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Kay but when’re we gonna make “spy on your kids” products/applications illegal
not only are they overwhelmingly being used by abusers, if u can think of an ethical reason why anyone would spy on a child unless you think they’re planning a jewel heist pls do tell me because I’m Stumped
These products feed into the notion that children are the property of their parents.
I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more time. Sex does not sell. If sex sold, we would see penises where we see boobs. Naked men would be on everything that naked women are on. Sex isn’t what they’re selling you. They’re selling you an impossible, pornographically fueled misogynistic idea of the perfect woman.
(via menstruate)
FUCKING THANK YOU
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They are selling women.
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2016 wasn’t all bad as Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains. Humanity did some good this year.
38 and 39 are my favourites
This. This is the list I’ve been wanting to put together, grinding my teeth after I’ve seen people whinge about how 2016 was WORST YEAR EVER.
No. No, it wasn’t. Not even close.
(People who were alive in 1929 might seriously disagree with you. People who are still coping with polio today may want to have words with you.)
2016 had issues, but so much about this entire year was absolutely amazing, and we should not ever lose sight of those things.
Some positive things I haven't seen about 2016. However, the one about Israel and water is actually an environmental crisis. The water comes from desalinization plants that spew very salty water back into the source and kill all the marine life that lived there. One should ALWAYS question where water for agriculture is coming from.
So i got tagged by @a-jedi-in-purgatory to do a Six Selfies of 2016 thing and I just looked through all my photos and I don’t have a single selfie from 2016....
Wait .. So Harlem is no longer black ?!!
Harlem is white now ?!!!!
yep.
last time i was in spanish harlem i saw a sign that said SpaHa and i was ouuut
Harlem native here👋👋👋👋.Harlem is gone.They call it “Soha” or “The Upper Upper West side”. Ever since Columbia university was granted there expansion black and brown people have been uprooted from their community. This has been going on for like 15 years.Brooklyn is white too.I hope the residents of East NY fight like hell against that rezoning plan.
This is disgusting .
SpaHa? Gross. I bet they’re coming for the Bronx next 😪
Gentrification is so real…
Its not something I thought I would ever see up close…. They have a habit of going after not only historically black towns but towns and neighborhoods important to our growth as a people si they can change it and make it something different acting like we were never there…
Terrible
Yep now white people feel comfortable enough to go jogging up and down the block while apartments are getting boarded up and torn down.
Cultural & historical erasure is part of white culture.
what i see them doing to harlem… what i see them ALLOWED to do to harlem fucking break my heart. it only proves that black people will never truly know peace as long as white people have access to us and our shit. theft and erasure is a part of white culture.
@tempistsky reminded me of last night
Yeah, thats my hometown. Harlem is so white now and gentrified. I went on a rant about it a couple weeks ago. They have Harlem festivals that are suppose celebrate the Harlem people and culture, but the festivals are full of white people and white families. People always talk great about Harlem and its historic culture, but all that is gone and dead; Harlem is gentrified and whitewashed. The culture is gone, the native people can barely afford to still live there. Its no longer Black.
This is so fucking depressing. Spent my childhood summers there. Harlem is such a significant part of our history and culture. This is just…ugh. Why???
Colonisers, they just can’t stop themselves.
It’s parasitic behavior. Literally.
Literally watching this happen right now on the Southside of Chicago and it hurts my soul
It’s so fucked up. They relegate the poor among us to these areas, and then wait til we make something of it before they push us out and take it for themselves. Harlem ISN’T Harlem without black people so they need to find a name.
Jeebus I knew Brooklyn but Harlem too?
This is happening in Detroit right now…
Flint especially that’s why they are poisoning the water a and not collecting the trash .
Miami as well
wynwood used to be called Over town . It was a black neighborhood before it got gentrified .
I was watching the show called the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt oh whatever it’s called and it’s either too they were talking about gratification and it did not really have an effect on me or I didn’t care that much about it because I live in Maryland so I didn’t care for one of the characters storyline about gratification and now that I actually see that it’s happening it shocks me. I apologize for whatever is going down in New York and the gratification transformation thing and I hope you guys are safe and please be safe.
