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[lotuswaffle]

Hello strangers!

I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm bored soooooo have an intro post I guess🙃

• Call me Jay • Greyromantic and lesbian • Any pronouns are good • Cabin 15 • Scorpio • Earth arcanum • British-Filipino • Red and green are my favourite colours •

Fandoms I'm a part of:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians

• Heroes of Olympus

• The Kane Chronicles

• Basically the whole Riordanverse

• Dead Boy Detectives

• The Owl House

• Gravity Falls

• The Dragon Prince

• Murder Drones

• The Iliad and The Odessey

• Night at the Museum

• Spy x Family

• The Song of Achilles (no I will not apologise for this)

Interests:

• Baking

• Writing (I've been in a really bad slump for several months shush)

• Philosophy

• History

Artists and Bands I listen to:

• Cage the Elephant

• Panic! at the Disco

• Chappell Roan

• Måneskin

• Wallows

• Cavetown

• Queen

• MARINA

• Will Wood and the Tapeworms

• TV Girl

• The Raconteurs

[shoyowo]

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

[shoyowo]

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

[shoyowo]

white people can and should reblog this

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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[hollowgeek]

Doodles of the hollow kids

[up-the-anti]

shits n giggles

[spidersinmysoup]

Spiritually my spirit is always smoking a cigarette but physically i am.not because hashatg smoking kills

[birdandmoon]

Heat waves.

[storyweavingspider]

Addition: The amount of bombs that Israel and the US have dropped on Gaza in the pursuit of genocide and settler-colonialism have significantly contributed to climate change over the past couple years and is directly linked to so many “once in a century” and “never before seen” weather and temperatures.

[snorfkle]

hi for disability pride month please consider supporting a trans disabled student. im working the maximum hours my body can handle while im out of school for the summer but this tuition deadline kind of snuck up on me. i also cant put it to my credit card because im maxed out. here’s a link a link to my last thread with more info.

tuition: $407 <- DUE JULY 9

psych: $225 (overdue: if i dont pay this by july 21 i will not be able to refill my life saving medication)

rheum: $346 (overdue)

credit card: $988 (next payment due Aug 8th)

paypal cashapp etsy

^ some stuff ive made which is available on etsy!

i also do tarot readings starting at $3 so dm if youre interested!

progress (toward first goal):

$162/$406

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[disgruntledseagull]

What am I supposed to get from this, aside from a general feeling of pity towards the suffering?

Is it "Indians are acting very irresponsibly regarding climate change"? or is it "With a billion and a half of them in the same system they can't effectively work together to solve a shared problem"?

I refuse to believe they don't possess the knowledge and the manpower to craft a real response to these challenges so it must be that the will is not there.

The Nation of India should dissolve if it's too large and complex to be efficiently and honestly administrated.

With public health issues this serious being ignored, Indians would clearly be better served by smaller polities with more limited scope, and better incentives to serve the public (fear preferably), as it's quite obvious that the current state apparatus is not interested in doing so ('cos it's not scared).

[carmensandiegone]

jeez dude calm down are people not allowed to make posts anymore

[disgruntledseagull]

Why would you assume I was excited? Are people not allowed to respond to posts anymore?

I think it's a serious problem that Indian people need to address even at the cost of some political unrest and major investment of time and resources and I said so.

Is that wrong somehow?

[tiredguyswag]

yes my friend it IS wrong.

it's weird that nowhere in the post were you specifically addressed, but you clearly took it to heart enough to type out that long-ass response. you're allowed to respond, but you clearly took this post as a personal affront and diverted it to make it about what YOU were supposed to do.

im unsure if you know this but people make posts about how this country is on fire AND theyre allowed to raise awareness about it especially to a wider western audience that likely doesnt know about it due to anglocentrism. that was the point of the previous poster. theyre allowed to make posts. especially since a HUGE part of the acceleration of the problem is the west's exploitation of indian resources and the fact that they offload their shit in india and the fact that a majority of india lies below the poverty line and is still dealing with the after-effects of colonization. the original post was nice enough to not say it, but i will! yes, the west IS responsible for the climate situation in india!

