naryrising:

masterwayfinders:

charlesoberonn:

the-porter-rockwell:

mojave-wasteland-official:

anotherjadedwriter:

anotherjadedwriter:

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed

This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.)  Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.

justtrustmeokay:

elodieunderglass:

rickatchu:

tittled:

oh NO

stuff-my-smalls-like:

ctiproductions:

Moss Lawns?!

Okay so we all agree, lawns suck are outdated and useless relics introduced by the French Monarchy to flex on everyone else, but have we considered:

Moss Lawns 😄

Benefits:

1. Massively photosynthetic- produce loads of oxygen
2. Doesn’t require fertilising- ever! Mosses actually prefer low nutrient soil!
3. Doesn’t require mowing! Mosses are non vascular so they never grow tall enough to need mowing
4. Low maintainance- see above
5. Improving the air quality around you- mosses can metabolise and absorb a variety of airborn pollutants!
6. Massively improving your home’s Cottagecore and fairytale vibes, I mean look at it it’s beautiful

Looking online I’ve learned that this is a thing! And it’s actually been popular in Japan for hundreds of years!

That makes me really happy actually because if you know me you’ll know I love moss, not only is it cool af but 12 square metres of moss lawn can apparently absorb as much carbon as 275 mature trees. Stunning and brave.

As we all know it’s much easier to work with nature than against it, we’re all busy and tired and maybe… maybe just let the moss have this one? It’s beautiful.

And also, tardigrades. Is there anything more that needs to be said?

grumpyolhousecat:

theresagooseinthemainframe:

Honestly if you’re female and you’re called for jury duty and during the elimination process you’re asked if you’ve ever had any adverse experience with a man (harrassment or rape or any other male violence) just fuckin lie and say no. Then vote that fucker guilty

Women survivors are barred from serving on a jury but rapists are not even questioned. There can be no doubt that this is a major reason rapists walk free. Men have never played fair. It is time for women to start beating them at their own game. Our lives depend on it.

theroguefeminist:

danielle-mertina:

black-geek-supremacy:

twryst:

zerocapitalism:

kgb4biden:

75% of my high school graduating class read at the 7th grade level, and teachers just … never helped them. 

in fact the school was so segregated that, the only folks who read at their grade level or above were in the advanced language arts courses, which consisted of maybe 20 people per class

meanwhile the kids at my high school who actually needed help with reading were shoved in classrooms with 60+ people and would learn absolutely nothing.

this isn’t unusual either, this wasn’t just my high school. this is largely how the united states likes to operate in terms of educating public school students.

you better believe all the advanced language arts kids were the ones whose parents made more money. poor kids were never given a chance.

even when you’re going to the same school as the upper classes you still aren’t getting the same education.

Aye my high school was functionally two wholly distinct high schools, the “AP-track” vs “regular” classes, and the division was largely enforced thru prereqs (AP x requires Honors x-1 requires Honors x-2 requires Honors x-3) and the counselors who actively pushed students away from signing up for honors/AP unless you either overruled them and demanded all honors your first year, or had an older sibling who did so. Not-upperest-class parents & kids often didn’t know that overriding the counselors was even an option, and once they found out it was too late.

AP track classes were universally the best funded with the only teachers that cared and much smaller classes, and with *less* workload graded *more* leniently.

So you had entire

It’s funny cuz I ended up taking an AP class in high school only to find that I didnt even need it in college since it was a gen ed class anyway.

This is why all those posts with “gifted” kids complaining annoy me.

I was one of the very few Black and non-middle class people in gifted/AP programs and like somebody above said it was because my mom had the wherewithal to *demand* that I be accepted based on my test scores. I was put on probation my first year on the honors track when we moved and switched districts. That definitely wouldn’t have happened had we been white and/or living in a middle/upper middle class zoned area.

To be fair, just because you’re gifted doesn’t mean you have access to any additional resources or were treated better in school. I went to school in a poor rural area where there was no gifted program and most of the gifted kids I knew, myself included, also were neuroatypical and had ADHD, dyslexia or were on the autism spectrum and so many of us flunked classes, a couple of my friends never even graduated. We weren’t acknowledged as gifted though–I only realized that in hindsight now that I have learned in my reaching program how to recognize giftedness in students.

Another thing about giftedness is it’s an “exceptionality” so gifted kids, like kids with disabilities, often do need additional resources to do well–it’s not even just to be “challenged enough” but being gifted can also result in doing worse in mainstream education for a series of reasons. On top of the fact many gifted kids are also neuroatypical, many have other issues with social emotional intelligence or executive functioning skills or simply don’t fit the “mold” of traditional schooling. I think a lot of the people who complain on gifted posts refer more to the maladjustments that giftedness comes with that schools often don’t address very well (and thus can result in other issues in adulthood).

Of course, people who were actually officially labeled gifted by the system reaped benefits, so yeah, people who got those accommodations in school are definitely privileged in that way and should acknowledge that.

diabeticlesbian:

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement dir. Susan Muska and Gréta Ólafsdottir (2009)

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

Comrade Vine died for Workers Rights™

hekserie:

I think the thing a lot of people miss about Aphrodite is that, while she’s the goddess of love, she’s more so the goddess of passion

Think about myths involving Aphrodite. They’re not just stories of how attractive she is (but that’s true too). She’s smart and emotional and knows how to turn a situation to suit her needs.

Aphrodite is with you when you love someone, but also when you’re so angry you can barely speak. When you’re so excited about a subject that you’re going to burst if you don’t tell someone. When you’re so happy about a new outfit that nothing can phase you.

She’s the intensity of emotion on all spectrums. And it’s wonderful.

feminismandmedia: