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Cultural differences: no one up at my job takes a little bag into the restroom with them.
Someone asked me about my little bag. I explained and they looked confused. Girl where are y’all putting your hygiene products. A lil body spray. I like extra deodorant. A lil wipe in case theres no toilet paper. A mint. Some gum. Some lotion?????? Lip balm.
Where do you keep your things?
This has been said before but please understand that the trillion dollar problem AI was invented to “solve” is wages. Corporates are using the AI scare to depress wages. It doesn’t have to work right or be productive to reduce workers bargaining power for higher wages. The threat of job loss will keep people silent on poor working conditions and poor pay packets. It is a win win for corporations.
Slavery is the goal. It always has been. You all have no idea how close to slavery we are. How close we’ve always been. Yes, this whole time. They have believed for one hundred years that the slave economy was the best one and have been constantly trying to get it back. They are so close.
A lot of Americans have never seen these oppressors sacrifice their own money to keep a group in their place. They’re not used to it. It doesn’t make sense. Please read some Black American history. If you want a shortcut to the gist, go read Louisiana history. Please believe they will salt a good amount of their own earth if it means you never have real freedom. You all have no idea how nasty it can get.
Those detained immigrants and citizens will not be deported, they will be rented to corporations for pennies; enslaved.
The remaining workers here will be scared into accepting less because the alternative is destitution.
So many people thought we were exaggerating before. But without actual prison reform, the door was left wide open for them to extend that hurt you the rest of us. Everything is always a slippery slope back to slavery. I would love it if people stopped acting like it was an absurd possibility. The way slavery persists and shapeshifts is dangerous. There has never been a point in modern history where it didn’t exist somewhere/right tf here. Currently human trafficking is affecting us in ways a lot of ys cannot fathom. Many of us, mainly women and children are missing. I’m not asking you to run around with your hair on fire. Just—treat it like the threat it is.
“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
"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
“you block people over politics?” girl i have blocked people for calling a song i like a skip, i have absolutely no problem blocking someone if i find out that they actively vote against basic human rights
A lot of non-Black people think apologizing to a Black person is the greatest indignity they could ever suffer. It’s obvious that the mere thought of it pains them. Seriously, it’s like they consider it a fate worse than death.
PLEASE talk about Congo, Haiti, and Sudan, with the same fervor you give Palestine. PLEASE care about black struggle and suffering.
this fund gives menstrual kits to women in sudan and helps keep community kitchens running ! it’s only $10USD to donate for a menstrual kit!
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/
Nothing is going to change how humiliating and uncomfortable the entire situation was but the fact that no one reached out to Delroy Lindo and MBJ is a massive fucking problem and the biggest one I have with the whole thing.
The network had the responsibility to extend grace to them too but not a single person reached out to them and apologized to them for what they had to go through in public on a stage in front of their peers while they were supposed to be enjoying and celebrating being a part of a monumental achievement in film. It’s not just the fact that it happened that’s upsetting, it’s that no one cared to check on them at all. We’re supposed to carry ourselves with grace and be mindful to everyone around us yet when Black people are wronged, no one cares about our humanity enough to want to say sorry when it’s appropriate. A very simple and thoughtful apology would have gone a long fucking way.
a lot of boba places and cafes have recently become a very sterile inpatient white and are instagrammable/tiktokified like i know its trendy now like how the cozy brown-and-green indie coffee shop vibe was in the 2000s, but it is sad to see a loss in the personality of local places. i dont have #nostalgia for the aesthetic of older shops btw (LOL), just a sort of wistfulness at the thought that so many places i loved going to dont look anything like what they did. also i want to go somewhere to study and if i just see white floors white walls and hard plastic chairs at fake wood tables im going to fail all my classes and run away to become a fucking cowherd in wyoming
like you cant make this shit up
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my favorite photograph from Girl Pictures and the cover of M83’s album Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts
The Temptation of St. Athony by Jacques Callot, 1635
THIS RIGHT HERE
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybody’s head:
The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated
Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.
Lying in bed with my two-handed greatwife.
