drawn out paragraphs where one person looks at the person they're in love with and i, the author, put in some poetic nonsense that they would never in a million years think.

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How did the old saying go?

“None of us can be free until everybody is free” - Maya Angelou

“An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why democracy means everybody, but me.” Langston Hughes

#black lives matter #no justice no peace

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Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented that rock and roll sound 

You know what’s sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. It’s said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.

I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, who’s another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll — I’m pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.

Love Sister Rosetta Tharpe! #BlackGirlMagic

A few of her performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bX5mzdihs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M

Also I heard she was bisexual…

Happy Black History Month! 

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I am a slut for writing.

This body has been used and bruised.

Every pen stroke a lover’s hand caressing

A paper body.

I

LOVE this.

It just feels good.

Makes me Emo-tional

It cuts

My skin

Like good sex nails

I bleed this shit.

Feels like honeysuckle memories from childhood

Sweet

Messy

Untainted and unchanged because

It feels the same every single time

My passion and my reprieve

My paradise beach and shoals

I know when the darkness comes

I have this dazzling nite-light of mine

To guide me into salvation.

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We are the American people. Justice and rebellion is in our bloodline. Black people, White people, Asian people, Latin people, Native People. We are what remains of Dr. King’s legacy. We are the future that he hoped for. We are the ones who can crest those mountaintops and seek those greener pastures. We can’t let it happen here. This is Mr. Rogers’ city. He taught us to love each other. To love thy neighbor and thy fellow citizen. What the fuck is more American than caring about other people? Our soldiers rush to aid countries in strife. Our heroes fight to make sure we can sleep safely at night. Our people live, breathe, and die by the freedoms we hold true to be self evident. It can’t happen here. Not in Pittsburgh. Not in Philly. Not in Harrisburg. Not in Altoona. Not in Lancaster. Not in Erie. Not in Cannonsburg. Not in Sharpsburg. Not in Edinsborogh. Not in Gettysburg. Nowhere. An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere.

I am an American soldier. I swore an oath to protect the citizens of the United States against all threats foreign and domestic. I’m willing to die by that oath I swear again to you today.

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The murder of George Floyd is exactly why you never hear about white people killed by the police.

1 ) The media knows they would have a hard time portraying a white drug abuser into a victim role.

2 ) We all saw the SECOND George Floyd’s past was discovered it was like his rights became nonexistent.

There is an overt presumption of guilt in America that is allowing people to be murdered instead of being brought to trial. The police are not permitted to kill ANYONE unless they are under extenuating circumstances.

Lethal force should be used as a last resort, and ANY force should be used in a controlled manner.

And before I have people saying #alllivesmatter and all that bulkshit on my post, how about, instead of piggybacking off of black people’s specific and fucked up relationship with the police, you organize, you protest, you advocate against police brutality. Show that there are a vast and varied amount of victims of this violence that look like you, or your sons, or your daughters, or your friends, or your neighbors.

If we can expose all the different faucets of police brutality then we can actually invoke change in a corrupt institution that regularly violates the rights of Americans. And while that goal is great and beautiful, all of you “all lives matter” people need to recognize that, if you want change to take place, you need to do your part. Stop demanding other people to fight for you when you won’t fight for yourself, let alone anybody else.

We are Anerican citizens. We have a right to a fair and speedy trial. We should not be getting punished BEFORE we’ve had our day in court, so why do we let it continue?

#black lives matter #saytheirnames

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Ben Carson is such a great example of how the concept of raw intelligence doesn’t exist, and that people can have wildly varying types of intelligence. This man is the best brain surgeon in America. Possibly the world. He invented a new way to treat seizures. He separated conjoined twins in a surgery that everyone else said was impossible. And he thinks going to prison makes you gay. He thinks the pyramids were grain silos built by the biblical Joseph.

So maybe you suck at something because in one area you’re Ben Carson The Politician but in another area you might be Ben Carson The Neurosurgeon.

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I havent seen very much of Detective Pikachu but Im ready to be the most annoying bastard in Ryme city, pulling around my partner pokémon Grimer in a wagon at all times

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) confronted a CEO Thursday for pricing a drug designed to reduce the risk of HIV transmission at $8 in Australia but over $1,500 in the U.S.

“You’re the CEO of Gilead. Is it true that Gilead made $3 billion in profits from Truvada in 2018?” Ocasio-Cortez asked Gilead CEO Daniel O'Day.

“$3 billion in revenue,” he clarified.

The current list price is $2,000 a month in the United States, correct?“ she asked, referring to Truvada.

“It’s $1,780 in the United States,” O'Day responded.

“Why is it $8 in Australia?” Ocasio-Cortez countered.

“Truvada still has patent protection in the United States and in the rest of the world it is generic,” O'Day explained, adding, “It will be generically available in the United States as of September 2020.”

“I think it’s important here that we notice that we the public, we the people, developed this drug. We paid for this drug, we lead and developed all the patents to create Prep and then that patent has been privatized despite the fact that the patent is owned by the public, who refused to enforce it,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

“There’s no reason this should be $2,000 a month. People are dying because of it and there’s no enforceable reason for it.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/444091-ocasio-cortez-confronts-ceo-for-nearly-2k-price-tag-on-drug-that-costs-8-in

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little mac finds his lost cat (based off this idea) 

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New Pixie and Brutus

Source: Pet_Foolery on IG

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The way in the last half a second it starts walking and you can hear his scream really ties this video together

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