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So I wrote a thing about #AfricanMusic and #AnIdea published it on Medium. Itâs a look at the continents greatest stars (IMO) so donât come at me if I left out your favorite. Itâs more about big names of the past than contemporary AfroPop. #Africa #WorldMusic #MusicÂ
now THIS is an ally
Awe dude his sister died last year and she was gay.
And he had this huge mass wedding party to honor her.
And he called a bunch of celebrity chefs to make the food for it.
Wow this is⊠really cute?
Iâm⊠sympathizing with Guy Fieri?
(And he did 101 gay weddings because he was trying to compare the Attorney General against marriage equality to Cruella DeVille, like, 101 dalmations.)
THE TRUE UNPROBLEMATIC FAVE
Come to think of it I never actually found a single reason to dislike him. To my knowledge heâs just a goofball who likes food.
Okay, so as far as I can tell, the whole thing people kinda roll their eyes about is Guy Fiereiâs whole presentation. Heâs loud and heâs got the bleached hair and he kinda seems like the annoying frat bro chanting âShots!â at a party.Â
But.
Dudeâs biggest show on TV is one where he drives around and highlights tiny restaurants that make good food. (And they do- I found my favorite pizza place in town because it was on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.) And theyâre all little places, usually run by family or something, making food they love. So heâs doing an amazingly awesome thing for these small restaurants, driving a lot of business to them. I found this article thatâs talking about how places see a definite bump in sales, and they can even tell when a repeat airs, because theyâll still get emails and stuff.Â
And thereâs the fact that every time he goes out to film an episode, he invites a kid along from the Make-a-Wish foundation- actually, he invites their whole family, so no one feels left out. Apparently, that happens on all his shows, which is pretty amazing. Again, this is because of his sister- she was diagnosed with cancer as a kid, and beat it, though she died of melanoma a few years ago. So because he went through that as a kid, he does a lot to help out families who are dealing with that sort of thing. Itâs pretty awesome.
I admit it, Iâve made fun of him before, because he does have that whole attitude that kinda grates. But when you put that aside, heâs a dude whoâs enjoying himself, helping out a lot of people, and talking a lot about food he thinks is delicious. So good for him. Thereâs worse things in the world.
I have always and will always love guy. heâs such a big goofâŠwhatâs not to loveâŠ
Y'all Guy is wonderful. He got his start on Next Food Network Star and I remember that season very vividly. I saw it as a kid. He just wants people to have fun while they eat. Thatâs literally his only goal. There was a challenge where they had to make cupcakes for 5 year olds and everyone made these boring ass cupcakes like âOh theyâre decorated like the 4 seasons see its educationalâ and they were criminally dull. The only thing that was changed was the frosting. And Guy comes up and starts making all these crazily shaped sushi cupcakes. Like cutting them into goofy shapes, making them bite sized, modeling them after dragons and stuff, it was so cool and the kids were EXCITED. He gets what makes thing fun on a fundamental, basic level. Heâs not a douchebag frat boy. Heâs that crazy uncle you were always excited to see at family gatherings.
Go watch Guyâs Grocery Games. Its on Hulu. Heâs so goofy and fun and heâs just as excited for the winners as the winners themselves. The show really makes me happy to watch.
Yâall I joke on Guy Fieri but he geninely is an amazing motherfucker.
Iâve always loved his energy, tbh. This just makes me love him even more.
I love this guy...
How many more women are we going to allow to die like this?
Despite a great deal of evidence that connects the dots between these mass killers and radical misogynist groups, we still largely refer to the attackers as âlone wolvesâ â a mistake that ignores the preventable way these menâs fear and anger are deliberately cultivated and fed online.
Hereâs the term we should all use instead: misogynist terrorism. Until we grapple with the disdain for women that drives these mass murderers, and the way that the killers are increasingly radicalized on the internet, there will be no stopping future tragedies.
waitâŠ.are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldnât concede to western oil demandsâŠ.and how that coup was the reason for the shahâs return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorshipâŠ..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???
No. No we donât know about it.Â
Americans arenât told this shit.Â
The only thing weâre taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) itâs where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. Thatâs it. Maybe if youâre lucky youâll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isnât about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, itâs not important.
Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. Itâs not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shahâs return to power, and even then youâd be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: theyâre racist as shit) by the time they get there. And itâs almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.
The only reason I knew about it is because thereâs a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.
âAll the Shahâs Menâ by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.
I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people itâs insane.
Sheâs 60. She never heard of this.
As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.
He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods.  Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but thatâs a side tangent.
And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said âYeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasnât surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldnât they resent us for that?â
And she just looked floored.
âSoâŠâ She started, after a few minutes. âWhat do you think of Trump?â
âI hate him. Heâs a coward and heâs going to get good people killed.â He didnât even blink. â
She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.
âI research things.â I said. âGoogle is great.â He nodded enthusiastically.
And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, âI didnât know.â
She lived through it.
American schools donât teach you any of this sort of thing.
