RIP, the middle class: 1946-2013
24%. Nearly a quarter of people whose deepest hope isn’t a vacation home or a third car or a business of their own. But just to not spend their life worrying about how much they owe someone else.
And how much of that debt is for things we’ve been told were necessary- student loans, auto loans because public transit isn’t an option, credit cards and medical expenses because they can’t afford health insurance. Yeah, I’m sure some of it is on other things, less necessary things, but so much of our culture is bent on tying people down to as much debt as it possibly can.
(via imoverthinkingitagain)
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white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty, shiny, sparky bits
take the ugly, dehumanizing and shitty parts too
Tank maintenance getting you down? Teach your fish to clean up after themselves.
Jock the octopus, a star attraction at Scotland’s Loch Lomond Aquarium has learned to clean the glass on his own aquarium. He was apparently intrigued when staffers would clean his tank, and one day took over the task. Jock has become such a neat freak he even cleans up after dinner, stacking discarded crab shells in a pile.
*Is very pleased!*
Octopi are so cute
…. I WANT AN OCTOPUS
Cephalopods are truly the greatest.
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today is bisexual awareness day. be aware of bisexuals. they are out there, and they are dangerous.
(via platanosandprejudice)
hunters-in-the-sherlocked-tardis:
you’d think this is an exaggeration but it’s really not
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the onion on point yet again