Phew!! Finished piece with the entire Avatar Gang!! Super super proud of this one!
Archive.org is facing a lawsuit
tldr: the Internet Archive/WayBack Machine is super important in term of archived content, billions of stuff are on there, and with the current event happening in the world like stated above,without this tool, it will be hard to properly document what took place. It will be easy for certain people to rewrite history. Dont let them.
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IF YOU CANT DONATE THEN PLEASE SPREAD THE INFO
On twitter,tumblr,facebook,heck,anywhere you want,this needs to be talked about !
bygodstillam
they’re being sued due to putting together an “emergency library”, essentially, in the wake of schools and libraries closing due to covid-19.
you can read about it in a few places. here’s one article on the subject, but there’s plenty to be found.
odddior-deactivated20200814
i know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING. and here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots.
here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post.
thethrillofpwning
You can donate to the two human rights groups who are filing the complaint:
You can also contact the Adelanto City Council and urge them to fire the city manager, Jessie Flores, who was revealed to have “involvement and collusion with” GEO Group, the for-profit prison company that owns the Adelanto ICE detention center.
You may also want to urge them to stop the planned expansion of GEO’s ICE detention facility from 1,940 to 2,690 beds, a deal that went through due to city management’s collusion.
You can call the City of Adelanto City Hall at 760-246-2300. You can also email Jessie Flores and tell him to fuck off directly at jflores@ci.adelanto.ca.us.
the-real-eye-to-see
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
magnolia-noire
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras.“ Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, “She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her.“
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, “as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
More info on Ruby Bridges on Wikipedia
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 58 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
kaylapocalypse
This was her then:
This is literally how she looks in 2017.
She’s literally not even old.
nessanotarized
This is alway profound to me and gives me chills
George Mackay, who plays Schofield, is just a fantastic young actor, really, but he embodies some of the qualities that I was looking for in him. There’s something about him that is slightly old-fashioned, and internal, honorable, and kind of ageless, in a way. — Sam Mendes
George Mackay as Lance Corporal Schofield 1917, behind the scenes.
“Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family”
— Clytemnestra
two lesbians on a date at a beatles concert. nothing but the best vibes ever.
Black Lives Matter is held to such a ridiculously high standard. If anyone who is REMOTELY associated with BLM commits an act of violence, white people use it as an excuse to smear the name of the entire movement.
Cops can murder unarmed Black people and many white folks still jump to defend the police force.
This is racism. This is white supremacy culture.
“I fucking love this photo. Where stood the statue of a slaver, stands the raised fist of a proud black man. Share it wide.
Bristol isn't erasing history. They are making it.
How shameful it would be to have to tell your kids and grandkids that - when this happened - when the greatest movement for civil rights swept the world and tore down idols to slavery and inequality and made Western society a better place at last - you stood against it.
Finding #AllLivesMatter on someone's old facebook wall will be like finding Nazi memorabilia in a dead relatives attic.”
- Taken in Bristol, United Kingdom
lotr 30 day challenge | day 2: favorite character → frodo
“We set out to save the Shire, Sam, and it has been saved. But not for me.”
Banished With a Blessing
A spell to bring someone an oppurtunity! That leads them far, far away from you…
So maybe someone is wearing you down, overstaying their welcome in your life, or just being a pain in the ass. BUT they haven’t done anything to warrant being cursed. That can only mean it’s time to kill them with kindness, or at least chase them away with a blessing!
You will need:
✨Three candles
✨A length of ribbon
✨A coin
✨A box
✨An item representing you
✨An item representing the person you want to banish
To begin:
✨Set up your space to your own witchy preferences, and do whatever you do to prepare for spellwork.
✨Form a circle, and lay out an item that represents you on one side, and an item that represents them on the opposite side. Put one candle behind each item, and one at the top of the circle.
✨Stretch the ribbon across the circle, and connect it to both items. Light the candle that sits at the top of the circle.
✨Sit quietly in front of the spread, and visualize the person in your mind’s eye. There they are, getting on your last nerve. The two of you are surrounded by a shared golden light. But wait, what’s that!?
✨Roll the coin towards their item and out of the circle, “distracting them”
✨As quickly as you can, blow out the candle at the top of the circle, signifying “the winds of change”. Disconnect the ribbon from both items, and turn it 180 degrees so that it now forms a barrier between the items.
✨Light the candle behind your item, and then the one behind the other. Pick up the coin and pass it through the flame.
✨When you are satisfied, put your item into a box, and the item representing the other on top of the box. They now have the whole wide world to explore in search of their blessing, while you enjoy being rid of them. Blow the box a kiss and wave it goodbye.
✨Leave undisturbed until you’ve parted ways for good!
