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black—betty:

This picture made me think: Cuba + Erik wins.

This is a colorized photograph of the “Baker” explosion on Bikini Atoll. Glenn Seaborg called this test “the world’s first nuclear disaster.” 

Also, apparently Bikini Atoll has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the nuclear testing done there. I applaud the intent, but it’s still somewhat…disturbing.

black—betty:

This picture made me think: Cuba + Erik wins.

This is a colorized photograph of the “Baker” explosion on Bikini Atoll. Glenn Seaborg called this test “the world’s first nuclear disaster.”

Also, apparently Bikini Atoll has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the nuclear testing done there. I applaud the intent, but it’s still somewhat…disturbing.

The reward for the capture and return of a fugitive member of a black militant group convicted of murdering a New Jersey state trooper was doubled to $2 million on Thursday, the 40th anniversary of the bloody gunbattle. The FBI also announced it has made Joanne Chesimard, now living in Cuba as Assata Shakur, the first woman on its list of most wanted terrorists. “She continues to flaunt her freedom in the face of this horrific crime,” State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said at a news conference Thursday. Fuentes called the case “an open wound” for troopers in New Jersey and around the country.

Joanne Chesimard, Black Liberation Army Fugitive In Cuba, Added To FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List

1. please notice how this opening paragraph doesn’t even refer to ms. assata shakur as a person—she’s a “fugitive member of a black militant group”

2. notice how they call her by “joanne chesimard” and NOT her REAL name, “assata shakur.” 

3. notice how *flaunting her freedom” is positioned as the crime—a liberation centered black woman is “flaunting” her freedom.

4. notice how not one single place in this article does it mention anything at ALL about cointelpro or that white people who made up the weather underground are all free even tho they actually committed terrorists acts that more legally fit the term (ie. bombing buildings with the assumed effect of “terrorizing” people into revolution or complacency)—it makes not a single solitary attempt to contextualize what was going on the 70s or even what the black liberation army was. 

oh, but it DOES says she ran to cuba to “espouse her anti-US views”…

(via iinventedeverything)

sister shakur got them SALTY! Not only did she get out of the torture and the kangaroo court they had her in, she’s still easy, breezy, and beautiful in Cuba? SALTY. Cos was this 40 years ago? and they’re double the reward to $2mil? SALTY!

Stay Free, Sister Shakur.

(via crispycheezefriez)

under-the-moonlight-tower:

petitedeath:

gothiccharmschool:

Okay, now I KNOW I’m stressed out (work, being sickly, writing), because seeing nice things from Calming Manatee made me tear up. Thank you, Calming Manatee. 

the bottom one is actually really helpful right now. Thank you calming manatee!

Yes, need this. Thank you.

theletteraesc:

thesecarryingarms:

bellabitchh:

Phil, this wasn’t fucking amateur hour. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SUPERVISION. THERE WERE RAPTORS ALL UP IN THE KITCHEN PHIL. IN THE GOD DAMN KITCHEN.
YOU HAD ONE JOB PHIL. ONE JOB.

I will never not reblog this.

Special to professorofeljay, fourteenacross, and iteribidem and anyone who’s seen Final Justice.

I just saw this in 3D tonight. Did anyone else forget that Samuel L. Jackson was in this movie?

theletteraesc:

thesecarryingarms:

bellabitchh:

Phil, this wasn’t fucking amateur hour. PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF YOUR LACK OF SUPERVISION. THERE WERE RAPTORS ALL UP IN THE KITCHEN PHIL. IN THE GOD DAMN KITCHEN.

YOU HAD ONE JOB PHIL. ONE JOB.

I will never not reblog this.

Special to professorofeljay, fourteenacross, and iteribidem and anyone who’s seen Final Justice.

I just saw this in 3D tonight. Did anyone else forget that Samuel L. Jackson was in this movie?

magic-murder-bag:

thegoddamazon:

oldmanasante:

Aisha Tyler just owned all the trolls hating on the fact that she was selected to be a presenter at the Ubisoft E3 press conference. In the form of an open letter. I think I’m more infatuated with this woman than ever before.
====
Dear Gamers
I play.
I’ve played since I was a little kid. 
Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr.
Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat.
Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos.
I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari.
Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school.
Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby.
You think you know. You don’t know.
I’ve been a gamer since before you could read.
Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris.
Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry.
Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s.
I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles.
I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial.
I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon.
I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012.
I didn’t do any of it for the money. 
For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that.
I did it because I love video games.
Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love.
How many games have you done voices for?
How many cons have you repped at?
Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count.
I go to E3 each year because I love video games.
Because new titles still get me high.
Because I still love getting swag.
Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve.
People ask me what console I play.
Motherfucker, ALL of them.
I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer.
I don’t do it for the money.
I have plenty of money.
I don’t do it for the fame.
Fuck fame.
I do it because I love video games.
I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up
to assassinate me on XBL. 
I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore.
I don’t play to prove a point. 
I don’t play to be the best.
I play because I love it.
I play.
I’ve been playing my whole life. 
I’m not ashamed of it.
I don’t apologize for it.
It’s who I am.
To the core.
I’m a gamer.
So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play;
To the GAF dicks, 
Gamespot trolls, 
To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube:
Flame away. Go nuts.
Post every jackass comment your heart desires.
I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement
and you have to sell your old-ass console
and get a real job.
For now, I say to you respectfully,
and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,
GFYS.


