magnificunt

I'm just here for the food

[the-magnificunt]

the feminine urge to sink underwater and stare silently into the rays of sunlight barely piercing the depths above

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[hawkeye221b]

I wanted to meme before the big day.

Not yet, Brutus.. not yet..

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Been seeing a lot of folks talk about bugout bags where the context seems to be fleeing a Knock from secret police or something, and I want to gently suggest folks consider more likely reasons to bug out (wildfires, crumbling infrastructure leading to gas leaks, etc).

Make sure your bag can get you through scenarios where you are part of a mass evacuation, rather than you clandestinely leaving in the middle of the night to escape brownshirts.

I feel like thinking in this context will help folks prepare better and think beyond fleeing to the nearest border as their prime objective.

I don't like giving this regime more power than it actually has, so it is helpful to me to think about what I would do in specific scenarios. Planning for those gives me much more concrete action items, reduces my panic, and ends up preparing me better for unknown situations.

A lot of us have real fear of this regime rn, and escaping a Knock is a realistic concern.

But I feel like a lot of white, cishet, middle class folks are in oppression cosplay mode rn, and their brains aren't in a practical space for what the more likely impact to their lives is going to be.

If preparing for a Knock isn't also going to prepare you for facing sitting in traffic for 12 hours with no hotel plans because you need to evacuate a natural disaster on short notice, you should think a bit more about your risk factors and resiliency.

Vague prepping for "When shit hits the fan" means you are going to forget key items. Come up with some specific scenarios to run through and see how your kit would perform.

[covington-shenanigans]

@thatdisasterauthor might have suggestions on this? (sorry about the tag if this is intrusive, ignore at your whim)

[thatdisasterauthor]

Always down for disaster advice related tags!

And yeah, I agree with @so-i-did-this-thing in a lot of ways. A natural disaster (or a man-made one) are A LOT more likely to present an immediate threat to most people right now. Especially because of this administration threatening to dismantle basically every disaster protection we've got from FEMA to NOAA. We are starting down the barrel of, at the very least, a wildfire season with an absolutely crippled wildland firefighting force. (And wildland firefighting resources respond to a lot of other non-fire disasters as well.)

Be prepared for a Knock, especially if you're in any sort of marginalized group, but also be aware that knock might be someone telling you to fucking run because there's a fire roaring towards you.

[kittyoverlord]

"The Knock" happened at my door today. ICE raided my apartment complex starting at 5:30am. They told me they were following up on "reported gang activity" but their facade soon dropped and other tenents were not told the same lie.

By 6:30 a local community task force had mobilized and were shouting "Don't open your door! You do not need to open the door without a warrant signed by a judge! An administrative warrant from ICE is not enough! You have the right to remain silent! You have the right to an attorney!" in English and Spanish. People who left their houses were subject to harrassment and they detained 7 people.

If the secret police knock on your door, running is (often) not the best option. The best option is to know your rights and hunker down, don't let the cops in.

Yes I understand it seems like everything is disintegrating right now and that our legal rights are meaningless, but institutions don't fall overnight. They're counting on you already acting like they've won, they're counting on you believing that their secret police are able to skirt around your legal rights. They're not.

It can be exciting to imagine the scenario where you have to go on the run from a corrupt police force. Often the heroic work is actually quite boring. It's tireslessly working with governments to change the laws, it's filing paperwork, it's doing the dishes.

Just my two cents after the crazy day that I've had.

[etakeh]

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[trollprincess]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[trollprincess]

Me getting slammed with notifications on this post in particular:

[headspace-hotel]

Americans will drive 15 hours, why the hell wouldn't we take a 15 hour train ride.

[1863-project]

God, I'd love to be hired to drive that if it's built.

Right now, a trip between New York Penn Station and Union Station in Los Angeles takes 41 hours by car. Assuming the average speed is about 60 mph, that's still nearly 2 days to do the 2,791 miles between the two stations.

Imagine if we specifically built one HSR route between those two stations. To do that trip in 15 hours, you'd need a trainset that could go on average 186 mph for the majority of the trip - and guess what? We already have those, just not in the US! As an example, the E5 and H5 Shinkansen trainsets can max out at 200 mph. So this timeframe is actually 100% doable. The hardest part would be actually getting the funding and convincing Americans to get on board.

