Sunday Snippets: Four

My kiddo is four years old already. It's hard to believe.

This eerie and beautiful abandoned village in Canada has just gone up for sale

30 Funny And Adorable Pictures Of Animal Parents With Their Babies

People are booking Airbnbs in Ukraine — not to stay, but to lend their support

A LIFE OF CREATIVITY AND EMPATHY

An organizing side hustle earns adjunct professor up to $250 an hour and about $100,000 a year

Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

Piscataway Conoy Tribe wants to rename Indian Head Highway

Russian soldiers murder volunteers helping starving animals near Kyiv

HOW DID THIS MANY DEATHS BECOME NORMAL?

Endurance: Explorer Shackleton’s ship found after a century

A rescue team evacuates premature American twins from Kyiv in a daring mission

My Miscarriage, in Photos

Sunday Snippets: Halfway

Halfway through November and looking forward to some well deserved and needed time off next week.

Soaking Up Serenity on a Mississippi Trail

The American Workplace Isn’t Prepared for This Much Grief

Total abortion ban with vigilante provision introduced in Ohio

Greenbelt, Md. to create reparations commission after referendum vote

A mountain of unsold clothing from fast-fashion retailers is piling up in the Chilean desert

Morris and Champy: Watch This Cat Go for Rides on His Horse Best Friend

Public Libraries Are Under Attack. Here's How You Can Help

Sunday Snippets: Mueller Christmas

Please Mueller. Please.

Christine Blasey Ford Is Donating Her GoFundMe Money To Sexual Assault Survivors

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees

TERRY CREWS IS A MODEL OF A MAN

I have forgotten how to read

We broke down what climate change will do, region by region

Rare white reindeer calf spotted on camera in Norway

Sunday Snippets: Christmas music

Now that's actually the christmas season, nothing puts a smile on my face faster.

Love Knows No Species: Emu And Donkey Have Fallen For Each Other, Caretakers Say

Finland: Where second-hand comes first

Ikea has a plan to fix the pollution crisis in India's cities

The thrill of watching Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring her whole self to Congress

A soaring maternal mortality rate: What does it mean for you?

Three Years Later, Sandra Bland's Family Still Want Answers Surrounding Her Death

‘Rejection Killings’ Need to Be Tracked

Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning

A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday

Sunday Snippets: Woohoo July!

This is going to be a good week. I can feel it.

Bigoted Homophobe Steve Scalise's Life Was Saved by a Queer Black Woman

Photographer Stores His Trash For 4 Years And Then Creates A Powerful Photo Series

Akeem Browder lost his brother in 2015 and his mother just a year later, but hopes to continue their legacy by stepping into the political arena. As Browder confirmed to The Huffington Post Monday, the 34-year-old is throwing his hat into the ring and running for mayor of New York City.

Adore Audrey Tautou

This is stupid adorbs

MISSOURI VOTES TO LET EMPLOYERS FIRE PEOPLE WHO USE BIRTH CONTROL

Police Forcibly Removed Healthcare Bill Protesters Outside Senator Mitch McConnell's Office

ACLU Lawsuit Claims D.C. Police Sexually Abused Anti-Trump Protesters

Marvel Women: Getting It Done

TSA de-cluttering tests get attention from ACLU

Sunday Snippets: Fuck

Just fuck. It's all I have left anymore. #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile

Hate violence disproportionately target BLACK transgender women

Post 9/11 era was a scary time to come of age

It's raining. On my face.

Faith in humanity

Believe us, Canada, we want him to stay too.

"They took his life for no reason."

#GynnyaMcmillen

Disgusting

But Norristown had what's known as a nuisance property ordinance. Her landlord could be fined and have his rental license suspended if police were called to the property more than three times in four months for "disorderly behavior." Unless, that is, he evicted his tenant.

After that first warning, Briggs — who also had a 3-year-old daughter — was reluctant to call the police when her boyfriend beat her up. But one night, when they got into a fight, he slit her neck open with a broken ashtray. When she woke up in a pool of blood, her first thought was not to dial 911.

