[cyanobone]

Based off a pic I found on Pinterest

[ebaybumpstock]

[cresfts]

dragn

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

the fact that I feel the need to go, "and don't forget about Black people" is the most damning indictment of tumblr that I can give without being tempted to mention photovoltaic bartholemew. I have to browbeat you people to reblog any kind of Melanistic Mention. I love you, but i despair of you understanding the way I interpret your suburban accent.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

13 year ago eminem (marshall mathers) said,

"I don't know how to make songs like that I don't know what words to use."

you have to do better than 13 year old eminem lyrics. stop treating people as a social obligation.

deal with it, talk about it, stop hiding it away in your private suffering chamber. do your communism dishes

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

you do this to me and ignore Black women. I am irritated with you.. resolve this.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

Tears that are driven by white guilt are self-indulgent. When we are mired in guilt, we are narcissistic and ineffective; guilt functions as an excuse for inaction. Further, because we so seldom have authentic and sustained cross-racial relationships, our tears do not feel like solidarity to people of color we have not previously supported. Instead, our tears function as impotent reflexes that don’t lead to constructive action. We need to reflect on when we cry and when we don’t, and why. In other words, what does it take to move us? Since many of us have not learned how racism works and our role in it, our tears may come from shock and distress about what we didn’t know or recognize. For people of color, our tears demonstrate our racial insulation and privilege. I asked the woman of color I refer to in the opening of this chapter if I was missing anything in this list. This is her response: It’s infuriating because of its audacity of disrespect to our experience. You are crying because you are uncomfortable with your feelings when we are barely allowed to have any. You are ashamed or some such thing and cry, but we are not allowed to have any feelings because then we are being difficult. We are supposed to remain stoic and strong because otherwise we become the angry and scary people of color. We are only allowed to have feelings for the sake of your entertainment, as in the presentation of our funerals. And even then, there are expectations of what is allowed for us to express. We are abused daily, beaten, raped, and killed but you are sad and that’s what is important. That’s why it is sooooo hard to take. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo (emphasis mine)

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. (emphasis mine)

white transfems are not especially racist, but we are afforded an uncommon opportunity to confront the reality of white supremacy. it is not a coincidence that talking about race as a transfem feels like inviting people to call you racist. white power structures leverage accusations of racism against us not in defense of racialized people, but as a way to suborn us to service of white supremacy. it is not a coincidence that it feels like the only winning move is to stop talking.

white supremacy courts us in the same way that "gender ideology skeptics" court transmascs.

[dirt-secret]

i do this cuz i like you

[c-rowlesdraws]

started sketching this comic for Day 13 of @thebeardlyben’s “Gnollvember” prompt list… decided to use it to practice a more casual sort of inking style, and finished yesterday in between working on art people are actually waiting on me for.

Day 13 - “Think Twice”! Sweet Pea knows what money is, but Nettle wishes she’d be more mindful of their food budget.

[jacky-killian]

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god

[tilkidud]

hmmmst shall i mutilate today

[chii0-6]

Wiggle-wiggle >:3

Was a nice time working with this char

- animation cmm -

[obscure-entity]

1 of the hyena designs i wanted to make

[katlovesshrimps]

in light of the everything being one billion degrees an oldie

character uses they/them

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[aranzi-aronzo-wisdom]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[snapjaw-scavenger]

be honest am i going to scale well late game?

[catgirl-kaiju]

i find it very very telling that people immediately started going kiwifarms on gooseworx right after the final episode of tadc dropped on yt and the reveal that fan favorite character Jax has been a closeted trans woman this whole time, radically recontextualizing everything about her and her actions. everyone in the fandom has been completely fine with other queer representation in the show, even Zooble who is also trans representation, but i guess a complicated and flawed transfem is just a bridge too far.

i don't care about old social media posts that have coincidentally and mysteriously "resurfaced" following the outrage of transmisogynist fans. you clearly missed the part of this where Jax is reflective of Goose's past behavior of using edgy and harmful humor to play the bad guy and push people away in order to cover up the fact that she is a trans woman. you missed the part where Gooseworx has explicitly grown past that kind of behavior and Jax is an exercise in extending empathy to a past version of herself who was trying everything in her power to be uworthy of love and care. you fundamentally do not understand the art you are a fan of.

Gooseworx's ban by @staff is transparently due to harassment by transmisogynists attempting to turn her into a "controversial figure" for "ruining" their favorite edgy jokey rabbit "man" by revealing she's been an edgy jokey rabbit woman this whole time. i will block anyone attempting to justify this ban. i do not want those who would enable such an obvious transmisogynistic witch hunt to interact with me or my content. fuck off.