Anything And Evreything

Basically just random ass things. Send me asks anything really idc just go wild

[anything-and-evreything]

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[endangered-justice-seeker]

Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the U.S. 

https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1525373347

[revolutionarykoolaid]

It’s so significant too that this narrative was collected by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the greatest authors and anthropologists of her time. She was shunned by the “gatekeepers” of both of these professions, largely because of her Blackness, her womanhood, and her uncompromising commitment to honoring and showcasing both in her works. She died penniless and alone in a state-run institution in 1960. All of her works had gone out of publication by then. It took more than a decade before she was rediscovered. A young author by the name of Alice Walker had come across her work and was deeply inspired by it. “In 1973, after an exhaustive search, Walker came across Hurston’s unmarked grave in Ft. Pierce, Fla. She purchased a headstone for Hurston’s tomb and had it inscribed “A Genius of the South.“”

It is through Zora Neale Hurston’s pioneering sacrifice, and the acceptance of that inheritance by Alice Walker that we have found this missing piece of our history. Without the courageous and unfailing work of Black women, we wouldn’t have Cudjo Lewis’s story. We are slowly regaining a narrative that’s been hidden from us, one that continues to be lied about. Trust Black women to lead the way.

[max1461]

Ok, someone explain why we need sorting algorithms to me: why can a computer only compare two values at a time? If a computer can compare two values and say “this is the biggest one”, why can’t it compare all the values in a list and say “this is the biggest one”?

[ironwoman359]

I feel like tumblr would dig this tiktok

[hydro-homies]

Fucking antivaxx parents

[grrlgeek72]

Idiots.

At least their kids didn’t inherit the stupid Gene.

[jabberwockypie]

https://vaxopedia.org/2018/09/25/how-can-i-get-vaccinated-if-my-parents-are-anti-vaccine/ Useful stuffs

[cricketcat9]

Please reblog, someone may need this

[talos-stims]

black rutile sphere | source

[barricadeur]

ah yes, that famed american holiday

Superb Owl Sunday

[persephonaae]

[nocturnes-79-deactivated2023011]

reblog to give a trans woman the opporitunity to take a nap

[zoesupreme]

Most of you know already that I use a modded Spotify premium apk to use Spotify with full features and no ads on my phone completely free. If you have an android and feel the urge to delete Spotify bc of Joe Rogan but still wanna have access to all your favorite music consider stealing their services instead

[frottinq]

also use YouTube Vanced to watch YouTube videos without ads and be able to turn ur screen off and listen in the background and all the features of YouTube premium! except for downloading videos to your phone

[see]

barbie official: we’re gonna put all our movies on youtube for free!

youtube, still selling their movies: huh? what’d they say they were going to do?

[see]

here’s a link to a playlist since everyone’s a fan of this post

[not-the-real-norbert-hofer]

WHAT

[not-the-real-norbert-hofer]

it’s real😭😭😭😭😭😭

[all-hail-trash-prince]

Hey everyone! The old link doesn’t work and it seems the old account was taken down, but there’s another one up now! Here’s the link :)

[mmmm-books]

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them…

[nitrosplicer]

if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.

[syrupie]

Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect

[adrianainthesnow]

Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.

[steakplissken]

Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.

[ailorian]

🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶

[captainlordauditor]

This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?

[amuseoffyre]

Casual reminder that

a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna

the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu

the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish

horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley

a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair

the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy

And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton

[khadij-al-kubra]

And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?

[impatentpending]

Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million 

[20xbetterthanu]

Mary Shelly did what

[pineappletheatrekid]

Mary.Shelly.Lost.Her.Virginity.On.Her.Parent’s.Grave.

[20xbetterthanu]

dare i repeat. mary shelly did what.

[sweetiepie08]

Let’s not forget Baroness Emma Orczy inventing the superhero with The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.

[intersexelphie]

What I’ve heard, @jaes-been-gh0sting, is she did that specifically for Harry Potter because they felt HP would appeal to boys and felt that boys wouldn’t want to read a book with a woman’s name on it. So she went by JK rather than Joanne. She could have refused that and tried another publisher - bc that is misogynistic and gender stereotypical, both of which she supposedly hates - but she did not.