I live in MD too and the same thing is happening in DC. They’re evicting black families, improving the housing, and moving white people in.
Loot black cities on a government level then kick them out when you want to fix it up . Drop prices and sell to other companies that work with the city .
My neighborhood is being gentrified too . Some white dude in a Prius ……….
A fucking Prius stopped to talk to me about my dog lol. I have a house though so I’m not fucking moving . Can’t say much about the families in apartments near by .
Just the other day some apartments were set on fire.
Wow
There was an article about the “new face of the Bronx”…. White family
All POC could literally leave Earth and go to Pluto or some shit And colonists would STILL try to come up there and gentrify It’s like you have the WHOLE earth, allow us our sliver of space
I didn’t realize they were doing it in Detroit.😷😷💔
Yeah, I read an article a few months back about how some old ass white mega millionaire has turned to Detroit for the “next big thing”. I lived there when I was little n I’ve always wanted to go back, but not now if Ima be surrounded by white people, like that doesn’t even make sense. My elementary school doesn’t even exist anymore.
But talking abt Pluto made me think of this video one of my favorite professors showed us in class. It’s afrofuturism from like the 80s abt a bunch of aliens coming to Earth to solve our problems if the white people sell them black people. Black people end up tryna start a campaign where they pretend to know it’s gonna be a paradise for them so they can trick white people into not going thru w/ the sale out of jealousy of letting black people have anything nice n good.
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This is why us moving our money is so important we are literally investing in our own destruction
http://blackoutcoalition.org/black-u-s-banks/
This is slowly starting to happen in South Central LA. Thankfully, whenever these new apartment building go up, no one but black and Latino families have moved in.
And I’m honestly not surprised it’s happening in this general area. My great great grandmother has owned a house there for the last 26 years and she’s a two minute drive away from USC, so I knew it’s bound to happen eventually. It’s really the saddest things to see 😔
Colonialism never ended. It just EVOLVED and Manhattan? Is DONE. That City has been a center of the Eclectic Wealthy (Read: White) since Central Park was designated a Green area (Late 1850’s). Then their more ‘bohemian’ children needed a place to Be so they started out slow with SOHO. And that was good enough until the late ‘70’s. When the Kids started getting tired of riding the Long Island Rail Road, Conn Rail, and NJ Transit into the ‘Cultural Center’ of NY or Graduated from NYU & didn’t wanna leave. Started pushing out the gay community and taking over The West Village. Then moved on the Squatters & Semi-homeless living in the practically abandoned ruins of Alphabet City on the (Avenue’s A - D on the Lower East Side). Hells Kitchen? The Bowery? HA! You funny!! Half of that’s ALREADY gone. The other half is under Development.
Little Italy? hasn’t been a center for the Money Generating Mafia since after WWII, (They moved to Staten Island & Queens, before settling in NJ) and was abandoned to the Chinese. China Town expanded for a bit, but then started moving everything that MATTERS into Flushing. The Tongs (ALWAYS having had one foot on either side of the legal/illegal line) could see the writing on the wall. They’ve been able to hold onto the Tourist Trap aspects of China Town; Manhattan but, trust, all the REAL business is going down in Flushing.
The Business/Wall St. Area? Used to work there. Remember working swing-shift, DRIVING into work, and being able to practically park in the sidewalk for HOURS because the Financial District was absolutely deserted after 7pm on week days. Eerily deserted. No people, EVERYTHING closed&shuttered for the night, not even cops writing parking tickets. Just Mutant Rats & Evolution Accelerated Cockroaches fighting over the garbage piles waiting to be picked-up on the curbs. Flipped me, THE FUCK, out seeing Baby Carriage/Stroller Moms competing for space on the over capacity sidewalks during lunch hour when I eventually went back to working days (Before and AFTER 9/11). Couldn’t figure out what they where DOING down there. Then I realized; They, fucking, LIVE HERE. Of course. Daddy/Mommy wants a 10 minute WALKING commute to their corner office @ Shearson-Lehman or Goldman-Sachs rather than a 1-2 hour daily commute on a sardine packed LIRR train from Sands Point. Of COURSE.
