AtlasWonders: cats

Trying to stay safe and sane this week, with white MAGA folks descending on the city, trying to overturn the legal election because they didn't like that black folks voted.

Ya know, normal stuff.

Stray Cat Knocks On Woman's Door Asking To Be Let In From The Cold

We Can’t Let Our Elections Be This Vulnerable Again

GOP leaders in Pa. Senate will refuse to seat Democrat certified by state as winner

Montreal woman reflects on her year of buying nothing new

Wintry Scenes From a Swedish Wonderland

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Charged In Flint Water Crisis

A “Prisoner of War” Story: The Life and Captivity of Lisa Montgomery—The First Woman To Be Executed by the Federal Government in 68 Years

Election sign causing controversy in Olive Branch neighborhood

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Sunday Snippets: Rest in Power

We lost two great ones this week. May they rest in power.

Civil rights icon Rev. C.T. Vivian dies at 95

Rep. John Lewis, A Force In The Civil Rights Movement, Dead At 80

Mo'Nique's Netflix Discrimination Case Moves Forward

Global Photos: Babies Of The Pandemic Bring Love, Light — And Worries

Moms are working dramatically fewer hours than dads during coronavirus. It’s a ‘red flag’ for what’s ahead.

Oh, you let your kids watch 'Sesame Street' while you cook dinner? Okay...

Risks & Benefits Matrix

The Protesters In Black Lives Matter Plaza Want You To Know They're Still There

Where Did My Ambition Go?

Scottish Lawmaker Goes Viral After His Cat Photobombs Zoom Meeting

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Sunday Snippets: June

Happy Pride Month! Also Humidity Month if you live in Maryland.

This NASA Camera Melted During a SpaceX Rocket Launch, But the Photos Survived!

Florida City Wakes Up To Government Alert About Zombie Activity During A Blackout

My orange tom does this. I think he's actually a dog.

Here's A List Of All The Things Meghan Markle Can't Do Now That She's A Royal Duchess Yeah, you couldn't pay me to be a princess. I like my life.

'Pepper Ann' Was the Most Underrated Feminist Cartoon of the 90s I freaking loved that show.

Why You Should Teach Your Kids To Swear, According To Science

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Sunday Snippets: BLESS YOU FALL

THE BUGS HATH DIED FOR ANOTHER YEAR

Love Scully

Wendy's Twitter is brutal

True story of cats

Here for this

Report: More Than 150 Land Defenders Murdered So Far This Year

WOMEN SHOULDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE, SAYS ‘ALT-RIGHT’ LEADER RICHARD SPENCER Well, Dick, I think you should hide in a cave, but here we are.

#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism Goddamit

Hork

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Sunday Snippets: Pile o' Kitties

Husband recently started welding and this is his welding jacket on top of Littlefoot and Midnight is sitting on him. Average day in the Schwopkins household.

Nazi time capsule discovered by archaeologists in Poland Whoa

Cats sailed with Vikings to conquer the world, genetic study reveals Because cats are awesome

hahahahahahahahahahaha

So much truth

Holy shit yes

Clad in black, Polish women refused to go to work to protest a proposed abortion ban

Rock on, Ben and Jerry's

Fuck Columbus I LOATHE that we have a damn holiday for some dude who couldn't stop and ask for directions.

We were so quaint

You can rest

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Sunday Snippets: Holy crapola snow

So the snow started Friday around 1pm and will apparently continue until early Sunday morning. My back already hurts.

Say it louder for the people in the back

Adorbs I will forever be a cat person.

How can you deny a tiny turtle and alan rickman

Satyamev Jayate - When Masculinity Harms Men

A forthcoming academic study based on local newspaper reports has identified as many as 83 US deportees who have been murdered on their return to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras since January 2014.

Cat feels

LANGLEY PARK, Md. (WUSA9) -- Last month, reports surfaced that the Department of Homeland Security intended to carry out massive deportations of families who flocked to the U.S. amid violence in Central America.

