Don't Let Them Take Your Humanity

[quiteliterallyhotsauce]

Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

Reblog To Save Life

[tuffcrow-deactivated20190517]

Okay but like reblog to LITERALLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE

[missheis]

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please puHLEAAASSEEEEEEE BE SAFE

[unified-multiversal-theory]

They are called sundown towns and there are a LOT of them in the US.

https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntowns.php

This website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.

The homepage of Dr. James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, and Sundown Towns.

[glytchflower]

Reblog for the link

reblog for the link

REBLOG FOR THE LINK

[wordsaremylife]

Please stay safe

[tenmei-savvvv-deactivated202206]

REBLOG IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT BLOG YOU ARE THIS IS GONNA SAVE SOMEONE

[swigglesandwiggles]

I am poc too and i am scared for my LIFE when i go to the south. please stay safe.

[wofworld]

I am not poc but I know this could save someone’s life. Please reblog and spread the message.

[lyrslair]

My obligatory addition to this every time it crosses my dash, because I know the link is definitely missing ones in my own (northern) state and there are some in this thread not on the above link either - thread by LeVar Burton with a LOT of replies from people naming the sundown towns near them:

https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1300918792143339520

[inyuji]

Just in case someone is traveling, please be careful

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG

[amingethia]

On this weeks episode of why America is terrifying.

[pigeonwithabriefcase]

im not american but god this is terrifying

[secretscreamsofjoy]

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG THIS IS HORRIFYING

[agentwaffle]

This is fucking terrifying stay safe y'all :(

[3amclothesmonster]

Heres Arizona’s , by the way

[dumpsterforsale]

As someone that lives in Beaumont right next to Vidor DO NOT STOP HERE EITHER!!! Or literally ANY of the surrounding cities. You have a better chance in New Orleans and Lafayette than here. 

[itsgoosetime0-0]

Holy that’s terrifying

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

jesus fucking christ. stay safe, everyone.

[nonbinary-polls]

I can’t believe the city I live in is on that list, holy shit

[pal-the-professional-fool]

Holy shit I live by some of these places

[totally-cis-offical]

Holy shit

[drudg30n]

i am not near any of these places (not any that i can think if i live in a progressive state) but PLEASE be careful.

[mishipeshu-hellhound]

Be careful please ya’ll!

[dusk-the-fallen]

@rareblackside

[presbyterrsp4wnist]

REBLOG THIS

(Especially as a dark skinned myself.)

[spawn-news-deactivated20251126]

Reblogging to save a life, please try to make people aware of this as this place is actually disgusting and people have gotten hurt here. Please, I’m not looking for interactions for popularity, I’m looking for people to spread this and keep others safe. 🪽

[spawns-devoted-dovee]

please reblog this to save a life. … this is genuinely scary guys… looks left looks right…/srs

[evil-good-satan-offical]

dawg why tf do these places exist. reblog to legitimately have a chance of saving someones life

[laciffo-natas]

Stay safe, y'all.

[ziimeeii]

not a poc but this absolutely needs to be shared 🙁 its horrifying people have to go through this and i continue to hope that the victims of the rising numbers of missing poc people are found safely <3

[radioactiz]

just learned that a community really close to me is a sundown town. Fuck.

EVERYONE BE AWARE STAY SAFE CAUSE FOR SOME REASON PEOPLE ARE EVIL AS HELL

[theculturedmarxist]

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

[monitor-offist-deactivated20250]

fastest reblog in the west

[dduane]

Yeppers. :)

[the-original-sineater]

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

[them-faetale]

Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[greater-than-the-sword]

I don't know if any of you have noticed but there's literally integrated GenAI features in MS Paint now, which is sad and may prove a massive temptation to small children or anyone attempting to exercise their creativity in the most basic way. Fortunately you can remove these by editing your computer's group policy.

How to turn off AI tools like Cocreator and Generative Fill in Paint on Windows 11

On Windows 11, you can disable AI features in Paint, including Cocreator, Generative Fill, and Image Creator, using Group Policy or the Regi

[fadingtravelerunknown]

I'm not religious, nor am I spiritual. I'm pretty sure that when we shuffle out and all the lights are off, that's it.

However, I hope I'm wrong. Furthermore, I hope that so is everyone else. I hope that somewhere at the edge of time and space, a trillion trillion souls emerge in a place far beyond imagining from every corner of the physical universe. I hope that whatever afterlife may come is not just a rehash of our earthly desires or fears, but something beyond mortal experiences. I hope our life has no moral bearing on it. I hope we have a glimpse at the infinite possibilities of existence unbound by material.

[leighlew3]

ALL. OF. THIS.

[tieflingkisser]

[gayvampyr]

“no one is asking for open borders” i am actually

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[nudityandnerdery]

Sub-Radio, the band that did Stacy's Dad, coming out with another banger for Pride.

[anjukoneko]

[porterdavis]

[redstonedust]

my evil confession is i do still fuck with the format and songs of eurovision. i dont watch it anymore for obvious reasons and theres a lot to be said about whether any competition themed around representing countries can avoid falling into propaganda but. in my mind palace there is an ideal version of eurovision that is a) truly international b) encourages local music and languages c) doesnt fuck with fascism d) gives each performer the budget of the superbowl. and it would be glorious.

[validblogname]

this should not need to be said

but we live in wondrous times

[rhinco]

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

[shutoffthelights]

to me, there's an innate horror in tradwife content. it's always a pretty young girl in her late teens, early 20s. she's so young. she's basically a baby herself. maybe she's about your age. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

either way, she always has at least three kids, sometimes more. you don't want to ask when she had them, but she had to have them young because her youngest had to have been born when she was at least seventeen based on how time works. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she's smiling but there's something missing in her eyes - a spark that should be there. there's no passion, there's just the movements of the day. sometimes she'll give an interview where she says she barely feels like getting out of bed, and other times she says nothing. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

her world isn't real - it's neat kitchens and made from scratch cheese. she tells you how she doesn't need feminism because she likes this life, she likes wearing pretty dresses, don't you dare pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll up to an ex tradewife in her forties talking about how her husband divorced her and left her for a younger girl, leaving her destitute and penniless and twenty years out of the workforce. you scroll again to a pretty young girl saying she doesn't need a job, her husband will take care of her. you scroll again. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

another woman, this time in her early thirties, talking about how she just managed to leave her abusive husband and has nothing and he took the kids, warning and pleading young girls to not fall for tradwife lies. you scroll again to a young tradwife girl saying that would never happen to her, and you're just jealous of her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again. a teen girl tells you that she'll just track her period, she doesn't NEED a toxic chemical like birth control. you scroll again to an obgyn pleading with young girls to understand birth control is just hormonal, and that period tracking isn't effective. you just watch happen. you can't save her.

you scroll again, and it's jd vance saying how women belong in the homes and shouldn't be allowed to vote. that their husbands should decide how they should vote. you scroll again to a domestic abuse counselor telling women their vote is private and they can lie to their husbands. you just watch it happen. you can't save her.

she doesn't want you to save her. how dare you pity her. you just watch it happen. you can't save her. a horrible feeling washes over you. you just watch it happen.

[shutoffthelights]