An Inky Affair

Artist, student, game developer. Chronically ill, Indigenous Australian, feminist and prone to obsessing over games. Married, queer, non-binary.

[ayeforscotland]

Daily Heil writing a pro and cons list for slave traders.

“Brought in shiploads of produce to England”

Fucking yikes.

[ayeforscotland]

“Produce”

[idratherhavefreedom]

[ayeforscotland]

^^

[reverseracism]

British people be like “Nooo you can’t remove a statue of a genocidal racist! It erases history!!!” and then go to a museum full of artifacts and statues stolen from another country

.

[aninkyaffair]

White Brits say this shit while their govt shredded documents that exposed the crimes of colonialism... Funny how they're silent on that erasure of history...

[whitepeopletwitter]

[danidraws]

In an effort to share a little black and queer history during this turbulent Pride month, here’s a comic about one of my favorite musicians, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

https://www.everythingisgoingtobeokcomic.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe/

[danidraws]

I almost included this tidbit, but then I got lazy bc I didn’t want to draw a bus, but now I kinda wish I had.

[pondnaravit]

[kittydoom]

Kimberly Jones (Full video)

[bottomoftheriverbed]

Sometimes I look at myself and just think, if I had energy and decent executive function it would be over for you motherfuckers

[aninkyaffair]

Birthday was yesterday. Wasn't great

Everything went wrong. My father violated my boundaries and made contact again. Had a bad meltdown and hit myself in the head so hard my scalp is bruised and I'm in pain still.

At least my rescue gecko is doing better. I can handle them now which is great.

[cianmars]

Having a chronic illness from birth is just discovering things about yourself every year

Like eyes are meant to be wet and shouldn’t hurt when you cry????

Nails aren’t meant to be super soft and easily bendable????

You’re not meant to be in pain 24 hours a day????

[aninkyaffair]

Wait, other people's eyes don't hurt when they cry? Mine burn and sting like I've just had lemon juice squirted in my eyes and they hurt for days after

[aninkyaffair]

I keep seeing all my friends back home outraged over the death of George Floyd and planning on going to protests, and it's right that they should. But I can't help but notice their total silence over the deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at the hands of police.

I think I need to re-evaluate some friendships.

[gogomrbrown]

We really are a police state.

[mybigfatgaylife]

It’s worse than that. That wasn’t a rubber bullet, that was another tear gas canister–you can see it a few seconds later in the footage when the camera pans over to the advancing cops.

And they shot him in the crotch with it.

If I were feeling charitable I’d say that the cop who fired the shell was aiming for center of mass and miscalculated the distance and hit the guy low.

But I’m not feeling charitable. It’s clear that was a deliberate malicious attack designed to hurt the guy as badly as possible with the weapon at hand. The goal was to cause him pain and intimidate bystanders.

[megamindmutual-deactivated20191]

this really is dystopic, isn’t it?

[gunshyghosts]

Shout out to the dude who came and helped him up

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

THIS IS WHY YOU BLACK BLOC. WHEN EVERYONE IS MASKED AND IN ALL BLOC, IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE POLICE TO TARGET INDIVIDUALS LIKE THIS

MASK UP, COME IN BLOC, BE PREPARED, YOU. COULD SAVE SOMEONES LIFE

[toloveviceforitself]

Also get to know your street medics and maybe buy them a drink later. They’ll often be the ones picking you up and making sure you’re good after this shit happens

[shortandsweet]

does anyone know what this graphic says in plain text please thanks

[ikuharaisabitch]

How To Do It: Black Block Tactics

Allow demonstrators to take action without fear of immediate identification. If you choose to wear a mask, wear it right.

Cover Up It is not enough to half cover your face. Even if you get away, the police may use photos or videos to charge you later. Cover your hair, face, arms and hands. Cloth gloves are the best. Take out piercings. Make sure there are no identifying features on your clothes, shoes or backpack. If you bring any materials with you, wipe them down first with rubbing alcohol first to get the prints off. Don’t bring anything you don’t need. Stay Tight If possible, come to a demonstration with a small group of people you trust. Choose your crew based on shared intentions, not just friendship. You’re here to have each other’s back in the streets and follow up if one of you gets arrested or hurt. Strangers needs to protect each other too. Stay physically close, do not spread out, so that if police try to enter the crowd, you can “accidentally” get in their way. The front of the march might need to slow down while the back catches up. Stay moving, though: a tight, mobile crowd is difficult to surround or disperse.

Plan Your Exit Always wear “civilian clothes” under your hoodie so you can de-bloc and blend in a crowd or smoothly walk away. Keep an eye out for danger zones and escape routes. If things heat up, stay calm and act decisively. Commit to your exit when you decide you’re done. Sometimes you have to sprint and hide; sometimes you just step onto the sidewalk and remove your mask. You can de-bloc in the middle of a friendly crowd if you’re sure you are well-screened. Keep It Quiet Bragging and storytelling are natural but they are easy to use against us. If you have to talk, choose someone trustworthy who was with you in the streets. Don’t post anything on facebook you wouldn’t show to a cop. Same goes for Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr. Remember the police will read your texts and call-log if they arrest you. Never, Ever Snitch If arrested, invoke your right to remain silent. Name, address and no more. Captioned under request.

[shortandsweet]

thank you!!!

[libraryogre]

Ok, here’s a thing to remember: the cops do not give a shit about anyone’s rights. They hate your right to remain silent. They despise your lawyer. The only thing cops give a shit about is getting *caught* violating your rights… And then, only if it has consequences.