Leave Iran the fuck alone. Western, especially US meddling, is largely responsible for the entire mess in the Middle East. Plus, Iâd really like to visit Isfahan before I die.
Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.
We didnât survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.
This is what âwe survived Reagan, youâll survive Trumpâ looks like. No, we didnât.
This is what âwe survived Reagan, youâll survive Trumpâ looks like. No, we didnât.
It should not be forgotten that Republican elected officials stood by, looked the other way, as the AIDS holocaust claimed a generation of gay Americans.
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Listen up. There is literally an app that can help you avoid self harm and I donât know why we arenât talking about it.
Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.
Itâs also totally FREE.
once again, itâs called CALM HARM
Hey, Iâm a former psychiatric RN. I worked it all, but my specialty was adolescent psych. This, IMO, is a useful tool -as is the studioâs flagship app, âCalm.â Stoked to see these developed. When used in conjunction with talk therapy, role playing and group, this app can literally save lives and reduce hospitalizations.
This is exactly how our way if thinking becomes warped under neoliberalism:
Words matter. Daily deconstruction of carefully manufactured language is required to reveal the truth.
This is one of those things that I already knew was true, but seeing it so blatantly displayed makes me feel like like I am finding out about it for the first time.
CIA is getting lazy
âItâs just a script whats the problem lolâ the problem is that Fox, CNN, CBS, and all the other channels repped here, despite claiming to be different companies with different viewpoints, all had the exact same script, word for word, to push the exact same viewpoint that smaller, independent news outlets are Fake News and âA Threat To Our Democracy.â The fact that they have scripts isnât the problem. The problem is they all, each and every one, have the exact same script down to the letter and in some cases the fucking inflection, which basically reads âsmall news stations are untrustworthy and a Threat to your Way Of Life, only trust Us, We Are Verified.â
what the fuck what the fuck what thefuck what the fuck
This is most likely the work of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which John Oliver did a great job explaining.
https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc
@elphiegoescraycray is correct. These are indeed all Sinclair stations, where the anchors and producers are directed to air these pieces that are scripted by Sinclair itself. I would not be surprised to learn if there was a video modeling the delivery for these anchors as well.
@hello-kitty-senpai, to your point - these actually *are* âsmallâ affiliate stations owned by the same mega-company, Sinclair, which has affiliate stations of every stripe. Itâs not ABC, CBS or FOX Broadcasting thatâs saying,â Donât trust small market news.â Itâs ONE ownership group, who actually doesnât want you to trust the major networks.
Iâve been in broadcast news for more than 30 years, and just when I think it canât get worse⊠it does.
For those looking to pin this solely on Ajit Pai⊠it goes back much much farther than this. The door to the current media landscape was opened back in 1996 with the Federal Telecommunications Act signed by Bill Clinton. This is what allowed companies like Clear Channel to take over hundreds of local stations and homogenize them over the years. Many conservative commentators would not have become powerhouses without that and without the previous elimination of the Fairness Doctrine.
I also want to point out that Steve Franssen is an out and out white supremacist / white nationalist and Trump supporter, who is using this video to argue that the news media is all fake news, of course glossing over the fact that Trumpâs deal with Sinclar Broadcast Group is the cause of this in the first place. Please be careful what you spread. In the wake of the Russian fake news op here on tumblr and other social media sites, as well as the alt-right movement manipulating people to peddle their agendaâthink first about what you reblog, what you support.
I thought about this before reblogging, and I concur with the opinions expressed.
Tara Burns is keeping ongoing score of SESTA casualties, to us and civilians. Iâve been asked multiple times to explain why this is bad and it is fucking TRYINGâitâs like that article from last year, you know the one, the one with the headline âI donât know how to teach you that you should care about other peopleâ, except SESTA adds the dimension of âand your own fucking constitutional rightsâ as we see it begin to take hold with CL personals & expand to Skype.
I donât know how to teach critical thinking skillsâthat was never my interest, my interest is in harm reduction but teaching critical thinking & empathy has become CRUCIAL to harm reduction as the already-fragile laws we relied on & hoped to one day develop into acknowledged human rights, are gutted, leading to weakness in the currently acknowledged human rights, only no one but swers seems to notice or care.
A common argument I keep seeing is that tired old trope âthis is good for the children, FUCK liberal rich first world white women who see prostitution as an exercise of their freedomâ
But that fundamentally misunderstands & misrepresents what SW is to me & to millions of women, men, & children, white & brown, around the world. We live in a world where we have to work to survive unless we got exponentially lucky and were born into the 1%. Most of us live in places where min wageâif there is oneâis FAR outstripped by cost of living. I had a 40hr/week job with the govât making well over min wage at $15/hr, and I STILL couldnât afford rent and basic things like food or a phone. I was working 40 hours a week & squeezing clients into my weekends, too exhausted to do anything but sleep between my different jobs. Iâm FAR from the only one. SW isnât about empowerment except insofar as survival is powerful. Money is the closest thing we have to freedom under capitalism. SW offers people with very little social/educational/financial capital a way to survive & possibly even THRIVE. It is not possible to eradicate sex work without creating and enforcing a TRUE living wage, REALLY affordable housing, affordable healthcare, free childcare, &c. These things are not impossible! They arenât FICTION
Honestly lol how you feel about fet life is how I feel about all the review boards except I also rely on them so itâs this sick catch 22 where we need aspects of them to stay safe but structurally theyâre just mirrors of society at large which means they prioritize and protect abusers, rapists, and misogyny.
