Author: LectionaryStan

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dr-archeville:

between-stars-and-waves:

Don’t let evil jackasses like this one decide your future. Vote.

What the absolute fuck?

friendly reminder that steve bannon used to own a world of warcraft gold farming company and realized that a lot of gamers are disenfranchised young white men who are absurdly easy to take political advantage of, and brought milo yiannopoulos on board to do it. which is a large reason why white supremacy and misogyny are so prevalent among the young white male age group right now. We can laugh at people like this all we want, but this is a phenomenon purposefully engineered by the current administration.

golbatgender:

golbatgender:

Hey. I don’t give a shit about what anyone likes in fiction or roleplay. I care about how they treat people in real life, especially when they could get away with things with no consequences.

On that note? Some of the nicest, most considerate, most conscientious people I know are the ones who like super dark fiction. They’re aware, from a combination of reading and personal experience, just what horrors people are capable of, and that’s why they treat other people with respect, because they don’t want reality to turn into that any more than it has to.

Meanwhile, the ones who think that fictional taste is equivalent to real morality and that thinking about or imagining a thing is equivalent to reality are the meanest, most abusive, most vitriolic, dangerous people I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet. But it only matters if you read the approved things and shun the problematic ones, right?

It’s a lot easier to enforce a canon of good and bad literature than it is to do right by your fellow human beings. One cannot be allowed to become a substitute for the other. Be kind to people. Life is too short to waste time being pointlessly mean.

themightyglamazon:

brunhiddensmusings:

themerrywolf:

brunhiddensmusings:

myanacondadontexist:

kaleighbytheway:

tilthat:

TIL a 30-year-old elephant named Ben sought help at a safari lodge after being shot by poachers. The elephant waited patiently near the lodge for the 6 hours it took for a vet to fly in and dress his 3 bullet wounds.

via ift.tt

The fact he’s named kinda brushes over the fact this is a wild elephant. Born in the wild, raised in the wild, the only human interaction is watching the safaris. And after mean humans shot him, he decided the best course of action was to go visit the nice humans who just take pictures in hopes they’d help him. And then, even though they didn’t help him right away, he trusted that because they continued to be nice, he was safe, and they would help him.

also the people saw an elephant and were like “that’s a ben”

i hope he tells the other elephants where they can get help

@brunhiddensmusings

Actually, they do!

https://www.thedodo.com/elephants-travel-humans-help-1353631970.html

Orphans who were rescued, raised, and released by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya have communicated that it is a place of safety to other elephants who’ve never even been there.

Injured animals will show up there when they have been harmed by poachers because they know it is a place where they can get help!

i am very glad elephants have a functioning yelp system

Heads up I love elephants