fucknosexistcostumes:

seananmcguire:

castielsteenwolf:

pr1nceshawn:

The evolution of Halloween costumes for girls…

this is really important

This is why I get upset about the sexy costumes at Halloween. Not because you don’t have the right to be sexy—you absolutely, absolutely do. But because while you might be able to find costume #3 in a tween size in each of these rows, I can guarantee that in almost all cases, you will not find costume #2 in a teen or adult size.

Babies/toddlers get to be cute. Kids/tweens get to be fun and spooky and still have modesty, if they want it. Teens who aren’t on the small end are already getting the sexy, even if they really just want fun, spooky, and a skirt that goes below mid-thigh. And adults? LOL nope it’s sexy or nothing.

Everyone who is of an age to want sexy should be allowed to have sexy. But “not sexy” should always be on the table as well, because sometimes you just want to be warm and cozy and filling a pillowcase with strangercandy.

Very relevant to this blog.

Source: pr1nceshawn

not-a-single-fuck:

soundssimpleright:

supermansbuttocks:

THUG LYFE

This is actually what you should say to an ICE agent who has come to your house looking for an undocumented immigrant.

Specifically, do not open the door; tell them to slide their warrant under the door. Read it carefully and check to see if it’s a JUDICIAL warrant, which will have specific information like the time and location where they’re allowed to search, and a specific description of who or what they’re allowed to search for. ICE practically *never* have this; they’ll have an ADMINISTRATIVE warrant, which is just their orders from their boss telling them to arrest a particular person. It does not give them the right to enter your house.

ICE *can* enter your house if they have probable cause, such as if they see the person they’re looking for through a window or door (which is why you don’t open the door). Other forms of probable cause include kids telling agents that they were born outside of the US. Agents will trick people into chatting with them, especially kids who serve as translators for their parents, asking things like “What part of Mexico are you from?” Staying silent keeps the onus on them to prove in court later that they had evidence someone isn’t here legally.

It’s important to remember that for now, at least, every person ICE wants to deport has to go before a judge, and ICE has to provide evidence that they know this person is undocumented and that they were arrested without violating the 4th amendment (against unreasonable search and seizure). We know that cops lie and that judges usually side with them, but agents would rather go for a sure bet from a targeted raid than risk wasting their time and energy on arrests that could be thrown out. Knowing your rights and being prepared makes you a more difficult target.

“I do not consent to entry without a warrant.”

(This information comes from notes I took at a workshop on being an immigration ally. Learn more at welcomingamerica.org)

@soundssimpleright

ACTUALLY, ICE will wave around anything and call it a warrant and unless you’re a lawyer chances are you won’t be able to tell, so call a lawyer. ICE often comes in civilian vehicles and clothes, will often conceal their badges from you and will even lie about who they are, and they’ve been known to work with police. You shouldn’t open the door. Call your lawyer, a volunteer lawyer group that assists immigrants or a response network* first. Never say anything that might reveal you’re an immigrant at all to any cop, not even if you are arrested for something else. Call your lawyer and let them deal with it.

ICE presentara cualquier cosa y la llamara un warrant, y aunque usted sea un abogado, probablemente no sabra la diferencia, asi que llame a su abogado. ICE muy seguido se presenta en ropa y autos civiles sin marcas, obscuren sus placas y pueden hasta mentir aceca de quienes son, aveces hasta trabajan con policia local para hacer arrestos de immigracion. No habra la puerta. Llame a su abogado, un grupo de abogados voluntarios que asistan a immigrantes o un grupo de respuesta* primero. Nunca diga nada que revele que es usted un immigrante a ningun policia, ni siquiera si usted esta ciendo arrestado por ortra razon. Llame a su abogado y dejen que ellos lideen con ICE.

Here is what a Judicial warrant looks like:

Asi es como se ve un warrant judicial:

This what an immigration warrant looks like:

Asi se ve un warrant de immigracion:

If the warrant looks like this, you don’t have to let them in. Either way, call your lawyer and if you see ICE or suspect you see them, call someone who responds to ICE raids.

Si el warrant se ve como este, usted no tiene que dejarlos entrar. En qualquier caso, llame a su abogado y si ve a ICE o sospecha que los ve llame a alguen que responda a raids de ICE.

*Response networks. Research online if there’s a network of people in your area who respond to ICE raids, you can also ask at local temples or churches if they know of one. These are people whom you call on the phone, they give you brief instructions and send respondents to your location to assist you, serve as witnesses and document what happens so you can use that information to your defense.