Rain and restrictions blight refugees in Dunkirk

No one is reading the CIA torture report, so we turned it into 11 fun memes

Important PSA

14 MLK Quotes You’ll Never Learn in School

Detroit’s Teachers Want You to See These Disturbing Photos of Their Toxic Schools

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Sunday Snippets: FUCK YES LOVE WINS

Woke up Friday morning to the wonderful news that #LoveWins!!!!

Quickly confirmed with former college roomie that I will be permitted to wear a tutu as her flower girl in her future nuptials.

Police brutality

17 #SeanToon911 Tweets Are the Best Response to the White McKinney Man Who Called Police

Yay Hero Cats!

Alan Rickman + Helium = Beauty

Awww, I love this

Racism? What racism?

Fuck that awful woman

#FreeBree

This is wonderful

Finding employment after being in prison can be next to impossible.

Not only do these people have to battle the stigma of a criminal record, they are also barred from some types of jobs entirely, including those in the childcare, education and healthcare fields. It’s no wonder that so many ex-felons turn back to a life of crime just to get by; two-thirds are re-arrested within three years of their release.

But in Little Rock, Ark., one woman has given thousands of former inmates a second chance to contribute to society, local station THV11 reports.

#MorethanMarriage: Equal marriage has been a great start, let's keep the momentum going!

Iconic Pictures #Ferguson #FreeBree

Five black churches were set on fire this past week

Bad ass women

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Sunday Snippets: Harry Potter

I decided to start this year with a reread of Harry Potter and catch up on most of the movies, since I've only seen three.

I'd forgotten how much I love this series. Also, werewolves start on page 394.

Marissa Alexander: In Her Own Words So very powerful.

"To all the women who silently made history"

Well, damn, there it is Absolutely shameful

Remembering International Working Women's Day

Pictures from the March from Selma

Awful

19-year-old unarmed teen, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin last Friday night. According to several news sources, Madison Police Chief Koval said they received calls looking for a man who had committed battery and was jumping in and out of traffic One of the police officers, Matthew Kenny, spotted Tony and then proceeded to follow him into his apartment and forced his way in after claiming to “hear a disturbance inside”. the unarmed teen then “got into an altercation” with the Officer who then shot him 5 times in the chest, and dragged him out to the street while he bled out. He was later rushed to the hospital where he later died.

File under badass people I would have liked to learn about

God bless Jessica Williams

Yup, because rape culture isn't a thing at all

The victim was able to escape the male classmates after fifteen minutes of torture, running into a fifth grade classroom and alerting a teacher of what had happened. The principle of the elementary school said he had a “man to man” talk with the boys and their parents, giving them two days of suspension. He neglected calling the local authorities claiming “it did not seem like a police matter, just simple rough housing gone a little too far”.

Well....shit

Powerful photo

This week in Things We Should Have Been Taught in School

Repugnant

Heartbreaking For taking a picture of snow?

TW: This 21-year-old woman faces decades in prison for trying to escape her abuser

“If there’s a court order protecting a woman, at the very least the woman who is the beneficiary of that order shouldn’t have to retreat,” Gerety said. “Fifty percent of these orders are disobeyed. The woman should not have any duty to retreat from the person who is told not to assault, harass and threaten her. It’s as if that order didn’t even exist.”

Student Suspended for Speaking Native American Language

FEELS Not all cats are assholes

Bless this man

These families deserve justice

Between 1971 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, the “reduction of the Roma population” through surgical sterilization, performed without the knowledge of the women themselves, was a widespread governmental practice. The sterilization would be performed on Romani women without their knowledge during Caesarean sections or abortions. Some of the victims claim that they were made to sign documents without understanding their content. By signing these documents, they involuntarily authorized the hospital to sterilize them. In exchange, they sometimes were offered financial compensation or material benefits like furniture from Social Services – though it was not explicitly stated what this compensation was for. The justification for sterilization practices according to the stakeholders was “high, unhealthy” reproduction.