Brooklyn? Was inevitable. But I thought, at least, Harlem could hold out just a little longer. Guess not. And, from what I understand, even the handful of Low Income Tenement Projects built & filled during the ‘50’s are now under assault from Developers who can see nothing but Manhattan Real Estate prices in-route to an orbit around Mars. They want they’re cut. And will get it by any means necessary.
I mean, if anybody has questions about Institutional Racism? Confused about how the definition of racism is ACTUALLY Discrimination+POWER and why that can’t be found in any dictionary? Wondering how Trump’s blatantly racist, redlining, Deny-any-black family-that-even-THINKS-about-moving-into-one-of-MY-New-Developments, Daddy made the pile of money his son is currently mismanaging?
Take a minute to wade through the History of Real Estate in NY’s 5 Boroughs. SHOULD clear up a LOT of shit.
This shit is happening in LA too. Especially now that the Rams are moving to Inglewood, black people can no longer afford to live over here. They are raising some people’s rent from like $1300 to $1800
Here in Minnesota is happening majorly in North Minneapolis.. It’s slow but my mom and my ex are real estate agents and they’re saying that the city of Minneapolis is BEGGING the buyers of Minneapolis land/homes to keep it historical and not due too much. They’re begging for them or to buy to rent but buy and help the community in a sense of longevity. I’ve sat in at one of these meeting house shopping with my ex, they’re trying their hardest… but houses are getting knocked down and rebuild and Whole Foods are replacing cheaper markets so people have to go farther for groceries. Starbucks (which I love I won’t lie) every corner taking out mom and pops. White millennial moving in so swiftly and calling the police about anything that startles them… which is everything
I thought you don’t like segregation.
I thought you don’t like colonization.
Nobody is colonizing anything right now lol. It’s been pretty stagnant as far as that goes, but of course nobody wants to look towards the future and accept reality. If you think this is colonization then you are a moron.
You obviously have no idea what gentrification is . Feel free to open your google dick mouth :)
@coffeecannabis1337
“ no body wants to look toward the future blah blah blah . - insert more moronic shit on a topic you don’t care about here : ”
FUCKING moron
there are also docs you can watch for your donkey head ass on the internet .
just like google , YouTube is also free .
So again I thought you didn’t like colonization .
Ima tell the truth in the hopes that I can help bridge the gap between perspectives- At first, I didn’t quite understand/like what I was reading in this post. But I got it when someone mentioned the things they do to the areas of cities AFTER black people move out, often with no other choice because of rising prices and a higher presence of racist police. Then, they are fixing up places like this to make them ‘suitable’ for white people. Because, you know, nobody cares when black people live in unsafe, unsustainable and unmaintained housing, but white people apparently need better? I don’t think that white people being neighbors to people in a predominantly black community is the real problem here. Every community has their outliers. The problem is the devaluation of their places of home and work, and their needs. That’s a good point about Whole Foods. I don’t know a lot about whether religious minorities in Harlam, but I know that there are plenty of black Muslims. Now imagine if the small store that is the only place you can get some specialty items for traditional dishes is replaced by some other shop, filled with crap you can just buy at Walmart. Or, as people start visiting Harlam, they find this little shop trendy. But that gives an increased pressure to CATER to people who see this as a novelty. What is important to the racial group starts cutting products so they can carry things that WHITE people want. Because we’ve been conditioned to think we don’t NEED to adapt. That if something we want isn’t there for us, we don’t find something to replace it, we get our preferences, wherever we go. Because the market is for us. In my opinion, no, having completely segregated communities isn’t the answer to the problem. But until such a time where white people start respecting the cultures of the places they go, and stop making predominantly POC communities a low priority in economic support, and you know, the butt of jokes and stupid, racist sentiment… Yeah, I can totally understand why there is mistrust or hostility. Some of the previous comments are right- Go look it up. Get it from someone who knows more about it than me. I’m in such a small town, that I don’t get the intricacies of racially segregated communities.