Navajo Artist Creates 'Make America Native Again' Hats to Critique Donald Trump's Campaign Slogan

US Trans Military Service Ban Repealed!

 Mariana Sosa noted bitterly, “You should start talking before you fire murderous bullets, not after.”

Muslim Doctor Shot and Stabbed on His Way to Pray at Texas Mosque

Adorable pony

The kitty gets to keep his job!

But institutional racism is imaginary, right?

Saul Williams speaking on Democracy Now I have loved him since high school. It's long but worth it.

“Iran is for all Iranians. Iran is me and my mother. My mother wants to wear a scarf. I don’t want to wear a scarf. Iran should be for both of us.”

Reactions to Alton Sterling

A Black Woman Police Officer Calls Out Racist Cops in Heartbreaking, Furious Facebook Video

The True Story Of How Stephen Colbert Met His Wife Will Melt Your Heart

Sunday Snippets: Valentine's Day

Spending the weekend with friends and going to see Deadpool. Because nothing says I love you better than headshots.

And there it is

Love Audre Lorde

Truth

And there it is

Here are ten things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much.  This monster needs to be arrested.

A hidden world: Desperation for hundreds of homeless families in D.C. motels

Horrible

Right?!

Rest in peace, Kayden Clark

Derick Ebert, Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate I'm excited for his book.

During his confession, O’Kroley told the police “it was easy to kill” Nosal because “she had ruined my life.” ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, WOMEN DO NOT OWE YOU A GODDAMN THING.

I would adopt this bunny in a heartbeat

Da faq? Man, if this was a thing, I'd've been in jail a long time ago.

FINALLY Maryland’s legislature voted on Tuesday to override Gov. Larry Hogan (R)’s veto of a bill to give more than 40,000 ex-offenders in the state the right to vote while still on parole or probation.

One of the few times I have ever wished to live in Florida This poor little guy.

Gobsmacked

GOLDEN So much truth

Sunday Snippets: Enough

Just fucking enough.

It sounds so cute!

Truth

Big kitties! They look like they'd be so much fun to snuggle with until they thought I might be tasty.

Love this quote about poetry

Yup

Preach

My cats, after I just dressed them for a holiday shoot

NY #TransLivesMatter March For Kathy Sal Tonight (12/3/2015)

"Silence in the face of this rash of mass shootings has become complicity."

I snorted into my coffee

Bullshit Gentle loner my ass

#facepalm*

Yeah, cause wheelchairs are the latest fashion accessory

We Have A Gun Problem & A Domestic Terrorism Problem

Rock on

Disgusting waste of space

They terrorized my daughters and killed my baby. That’s why we’re Syrian refugees.

Goddamn execution squad (TW for video) #MarioWoods

Sunday Snippets: I've decided to hibernate

The high isn't supposed to make up to the 20's today. And I'm up at 5:15 to drive my mom to the airport. Can't I just sleep until April?

Exactly. 

Hell yes. Go for it.

#50DollarsNot50Shades YES

LOL, love this! Every princess should have a dragon friend.

One of these days....I will go on a road trip that can involve shots like this.

HOLY SHIT YES Birth control purchases, ugh. Especially when you're in college and trying to find a bus to the nearest pharmacy, getting there and finding out that the copay has doubled again.

Awful and disgusting #BlackLivesMatter RIP Jessie Hernandez

YUP Putting mirrors to good work

Oh, Canada

I knew I loved this country for a reason

Bad ass women

Yes, agreed  I'd wager this would need to happen with many police departments, but I digress.

No, say it isn't so? Zimmerman is bananas? Really?

Adorable seal is adorable

Hahahaha, oh, the truth

Sunday Snippets: Superbowl Sunday

None of my teams are playing so I will be Netflixing it, avoiding the next snow storm. I'm the life of the party, I tell you.

Disgusting (TW racism/physical injuries)

Oh, just follow the rules, right?

