Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat! The post above is the original and first post of the 8bit kitty back on April 2nd, 2011.
I drew it as a cake to celebrate 🎂🐈⬛✨
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Happy 15th birthday to Nyan Cat! The post above is the original and first post of the 8bit kitty back on April 2nd, 2011.
I drew it as a cake to celebrate 🎂🐈⬛✨
"cooking with heat is the breakthrough technology" is a phrase that made me fucking CACKLE
i'm thinking about charlotte brontë spending her last years editing and publishing her sisters' writings and about christopher tolkien dedicating his life to the protection and meticulous reconstruction his father's life's work and about johanna van gogh publishing the letters between vincent and theo that would propel vincent van gogh into fame because she knew how much her husband had loved his brother, and about how so often art isn't just a reflection of the artist's mind and skills but a testament to the fact that they were loved
My sister just quoted this post at me over dinner bc it was discussed in her philosophy class & I can't even smugly inform her of its authorship. Due to the mindhunter yaoi state of my most recent blog history.
We’ve ALWAYS been like this… what’s happening in this country is not new; it’s just happening to people who thought it was only directed at “the other people”…
May 1961. A small office in Nashville, Tennessee.
The phone rang. Diane Nash picked it up.
On the other end: John Seigenthaler, assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Calling from Washington. Powerful. Connected. Afraid.
His voice was sharp. Urgent.
"If those students get on those buses, they will be killed. The federal government cannot protect them."
He was calling about the Freedom Rides—an effort to desegregate interstate bus travel across the South. The first group of riders had just been brutally attacked in Alabama. Their bus firebombed. Riders beaten with metal pipes as they escaped the flames.
The images had gone national. A Greyhound bus engulfed in black smoke, burning on Highway 78 in Anniston, Alabama. Riders bleeding on the ground, attacked by a mob of over 200 people.
It was May 14, 1961—Mother's Day.
The original organizers decided to stop. It was too dangerous. Suicidal to continue.
The violence had won.
Or so everyone thought.
Diane Nash—a 22-year-old college student at Fisk University—heard the news in Nashville and felt something harden inside her.
If they stopped now, the message was clear: burn a bus, beat some students, and the Civil Rights Movement would retreat. Violence would become the permanent answer to justice.
She couldn't let that happen.
Diane called together students from Nashville—young people, barely out of their teens, with their whole lives ahead of them. Future doctors. Future teachers. Future lawyers.
She told them what happened in Alabama. She told them the ride had to continue. She asked who would volunteer.
They all raised their hands.
The room went quiet.
These students understood what Diane was asking. They'd all been trained in nonviolent resistance by James Lawson. They knew that in Alabama, they would be beaten. Possibly killed. The federal government had made it clear they couldn't—or wouldn't—protect them.
So the students did something that still haunts history.
They went back to their dorm rooms. They sat at their desks with pen and paper.
And they wrote their last wills and testaments.
Twenty-year-olds writing goodbye letters to their parents. Deciding who should get their books. Who should get their clothes. What should happen to their bodies if they didn't come home.
Then they signed their names.
They were ready to die.
When the White House found out that Nashville students were planning to continue the Freedom Rides, they panicked.
This wasn't supposed to happen. The violence was supposed to end it. But instead of scaring the movement into submission, it had radicalized a new generation.
Robert F. Kennedy—the Attorney General, the President's brother—sent his assistant to stop them.
That's when John Seigenthaler called Diane Nash.
He tried reason first. Explaining the danger. The federal government couldn't protect them. The Alabama mobs were waiting. This was a death sentence.
Diane listened. She didn't interrupt. She didn't raise her voice.
When he finished, she responded calmly.
"Sir, you should know—we all signed our last wills and testaments last night."
Silence.
Seigenthaler later said that in that moment, he understood: he couldn't stop them.
You can't threaten someone who's already accepted death. You can't scare someone who's made peace with dying for what they believe.
The students boarded the bus in Nashville on May 17, 1961.
Diane Nash stayed behind—coordinating, fundraising, organizing the next wave. Because she knew: if these students were arrested or killed, more would need to take their place.
The bus rolled toward Birmingham.
The Alabama mobs were ready.
When the students arrived, they were met with fists, pipes, baseball bats. They were beaten in the streets. Thrown into maximum-security prisons.
John Lewis—later a Congressman, then just a 21-year-old student—was beaten unconscious.
They didn't fight back. That was the rule. Nonviolent resistance meant taking the beating and not raising a fist.
Every time a student was arrested, Diane sent another one.