For those that didn't know, Central Park was built over a black neighborhood so white people could have green space. Gentrification doesn't just mean moving in, it means shaping nearby areas as well.
Anyone who agrees that lesbians are comparable to the alt-right needs to unfollow right now
For the person in my inbox, Heather Hogan of Autostraddle had a Twitter rant that accuses lesbians of 1) alt-right propaganda tactics 2) transphobia 3) support from & support for MRAs/white and 4) being the most privileged group of queer women AT ALL TIMES
Anyone who agrees that lesbians are comparable to the alt-right needs to unfollow right now
unrealistic
Very unrealistic.
Impossible
drop whatever you’re doing right now and climb a tree
its pitch black outside, and freezing cold. I think ill climb a tree tomorrow
you climb that fuckin tree right now
I’ve literally never seen this post on my dash when it is not after dark and cold as balls. I’m beginning to think this is a conspiracy to get us eaten by some nocturnal tree demon.
everybody put in the tags at what time you saw this
Sometimes I consider deleting some of my old posts but then I wouldn't have a timeline of things I've learned/outgrew
Someone else on tumblr pointed out that PASSENGERS might have been a more meaningful movie if it was about just THE ONE person dealing with being alone on the ship for the rest of their life. And if, to cope, they go through and make it a point to learn everything they can about all of the other people on the ship.
And I just keep thinking about this idea.
There are 4999 other people on that ship and what if the protagonist spent the remainder of their life (and they do live their full life) learning about each of them.
They took an interest in their hobbies so that they could have some sort of connection to them.
As their sanity flexed in an effort to cope, they could have had these really involved imaginary conversations with the crew about their interests. And by the end of their natural life they will have known everything they could have ever known about these other 4999 people.
…
AND THEN THE REST OF THEM WAKE UP. And they have some 90 odd years of security footage of this one crew member talking to each of them in turn. And it goes far beyond ‘I have figured out how to cook that one dish you were struggling with’ or ‘I have read THE SILMARILLION at your suggestion and Jesus Christ I have thoughts about it.’
They actually start making connections between all of the crew.
Like ‘You like bugs! You should totally talk to Cindy! She’s an entomologist!’
Or ‘Did you know that you and Said’s grandfathers were both in the same infantry?’
Or ‘You and Jamie are both avid bee keepers and I think you need to meet.’
Or ‘I know you’re really struggling with this, but Aneesha said she went the exact same thing and I think talking to her can help.’
And because all of these crew members are watching the videos that have been individually addressed to them (Because why not? They’re colonizing. There’s not a lot yet available by way of entertainment) they sort of start talking to each other at the Protagonist’s suggestion. And within a year they are THE MOST unified interconnected colony of any of the colonies because this one crew member broke the ice for them a lifetime ago.
Several of them are engaged.
Two are about to have children named after the Protagonist.
…
AND BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE NOW they notice when one week a crew member isn’t out and about and no one can get in touch with them. So finally somebody goes to check and they find them huddled in a ball and mourning.
Because Protagonist is dead.
And the other people are like: ‘Yes. We know. This is literally the first thing we knew about them.’
But Mourner is like: ‘You don’t understand. I got to the end.’
And then everyone realizes that the mourner has basically been BURNING through all of the videos Protagonist has addressed to them and got to the last one they made to them before they died. And Protagonist left a final message for each of them.
Suddenly everyone’s having a real frank conversation with themselves about how fast they’re going through their videos and if they’re prepared to keep going at that rate and get to the end, or if they should put it off indefinitely.
And one by one, in time, each of them realizes they can’t put it off. Not only are they invested in the end, but they care enough about Protagonist to really acknowledge their death.
Each crew member does this at their own pace. It becomes a rite of passage of sorts. And Protagonist is given some sort of proper memorial so the colonists all have a place to go when their time comes to grieve.
