Huckleberries and Nerdery

lovemyflyoverstate:

A compilation of photos taken by people from my hometown of Pella, Iowa. This is the first time in Tulip Time history that snow has accumulated on our Dutch festival in May!

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment

laurennmcc:

fuckyeahfeminists:

This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth are criminalized.

1. She was doing a science experiment
2. She’s being charged as an ADULT
3. She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination,  employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

Perhaps instead of fighting about who is tougher, Batman or Iron Man, we could spend a little internet rage making sure this young scientist doesn’t go to prison?

From the comments section:

“To everyone commenting on this thread that is outraged by this chain of events: I am just as outraged as you. But it is not enough for us simply to vent on message boards because nothing gets accomplished. I strongly urge you to write a letter to the school district, local authorities, AND to the Principal. Or just pick one…but DO SOMETHING!!! And let us remember that in order to get our points across we must be INDIGNANT and DIGNIFIED! I am in the process of starting a petition, once I have gathered some more crucial facts. Please be on the lookout for this petition and be sure to sign it ( via Change.org ) in addition to your letter or letters to Polk County Law Officials, The school Principal, and the School Administration. Contact Info Can be found below:

Bartow High School Principal Ronald Pritchard / Address: 1270 S Broadway Ave Bartow, FL 33830 / EMAIL: Ronald.Pritchard@polk-fl.net PHONE:(863)- 534-7400 Fax: (863)534-0077

Polk County Superintendent: Dr. John Stewart /Address: 1915 South Floral Avenue, Bartow, FL 33831 Phone: (863) 534-0521 Fax: (863) 519-8231 Email: Dr. John Stewart

Polk Regional Juvenile Detention Ctr

ADDRESS: 2155 Bob Phillips Road, Bartow, FL 33830

TEL: 863-534-7090
FAX: 863-534-7024
EMAIL:
pio@polksheriff.org

If we can all take 5-10 minutes to read this story, comment, and read posts by others then surely we can take the same amount of time to act on this child’s behalf.”

What the hell do their chemistry classes look like if THAT is a felony? Do they just talk about reactions in the abstract, or what?

(via wilwheaton)

jessicavalenti:

Came across this gem while researching a column. SEXUAL CHAOS, y’all.

I’m just going to point out that dandelions are indestructible. They make roses look like high maintenance whiners.

natgeofound:

A portrait of a woman riding an ostrich in South Africa, August 1942.
Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic

Because of course.

Mike the Headless Chicken.

beatonna:

A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, 1904.

Well I don’t know, maybe a penguin appreciates that sort of thing

No one appreciates bagpipes.

(via saturo)

THE REAL WEIRD TWITTER IS THE ESPIONAGE TWITTER

kadrey:

criminalwisdom:

Is Twitter being used as a numbers station?

‘GooGuns posts nothing but strings of letters and numbers, like b39e65fa00000000 in intervals of about five minutes on average. The string of characters always ends with zeroes, occasionally with the location service turned on, so you can see that 554705fa00000000 was allegedly tweeted from the “Region of Khabarovsk.” This has been going on all day and all night, for years, with more than 318,000 tweets posted since 2009. But why?’

(Source: Linkmachinego)

Number stations in social media? 

(via wilwheaton)

They always say the past is a foreign country.

Just…never how foreign.

bloodypanic:

orangezest100:

piercingsandink:

dstod:

And you thought there was nothing good on TV.

what

there’s an IMDB page

It’s on YouTube.

Troma. That is the final word in cinematic quality.

(via dirtydirtychai)

Bra-Gade of Guards

dghost:

Experts say the repeated slapping of the soldiers’ heavy rifles in the same spot on the left side of their chests during drills has stimulated the glands to produce hormones, causing boobs to sprout on one side only.

The condition - called one sided gynecomastia - has been diagnosed in 74 per cent of battalion members who presented to army medics with concerns over the growths.

This is quite possibly the most German thing I’ve read in the a long, long time.

What dghost said.

No, literally. Those exact words came out of my mouth when discussing this last weekend.