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can we just take a moment to imagine little cute six-year-old hermione reading matilda
and peering into this book about a smart, bookish girl who could move things with her mind
and then can you imagine her concentrating very hard on the books on the bookshelf and slowly, slowly, getting them to move
OH MY GOD
Protesters in Turkey sing “Do You Hear The People Sing?” with additional Turkish lyrics.
Turkish lyrics from the description:
duyuyor musun sesi işte bu halkın öfkesi
olmayacak hiçbir zaman bir başkasının kölesi
sanki kalp atışları karışıyor davullara
yürüyoruz gururla yeni bir yarınasen de gel katıl bize diren bütün bu baskıya
durur koca dünya barikatın arkasında
sen de özgürlüğün için diren omuz omuza!duyuyor musun bizi? işte çapulcunun sesi
olmayacak hiçbir zaman bir başkasının kölesi
sanki kalp atışları karışıyor davullara
yürüyoruz gururla yeni bir yarınayarınlara!
And a translation back to English by my dear friend, Bahar Oğuzertem:
Do you hear the sound? This is the people’s rage
They will not become someone else’s slavе
As if heart beats are mixing with drums
We’re walking to a new tomorrow in prideJoin us too, to resist the suppression
The whole world stands behind the barricade
Shoulder to shoulder, resist for your freedom!Do you hear the sound? This is the looter’s rage
They will not become someone else’s slave
As if heart beats are mixing with drums
We’re walking to a new tomorrow in pridefor the future!
!!!!!
girls just wanna have fun(ds for university)
“We praise people for being “naturally” smart, too, “naturally” athletic, and etc. But studies continue to show, as they have for some time now, that it is generally healthier to praise schoolchildren for being hardworking, than for being naturally gifted. We know now that to emphasize a child’s inherent ability places pressure on that child to continue to be accidentally talented, which is something that is hard for anyone to control. When the children who are applauded for their natural skills fail, they are shown to take the failure very personally. After all, the process of their success has always seemed mysterious and basic and inseparable from the rest of their identity, so it must be they who are failing as whole people. When students are instead complimented and rewarded for their effort and improvement, they tend to not be so hard on themselves. When they fail, they reason, “Well, I’ll work harder next time.” They learn that they are capable of success, rather than constantly automatically deserving of it, and they learn simultaneously that they are bigger and more complex than their individual successes or failures.”
Kate of Eat the Damn Cake, The Stupidity of “Natural” Beauty (x)
Capital Punishment around the world [1480×680]
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another one of the those unfortunate maps where the US is not in good company…yikes.
Britain in a GIFset.
This is the most accurate thing in the history of ever.
Introducing Tim Seggerman!
A talented architect from Brooklyn, NYC, Tim has taken a previously cluttered and cramp house and has transformed it into a beautiful, cabin-like, space.
The internet’s habits of shortening phrases and words tends to make things confusing, so I’ll explain this one in hopes of clearing things up: “Feminazi,” is short for, “I don’t actually know what feminists or Nazis are.”
