average gay interaction

the poses is what gets me every time

im telling you all... its so worth it to spend a whole evening make 100 million homemade gyoza (even though it takes so long) and freezing them all to have perfect delicious gyoza just the way you like them anytime you want at a moments notice. they seriously take like 10 minutes to prepare from frozen and they are so good. i just had a dumplings and noodles feast you wish you were me

heres teh gyoza recipe ive been using and heres the dumpling sauce recipe ive been using and here was the noodles recipe i ate. in case even 1 person on earth wanted this information

Cosplayed mother today ✨💅🏳️‍🌈

really good tiktok

Transcript:

Girl, just do it fat. Don’t wait until you’ve lost enough weight. You’re worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Don’t wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isn’t tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. You’re allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Don’t let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. There’s no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that you’re not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

Eugenics

I just felt these tags were too important not to add @blacksasuke

The particular segment of medical racism that says ‘Black people are built tougher’ is a great example of why ‘positive’ stereotypes don’t exist. 

Adding your tags, prev, cause.. yeah.

jfc, so i work at a winter resort, right, where frostbite is a maaaajor concern. EVERY SEASON i have to interrupt our training managers durin our winter weather safety module to say "hey, thats not what cold damage looks like on darker and Black skin, this is" and then i *force* everyone to look at a pic from my phone 😠 same damn thing with broken bones and sunburns.

we need to learn medical shit across ALL skin tones and types. its called bein competent and respectful of Life.

like, i dare anyone to fight me on this. i mean, youll die on this hill, but for others watchin, theyll know there's at least 1 person in their corner/who's willin to fight for them

Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.

Birds evolved from dinosaurs, and they really show huh.

Cassoary my beloved why so scary

chef with a silver earring

I'ma just leave these here for like... *Cough* Research purposes and such.

Indigenous African Beadwork Distinctions

I love looking at African beaded jewelry through the lens of what makes it culturally distinct as someone living in the diaspora- which is relevant bc when you look up ‘beaded jewelry’ you get NA Indigenous designs and white people’s interpretation of said designs, mostly. The prior isn’t a gripe, since I’m currently living on/in Turtle Island and that’s the Indigenous culture here. As someone with African heritage though and as a bead artist, the differences are of course really important. Pattern and symbol have cultural meanings and we always have to know what we are doing and what we aren’t doing; and as someone in the African diaspora specifically through enslavement there’s some nuance as far as what I will do and what I won’t, what I have ties to and what I still do slightly differently out of respect and because I am also free from certain constraints.

On the one hand, African beadwork is distinguished from TI beadwork by pattern (though certain patterns like the rainbow, which is pretty much universally a Big Deal and which features heavily in various African Indigenous cultures, still show up) and thus color. There’s also the fact that only *some* of African beadwork is done with small beads and plenty of it actually relies on large / pony beads moreso than I usually see with NA Indigenous beadwork. Like Ifa eleke need large beads-

And otherwise there are lots of similarities because Indigenous People  Doing Stuff With Beads often follows a similar logic wherever there are beads. So we also:

Though a lot of times we go CHONKY w it:

And of course

But one of the things I think is really distinct and I love a lot since I’ve been working with this material since I was a kid, is the addition of wire as a beading element leading to the concept of African beading including lots of collars and earrings with structures owing themselves to the addition of wire (especially in Maasai collars). Like:

And I’m curious as to when it became a cultural staple or what would have been used before wire, bc I know there are other things like horse hair for instance that can to a point provide the firm, springy form achieved here.

Another thing that definitely stands out is the breast piece collars & capes

especially Zulu beadwork-

Of course there’s always:

On a whole nother level.

Before I go, this post features primarily Maasai and Zulu beadwork, here is some Xhosa all of which is incredibly fleeky bc Xhosa color combos are icy af but looking at the collars always reminds me how many of the old pieces are still in museums

Of course my whole point here is exemplified by the fact that when I looked up ‘ndebele stitch’ to give an example for the end of this post, I find this:

And it’s like… you know I’ll give that techniques can travel and spawn bc they’re a result of action and geometry and eventually ppl in other places will derive similar approaches and actions through shared human consciousness. I’m not mad that a 2 bead pattern is being done by someone else…but you….literally called it the Ndebele pattern…on your little animal print bracelet…smh.

ANYWAY! That’s been a rant on African beads I guess!

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.