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You Don’t Have To BE A Racist To Say/Do Something Racist

Full video on youtube

This is such a simple concept, and very important. nobody is perfect, everybody makes mistakes. that means you should own up to them. white people are taught that racism is okay, just because you don’t actively hate POC or think they’re beneath you, society has still taught you that inherently racist things are okay. Everybody is ignorant, I’m learning new things every day. If you do or say something offensive, own up to it and apologize. Some people still might not like you or use it as an excuse to be mean to you, but if you genuinely didn’t mean to hurt anybody, most people will understand that. You don’t have to be racist to do/say racist things, you just have to learn from it and move on. It doesn’t make it okay that you said it, but now you know not to do it again. Jumping down people’s throats to defend yourself just makes you look that much worse.

robotlyra

Sometimes I feel like unhinging my jaw & screaming at the entrenched establishment “HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT WE ARE ALL BROKE?” Because 9 times out of 10, when a “millennial” does something weird, untraditional, or otherwise confusing to previous generations, the core reason is because we’re broke, thus the old ways are not accessible to us, so we’re using new stopgaps and alternatives. An “obsession” with phones/social media? It’s a cheap way to socially connect when many of us are pressed for time due to work or can’t afford to go out. A fixation on food? It’s the last comfort splurge we can feasibly afford, when vacations and the like are not an optipn. A resistance to large life milestone acquisitions? Can’t afford houses, cars, raising children. Weird craft/homebrew/DIY hobbies? Trying to save money, or spin some profit in whatever way can be managed. Widespread cynicism, anxiety and depression? We literally have to take up group fundraising collections for things like emergency expenses, rent and medical care. We’re broke and it’s slowly driving us bananas.

latining

My parents can’t understand why I behave the way I do. My grandmother has never understood me better.

mydododied-deactivated20200613

We are family

#vuohu

typeworship

Monotype create Noto for Google: An open-source typeface family for all the world’s languages

With a goal of encompassing every written language, Monotype and Google have released Noto as an open-source typeface for everyone to use.

Noto is one of the largest typographic projects ever undertaken; more than five years in the making, covering over 800 languages with over 100 writing scripts (some never digitised before), each with a harmonious look and feel.

Tofo is the nickname used to describe the blank boxes that appear when a computer or site lacks font support for a particular character. The ambitious brief from Google to Monotype of “no more tofu” which gave rise to the type family’s name.

“Our goal for Noto has been to create fonts for our devices, but we’re also very interested in keeping information alive,” he adds. “When it comes to some of the lesser-used languages, or even the purely academic or dead languages, we think it’s really important to preserve them.” Bob Jung, Google internationalization expert.

Intense Research

Rising to this enormous challenge Monotype coordinated an intense research effort, partnering with researchers, designers, linguists, cultural experts and project managers around the world.

The more obscure scripts required significant research to ensure the scripts adhered to their traditions and rules. Experts were consulted and direct feedback was sought from communities using the scripts.

For the Tibetan face, Monotype conducted in-depth research into a vast library of writings and then enlisted the help of Buddhist monks to critique the font and make adjustments to the design.

Sketches for Adlam (left) and Tibetan (right)

Using Noto

Not only will the breadth of languages covered by Noto expand the availability of information to more readers and preserve rare writing systems, the typeface is also “a digital workhorse”. It powers the text shown across Android and Chrome devices and importantly because it has been released as a suite of open source fonts it can be used any where.

Download Noto from Google here. and read more about making Noto at Monotype.com

mynameisgoliath

But do they have Old Church Slavonic?

languageoclock

yup! both the glagolitic alphabet and the entire extended cyrillic alphabet

dedalvs

FINALLY!

allthingslinguistic

The video about creating Noto is also interesting:

#typography

sleepygogh

30.7.17 Sun dazed days.

#kissa #tassu #tassunaama

i-is-andy

should I open the door

nerds-are-cool

you should open the door

punkrockgrantaire

This rat is 87 centimeters tall and weighs 10 grams. This rat is about 0.6 the density of helium. I carry this rat around on a string like a balloon.

punkrockgrantaire

It will take this rat half an hour to reach outer space

#rattata #pokemon #pokemon go

nevver

Ladybird Books

#ABC DEF GHI JKL MN PRS TUV WXY OQ

angelicborderline

the worst part of bpd is irrational mood drops like ppl are like “hey u look a little off what’s wrong” and ur like “oh,,,,,,,nothing” bc u can’t explain to them that ur literally suicidal bc there was no more hot chocolate left

mostlycatsmostly

Poppyseed has the sweetest personality.

(submitted by @wintersblues)

#kissa

littleroundmirrors

Buddha doesn’t seem to understand that he does, in fact, have control over his own tail.

#kissa

babygoatsandfriends

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#vuohu

anti-sjw: what should i put in the pride tag today

anti-sjw: "fuck lgbt people and their shoving sexuality in everyone's face. you don't see straight people doing this, because we actually know how to act unlike you assholes."

person: Hey you're an asshole and you need to take your post off the pride tag.

anti-sjw: I might have if you asked me nicely, but you decided to turn to name calling. Ask nicely and I will change it, if it matters so much to you.