why havent indians fixed it yet? why havent usamericans and canadians fixed every problem in their country? why does the imperial core still have flaws? why havent westerners fixed it yet, why are they and their governments stupid? they have access to a lot of things that us third worlders dont have... so why havent they locked in yet? i am forced to assume they just like living in subpar conditions while their government exploits underprivileged countries. you are responsible for every single one of your country's flaws! you heard that right!

oh wait, i forgot. this over-generalization and lumping everyone into a hivemind is only acceptable for us third world browns, isnt it? it's not like we're individuals.

im not gonna pretend that explaining something to a person determined to miss the point is going to go anywhere, and if you continue being stupid i am going to advise you to block me beforehand. i refuse to let this post be derailed by your fragile ego so here's some articles about heatwaves in india and some ways YOU, yes YOU person reading this with money to spare, can help!

Workers Are Dying in the Heat in India

South Asia is witnessing scorching heat waves, with temperatures in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India regularly surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenh

India is being left to die in the heat

Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.

How India’s heatwaves are shutting schools – and pushing women out of the workforce

Forced to stay home or switch jobs, working mothers are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis as classes go online for weeks or months at

MUTUAL AID TO HELP VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THIS HEATWAVE:

seedsindia.org

ActionAid India

Plan India

[sudaca-swag]

[sudaca-swag]

Visas being denied to players and their families

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

And all this just in the first week....

[ghostonthestars]

If I may, I want to add the issues MEXICO is having. At least some of them.

México City was "modernized" to be appealing to tourists, not functional to people living on it. We have a housing crisis, gentrification issues, several problems with public transportation, and the government has tiptoed around those to prioritize appearances.

Madres Buscadoras, groups of mothers that search for their missing family members, have been ignored and criminalized by the president, attacked by cops guarding the stadium, alongside other protesters like farmers, teachers and students. Students and reporters were arrested without explanation, threatened with violence (women with sexual violence) and then released.

Adding to this, the number of missing people in the country is 133,000. Twice the capacity of the Azteca Stadium. Families tried to raise awareness by pasting posters with the faces of their missing people around the stadium. The governor of Ciudad de México sent workers to take them down.

To avoid "showing a bad picture of the country" streets around the stadium are being closed, hours before the games, in order to deter protestors. People living in this area (like myself) are unable to move freely.

Our president, Claudia Sheimbaum, on one of the morning reports, said México is happiness, said we don't have issues, criminalized the protestors and said they want to show a bad picture of México. Avatar fans actually compared the report to this same scene, the "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" scene.

The World Cup, FIFA, and the government are trying to silence our struggles. Don't stop talking about the issues with the World Cup and the way the countries (at least USA and México) are dealing with it. Please.

[jewish-vents]

"My mayor's Muslim, my bagel's Jewish..." is going viral in NYC right now and as a Jew who deeply loves bagels, I actually hate it so much. People will put our food in a pithy meme but when it comes to actually giving a shit about us as people... crickets. You're in NYC, a hell of a lot more than just your bagel is Jewish. And Jews are fighting tooth and nail to exist safely here right now because that same mayor has made securing our institutions an uphill battle.

Jews are built into the DNA of this city. We WILL live here freely and fuck anyone who tries to stop us.

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[chutzpahchesed]

[nonbinaryjudean]

i feel like. and this is something i have been thinking. the weird obsession with bagels or whatever stereotypical Jewish food being the end-all be-all of Jewish culture is such a deviation from how people treat any other culture. in most cases, basing your view of another ethnicity/culture on their most well-known food would be considered pretty offensive. not jews though.

then you add the layer of the non-Jewish view of Jews either being "assimilated and western" or "exotic and eastern". "white jews" and "brown jews". bagels are an Ashkenazi food. rings of dough are boiled in water. they were invented by Jews in Poland during a time when Jews were banned from baking challah. Many other Ashkenazi staples were a result of having to eat whatever we could, given that we were forced into poverty, banned from many professions and markets and activities, and living in a place that did not have the same climate (and therefore, food sources) as the place our culture originated from. when we began to immigrate to the Americas (mostly as refugees), we brought these foods with us.

