aquapunk:

swegener:

legendary:

It’s time to cancel the apocalypse. 

I’m too much of a production nerd to let go of the fact that the cargo ship is too damn tiny to make sense. :P

Maybe it carries little cargoes

Like these things

It would just be wrong for mini food toys to be distributed in regular-sized cargo ships with all the other regular sized stuff.

But the question remains, though… who would the captain be?

I KNOW WHO THE CAPTAIN IS

(Source: ivanessens)

swegener:

legendary:

It’s time to cancel the apocalypse. 

I’m too much of a production nerd to let go of the fact that the cargo ship is too damn tiny to make sense. :P

Maybe it carries little cargoes

Like these things

It would just be wrong for mini food toys to be distributed in regular-sized cargo ships with all the other regular sized stuff.

But the question remains, though… who would the captain be?

(Source: ivanessens)

mexicanfoodporn:

Gracias a Dios es Viernes! 

TGIF! 

Inspired by Jasper’s Corner Tap & Kitchen Chef Mike Ransom’s affinity for grapefruit juice and hibiscus soda, bar manager Kevin Diedrich created this homage of a cocktail (it’s an off-menu treat, so check out the chalkboard). Diedrich makes his own hibiscus water, but you can (more) easily grab it at the market. 

Hibiscus Paloma

Serves 1

1 1/2 ounces Altos Blanco Tequila

1 ounce hibiscus water (available at specialty food stores)

1 ounce grapefruit juice

1/2 ounce lime juice

1/2 ounce Combier Pamplemousse grapefruit liqueur

1.Combine all of the ingredients in a shaker, shake, and strain into a Collins glass.

2. Top with soda

3. Garnish with hibiscus flowers and lime wheel.

Photo by Michael Harlan Turkell 

batchix:

tamerobot:

queensimia:

shardofsong:

dozens-of-us:

anythingphotography:

The Cycle of Abuse Illustrated Through Single Photos and Multiple Models

Statistics show that 70% of people who are abused as children will grow up into adults who will in turn abuse children. A recent awareness ad campaign by Mexican organization Save the Children shared this fact in single photographs that are both creative and difficult to stomach.

The advertisements were originally published back in May 2012, and were created by Mexican agency Y&R and photographer Ale Burset.

Each one uses five models showing one individual at different stages of life. In the foreground, the individual is experiencing abuse as a child. Older versions of the abused child grow up as they walk across the background of the frame, and turn into the original abuser by the time they walk a full circle.

“70% of abused children turn into abusive adults. Donate at savethechildren.mx,” the advertisements say.

This is… /terrifyingly/ well-done.

it’s true

It is, very much so. This actually reminds me of a small revelation I had yesterday, strangely enough while watching Game Grumps.

Jon and Arin were joking around, and some way or another the conversation turned to why children who were abused turn into abusers themselves. The fact that it completely boggled them both (they wondered if the abuse itself just turned the kid into an angry adult; in my experience, it’s because the kid’s learned from being abused that the way you deal with anger/fix upsetting behavior is to hit things and other people) while it was crystal clear to me was a little sobering. It had never occurred to me that someone could grow up without that sort of context, and conversely, it was amazing that obviously at least two someones had and my experience was therefore inconceivable to them.

So yeah. Regardless of any underlying anger issues (which are probably both genetically predisposed and aggravated by an abusive upbringing), if a kid’s been smacked around all his/her childhood and had no other example of anger management, the adult they become is going to be hard-wired to deal with anger with their own children in the same way. It’s the sort of imprinted behavior that takes a lot of effort and cognitive therapy to undo.

My grandmother’s father and mother were cruel to her and her siblings, and in turn my grandmother (with help from Mom’s father, who was not only mentally ill but also a pedophile) sometimes dealt with frustration with her children inappropriately; Mom didn’t really hit me, but she was terrifying when she was angry—screaming, name-calling, deriding, throwing things—and so I was a fearful child, and when my baby sister and brother came along and I was left in charge, I did many of the same things when they inevitably didn’t listen*. None of us are innately evil people. We did those things because that’s all we knew, and the same case plays out in thousands, if not millions, of families nationwide and across the globe.

It honestly amazes me that someone could be baffled at the cause-and-effect nature of parent-to-child abuse, but again, it’s a striking example of the power of perspective. Hopefully this particular perspective will eventually be bred out of us as global social mores change.

*Of course long since then, I’ve learned This Is Not How We Deal with Things; I can still be unnecessarily sharp-tongued and mean when I’m extremely angry, but fortunately this doesn’t happen often. Mom eventually got therapy, realized what she had done, and is a much calmer person now than she was 25+ years ago.

Wow. Part of me appreciates the brilliance of this photoset, the rest of me had to take a moment. I knew what this was about as soon as I saw these pictures, because I’ve seen it played out in my own family too. Spanking was (don’t know if it is now) a pretty common method of dealing with uppity kids among Korean families, but the level of um, discipline that I got, and my brother got, was abnormal. To this day I have trouble with starting confrontations of any kind, because I fear the other person is going to fly into a screaming rage. I’m afraid of my -own- anger, and I tend to hide it away or funnel it into escapism where it won’t bother anyone else. I’ve seen anger destroy people too many times. I do not understand people who enjoy feeling angry.

