vi coactus

compelled by force

[glintglimmergleam]

a lot of prescriptive linguists (the fancy term for snotty english majors, faux-talgic baby boomers, racist gatekeepers, and other subdivisions of the language police) like to shame The Youth for lazy capitalization and punctuation, but the interesting thing is that most young ppl i know who build their lives around texting are actually pretty damn deliberate about their language choices

“u” and “you” show degrees of closeness w/ your partner; using punctuation at the end of a reply text indicates tone; capitalizing certain words in the middle of the sentence is for Emphasis; sometimes we’re sloppy and sometimes we make mistakes but there is a real grammar to internet communication because by “grammar” i mean a “code of language rules that society agrees upon in order to create meaning”, and that is the opposite of being lazy

(tumblr absolutely has such a grammar and you can tell when someone’s not fluent)

the old guard is passionately defending a pure linguistic territory that we don’t want anymore, it’s not useful enough for 21st century relationships dependent on the subtleties of texts

[xyle]

*unconsciously touches own boobs in public* *remembers im not suppose to do that*

[strangeanduncanny]

I think you mean subconsciously

[xyle]

no. catch me at your local walmart asleep in the Ball Cage gripping onto my titties for dear life

[punlich]

[hellsatmyfeet]

Current status

In starbucks taking photos of a guy taking creepshots of young college girls. It’s currently a standoff, because he realized what I’m doing and is paralyzed with indecision.

[hellsatmyfeet]

Update: I have told him he can put them on reddit if I can put him on tumblr. He’s turning red. People are staring. He’s showing me that he is deleting them.

[pelicanhypeman]

A god among us mortals, tbh.

[brittany-murphy]

[lesbianhaircut]

honestly, you're one rude bitch

jokes on you. i am ten rude bitches in a large coat

[ahaleyscomet]

Ok, so, a friend of a friend was at some fancy schmancy party in NY, and she was getting majorly creeped on by two older guys- they had her basically cornered and she was getting really uncomfortable. So, she scans the room, and who does she see but motherfucking Aziz Ansari. She makes a solid moment of ‘Dude help me’ eye contact, and Aziz comes over to her - this person he has never met in his life - and he’s like ‘Hey girl! Been so long, what’s up!’ and gets her away from them. He then proceeds to check on her a few times for the rest of the party to make sure the creepers don’t come back.

Tldr, Aziz knows girl code and is an A+ person.

[eggsbrennadict]

If you live near/in western ma, please read this!

[nipbar-deactivated20161206]

Boost

[ms-dos5]

[nzingambande-blog]

I’m a Nerd and I’m a Diva

I’m a scientist working on tackling the issue of global poverty…

I’m an entrepreneur ensuring youth have the opportunity to make a future for themselves…

I’m an engineer building the future…

I’ve attended a HBCU and graduated from MIT…

I’m a coder, a welder, a designer, and quirky at heart…

I am the maker of tomorrow…

I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD…AND I’M SAYING IT LOUD

#BlackOutFriday

[thebaejazelle]

#BLACKOUT

[honmos-deactivated20160126]

im a cool boy

[sapphotron]

#selfieseder

Inspired by the success of #blackout, let’s have #selfieseder on the first night of Pesach, April Third, 2015! Start posting them in the morning, get an early start :)

"This is how you are to post selfies: with your loins girded, with your sandals on your feet, and with your staff in your hand." Nah, it doesn’t matter, as long as you identify as Jewish you can participate, just tag your posts with #selfieseder. Or maybe #sederselfie, I’m not sure which is happening but I guess either one works. If you’re not Jewish, reblog us and support!

During the Seder we recline on pillows and have other people pour our wine for us, because on that night we are all entitled to behave like nobility. Pesach is the perfect time for us to celebrate our freedom and our beauty and our diversity. 

[vicoactive-blog]

I feel like there was a time when we didn’t first decontextualize and then steal everything from black people. Not saying that everything black people make is bad — quite the contrary. But, yeah, there was a time wh- Wait, was there? Nevermind. Okay, well. There should be a day where we stop first decontextualizing and then stealing shit from black people. Oh, shit, should that be a thing? #stopdecontextualizingsunday? We could all post selfies an- hmm. no, ‘stopdecontextualizingsunday’ sounds kinda weird. Also, pretty sure that’d be Doing The Thing, y’know? So, instead, maybe let’s just not.

