supernini235:

mediamattersforamerica:

Media portray these tales of perseverance as uplifting and inspirational. They’re actually horror stories.

These four examples all come from just the past five months, but there are countless additional articles and segments that share the same lessons about never giving up, going the extra mile, and taking care of others. The articles are framed to make you feel good, to illustrate the kindness of others, to show you that things can work out when tragedy hits, and yes, to “restore your faith in humanity.” These are excellent messages that we could probably all benefit from having in our lives, but there’s one thing that gets left out on an all-too-regular basis: the underlying causes.

How the fuck do you frame a little girl absolutely terrified her mum’s going to die, so she feels under pressure to fix it by desperately trying to get pocket change, and spin it as a good cute thing? Fucking hell.

vigwig:

brains0nt0ast:

Eventually

there will be names and numbers, for at least some of the deaths that have already started.

There will more children in those numbers.

Eventually.

We will say “we didn’t know.”

We know.

We know.

They want to hide the atrocities

photosofthehistoryandwithhstory:

An Irish teenager shouts at British soldiers during riots in Northern Ireland.

everythingfox:

HAPPY HOPS

astrodidact:

littledollybelle:

Take me to the funhouse, Daddy?

merelygifted:

The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of other big companies, according to threat intel outfit RiskIQ.

In a report published this morning the firm said the Wipro attackers were running a much larger series of phishing campaigns, aimed at extracting cash from hapless businesses whose files had been forcibly encrypted.

Indian outsourcing behemoth Wipro discovered earlier this year that its email systems had been compromised, seemingly for some time, by black hats using it as a jumping-off point to target Wipro customers. …

gagarin-smiles-anyway:

satedghost:

numinous-queer:

thelesseroftwo:

Is Russia even real

I think it is necessary for me to transcribe what she’s saying because it is EXACTLY how I babytalk to my cat:

“Oh Stepa! So little – little Stepa! My little kiss, where’s my little kiss?? Where are my little fingers? Where are my little legs? Where are my little paws? Stepa!” *shakes his paw* “Say hello! Hello my little one! Hello!” *lies down on him* “Oh how nice, how warm. Good boy…”

to be clear, this bear is named the russian equivalent of “steve”

Stepan was just three months old when the Panteleenkos adopted him. He had been found by hunters after reportedly losing his mother and was in very bad shape. So they took him in and have been happily living together for the last 23 years. The couple say that because Stepan has been domesticated from a very young age, he has developed the gentlest temperament. Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko are both animal trainers.