Don't Panic

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuinty of complete fools."

[depsidase]

[jayalaw]

At least this time it can’t be wrapped in Patriotism.

[bantaro-bird]

Tips for understanding your cat's signals.

[cj-kenobi]

a wild otter-wan has appeared!

do you:

- fight! - give him a little pat!

[kimreesesdaughter]

I just left a plantation tour in Louisiana. I have a lot to say…

[purplechocolatekisses]

SAY IT!

[kimreesesdaughter]

I honestly thought I knew everything about slavery. Not so.

The owner of this particular plantation had it built by slaves for 3 years. Every brick was handmade. Over 120,000 bricks on 2,000+ acres of land (this place was huge.) The clay used for the bricks came from the Mississippi River. The majority of the slaves are buried under the Levees and water. Some are buried with their Masters. Not allowed to live with them but could be dead with them.

Before you enter the house, there’s a list of slaves who lived here including their age and how much they were purchased for. 124 total. Some slaves were worth as little as $25. As young as 5 years old.

On this particular plantation, the owner was big on punishment…he used noise making neck restraints. Imagine three 4lb balls around your neck with bells inside. Children were restrained by ankle locks that connected between their ankles.

This was a sugar cane plantation, one the worst practices to involve slaves because of its danger. A lot of slaves were decapitated, amputees and killed from the fields and machinery. A lot of kids lost their lives creating sugar. Speaking of children, a child stood in the living room and operated the fan with a string while guests ate dinner. As young as 3 years old.

Here’s what shook me even further: Before the Civil War, a lot of slave owners were going in debt and could not afford their properties and were not producing enough cotton and sugar to maintain their lifestyles. Slaves were used as HUMAN CREDIT CARDS. Slaves were a guaranteed line of credit. You could get HALF of your property’s value depending on how many healthy and able slaves you owned.

My people were human credit cards and lines of credit to BANKS. We were property. We were labeled as equipment and nothing more.

There is no such thing as a good slave owner. They owned my PEOPLE and used them as checks and balances. This cycle continues with prison and brutality. I do not want to hear shit about “Why can only Black people say this or that?” I don’t want to hear shit about “we’re all human.”

And by the way, not one of those slaves are at rest. Those spirits were so alive, you could feel their presence, their pain and someday, their revenge.

[kimreesesdaughter]

The front of the house and yard. This plantation was huge. Just thinking about my ancestors tending to all this land…

SOME of the enslaved names, ages, race and purchase price.

The living room.

Interior.

The dining room. That piece hanging above the table is ORIGINAL to the house. That’s the fan that a slave as young as 3 years old had to operate manually with a string.

The view from the balcony in the main hallway. This is how they looked over the slaves while they worked in the yard.

*sigh* Names of the enslaved that occupied the shacks. Children included. Their names are written inside one of the shacks. I’m not sure if there are other names inside other shacks because I could only handle 2. After I saw the punishment equipment, I left.

Slave Shacks. These are NOT the original shacks. These were built to imitate them.

Slaves for Sale Ads.

The landscape of Slavery throughout the United States in 1860. JUST 1860. Let that sink in.

Note: The last time the home was OWNED by a Louisiana citizen was 1972. This is her original bedroom, her lipstick is STILL on the dresser. This is why the house has been updated since slavery times because it was occupied up until 1972. Regardless, this used to be where house slaves slept.

[yourlocalforeign-deactivated202]

This really fuckin happened, don’t let white people tell you that it’s in the past & to let it go.

[sailor-v]

kinuko y. craft early 2000s fantasy book covers my beloveds

[crookedbluebirdkingdom]

Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

[crookedbluebirdkingdom]

According to this article on The Verge, it's been happening since at least 2021, but if I were to make a guess, Amazon has doubled down recently in response to the boycotts: if there are specific books people want, particularly ones only available digitally available, they now have the monopoly, and you are forced to scab, which often also means remaking your account and breaking your boycott altogether.

Now more than ever, support your local libraries, support authors directly when possible, and support your local used bookstores!

[willow-wanderings]

how fast can we lobby for new laws that exempt libraries from any kind of exclusive access like this? "Amazon exclusive!" no, fuck you, libraries still have it you scum sucking snot gremlin because that's what libraries are FOR

[inber]

If you are a fellow migraine sufferer, I have to recommend this gel compression mask. The gel is legit thick and the compression is just right on the eyeballs/orbs/limpid hues, and it helps my sensory issues, too. I don't usually refrigerate it, the bitch just stays cool. It's the best one I've tried.

Bonus: you also look like a falcon wearing a hood

It's also on cramazon if you want and probably other places if you search for 'myhalos migraine mask'. I can't vouch for any of their other products tho, just the sexy hat. Wishing you all a pain-free head babes x

[foldingfittedsheets]

All the new pride unicorns are up!! These guys have needed a refresher for ages, but I'm so happy with how they turned out! They're up in my Redbubble and Teepublic if you wanna support a little queer artist you can get them on a bunch of cute stuff!

[danmangan]

things that are enjoyable:

showers

things that are not enjoyable:

getting in the shower

getting out of the shower

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Close your eyes for some soothing chinese guzheng music (OP is playing a 59cm baby guzheng — a standard guzheng is usually about 163 cm in length) (cr 哆啦A梦的小古筝)

[commodorecliche]

Scientist 1, an absolute slut for Christmas: EARLY CHRISTMAS IS GOOD FOR YOU

Scientist 2, ready to burn every Christmas tree within a 10 mile radius because it's not even Thanksgiving yet: IF I HEAR A SINGLE JINGLE BELL, I WILL DIE

[autumngracy]

Listening to Christmas music in the comfort of your own home, on purpose: Fine! Lovely! Good for your mental health!

Working a job where you're forced to listen to the same 2-6 hour loop of soulless, regurgitated Christmas song covers (and some truly cringe worthy originals) for at LEAST 2 months straight: Bad! Not good for your mental health, actually! Especially if you're not even Christian!!

[ao3commentoftheday]

memes are fun and relatable and all that, but don't let them discourage you. all of that stuff that doesn't make it into the final product is part of how the final product gets made

[segamascott]

[yuumei-art]

"On the last day of autumn, before the first frost, find the Elder Oak on the island in the saltless sea, and offer up your most prized treasure. If your offering is accepted, your deepest wish will be granted. But if your offering is rejected, your skin will turn to bark and your limbs will harden to wood." Inspired by a walk through the woods in my new backyard in Sweden! The oak trees here are very different from the ones I'm used to in California and I'm constantly mesmerized by the beautiful twisting branches~

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[angelofdumpsterfires]

so i live in boorloo (perth) which is on noongar country and 1. i fucking love the noongar seasons it’s so much more accurate to here 2. should be noted that other season stereotypes are completely different! there’s ONE native deciduous tree here (common coral tree) and it blooms in the middle of july, which to a greater point! different native plants are always blooming all year round! the traditional “spring” period doesn’t really that many more (native) flowers than any other time of the year!

anyways i fucking hate how northern hemisphere coded the western holidays are girl why are you putting up snowflakes and reindeer it’s 40°c outside i am going to melt into a puddle

[rhyperographer]

While colonial genocide means that the weather calendar for my region is no longer known for south-east Queensland (if I am wrong and there's one out there please tell me!), I have found the Banbai calendar pretty accurate for Brisbane (less the snow. We don't snow).

It has 6 "seasons", mostly determined by wildfire risk. One of those seasons: Wildfire Time is 5 months, from November to March.

The 4 seasons model really really doesn't work here.

[berensreverie]

pants in gondor

[corporationsarepeople]