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the distortion of "there is potential profit we did not earn" as "there is money we lost" is fascinating and disgusting to me. "megamediaconglomerate lost $1,000,000,000 to piracy this year" is a flat out lie. it is not true. they did not have a billion dollars, that they now do not have. they felt entitled to one billion dollars, that they did not have, and still do not have. it's an infuriating perversion of the truth

Meet 63-year-old Lyn Slater, who has, until recently, been an ordinary professor at Fordham University. One day she went to meet a friend for lunch outside the Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week. Foreign journalists suddenly surrounded her, mistaking her for a fashion icon and attracting spectatorsIt was a defining moment that turned Lyn into an ‘Accidental Icon’. Her blog of the same name, inspired by the experience, soon began making international waves. She is now a public voice against ageism in the fashion industry and the world.

“Fashion and my style help me struggle against that invisibility that comes with age.“

She was once asked about the old notion of ‘dressing for one’s age,’ and her response was clear:

“We use language to control people’s behavior. This phrase is a way of putting older women in their place. I’m certain that if you feel comfortable in your own clothes, it’s completely irrelevant how old you are.”

No one confused her for nothing. She is a fashion icon.

sorry to post facebook videos on main but the sound of jello going through an industrial shredder is both mesmerizing and horrible

It’s been 14 years and I still don’t know my neighbor’s name

my followers who have been here since i made this blog in 2012 watching me make zero impact over the course of 8 years:

Watch the video of this man giving away his software for free to help people with degenerative diseases communicate

but…. but…. profit motive! infinite houses!! this doesnt fit in my narrow victorian framework for understanding human nature!!

@thebibliosphere @vaspider

Oh. Oh dang. I know several people who this could help.

Link’s broken, so here’s the website: http://www.optikey.org/

Dormant Predators

This is why I have this. Even if they can get the lock opened they can’t push the door open. Got it at Lowes for $20.

reblog for that last bit to save a life

If you’re like me and have a large gap under your front door (someone could take a stick and just poke the leaning stick style door jam out), I recommend the Addalock. It’s small, perfect for traveling, and this lock is CRAZY. It’s so simple but the door does not move.

You can’t see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I can’t recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!

That’s why I have these on my doors. They get drilled into the side and once its flipped over the door nothing is getting it open. Not the door being unlocked nothing, I’ve unlocked the door and pulled and pushed as hard as I could and it didn’t budge. When I go on a trip this is what I use and when I’m home I leave it on too. No one is getting in here.

Okay I know that it is necessary for many but what do you do if you need medical attention and you’re not able to open the door from the inside? Can the fire department get through these at least?  

Yes. The fire department can and will break down your door if necessary, it’s one of the reasons they have axes; it’s entirely possible for door frames to melt/expand/seize or otherwise become unopenable during a house fire but the door itself can be hacked down. Or the window. In rare cases, the wall. Firefighters don’t fuck around with collateral damage when lives are at stake.

Sharing for all the safety items!!

Informative. Please share!

b99 is more culpable, actually

all cop shows are propoganda, but most cop shows are made for 18-49 white men who’re scared of face masks

b99′s target demographic, however, is young, queer and racially diverse. b99′s target demo is all the people who’re the most vulnerable to police brutality. b99′s target demo is all the folks who absolutely should never be lead to believe the way to view the cops is the way you view jake fuckin peralta.

b99 had a bisexual Latina cop laugh and say she suggests police brutality, later showing interest and excitement over the exact sound weapon we’re now seeing used in retaliation to protests (side note: when i saw that episode, i thought that weapon was made up because it seemed so sci-fi villain-ish).

they have their whole host of cop characters, including the straight-laced official types, regularly treat their job like a game.

yes they had an episode about racial profiling. but what was that episode telling us? that at the end of the day, there are good cops within the system actively fighting corruption and winning. i recently saw someone in exact words say “b99 taught me that not all cops are bad.” that’s copaganda. even if you believe in your heart that some cops are good, they are still people with weapons designed to kill whose job centers on apprehending anyone they deem a trouble-maker, and they are. not. your. friends.

b99 wants you to believe that diversity within the system creates fair treatment, right? that a gay Black captain and a crew of racially and sexually diverse cops are the Good Guys.

in real life, the Seattle chief of police is a Black woman who is AT BEST allowing the people in her command to terrorize their city, and at worst actively commanding it. the tear-gassing in seattle? the little girl who got pepper-sprayed? that happened under the leadership and command of a Black woman. because cops are cops first. the job itself demands that they abandon their communities and their humanity. we joke about being [x thing] first and human second a lot, right? well, cops really are.

b99 talked about the prison industry, right? they talked about guard brutality, retaliation, in-prison violence, right? but think about the fact that within that plotline, the cops were the only characters who we were told didn’t belong there. how cinnamon roll jake peralta, a Good Cop Who Didn’t Belong in Prison, was interacting exclusively with people like a gang leader and an unrepentant cannibal.