*Grupos de respuesta. Busque en linea si hai un grupo de gente en su area que responda a raids de ICE, tambien puede preguntar en tempos o iglecias locales si conocen de uno. Estas son personas que usted llama en el telephono, le dan instuciones breves y llaman socorristas a su locacion a asistirle, servir como testigos y documentar lo que suseda para que usted pueda usar esa informacion en su defensa.

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The last couple of times I’ve been to the UK/ROI, I’ve run across a delicious object termed “wheaten bread.” I am a reasonably accomplished baker and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to recreate this foodstuff. I think it’s a quick-not-yeast bread, because the crumb is very dense, and whole wheat flour of some variety seems likely, since it’s dark, and I want oat flour to be involved because it’s got a kind of nutty aroma, but — do you know of a recipe for this? WHAT IS IT????

dduane:

This is almost certainly a variety of brown soda bread, which goes by many different names here. “Wheaten bread” is one of the Northern Irish variations, though you do see/ hear it elsewhere.

This is our recipe from the soda bread page (now being reorganized) at EuropeanCuisines.com:

For “Brown soda” / “wheaten bread”:

4 cups whole wheat flour

1 cup white flour

Scant ½ cup oatmeal

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1 teaspoon salt

2-3 cups sour milk or buttermilk

There are two main styles of soda bread, “cake” (baked in the oven in a single loaf, usually round) and “farl” (rolled out into a flat circle, quartered, and baked on a griddle). While you do occasionally see brown farl, it’s fairly rare. Wheaten bread / brown soda is normally baked as cake. So, from the page’s mixing/baking instructions:

Sift the dry ingredients together at least once or twice to make sure
the bicarbonate of soda is evenly distributed. Put the sifted dry
ingredients in a good big bowl (you want stirring room) and make a well
in the center.

Pour about three-quarters of the buttermilk or sour milk
or whatever in, and start stirring. You are trying to achieve a dough
that is raggy and very soft, but the lumps and rags of it should look
dryish and “floury”, while still being extremely squishy if you poke
them. Add more liquid sparingly if you think you need it. (You may need
more or less according to conditions: local humidity and temperature,
the absorptiveness of the flour you’re using, etc.)

Blend quickly (but not too energetically!) until the whole mass of
dough has become this raggy consistency. Then turn the contents of the
bowl out immediately onto a lightly floured board or work surface, and
start to knead.

The chief concern here is speed: the chemical reaction of the bicarb
with the buttermilk started as soon as they met, and you want to get the
bread into the oven while the reaction is still running on “high”. Don’t overknead! You do not
want the traditional “smooth, elastic” ball of dough you would expect
with a yeast bread. You simply want one that contains almost everything
that went into the bowl, in one mostly cohesive lump.

…For cake, flatten the lump of dough to a slightly
domed circle or flat hemisphere about 6-8 inches in diameter, and put it
on the baking sheet (which should be dusted lightly with flour first).
Then use a very sharp knife to cut a cross right across the circle. The cuts should go about halfway down through the sides of the circle of dough, so that the loaf will “flower” properly.

Put the cake’s baking sheet into the preheated oven. Bake for 45
minutes at 400-450° F. (One of our Irish neighbors suggests you give it
the first 10 minutes at 450°, then decrease to 400°. Also, if you have a
fan oven, use temperatures 10° lower or so, as fan ovens have a
tendency to run hot.)

At the end of 45 minutes, pick up the loaf and tap the bottom. A hollow-ish sound means it’s done.
For a very crunchy crust, put on a rack to cool. For a softer crust, as
above, wrap the cake in a clean dishcloth as soon as it comes out of
the oven. (Once cooled, to help the crust calm down further, put it in a plastic bag overnight.)

That’s all she wrote. (Actually, she wrote a lot more: it’s over here. The page is a bit disorganized-looking at the moment; we just changed themes and it’ll be reorganized over the next day or so.)

claryghost:

dukeofbookingham:

agreyjaywooo:

dukeofbookingham:

quasi-normalcy:

toastpotent:

garbage-empress:

garbage-empress:

suchdreadfullittlethingsweare:

just-shower-thoughts:

If you have $1,000 in cash and spend 1 penny, that’s the equivalent of Jeff Bezos spending $1.5 million

Good for him. Money doesn’t just fall from the sky. He had to do something to be that wealthy.

like have parents who could give him $100,000 without breaking a sweat then working people literally to death?