The jails filled. The violence continued. But the students kept coming.
The federal government had no choice.
The images were going global—American students, peacefully protesting segregation, being beaten bloody while police stood by.
The Kennedy administration, worried about America's image during the Cold War, had to act.
U.S. Marshals were finally sent to protect the riders. The Interstate Commerce Commission—under enormous pressure—issued new regulations in September 1961.
The "White Only" signs in bus terminals started coming down.
Segregation in interstate travel was over.
Not because of weapons. Not because of violence.
Because a 22-year-old college student refused to hang up the phone. Because young people signed their wills and got on the bus anyway.
Diane Nash didn't come from the Deep South. She was born in Chicago—a city where she could eat at any restaurant, sit anywhere on the bus.
When she arrived at Fisk University in Nashville, she experienced segregation for the first time.
The "White Only" signs. The restaurants that wouldn't serve her. The humiliation of being treated as less than human.
It made her angry. But she didn't know what to do with that anger until she found James Lawson's workshops on nonviolent resistance.
Lawson taught that love was stronger than hate. That standing still while being struck showed more strength than striking back. That moral clarity could defeat physical force.
Diane was terrified at first. Afraid of pain. Afraid of jail. Afraid of death.
But the anger burned hotter than the fear.
She became a leader—not because she was loud or charismatic, but because she had a steel spine and unshakable conviction.
When she spoke, people listened. When she asked for volunteers, they raised their hands.
Years later, people would ask Diane: How did you do it? How did you stand up to the White House? How did you send your friends into danger?
Her answer was always simple.
"We had no choice. There's a power in knowing you're right."
She said she wanted to respect the woman she saw in the mirror. She couldn't live with herself if she let fear win.
Diane Nash is 86 years old now. Her hair is gray. But the fire in her eyes remains.
She continued activism for decades—working on voting rights, housing discrimination, peace movements. She never sought fame. She rarely gave interviews.
But her legacy is undeniable.
The Freedom Rides she saved changed America. They proved that young people—armed with nothing but conviction—could force a government to act.
They proved that courage isn't about being unafraid. It's about acting despite the fear.
It's about sitting at a desk, holding a phone with a trembling hand but a steady voice, and telling the most powerful government in the world: No. We're getting on the bus.
We look for heroes in movies. People with superpowers and capes.
But the real heroes are often quiet.
They're 22-year-old college students sitting in small offices, making impossible decisions.
They're young people writing their wills before a bus ride, not because they want to die, but because freedom is worth the risk.
They're the ones who sign the paper and get on the bus anyway.
In May 1961, a man from the White House called a college student and told her she would die if she didn't back down.
She told him they'd already signed their wills.
And then she sent them anyway.
Because some things are worth dying for.
And freedom—real freedom, the kind where you can sit anywhere, eat anywhere, live anywhere—is one of them.
The bus left Nashville on May 17, 1961.
And America was never the same...
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Discussing baby’s future
They are both doing the "I want" chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it
Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there's a little cat on you so you can't. Very frustrating situation there, can't imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn't, as the kids say, be me.
where is my beloved "its ween" pumpkin. i require its presence
Pretty sure this is it?
YES MY PRECIOUS
ITS FUCKING WEENNNNNNN
why is this post breaking containment. don’t do this to me
fuck being a pirate being a reporter in the one piece world must be the funniest fucking job ever. one day you're writing about how apple harvest in appleton village is bad this year and another day the headlines is local warlord and king of dressrosa actually runs the black market and makes his people into toys if they don't listen to him. new navy admiral is doing a live apology video for ruining the life of thousands of people. yeah apparently a teenager who wears flipflops and jorts saved them by sucker punching a WARLORD in the face. yeah he escaped. yeah the government wants to kill him because he ended slavery and saved a country. yeah this is not the first time he has done this. how the fuck is he still alive.
The anti-Cruella de Ville.
Jeff looks back at you suspiciously. Unbeknownst to you Jeff has the theory that you are an anteater. The spy vs spy-esque antics go on for 7 acts
Your boss eyes the two of you, he seems nervous while he slightly shakes in fear. The two of you have been doing nothing but suspecting each other the entire time. Yet you haven’t even suspected the fact that,
Your boss is the anteater.
This would be even funnier if the boss was secretly an ant.
This would be even
funnier if the boss was
secretly an ant.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
still fuckin hate that “bee-free honey” that’s made from……… apples. bitch who you think sexed up those apples
A farmer, by hand and with love and care
wild bees still sexin em up when he’s not looking
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