[sapphotron]

Okay. I’m going to be very careful with what I say here.

It doesn’t say on your page whether you’re Jewish or not. I am.

I’m trying to start #selfieseder. The point of #selfieseder is not to decontextualize or to steal anything from Black people, any more than the point of #blackout is to decontextualize or steal anything from any other group. The point of #selfieseder is to be inspired by #blackout. To do something similar. To celebrate the beauty and diversity of another marginalized group, another group which has been told it can’t be beautiful. Having #selfieseder on the same day as #blackout would be a jerk move. That’s why I explicitly said that we should have it on another day.

#selfieseder does not take anything away from #blackout. If Asian people or people who use wheelchairs or people who are transgender decide to organize a hashtag and a day for posting lots of selfies under that hashtag, they will not be decontextualizing and they will not be stealing from Black people or from Jews. #selfieseder existing doesn’t mean that #blackout gets deleted. #selfieseder does not mean that Jews are better than Black people, any more than #blackout means that Black people are better than white people. #selfieseder means that Jews are beautiful.

For a long time, a favored tactic of oppressors has been to turn marginalized groups against one another. To turn Irish immigrants against Black people. To turn Chinese immigrants against Jewish immigrants. Nobody wants that to happen. All I want is for Jewish people to post lots of selfies on the first night of Passover this year.

[vicoactive-blog]

Yeah, I should have been more clear: I am white and Jewish (Ashkenazi, to be specific). I had a b’nai mitzvah, I was raised going to synagogue regularly, I was raised celebrating Passover, and I really love celebrating Passover. It’s a holiday which, for me, has a lot of positive memories attached. So, that’s my context. Look: it’s great when nearly any community can celebrate themselves, can practice self-love, can show care for other people in that community. But “Jewish people are beautiful” means something very different than “Black people are beautiful”. I don’t think you can do ‘blackout, but for jews’, and have it make sense. We do not share an identical cultural legacy (and cultural present) with Black people. We have not experienced the same oppression. Because we have not experienced that oppression, we cannot fully understand it. To say “we’re going to do the same thing as you guys did, but for Jews” implies that #blackout can be translated. I do not think that it is translatable from its context of Black self-care, Black intracommunity support, and Black beauty in the face of racist beauty norms and anti-blackness in general. I am sure I am missing a lot of detail and context to what #blackout means to black people, because, again, it’s not for me, and I am incapable of understanding all of it, but: hope that clarifies what I’m trying to get at.

[sapphotron]

That’s part of why I suggested a different name, too, because a lot of Jews (including me) get told they don’t “look Jewish.” Whatever the heck that means. A lot of people act surprised when they learn Natalie Portman’s Jewish, because she doesn’t “look Jewish.” Whatever that means. There’s people in #blackout who don’t “look Black” (whatever that means) because they have albinism or vitiligo, or they’re mixed, or they’re just really light. For them, I think participating in #blackout is a way to say that they don’t need to “look Black,” because Black looks like them. #selfieseder means “Jewish looks like us.” And I really hope we get trans Jews, Black Jews, Asian Jews, differently abled Jews, Jews with “Jew-fros”, Jews with straight hair, tall Jews, short Jews, all posting pictures for #selfieseder, because Jewish looks like them.

#selfieseder isn’t the same thing as #blackout. It’s not the same thing as Asian Face Appreciation Day, either. It’s similar, but it’s not for the same reasons and it’s not meant to be the same thing.

[vicoactive-blog]

I am not denying that anti-semitism exists. I am a Jewish woman who has had strangers on the street tell me I look like Jerry Seinfeld, and they did not mean it as a compliment. People have made barbed jokes to me about my typically Jewish nose. I have close family members who have gotten facial surgery because of ingrained shame over 'looking too Jewish'. I have a relative who had pennies thrown at her when she was growing up as the only Jew in her town. She's not that old. My extended family is far, far, far smaller than it should be. Out of the 220,000 Jews who, before WW2, lived in Lithuania (where my family is from), all but 13,000 were murdered. I am aware that anti-semitism exists. That is irrelevant to the point I am making. I am aware that Jews have gotten judged on looks. That is also irrelevant to the point I am making. You're still drawing direct comparisons (not resonances, but equivalencies) between Jewish experiences and Black experiences. Please reconsider whether it truly makes sense to do so.