Anyway, let me drive.

[madphantom]

Lately I've been developing massive sores, bruising extremely easily and my gums are bleeding all the time, and while I brushed it off it's steadily getting worse. Anyway today I read an article about scurvy and realized my symptoms are eerily similar and also I barely eat any fruit these days, so I'm gonna start eating more fruit and grab some supplement vitamin c and see where this is going.

[madphantom]

Update: My mentally ill ass probably very legitimately has scurvy because I took some supplement vitamin c yesterday and today and there's a noticeable difference when I brush my teeth! For months now my gums were bleeding extensively for a good half hour after I've finished brushing my teeth, no matter how gentle I was, but this morning they only bled in one place and only a little bit. Bought myself some OJ and a bag of tangerines to eat while I study, so let's see if I can get more improvement. Getting rid of the sores I have on like 30% of my arms would be GRAND.

[madphantom]

Like legitimately, there's just so much that could be explained by this. I have massive sores stretching from my armpits past my elbow which are constantly somewhere between "dry and irritated" and "actively bleeding". I have bruises that haven't healed since September. I have severe joint pain. I'm chronically fatigued despite a horrific caffeine intake and can sleep twenty hours and still be tired. My gums bleed so much after brushing my teeth I spit blood for a good five minutes afterwards, and they hurt like a bitch all the time. There's a sore next to my mouth that has gotten worse and worse for a month. And with all of this, legitimately all of this, I just thought it was normal and I could ignore it away if I wait long enough. God knows how bad it would've gotten if I hadn't finally decided to do something about it.

[the-magnificunt]

please please please see a doctor if you can. they can help you recover more quickly and take care of your sores faster and more carefully

[typekast]

My friend’s little brother (non-verbal) used to hide people’s shoes if he liked the person, because it meant they had to stay longer. The more difficult it was to find your shoes, the more he liked you.

One day my cousin came over, and she was a bitch. When it was time to leave, my friend’s brother handed her shoes directly to her and she went on and on about how he must have a crush on her because he only “helped” her.

[rubykgrant]

[somanyquestions-featuringanxiety]

Reblog to hide prev’s shoes as a gesture of love

[midnightssea]

[midnightssea]

btw “actual feminism” is trans inclusive and op of this tweet agrees :)

[s1xseasonsandamov1e]

becoming the oppressor is not liberation!!!!!

[rvllybllply2014]

I want to eat it so bad, it looks so fucking good. Also which god is he?

[the-magnificunt]

i'm such a dumbass that when he brought out the mixer my first thought was "wow he made a functional mixer out of chocolate that's impressive"

[memewhore]

[memewhore]

[memewhore]

[the-magnificunt]

does he know she's calling him a queen? i feel like this type of guy would be super offended

[memewhore]

[vampirologist]

nurse feratu and dr. acula are ready to see you for your blood tests

[tehmiesh]

it is not a buyout and it is incredibly frustrating the media has spun it as such. it is a scare tactic to get us to "resign" so he can obliterate the federal workforce bc he cannot just fire 75% of us like they want. they want to make the government appear inefficient so they can argue that it always was and then privatize everything for their own profit. they do not care about the average citizen. they do not know what it means to be a public servant and they have villainized us for simply doing our jobs for the taxpayers. they only care about deepening their pockets.

this last week and a half has been exhausting and terrifying. federal workers just want to do our job and help the people despite the constant villainization and utter hatred we receive from the general public.

I do not plan to give in and give them what they want, but I am miserable and utterly exhausted. while my closest friends try to show support, without working in government it is so hard to fully understand, especially going off of headlines.

the every day federal worker is not your enemy. most of us became public servants bc we love the work that we do. and we just want to do our jobs.

[the-magnificunt]

Resigning federal workers WILL NOT be paid. There's no budget to pay the people who do give in and resign, and no repercussions to Trump/Mush for the resigning worker not being paid. This is a classic tactic used by Trump and Musk plenty of times before. Don't believe it. Don't resign.

[catchymemes]