I was told I was hated, I had things thrown at me, my hair was yanked, and yet my mother always told me about how badly and how much worse my grandmother had abused -her-, and you didn’t need to be a genius to notice how my father was treating her too. Even now when my mother is nearing 60, and my grandmother is a frail bent-backed 88, my mother is still afraid of her sometimes. That stuff does not let you go.

My mother eventually stopped because she realized one day that she was doing the same thing my grandmother did to her. I don’t know how my father is treating his current wife, but I hope he’s learned to stop too.

Please, please be good to each other.

my mother had similar experiences with her biological mother.  She mostly lived with her grandparents, but they were far kinder to my mom and her brother than they were to their daughters.  I think it’s because they knew how cruel people outside the family were toward children who were half white at that time in korea. 

When she came to the states after she was adopted, my grandpa could be very, very scary.  He regrets the things he did and said, but it still haunts mom.  Mom got mad and screamed a lot and we got spanked- but honestly it was a lot less spanking than we deserved.  More yelling than we deserved tho.  To this day I will still hide and get sick to my stomach when someone starts yelling. 

But mom made a conscious decision to never physically harm us(spankings hurt, but they were more painful to my pride) and to never say awful things to us and she never did. 

Every few years we get into those spectacular fights with the screaming and the throwing things.  Never AT anyone, but sometimes I think we keep breakable objects around the house just so we can throw them at the wall.  I can take all the walks I want, but nothing makes me feel better/ calms me down like smashing ceramics.

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Why was my immediate thought to the crying out ‘i’ll never know love’ that it was Bumblebee.

SNERK

legendary:

It’s time to cancel the apocalypse. 

(Source: ivanessens, via portland-mando)

ryannxp:

『25 Lives』 by Tongari (ಌ)

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batchix:

letswishuponastar:

A good friend knows when to hold you back.

A best friend knows when to let go and let you rip into a bitch.

I like Stitch’s selfie in the middle of the pictures

call my mom a dirt chink, will you, Randalynn!

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fuckyeahfeminists:

rhrealitycheck:

Did you know that pregnant women have been fired for using the bathroom to vomit, needing to carry a water bottle on the job, or asking to sit on a stool instead of standing in place all day? While employers have to make allowances like these for other types of temporary disabilities, a number of bad court decisions have encouraged them to feel they can get away with firing or mistreating pregnant workers with impunity.

It’s disgraceful and unacceptable that at a time when unnecessary budget cuts are decimating food, medical, and educational supports for low-income families, pregnant women continue to be pushed out of their jobs just as they take on all the expenses of having a new baby.

Read more about the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
and take action by contacting your congressperson.

This is unacceptable. Pregnant workers need more protection. With a child coming up they need employment more than ever. Please contact your rep.

(Source: action.rhrealitycheck.org)

scinerds:

Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water

Scientists working 2.4 kilometres below Earth’s surface in a Canadian mine have tapped a source of water that has remained isolated for at least a billion years. The researchers say they do not yet know whether anything has been living in it all this time, but the water contains high levels of methane and hydrogen — the right stuff to support life.

Micrometre-scale pockets in minerals billions of years old can hold water that was trapped during the minerals’ formation. But no source of free-flowing water passing through interconnected cracks or pores in Earth’s crust has previously been shown to have stayed isolated for more than tens of millions of years.

“We were expecting these fluids to be possibly tens, perhaps even hundreds of millions of years of age,” says Chris Ballentine, a geochemist at the University of Manchester, UK. He and his team carefully captured water flowing through fractures in the 2.7-billion-year-old sulphide deposits in a copper and zinc mine near Timmins, Ontario, ensuring that the water did not come into contact with mine air.

To date the water, the team used three lines of evidence, all based on the relative abundances of various isotopes of noble gases present in the water. The authors determined that the fluid could not have contacted Earth’s atmosphere — and so been at the planet’s surface — for at least 1 billion years, and possibly for as long as 2.64 billion years, not long after the rocks it flows through formed. The study appears today in Nature.

‘Extremely strange’

“The isotopic compositions that they see in these samples are extremely strange, and the preferred explanation in the article seems to me the most likely one,” says Pete Burnard, a geochemist at the Centre of Petrographic and Geochemical Research in Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France. “For the moment, I think we have to conclude that there are 1.5-billion-year-old fluids trapped in the crust.”

The findings are “doubly interesting”, Ballentine says, because the fluid carries the ingredients necessary to support life. The isolated water supply, he says, provides “secluded biomes, ecosystems, in which life, you can speculate, might have even originated”. His colleagues are now working to establish whether the water does harbour life.

The findings may also have implications for life on Mars, Ballentine says, though he acknowledges that the idea is speculative. The surface of Mars once held water and its rocks are chemically no different from those on Earth, he says. “There is no reason to think the same interconnected fluids systems do not exist there.”

Original Article

(via descomic)