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Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

wizzardhat

Chronic pain is like: I'm in pain. "Well, you really shouldn't let that stop you from doing things." Ok, I guess I'll keep doing this even though I'm in pain. "Well, if the pain was really that bad, then it would stop you from doing things, so it's probably not that bad." Actually, it got worse because I kept doing things. "Well, why would you overdo it and hurt yourself? You should know your limits." Ok, fine. I know my limit, and I have reached it. I need to rest. "Okay, but last week you did all this other stuff, so I know you CAN do more, so I think you're just making excuses?" Ok.

scorpiaok

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msilverstar

This! And AO3 allows original works as well as fanfiction, meta, essays, fanart, podfic and other fanworks, but not recommendation lists. It's an archive not a social network.

zoctopode

8 page comic about a mech and a mechanic and grief

hello precious followers. i made a comic about grief, or how i feel when i process grief at least. i put a robot in it. please read it.

if you wanna catch future comic pages i make as soon as i make em, heres a link to mmmmmy patreon! huge giant massive thank you to my patreon supporters you guys rule

workingclasshistory

On this day, 15 August 1973, the radical Dalit Panthers group organised a protest of 200 people through the streets of Mumbai. The group, formed the previous year, fought for the rights of Dalits (also known as "untouchables" in the Hindu caste system), and was inspired by the US Black Panther party. The demonstration coincided with the 26th anniversary of Indian independence, and was entitled "Kala Swatantrya Din" – Black Independence Day, and the group declared that they "claim a close relationship with this [US Black] struggle". More information and sources: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8653/dalit-panthers-protest

akihatohnoofficial

I couldn’t date a tsundere because she’d say something like “I don’t even like you! Hmph!” and then I would run directly in front of the nearest car

fluxion-fluent

mynowherenothing

Yessssss

wizardarchetypes

it's so crazy too bc i'll be like "this phrase/practice is being touted as ancient knowledge with a secret unbroken lineage, but it was quite literally made up in the 20th century. like we can trace it back to its very inception in like 1961." and someone will be like "that can't be true because my grandmother taught it to me." and i'm like yes your grandmother was 20 in 1961.

workingclasshistory

On this day, 9 August 1970, 150 people, including the British Black Panthers, marched on local police stations to demand an end to police raids on the Mangrove Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, London. Nine people were arrested and charged with conspiracy to incite a riot. Those arrested were Frank Crichlow, Darcus Howe, Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Barbara Beese, Rupert Boyce, Rhodan Gordon, Anthony Innis, Rothwell Kentish, and Godfrey Millett. All were later acquitted of conspiracy charges. Home Office documents later revealed the raids were part of a plot to destroy the emerging Black power movement in the UK. The events served as the subject of the 2020 Steve McQueen film, Mangrove. Learn more about Black working class organising in Britain in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-making-of-the-black-working-class-in-britain-ron-ramdin

sonderpoison

HERCULES 1997, dir. Ron Clements & John Musker

a-rainbow-girl-detective

Finally finished my Duke doll!

Look at him :D :D :D The bat on his chest is even reflective!

I did not finish him before starting my big move so I don't have any pics of him with the rest of the fam, but he's been flat-Stanley-ing it across the country with me, which is fun :D

He even got to meet a dinosaur! Or, part of one, at least.

the-bitter-ocean

While we are at it I need nonblack people to stop saying “YN” and “🥷🏾” just to get around saying antiblack racial slurs. Yes that includes that stupid shit where white people go “ooh but I said nega not-“ I don’t give a shit. You know damn well what you meant. Fuck off. It’s a insta block from me for anyone who does this shit and think it’s funny or whatever don’t pmo.

And before someone fucking says “erm are you referring to the fanfic / shipping term? How is your name offen-“ obviously no I’m not referring to that and anyone who is using it to mean “your name” types it with a slash -> (y/n) *NOT* “yn”. Like. I need nonblacks to stop randomly regurgitating aave they see or hear without knowing what it fucking means and misusing it to hell and back thinking it’s cool/ trendy/ or something worthy of mockery. It means young nigga. Stop fucking using it if you’re not black lol

afloweroutofstone

Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9

artofjoshuaclarke

The slow death of interesting things for the sake of unceasing cancerous growth and ephemeral content.

kirbyofthestars

> “mannish features”

> look inside

> literally just common physical traits among women of colour

kirbyofthestars

you can’t separate transmisogyny from racism. the radical feminism movement is so overwhelmingly white because their idea of what a woman is is so thoroughly steeped in white supremacy.