And I just fell in love with Aisha Tyler.
I mean, she’s the voice of my favorite character in Archer so how could I not?
But she’s a gamer and a nerd and she reps it hard. I fucking love her.

If you don’t absolutely love Aisha Tyler, there’s no chance we can truly be friends

magic-murder-bag:

thegoddamazon:

oldmanasante:

Aisha Tyler just owned all the trolls hating on the fact that she was selected to be a presenter at the Ubisoft E3 press conference. In the form of an open letter. I think I’m more infatuated with this woman than ever before.

====

Dear Gamers

I play.

I’ve played since I was a little kid. 

Since I begged my dad to buy me a Nintendo LCD Donkey Kong, Jr.

Since I blew through three weeks’ allowance playing Defender at the laundromat.

Since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy’s underoos.

I’ve been a gamer since I made friends with a girl in the 5th grade just to get at her Atari.

Since I missed the bus playing Galaga after school.

Since I missed the start of Return of the Jedi playing Tempest in the theater lobby.

You think you know. You don’t know.

I’ve been a gamer since before you could read.

Since I aced midterms after staying up all night playing Evil Tetris.

Since I became dorm champ at Leisure Suit Larry.

Since I double-wielded on Time Crisis 3 at Fuddrucker’s.

I was a voice in not one, but two major video game titles.

I hosted the Reach Beta tutorial.

I was a Gears of War superfan panelist at ComicCon.

I hosted the Ubisoft presser at E3 2012.

I didn’t do any of it for the money. 

For most I got paid next to nothing, and for some, less than that.

I did it because I love video games.

Because I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of being in one of the games I love.

How many games have you done voices for?

How many cons have you repped at?

Your buddy’s Unreal Tournament garage deathmatch doesn’t count.

I go to E3 each year because I love video games.

Because new titles still get me high.

Because I still love getting swag.

Love wearing my gamer pride on my sleeve.

People ask me what console I play.

Motherfucker, ALL of them.

I get invited to E3 because real gamers know I’m a gamer.

I don’t do it for the money.

I have plenty of money.

I don’t do it for the fame.

Fuck fame.

I do it because I love video games.

I don’t give out my gamertag because I don’t want a mess of noob jackholes lining up

to assassinate me on XBL. 

I don’t give a shit what you think about my gamerscore.

I don’t play to prove a point. 

I don’t play to be the best.

I play because I love it.

I play.

I’ve been playing my whole life. 

I’m not ashamed of it.

I don’t apologize for it.

It’s who I am.

To the core.

I’m a gamer.

So to all the haters out there who claim I don’t play;

To the GAF dicks, 

Gamespot trolls, 

To every illiterate racist douchebag on Youtube:

Flame away. Go nuts.

Post every jackass comment your heart desires.

I’ll still be playing when your mom’s kicked you out of her basement

and you have to sell your old-ass console

and get a real job.

For now, I say to you respectfully,

and I mean this from the bottom of my heart,

GFYS.

And I just fell in love with Aisha Tyler.

I mean, she’s the voice of my favorite character in Archer so how could I not?

But she’s a gamer and a nerd and she reps it hard. I fucking love her.

If you don’t absolutely love Aisha Tyler, there’s no chance we can truly be friends

criacow:

ok while we’re all admiring the new five-dollar SPACE DOLLARS bill
can we just also appreciate the new $10 bill which is TRAINS
because YEAH TRAINS
so for those keeping track: $100 - discovery of insulin; $50 - Arctic science research; $20 - the Vimy memorial; $10 - TRAINS; and $5 - SPACE.
this country’s pretty cool yeah }:D


I was just in Canada, this new money is the shit.

criacow:

ok while we’re all admiring the new five-dollar SPACE DOLLARS bill

can we just also appreciate the new $10 bill which is TRAINS

because YEAH TRAINS

so for those keeping track: $100 - discovery of insulin; $50 - Arctic science research; $20 - the Vimy memorial; $10 - TRAINS; and $5 - SPACE.

this country’s pretty cool yeah }:D

I was just in Canada, this new money is the shit.

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment

bunniewabbit:

aka14kgold:

onebigpear:

fuckyeahfeminists:

This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.

  1. She was doing a science experiment
  2. She’s being charged as an ADULT
  3. She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination,  employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

There is a petition up … spread the word.

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot

Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition. 

You guys, go sign this, and reblog. This is some real insanity going on, here.