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Happy Holidays

I hope you get to spend time with the people you love over the coming days.

Horrifying (TW)

Yup, pretty much White privilege is a hell of a drug.

I was sad to miss this, but the pictures are incredible & More from #MillionsMarch & More & More & Timelapse from NYC

Pretty fall picture

Amazing

Indeed, publicity surrounding Ali’s case is said to have inspired efforts to annul other child marriages, including that of an 8 year old Saudi girl who was allowed to divorce a middle-aged man in 2009.

Fucking heartbreaking

Because cats & Because cats are assholes

What the hell That poor woman

After police shot and killed 22-year-old John Crawford in August for picking up a legal BB gun in a Walmart store in Beavercreek, Ohio, police detective Rodney Curd interrogated Crawford’s girlfriend Tasha Thomas for 90 minutes, suggesting she may have helped him take a gun into the store, even though Crawford had no gun. Detective Curd didn’t tell Thomas that her boyfriend Crawford was dead until the end of the interrogation, the Guardian reported. A grand jury decided in September not to indict the officers who killed Crawford.

Absolutely cannot stop laughing

#BlackLivesMatter Means We Must Talk About Sexual Violence Too

Black women have always been at the forefront of social movements and shown loyalty to Black men throughout all our struggles—risking arrest, physical assault, and the emotional and psychological stress that often accompanies being engaged in social movements. However, we may be building movements to prevent further state-sanctioned murders of Black men, but we are not discussing the factors that led to Oklahoma police officer Daniel Holtzclaw allegedly assaulting several Blackwomen while on duty. We have not marched through the streets for Rekia Boyd, Aisha Stanley-Jones, Renisha McBride, and Islan Nettles the way we have for Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and other Black men and boys who have met the same fate.

Buffalo police officer Cariol Horne stopped another officer from choking a handcuffed man. She was then punched and fired.

Heartwarming news

THE HELL?

One of the leading witnesses identity, also infamously known as Witness #40, whos story was used in the Mike Brown case, has just been uncovered only to reveal a woman named Sandy McElroy. problem? SHE WAS NEVER THERE.

Truer words and all

Tamir Rice

God Bless Jon Stewart He has his faults, to be sure, but when he gets it, he gets it.

YUP

Mall of America got shut down Incredible

Beautiful pictures The last three are my favorite

YES. My heart goes out to the officers' families, but yet again.....

Well, damn Out of the mouths of babes

Fucking A Anxiety disorders SUCK

Oh, cats

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Fucking hell

I can't. When the hell will this shit stop? Mike Brown. Oscar Grant. Sean Bell. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. Travyon Martin. #BlackLivesMatter

Solidarity from #Ferguson inmates

White people after sporting events = completely ok & more

Marches around America after Monday night & #StoptheParade on Thanksgiving

Making my stomach turn

Something a lot forget

This is why I don’t tolerate even the most innocent Native American jokes from my white acquaintances. No one can be allowed to forget that this is still going on, right now, in our time. The genocide and ethnocide of indigenous American peoples, and of indigenous peoples around the world, continues as I’m typing.

Yup, because bankrupting America was totes ok

Because cats

Signal boost

Oh, and this piece of shit

Change the police. Make the police accountable. Hold the “balance of power” in check. Change policies. Educate civilians. Expose the truth. Make change.

I love seeing pictures like this

If you're able, this is a great idea

Gah, penguins!

TRUTH

Great resource

#HandsUpDon'tShoot reached the Hill

Tamir Rice

Signal Boost-Missing Child in DC

Yup. Cats.

Love this blog and am so excited for this book

Eric Garner

New York after the Eric Garner decision

More photos from NYC

Yes. This is the picture we should remember.

Protests 12/4 in NYC

#Alivewhileblack

This is awful

According to South Korean newspapers, last week the North Korean government PUBLICLY EXECUTED 80 people in 7 cities for watching South Korean/Western shows, movies, and videos, “pornography,” or possessing a Bible.

