I’m so happy I saw this post. It’s my boyfriend and my first time in our own apartment and we’re always trying to figure out how long something lasts. I never realized it was something I really had no clue about until we started going grocery shopping ourselves!

Yeah, Rekia Boyd’s death and the subsequent verdict, as well as the judge’s explanation are ridiculous and sad.

Love the quote- but as hard as it is to get people to care about black boys dying, we’re also not getting justice or the outpouring of support for black girls who’ve been killed by police.

The same thing happens when white people read a history book. A bunch of white dudes rioted over unfair taxation and lack of political representation, and we regard them as heroes. They’re “revolutionaries” and “founding fathers.” But when black people riot because they’re literally being shot dead in the streets,…

Amandla is a common South African name, it means Power in the Xhosa and Zulu language and was a protest call for blacks in the apartheid struggle. I used to think her name was silly too until I looked it up

It’s even sadder when you think about how a teenager cares less about pissing people off or insulting them than a grown adult does.

It makes me kind of sad that a 16-year-old kid named Amandla-with-an-L can talk about The Hunger Games and still make better points about Baltimore than Obama’s.

Diviance, it is not a normal activity for a person to give blood. I looked at it as giving life to someone who, unlike me did not have their health. My first time was very challenging and everytime I gave blood I had to look away, close my eyes or bury my head in a book. I always had anxiety when I gave blood. The…

I kept waiting for his shirt to fly off as it was caught in the lathe belt that he kept getting dangerously close to. A little danger always makes a video better.

I can’t wait to get all the figures for MY favorite Avenger, Black Widow!

Why’d it get so quiet all of a sudden?

No safety equipment, like glasses????

I think the class could benefit from a lesson in tool safety:

Okay I have a question for you!

This is called a spanbaum which translates to spanning tree. It’s a pretty common folk art from Germany and surrounding countries.

i just wonder if his skills could be better utilized making things that, you know, someone could actually use. like handcrafted medical devices. or tiny wooden children for lonely old men.