Trini_Mitz

bluerave:

Reblog if you are a Trini in support of LGBT rights! 

Jack Warner on equal rights for gays in T&T. (via bluerave)

Technology and the shrinking World are both a blessing and a curse.

Witness: Blessing - Ability to show the average tradesman a youtube video of the thing he says “can’t be done” (houseowners will know what I’m talking about).  

Witness: Curse - Trinis going on a fake Mexican holiday, created by Americans as a reason to go liming and drinking

All of this to say, I will scream at the next idiot I see post “Cinco de Mayo!”

Honestly, I think planning travel is almost as fun as travel itself. September’s vacation is going to be EPIC

npr:

For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what’s known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

The bell curve powerfully shapes how we think of human performance: If lots of students or employees happen to show up as extreme outliers — they’re either very good or very bad — we assume they must represent a skewed sample, because only a few people in a truly random sample are supposed to be outliers.

New research suggests, however, that rather than describe how humans perform, the bell curve may actually be constraining how people perform. Minus such constraints, a new paper argues, lots of people are actually outliers. -Shankar Vedantam

Glorious day on tap (Taken with instagram)

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soulsistrin:

peace-truth-love:

Imagine if the world only contained you and 99 of your friends!

1 of you would have a death sentence of HIV!

Only 1 of you would graduate college!

Only 30 of you would be eating healthily!

48 of you wouldn’t have rights - that means freedom of speech, freedom to pray to whomever you want, wherever you want; freedom to walk anywhere - not just where you are allowed; freedom to be friends with anyone, not only just the people that are exactly the same as you!

Only 76 of you would have electricity = running water (healthy); heat (life in today’s winter); light (longer days; less strain on the eyes, as you try to get a day’s work done = less occurrence of blindness)

14 of your friends won’t be able to read! - Which means that unless they’re living right next to you, you won’t be able to communicate with them.  They won’t be able to read your letters, and if they don’t have electricity or computers (which 93 won’t) then you will be unable to communicate!

Next time you feel like life’s so unfair, maybe think what life’s like for one of your other friends (out of the 99 represented here) or on a larger scale, what everyone else goes through!

overonehundred:

Toby Ng - The World of 100

Have you ever asked yourself, what would the World look like as a small community of 100 people? Probably not. However, it is something to think about, as the reality would be startling - as much as you’d think so, the village would only have 7 computers, and only 1 person in the World Village would be educated at University level.

These facts are something that designer Toby Ng has thought about very carefully, and turned the results of his findings into a series of twenty infographics depicting ‘The World of 100’. Although aesthetically beautiful, with sharp lines and bold, vibrant colours, these infographics are often horrifying. 

The posters look as though they have come straight out of a children’s book; is this to mirror the naivety of those that are most likely to be looking at them on their computers?

“Look, this is the World we are living in.”

- Toby Ng

I feel pretty fucking privileged right about now.

Ok then, this certainly provided some context

Prepare to waste incredible amounts of time

soulsistrin:

seawitchery:

I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair.

biancavirina:

CLICK THE SQUARES.

THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.

THIS THIS THIS THIS!

This is making me happy right now.

(Source: mandaflewaway)

I’m up! Watching J’ouvert on TV. Sorry, but I don’t do the J’ouvert thing. I love my pretty mas’. Starting with my Monday jump, no crowds, minimal costumes, a masquerader’s day. On to Tuesday, full regalia, full mas’ full-joyment. Got bitten bythe bug 26 years ago and I’ve been playing every year (barring a few interruptions) for the past 24.

I’ve been waiting for this all year, it’s here… enjoy and be safe