the last anime girl oc with one angel wing and one devil wing has died in captivity

I'm still angry about

Tamir Rice, 12 Trayvon Martin, 17 Mike Brown, 18 Akai Gurley, 28 Ezell Ford, 25 John Crawford III, 22 Eric Garner, 43, Yvette Smith, 47 Jordan Baker, 26 Jonathan Ferrell, 24 Larry Eugene Jackson, Jr., 32 Dontre Hamilton , 37 Dante Parker, 36 Tanisha Anderson ,37 Jerame Reid, 36 Tony Robinson, 19 Phillip White,32 Walter Scott,50 Freddie Gray, 25 Sandra Bland, 28 AND YOU SHOULD BE TOO.

Linda Brown, who as a little girl was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education US Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools, has died at the age of 76 (Feb. 20, 1942- March 26, 2018).

Brown was 9 years old when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas. When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the Topeka Board of Education.

The court’s landmark ruling in May 1954 – that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” – led to the desegregation of the US education system. Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s special counsel and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, argued the case before the Supreme Court. [x]

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Our search for what could be possible means accepting a rich heritage. The women of the Paris commune of 1871, and the worker’s militias of the Hamburg uprising of 1923 - that’s us. The comrades of the October revolution and the Spanish civil war - that’s us. The workers on strike in India and guerillas in the mountains of Kurdistan - that’s us. When we take up our weapons we are not only fighting alongside the people of Afrin but also with all the women of the world. Anna Campbell was a courageous British feminist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist soldier who fought with the Kurds against ISIS.“

Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes East Sussex, who joined the Kurdish unit to fight against Isis and was killed during an assault by Turkey’s jihadi-linked military in Afrin.

Getting pretty fucking annoyed at all the ableist reporting on Stephen Hawking’s death so like hey uh just a nice little summary of the core of literally every article about Stephen Hawking’s death and the reason why they fucking suck

Stephen Hawking didn’t achieve the things he did ‘despite’ his disability. He didn’t ‘overcome’ them in order to achieve what he did. He had a physical disability. He did physics. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Heck, as the fucking ableist mess of an article Buzzfeed posted said, he himself said "My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way by shielding me from lecturing and administrative work that I would otherwise have been involved in.” 

They also included a quote from another physicist that says “He thinks about the universe differently, due to his physical disability. That enabled him to make discoveries that no one else could make. And he has. They have shaken the foundations of physics.”

Stephen Hawking and his scientific discoveries weren’t made in spite of his disabilities. His scientific discoveries and the achievements he made happened with his disabilities, and possibly were informed by them, and his disabilities shouldn’t be shunned or seen as something that held him back while his achievements - that he’s literally said weren’t held back by his disability - are celebrated

A quick search of Stephen Hawking quotes because I wanted to read some of the things he had to teach and some of the words he left behind...

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

“I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”

“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”

“Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

This makes my blood boil..They really do not gaf about poor people..

Rest in peace Yeweinisht Mesfin. You won’t be forgotten.

There is no “unskilled labor,” only undervalued skills.

—

Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

in which Sam Vimes speaks for all of us

(via cakesandfail)

‘No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.“

RIP Terry Pratchett

28th April 1948 - 12th March 2015

https://www.gofundme.com/justice4colten

GeraldStanley was acquitted last night of murdering Colten Boushie. Yet another slain native person who has received no justice. Who in being a victim was posthumously painted as a villain in order for the all-white jury to let his white murderer get away with it.

Amy Winehouse / Photographed by Mark Okoh / 2004

R.I.P. David Ogden Stiers (1942-2018)

If that doesn’t say ‘suck my dick, Nazis’. I don’t know what does

Over 113, now! He missed celebrating his Bar Mitzvah because of the first World War, so he finally observed it September 2016, a hundred years later.

Just checked, and he’s still alive! He’ll be 114 on September 15th.

Happy 114th Birthday!!!

He unfortunately died on August 11, 2017. He lived 113 years, 330 days. 

May his memory be a blessing. 

Z”L

On this day, 26 February 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, was murdered by a neighborhood watch volunteer for being black, wearing a hoodie, and being in the “wrong” neighbourhood. In the aftermath of his death, there were marches and protests across the USA, and Black Lives Matter was born. Over a year after, however, his shooter went on trial and was acquitted of his charges of murder. Here is an article responding to the lack of conviction: http://ift.tt/2EVY1WV http://ift.tt/2FwkWZK

Everything about this is sad. Rest in power, Ruth Odom Bonner.

In other news, Carrie Fisher is still one of the most incredible people to have ever walked this earth.