Bagels are great. people love bagels. they love bagels so much they forget where bagels come from. they hardly even know how bagels came to be. hell, a lot of bagel places don't even boil them. they put all sorts of crap on bagels (i have a collection called 'goyische bagel crimes') and completely remove them from Jewish culture. they do not do this with other foods developed by Ashkenazi Jews out of survival necessities. they call those other foods "gross", "depressing", they say those foods are supposed evidence that Ashkenazim have no real culture compared to other Jews. Gefilte fish is the funniest thing they've ever heard of. Jews were called "garlic eaters" in a derogatory manner because we ate garlic. Ashkenazi Jews were eating "gross" types of meat (fish heads, anyone?), foraged plants and mushrooms, vegetables that were easy to grow in a rough and cold environment. because we had to. and now we have to hear our food be made into a massive joke.

and I think a large part of simplifying Jewish culture (specifically Ashkenazi culture) to just "bagels" and whatever comedian they hate the least is rooted in a refusal to contend with the antisemitism that is so deeply integral to modern society. it poses a threat to Christian hegemony, to this idea they all have (but will never admit to having) of Jews as being extinct, as being incomplete, primitive, and... rootless. their denial of our indigenous culture in Eretz Yisrael, the fact that two major world religions exist directly from the decontextualization of our mythology, the inability to truly make amends for centuries upon centuries of oppression, massacres, theft, sexual violence, genocide, forced conversions, expulsions, and murder. throughout thousands of years of Jewish history, we have maintained so many aspects of our ancient culture. we kept our native language alive to the point we could speak to Jews from other sides of the planet and revived it as a spoken language. we maintained a culture that was deeply connected to our native land. pomegranates don't grow in Poland, but you'll see iconography of them all over Ashkenazi art.

they do not love us. they do not love our culture. they do not love any of the context our cultural foods developed in. they do not respect the roots of our foods. they find the foods to be fucking hilarious.

There is also something to be said about the fact that many things seen as being only part of Sephardic or Mizrahi culture is... also definitely Ashkenazi. and that these distinctions mean something completely different to Jews than in how non-Jews use them. never let them create divides between us.

Okay. "My bagel is Jewish" not in the way this phrase is being used, but in the way that bagels represent my people's ability to survive, adapt, and invent lovely things, even when we are suffering. we are spiteful and stubborn. we are brave and persistent. we make good food. that is what a bagel being Jewish means to me.

(sorry for long ass rant, hope this is coherent in what i am saying. ive been thinking abt this for a while)

[burninglights]

fucking insane to be a person of colour in the uk right now

[burninglights]

When my family first moved to the UK, we faced a similar risk to our wellbeing & safety as many are facing now, albeit for different reasons. in light of everything happening in Ireland & the tensions increasing in Glasgow, and the perennial England, here’s a list of actionable things to do for people who may be targeted & anti racist allies.

MY HOME IS ON THE LIST/LIKELY TO BE TARGETED, WHAT CAN I DO?

* it may bring you peace of mind to have a go-bag ready, just in case. A go-bag is a bag with everything in it that you need to get out a volatile situation quickly. Any bag that can be secured (buttoned or zipped) will do. In your go-bag, you should include;

- identifying documents; passport/driver’s license/asylum card/ILR certificate/British Residency permit card

- Wallet and/or banking books

- A spare charger & cable and/or a power bank

- any shelf-stable medication (tablets, inhalers etc.) if you are on medication that needs to be refrigerated, leave it in the fridge until you have to leave

- Sanitary items; toothbrush, toothpaste, sanitary pads & tampons, deodorant. If you have very young children with you, you may also want to take your nappy bag.

* If you have to leave, a go-bag is a convenient way to ensure you have everything of importance with you.

* If you are being supported by an asylum seekers or refugee charity, or are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help. If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too.

* IN THE EVENT THAT “PROTESTORS” DO COME TO YOUR HOUSE, CALL 999 IMMEDIATELY, AND FOLLOW ANY INSTRUCTIONS THEY GIVE YOU. MOVE AWAY FROM ANY WINDOWS. DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR UNLESS INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY EMERGENCY SERVICES.

