Local Human Disaster™

Sammi, they/them, hella queer. Made a playlist called “absolutely batshit feral” once. Transphobes and Nazis can fuck right off to hell please and thank you.

[houston-i-have-problems]

hey, sorry about the post spam, i got hacked :/ i took the posts down and changed my password so it should be ok but thank you to everyone who let me know, i appreciate it

[hogtown-salt]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[hotgirlsakura]

do you remember when middle school started and all the white kids started going through their “racist phase?” when i started using swear words, white kids started using racial slurs. when i started referencing memes, white kids started making nazi jokes. 

everyone likes to joke about how horrible middle school is, but no one is willing to acknowledge how traumatic it is for kids of color. we understand what racism is from the time we are little kids,–i knew what racism was before i understood what race and ethnicity were–and we understand how it feels to experience, but when white kids start to find out about racism, it’s a joke to them. 

i didn’t know any white kids in middle school who weren’t racist. the ones who didn’t use slurs or make racist jokes or find nazis and nazi propaganda funny hung out with those kids. they segregated their friend groups to the point where even white kids who were friends with kids of color wouldn’t have black friends or dark skinned friends. i experienced tokenization and microagressions and outright being called slurs and mocked for not being white the whole time i was in middle school from both other students and the school’s faculty.

i need to clarify here that i did not grow up in the south. i did not grow up in a conservative place. i did not grow up in a predominantly white place. i grew up in a racially diverse and liberal city in southern california. racism still existed there. i heard the same horrifically racist slurs and jokes and preachings as kids of color who grow up in texas do. the kids saying this shit had democrats for parents and teachers, but they were not told they were wrong for being racist. any time a teacher overheard a kid being racist,–even when a white gentile wrote an ode to hitler for our poetry unit–the kids who suffered because of their racism were told that these racists in the making would grow out of it. we had to forgive them. the authority figures were just as racist as our classmates even though our principal wasn’t white and we lived in a progressive area.

the most painful part of this experience was that i didn’t have the words to explain what was happening to me. i didn’t know it was a collective experience that other kids of color were having. i didn’t know what was so wrong with me that i was being made fun of for not looking white or for acknowledging my culture. it wasn’t until i was in the 8th grade that i finally felt seen by anyone else when i got seated with a bunch of other kids of color in algebra and they would comment on the racism they experienced and noticed in our school. that was the first time in this whole experience–in my whole life even–that i felt like i wasn’t crazy. i was right. none of us had the vocabulary that we all must have now to explain what we were experiencing, but we were all experiencing the same thing.

the white kids i was friends with back then are all around 19 now. i see some of them post about racial injustices in the world. i see some of them wear maga hats. none of them have ever apologized to me or any of the other people of color they hurt with their racism. their activism is performative at best and nonexistent at worst. what’s the point of this post? racism isn’t a phase. racism isn’t a character flaw. racism infects every aspect of our lives. racism exists everywhere. i want the white people i grew up with to understand that the internet didn’t radicalize me, you did. i was not radicalized by learning what racism is when i was 17 or by learning that racism still exists when trump was elected. i was radicalized by growing up a girl of color.

[hotgirlsakura]

white people read this and evaluate your behavior as a kid and how it affects your behavior now but do not use this or me as a way to absolve your guilt. i do not care if you are sad that you were a racist kid.

[grumpytrans]

so loving men isn't a curse. loving men isn't "unfortunate". loving men isn't a bad thing. yes, we can joke about how awful men can be, but it gets to a a point where this mentality can really hurt. it can really feed into you hating yourself for something you can't control. loving men is something special. loving yourself is just as beautiful.

[grumpytrans]

another reminder that it's okay to love men. it's okay to be a man. it's okay to love men whilst being a man. loving men isn't sacrilege.

[everythingstarstuff]

[lost-carcosa]

Oh look, it’s campus-police officer Lt. John Pike who pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters at University of California Davis.