Do not trust a cop. Do not give them anything. Ever.

[angiethewitch]

if I see one more fucking british person acting all smug about the shit happening in America…the uk is not innocent

we colonised half the world through racism and brutality so shut up

brexit was fucking founded on racism and anti immigration policies

when the Manchester bombing happened, muslims woke up to a country that hated them again

a black man named sean rigg was crushed to death in london when he was in the middle of a mental health crisis when officers piled on top of him. he, also, plead to be able to breathe

the UK is racist as fuck

where do you think America learned it from

police brutality is real in the uk, just because they don’t carry guns as much doesnt mean people aren’t killed

we are not innocent

[illegalcerebral]

We’re also selling rubber bullets and other riot gear to the US. The weapons being used against protestors comes from us.

You’re twice as likely to die in police custody in the UK if you’re black.

The majority of fines for breaking lockdown here have been given out to BAME people and the police here have been very heavy handed.

The govt tried to delay the release of a Public Health England report into why BAME are disproportionately dying from CV-19 and our PM has always been and continues to be racist as fuck and an imperialist.

[angiethewitch]

this. all of this.

by the way, here is a petition to stop selling riot gear to the US. please sign and share.

Sign the Petition

Stop the illegal export of riot equipment to the United States from the UK.

[salembranwen-deactivated2021073]

@ayeforscotland Think this is a good one to bring up for us UK folk

[mysharona1987]

[xiinyuuee]

[fatehbaz]

Some recent data on Aboriginal incarceration: Australia’s use of the prison system to incarcerate Aboriginal people is gradually worsening. Aboriginal incarceration rates in Western Australia are 7-times as high as the US’s infamous incarceration rates. Aboriginal people comprise only 3% of Australia’s population but comprise about 28% of the country’s prison population. “How likely are you to go to jail? As an Aboriginal adult you are 16 times more likely to be incarcerated. Juveniles in Western Australia are 52 times more likely to be imprisoned than their white peers.” (Source.)

More food for thought: 

This data comes from Australia Bureau of Statistics, 2014. (Source.)

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Sources for these statistics can be perused here.

Here’s the composition of the prison population in each state/territory:

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Incarceration rates in Northern Territory are high. Western Australia incarceration rates are even higher (both states containing the majority of Aboriginal-administered land):

Australia - and Western Australia in particular - compared to the infamous rates of incarceration in the US. (Source.)

[dostoyevsky-official]

cops boast about how indispensable they are to keeping order, but when the NYPD went on a two week strike in 2015 to protest the dismissal of the cop who killed eric garner, crime rates went down because no one was ticketing poor people and minorities, and violent crime rates (homicide, rape, assault, robbery) decreased as well. 

[lontra-ohiensis]

can’t forget the time when the mayor threatened to investigate corruption within the NYPD and thousands of off duty cops swarmed city hall and blocked the Brooklyn bridge and destroyed plenty of property with the full support of the officers on duty. being held accountable is apparently an okay reason to riot, but the murder of Black people is not. abolish the fucking cops.

[aninkyaffair]

Im alive.

I forgot all about this place for the longest time. Been really busy with university, swapped majors from fine art and visual culture to animation and game design. Health has been crap as ever, thanks EDS. My puggo is chonky and happy, and I’ve added a leopard gecko to the family as of Friday afternoon - he’s not in great shape, poor little bean, but with a little love and proper care he’ll be doing better soon. Been playing a lot of Final Fantasy 14 too, so if I still have any mutuals on here who also play I’m on the Primal data center, Ultros, send me a message if you want to run some content together - be nice to have more people to play with, I am on PS4 though so in game chat will be slow, very slow. Right, off to feed my new scaly friendo.

[brummbart-deactivated20181221]

Wasserspeier am Freiburger Münster

[the-stickers]

WINTER IS A BAD TIME.

[soup-that-is-2-hot]

What it feels like to chew 5 Gum

[gallusrostromegalus]

IT’S MY FAVORITE GARGOYLE BACK AGAIN FOR WINTERTIME.

[allthingshyper]

I want to know the exact conversation that lead to the creation of this abomination

[gallusrostromegalus]

Ye olde German architect: “ok, it’s time to put in the rainspouts and last night I was out with the lads and Hans had too much and the point is I had the FUNNIEST idea…” *Holds up drawing*

Ye olde German Architect Supervisor: * snorts beer out of his nose.* “YES. BUILD IT IMMEDIATELY.”

[charliecoxbf]

That’s gussy babe

[earthgirl2788]

Sooooo I just came back from studying in Freiburg and went on a tour of the Münster with a historian who knew all of the insider secrets and the story is even better than you think. 

It took more than 300 years to build the Freiburger Münster (1200s-1500s), so they went through a lot of architects and people who paid those architects. Some of the patrons were dicks and one of those dicks lived in a house right next to the Münster. The asshat kept demanding they work faster and changed his mind every five hours about what he wanted and THEN he refused to pay the architects because he wasn’t happy with what they’d done. 

That really pissed the builders off so in retaliation, the head architect built the butt gargoyle facing his house so that every morning for the rest of his life, when the dick looked out his window at the Münster, he’d have to look at a gargoyle butt.

So, the defecating gargoyle is a big fat “fuck you” to someone’s dick of a boss that has survived 500 years and two world wars 

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is better than I possibly could have imagined, thank you

[sunlight-and-sparrows-deactivat]

When someone asks how you’re really feeling