What does it show? An unarmed Reid with his hands up, in compliance with the officer’s orders, shot 9 times by to officers.

Holy fucking shit (TW)

Leopold famously said when he was forced to hand over the Congo Free State to the Belgian nation: “I will give them my Congo but they have no right to know what I have done there,” and proceeded to burn archives.

Fucking awful Yet again, we are just supposed to be brood mares. Not wanting children is A FUCKING LEGITIMATE PATH TO TAKE.

OMFG

A lawsuit filed on Thursday against Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison management company in the US, alleges that a visitor at a South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, was forced to expose her genitalia to prison guards to prove that she was menstruating after she attempted to bring a sanitary napkin into a visit.

What the hell?

Last night Native students and staff left the rez to attend a Rush Hockey game, it was meant to be a reward and a night of fun. Instead the students AND staff were harassed by white men sitting in the VIP box and beer was thrown on them. They were told to “go back to the rez”. No Natives deserve this treatment.

Nobody was talking about this. Shameful.

In America the most comprehensive and intelligent news is provided by comedians on the Comedy Central channel while those channels purporting to be actual news stations are laughable - yes Faux/Fox News & CNN in particular. It’s no wonder that American politics is so fucked up.

This needs to always be a thing

All the feels-Adopting Shelter Pets

YES. Exactly

Did you know LGBT couples are more likely to adopt older, children of color and disable children than straight couples? LGBT couples tend to adopt ‘undesired’ children more (basically kids no one else wants.)

Disgusting #BrownLivesMatter

Aww, snuggly puppies and kitties

TW for domestic violence

Yup, pretty much!

Awww, poor koalas

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 Snippets: Need something to read?

My latest book review, about marriage, here.

How wonderful  Beautiful. Treating people with dignity and respect isn't hard.

Awww! Otters are adorable.

Sweet kitty

OMG. Important pictures that are made of such truth.

I would love a vacation there

Love this man

I love penguins

This is repugnant

Heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time

that was the moment i realized women were the most important beings on this planet and we have to protect each other bc nobody else is going to

#ViolenceWillNotBeTolerated Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Sunday Snippets: Three Day Weekend

I have a three day weekend courtesy of "Columbus Day." I hate that we can't just call it Racist Fuck Who Murdered People Day. Same damn thing.

Beautiful fall pictures & more

Welp, now I want to go to Norway

OMG adorable

Um, welp. There it is.

THE FUCK

I first read about this three years ago, when the parents filed a class action suit. I couldn’t think about anything else for days. I couldn’t sleep. These scientists deliberately poisoned children. They lured families in with unusually low rents. They monitored the kids’ blood lead levels. And they didn’t do anything to help when those levels climbed and climbed.
YES!

Kinda awesome

Fuzzy things playing....yes

I love tiny fuzzy critters.

Aww, poor thing

ahahahaha, cute

This truth

Fucking people Really? That's the best use of your time?

Damn

Voter Registration Pics in #Ferguson

Very cool

Another murder in St. Louis

Remember Trayvon

The True Trayvon Martin: When he volunteered at a soup kitchen for. The first time, he was astounded by the US hunger crisis. #Trayvon

#VonDerrit Myers

Huge march in Ferguson this weekend & More

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 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 Snippets: I'm old

Went to my 10th high school reunion last night....and I'm two years away from 30.

I would like to say I'm shocked by this but not really

A silent protest in Love Park, downtown Philadelphia orchestrated by performance artists protesting the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The onslaught of passerby’s wanting to take photos with the LOVE statue exemplifies the disconnect in American society. Simply frame out the dead body, and it doesn’t exist. In this event, artist activists staged a scene where Kieth A. Wallace, an Actor, pretended to be dead for an hour in front of the statue while others took turns holding a sign with “Call Us By Our Names” written on it.

Beautiful, striking photo

I'm really trying to take the time to enjoy each season as it is around, so now I'm gearing up for fall. And colors like those.

The hell? Again, really wish I could be surprised.

