Star Wars Frontman John Boyega

Teej. She/her. Cis. Bi. John Boyega (Brigade), FinnRey, Bey, Richonne (twd), WestAllen (The Flash), Black Women, & calling out bs. #ParticularlyBlackandAngry2k16.

[theexecutionerssong]

[filmsoundtracks-moved]

And your life has never reflected that. Your family doesn’t reflect that. My mom and dad were seen as just a minority in UK.

John Boyega talks about the day he got cast for Star Wars

[fyeahfinnrey]

John Boyega records a message for his co-star Gwendoline Christie at Good Morning America

[sleemo]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Chinese character poster featuring Finn (x)

[thetwistedrope]

This App Lets You Bail Out Black Prison Inmates with Your Spare Change

"Our short-term goals are to get folks home for the holidays"

The function of the app is simple: In less than 60 seconds, connect the account you use to make everyday purchases. Here, your purchases will be rounded up to the nearest dollar to automatically donate each time you reach at least $2 in spare change. Users can pause and resume their contributions at any time. On the topic of his goals with the project, Ziegler explains:

“Our short term goals are to get as many folks home for the holidays as possible so we hope many folks join the platform for Giving Tuesday and contribute their holiday spending change to those in need.

Long term, we see the platform being used in a variety of ways to bolster the voices of those in need beyond just a financial contribution.”

This now exists. Today I’m linking my bank account to become the first customer. https://t.co/h2IcVlKoY5

[mariasgf]

[mariasgf]

[whatwhiteswillneverknow]

Net Neutrality is in DEEP Trouble

Reposted from Facebook’s PBS Newshour.

Now that I got your attention with this video…

The FCC decided to go ahead with the vote to remove the Net Neutrality rules that the Obama administration set up. 

As you can see, this is what the major ISPs wants to do if they have their way. This can do a few things:

Stiff new innovations, making it harder for smaller companies to compete.

Silence independent voices. 

Potentially putting up a “walled garden” on a wide scale.

Make distribution of information harder for low-income people.

Imagine this website, if you will, only working on Verizon networks while AT&T customers are charged a little extra, or have slower access to the same information.

Remember, your ISP owns content providers and may give top-shelf, VIP treatment to their own things while stiffing everyone else. We need to address this.

Now, some of you may recall earlier this year that John Oliver and a lot of other people, companies (and yours truly) did a rallying cry to tell the FCC to back off the Net Neutrality rules, which resulted in millions of comments on their proposal. 

However, there’s been a few problems… in short, it seems that the FCC chose to not listen due to “inconsistancies”.

Sidenote: Tumblr isn’t the best place to talk “long-form” so if you’re interested in looking at these notes, here are some places to go to.

https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a - “ Specifically, for six months my office has been investigating who perpetrated a massive scheme to corrupt the FCC’s notice and comment process through the misuse of enormous numbers of real New Yorkers’ and other Americans’ identities. Such conduct likely violates state law — yet the FCC has refused multiple requests for crucial evidence in its sole possession that is vital to permit that law enforcement investigation to proceed.”

https://twitter.com/BanditRandom/status/933066570741383169 - A twitter thread about how the Wall Street Journal collected someone’s information to sign in FAVOR of Net Neutrality. 

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/fake-net-neutrality-comments-at-heart-of-lawsuit-filed-against-fcc/ - “Fake” net neutrality comments at heart of lawsuit filed against FCC

So, what can we do about this?

There are a few things you can do to help slow down this nightmare situation.

You can’t just “like” this note, you have to reblog to spread, but more importantly, you have to TAKE action!

1) Make calls to your representatives - https://5calls.org/issue/defend-fcc-net-neutrality - this website will tell you who to call and an easy-to-follow script so that you know exactly what to say.

2) You can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality:

https://www.eff.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://www.freepress.net/

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

https://www.publicknowledge.org/

https://www.demandprogress.org/

3) You can add a comment to the proposal using John Oliver’s URL at http://www.gofccyourself.com

4) Write a letter to your representative. Not an email, an actual, snail mail letter. 

Let’s all band together and do something about this. Our future of sharing information, building innovation, nurturing voices and creativity depends on your actions now! 

I know it may sound hopeless. Look at when they announced this (you probably didn’t know they announced this on Monday when you’re busy getting ready to for the holiday!). But if we say it with one voice to BACK OFF THE NET, we maybe able to make a difference.

[whatwhiteswillneverknow]

Hi.

I’m the Original Poster and I did my best to keep this brief with sources you can see for yourself.

However, with misinformation being a thing, I decided to amend to this to give you some extra pointers as to why I was specific about these steps and not recommend things like strictly writing to the FCC. 

1) Calling your reps and writing them is more effective than doing it via email. It’s been stated over, and over, and over again. Sadly, letters and phone calls are more effective.

2) Signing a petition can help, but without a way to verify you, it can be just as useful as shouting on Twitter (and will they look at Twitter? Nope.) It’s not totally useless, but it will not totally do the job.