GoFund Me for Esaw Garner

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Almost Thanksgiving

....And the only thing I'm excited about is napping. This year has been rough and I'm hoping the last month provides a bit of relief.

That is so cute. If someone recorded me, I'd sound a like a giraffe yodeling.

Preach Fuck yeah

Funny but so sad

Winter truths

OMG, I want a therapy alpaca! I visited an alpaca farm last year and it was the best. They are so soft and fluffy!

UGH. Double UGH What I've said for years. Women aren't entitled to have sex unless it's for making babies in a hetero marriage. FUCK ALL OF YOU.

Completely adorable video

Aww, polite little squirrel.

I love Sleepy Hollow. Now granted, they need to step up their game this season. But Season 1? PERFECTION. The donut holes. Yolanda. Tom Mison makes me feel things.

No, of course not, rape culture is totes imaginary. THIS BULLSHIT

Truth I know what is was like growing up in a dysfunctional household. I know that pain.Which is why I try to live every day with a smile on my face.

Goddammit, fucking white people *table flip*

Because cats

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Sunday Snippets: It's been a year

I didn't quite realize how very complicated, trying and plain out hard this year has been. I wasn't expecting it but every day was something new. Last week, we came home to some house issues that we are still resolving. I'm going to actively try to carve out quiet time for the rest of this year and next year.

Adorable Poor fox

Gimme They are so beautiful. It would make day to day living hard, but the peaceful and simple life you could live?

LOL

One of my favorite movies

#Ferguson Updates & These awesome kids (breaking hearts that they have to step up and say this) & This is so sad.

Just in case you were unclear about this situation It's sexual harassment and it's illegal.

Disgusting that this is done But like most things in racist America, not surprised.

hahahaha, because cats & awww, kitties

Well, damn

Cool Science Facts

Beautiful imagery

I would love to explore some of these

I love seeing words like this

Feels. Poetry is amazing.

Gah, I love Saint Bernards!

#Ferguson 9/24/2014 & More

How cool is this?

Her innovative Bump Mark label is filled with a solid, set form of gelatin. When the label is smooth, the food is fresh. When a consumer starts to feel bumps, that’s a sure sign that eating what’s in the package could make you sick.

Adorable. I love dogs.

Bless this teacher

He's also looking to provide support for parents through free dinners and educational events, like resume-writing and finance workshops, at the school in the evenings.

For Callahan, one of the most rewarding part of the backpack program is the way that it's drawn people together -- he and his wife, members of the school community -- in their efforts to help support local children in need. But ultimately, there's no greater reward than seeing his students grow and learn and thrive.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Mmm, fall.

So freaking true

Plus, and more prosaically, it is just much harder to concentrate when you read online. Email, IM, social media, and spiral-arms of infinite, alluring content are a click away. Once you pick a page, ads and hyperlinks beckon. In their 2014 paper, Hooper and Herath suggested that people’s comprehension suffered when they read the Internet because the barrage of extraneous stimuli interrupted the transfer of information from sensory to working memory, and from working to long-term memory. Experts have posited the extinction of the “deep reading brain” if we do not learn to tune out the Web’s distractions.
I remember sitting for hours reading and now my brain just won't focus.

#thefuck?? Really? Someone decided this was a good idea?

Awwww!!! So cute

Damn.

I'm 28 years old and I've been suffering with these things my entire life. I talk for hours with my roommate about not answering my mother's texts and just the sight of one spirals me into a madness of calling myself all sorts of vitriol for being a bad daughter. I'm a bossy bitch in the streets of New York but my crippling secret and silence about my abuse still brings me to tears more days than not.

I know that feeling. I used to have panic attacks driving near the exit where my father lives. I was guilted by strangers, for the estrangement between my father and I.

Because cats & cats

Heartbreaking I hope these families can get the closure or some peace soon.

The fuck? & More from #Ferguson

Exactly Very telling.

Adorable & More animals wanting to play

Living simply...in a dumpster? An interesting read.

*facepalm* What the hell Vogue?

