anaryllis:

The analogy  that  has  helped  me  most  is  this:  in  Hurricane  Katrina,  hundreds  of  boat-owners  rescued  people—single  moms,  toddlers,  grand-fathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore  it’s  futile;  therefore  my  efforts  are  flawed  and  worthless,  though  that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake.

They went out  there  in  fishing  boats  and  rowboats  and  pirogues  and  all kinds  of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au-thorities  to  get  in,  others  refugees  themselves  working  within  the  city.  There  was  bumper-to-bumper  boat-trailer  traffic—the  celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.

Of course, working for systemic change also matters—the kind of change that might prevent calamities by addressing the climate or the infrastructure or the environmental and economic injustice that put some people in harm’s way in New Orleans in the first place.

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit

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tonyespera:

lusilly:

gobigorgoextinct:

Jaeger with a sticker on its rear that says ‘Jesus is my co-pilot’

#Headcanon: its Matador Fury from Mexico #piloted by Jesus and Carlos 

#headcanon: jesus doesn’t think it’s funny#carlos thinks it’s goddamn hilarious (via nathanielfick)

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conniejoworld:

taksez:

deadmomjokes:

stupidbabyhours:

stupidbabyhours:

my brothers share special interests and my favorite thing to do is walk in a room and be like “hey guys can you tell me about the mariana trench” and then sit there for an hour while they both infodump to me about the ocean it’s extremely entertaining

and my parents are always like “oh my god why would you do that” bitch. I want to learn about the ocean and these two thirteen year old boys r my most trusted source

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I mean, I could google questions I have about medieval weaponry and horsemanship, but on the other hand I could message my sister the simple statement “have question about historical saddles” and get both a phone call and a comprehensive 3 page google document within an hour

Seriously, if you know someone who has a special interest you’d like info about, go ask them! It costs zero money, you make them happy, and you learn way more than a basic google search would tell you.

Asking is a love language

Asking is a love language

HOLY SHIT ASKING IS MY LOVE LANGUAGE

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horsesrule:

This video gives me spiritually energy and power

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professormcguire:

tilthat:

TIL that Leonard Nimoy met many fans who became scientists because of Spock’s example, and talked to the ‘Star Trek’ actor as if he were a fellow researcher. Nimoy always nodded and told them, “Well, it certainly looks like you’re headed in the right direction.”

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This is so sweet.  Nimoy must have known that all those scientists had ever wanted in their lives was Spock’s approval on their research.  Spock isn’t real, and they all knew this, but Nimoy also knew that the gift of his craft had given him the power to grant them Spock’s approval.  So, instead of popping the fantasy and reminding those starry-eyed scientists that he had no clue what they were talking about, he granted them Spock’s approval.

I can confirm this: My father is a geologist, and went into earth sciences after his youth was spent watching the original Star Trek series. He was fascinated by the Horta episode, and it got him thinking about rocks as living things, and he never gave up thinking about it. 

He got to meet Leonard Nimoy, and not only did he give my father Spock’s approval on his work (which my father still talks about at the age of nearly 80), but Nimoy was such a good person that he actually contacted my dad back at the university he was working at and agreed to narrate the film on coastal erosion that my dad was writing for the ecology department at the time. 

According to my dad, Nimoy said he had agreed to provide narration because he genuinely loved that Spock as a character had inspired so many people to go into important and at the time often underdeveloped areas of science (compared to other scientific fields). 

My dad’s project interested him personally, because Nimoy cared about the Earth and wanted to contribute to an educational film that would engage students and encourage them further in studying the environment. 

I believe you can still find the film in the FIU archives, although I can’t tell you specifically the title as not even my father remembers. He just remembers how kind and polite and genuinely awesome Mr. Nimoy was. 

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misskirby:

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misskirby:

misskirby:

misskirby:

outfits that say you go clubbing every weekend but you’re also very devoted to your religion

outfits that make you look like you’re good at your job and also like you have “i like adventure” in your tinder bio

outfits that say you have a farmer’s only account but you’re also from someone’s daydream about being romanced by a young pirate guy

outfits you’re too short for

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