See, if the FCC can use “bots” as an excuse (look at the sources in the original post), what makes you think a senator and representatives won’t? This is why “calling your rep” is the first action step and “writing your reps” is the last. 

3) Regardless, the non-profit organizations’ job (the one I posted about) is to spread awareness BEYOND YOUR NETWORK. Think of them as a private army you’re recruiting for this one mission. You can only tell so many people and some of you don’t live in the United States, which makes it even harder! 

4) BTW, you’re not just talking about this on Tumblr, are you? You have to talk to people on your other social networks as well. They are affected by things as well. Don’t want to talk? Post a link to here and let me do the talking for you. 

5) While I have done the research for you, please do your own in conjunction with this. That way, you can be better informed, especially when talking about this to other people.

6) Oh and one more thing since I did neglect this in my last post. I forgot to post the “deadline” - the actual day they will vote. Well…

We have until December 14, 2017!

So, let’s mobilize! Organize! Transform and roll out!

Okay, maybe not the last one…

But make the calls to your reps! Scroll up and do your part, no matter which side you’re on!

P.S. - I also posted examples of how Net Neutrality is helping us in the United States.  

[raishe]

It took me 5 minutes to get through 4 calls, just 5 minutes - it’s easy, even for someone like me with anxiety. Please call your representatives! It’s got a script! Leave a voicemail! LET THEM KNOW!

[hupperts]

[jehovahhthickness]

Never the fuck again.

[showerthoughtsofficial]

The fact that the location of the world’s oldest tree has to be kept secret encapsulates everything that’s bad about humanity.

[hyperappreciation]

There’s a story about that, actually.

According to the smithsonianmag.com, the world’s oldest bristlecone pine was a nearly 5,000 year old tree later named Prometheus. In 1964, a man named Donald Rusk Currey decided to use an increment borer to determine its age (a process that cuts a small hole into the center of the tree trunk, and is not intended to kill the tree). Unfortunately, the borer got stuck. He and a park ranger cut the tree down to remove the equipment, and when they counted the tree rings, they realized their mistake. Oops. This incident lead to better protection of the remaining bristlecone pines.

There’s some wiggle room about what can be called “the world’s oldest living tree.” The world’s oldest living single tree is the tree that the OP is referring to. Its name is Methuselah,and it is also around 5,000 years old. Since its location is unknown, nobody knows what it looks like. But it might be this tree here:

But technically, it isn’t the oldest living tree. Let me explain.

It turns out that root systems of trees can send up genetically identical saplings (aka clones) via their root systems. Like so:

Which means the original trunk can die, but since the root system is attached to other trees which give it nutrients, it lives on. The root system can theoretically do this indefinitely. So the tree trunks could be fairly young, but the roots could be large and very, very, very old. So the oldest “tree” isn’t a small grove, it’s a logic-defying forest.

I’d like you to meet Pando.

This male quaking aspen covers 106 acres and is ancient. I’m talking an estimate of 80,000 years. The trees you can see are just “shoots” he sent up, and their average age is 130 years old. He is his own forest. If trees could talk, I’d love to hear what he had to say.

He might be dying, due to insects and drought (hmm, wonder what could have happened to cause that). A section of Pando is being studied in an attempt to find a solution. But in the meantime, we can enjoy him for his beauty.

TLDR: Yes please, protect the trees from humans!

[imanes]

some of yall should spend less time lashing out at strangers based on context-less posts u found on ur dashboard and more time finding healthy coping mechanisms for your anger management issues. i recommend working out.

[kwusen]

For Thanksgiving, you can start your dinner by acknowledging the land that you are on and acknowledging the tribes of peoples who have been forced away from their home lands and are now struggling to reconnect with their culture and families due to the cultural genocide that took place when colonization began. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, take the time to do some reconciliation for the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who have suffered and still continue to suffer to this day. 

[kwusen]

I encourage people to reblog this. Esp white folks.

[plant-folk]

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[frogmp3]

she is WHAT? sickening

[lookskindadeadinside]

I’m not even kidding I teared up a lil

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mom

[aanakin]

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[clamchowdurr-deactivated2022040]

That time of the year again

[forever-slaying]

“You threw a turkey at me” 😂😂

[bantugal]

I love white ppl😍

[psychedelicfelon]

White peoples live lifetime movies 😂😂😂

[thynburgerking]

I’m sure black families do shit like this too… not just a white people thing. Just a family with issues… don’t make it all about skin cooler smh

[dynastylnoire]

Nope.

[affablyevil]

I don’t think a black person would get out alive throwing a cooked turkey in the middle of a family dinner

[nabyss]

So much issues in this fam : the blondie who is a bomb waiting to explode, the jackass guy filming and edging this mess, the others not even trying to calm the father and his son… 😧 (And yes, just raising my voice like that in a family dinner would have made my family give me THAT look warning me of an impeding disaster. So no, we can’t do this in black family. Especially if the elders are present.)

[dailyfinn]

John Boyega as Finn and Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico on the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s December 2017 issue

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John Boyega attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 9th Annual Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center on November 11, 2017 in Hollywood, California.