[akanedee]

💫 03|06|15 : BlackOutDay 💫

[sapphotron]

#selfieseder

Inspired by the success of #blackout, let’s have #selfieseder on the first night of Pesach, April Third, 2015! Start posting them in the morning, get an early start :)

"This is how you are to post selfies: with your loins girded, with your sandals on your feet, and with your staff in your hand." Nah, it doesn’t matter, as long as you identify as Jewish you can participate, just tag your posts with #selfieseder. Or maybe #sederselfie, I’m not sure which is happening but I guess either one works. If you’re not Jewish, reblog us and support!

During the Seder we recline on pillows and have other people pour our wine for us, because on that night we are all entitled to behave like nobility. Pesach is the perfect time for us to celebrate our freedom and our beauty and our diversity. 

[vicoactive-blog]

I feel like there was a time when we didn’t first decontextualize and then steal everything from black people. Not saying that everything black people make is bad — quite the contrary. But, yeah, there was a time wh- Wait, was there? Nevermind. Okay, well. There should be a day where we stop first decontextualizing and then stealing shit from black people. Oh, shit, should that be a thing? #stopdecontextualizingsunday? We could all post selfies an- hmm. no, ‘stopdecontextualizingsunday’ sounds kinda weird. Also, pretty sure that’d be Doing The Thing, y’know? So, instead, maybe let’s just not.

[sapphotron]

Okay. I’m going to be very careful with what I say here.

It doesn’t say on your page whether you’re Jewish or not. I am.

I’m trying to start #selfieseder. The point of #selfieseder is not to decontextualize or to steal anything from Black people, any more than the point of #blackout is to decontextualize or steal anything from any other group. The point of #selfieseder is to be inspired by #blackout. To do something similar. To celebrate the beauty and diversity of another marginalized group, another group which has been told it can’t be beautiful. Having #selfieseder on the same day as #blackout would be a jerk move. That’s why I explicitly said that we should have it on another day.

#selfieseder does not take anything away from #blackout. If Asian people or people who use wheelchairs or people who are transgender decide to organize a hashtag and a day for posting lots of selfies under that hashtag, they will not be decontextualizing and they will not be stealing from Black people or from Jews. #selfieseder existing doesn’t mean that #blackout gets deleted. #selfieseder does not mean that Jews are better than Black people, any more than #blackout means that Black people are better than white people. #selfieseder means that Jews are beautiful.

For a long time, a favored tactic of oppressors has been to turn marginalized groups against one another. To turn Irish immigrants against Black people. To turn Chinese immigrants against Jewish immigrants. Nobody wants that to happen. All I want is for Jewish people to post lots of selfies on the first night of Passover this year.

[vicoactive-blog]

Yeah, I should have been more clear: I am white and Jewish (Ashkenazi, to be specific). I had a b'nai mitzvah, I was raised going to synagogue regularly, I was raised celebrating Passover, and I really love celebrating Passover. It's a holiday which, for me, has a lot of positive memories attached. So, that's my context. Look: it's great when nearly any community can celebrate themselves, can practice self-love, can show care for other people in that community. But "Jewish people are beautiful" means something very different than "Black people are beautiful". I don't think you can do 'blackout, but for jews', and have it make sense. We do not share an identical cultural legacy (and cultural present) with Black people. We have not experienced the same oppression. Because we have not experienced that oppression, we cannot fully understand it. To say "we're going to do the same thing as you guys did, but for Jews" implies that #blackout can be translated. I do not think that it is translatable from its context of Black self-care, Black intracommunity support, and Black beauty in the face of racist beauty norms and anti-blackness in general. I am sure I am missing a lot of detail and context to what #blackout means to black people, because, again, it's not for me, and I am incapable of understanding all of it, but: hope that clarifies what I'm trying to get at.

[thegreatlarryfisherman]

Go go gadget, MIRROR SELFIE!

PSA: These are two different pairs of pants bought two weeks apart from each other. One is nearly bursting at the seams while the other is kinda baggy. I literally switch off washing one while wearing the other.  Oddly enough the fishnet shirts are the same.

[sharrina]

Easy, breezy, beautiful, colored girl.