People who got their catalytic converter stolen today:
Well, probably a lot of people, but one of them was this guy!
MOUSE ARMOUR
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Mouse condo, previously owned by Venus Williams, desirable neighborhood, available immediately.
That’s so cute 😭😭
I hate that as Indigenous people, we have to slowly explain the concept of LandBack to basically every colonizer.
Like no we're not going to just throw you out, or put you in camps, or any of that shit. We just want to be able to take care of our ancestral land and be the ones in charge of protecting it.
Like I know these people were raised with a colonial mindset but after a while I just start to lose sympathy.
Like oh you're worried about having your home violently ripped out from under you?? What a fucking tragedy.
I wasn't gonna add to this, but like, no, I wanna add to this.
What will change for you, Whitey McWhiterson, if LandBack takes place?
Not a whole fucking lot.
You might be incentivized to switch to less-polluting modes of transportation, such as biking. Gas might be discouraged.
The environment might be prioritized.
You might become a citizen of, say, Mi'kma'ki instead of the USA.
Your kids might be taught an Indigenous language in schools.
History class would be a lot more up front.
But your day to day life? Very little will change. You're not gonna be kicked out if your house. You're not gonna be rounded up and put into a camp. You might be required to have the minimum basic decency towards the environment. It will be the Sovreign Peoples running the show.
But you, Joe Shmoe, will be left alone to live your life.
Which is more than we can say your people did for us.
Fuck Yes. Grew up next to the Seneca Nation and never understood why this concept was hard for people to understand except colonialism fucks up your brain so bad you can't conceptualize anything like this that DOESN'T involve literally destroying the other culture/peoples. Same way a lot of scared white people are worried black people will get violent or aggressive with them because they know how their ancestors (or, often, they themselves) have treated black people in the past and they're worried about fucking retribution.
The people who have sticks up their asses on this website about ✨paying attention in 10th grade english class✨ have the barest and most basic understanding of literary analysis though
No, the point of reading isn't exclusively to decipher the meaning an author is conveying to you, there are many many critical lenses for interpreting a text, some don't give all that much of a shit what the author meant.
Yes, a story isn't necessarily approving of an evil action by depicting it, but it's also not necessarily "showing" that it's evil either. Those aren't the options. Stories don't just exist to teach moral lessons.
To understand and enjoy SO MANY stories, you must disconnect yourself from the framework that a story is always, in some way, teaching you how to behave morally or what "right" behavior is, and particularly that a "likable" character is a morally correct one that you're supposed to empathize with.
Sometimes, a character is supposed to be reprehensible and YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO EMPATHIZE WITH THEM.
But even more importantly, sometimes a story simply is not necessarily designating a character's actions as "right" or "wrong." That just isn't what is being communicated.
Sometimes a story is asking "What if this happened? Wouldn't that be fucked up?" And this is in no way less "deep" or meaningful or worthy of analysis.
Go here to comment ^ reblog to help spread the word!
This is only relevant to USians, but-- you know how you feel like there's nothing you can do about anything and online petitions are meaningless? This is not that. The government is required to read and document their consideration of every comment they receive on regulation changes like this. If you're in the US, take some time to comment. A real human will have to read your comments. This is the opposite of a meaningless petition.
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Butch Women Talk About What It Means to Be Butch. Originally posted by them on Youtube. Excerpts featuring Cade Russo Young, a 37 year-old butch dyke.
TRANSCRIPT:
What isn’t sexy about other butches, are you kidding! Oh, my god! To me, butch means someone who I was brought up by, and admire. Butch is nuanced. Butch is more than we’ve been talking about. Just because I identify as a butch dyke and a cis woman right now, it doesn’t mean I always will. Who you are, right now in this moment, is perfect. And if that changes, you’ll be perfect in that moment too.
END TRANSCRIPT.
I always thought Ami would grow up to be a cat lady
Please allow me to introduce my Tiffany turtle. 🥰 🐢
Sooo, I recently had this reblog to grace my dash with an awesome crochet 'stained glass square' by Cookie Snob Crochet.
The square was still floating through my daydreams when the dock turtles (yellow belly slider terrapins) arrived for their afternoon snack.
I really couldn't NOT do the crochet, right? I mean, just crochet the stained glass circle part and then cap it for a shallow bowl shape.
My Tiffany's feets were fashioned after the 'baby sea turtle' by Whistle and Ivy. I think they worked perfectly for this project.
Tiff's belly was made flat and stitched with a wide hem on her front side to better display her signature 'yellow belly'. 🐢
Thank you! 😁
the man from uncle episode 'the pop art affair' having teenagers literally sniff grass on the ground vs the monkees episode 'the frodis caper' having a sentient weed plant fight for funniest representation of kids smoking pot on 1960s television
first post here in ages lol
The Queen is Dead
Crabs rule the day, memes will be falling from the sky!
While it may be a reason for many to celebrate, there are a few things to remember:
- the UK government is already in turmoil
- there are already advertising campaigns centered around how eating moldy food isn’t that bad, and how cuddling pets in the dead of winter can help people avoid freezing to death
- the cost of what’s coming next will not come from the royal treasury - it’s paid for by taxes
- during the next month plus, while people are distracted, it will be the perfect time for the far right people in government to push through some rather extreme measures without pushback
- even more taxes will have to go toward changing the postage, money, etc.
People are going to die because of this. Not just the queen - she’s already gone - but regular old people.
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Denim Cutoffs - very 1980′s.
“hey man are you ok i saw you reblogging Denim Cutoffs - very 1980′s twice in one month”
CHECK OUT THIS REALLY COOL BOOK ABOUT AFRICAN-JEWISH COOKING!!
Michael Twitty, the James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed “The Cooking Gene”,explores the cultural crossroads of ✡️Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food🥘.
To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation of migrations and a dialogue of diasporas offering a rich background for inventive recipes and the people who create them.
The question that most intrigues him is not just who makes the food, but how the food makes the people. Jews of Color are not outliers, Twitty contends, but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations.
“Koshersoul” includes 48-50 recipes.
Do you ever hear somebody give a talk, or read their work, and just think "G-D THIS PERSON GETS IT" in the most profound way possible? Michael Twitty is one of those people for me. It probably doesn't hurt that I'm a mixed-race South Asian Jew who finds deep connections to my cultures through food, but even if I wasn't, I still think I'd love his work. He just has this beautiful way of understanding humanity and hurt and healing that makes me feel both hopeful and deeply understood in my soul. Anyway, I know I'm gushing, but Michael Twitty is a mensch, and you should buy all of his books.
computer science research is so overwhelming i just sit there in astonishment while my six monitors try to beam into me information about DNA, the human body, geography of the world, and heartbeat monitors with graphics only
This is the worst piping bag I've ever seen
So happy that I finally let the tumblr app update so that now every time I copy a post url I have to edit it to remove the wonderful new “at.” following the https://, or it just tells people to download the app instead of showing the post. Why would you do this
Great, now the links break if you do it, so you either get a message to sign in, or one claiming there’s nothing there
It looks like there’s two things to delete to make a working, non-tracking link. There’s the “at.” yes, but then there’s also a string of letters and numbers at the end of the link that seem to be related to tracking which need to be removed, too.
So, if a post would be “at.tumblr.com/User/PostNumber/TrackingID” then to have it as just a regular link, you’d remove the beginning and end so that it’s “tumblr.com/User/PostNumber” instead. At least, that’s what a couple quick experiments seemed to indicate.
Absolute champion ❤️
In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.
Sesame Street's official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.
As always, America, PBS has you and your kids' backs.
I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country. More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.