While at the station, Mr. Davis agreed to give a blood sample as well, to prove he was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. The results would later come back 100% negative. Davis’ attorney, Daniel Betts, told KVUE, “My reaction was just shock that this happened.”
TW-Heartbreaking

Bless you, Jon Oliver

He and John Stewart went in, but again, it's the same problem of once the white man says it, people pay attention.

Fucking preach

I wanna go play with them.

GAH

One of the cutest fucking things I've ever seen.

File under surprised, not surprised

Aww, damn

I really like this photo

GODDAMMIT, I WANT IT. THE FLUFF

#Ferguson Updates

Sunday Snippets: Travelling Edition

I'm heading to Texas for a work trip. I get a king size bed all to myself. I see sprawling in my future.

Heartbreaking

Gah, cute seals!

Just a horse and a kitty being friends

Dear god, yes I HATE being called Jill/Jilly (a select few friends are permitted) but heaven above if someone who isn't close to me tries to call me that.

WHY in the hell did it take over a week for the mainstream news to talk about this?!! & More & More here

It's been 14 days since the girls went missing and no progress has been made on tracking their whereabouts, either by the military or by groups of machete-wielding parents searching through the countryside. The search for the kidnapped girls also has been muddled by misinformation. In the immediate wake of the kidnapping, says BuzzFeed reporter Jina Moore, the Nigerian military claimed to have found and freed the girls and captured one of the terrorists involved—a claim that was proven wrong and ultimately retracted. And, according to a report by Voice of America, the Boko Haram terrorists are threatening to kill the girls if the search operations aren't called off.

A really interesting video with Janet Mock

Mind-boggling I know where this is. The rain has been insane this week. Parts of Laurel, MD were underwater, too.

Good to know tip for kitties

Exactly. Done and done.

When a majority of people in a marginalized community tells you a word is offensive to them, you don't fracking use it if you wish to be considered respectful allies to that community.

#WeNeedDiverseBooks & More

Sunday Snippets: Superbowl Edition

My team isn't playing today, so I'm rooting for commercials.

Truth

The fact is that derogatory remarks, whether used sincerely or ironically, and ammunition, whether blank or live, still creates the same environment of discomfort and fear every time it is used. So cut the shit.

Adorbs Puppies! Love them. And kitties! And this is so sweet.

Awesome!

"When [people with Down syndrome] are forced to wear clothes from everyday stores, the clothing makes them look different. All you see is the Down syndrome," Bowersox told The Huffington Post. "When they wear our pants and they fit and they look and feel more comfortable, they can be confident in themselves. You don't see the Down syndrome anymore."

Welp, better tell the husband I'm doing marriage wrong

"The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice," he writes. "The husband’s part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else."

Beautifully put Because forreal, it's 2014 and the name should have been changed a helluva long time ago.

Hysterical I would read the hell out of that story. Because I'm a Harry Potter nerd forever.

*facepalm* Really, earplugs?

YES

Sleepy Hollow Finale Reactions (spoilers) Because I made the same damn face.

I need this as a bumper sticker.

Love this commercial.

Facts about H.R.7

#Justice4Islan

(credit: http://misogynistshaming.tumblr.com/post/74952687687/foryoursexualinformation-stfuprolifers-the)

Once again showing the utter lack of thought/respect/rights to parents in America.

Sunday Snippets: Finally Fall

I'm happy to get back on schedule around these parts, had some work issues that meant I was basically living in my office for most of September. Now that that has finally calmed down, there are two book reviews that are forthcoming (one hopefully this week!)

In the meantime, here are some reads from around the web.

An older article/list but saw it reblogged recently- I've seen different variations of this type of anti-racist lists, but always reblogging.

Beautiful- I love how the other pasta companies have responded.

I need these printed

How disgustingly cute is this picture? Do they make socks for kitties?

Food, in a different light The starkness is correctly startling.

Newspapers, in a beautiful light I would have these framed around my house. Then again, if I had everything framed around my house, my walls would buckle.

A neat way of thinking about books

*headdesk* for all of this