Rosalina Bloom

Hi, I'm Beka! Welcome to my blog! There is no organization, just chaos. Her/she, 20. I do art sometimes! Fandom Wise: Sonic, Winx, Hermitcraft, FNaF

[solradguy]

Going to the library tomorrow to find out if I'm allowed to print hypothetical boobs for the GG copybook I wanna do

[solradguy]

Libraries don't fuck around when it comes to copyright law

[rosalinabloom]

The most important thread the Super Mario Galaxy Movie set up was the enemies to lovers Yoshi/Birdo plotline.

[fasrgswragf-deactivated20250703]

[crimegoku]

Capulets vs Montagues

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Two houses, utterly devoid of dignity

[anarchistmemedistro]

[noneedtofearorhope]

"While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons, which are so dangerous that the federal government filed a lawsuit four years ago that remains pending [note: article is from 2024], calling the treatment of prisoners unconstitutional.

Though they make at least $7.25 an hour, the state siphons 40% off the top of all wages and also levies fees, including $5 a day for rides to their jobs and $15 a month for laundry.

Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry."

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

[anarchistmemedistro]

USA: More than 500 businesses, including McDonald's, Burger King and Walmart, allegedly using Alabama prisoners as cheap labour - Business a

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre

[the-cash-cache]

Alabama outlawed forced prison labor in 2022, which is the violation the state is being sued for now.

Alabama Outlawed Slavery in Prisons. Is It Still Happening?

Two years after Alabama voters closed the slavery loophole in their state’s constitution, people are still being punished for refusing to wo

I had to look this up since I was surprised AL was one of so few states that have tried to address modern slavery, but of course they wouldn't actually give up their slaves.

[slowspinningredemption]

had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called “what do you serve?” and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was “are you the spider? or are you the web?” and it had an option for each but I didn’t click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed “I think I’m the fly” and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said “you serve truth” and the description just read “what you know will kill you but you will die laughing” so like. good morning everyone I guess :/

[mariaalenkoshepard]

OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep

[jsillabub]

“What you know will kill you but you will die laughing” needs to be added to that list of profound statements from unlikely sources.

[fantome-sans-opera]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

On it

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[brinnanza]

one person does not cure cancer. teams of scientists who rely on funding from the government cure cancer. one person's singular novel ingenuity is not what is stopping us from curing cancer; fucking CAPITALISM IS.

[liminalbeauty]

Literally.

Kseniia Petrova - Wikipedia

[jasperoura]

I’m completely normal about him

[milkcastro]

And what if rap WAS only about sex, violence, and drugs... what then? Would you be justified in looking down upon it as not being "real" art? What would your justification be? Sex is immoral and taboo? Drugs should never be mentioned outside of D.A.R.E programs? Songs about violence turn children to it? Would you turn that standard to other genres as well? I know you wouldn't, I know you haven't, because it's never really been about the topics explored.

[11thfempachi]

rap is often about politics and punk is often about sex and drugs but tumblr users wouldn't know because they listen to neither

[valtsv]

i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people

[valtsv]

if you could see the thread i'm hanging on by you would not say these things to me

[chipzle]

Yippee!

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help

“The notion that people panic and run screaming for the exits is a Hollywood fiction,” said Prof Stephen Reicher, an expert in group behaviour at the University of St Andrews.

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other,” he said. “We found this during the 7/7 attacks on the underground and the 1999 attack on the Admiral Duncan pub in London, where people looked after each other even though they feared other bombs.

“In our own research on the Leytonstone tube attack in 2015, there was an amazing level of spontaneous coordination by bystanders: some directed others away from danger. Some distracted the attacker. Some confronted the attacker. Each was able to act because of the others. Heroism was a feature of the group, not just the individual,” he added.

Prof Clifford Stott, a specialist in the psychology of crowds and group identity at Keele University, agreed. Modern research, he said, showed “bystander apathy” was a myth. Instead, strangers often work together in emergency situations with highly sophisticated unity.”

[cephalopodvictorious]

Bystander apathy is a myth invented by the New York Times to cover up that the police were called by several residents of the building, but the cops refused to act. The cops then told the Times that 38 people just watched her die (a seemingly arbitrary number and a physical impossibility based on where the attacks occurred), and the Times ran with it. In fact, Kitty was alive when the cops got there, and was being held and comforted by one of her friends who lived in the building because one of the people who saw her get attacked from across the street called her friend to go get her. Because people care.

The Bystander Effect Started from a Lie

You have just been attacked. How likely is it that someone will come to your help? If you remember the infamous case of Kitty Genovese in 19

[moosepower]

I will always re-blog this. The story of Kitty Genovese’s murder has gone down in history as a story about everyone watching it happen and doing nothing and none of the story is true.