#Ferguson & More

& the other video about Michael Brown

When you put it that way....makes my stomach turn

#Ferguson Town Hall

9/11- Yup & Part of the reason I have an issue "remembering" 9/11 (Not to say it wasn't an awful awful day. But the Islamophobia that was ramped up is not okay.)

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Sunday Snippets: I'm a Godmomma!

My new goddaughter, Zora, came into the world Thursday night after almost 22 hours of labor. It was an honor to be in the room. And today is also my brothers' 21st birthdays. I remember when they were born too!

I love seeing cats be badasses I would try this with Midnight, but we'd get maybe five feet per day because she would have to stop and sniff every single blade of grass.

Go. Read. NOW

The lives of black Americans are better than they were half a century ago. The humiliation of Whites Only signs are gone. Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows—and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere. The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970. Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at New York University, studied children born from 1955 through 1970 and found that 4 percent of whites and 62 percent of blacks across America had been raised in poor neighborhoods. A generation later, the same study showed, virtually nothing had changed. And whereas whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhoods, blacks tended to fall out of them.

Remember the names that matter & more on that awful CA shooting

Let's fund the shit out of this

(credit: http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/86976462558)

Can't wait to buy this issue Go out and get your copy

American Girl was my jam back in the day Makes me happy to see this

Right in the feels

Love this idea

The whole point of all of this is to take care of stuff that needs taking care of so that you feel like your day has beem productive and you feel genuinely tired and happy at the end of the day.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Four Seasons?

I remember when Maryland had four seasons. Just not all in one week.

Beautiful example of humanity's goodness

I look forward to seeing my husband like this I know he's going to make a great dad.

And speaking of children....

“I don’t want to have to live like my parents did.” When I express my fears about having children, people often tell me that we can just “make it work,” but the truth is, I don’t want to just make it work. Like a lot of women I know, I want a substantial income before I take that plunge. I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

Hilarious Mother's Day cards

Who's chopping onions?

Man, I love words

Cats are awesome

HELL YES

If the item doesn't make you excited to get out of bed and wear it, why the hell are you buying it?

Yes. To all. (Slight TW)

Again, not surprised. But what the fuck?

A man drinking canned iced tea in a parking lot was accosted by a plainclothes beverage cop who demanded to inspect his drink. He was placed in handcuffs and arrested. Even though the man was innocent and was only drinking tea, prosecutors are still trying to set him up with probation and community service.

Hey-o, anxiety!

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Sunday Snippets: Happy Mother's Day!

My mom and I are getting pedicures. We roll hard.

Abortion rights

The researchers found that “a year after being denied an abortion, 7 percent reported an incident of domestic violence in the last six months,” compared to 3 percent of the women who received abortions. The researchers concluded that this “wasn’t because the turnaways were more likely to get into abusive relationships,” but that “getting abortions allowed women to get out of such relationships more easily.”

Shut up and take my money

Because puppies

Happiest picture indeed

Sad but even more sadly, not surprising

In 2002, Iraqi officials asked for the return of the Gate, to no avail. A year later, the U.S. invaded the country.

Holy shit, that's awesome Bill Nye the Science Guy = one of my favorite people ever

Haven't tried this method, but plenty others

I used the sea sponge for awhile (you want to inspire awkward looks in a public restroom, try washing one in the sink sometime) but now I use cloth pads. I do have a few disposables at work, in case of emergencies, but I rather enjoy not having to literally throw my money away.

Names are important These women's names deserved to be told and remembered and they need to be found. & More Information

*headdesk* Yes please, let's pink-ify everything that has female attached to it. And people wonder why I don't want to reveal any future squidlets' gender ahead of time.

Truth

Oof, in the feels

It felt like buying a house meant buying the cultural narrative that came with it.

This. Right freaking here. I feel like this with all of the adult decisions I've made in the past five years.

*pets* I need to go exploring with my camera more.

Exactly. There are so many children lost.

That's terrifying

Because cats