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“We Acted from Our Hearts”: Activists in Iowa Admit to Repeatedly Sabotaging Dakota Access Pipeline

daloy-politsey:

beegoould:

typhlonectes:

Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya said that on Election Day last
year, the two set fire to five pieces of heavy machinery being used to
construct the pipeline.

The two then taught themselves how to destroy empty pipeline valves,
and moved up and down the pipeline’s length, destroying the valves and
delaying construction for weeks.

The two say they are claiming responsibility for the sabotage in
order to inspire more to take action. This is Catholic Worker Jessica
Reznicek…

Jessica Reznicek:

“We are speaking publicly to empower
others to act boldly, with purity of heart, to dismantle the
infrastructures which deny us our rights to water, land and liberty. We,
as civilians, have seen the repeated failures of the government, and it
is our duty to act with responsibility and integrity, risking our own
liberty for the sovereignty of us all.”

Ruby Montoya:

“Some may view these actions as violent,
but be not mistaken. We acted from our hearts and never threatened human
life nor personal property. What we did do was fight a private
corporation that has run rampantly across our country seizing land and
polluting our nation’s water supply.”

Fucking. METAL.

I love the smile in the woman on the right’s mugshot.

“We Acted from Our Hearts”: Activists in Iowa Admit to Repeatedly Sabotaging Dakota Access Pipeline

centrumlumina:

As part of the AO3 Ship Stats project, this list shows the 100 most-posted pairing tags on
Archive Of Our Own

in the period August 2016 – August 2017.

This list was created by comparison of current number of fics with data gathered for the 2016 AO3 Ship Stats.

There are 65 M/M pairings on the list, 18 F/M, 7 F/F, 6 Gen and 4 Other.
(Please note that on AO3, ‘Name & Name’ indicates platonic
relationships (Gen), while ‘Name/Name’ is used for romantic pairings.)

Of the 200 names on the list, 32 are women and 4 are characters of ambiguous gender, down from 34 and 7 in the 2016 list. 63 are POC, and 8 are racially ambiguous, compared with 49 and 15 last year.

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careforasmoke:

iamthedukeofurl:

One thing that makes Steve Trevor work in Wonder Woman is that they manage to hit the “Tries and fails to be protective” angle, but without any of the normal sexism you see in that trope. 

It’s not “No honey, this is a job for a MAN, You can’t do that!” it’s “Diana! Stop! No! PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEY DO THAT! You can’t do that! I CAN’T DO THAT! NOBODY CAN DO THAT…Except You, apparently” 

Yes! Exactly! And not only that but there’s no wounded pride scene where he goes like “How could she do that?”, “Why didn’t you tell me you could do that?” blah blah blah. Instead, he’s more like “Woah, can you show me more?” and “Hey guys, you know that thing we haven’t been able to do? SHE’S DOING THE THING! LET’S GO!”

The Best April Fools’ Prank (That I Shall Ever Do)

jabberwockyx:

justatiltedlamp:

Once upon a time, I decided that it was my solemn obligation to prank my friends before we graduated.

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So…I made Hogwarts Acceptance letters. A lot of them. Because who isn’t still waiting for their freaking letter to arrive?

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My hand hated me so much. Also, cursive G is the worst.

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Letters were posted. All was well.

Until this happened…

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What the-?

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This is literally the best thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

claudiablacks:

Vir Cotto

I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?

indigobluerose:

airyairyquitecontrary:

jeffer-sin:

what’s the difference between ninjas and stage crew?

ninjas move silently around walls, stage crew moves walls around silently.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IS SO GREAT

The depiction of ninjas as dressed all in black comes from traditional Japanese theatre.  Actual historical ninjas didn’t dress in black because it’s conspicuous as hell in the daytime and even at night in the dark a person dressed in solid black tends to stand out; dark grey or blue is better for hiding in shadows.  Usually they just wore ordinary, like, people clothes which are far better for blending into your surroundings in than a specialised professional costume.

BUT YOU KNOW WHO DID DRESS ALL IN BLACK LIKE THAT

the stage crew in a theatre

and it was a generally accepted convention that the black-clad stagehands were invisible, so they could be on stage at the same time as the actors and move things around and the audience would just mentally CG them out

but then one day because a director was a GENIUS, during an otherwise normal performance of a play, suddenly a stagehand stepped forward, assassinated one of the main characters and then melted back into the background

THEY WERE A NINJA

AND THE AUDIENCE LOST THEIR MINDS BECAUSE IT WAS AMAZING

and eventually it lost its mind-blow value because after a while everyone had seen a play like that, so although the “stagehands wear black and are invisible” convention continued, the new “ninjas wear black and are invisible until they choose to strike” convention became established, and from then on fictional ninjas have just worn black because it looks so cool.

So in fact the answer to “What’s the difference between ninjas and stage crew?” is “You will never know until they stab you.”

Okay this is the first time I have heard the second half of this information and it’s so much better now.

hatsunexyz:

illogical-bullshit:

hummingbird-hooligan:

urbancatfitters:

hummingbird-hooligan:

urbancatfitters:

slytherin-starkid-of-tardis:

urbancatfitters:

everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are doing at this moment

What, being a SuperWhoLockian, Tumblrian, and just being generally pretty good? I don’t think so.

screenshot this and look at it in 3 years

Wow holy shit guys, it’s been approximately 5 years and I’m drunk enough to not regret finally acknowledging this
Surprise surprise, I was that kid
I know the above is the most cringy 14 year old thing to say, but hot damn y’all I was a child and I had just found an online community of people where being a fucking nerd was “hella cool” and oh my god I was having a blast, and with my new fragile self confidence I decided to say “no I don’t regret what I’m doing/what I like right now at this moment because I don’t hate myself and that’s pretty neat!” And y’all remember 2012-2013 tumblr that shit was absolutely cringy, I was just repeating phrases I’d heard. But then, it got turned into a “laugh at the child” and then I got dozens upon dozens of hate messages and my confidence about literally everything got shattered
I had messages telling me to kill myself and messages calling me a snowflake and an idiot and a c*nt and all those other words that are meant to hurt you. Even years after I changed my URL, I’d get a sinking pit in my stomach whenever I’d see this post go around again because I knew I’d get those three or four snide anons asking “so do you regret it?”
And yes I absolutely do, fuck off
So yeah, I was a stupid tumblr kid and probably shouldn’t have commented
But I didn’t deserve the onslaught of hateful messages
So now y’all know, it’s me
Surprise, or whatever

hello! I’m sorry for dragging you through the mud in the first place. seventeen-year-old me was not as evolved as she thought, which I’m sure is a surprise to no one. there were absolutely tons of comments exactly like yours, but it got singled out just because I was going through a sarcastically-responds-to-comments phase and I happened to see it. I’ve heard people use this post as an example of how young teens are stupid & don’t know anything, and I’m sorry that you became the poster child of that patronizing and invalidating idea. 

sidenote, who the FUCK calls a 14 yr old a c*nt & tells them to kill themselves??

Thank you for commenting, op ❤ I really don’t blame you at all for what you said, I want to call out my 14 year old self just as badly lmao
But I really appreciate the overwhelming positive response to this
I’d hope we can sort of grow as a community from this, but I won’t get my hopes up lol

Holy shit this went so much better than I expected.

We’ve waited five years for this!