allusive black girl

reformed leo/do not perceive me/

[dykemelon]

I feel like a more productive conversation to have in the midst of “tiktok is spying on you -> every app is spying on you” is to remind people that you still do have power to limit how much data is collected on you. Switch to firefox, transfer your saved passwords to 1password or lastpass, set your default search engine to duckduckgo (I only need to switch back to google for maybe 2% of my searches), install an adblocker, go through your device settings and turn off any permissions that you’re not sure if they’re absolutely necessary. If you want to go the extra mile, only access social media through browsers instead of using the native apps. Spend an hour on your digital hygiene and you’re making your life that much harder to monetize and surveil.

[heyfranhey]

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)

[goodreadss]

Michele Cascella

[goodreadss]

Branches of an Almond Tree in Blossom, Vincent van Gogh

[fallenoutoffashion]

Karl Lagerfeld 1991

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

Celebrities are definitely going out of style. I think a lot of people are going to realize that they’ve been investing so much energy into worshipping these external figures that they actually know nothing about. That energy and investment in these coming years will be placed into our communities, our chosen families, our neighbours, our elderly, and our children. Not even being idealistic rn. Celebrities will just not hold up. We’ll start really seeing how it’s a culture that feeds on our desire to escape reality. When our focus switches to ground itself in reality, challenge reality, build and create reality......they will just take the backseat. Your voice means something fam you don’t need a blue check for nothing

[leflambeur]

by Jack Davison for AnOther Magazine 

[driflloon]

slick woods

[pussypulse-blog]

[supreme]

[obojenizeppelin]

PORTUGAL Bruno Barbey

[2samuel1427]

IG: jurneeisbald

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More reactions to Trudeau kneeling at the protest today from r/ottawa

[ID: a Reddit thread, each comment is in response to the one above it

Reddit user Redditishumpty: I don’t get it, isn’t his job to do something about this? He is the establishment. What is he protesting, himself?

Reddit user catsanddoggsarecool: He’s showing his people who don’t feel heard that he is listening

Reddit user Dalriata: Doing something about it shows that he’s listening. Attending the rally and saying flowery words are just platitudes. Action is needed.

EDIT I’m fucking flabbergasted this has such a negative reaction. You all have the memories of goldfish. He did nothing after attending the climate protests in September. He will do nothing after attending this protest, either.]

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Submitted by @abstractlesbian​

[salt-blog]

Don’t forget he attended a climate change protest right after approving the nationalisation of an oil pipeline project. Like does ANYONE else see how hypocritical that is?!

Also, what Trudeau could have done instead of going to a protest on police brutality is announcing a that the government is going to make a plan to reform the police. Like policy and legislation don’t change in a day, I get that, but the fucking prime minister can make a commitment to drastic police reform on the federal (RCMP) level. That isn’t an unrealistic course of action for a politician to take.

[bearskito]

I questioned what exactly anyone thinks he’s accomplishing by just showing up to protests and then doing nothing and was told “it’s better than ordering tear gas” so I guess the bar for “good leadership” is “don’t be fascist” now so that’s extremely cool and normal

[kemetic-dreams]

[wallflowerbloom]

“Before Sunrise” (1995)

I have watched this film with so much yearning for the same thing.

[globalchristendom]

A Coptic man and woman in al-Kosheh village, Sohag, Egypt. (Credit: Rena Effendi)

[ahsokastars]

Doja Cat - Streets (Live Performance) | Vevo LIFT (x)