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favorite part of the human experience is when you have a wonderful night out with people you know you will never be with again in the same way and you're so full of love because it's all so temporary and fleeting

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[depsidase]

[inkmo]

happens to the best of us

[shiftythrifting]

Lemon Juicer $1

[yamujiburo]

Apparently 2022's colors are Jessie and James

YOOOO LET'S GO!!!!

[wilwheaton]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I absolutely need that alien though

[headspace-hotel]

i’m going to drop out of college and run a shop like this

[90sto2000s]

Only 90s kids understand

[totaltrashmammall]

Finally, an only 90's kid post with things actually limited to the 90's and not things I was experiencing in 2012.

[voluptuously]

[moki-dokie]

someone call an ambulance i am dying from this brutal personal assault

[theconcealedweapon]

[crownquill]

[Id: A diagram ((source unknown)) saying "A life lesson:

then there is a drawing labeled "A" showing a person stranded on an island who spelled out HELP with driftwood sitting by a palmtree

the next drawing is labeled "B" showing the same person and island except they used the driftwood to make themselves a raft

Victim mentality will get you killed. No one is coming. It's up to you."

end Id]

[Id: Next to the diagram is a screenshot of a reddit post ((user unknown)) saying

"So, ex-sailor here who has been involved in search and rescue ops and witnessed the aftermath of two different people in different situations both trying to float in the open ocean on makeshift rafts like this. One died within about 2 days and was already gone when we found her. The other stayed alive for a fill 3 days, but the other 3 people who were on his boat with him when it capsized and broke apart (which is the same thing the waves would do to that raft btw) all died long before we found him and he was barely conscious, completely dehydrated, and about an inch from death, floating on a piece of drift wood, So, if you are really ever in a situation where you are trapped on an island like this, for Christ sakes don't go wading into the fucking open ocean on a tiny raft. You will, almost certainly, die, and if you don't, it will *only* be because someone helped you. Staying on the island vastly increases your chances of being able to survive "on your own".

This is actually a very apt analogy for the conservative view of "self reliance". They have all sorts of fantasies about "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and "not relying on anybody" and all this nonsense, but 90% of them would die in a week if they got their wish, and they are all too ignorant of the realities involved to even begin with

((then it cuts off))

end Id]

TL;DR if you're stranded stay on the island

also the whole "never rely on anyone!! do everything yourself!!" mentality is bs that gets people killed

[theconcealedweapon]

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by "Freya Katra, Girl IRL Cat URL":

A thing they don't tell you about the "push a button for a million dollar but someone you don't know dies" hypothetical is that literally every billionaire is effectively pressing that button as much as they can all the time because that's how exploitation works. /end ID].

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[queeranarchism]

It really boils down to three simple things:

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 

Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

[weirdo-with-a-nametag]

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

[kiyokospeaks]

What’s up just a reminder that the Hula Girl stereotype can go to hell and is in part responsible for Hawai’i being the tourist destination and getting invaded by rich white people, and for Hawaiian culture being disrespected and appropriated

Here’s a few sources on the topic:

How America’s Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawai’i (the site is weird but the research is legitimate, gives a good overview of the issue and references a lot of sources that are harder to get your hands on read: books)

“Pop” Goes Hawai’i: The Twentieth Century Origins of Tourism in Hawai’i and the Impact of U.S. Pop Culture on Women in the Islands of Aloha (this one is very long but a really good read)

Misperceptions of the “Hula Girl” (this one is a personal essay but it’s an entry in the University of Hawai’i’s academic newspaper)

[kiyokospeaks]

Cool cool so its Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month so I’m gonna uh. reblog this

[kiyokospeaks]

Also if you don’t have the time and/or energy to read through these articles lemme give you the basic breakdown (I’ll try to keep this short, but I’ll put it under the cut because it’ll probably still take up space)

Keep reading

[kiyokospeaks]

Happy Pacific American Heritage Month! Reblogging this again with a bit of extra information.

[pseudomantis]

i think about this all the time

[huffylemon]

RIP yahoo answers

[frottinq]

I hate america too but the last person I wanna hear it from is some western european

[guerrillatech]

[perpetuallyfive]

As a gender nonconforming cis dyke, I’ve received a lot of weird hostility in bathrooms. Like, a lot. The mild but frequent stuff is when people see me, do a visible double take, and go check the sign again. The not entirely common, more aggressive stuff is when people verbally question why I’m there. More than once I’ve had someone call me “it” or confront me about my gender in public settings. I’ve had people try to tell me to leave.

But the only place I’ve had someone physically try to remove me from a bathroom was in London.

Some random middle aged woman thought that she had the right to put her hands on me simply because I don’t match her ideas of what femininity is, and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happened in a place where transphobia is running rampant. Of all the weird stuff that’s happened to me in pretty conservative parts of the US, they simply are not as emboldened here as they currently are in the UK; but don’t think for a moment that they don’t intend to get there.

Trans people are reason enough to fight these bigots. It’s a good enough reason. Trans people deserve respect, dignity, compassion, and protection. But if you think they’ll be satisfied with only pushing trans people back into the closet, you’re utterly deluded. They want absolute conformity, simple as that, and they’re increasing their push here too.

Any lesbian who aligns herself with transphobia is a traitor. Simple as that.

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