Esoterica

This work by Mikki Kendall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

[wilwheaton]

I did not know about Juneteenth until I was in my 40s. I recall how embarrassed and ashamed I felt, but it just wasn't taught to me in school, and America doesn't exactly go out of her way to teach privileged white kids like me about the horrors our ancestors inflicted on generations of human beings. Hopefully, that has changed.

lift every voice and sing

[princessnijireiki]

remember when Wil Wheaton told Mikki Kendall aka @ karnythia aka the author of NYT bestseller "Hood Feminism" during Black Lives Matter about 10 years ago that she was (and implicity, other "angry Black women" were) alienating white support from the cause of not wanting to be killed in cold blood on livestream in 4K by cops and vigilante white supremacists, and said that she only had herself to blame for it, all because she wasn't talking nice to him and centering his feelings

[karnythia]

Oh I forgot about that, but honestly it was in the moment a bunch of noise from a lot of white celebs who are now pretending to be woke

[jimhines]

I know I’ve featured this scene on the Nazi Punch of the Day, but this version seemed particularly timely given the ongoing attacks on education.

[ironinkpen]

an imperfect ally is better than a perfect bystander

[ironinkpen]

the old boomer who "doesn't get the gays" but still votes blue every election is still a better ally to you than every well-spoken, woke millennial who says all the right shit but didn't vote because they "didn't like either option"

the lady who voted for trump but has changed her mind since and is calling her senator every day is a better ally to you than anyone very politely apologizing for how awful things are and not doing anything to actually help

[spindrifters]

"If you're waiting around for pure ideological alignment, you're going to be waiting for a very long time. And in the meantime, you'll get nothing done at all."

[guerrillatech]

[nikkiscarlet]

This was intentionally manufactured by Facebook. Facebook implemented it’s “accountability culture” starting with its rule about only using your real name and photo on its service and encouraging you to disclose other information in your profile, and from there it just got normalized. It was entirely to gather data for advertising purposes, but now we associate that level of openness with “accountability”. Entire generations are now being raised with this as the norm. Privacy is no longer a priority, or even really seen as an option.

This is to your detriment. Your privacy protects you from predators of all kinds. You really should be guarding it carefully. Disclose what you feel is important on a case by case basis, but even your mental health status and beliefs are exploitable by big business and small-time bullies and abusers alike.

Even if you’re not overly fussed about what people know about you, just understand that not everyone has the luxury of feeling the same. Some people have stalkers and abusers they’re trying to evade, or don’t want to attract new abusers into their lives by being that vulnerable and open again. Some people have extreme social anxiety. Some people are protecting other people in their lives. Some people just don’t want their grandmothers to find their smutfics. Some people are Internet privacy advocates who keep their details private as a political statement and as a matter of principle.

You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours. You are allowed to just be an anonymous username until you feel safe to disclose more.

[octopuscato]

You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours.

[inthenimtime]

This! Bring back handles! Let me decide when im ready to tell you my IRL name.

[desert-love]

[life-on-our-planet]

🪶💧19 Quail Chicks Drinking on a Hot Day💧🪶

[totchipanda]

@genuineformality

[karnythia]

Periodically I think of the stories that disappear. Fanfiction, original, snippets even, things I have read and loved but something happened and they aren't online anymore. And sometimes you can find the writers (mostly you can't) and I think about luck and persistence and what it means to create and win or lose as life deals out a hand you can't control exactly...but I wish I could.

[important-animal-images]

I think it was put 10 million years ago just for cats

[commuditty]

Important, indeed

[everythingfox]

Branch manager

[weirdreindeer]

[lockedharrow]

i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate

[shu-of-the-wind]

in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,

i think about this a lot

[fravery]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[altospaceangel]

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

"When life gives you lemons" FALSE LEMONS ARE A HYBRID OF A BITTER ORANGE AND A CITRON, MEANING WE GAVE OURSELVES LEMONS

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

I have big news about like 85% of our problems

[purplenickel]

[juicesocks]

Keep reading

[spw-foundation]

[alinahdee]

Native Children watching the massacre sequence from Little Big Man in the documentary Reel Injun.

[xanthofile]

As a child, the only Indians I ever saw on TV were the ones dying. Watching this scene of the documentary always makes me feel like crying.

[the-aila-test]

^That is exactly why I made The Aila Test / Ali Nahdee Test.

[beardedmrbean]

Potoo says A

[baygeethefirst]

This looks like a bird as envisioned by the Children's Television Workshop

[beardedmrbean]

There's a whole bunch of different types of Potoo/Frogmouth/Uratu

None of them look like something that should occur naturally, they all look like something that escaped the Jim Henson creature workshop.

And I love them all