And UCD reportedly payed $175,000 for this image to not appear when you search it on google:

[underdog-arts-deactivated202401]

Gays be like *poses self identity on a singular insect*

[underdog-arts-deactivated202401]

On an unrelated note, personally I think I would be a bee or a ladybug

[sunflowerblondeuwu]

I reckon I’d be a butterfly like sure I’m pretty and friendly but at any moment I could just shatter. Lol.

[underdog-arts-deactivated202401]

I feel like the general categories are bee, butterfly, ladybug, or spider gay

[pengibun]

bee gay do crime

[underdog-arts-deactivated202401]

I WANT THAT ON A SHIRT

[witchy-oates]

[cryptognomicon]

Fuck, Diogenes was reincarnated.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Tinder but for ghosts and solving mysteries.

[prokopetz]

When we say that Ada Lovelace was arguably the world’s first computer programmer, that “arguably” isn’t thrown in there because of questions of definitions or precedence – she definitely wrote programs for a computer, and she was definitely the first.

Rather, the reason her status as the world’s first computer programmer is arguable is because during her lifetime, computers did not exist.

Yes, really: her code was intended for Charles Babbage’s difference engine, but Babbage was never able to build a working model – the material science of their time simply wasn’t up to the challenge. Lovelace’s work was thus based on a description of how the difference engine would operate.

Like, imagine being so far ahead of your time that you’re able to identify and solve fundamental problems of computer programming based on a description of the purely hypothetical device that would run the code you’re writing.

[prokopetz]

(Having no actual, physical computers on which to ply her skills, she then turned her attention to developing mathematical formulas for beating gambling establishments at their own game, which demonstrates that she anticipated not only the practice of computer science, but also the culture.)

[romolite]

White sociopathy is not a thing...

[romolite]

If you mean white supremacy say that and stop linking racism to a literal mental disorder

[romolite]

White people are inherently racist because of the circumstances of the society that they’ve grown up in. Aside from being ableist in of itself claiming that racism is caused by a mental disorder only absolves them of guilt tbh

[catchymemes]

[wessasaurus-rex]

This is actually such a relief.

[ip2lb]

x

[thehappysnail-deactivated202210]

Holy fuck

[politijohn]

[fickes]

The rest of the month’s content is much more entertaining, I promise.

[desolationlesbian]

do you think there’s ever been a point in the avatar cycle where everyone was just waiting for them to pop up in one of the water tribes, but instead they reincarnated into one of those waterbending swamp hicks in the earth kingdom? because I really like the idea of a swamp avatar with a little leaf hat and a southern drawl.

[madtumbleson]

so apparently with the tribes that have, like, discrete sites of power, the Avatar would rotate where they were born. Which for Air meant it would go something like Northern->Western->Southern->Eastern, and for the water tribe meant it would alternate between North and South, which is part of why the Southern Tribe had been so depleted; Sozin knew that was where the next Avatar would be born.

but. The swamp is ABSURDLY connected to the spirit world, and definitely should have gone into the rotation, and I’m just. Just imagining. An AU where Aang didn’t make it and Sozin just assumed the Southern tribe was next and anyway twenty years later this goddamn fully realized hick from the sticks Avatar emerges from the swamp and puts the hurting on the fire nation.

[fieryartemispublications]

Instead of a polar bear dog or whatever, their animal companion is an alligator.

[my-insanity-is-an-artform]

I see your ‘Aang didn’t make it’ au and raise you

KORRA FROM THE SWAMP TRIBE AU

[locuas642]

The last airbender: the legend of Florida Woman

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Mobius strip pride flag

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

For people who can’t seem to figure out their orientation :p

[ms-demeanor]

Can people who can’t figure out their gender use it too?

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Non-orientable surfaces are GNC culture

[vacuously-true]

@the-real-numbers I did what I wanted with it.

[argumate]

coming out of the klein bottle

[vacuously-true]

Don’t say that! I spent weeks on a 112 frame gif response to a shitpost! Don’t give me the uncontrollable urge to make queer kleinbottle art!

[languiddragon]

[vacuously-true]

Heckin’ FINE

Are you happy you little mathblr gremlins?

[argumate]

gender fractals!

[vacuously-true]

Leave me alone. I have no self control.