Just Checking Back In To Tmblr For The First Time In Years, So I Can Scream Into The Wilderness How Much

Purrkour*

As it turns out, cats aren’t nearly as good at parkour as dogs. *Like parkour with dogs, but with cats, because cats purr, so y’know…purrkour? Kiss my ass.

hahahahahahahaha. awesome. I'm just gonna sit here and watch this over and over today.

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Siberian Tiger cub and puppy at the Hangzhou zoo playing. After 2 months of cohabitation together Pine and Tiger became inseparable

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 The look on the cub's face is what makes this.

askarsswedishmeatballs:

 so much win.

I think it's safe to say that Alexander Skarsgard is indeed the most adorable, awkward Swedish dinosaur ever.

For Sian.

True dat.

Tres cool.

Weapon of Mass Instruction

Built from a welded frame atop a 1979 Ford Falcon, Raul Lemesoff drives around the streets of Buenos Aires distributing free books to anybody who wants to be assaulted with some serious learnin’.

(via: make / laughingsquid)

Extremely encouraging and has the potential to be even more of a gamechanger. Rock on and OCCUPY THE HOOD!

Occupy The Hood is an autonomous national grassroots movement comprised of activists, organizers and community members working with like-minded individuals and organizations across the US. Occupy The Hood stands in solidarity with any progressive organization or movement who desires and works towards the liberation, benefit and improvement of the quality of life of disenfranchised People of Color.

From Occupation to Liberation, De-Colonize, Empower The Hood.

People of Color, and in particular Black, Brown and Native/Indigenous People, have been disproportionately affected by the issues that the Occupy Movement has recently raised. Unemployment rates double nationwide, disproportionate incarceration rates, wealth gap, subprime mortgages/foreclosures.

Occupy The Hood will work to address many critical issues affecting our communities:

un/under employment, poverty, mass incarceration, political prisoners, school to prison pipeline, police brutality, racial profiling, violence/murders/illegal guns, housing/foreclosures/homelessness/gentrification, health care disparities, educational disparities, food deserts, community development, reparations, economic development, entrepreneurship, gender-specific programs, youth programs, environmental justice, civic engagement, discrimination/racism

Occupy The Hood is officially active in the following Cities: NYC (NY), Detroit (MI), Pittsburgh (PA), Seattle (WA), Philadelphia (PA), Atlanta (GA), Boston (MA), Tacoma (WA), Dallas (TX), Nola (LA), Cincinnati (OH), Portland (OR), St. Louis (MO), Cleveland (OH), Washington (DC), Richmond (VA), Los Angeles (CA) and growing WE ARE THE MOST AFFECTED of the 99%

It has been said that: “Black People are on the bottom of every list that is good, and on the top of every list that is bad.” “When White America has a cold, Black America has pneumonia.”

Black Unemployment Almost double the national average and in many cities/states is triple and quadruple. Unemployment rates nationally for specific groups such as Black Men and Black Teenagers are even more glaring.  USA Unemployment = 9.1%  Black Unemployment = 16.2 % Black males = 17.5%  Black teens almost 41%

Black and Latino Incarceration Rates Black man = 1 in 3 (32%) Latino man = 1 in 6 (17%) White man has = 1 in 17 (5.9%).  It costs $35-50,000 annually (varies state/federal) to incarcerate someone.

Black/Latino Wealth Gap The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.

People of Color Poverty Rates Poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics greatly exceed the national average. In 2010, 27.4 percent of Blacks and 26.6 percent of Hispanics were poor, compared to 9.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 12.1 percent of Asians. Poverty rates are highest for families headed by single women, particularly if they are Black or Hispanic. In 2010, 31.6 percent of households headed by single women were poor, while 15.8 percent of households headed by single men and 6.2 percent of married-couple households lived in poverty.

Native-born vs. foreign-born residents In 2010, 19.9 percent of foreign-born residents lived in poverty, compared to 14.4 percent of residents born in the United States. Foreign-born, non-citizens had an even higher incidence of poverty, at a rate of 26.7 percent.

OCCUPY THE HOOD!

It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via nakedanddisorderly)

Wow, my life and outlook.

For Sian.

How anyone can continue to remain blase/in denial in the face of the facts is beyond me. 

New York Times