“He had to do something to be that wealthy.” should be a very ominous phrase not a positive one.

i like that this person says “he had to do something to be that wealthy”

like. they aren’t sure, they have absolutely no idea about how he acquired all of his wealth, they know nothing about the topic, and yet they will continue to firmly believe that mr. bezos would never do us wrong

Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million, and he had to do “something” fof his money too.

Al Capone actually cared about poor people, though. He came from a family of immigrants and took care of his own, donating to charities and even running a soup kitchen (x, there are better sources but I’m lazy). Some people even characterized him as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

Let me be clear: I’m not saying Al Capone was a good guy. I’m saying he might’ve been a better guy than Jeff Bezos.

And I’m saying that while Al Capone wasn’t a great guy, he was DEFINITELY A better guy than Jeff Bez-ass. This is on mobile, so I can’t do resources right now, I’ll add them later.

Capone, even though he didn’t fire the bullet, once paid for the hospital bills of a woman that had been caught in the crossfire of a scuffle. And while he was there, after paying her medical bills and giving her over $100 of flowers to cheer her up, he paid off all the bills of the children in the hospital. Which he did regularly. He sent flowers to the families of his dead enemies. HE IS THE REASON MILK HAS AN EXPIRATION DATE! His son (or nephew or something) died from complications from bad milk. And he got to work and made the milk and dairy industry hold to a much tighter standard, with included sell by dates and expiration dates. Not because it was family that got sick (or died), but because he found out that a lot of kids were getting sick off of bad milk products.

Capone was always a gentleman, he paid his workers well, treated his women good, and protected his own. If one of his workers got hurt or died, he would pay the bills and expenses, and help out their families.

He wasn’t a good guy, but the dude had a moral standard that Jeff Bez-ass doesn’t even pretend to have.

Oh, and Capone also heavily supported local shops, went to baseball games with his kids, funded his workers’ children to go to school, and was the kind of guy that wouldn’t sucker punch ya unless it was absolutely necessary.

How many rich assholes do we know of that does that kind of stuff?

Mafia Tumblr I knew you were out there somewhere

reblogging for the mafia side of tumblr

kuttithevangu:

elucubrare:

I don’t know who first spelled the name as “Guinevere,” but I’m forever thankful that it’s the form in most common use, because other options include “Guanhumara” “Guennuuar” “Gahunmare” and “Wenneuereia”

thanks to whichever medieval person decided it was time to stop calling the queen by random horse noises

canadiancryptidhunter:

prismatic-bell:

wilting-blooming:

iesika:

impulesiveroleplay:

feministingforchange:

the-perks-of-eating-pussy:

nitrozz:

ladytemeraire:

zafirozorro:

bilt2tumble:

breelandwalker:

breelandwalker:

legolokiismighty:

oh-imprettyboy:

a-high-ass-ginger:

onemuseleft:

shisno:

sarcasticnursejess:

thelittledrunkapple:

How women prepare for first dates

Bonus: How men prepare for first dates:

Accurate.

Okay but the first set of gifs is not a joke like that’s literally how it goes.

One of the girls at work won’t get in the guy’s car unless he agrees to let her take photos of him and his license plate to text to her mother. If he gets mad or makes a fuss she cancels the date and goes back inside.

Reblogging for that 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

I’ve had someone take pics of me and my license plate on a first date before & I was okay with it. I’ve also had a friend allow me to view the tracking on her phone when she went to meet up with a guy the first time. This isn’t a joke at all & women have good reason to worry.

i have only ever met 2 people online, and made sure that we met up somewhere that was 1) public 2) close to my home.

After, I walked to the dollar store that was a couple shops down until I knew they were gone, before walking home.

Louis C.K. kind of nailed it. Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going wind up dead.

The disparity is RIDICULOUS, and the fact that dudes get offended when women try to protect themselves is hard proof that way too many guys Do Not Understand how dangerous it is to be a woman. (Not to mention it’s fucking insulting. “How dare you not trust your life and safety to a complete stranger whose intentions you have no way of knowing”?)

Lookin’ at the notes on this post following my earlier reblog and just
going….

Wow. WOW. Look at all these sheltered people and their internalized misogyny.

The point isn’t, “NOT ALL MEN ARE OUT TO GET YOU.”

The point is, “WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING A NICE GUY FROM A SERIAL KILLER.”

