*insightful phrase*

[speremint]

I made wyll I’m gonna cry he’s so cute 🥹

[spring-ephemeral]

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

[houseofpurplestars]

If any of you ever feel like what you're doing for Palestine isn't helping anything, I'll tell you right now it's helping me. I know it is fortifying all of us who have been in this fight for years to see so many people willing to speak up. It has never been like this before.

The tide has already turned. The fact that #free palestine will have new posts everyday, that helps me. It helps my mental health knowing that Palestinians are less alone now than ever.

Yesterday I read some verses from the Quran talking about how "the blame" is not with those who wish to help but cannot, but with those who CAN help and do not.

Truly I do not care if all you do for Palestine is post in that #free palestine everyday, that is still more than many people with the means to do even more would do.

We see you. We see you standing in solidarity with us and with Palestinians. We love you. Thank you.

[justletmeon12]

I have to keep reminding myself that the point of collective action is that it's collective.

It's terrifying and demoralizing that nothing thus far has stopped or more than briefly paused the genocide.

But that's not a reason to stop trying.

If you can protest in person, do that.

If you can donate, do that.

If you can write your officials, do that.

If you can click once a day, do it here: https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/

And if all you can do is share, do that.

[worst-roommates-ever]

i think americans should have to put a banner above their post that says U.S. CENTRIC ADVICE/INFORMATION. i think political posts should clarify that they are giving protest/societal/class information relevant only to the USA i think i would like to stop getting halfway through a post with really good information and then realising it is not widespread advice and is only applicable in the united states of america

[worst-roommates-ever]

for the love of GOD can we PLEASE stop treating us-centric advice as applicable to the whole entire world. Please. beyond anything else, i do not think you guys understand how difficult it makes it for young people to interact with and learn information relevant to them.

at a certain point, treating us-american advice as universally applicable borders on misinformation. i am not saying that it is done maliciously, but it is dangerous at worst. i do not want younger people going around assuming that certain laws do/do not apply to them and getting in trouble because of it. i worry about what 'fundamental/constitutional/labour rights' are only legally defensible in the USA. i worry about kids who do not know yet to wonder where the advice is for, and take it as fact because a post that reads "EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS" begins with "EVERYONE".

[worst-roommates-ever]

okay yes all the tags are very very good points but i would like to point out the main reason i made this post, which is that

if you are non-american then it can be dangerous to hold beliefs about your rights that are only applicable in the US.

i am australian and i have seen young australians have completely us-american perceptions on the rights they hold (or do not hold) in regards to protest, police officers, self-defense, medical care, higher education, debt, and legal proceedings. i am not talking about "boooo americans" i am talking about the genuine danger it might present to have us-centric assumptions in high-stakes situations

(please do not chalk this up to 'if you don't do research then you are stupid'. i made this post with young people in mind. that being said i am willing to bet it also applies to others, ie those who are newer to non-local internet, older folks, or those escaping high-control environments.)

[keltoid]

[pianta]

the love message 💘

my full piece for @novaandmali‘s ‘classics… but make it gay’ 3!

[strawberryscentedscent]

unfortunately im not as original as hub (knewkit) so i js larped the whole outfit

bre's birthday in three days! happy early bday!!!

[creatingblackcharacters]

It's just... I think this year's experiences for me have been a culmination of "so when CAN we talk about antiblackness?" Because every time you bring it up, it's treated as a conspiracy- because surely no one could Genuinely Care about something so Trivial when there are More Important Things at Stake!

And instead of just outright saying "we don't wanna hear you talk about it at all because we don't care/we benefit" (because that wouldn't fit the Good Person Image) it's always treated as bad timing or bad expression.

So when is the time. When will be a good time to talk about the increasingly overt and growing presence of the antiblackness in the room. Or is the enforced policing of Black voices the preferred state of things here, to maintain nonblack comfort at all costs. Bc I wish y'all would just say that instead of all this other shenaniganery.

[morganitism]

Okay but genuinely even with my blog being reinstated I don't forgive staff and I don't want to stop talking about how antiblack and transmisogynistic they have been to me. They flagged my specific reblog of a post as mature, it's literally just Black people. This has happened multiple times but this is the most glaring instance of it. They marked @regresstrogen (my other blog) as mature; as soon as I started reblogging pictures of Black people there too. I have been outright called slurs and threatened countless times on this blog alone (I have used this account for less than a year) and every time it has taken them at VERY least 3–4 months to delete the post (or reply). Not even the blog, the post. And that's if they respond at all, which they usually don't. I have to type 200+ characters on a report to explain why calling me the N slur is bad only to not get a fucking response 80% of the time. Come wait with me on the latest instance here. 3–4 months?? They can nuke a trans or Black woman 10+ times in a fraction of that time.

Speaking of nukes, I received a termination email for "explicit content" after I had already deactivated this blog. It's not as bad as a regular nuke because I at least got to get my blog back with the new restoration feature, but the absurdity of it all just makes me feel so jaded. The fact that that's even possible and that they did it to a Black tgirl in an already vulnerable place (hence why she deactivated to begin with). They literally beat on my corpse because they wanted to make sure I know how much they hate me. I guess all those Black people I reblogged really got on their nerves. Literally tested a picture of my hand in my drafts. Got flagged as explicit immediately. I should be allowed to kill people with my sexually explicit bare hands.

[kaylmao]

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

[kianamaiart]

sun moon stars

[lets-steal-an-archive]

ALT

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Instructional and Educational VHS Tapes : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

[berlynn-wohl]

me browsing this folder: omg omG I don’t know which one I’m more excited to watch, this Frontline episode from 1992 or this NOVA episode from 1984!!!

the NSA agent who can hear everything through my phone:

[digital-magus]

Yes… YES! fucking hell I LOVE this! Give them all to me!!

[roach-works]

IMMEDIATELY hit gold, thank you OP, i am respectfully stripping for you (1987)

[roach-works]

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

[arsonlarceny]

...

All Of The Above

None Of The Above (Congrats)

Remaining time: 2 days 12 hours

[vamptits]

all public transport should be free unconditionally and I'm TIREDDD of pretending this is a radical idea

[mlembug]

there is a double standard where public transport is expected to bring profit, but roads and highways are treated as a common good and are built and maintained (e.g. patching holes) through taxes

fuck that

[gothhabiba]

in response to people saying things like "men aren't allowed to cry in public, unlike women" other people will then say things like "women are penalized, not rewarded, for public displays of emotion—the fact that women are presumed to be overly emotional & irrational is misogyny, not a privilege"

which is often true but like, it's contextual innit. lest we discount the phenomenon of White Woman Tears

[gothhabiba]

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

[cybervalkyrie]

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[jay-rayart]

Boys deserve to be boys. Not tiny men. For the last day of the FLY campaign I wanted to touch on a topic near and dear to the heart of the story. An innocence we must protect. It’s your last chance to back FLY on Kickstarter! Don’t run, don’t walk, fly! Help us keep soaring. 🪽❤️💫

FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.