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justice-turtle:

girljanitor:

ameliated:

bad-dominicana:

skepticamongthefaithful:

kemetically-afrolatino:

source 1; source 2; source 3; source 4; source 5

WELP.

Stop what you are doing.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

Reblog this.

holy shit

Not fucking surprised. I knew that the FBI was conducting a dedicated smear campaign against him and that anyone lobbying for Black civil rights was officially considered a communist sympathizer, therefore a threat to national security. MLK had just led / been part of the biggest civil rights march in history (where he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech); it makes a lot of sense that the government of the day would decide he was a threat to be “neutralized in any way possible”, as the line goes.

And it makes a lot of sense that the mainstream media wouldn’t report it when the government was found guilty. Does the mainstream media report anything prejudicial to the government as a whole? They do not. They report plenty of stuff prejudicial to individual politicians, and they print a fair number of op-ed pieces saying whatever their target audience thinks about current wars etc, but something huge like this? Something that would  upset the “official” view of The Great And Awesome Progress Of Civil Rights As A Government-Supported Thing From The Emancipation Proclamation To The Present Via Martin Luther King To The First Black President? NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE.

Personally, my bullshit alarm started ringing at “enemies of freedom”. Also, Source 1 is Wikipedia, whose own sources don’t make the trial look very legit from what I can tell, and Source 3 and Source 5 are both from conspiracy-theorist sites.

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#Martin Luther King Jr. #conspiracy theories #reply via reblog

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cosmic-llin:

daystarsearcher:

deep-dish-nine:

Why do I get the feeling that Julian and Garak made the ‘mistake’ of going to Janeway’s Coffee Shop (do we have a witty name for it? I apologise if we do) for their first date.

Which of course meant that within five minutes of it ending everyone at DD9 knew every detail of it. Tom and Harry probably have the Dax sisters on speed dial.

(I’m thinking that Tom and Harry were neighbours and then best friends before they became baristas, and the Dax family probably live on the same street as them (Harry totally had a crush on Ezri when they were kids). B’Elanna is at Uni studying to be a mechanical engineer, but she works as a barista to make money… despite the fact that her coffee isn’t great. Mostly they just keep her around because she’s the only one that can fix the coffee machines. When O’Brien comes in to get his daily caffeine fix they always commiserate together. Neelix and Kes run the cafe part of the shop, though her baked goods usually go down better than his. And Seven was hired recently after a long run at BorgerKing mostly to help manage their finances, but she surprised everyone by creating exquisite desserts. Oh and Janeway is of course the manager, she and Sisko like to come up with join advertising schemes.)

I vote for the Nebula Cafe.

Also, does Picard have a specialty tea shoppe across the street with whom the Nebula Cafe has a mostly-friendly rivalry? Of course he does.

OMG this just keeps getting better.

Tags:

#DS9 #Deep Dish Nine #oh my god there is a blog dedicated to this #and it has 16 pages already #I have some reading to do #weird AUs #awesomely strange #strangely awesome

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explore-blog:

explore-blog:

If you thought driving on Earth is a chore, you haven’t tried off-roading on another planet. So far, robotic rovers have reached out to the moon and Mars, with astronauts actually driving a lunar car on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program. Those missions amount to what could be the first interplanetary road race.

Visualizing the distance traveled by extraterrestrial vehicles, visibly inspired by Otto Neurath’s vintage ISOTYPE infographics.

Tags:

#space #22 miles sounds like a pathetic distance for 8+ years #until you remember it’s 22 miles *on Mars* #then it becomes awesome

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ladysmaragdina:

encontrate:

thisispureinsanity:

candlejack:

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT IS THIS

WHAT

IS THIS A LIBRARY IN A THEATRE

ALL OF MY DREAMS HAVE JUST COME TRUE

oh. oh my god.

this is genuinely the most beautiful thing i have ever seen

This is a book store called El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina! You can have coffee while sitting on the stage. One of my favorite places in my city.

I adore this place.

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#books #pretty things #places I should go

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thetasrose:

Time Lord Bash at the Cherry Hill Public Library

I was so amazed and happy with the amount of cosplayers that showed up. You guys were all awesome. I’m sad that we didn’t get a huge group photo.

…okay, were people always doing stuff like this in Cherry Hill and I just never noticed because I wasn’t a Whovian then?

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#all I can think is #This is Cherry Hill: Our Childhood #Our Home #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #home of the brave

the new layout isn’t really that scary for the most part

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mostly10:

I’m putting it down in one place for people scared of the changes. A lot of it is only aesthetical changes and especially for those of you who don’t use extensions/add-ons will really only see those and need to get used to them. Aside from the bugs, of course.

For those of us who use extensions, things are a bit more tricky/buggy.

text posts / posting

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the window opens on top of your dash. there is no way to get it to open in a separate window/tab without loading the dash first. all the functions you’re used to are there, you just have to fiddle with the buttons a bit.

adding a source/custom url and post date and toggle photo replies has been put together under the cog symbol (pink box)

publishing options (queueing/scheduling/save as draft) have been put together under the post button toggle (green box)

post cut and photo/gif inserts are there, too (blue box)

your tags are no longer saved and clickable as you type, but other than that work basically the same as before.

this has been updated so saved tags now show up. added feature is that tags don’t just follow the first few letters you type, but any words/letters that match saved urls. clicking a tag will delete it.

twitter options are easily accessible and editable by clicking the twitter icon.

 

text posts / reblogging

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you can reblog text posts as texts/links/quotes same as before. the options are under the link icon (pink box)

if you choose to reblog a text post as a link you can not add an image like you would with a text post. if you change to ‘reblog as text’, however, the option returns (as per image 1)

photo posts / posting

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again, the photo post opens on top of your dash. the post options work the same as for text posts (see above).

you can choose up to 10 images in one go to add to the post and you will be able to preview them as a set before you post. while you are not given a choice of how to align your images before you upload, clicking and dragging the images around will allow you to set them up with full flexibility; essentially giving you the custom photoset option without the addon. this includes multiple 500px images on top of each other which was not native before:

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if you choose to add a caption to your photo(s), the option to add an image in the description is not there:

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how to add a gif/image to a post/reblog

anything that is not a text post will not have the native option to add an image, so here’s the ~sneak way to do it until an extension finds a workaround.

  1. open a new text post window
  2. add your gif/image to that post
  3. click the picture to select it and press Ctrl+X
  4. return to the description window of your post/reblog
  5. select where you want the image and press Ctrl+V

bugs / scary shit / rumours

(under a cut because I feel like these might change a lot?)

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #oh is that all #(but then I never bothered with Missing E) #(and it is running kind of slow) #(but still)

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anshinwrites:

flatbear:

jtotheizzoe:

ATTENTION folks, there is currently an astronaut posting to Tumblr from space. I repeat, there is a human being, that is currently in freakin’ SPACE, posting pictures (from said SPACE) to their Tumblr blog.

There are things, called words, that are failing me, about the other things, that I am feeling.

Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield: You sir, are cooler than a polar bear’s toenails.

(He’s also on Twitter)

Jesus christ this is incredible WHO IS HIS INTERNET PROVIDER.

internet provider? he’s in space.  internet providers are an earth problem for earth dwellers.

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#Chris Hadfield has a Tumblr? #(I knew about the Twitter) #a Tumblr that I am not following #this must be fixed

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pleatedjeans:

 

64memories:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TO BE GIFFED MY ENTIRE LIFE

Tags:

#I kind of like this commercial #but Mom loves it #she never gets tired of it #they’ve been showing it for years and she still laughs #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #our home and cherished land #advertising