It’s
not like they fucking wear nametags, okay? Moreover, the most awful people with the worst intentions often put on the nicest face or deliberately make themselves seem harmless and likeable, to lull potential victims into a false sense of security. (Read up on Ted Bundy sometime. It’s horrifying shit. Or read any thread on the “Let’s Not Meet” subreddit.)

In order to protect ourselves, we are forced to assume the worst of every man we meet, because statistically speaking, the biggest danger to women…IS MEN. Saying “not all men are out to get you, you’re just being paranoid” is like saying “not every car you ride in is going to crash, so buckling your seatbealt is stupid.”

When dealing with an unknown situation, in the absence of absolute proof of safety, exercising a little extra caution can be the difference between life and death. Shaming women for being what you may view as overly cautious is every bit as horrid as blaming them if something goes wrong later on.

And refusing to go to a
secluded location with a complete stranger without letting someone know
where you’re going, who you’re with, and how to find you is just common street sense, whether you’re on a date or just going out for business or social purposes.

If your life has been so sheltered (or your coping skills so incredible) that you see no need to distrust strangers or worry about the potential for violence, you should thank your lucky stars.

And you should also be aware that just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

Lemme say that louder for the people in the back.

Just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

Re-Reblog for relevant commentary.

And if you won’t take a woman’s word for it because you are some kind of asshat, men who sleep with men also mirror these rituals because even men are afraid of other men based on men’s behavior and inability to understand “no” or take rejection well.

I’ll stop reblogging this when it stops being relevant

Alllll of this. Being paranoid will often save your life. Assholes who say otherwise need to shut their noise holes and stop acting like they know better.

PSA

If I ever get in a new guy’s car I ALWAYS take a pic of him, the vehicle, the plate #, and send it to numerous ppl.

Also, it’s story time! I’m pretty certain I saved my mom’s fucking LIFE by convincing her do this on a date with a fucking COP (which she thought was safer than going out with other men, but let me tell you, cops are the WORST partner abusers around, so pls be safe!!!!).

She had only talked with him online and they were gonna go for a drive somewhere remote for some reason and she wasn’t going to take any precautions at all. I, being a well seasoned internet dater, was terrified by this prospect and warned her about how cops are actually much more dangerous than civilians and that getting in his car and going somewhere remote was even more dangerous. SO, I told her the best thing to do is to take a pic of him, his plates, then send it to me, and make sure you do it all right in front of him SO HE SEES IT. I warned her too that as a cop he should KNOW how dangerous this date would be for her, so if he kicks up a fuss about it AT ALL I told her to run like the fucking wind.

So when she gets there, he is already in his fucking truck, doesn’t get out to greet her, so she takes the pics of his car, plates, and him and sends it to me and I thank her profusely. Then apparently she gets in his car, sees there’s a fucking BAT in the back, and doesn’t this fucker just kick up a damn fuss about her doing this. AND MY MOM DOESN’T GET OUT OF THE CAR!!!!!! OMFGWLJELWNLWEJFANMDS

So he starts the car and they drive away and she can already tell he’s a fucking creeper. At one point, he even tells her a truly sad story of his life and she reacts sadly and doesn’t this dickhead say “why aren’t you smiling?” as if that’s what women are FOR. She responds “You had just told me a very sad, personal story, smiling didn’t seem appropriate”, as if she’s just there for smile back at him and look pretty!!!!

She texts me throughout all of this, telling me she’s increasingly getting uncomfortable and scared. He’s becoming increasingly hostile and unpleasant. She eventually texts me to ask me to call her and pretend to be my younger sister that lives with her saying that I’m sick (my mom’s a nurse). But my younger sis is 26, has a baby, is a personal support worker with some medical knowledge; and that didn’t seem like something strong enough to me that would make this dangerous fucker give up my mom.

So what do I do?

I called her and pretended I was my little sister crying and freaking out because her baby is super sick and she needs her nurse mom at her side bc this is WAY beyond her knowledge or comfort level. Thankfully that worked and he turned around. But he wasn’t happy and that bat was still in the back, staring mom in the goddamn face.

Later she called me and thanked me profusely and she STILL talks about it and how scary it was and how she is CERTAIN the real reason he turned around was bc I had insisted she send me those pictures.

Everyone, please be safe, definitely definitely take precautions! But also know that if something bad ever has or does happen to you, it’s NEVER your fault, even if you “didn’t take the right precautions”. That victim blaming rape culture nonsense is bullshit.

Psa

There’s a principal in evolution – false positives cost less than false negatives.

If the bushes rustle and there’s no tiger there but you ran away because there might have been a tiger, you had to stop what you were doing and you lost a few calories running away.

