[xarcrax]

damn, giant areospace chemical meltdown east of me, oil spill in the river very very close west of me, and fires all over socal again. lead contamination site is still getting delayed being officially designated a superfund site. and we're still canvassing and trying to stop the multiple data centers and also stop ice agents.

[xarcrax]

had an interview scheduled last week at the library to be the summer sewing instructor, the librarian did not show up. this was after a phone interview back in april, then multiple days of background checks and fingerprinting, and when I showed up in person (carrying a pile of sewing samples that they asked me to bring) for the interview and to go over the lesson plans they had me write, the librarian wasn't working that day, and still no response to my follow up emails.

the classes I was supposed to teach are also supposed to start in 2 weeks too and there was supposed to be an application process bc there's limited space ???

[kerizaret]

Overheard in a manga store yesterday: "we need more yuri in here. I've had at least 5 girls coming up to me last time asking for yuri. Everyone wants yuri now". The world is healing

[mndvx]

Chris Eccleston on that shit let him talk!!!!

[xarcrax]

[angelicdewdrop]

[clarencechampagne]

"By defamiliarizing the familiar, I hope to illuminate the terror of the mundane and quotidian rather than exploit the shocking spectacle."

-- Saidiya Hartman in Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America

[padawan-historian]

Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e

https://gofund.me/530afb61e

[plavoptice]

Community demands accountability at vigil for father of 2 killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge

Advocates say that before Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent, he fired gunshots as part of a New Year's Eve celebrati

[heterosexualgayhusbands]

link for the fundraiser is down this is the new one

Donate to Support for Keith’s Daughters After Tragedy, organized by Keith Porter

My 43-year-old son, Keith, was tragically killed on New Year's Eve in Northri… Keith Porter needs your support for Support for Keith’s Daugh

[xarcrax]

my partner and I have been playing Discounty but also it's just cartoonishly too similar to real life. What do you mean the plastic factory and mysterious fog are impacting your local town? In real life we're out here fighting the 200,000+ sq ft data center, tule radiation fog has been all over at night, and ice just took somebody across the street from my moms house over the weekend. (and by my old house in dena, and by the park which was my first job, and all over NELA and west sgv) and my cousin just moved in with my mom bc it's been over a year from the Eaton fire and their house STILL hasn't even been cleaned or had any repairs and state farm kicked them out of their hotel.

[dykeselfcest]

idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

[schoolhater]

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 

[xarcrax]

I want to quit my mlis. Partly bc im so fucking overwhelmed with trying to juggle work and school and doing the dishes and also still dealing with my childhood neighborhood being burnt down and theyre still finding bodies and people are dying from the stress combined with that kidnappers are still consistently raiding everywhere near me AND all the cities are fucking stopping organizers from free grocery distributions. people in Dena have lost their entire home and displaced and 10 months later still living in the same hotels where ICE is also staying and have been kidnapped at immigration check ins.

my neighbors and friends and family and even myself are all being hunted and I'm supposed to go to work and school like normal.

And like, I think a large part of me wanting to quit school is that I am taking 2 soc-heavy classes (critical youth studies and intercultural communication) and im now very aware how white the profession is, and I wasn't aware before starting school. 96% of librarians are white women. In the same class that I'm writing about redlining influencing library programming and access while classmates are like "yeah I've never met people of color before"

[eboneeblak]

There’s is absolutely nothing I hate more than seeing a white liberal lean into doomerism. Black folks been at the margins for centuries but since Mango Mussolini is fucking YOUR shit up now we’re cooked. STFU and get to organizing and supporting mutual aid you piece of shit.

[boudicca]

u will have the most insane crazy bonkers poem show up on your dash and then get to the caption after your life has been changed by reading it and without fail it's by hanif abdurraqib

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

this post has more people in my inbox defending working for lockheed martin than you'd expect

[13hemoglobin]

Im interested in learning everyone's media traditions. Like watching Die Hard every Christmas or Groundhogs Day every Groundhogs Day. id love to know if anyone has a specific summer movie or Halloween movie or St. Patrick's Day movie or whatever. please tag it so I can know

[hotvampireadjacent]

Ice suggesting a white woman remove the Mexican flag sticker from her car. Can they all kill themselves already