captioning posts

closed captioning and other considerations provided by: me, a white butch lesbian

[captioningposts]

hello :) this is a side-blog dedicated to captioning posts, as the name implies! just a few things i wanted to say:

bigotry of any kind isn't tolerated. i do my best to check out the op of anything i reblog, but please tell me if i miss something

i try to only caption posts that don't already have a description in the notes, but tumblr will hide old replies sometimes, so my apologies if i make any double descriptions

if i ever make a typo, use formatting that isn't easily processed by screen readers, or source something incorrectly, let me know

if there's any post you'd like for me to caption, feel free to tag me in it, or send a link over anon if you'd prefer to stay anonymous

that's about all i've got <3 hope i'm able to help some of y'all out!

[afronerdism]

As conversations about the possibilities of abolition continue to proliferate — and as they are at the same time co-opted and distorted by…

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[image id: excerpt from the {article} "is it really "carceral logic"?" by lee shevek that reads:

"one problem with this formulation is that it shows a deep misunderstanding of both the breadth, depth, and purpose of the carceral system. prisons are not systems of punishment. punishment certainly plays a star role, and it remains beneficial to examine the ways many often conflate justice with punishment, but ultimately the carceral system is about control. the carceral system does not simply dole out punishment: it takes away the agency of the people it targets. it rips them from their context and totally closes off any possibility for the expression of personal agency and accountability. it is a system of total surveillance, of excess and constant brutality, and the populations most targeted by it are also (not at all coincidentally) disproportionately the people the state most wants to exert control over. to reduce it to simply a mechanism of punishment is to concede to the state that the reason they lock people up is as they say it is: only for as a punishment of crime, rather than as a mechanism of social control and the continuation of white supremacy. additionally, to be so crudely reductive, to draw equivalencies between survivors asking for accountability to harm done to them and a torturous carceral system, is to do a great disservice to survivors and the incarcerated people who have suffered or are still suffering the consequences of true carceral logic."

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[alwaystoday]

Source

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[image id: tweet posted on february 4, 2022 by @/coribush that reads:

"2020: breonna taylor was murdered by police during a no-knock warrant.

2022: amir locke was murdered by police during a no-knock warrant.

in the two years in between? the senate didn't even bring the bill to ban no-knock warrants to a vote.

the whole system is guilty."

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[loszeged]

Petition to hold the cops accountable

Sign the Petition

Arrest the cops that murdered Amir Locke

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[image id: thread of three tweets posted on february 4, 2022 by @/nomedabarbarian that read:

"a law-abiding gun owner is awoken in the middle of the night by men shouting and breaking into the room in which he's sleeping.

nine seconds after the first order is shouted at this sleeping man, he's shot dead.

by cops who had a warrant for someone else.

#amirlocke

cops who had already entered two other apartments, by accident, also in the middle of the night, trying to serve this warrant.

who had received the key fobs to do so likely from the landlord.

and when they finally released the footage, they released it slowed down.

#amirlocke

the cop who shot him is a murderer.

the cops with him are accessories.

the people who trained them are accessories.

the chief who sent them on this raid is an accessory, and an accessory again after the fact for covering it up."

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[gracekelli-archive]

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[image id: tweet posted on january 22, 2022 by @/glamdemon2004 that reads:

"when women describe how male partners have treated them and people go "are the straights okay??" ... ... ...oooh that gets me feeling **********"

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[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

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[image id: tweet posted on january 30, 2022 by @/aliceola_ that reads:

"'it's not all men'

we have heard. thank you so much for your powerful contribution to the conversation"

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[ladytron]

Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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[image id: excerpt of the book "água viva" by clarice lispector, translated from spanish, that reads:

"to remake myself and remake you i return to my state of garden and shadow, cool reality, i barely exist and if i exist it's with delicate caution. around the shadow is a heat of abundant sweat. i'm alive. but i feel that i have yet to reach my limits, border with what? without borders, the adventure of dangerous freedom. but i take risks, i live taking risks. i'm full of acacias swaying yellow, and i who have barely started my journey, i start it with a sense of tragedy, guessing toward which lost ocean my steps of life are leading. and madly i take control of the recesses of myself, my ravings suffocate me with so much beauty. i am before, i am almost, i am never. and all of this i won when i stopped loving you."

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[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[captioningposts]

[image id: tweet posted on january 28, 2022 by @/coltondoe that reads:

"when i say "be safe" i say that shit from the bottom of my heart"

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[unbotheredmuse]

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[image id: tweet posted on october 24, 2019 by @/goodbeanalt that reads:

"oh you like me? name 3 things you like about me please i've been feeling very insecure recently"

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[emil]

boss is presently trying to figure out an app

[emil]

this would be objectively the funniest way to find out you got fired though

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[image id: phone notification from the app "sling" that reads:

"148 of your shifts were cancelled"

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[langleavpoetry]

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[image id: the poem "an insomniac's dream" by lang leav that reads:

"i missed you today. between waking and sleeping, i thought of you.

we met somewhere inside an insomniac's dream, in a world so precarious—it could crumble at any given time, folding at the slightest touch.

i wish i could have a day with you, where the sun never went past noon. or a night, where the stars could go on forming their constellations; until the sky was filled with stories of how i loved you.

you told me once that you had to bend time and space to be at my side. but it would only be for a moment, you had said.

how long? i asked.

but it was already over, long before the answer could leave your lips."

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[unbotheredmuse]

[captioningposts]

[image id: tweet posted on december 20, 2021 by @/wtfjummy that reads:

"online shopping for 3 hours and then closing all the tabs and not buying anything is one of my favorite hobbies"

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[megairea]

Vicente Aleixandre, from Sound of the War; A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems, 1979

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[image id: excerpt from the poem "sound of the war" by vicente aleixandre, translated from spanish, that reads:

"i'm lying down and all i can see is the stars

the hole in my chest breathes

like a stupid mistake."

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[nflstreet]

lol

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[image id: tweet posted on january 20, 2022 by @/hollanderadam that reads:

"there's actually a major problem with the new twitter pfp feature.

it appears to work for any nft in your collection. not just verified collections.

that means someone can just right-click-save any nft, mint it, and then use it as their pfp 😥

you were so close twitter. why 😭"

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[catchymemes]

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[image id: tweet posted on july 6, 2021 by @/exilegrimm that reads:

"what's the dumbest beliefs you had as a child?

when i was 4-5 i swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. when my parents asked me to prove it to them, i planted a pile of bird seeds.

the next day there were loads of birds where i planted the seeds, showing i was right."

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[afronerdism]

Literally useless

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[image id: tweet posted on january 19, 2022 by @/rianaelyse that reads:

"while i am grateful for the tests, i was unaware that it was 4 per household. as a family researcher, this racially disproportionate policy will lead household dense families (often of color) to make tough + risky decisions other won't, especially as essential workers."

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[aidashakur]

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[image id: tweet posted on january 8, 2022 by @/kaylarwill that reads:

"i actually feel very good about getting older now. i look better, i'm wiser, making more money, & happier than ever. we live baby."

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