Granted that HP was turned down a lot at first so she was probably just frustrated by that point, but that doesn’t change she also continued to hide some of the work she did after HP by pretending to be a man - Robert Galbraith. Literally more people would have read those works if she’d attached her own name to it by that point, but she still pretended to be a bloke.

Did women struggle in the publishing world? Yes at points bc some felt we shouldn’t be writers. But we have still managed it for centuries, and acting like JK Rowling is some kind of peak or breakthrough of women being published is just beyond silly and false djhdjhdj. She literally purposely took a neutral name and hid works behind male names.

[lotusunset]

Christine, the goddamn queen.  

Quick art thing, done with the intention of turning it into a sticker…for one day…in the future…when I actually start a business with my artwork…eventually….

[julieterbang]

[remedytherat-deactivated2023072]

Starbucks funded the police in Atlanta so here’s their recipes

[everthefractal]

do you have a link to the images cause they’re a little small and compressed

[remedytherat-deactivated2023072]

Here’s the tweet I got it from

[livelifeandchill]

Lol I used to work at Starbucks. I approve this. Pro tip: to make a latte at home, just boil the milk. You don’t need any special equipment.

I don’t see my favorite which was an earl grey tea latte aka London fog. It’s 3 pumps vanilla with 2 earl grey teabags with ½ water then the other half is 2% milk for a grande. It tastes better with soy milk and an extra shot of sugar.

[antidrumpfs-deactivated20241117]

Cartoon by Steve Sack

[kinka-juice]

There’s a pretty sobering PSA playing on TV in my state.

[lilbit-of-kizzy]

Had a family member waiting in the ER with a friend of theirs overhear a man calling around and telling his family goodbye

He was in the early stages of a heart attack (chest pain and the like) and the triage nurse, as kindly and gently as she could, had already said they probably wouldn’t be able to get him back in time.

A man was in the process of dying, right next to life saving equipment and professionals, and too many beds/people were dealing with COVID patients (also in the process of dying) to treat him. My family member had to leave before she found out if he made it or not but….how horrid….to be alone and making goodbye phone calls when it should be easy to keep you alive.

There was a news report about the same hospital trying desperately to keep a different man alive in the waiting room and being unable to. Having to wheel his dead body to the morgue after hours of waiting for a bed and equipment that never freed up.

Please go get your vaccine if you’re able, please.

“oh but I could still get covid so what’s the point???” THIS! This is the point! You will 99.99% stay out of the hospital and let people like these two men not have to make goodbye calls to their families!!

[aunti-christ-ine]

😷

THIS! THIS IS THE POINT!

😷

[lellowberry]

My hospital is in chaos because of unvaxxed fucks, not to mention the staffing crisis. They frequently have to put beds in hallways because all the rooms are full, so imagine you’re bleeding out from a car crash and they have to dump your ass in the hallway because there’s no where else to put you. Oh and someone’s probably coughing on you, which is awesome.

Get your goddamn vaccines

[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

A few months ago I was rushed to the ER with tachycardia. My resting heart rate was 175 beats per minute. My lips were blue. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t walk. My wife couldn’t come with me because of covid. I was marked “urgent”

I waited for five hours to be seen and was sent home because there were no beds. A little boy next to me was crying because he had an obviously broken arm but he wound up waiting over 3 hours.

Get. Your. Vaccines.

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

if you still use "death of the author" to justify liking harry potter why don't you put your money where your mouth is. kill jk rowling. fucking kill her

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Embossed braille should be standard on computer keyboards. 

It would raise braille literacy more than anything else I could imagine - among both the blind and the sighted. Currently braille is actually vanishing due to an increasing reliance on audiobooks and screen readers. 

I think that braille has a lot of potential use among non-blind groups. As an alternative to traditional writing for dyslexics. As a way to help photosensitive people type with their eyes closed. Or simply as a means to help sighted people find things without needing the lights on all the time!

[acutelyhomosexual]

Accessibility note: It’s important that braille doesn’t vanish because it’s one of the only written language that works for blind and sight-impaired people. It is necessary for them to interact with the real world where screen readers and audio devices are not available to them, such as elevators, most major metro systems, stairwells, doorways, the bumps in the sidewalk at corners are actually developed in conjunction with audio signals so blind people don’t step off the curb into traffic before the correct time. 

Digital technology has made accessibility so much easier for all of us disabled people, but we still *need* the real-world accommodations that we fought and died for