Miriam

mech-pilled hound girl | tma 🇳🇮 (20s) | she/her

[creekfiend]

I'm too autistic for science documentaries I fucking hate how they're scripted to not even be really true they're just designed to make the audience feel emotions they're not designed to give you information TANTRUM HOLE TANTRUM HOLE TANTRUM HOLE

we wanted to learn about early hominids so we are watching a documentary and it's just like this is Nothing. none of these words mean anything. why are you framing this as The Search For Humanity. just fucking tell me about the people I JUST WANT TO KNOW TRUE FACTS ABOUT THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT EARLY PEOPLE!!!! I DON'T NEED THIS DRAMATIZED!!!! JUST READ ME A SCICOMM VERSION OF AN ACADEMIC PAPER ABOUT THIS. TAAAANTRUM HOOOOLE

[despazito]

It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet

[dat-soldier]

[janmisali]

Legalizing copyright infringement would be dismantling one of the few limitations on the white urge to steal from Black Art and Black Artists. The practical application of it would be anti-Black as fuck

this argument makes so many assumptions that I disagree with that I don't know where to start

[gnommunist-organizer]

damn asker, that's crazy and would suck. good thing we have robust IP law in the United States to prevent theft from Black artists

now to take a big sip of coffee and look up who owns Tupac Shakur's likeness

[mlembug]

The Bizarre Reason You Rarely Hear Martin Luther King Quotes in Movies

Steven Spielberg has received criticism for buying the film rights to MLK's speeches, and further controversy stems from King's estate.

In 2009, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company paid the estate for film rights to King's words, along with his life rights, which allow a person or company to make content based on an individual's story. DreamWorks has yet to produce or direct Spielberg's planned King biopic, but the rights have caused complications for numerous filmmakers. (Neither Spielberg's literary agent nor King's estate returned Broadly's request for comment.)

King has received only one major biopic, 2014's Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay […] Instead of using King's speeches, DuVernay wrote original monologues that sounded like soliloquies the civil rights leader could have given. […] When asked about the changes in 2014, DuVernay told the Washington Post, "We knew those rights are already gone. They're with Spielberg."

[tlirsgender]

Maybe one day we can stop moralizing the concept of privilege & everyone will get normaler about being told they have relative privilege over other people. Like literally everyone everywhere in some way. It's fine. Being aware of it can't hurt you

[tlirsgender]

There's such an endless chorus of outraged "but what if I'm poor? What if I'm autistic" and it's like. Ok. You're not getting this at all let's just start over

[jvhdb]

every day i tell myself i need to leave the disco elysium subreddit then someone is really funny on there and i’m forced to keep going

[commissarpiglet]

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[iwillsurvivecollege]

They Do Not Exist (1974) dir. Mustafa Abu Ali

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Every day this guy looks in the mirror and psyches himself up to eat shit in the hopes that our big beautiful president succumbs to his one thousand diseases but I don't think it's in the cards

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Literally cartoonishly evil.

[tamamita]

Always center Palestinians in the conversation, because they are the ones being genocided, fuck Jewish feelings

[anik]

i love this guy

[morphoblue]

[cumaeansibyl]

Any story which refers to Haiti as an impoverished nation, which is all of them, should also mention that when Haitians won their independence from France, French gunships showed up and demanded they pay something like 22 billion dollars in today's money to compensate France for the stolen land and enslaved people they could no longer exploit

It took Haiti over a hundred years to pay that ransom and it's difficult to explain just how badly that fucked up their entire development, especially since France also demanded a 50% discount on everything they bought from Haiti just to make it harder. Like! No wonder they're impoverished!

Anyway if France would like to assist Haiti in its current difficulties they could always pay back the fucking money they extorted

[genderoutlaws]

Stonewall veteran and trans rights advocate Victoria Cruz dies

Victoria Cruz, a transgender rights advocate and Stonewall veteran, has died at the age of 79 following a battle with liver cancer.

a lot of ppl's lives were touched by victoria :( may her memory be a blessing

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