mesogeios:

Last week, I learned that the English language has more euphemisms for death than any other language. I learned that the ancient Greeks had no word for the colour blue and that the Hawain alphabet has only twelve letters. I spent last week hollowing out a little place in my heart and filling it with worry. What does that say about us? Do we really go out of our way to avoid death like that? How did the Greeks describe the sea? Are twelve letters really enough? Does every language have a word for love? Every language should have a word for love. And compassion. And gentleness. And figs and snow and that soft sensitive part on the inside of one’s arm. We should have words for everything so that we don’t feel alone. We need very very very specific words for all of the different kinds of sad and even more specific words for the kinds of happy. What if we were able to talk about everything? I want to tell you how I feel and I want to be precise. Sometimes ‘good’ just isn’t enough and few understand what I mean when I say that I feel ’like lightning.’

archaeologicals:

fun facts!

• leonardo da vinci was a year younger than christopher columbus.
  
• stalin, freud, Ttto, trotsky and hitler walk into a bar……no really, it’s possible since they all lived in vienna in 1913.
• aristotle tutored alexander the great.
• abraham lincoln was twelve when napoleon bonaparte died.
• an unusually well-traveled person in 5th century BC could have conceivably met confucius, lao tze, the buddha and socrates over the course of a seventy year life.
• pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time.
• pocahontas and william shakespeare died, in the same country, less than a year apart from each other. 
• oxford university is older than the aztec empire.

thugilly:

crime-she-typed:

micdotcom:

Watch:  Chicago woman had some great responses to a white man’s disturbing racist attacks.

I reblogged this 0.2 sec ago but I love her clapbacks so much

“He does not look to be of any Native American descent” YASSSSSS YOU BETTER LET THEM KNOW

spyderqueen:

play-read-write:

just-shower-thoughts:

If Snow White literally had “lips red as a rose, hair black as ebony, and skin white as snow,” she’d look like a walking nightmare.

honestly this sounds like the description of a vampire. Which would also explain how she convinced seven dwarves to let her stay with them. How she could control some animals to do her bidding. How she could sleep for a long time without aging. Why the hunter betrayed the queen for her, and why the queen wanted her heart, so she could be sure she was killed properly. 

Shit, THIS is a retelling I want to read.

brused:

cassbones:

inspookableassghosts:

you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how math works

hey that means charity will also get unlimited money so I’m game

so both charity and I get unlimited money, sounds like a win win situation.

when you see a good post but you don’t like the person who posted it

whenmoments:

nintendojock:

PETITION TO DELETE TINDER

reblog if you are…disgusted

godtechturninheads:

@infiniteadventureswithyou

troubleeveryday:

37q:

deschanels:

gillian cussing in the x files gag reels

“Mulder…” “… What?” “… Suck my dick”

the x-files blooper reels are some of the most excellent pieces of TV history, they are all amazing

clarkeqgriffin:

Clexa judging you together

pervocracy:

When I was about ten years old, my dad called me into his home office for a moment.  There was a bunch of incomprehensible code up on his computer screen.

“Press the enter key,” he said.  I did.  “Thanks,” he said.  “I couldn’t bear to do it myself.”

And that’s the story of how I sent out one of the largest spam email campaigns of the 1990s.