If, even once, the bushes rustle and you don’t run away because it might not be a tiger, you’re lunch.

Good advice –

Not just for women, but for anyone meeting a person for the first time. This kind of danger can exist even in innocuous exchanges of goods, or in applications for jobs/roommates, and any kind of interaction that starts online and leads to an offline meeting between two or more people. The other advice I’d give is never get into a car and never go to a second location – always stay in a public place, always stay in the place you planned to be, and never wander.

If you arrange to watch a film, and they suddenly want to go home -? Say no. I’ll also apply this to extreme situations, too. If someone has a gun to your head and demands you go with them, still say no. It’s better to be shot then and there than to be dragged to that second location, where he/she has the freedom and time to do whatever they want to you with no one knowing your new location.

Never go to second locations.

Never get into a car.

This is actually what they teach us at work in case of robbery. You’re never supposed to fight back if they just ask for money, but if they demand you go with them, you are allowed to take any measures you can to protect yourself. I carry a box cutter in my pocket when I work nights and I’m never far from something heavy I can swing. You want me to go with you, I will straight-up throw out my back yanking the POS off its cords and hitting you with it first.

NEVER GET IN A CAR.

Me the next time anyone wants me to get into a car.

Source: thelittledrunkapple

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willowdemon:

valid-wof-anything:

valid-wof-redesigns:

valid-wof-anything:

beckitty:

legionsystem:

peachytimothee:

sodiumforsaltytimes:

foxrat:

spaceddad:

pomegranat:

i–started-a-joke:

pomegranat:

heca-tea:

let 👏 bisexual 👏 girls 👏 love 👏 boys

what

LET

👏 BISEXUAL

👏 GIRLS

👏 LOVE

👏 BOYS

who’s stopping them

Lesbians who say they’ll never date a girl that has touched a man. People that say bi girls will cheat because they’re bi. There’s so much biphobia not only with straight people, but in the gay community

my lesbian friends who told me they were “high-key disappointed” when i started dating a cishet boy. my ex girlfriend who asked me “wait weren’t you gay” and then when i explained i was bi went “um. ew lol”. the whole “gold star lesbian” bullshit. can we face the biphobia in the lgbt community instead of shoving it under the rug lol

I’ve seen and reblogged this for the boy version as well, so it’s only fair if I do it for girls as well!!

LET 👏 GIRLS 👏 LOVE 👏 WHOEVER 👏 THEY 👏 LOVE

And if a bi girl marries a guy it doesn’t suddenly mean she’s straight either. For fuck sake.

As a pan woman who married a man, I am still pan. I’m still attracted to women, men, and anyone else. Don’t you dare try to tell me I’m not.

Guys, girls, love whatever gender you want. Just one? That’s great. All of them? That’s great too.

YOU👏ARE👏VALID👏

And don’t forget none! It doesn’t matter what genders you love, you are valid!!

^^^

S A Y IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

nudityandnerdery:

fierceawakening:

jolly-ob-saint-nixilis:

pinkcheesegreenghost:

kick-neckbeard-ass:

scribble-wizard:

dollsahoy:

pinkcheesegreenghost:

dynastylnoire:

crime-she-typed:

the-real-eye-to-see:

We know she’s just mad cause they have more melanin than she’s used to seeing

Lol I used to work at target and know for a fact that that’s literally one aisle sandwiched between several containing several an array of bland white dolls why would you fake a struggle like this?? It’s so flawed 😩😂

^^^^^^^

White girls are so pathetic

And…there’s absolutely no reason she couldn’t’ve bought one of those for her cousin, anyway? (I mean, no reason beyond “that cousin is probably being raised just like her and would do terrible things to the doll”)

i found this post on facebook this morning and went to My Generation to tally their dolls by skin color just to see how absolutely out of proportion the OP was blowing things.

they have 106 dolls total on target’s website. 87 of these dolls are white. 46 of those white dolls are blonde. counting all their total dolls of color, you get 19 (and that’s being generous and tallying any exceptionally tan ones). only one of these dolls resembles someone east asian.

so yeah, this lady only found 8 dolls (two of which are from seperate brands) and she’s still steamed when the brand she was looking at has 87 white dolls for her racist ass to choose from.

It got better!

“I’m only 19…”

91% said NO redemption for you

As usual for this era, I am disgusted but not at all surprised.

Link to the full article.

I know the internet likes to make fun of Buzzfeed a lot, but come on, they do some good work.