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gardenstatetait

I love yall, stay tough and help each other out.

titsay

it's almost their season

landsccape

fancsiful

Happy catto

theseventeensteps

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

titsay

cherries and strawberries 🍒🍓

blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060

SOMETIME IN THE LAST WEEK MY SCHOOL PUT UP A LARGE BANNER DEDICATED TO THE :-) EMOTICON

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[id: a banner with a huge image of the :-) (smiley face with nose) emoticon captioned “smiley / first emoted here / 19 september 1982 / computer science department / www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley / carnegie mellon.” end id]

happy birthday :-) face

blackcvrrant-deactivated2023060

it’s that time of the year again everyone say happy 40th birthday :-)

weaver-z

This is apparently what was contained in the original message that invented the :-) and I'm obsessed with Fahlman's diction here

catchymemes

I felt like you guys will appreciate this

daloy-politsey-deactivated20171

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

thelordfool

4) black Americans invented rock and roll.

swanboulet

5) Black AND Jewish Americans created musical theatre.

iwonthepageant

moniquill

While I am absolutely here for celebrating the creativity of black and jewish Americans (Jazz is awesome! Rock n Roll is awesome! Musical Theater is Awesome! The entire Jewish American Humor Ouvre - think Mel Brooks - is awesome! Rap and R&B are awesome!), it’s fucking wild to me as an indigenous person to see the words “These things are said to be the only original American art forms.” re: THINGS INVENTED IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY.

Just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_arts_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

halloweentrickortreat

Halloween in Northern Ireland through the years 🎆

burntheedges

Bystander Intervention Training

so, the US just attacked Iran, and that is fucking terrible. Something we all need to think about right now is how we can stop the harassment and violence against Muslims and Arabs in the US that got so much worse in the early 2000s from happening again to people now.

To that end, I wanted to share some resources on Bystander Intervention. One of the biggest things I learned from training like this is that there are many ways to intervene, and they don't all involve putting yourself in front of the person who may harm you or others. It's ok if you feel intimidated by that because there are more ways to help! And once you do the training, it might not be so scary.

Right to Be has Bystander trainings based on the 5Ds of Bystander Intervention (Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and Direct). The trainings are free!! sign up here.

I took one of their trainings a few years ago (when the org was called Hollaback!) and it was really very good, they have trainings at multiple levels and focused on various topics. They also partner with other orgs to focus on specific issues (like anti-AAPI harassment and with CAIR Chicago for anti-Muslim harassment, etc.).

Here are a few more resources:

APA Bystander Intervention Tip Sheet

RAINN Practicing Bystander Intervention

I think I'll sign up for one as a refresher.

beauty-funny-trippy

odinsblog

theartofanimation

Yare Yue - https://www.facebook.com/yareyue - https://www.instagram.com/yueyare - https://www.behance.net/392242300bf5d

sirfrogsworth

I just turned 43, but I have to say, trying to figure out what Skibidi Toilet was, made me feel much older.

sirfrogsworth

It's basically a bunch of 14 year olds (and younger) who have had their first taste of surrealist content and because it is so novel to them, they can't get enough of it. And it has become extremely popular.

It has a perfect storm of features built in to appeal to that age group. First and foremost, their parents don't get it. It frustrates older people. But it isn't objectionable enough for parents to put their foot down and say they can't watch it for arbitrary moral conflicts. It's like Baby Shark for tweens.

And so these young people get to truly explore what weirdness is. How it makes them feel. And it gets to be... just theirs. They get to claim ownership of it and have this community surrealist experience together and then laugh at their parents because they're all, "Okay, but why is the head in a toilet?"