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Call me Sid or Biscuit. I could be more interesting but I prefer not to (side blog for images I like: encoredeslutins) 🧿! ♿️!

[winningmachine]

Being small Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace

[enki2]

[theunstablejester]

How it feels to imagine a female character's voice as deep when you read the source and then watch an adaptation that gives her some Elmo ass voice

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 20 July 1925, Frantz Omar Fanon, psychiatrist, revolutionary and pioneering anti-colonialist theorist was born in the French colony of Martinique. Fanon served in the Free French Army during World War II in North Africa, and like many Black colonial troops, experienced racism. Living in Algeria he supported the independence movement until he was forced to leave the country, at which point he became an ambassador for the Algerian National Liberation Front. His seminal works include 'Black Skin, White Masks' 'The Wretched of the Earth', and focused not just on the politics and economics of colonialism but also its internal and psychological effects. Learn more in this detailed biographical account of his life: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/frantz-fanon-a-biography-david-macey

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

[talesfromthecrypts]

Just seeing black heroes and leads on screen like the next generation won't think, "Oh, that's weird." They're gonna think, "That's perfectly normal to have the black lead, the black person save the day." - Mark H. Harris in Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

28 Days Later (2002)

Alien (1979)

Alien vs Predator (2004)

Aliens (1986)

The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)

Attack the Block (2011)

The Blackening (2022)

Blacula (1972)

Blade (1998)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Bones (2001)

Candyman (1992)

Candyman (2021)

The Craft (1996)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Def By Temptation (1990)

Demons (1985)

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Event Horizon (1997)

Eve's Bayou (1997)

Ganja & Hess (1973)

Get Out (2017)

Good Manners (2017)

His House (2020)

The Invitation (2022)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

Ma (2019)

Master (2022)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Nope (2022)

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Queen of the Damned (2002)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Son of Ingagi (1940)

Sugar Hill (1974)

Sweetheart (2019)

Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

Tales From the Hood (1995)

Talk to Me (2022)

The Thing (1982)

Us (2019)

Vamp (1986)

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Vampires vs. The Bronx (2020)

With a Kiss I Die (2018)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[bidet-of-evil]

there are two wolves inside me. one wants to write and the other wants to nap. they’re both in a cage called My Job.

[creekfiend]

its so awkward when people ask me why i dropped out and i have to be like "inadequate disability support" bc no one wants to hear this. they're always like i thought they had to provide that though isn't it the law? girl you might want to sit down i have some bad news about the litigation-based enforcement of the americans with disabilities act

then if i do say that theyre like, couldnt you sue? well theoretically maybe but not without spending more money than i have and putting myself through absolute hell. so no. no i can't.

[mabelsguidetolife]

it’s just this

[inanesinlovewithiwtv]

[sadhoc]

as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

[sadhoc]

unions do so much more than just strike. unions bargain. unions sit in at meetings with upper management. unions help people navigate benefits. unions coordinate aid drives for disabled members. my union ran a donations campaign for me for the interim between the end of my allotted paid leave and my disability claim

[sadhoc]

"unionize your workplace" means so much more than "talk to your coworkers about striking." you gotta actively know what a union is and what a union isn't before you can form one. calls to unionize should lead to more people learning their rights and learning how unions work, and coordinating with orgs like seiu and the teamsters and the aft (and if you don't know what those are, look them up).

[electricpentacle]

My union found me a legal expert to help me check over my last redundancy settlement for free, provided private medical cover whilst I was unemployed, and negotiated a good deal on cheap insurance for their members. It is so much more than strikes.

[bonearenaofmyskull]

Forming a Union at a Non-Union Workplace - Worker.gov

Forming a union at a non-union workplace You have the right to join with coworkers to address conditions at work. The National Labor Relatio

Form a Union | AFL-CIO

[future-crab]

I can’t believe Buffy Summers is the only character in the entire world

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[academicabyss]

[aleprouswitch]

Herbie Hancock trying to figure out how to fix a mixer, c. early 80s.

[babyboodle]

[gnarlyghost]

Loop for a festival

Track by fuzzyloops on instagram

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.