Providence Lyeocia

This is not a blog. This is me goofing around on the internet. : D

[beardedchrisevans]

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[spacemakeouts]

Hecate: Uh-oh, somebody’s in love Hades:  Yea right, I just think she’s cool. It’s not like I lay awake at night thinking about her…

Hades: Uh-oh

[persephonehades0615]

Poseidon: So did you kiss her?

Hades: No, the moment wasn’t right.

Hades: Look, Persephone could be my future wife I want our first kiss to be amazing.

Zeus: Aw Hades that’s so sweet. You chickened out like a little bitch.

[bimbocracy]

you ever notice how when a dude says “i did a lot of thinking and” you’re about to hear something pathetically obvious that you’ve known for years/your whole life

[bimbocracy]

whenever a man says “i’ve been doing a lot of thinking” all i hear is how unusual it is for him to think. lmfao. rare enough to merit a mention, apparently

[loynosca]

Don’t know if #feathursday gets more stunning than this beautiful peacock found in “Dictionnaire D’Histoire Naturelle” (Paris, 1842).

[birthdaypigeon]

terfs who think the mainstream public is pro trans and being anti trans is radical are on the same level as conservatives who think “the establishment” is left wing and being conservative is the new punk

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries

Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.

Customers will receive refunds.

This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.

When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.

People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

[greenycrimson]

If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.

Cailbre d/l:

https://calibre-ebook.com/download

How to use cailbre to remove DRM:

http://www.geoffstratton.com/remove-drm-amazon-kindle-books

[dee-the-red-witch]

Seconding calibre as a brilliant tool for ebook management in general. 

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“Fuck you terrorist” spray painted on Iranian refugee’s home. Now he plans to leave the US

Hasel Afshar, 33, isn’t Muslim. He’s Baha'i, but that didn’t matter to the people that vandalized his home this week.

After taking a three-day vacation, Afshar — an Iranian refugee — returned to his home in Troutdale, Oregon, to find it vandalized with racist epithets and bullets in the shape of a cross. “Terrorist,” “Muslim” and “Get out of America” were spray painted in red all over the walls in his home.  A threatening letter also accompanied the graffiti.

“If I see you here next month, I will shoot you and burn your house,” the note read, according to Outlook, a local newspaper in Oregon.

In 2010, Afshar fled religious persecution in Iran. But after living in the U.S. for about seven years, he’s once again enduring religious and racial persecution. Read more. (3/31/17, 12:01 PM)

[unshaped-amigone]

I really don’t understand how the people who BROKE INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S HOME AND DESTROYED IT can still claim that the person from another country is one they have to be afraid of. 

[xenosagaepisodeone]

having a permanent full time job is you thinking to yourself “so this is really the rest of my life huh” as you come home every single day before using your 4 hours of recreational activity to do nothing and then going to bed

[rynekat]

Remember that time Daleks and Cybermen had sass-off?

[carryonmywaywardstirrup]

THIS IS LITERALLY MY FAVE SCENE FROM DOCTOR WHO EVER I AM NOT EVEN JOKING I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE MADE A POST OF IT I THINK ABOUT THIS MORE OFTEN THAN IS NORMAL UGH IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

[larissafae]

No one sasses better than the Daleks and Cybermen. No one.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I loved this ridiculous moment so much okay

ANGRY CYBORG SASS OFF

[whatisyourlefteyebrowdoingdavid]

This was my favourite bit

[endangered-justice-seeker]

She still felt it, even if she is strong enough to not react. My heart goes out to her for having to endure it.

[bando--grand-scamyon]

I’m so tired of black women being congratulated on how much shit we can take before we snap

[alwaysbewoke]

1000 REBLOGS!!!!

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

These difficult conversations are more important than ever. Here’s how to overcome the roadblocks.

follow @the-movemnt

[foremothersfootsteps]

Yes to all and to add one, tone policing. If they can’t think of any other way to dismiss what you are saying, they will critique the way in which you said it. No matter how you said it, they will say you are angry or aggressive. 

[writingwithcolor]

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5 Roadblocks people use to shut down difficult conversations about race.

Derailment

“What about Black-on-Black crime?”

“Are Black lives not worth protecting?”

Minimization

“I don’t think they meant it that way when they said it.”

Remind them of intention vs. impact.

Reduction

“It’s not like Black people are the only people dying.”

“No, they aren’t, but Black people are disproportionately dying in this country and all over the world. Can we at least talk about that?”

Tokenism

“My boyfriend is Black.”

Remind them: Having a Black boyfriend doesn’t mean that you’re not racist and in fact the idea that you wouldn’t be racist because you have a Black boyfriend is in fact racist.

Hurt

“I feel really unsafe having this conversation right now.”

“Are you feeling unsafe or are you feeling uncomfortable.”

[starsberrisnunicorns]

“A Thread of Tips” by Shelby

• #16 is missing but to find out more tips, follow her on twitter; be sure to thank her! 😁

disclaimer: check sites and tips before using at your own discretion.

[outofcontextdnd]

“Which one of these corpses looks to be the most knowledgeable about the horrific flesh monsters that ate them?”

[andwhimsicality-deactivated2023]

White women feminists (even those who try to position themselves as different - “radical” “marxist” “materialist” etc) almost always fail to interrogate their own whiteness, and how their lives and social positioning are the product of empire and colonialism. When confronted with this reality, and when women of colour and/or nonwestern women demand that they recognise that their whiteness does not make them objective or neutral, but is actually based on our subjugation, they almost always revert to the same positions.

They either displey performative innocence and confusion (“apparently I’m not supposed to talk about this because I’m white???? I don’t understand. Explain to me why this behaviour is racist!!”) and then proceeding to disregard any criticism of their behaviour and paint woc as aggressors.

Or they resort to calling the woc misogynists (or lesbophobes, biphobes, ableists etc depending what circle you are in, despite the fact that the woc in question often face those oppressions also) for any disagreement or being rightfully upset about a racist interaction with them.

White radical women’s ability to manipulate the current discourse to use oppression that they don’t face in their feminist arguments, while failing to recognise their own social position and their own oppressor status is disgusting . To many woc they are no different to the white liberals, white conservatives, and white men whose politics they profess to object to. White women’s inability to tackle their own whiteness is one of the biggest issues preventing global feminist movements. So to all of you who are supposedly ‘antiracist’ and want to uplift the voices of marginalised women, uplift this and actually engage with the criticisms presented by us.

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3 Ways Bollywood Sets Up a Sexuality Paradox for South Asian Women

There's a problem with how women's sexuality is portrayed in Bollywood films. So this author's pointing out why it matters for South Asian women, and what needs to change.