Shit happened to Ferguson is happening in Hong Kong right now!

Students were just protesting peacefully for genuine democracy around Admiralty and Central, yet the police force used pepper spray, tear gas and violence to disperse the crowd. According to the protesters, the police even raided a first aid booth with pepper spray.

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the very fact there is a white house petition underlies the insulting arrogance behind american centrism in social justice.

your government is not the solution to my country’s problems, that’s how everything got here in the first place, not to mention the sheer fact it won’t.

please approach this from a different angle, implying the united states is the solution to all international problems that do not concern them is incredibly insulting especially considering recent events

im all about having more body posi media but not when the message is “boys like curvy girls” because who fucking cares what boys like

what if one day for 24 hours everyone with a tumblr turned into whatever their url is 

I’ve literally never understood the expression “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.”

If you did that wouldn’t you just fall flat on your ass? Ow.

You understand it correctly, actually! It’s meant to be an impossible thing. People who say it as something you *should* be able to do are using it backwards. It’s supposed to be something like “That’s impossible. You might as well ask them to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.”

THAT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE

I found a neat article!

color coding your infant children

Look, the red is positive and the black is negative and this kind of thing is important to avoid creating short circuits and avoiding electric shocks, deal with it.

some kid in my class wrote an essay about how it never explicitly says Beowulf isn’t a robot