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amber-averlong

🎶And it's loud to be an American

Where the sky lights up 'til three.

And I won't forget the creepy guy,

Who sold that shit to me.

And I'll light the sky UP, next to you,

Scare the dogs and HOA.

'Cause there ain't no one can stop me now

It's In-de-pen-dence day🎶

Reblog from an old tweet of mine. I should probably just reblog this every year.

destinyrush

A hero without a cape

nyshadidntbreakit

Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.

She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.

So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.

She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.

queenie-in-the-beanie

[Image Description: a twitter post from user Al Jazeera English @ AJEnglish that reads “This woman has broken up 850 child marriages and banned sexual initiation camps in Malawi”

Below the text is a picture of Theresa Kachindamoto. She is a dark skinned woman with short hair. She is outside and smiling. End ID]

victusinveritas

Tarot by Leonora Carrington.

lurker-no-more

Gonna be singing this (and this) all night.

sugarplumfuckwit

If Levar Burton is hitting someone that person needs to be hit and I will hold his coat

padnick

That is the premise of an entire Leverage episode

mysharona1987

arielsojourner

USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Spread the word.

kasplode

Organised by People’s Union, read more here:

When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.

dvasva

'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.

librarychair

I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.

catchymemes

candyradium

This was the wildest fucking shit to read in class i was trying do hard not to make expressions

gaithe-guy

This right here is it’s own fucking novel that you can wrap up in aluminum foil, tape it to the underside of a hood of a car, and sell it for 10k. Holy shit this was a ride!

olessan

"... 🕺... WHAT??" - Matthew Mercer, 2025

hellothisisangle

Link to origin girls

Link to origin boys

mysharona1987

But Feathers McGraw deserved the Best Supporting Actor award.

Sorry to Kieran Culkin, who will meet a sad end by Penguin soon.

wilwheaton

thebibliosphere

I think I just aged about a bajillion years. I just had to explain a) why a landline phone needed to be plugged into the wall and b) what a switch hook is (the thing under the phone cradle that depresses when you put the handset back on its base, ending the call) and the person I was explaining it to was so enamored like golly gee, you sure do know a lot about 20th century technology.

*shakes fist playfully but gently lest my dusty arm fall off* whipper snappers

thebibliosphere

Also, not to compound the vampire rumors, but telephones are from the 19th century.

thebibliosphere

“Back in my day we used to own the media we liked.”

Okay, Grandma Joy.

“We kept them on spools of special tape that could store magnetic patterns that machines called videocassette recorders could read, creating moving pictures and sound on the screen, but only if you turned the tv to a special channel.”

(Talking aside to someone else) Has she had her meds today?

“If you wanted to watch your show again, you had to rewind the tape by holding down the button, but if you had a fancy machine it would do it for you as soon as it reached the end…”

Uhu…

“We could even record live television with them! And no one could stop us!”

Okay, someone’s over excited. Let’s get you back to bed…

dreamilypurpleoutcast

animentality

iheartvelma

It’s Calvinism.

I keep telling people this, but SO much of American culture and particularly the ‘Protestant work ethic’ is derived from Calvin’s view that everything in life is predestined by God - that winners and losers are already chosen.

Those Puritan pilgrims who came here seeking ‘religious liberty?’ Hardcore Calvinists who were so obnoxious they were kicked out of their home countries.

And they use this belief to excuse the worst behaviors in American history: Racism, colonialism, genocide, segregation, patriarchy, prejudice against minorities, slavery, economic disparity, low wages, no public healthcare, systems that punish the poor and disabled while rewarding the already wealthy; attempts to impose theocracy and infiltrate democratic institutions to wreck them from within; the constant stream of made-up moral panics; the parochialism and fear of outsiders.

The belief, common among many conservatives, that humans are inherently evil, is why they distrust anything from government that advances the common good and instead praise church-based charity.

I could go on, but just read this.