But thatâs not a problem SESTA can solve, itâs a problem that can only be solved with the destruction of rape culture, aka white supremacist patriarchy, and until then weâre dependent on these structures and itâs INFURIATING
âVirtually every progressive issue, from peace to environmental protection and the elimination of racism and sexism, traces its roots to the cultures and institutions of Empire. Seeking to resolve them in piecemeal fashion is an exercise in futility. Either we resolve them all by putting Empire behind us, or we accept Empire and resolve none of them.â
â David Korten (via red-quotes)
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Um....
âI wrote the code, asshat.â
GOFUNDME: SAVE OUR NAVAJO LANGUAGE
âI never learned my Navajo language and I was never inspired to learn it. Â As I got older, I realized how valuable our language is to the livelihood of our Navajo Nation. â -Dr. Shawna L. Begay
Our Navajo or DinĂ© language is in danger of becoming extinct.  Help us create and develop the first Navajo-English educational media TV puppet show, âDinĂ© BĂ NĂĄâĂĄlkid Timeâ which means âThe Navajo Movie Time.â  It will inspire and teach our youth basic language skills using media as a technology tool. Parents, grandparents, children and grandkids can learn to speak Navajo  fluently together within their own homes. Long-time friends and educators, Dr. Shawna L. Begay and Charmaine Jackson have teamed up to create this new TV pilot for an all-ages audience or for anyone who wants to learn the Navajo language.  With your support, itâll be the first educational Navajo and English puppet show that will teach and preserve the Navajo language and culture through digital media.
After several years of extensive research on the Navajo Nation, Dr. Begay recently completed her PhD from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with her doctorate thesis, âDeveloping A Navajo Media Guide: A Community Perspective.â As project director, she quickly realized she was a pioneer on the topic.
âWhen I decided what topic to study I realized there existed very little research in Indigenous educational media, especially with our Navajo people,â stated Dr. Begay.  âAs Navajo people, we have our own learning objectives and Navajo way of knowing is completely different for Euro-Western schooling.  I decided that I had to research and develop our own curriculum guide that is meant to teach Navajo through media.â Dr. Begay and Jackson, co-writers of the show, developed the first 3-puppet characters and plan for many more. The pilot features Nanabah-a young Navajo girl, GĂĄh (Rabbit) and DlÇ«ÌÇ«Ì (Prairie Dog) who will go on endless adventures learning about language, gardening, the environment and the importance of family values. Nanabah is fluent in Navajo and likes to teach children about life on the reservation with her animal friends and special guests.  Children who want to learn Navajo will also be an important part of the show by interacting with Nanabah, her friends and storyline. Dr. Begayâs research concluded there exists very little research in the area of Indigenous educational media. Currently media is a very powerful tool that can be used to teach. She is cognizant of the digital age we live in and the opportunities to utilize media to revitalize the Navajo language.  âStar Wars and Finding Nemo,â dubbed in Navajo, was a great place to start and it has garnered national exposure of our language. However, we need a show based on our own Navajo learning principals our ancestors set out for us to learn and live by. I donât think a non-Navajo, non-Native or non-Indigenous person can do that for us, nor should they.  We, as Navajo, need to produce this show ourselves, if we are to be truly sovereign,â added Dr. Begay. Both educators, Dr. Begay and Jackson, of Naalkid Productions have been talking about this educational language project for about the past four years and still have a long way to go to finance their dream. âWith the support of Navajo TV Anchor Colton Shone, our team of Navajo artists, filmmakers, family and friends, this video pilot is a huge step forward,â said Jackson.  âOur journey has just begun and the big next step is finding financial support to create a whole new puppet TV series.â We aim to raise $50,000 with this project which will allow us to continue with pre-production and production aspects of making this digital media project become a reality.  We need your help to save our language by teaching Navajo to our future generations. Pre-Production: -Script writing for the pilot show -Puppet Development/Creation -Casting for puppeteers and other talent that will be on screen -Hiring of all key cast and crew Production: -Locations and permits -Rental of Studio space -Equipment: cameras, sound, lights, etc. -Cast and Crew budget
Despite all the notes on this post, theyâre still at $13,155 of their $50,000 goal.Â
Please keeping sharing and donate if you can!Â
Responding to an officerâs threats to arrest you. Transcribe and share yall
Picked it up at the peopleâs response team training iâm at rn
Speak up for your rights.
Is it possible that biblical end-of-times myths are really accurate metaphors for how long a parasitic species like humans can survive before killing their host? Just dawned on me, oh shit.
