micdotcom: sashayed: topherchris:

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sashayed:

topherchris:

Register: turbovote.orgCheck your registration: http://ift.tt/2bqClbHMore info: usa.gov/voting

Many people have written and spoken eloquently about how much this election matters, and I know it’s very preaching-to-the-choir for me to do it here. I know also that everything you can say about it, no matter how true, sounds like hyperbole. Can you believe that people, people who are black and/or Latinx and/or trans and/or gay and/or disabled and/or female and/or poor and/or in any other non-dominant position are actually, like, going to live or die depending on the outcome of this election????? It’s true! And it’s exhausting to think about! Sometimes it feels like “oh god, whatever, give Drumpf the codes, bring on the bomb, let me just be dead.” I get that. I do. But this is a very, very easy way to check whether or not you can vote so you don’t get shut out of one of the most important decisions the U.S. will ever make! Don’t just yell about it on the internet. Be about it. Otherwise we’re all in for a mandatory screening of BREXIT II: THIS TIME ITS NUCLEAR and I honestly don’t want to exaggerate but many of us will be just fatally fucked. 

And re: just letting the bombs fall. If you can’t bring yourself to care about the end of human civilization because we’re a garbage species – and again I get that! – consider this: dogs.

She doesn’t deserve to die of radiation poisoning. I might, you might, but she doesn’t. Register to vote.

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tehnakki: involuntaryadult: The official trailer for Hidden...

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The official trailer for Hidden Figures is here! 

HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

Yep. I’m crying at work.  These women are the reason I am where I am today. 

They’re the reason, that when I told my daddy in 2nd grade that I was going to be an astronaut he didn’t laugh.  He signed me up for space camp and flew with me to Atlanta and drove me to Hunstville so I could attend (sleeping on a friend of a friends couch in Birmingham til the week was over and he could pick me up).  When he heard that the next shuttle launch would be the first time a female commander was in charge, he found a way to make sure we were at the launch of STS-93.  He found a Civil Air Patrol squadron nearby and made sure that they taught me how to fly before I turned 16.  When my highschool didn’t have a computer program past the basics, he went into my school every day for a month to talk to the principal and the computer teacher set up a computer for me in the back next to is so he could teach me Java and C++ in between other classes. That when I applied to the Air Force Academy and MIT (the only two colleges I applied for) his only complaint was that MIT would cost him money, so I better pick the AirForce.  And when I picked MIT over the AirForce he found a way to pay for my tuition.

And that first spring when I got to call him and tell him I wouldn’t be coming home for the summer, I’d be working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, training Astronauts on the equipment I’d been helping to design at MIT. Well he didn’t say much. He just said, “Good.” and “When we moving you down there?  You’re brother’s in San Antonio.  We’ll fly in there and make him drive us over.” Like it was foretold. Like he knew it was going to happen.

I have over 20 spacecraft in LEO, the astronauts handle work I’ve done on a daily basis on the ISS, and this September my first interplanetary mission is launching because the black women that came first made a place in the space industry for me. And because my father (thanks to his own struggles to find space for a black man in aerospace engineering) didn’t for a second think I wouldn’t do what I told him I was going to do when I was a baby. 

I’m gonna be a fucking wreck when I see this movie. And to think, that finally people will know what women like Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Annie Easley (fixed the Centaur energy equations and formed the basis of all modern rocketry), and Melba Roy (head of the Goddard computers for the first comm satellites) did for the American space industry.  That there’s actually gonna be acknoledgment of the place black women have held at NASA since the very beginning.

Imma be a wreck. And I can’t wait.

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vox: Ohio police chief calls on cops to stop senseless...

https://twitter.com/RodneyMute/status/778215346528485376
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vox:

Ohio police chief calls on cops to stop senseless shootings: “You are making us all look bad.”

Rodney Muterspaw, a police chief in Middletown, Ohio, posted the messages on Twitter in response to the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police shooting of Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man who was unarmed when an officer shot and killed him.

Muterspaw also told a local newspaper that he will use the Tulsa shooting as a training opportunity. “It could be us tomorrow,” he told the Journal-News. “You have to look at it. It’s not second-guessing anybody. It’s training for us. It’s a chance to learn from it. We are not robots. We have an opinion too. If it makes our department better and keeps our officers safer, if it makes the city better, we should speak out about it.”

“We are like any job,” he added. “It’s not necessarily bad seeds or bad apples; people just aren’t prepared when something happens and they panic. You can train all day long. You can go through scenarios all day long. But you know you are not going to get hurt in those scenarios. But when it hits the fan, people sometimes panic.”

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chzcolate: anti–princess: hairstylesbeauty:

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anti–princess:

hairstylesbeauty:

Essena O'Neill has decided to quit social media — and, in the process, expose how what we see isn’t always what it seems. O’Neill has deleted nearly 2,000 of her photos, what remain have new captions explaining how she really felt when taking it, what it took to get the shot and how much she was paid. In a powerful confession video, she explains why she had to do it.

i love this girl, much support to her.
but can we stop acting like its just social media? many girls feel like they need to perform sexy 24/7 and not only on the internet.

And it’s not even just big Instagram famous girls doing this, most girls on my fb friends list pose the exact same way. Gonna need to be more girls doing this than just her.

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samcaarter: Maybe somewhere, in a different time, in a...

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Maybe somewhere, in a different time, in a different place, in a different world, you were alive, you were with me, you loved me and we were happy [x]

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