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[tpwrtrmnky]

I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.

[bananonbinary]

it is actually fascinating to me to see the exact same people who vitriolically hate ai for copyright infringement defending the internet archive.

don't get me wrong, i love the internet archive, but like. i thought you guys were mad that you thought ai had works in a database without the author's approval. what do you think the internet archive is.

[certified-delinquent]

Yea, you don't want a world where copyright laws has the power to kill GenAI. Trust me.

[moniquill]

As an author? There's a huge difference between 'This work has been put into an archive so that people can access it now and in perpetuity' and 'This work has been stolen and put into a data set so that it can be used to generate AI slop for profit'

If you do not comprehend the difference between these things, I have to presume that you've never created anything, ever.

[letitrainathousandflames]

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

I wish I could give the miis internalized homophobja

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

no but like i want them to actually feel it

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

you dont like her?

[viejito-at-heart]

everyone tells me that ADHD isn't an excuse for being lazy and that there are people with ADHD who have overcome their symptoms and are successful but every day I drag around an invisible dopplegänger of myself who is horrible and listless and always complains. and he is so heavy. I'm ambitious and I'm passionate but he isn't and the problem is that to get anywhere in life I have to grab him by the leg and pull him along the whole way, kicking and screaming, and sometimes it gets exhausting. sometimes he pulls me down with him. and it gets a bit difficult to explain to people why I'm lying down on the floor in pain when they can't see him.

[justaratinacagexx]

I've never heard ADHD explained this way....but it's such a good depiction of it.

[fuji09]

This is seriously an amazing way to explain how ADHD feels.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[fraeyen]

I’m assuming your talking about the tremendous disaster that is the fractional inheritance of land in reservations that has been forcibly divided between exponential heirs, making the management of land impossible as 40 acres could have more than 400 owners, that are required to come to a consensus to do anything. To quote from the fantastic book “Mine!” “6 million acres of native land have been tied up in 100 000 fractionated tracks, owned by 250 000 land owners, holding 2.5 million fractional interests.”

The amount of money that is spent tracking the tiny percentages random descendants own that could be spent improving Native American life is astounding.

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Yeah, fractionated land is an absolute nightmare in the management of tribal land that I could do a whole rant about (what do you mean someone inherited 0.0000002% of 40 acres and it's worth 12¢, the postage alone to notify all the relevant parties cost 1000 times as much, I can't believe I have to waste my work hours on processing this bullshit).

But I was referencing the way more basic fact that many tribal governments literally do not own all of the land within the reservations that were guaranteed to them in treaties. There are prime parcels owned by private white land owners or the government smack dab in the middle of reservations. And those private land owners legally don't need to get permission from the tribal government to do whatever they want with their land.

"But isn't the whole point of reservations is that they're land that's been, well, reserved for Native Americans?" Yeah, that's what the treaties say, but the US doesn't exactly have a great track record with honoring those.

[feels-of-an-asexual-anemone]

Apologies if I'm wrong, but isn't there also some convoluted arrangement where tribal governments only own the land superficially and do not have subsurface ground rights?

Which is why oil pipelines are such a problem?

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Great question! So what you're referring to is something called "severed mineral rights". It can actually apply to most land in the US, not just tribes (though it certainly affects them too). While the legal specifics vary from state to state, in short the idea is that it's possible for one party to own the rights to a parcel's surface resources and a different party to own the rights to its subsurface resources. So for example, if the land you own sits atop a pocket of natural gas but you don't own the mineral rights, you can't make a claim to any of the profits a company might make from extracting and selling that natural gas.

The reason why oil pipelines are such a problem is definitely tied in with land ownership rights, but resource extraction in particular is also tied in with a whole host of other issues as well. Manufacturing and resource extraction companies have a long history of (knowingly) dumping their environmental impacts onto disadvantaged communities and then wiping their hands of the problem because it's not affecting where they live.

You mentioned Alaskan Natives in your tags; I should say that I know basically nothing about the Native land situation in Alaska. Because while there are general trends in regards to how Native and reservation land is owned and managed in the US, I cannot overstate how every single tribe is going to have a different specific legal situation from every other tribe. The federal government has made a lot of policies that applied to "Indians" as a whole, but they've also made a lot of specific policies for specific tribes based on a tribe's history, treaties, location, and culture. Every time I delve into the history of an individual tribe it's like "wow! This is so fucked up in a brand new and horrible way intentionally designed to screw over this tribe specifically!"