I’M AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT/CARE WORKER/NHS WORKER, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

* Contact your student welfare office/NHS Trust/agency for advice, support and referral to organisations that may be able to provide assistance

* if you live in or commute through an area that is likely to be targeted, contact your lecturers and your faculty to find out whether remote study is possible; if you work in care or as part of the NHS, find out if it is possible to change shifts.

* If it would provide peace of mind, prepare a go-bag as listed above

* Reach out to your the uni society or student’s organisation for international students or students of specific ethnic origin; they may be able to provide you with direction to resources and peer support. If your university has a Marxist or Socialist society, reach out to them for mutual aid with a travel buddy etc., for getting to and from your place of study/work

* If you are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help.

* If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too for assistance with travel to & from work.

* Report any racism or racialised violence you are subjected to. NHS staff have a right to refuse to treat patients who harass, abuse, threaten or insult them; if a patient is racist to you, where possible, ask another member of staff to take over their care.

PERSONAL SAFETY:

* do not leave your home unless strictly necessary. If it is necessary to leave, don’t do it alone.

* use NextDoor, WhatsApp, social media and word of mouth to avoid commuting through “protestor” road blocks, areas of active conflict etc.,

* When travelling, use Share My Location or Life360, and keep at least two people aware of your expected time of arrival at your destination with instructions to contact the police if you do not let them know you’ve made it safely

* do not directly confront any individuals involved, or allow them to bait you into becoming confrontational

* only record if it is safe. Do not record individuals directly/from up close

* Do not directly intervene. If you see violence occurring, contact emergency services and if safe to do so, record what’s happening.

ALLYSHIP & HOW TO HELP:

* if you have neighbours, friends, coworkers or acquaintances form targeted communities, reach out to them. Ask them what you can do to help them feel safe.

* If you live in an area likely to be targeted, reach out to any vulnerable people you know. If safe and possible, offer to let them shelter with you in the event they need to leave home

* If you see any incitement to violence online screenshot it; it may prove useful in the event of individual “protesters” being prosecuted

* If you see any specific areas being discussed as targets, alert anyone you know at risk in the area

* Reach out to local refugee & asylum seekers’ organisations, to organisations supporting foreign national care & healthcare workers, and to churches, mosques, gurdwaras; they may be looking for short term assistance in helping to provide for vulnerable members of their community

CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE & TO SUPPORT:

* NASC Ireland; refugee & asylum seeker charity

* Doras.org; migrant, stateless persons, refugee and asylum seeker rights advocates

* Jesuit Refugee Service; religious refugee & asylum seekers charity

* Irish Refugee Council; supporting stateless displaced persons & refugees in NI & ROI

* International Student’s House (IE & UK WIDE): provides hardship funding and help to international students

* PathFinder (UK WIDE); supports international students

* Care International (GLOBAL); global carer’s charity

* Choose Love (IE & UK WIDE); charitable organisation supporting refugees and asylum seekers

* Praxis UK (UK WIDE); supporting refugees & asylum seekers

* The Runnymede Trust (IE & UK WIDE); antiracism education charity

* Migrant’s Rights Network (IE & UK WIDE); advocacy and support for migrants and refugees

* ShareTheMeal (GLOBAL); providing meals for refugees and those fleeing conflict globally

* Amnesty (IRELAND, UK & WORLDWIDE); human rights NGO

* UNHCR & UN Refugee Council (GLOBAL); UN refugee bodies supporting those seeking asylum, fleeing conflict & internally/internationally displaced worldwide

[fandom-geek]

Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

i really don't have the words for how things have escalated to outright race riots in the last few weeks. just to collect a few of the stories the bbc is reporting in their live thread:

Families led to safety through flames (Dan Johnson) Homes were targeted and burned. Families had to be led to safety through the flames - rescued by emergency services risking their lives in the most dangerous situation. It’s what the authorities feared all day. What they warned against and pleaded not to see. The condemnation came quickly and was widespread. It wasn’t just homes, cars were also torched by young masked man in these predominantly unionist streets but the target here was immigrants and the message to entirely innocent families was: "You’re not welcome". In the north of the city, more people were forced to flee including an African family who’ve lived here for 20 years.

