it doesn't go away

she/they, goes by Vi, i reblog info, art, and things that make me feel stuff.

[gorsho444]

The real Themis.

[departmentq]

This is the world capitalists want to return to.

Instagram

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[unknownbinaries]

finally remembered to put these up, now that this is the least of anyone's worries. unfortunately i have taxes and domain renewals and phone bills, etc. Listed here, every 3 gets a free one (an order for 6 gets 8, etc).

[unknownbinaries]

HEY i deactivated this for a while because I was super depressed (no it really doesn't make sense), and then I was trying to use reactivating it as an excuse to make some new stuff, but that was taking too long so I'm just resharing this with an actually functioning link for now.

[kropotkindersurprise]

Good sticker to put over Ring doorbell cameras in your neighborhood.

[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[the-collecting-turnip-deactivat]

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

[fgsshinyhoard]

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

[hockey-trash]

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

[cricketcat9]

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

[justgot1]

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

[lettingitoutabit-deactivated202]

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

[for-southendgirls]

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

[goingtiny]

Do you see the world as it is, or as someone told you it is?

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

This photoset proves you can make anywhere look great or terrible. It’s all framing and more people should know about that

[gamebird]

Worth a reblog. I don’t think the US version was on there when I first reblogged.

[holyfudgebuckets]

All of this is true, and also- those stick and mud houses are actually amazing examples of indigenous African knowledge. They are being studied for their thermal properties and sustainability.

Of course traditional African homes look different from homes in the US or Europe- they’ve started from different climates and resources. It’s such racist hubris to assume different means lesser-than.

[moniquill]

Do you still sleep in Grass thatched houses ‼️😳

Hey Fam Thank you for coming by Another video here answering why we sleep in grass thatched houses Hahahha some people clearly don’t know wh

https://share.google/MCbqIYkdTvWZ3TgTA

[aetherograph]

also also, the racism of saying “oh they build with sticks and mud” like we don’t do the same thing. Stick-built is a fucking category of Victorian house! Stucco is just mud! Plaster is just mud! Adobe is just mud! Clay is just mud! EVERYONE builds with sticks and mud! It’s very telling that people only use words like “sticks” and “mud” when they’re being insulting. Buddy I live in a house made of sticks and mud too.

[no-one-offical]

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[boycritter]

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

[boycritter]

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

[weepingwitch]

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

[tieflingkisser]

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Thinking about how Thjazi not breaking the glyph was a snap decision. He didn't plan his own execution in advance as part of a masterstroke play, based on how he was joking with Hal he clearly expected to escape using the glyph. And then he saw that falcon, presumably Mara the Wing. Others have mentioned that he likely chose to die because what he was doing with the blood from the River Gavzidra required someone be in the Tenebral Reaches, and him seeing Mara signaled to him that her passage had been blocked, and he realized he had an express if one way ticket to exactly where his plans needed someone to be. So Thjazi chose to allow his own execution to proceed, and rushed out his last words to Hal in the scant few seconds he had. Circumstances very suddenly required him to willingly sacrifice himself for his cause, and he made that choice very decisively even as he was clearly scared to die. Thjazi was certainly a lot of things, but one of those things was that he was a man who was willing to give up everything if it meant living out his ideals.

[starlightonravenwings]

spoiler alert for CR episode 28:

lmao guys i counted up what Azune's actual total was with that Nat 20 because nobody said it in the episode itself:

20 + 9(from the 2d8 he got) + 2(from guidance) +6(what i believe is his + to persuasion) = THIRTY FUCKING SEVEN!!!!!

IM JUST GONNA SAY IT AGAIN: THIRTY. FUCKING. SEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!

literally insane

[serialephemera]

Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part I should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.

[moddeydhoo]

More lessons from Pratchett:

Good isn’t always nice (i.e. sometimes appearing nice is a luxury you can’t afford if you want to do the right thing) (this refers to setting bones and fighting evil, not to being pointlessly horrible)

Evil can appear very nice indeed (watch out for people who smile while they deny your basic humanity)

People can suck, be rude and actively work against their own best interests, but personkind is still something we must protect so they can keep being wonderful in between all the stupid

“Person” is always a broader category than you think

It’s not about who’s best for the job - it’s about who shows up and does it

Be very aware of how you treat those in your power; you will be judged on it

Respect women, which explicitly includes trans women (with or without beards and steel-toed boots)

Kings: no. Hard-boiled eggs: yes

[elkian]

No one - not military leaders, not kings, not patricians, not gods - no one is beyond consequences or above justice

Addendum: those who think they are are often the worst of the worst

Kids understand more than we think and sometimes the best way to protect innocence is to arm them with knowledge, confidence, and skill

How you’re born is intrinsically less important and less relevant than who you make yourself into

I can’t put it into a pithy sentence but that bit where Magrat is like “let’s toss [Lily] off the tower” and Nanny answers with “go ahead then” and Magrat hesitates bc it’s easier to do something like that together than to make the decision alone… impactful.

Evil begins when we treat people like things.

[noirandchocolate]

I. This is not a game.

II. Here and now, you are alive.

[pastrypufferfish]

Sometimes you get bored and feel like drawing a bunch of family trees

This contains all information I know up to episode c4e27, and I’ll likely have to update it in the future when additional context is given.

I may have made mistakes, so don’t be afraid to correct me on those

Additional Notes:

-It took me a bit to figure out if I wanted to put Filoneous as a child of Aetheon with Godard, but looking at it enough I’m 80% sure Filoneous is a normal human. Yanessa told Wick that she had a singular child (Godard) with Aetheon, and there’s little to no reason to not mention Filoneous if he was also born from that. Additionally he doesn’t have any significant celestial traits like Godard’s blindfold and never displays anything in that manner, along with how he doesn’t seem to have a demon assigned to him (unlike Godard, Zebani, and Wick).

-I’ve noticed some sources saying that Primus has eight children, but in making this I realized that he actually has nine. Petra and Ryah share the first-born spot (and the parietal bone as their namesake), meaning that there’s one more than eight. Unless we learn that there are more twins, but I highly doubt that at the moment.

-Realizing that we’ve only met two people from House Cormoray was surprising, and we don’t even know Lord Dacen’s first name.

-The reason Aranessa’s grandfather is noted in the House Royce chart is because it was mentioned that he was the former head and who chose to side with Tachonis and Halovar in the War of Axe and Vine.

-The wiki lists that Talisen mentioned two other of the Panto’s (Bolaire’s siblings) names in the Schemer’s Tale Gate, but I’m holding off on adding names until we get in-story confirmation as I’m unsure whether or not Talisen was actually just joking during that part.

-Also the critical role wiki page on celestials incorrectly lists Aetheon, Tezumriel, and El-Naumri as unnamed, so that needs to be fixed at some point

Edit:

- I’ve been notified that Hal and Thjazi are actually half brothers with the same father, so the graph’s edited to reflect that (thanks for noticing!❤️)

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[india-official]

WOW THIS IS SO COOL :O

[bluestrawberry7]

sorry it's 70% azune this is a representation of my inner soul

similar bullshittery

[pastrypufferfish]

[searea]

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.