Greer's Archive (aka Mankoi)

This blog started as a way for me to save things I liked on Tumblr so I could find them later. To my horror, it appears to have turned into an actual blog. I am so sorry. Non-binary transfem, or just a trans woman? Place your bets before I start HRT and see how it feels. Any pronouns, but she/her prefered at this point. 30s. PhD. I know it's not the done thing to brag about your PhD. But it was one of the worst decisions in my life and may have permanently fucked my mental health. So I'm gonna take what good I can out of it and brag about my PhD.

[mariacallous]

[thecactifindahome]

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

this is what happens when they cut "When Love is Gone" from the Muppet Christmas Carol smh

[theotherwesley]

I love baby foxes. Nothing has ever had less of an idea.

buffering

[theotherwesley]

feather obtained, purpose unclear

leaf obtained, purpose unclear

ground:

unclear

sibling obtained, purpose: biting

[funny-history]

[arroz-con-yolo]

There is NO reason this should be so fucking funny

[wagnetic]

I’ve seen this before but I still like it so much that I held my phone in front of my dog so she could see it.

[followthebluebell]

I was worried when he didn't rush out to greet me immediately but it was just because he was cozy.

[primelinchen-the-second]

[ID: a cat on a pillow, under the pillow case snuggled in with their head and one arm sticking out. /End ID]

[neurotoxinsonline]

[animentality]

[achievement-hunter]

[textandimageenjoyer]

[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]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[creatingblackcharacters]

On that anon asking about Black music artists and bands I have a few reccommendations!

- O. Children: really amazing goth music, Black lead singer, they aren’t making music anymore but what they’ve put out is amazing

- Overthrust: a death metal band from Botswana (Botswana has a real cool metal and rock culture, just real fun to look into outside of listening to it)

- Jhariah: an amazing Black alternative artist, I love all of their music, I grew up listening to them to be honest

- Sepultura: Brazilian heavy metal band, one of the main singers is Black, their music is epic

- Filth: another amazing metal band, I believe from somewhere in America, one of the singers is Black, and they’ve got a real cool album called “Southern Hostility”

- Loathe: yet another metal band, but they’re actually metalcore band I’m pretty sure, one of the main singers is Black and their music is less headbangy and more smooth and sad

- Zulu: an all Black metal band, their music very cool, I personally like their song “Protest Song ‘68”

- Move BHC: really epic metal, main singer is Black and their music is very political (in a good way) it really helps when the world feels like it sucks to put them on and just feel the anger

- Living Colour: of course! We have to include them, my favorite band of all time, I got to see them live recently actually :D their music is funk metal- just so amazing

- Public Enemy: for people who aren’t as into metal but still are into political and well worded music, their music is great (I’m sure everyone knows since they’re so popular lol but I felt like I needed to include them)

- Mon Rovia: really great folk music that still has a political undertone, I especially like his song “Heavyfoot” it addresses a lot of current issues in a tactful and beautiful way

- This isn’t a specific artist but “Dinner Party: Dessert” is an amazing album that has so many talented Black artists on it, my favorite song is “From My Heart and My Soul”

- Also not a specific artist but the whole Sinners album (both theatrical soundtrack and score)

- Also not an artist but the “Summer of Soul” documentary’s album, just chefs kiss

- Meshell Ndegeochello: AMAZING MUSIC, my favorite album is “The Omnichord Real Book”

- Burna Boy: need I say more? I will, his music is absolutely beautiful and I’d recommend it to anyone who asked

- 24-7 Spyz: funky heavy metal, their music is amazing, I so recommend!!!

- Tyler, the Creator: just an amazing artist! Recommend his music lots!!!!

- Stevie Wonder: obviously! He got so popular for a reason! His music is amazing

- Vieux Farka Touré: Amazing music, my favorite song of his is “Diaraby Magni”

- Soul Glo: an all Black hardcore band from Philadelphia!! My favorite song of theirs is “Gold Chain Punk”

Ok so I may have written way too much I apologize

Hope this helps anyone trying to diversify their music tastes, ESPECIALLY metal fans, there are always Black people in all music forms, stop saying “oh there’s no Black people in metal” YES there is!!! And their music is amazing!

Thank you for the recs!

[halberdierminister]

i don't care if monday's ants

tuesday wednesday eating plants

thursday has a nice thorax

it's friday i'm a bug

[victusinveritas]

God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?

[lumiklovstad]

I can, and arguably I must.

[babystarbeam]

I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!

[stevesaint-eve]

Oooh, they introduced Scotland and Haiti to tailgating in Foxboro!! You just TRY and stop a New England sports fan from tailgating at Gillette!!

Kilts at Red Sox games!! While they did not understand the game of baseball they had a whale of a time anyway and did soccer chants the whole time! 🤭

[dovvvvv]

[rolodextra]

tag that make me frantically dig my earbuds out of my pocket in this public restroom

[greersarchive]

Fox Sports continuing its excellent reporting by getting the number of red cards in this year's world cup wrong, and then mixing up Switzerland for Canada. Fantastic work, as always.

[lindleland]

there is so much to unpack in this clip

[lindleland]

[justcatposts]

this is too cute

[stormzytrooper-deactivated20211]

@princesssakurasylveon

[redzombie]

oh no

[historical-nonfiction]

Bugs Bunny accidentally transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody got a joke where he sarcastically compared Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod, a mighty hunter.

[omegajako]

Etymology is ridiculous and terrifying sometimes

[garbage-empress]

Bugs Bunny is more powerful than God

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

He also solidified the idea of rabbits loving carrots when carrots actually carry very little nutritional value for rabbits. The funniest part of that is that the original joke was a reference to a Clark Gable film where Gable munches on a carrot, it was never meant to imply that rabbits love carrots. The Clark Gable reference would’ve been obvious to audiences in the 40s but it has been pretty much lost to time.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Bugs Bunny has too much power and should be feared.

[ladylilithprime]

He’s also officially a retired United States Marine Corps Master Sergeant (E8) and World War II veteran. Chew on that, doc.

[depsidase]