People being put out 'because they're black' - pastor A pastor who has been helping those in houses targeted in tonight's violence says people were being put out of their homes "because they're black". Pastor Jack McKee was at the scene where multiple houses were on fire around the Crumlin Road in north Belfast - he says some members of his church "who have been with us for 20 years" were "getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned". "They're good Christian people and they're getting put out just because they're black," he says. "I'm doing my best to help them, it's as simple as that." [...]

Masked men shouting 'foreigners out' (Kelly Bonner) Last night on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast hundreds of masked men walked down the street carrying bottles, bricks and masonry. They set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out". As they walked street to street, they were banging on doors, kicking doors down and breaking windows. Masked man set cars alight and at one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a "local and not a foreigner" and they stopped. A young family had to be moved from their home by police. The scenes of this young family fleeing their home were really quite shocking.

We're seeing a 'race-based pogrom' in Belfast, MP tells BBC Claire Hanna, Belfast MP and leader of the Social Democratic & Labour Party, has spoken to Newsnight about the "nightmarish" attack on Monday, which she says has "understandably revulsed and shocked" people in Belfast. However, she condemned the scenes that erupted on Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that "negative actors online and politicians locally who don't really care what communities in north Belfast have been through" have used the knife attack to incite violence and seed division. "What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin," she has said. "It's not based on what they're contributing to society, what their status here is and it's terrifying for people in Belfast who want this sort of politics to be far beyond them."

[prescription-cactus]

what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

[glitchy-haha]

INCREDIBLY CONCERNING SPIKE IN ANTI-BLACKNESS IS HAPPENING RN.

Some of yall may have heard some of the shit that has been going on right now. I'm gonna give a quick run down of some of the stuff that has been happening. Note, this is not all, and it may never be all as much as I will try to update this.

(I am going to try and compile and briefly explain these as much as I can. There may be misinformation. Please inform me if I got something wrong.)

(This will also be updated with additional information and new topics added.)

1) Racist Chinese Dolls.

There are these dolls in China that are being called "Natasha" baby dolls. These dolls are not only very obvious caricatures of black people, but they are being advertised as a "stress relief" in which the people who buy these abuse it in various ways.

This links to a video of a compilation of the various "uses" of the doll. There are more in the replies of the tweet. (Another link to the same tweet just incase)

2) The Mocking, Abuse, and Dehumanization of Black Children.

Apart from the aforementioned doll, there are apparently people going around mocking, abusing, and dehumanizing black children.

Some people have compared black children to the doll.

Others have been going into African countries and have found ways to mock, abuse, and dehumanize black children for clout.

(Source 1 + Full Video) (Source 2)

There are more videos surfacing.

3) Black people are going missing.

Black people, especially children and teens have recently been going missing at an alarming rate. Some of these same people are turning up dead, deaths being ruled as "suicides."

While it generally unknown why many of these people are going missing, many suspect that their disappearances, deaths, and even lack of coverage is rooted in anti-blackness.

The following is a list of black people that have been reported missing as of recently. Please note that this is not a complete list (it may never be completed due to the fact that many of these disappearances will still occur as time passes) this may contain inaccurate information. Please inform me if that is the case.

By the time you see this, some of these people may have already been found either alive or deceased. This post will be updated overtime.

It is also heavily encouraged that you reblog this with more links to recent cases of missing black people if you are aware of any that aren’t included on this list.

Alexis Shaver

Payton Diver

Nasir Tacuma

Ka’Laya Cooper

Makaila Monae Adam

Moriah Kerre Smith

Uchechi Chijindum Nkemdirim

Victeria Uriah Spear

Rilen Wade (Found. Is Safe)

Leara Sessoms

[catchymemes]

[infinitydivine]

I am not taking a risk

[darlingsstern]

Not risking it pals

[doralimasstuff]

U know what I want potato of luck

[shrewreadings]

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

[caitmayart]

potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake

[lotuswaffle]

british people are always so hit and miss with the sun. and we're RIGHT for it. either the world is full of hope again or we're the heavens little roasting tray for their sunday dinners. there truly is no winning

[lotuswaffle]

slowly crawling out of my drawing slump