…
BUT BEFORE EVERYONE GETS TO THE END, someone has started noticing how Protagonist treated the robots on the ship over the years. And surprise, surprise, Protagonist named all the robots too and treated them like individuals depending on their quirks. So now someone has finally solved the mystery of why droid 808 insists on being called ‘Bob,’ and why 239 knows ASL, and why the auxiliary robots are so salty about nobody ever being able to tell them apart.
Not only that, but security logs shows that the robots were about 19% more efficient when Protagonist was alive than they are now. And THE VERY SECOND the rest of the crew starts observing the same habits Protagonist used in treating these robots ALL OF THAT EFFICIENCY COMES RIGHT BACK.
Because they missed Protagonist too.
…
And things settle. Everyone thinks they’ve reached the end of Protagonist’s surprises.
…
THEN THEY ARE FINALLY ABLE TO START TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE OTHER COLONIES.
And a visiting party shows up.
The visitors are surprised to see HOW WELL everyone on this colony is getting along, because, wow, people are civil where they come from but GODDAMN.
And one of these visiting members is really excited to see their sibling.
And ‘Oh, that’s so nice! Who is it?’
And then the visiting member says a name every single person on this colony knows.
The colonists have to tell them what happened to their sibling, Protagonist.
But they also HAVE to tell the sibling what knowing Protagonist MEANT to them. And what Protagonist knowing THEM, meant to them.
And it’s sad.
The colony pretty much wholesale adopts Protagonist’s sibling as a part of their family because they don’t know what else they can do to fill that void. But just in case, they give the Protagonist’s sibling THE ENTIRETY of Protagonist’s security footage. Because there is 90 years of it and that way they can carry their sibling with them for the rest of their life even if only in video.
And then the colonists think:
‘This. This was the end of Protagonist’s story. And this was a good a proper way to observe it.’
…
AND THEN ONE DAY A SHIP SHOWS UP THAT IS NOT LIKE ANY SHIP THE COLONISTS HAVE EVER SEEN.
And the people driving it aren’t human.
They speak English and passable French. They can chicken scratch Urdu, Mandarin, and Swahili.
Everyone is stunned and wants to know ‘why…?’ and ‘how…?’
And the aliens are just, like, ‘Oh. Protagonist. We ran into them while you were in space. They told us you’d be settling here and asked that we check up on you whenever we were rolling by this quadrant next.’
‘They were really nice. Taught us English. Gave us the files on a couple of your other popular languages as well just to be safe. How’s the colonizing going anyway?’
And everyone thinks back to THAT ONE MONTH of security footage where Protagonist was NIGH IMPOSSIBLE to find. And when they finally did come back to their normal routine they were really quiet and thoughtful for about a week before really getting back to themselves.
The linguists all suddenly remember that IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT REALLY WEIRD MONTH, Protagonist had a new coded language saved to their personal affects and was very insistent that they LEARN IT. ‘FOR REASONS.’
And very quietly, the entire colony makes peace with the fact that Protagonist established a very successful first contact while they were all asleep.
Because of course they did.
hell is right-clicking to save an image and accidentally clicking ‘email image’ and having to wait forty years for some email program you didn’t even know existed to rise from its slumber like some lovecraftian ancient god, meanwhile the fans on your laptop are preparing for takeoff and you stare dead-eyed as the rainbow spirals, spirals, spirals. you wait and suffer this cosmic karma. days pass. “just a few more seconds” you slur. your laptop freezes and the concept of time is no longer comprehensible. your family and friends forget your name and you fade from existence.
every time. every time I say I can’t stand tomatoes someone emerges from the mist to offer me an heirloom cherry tomato from their garden. “It’s good. It’s sweet. You’ll like it,” they wail and wail. my attempts to deflect them with no thank yous and jokes about them being close relatives of deadly nightshade to no avail. they continue to attempt o force the round orbs upon me. I give in to their plea and take a bite. “It’s ok I guess,” I whimper as my eyes water and I struggle not to gag on the sour, mushy, hell fruit.
Try a heirloom cherry tomato from my garden. It’s good and sweet and you’ll like it
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