b99 is deeply insidious cop propaganda. and i’ve watched it and i’ve enjoyed it! and i don’t believe the creators set out to make copaganda. i think they were trying to do a lighthearted riff on your standard procedural, and they cast a diverse group of actors, and they tried to write socially conscious scripts, and they slowly snowballed their way into copaganda while we were all distracted by andy samberg getting hotter.

i’m not at all saying don’t watch cop shows, if that’s your thing, i guess. hell, i’ve enjoyed more than one of them in my life. but please think critically about their messaging and choose to reject what does not align with your values. think critically about your values, and what influences them. and for the love of god, stop responding to people’s angry, grieving cries over Black people being systematically murdered by cops by defending your favorite fictional cop. real people are dead.

Black lives matter more than fake cops. that’s all.

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

All of those people around him are demons

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

hark, a hero of our times!

That is unbelievable courage!

i..... literally have no words

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your first and most pressing concern should be for the safety of black people. it should be for justice. it should be in making this not just a moment but a reshaping of cultural bias.

this is not a fun little game for you to trot around flipping off cops and making light of a situation you were never affected by. it is not your chance to have a little bit of adventure in the middle of a quarantine. i am speaking as an author and i am telling you to stop fucking making this about katniss or harry potter or whatever - you can be shaped by media, sure, but this is not and has never been about you roleplaying your favorite action heroes. this is not another “disaster of 2020″. this is not a quirky instagram post, it’s not a chance for you to meet up with your friends, it’s not a tactic to get your tiktok trending.

this is about racial injustice. this is about the entire system that is built on that injustice and grows fat on that injustice. don’t get distracted. the police force is not the only systemically racist organization.

black lives matter. and we do not stop until every organization recognizes that and actually acts on it.

Facts

To the anons calling me fat in rude but albeit creative ways, I just want you to know I’m not hurt. I’ve been fat my whole life. My height comes into play as well. I’m not even 5 foot, my weight on someone taller wouldn’t even look heavy. The first time someone called me fat was when I was 7. My friends were playing Harry Potter and I was told I was too fat to be Hermione and my choices were to be Hagrid or Fang. I stopped being their friend.

When I go places people stare and I know it’s because of my weight. They snicker, make pig noises or flat out insult me. Last year when waiting in line for the Avengers someone was so “disgusted” by my existence that she spent a full hour making snide comments before spoiling the ending because I made her throw up in her mouth. That I’ll admit hurt. I spent the whole movie crying, not understanding what I could have possibly done to her by just existing.

I have been made fun of more than I care to admit. My weight has been used against me for everything. Whether it be date rejections, sometimes jobs but mostly when I go to the doctor. They stop seeing me as a human after a certain weight marker. No matter what I say is the problem, they tell me the solution is weight loss. My pain stops being listened to just because I’m fat. 4 years ago I was having horrible abdominal pain. It was so bad I went to the emergency room where the person at the front desk scoffed and asked if I just overate. I wasn’t believed just because I’m fat.

I was having an Appendicitis and they had to do an emergency surgery within an hour. But if it had been up to the person at the front desk, I wouldn’t have been seen at all. Just because of my weight.

It doesn’t matter how hard people try to be body positive, there will always be someone saying it’s glorifying obsesity. Fat people cant be okay with how they look or be confident without other people chiming in to say they are wrong.

I shouldn’t need the body positivity movement to be able to say it’s okay that I exist. I shouldn’t need to say anything. I’m fat and it should be okay, I have the right to exist and enjoy life just like everyone else. But I’ve never felt like that. I’ve been shamed my whole life.

“You’d be so much prettier if you lost weight.”

“At least you have a nice smile.”

“You could let yourself go and no one would be able to tell the difference.”

I’ve tried so many diets over the years. Some that aren’t healthy at all, some that are dangerous and some that don’t work. I became a vegetarian at 14 when my health teacher pulled me aside after class to tell me that it could help me lose weight.

Every time I tried a new diet it wasn’t to be healthy, it wasn’t to start a better lifestyle. I did it to stop the stares. I did it to stop the snide comments. I did it so I could stop crying every time someone commented on my weight. I shouldn’t have to lose weight to be treated with basic respect.

Even when I did the surgery it was because I was so tired of being mocked for just living my life. The final push was when I was at the store getting milk, two grown ass adults made pig noises when I walked by. I was so sick of being their target that I called a nutritionist and started the path to surgery.

I wish I had done this for me. In a way I did but honestly I just want to be looked at and not be seen as a person second to my weight. I want to be able to go outside and not be mocked. I want to be able to eat something and not see people looking at me in disgust.

So yeah, I had surgery. I couldn’t lose the weight on my own and I’m not ashamed of needing help. Hell I didn’t even have to pay for it.

Yeah, I’m fat. I’ve always been fat and no matter how much I lose, I’ll always be the fat 7 year old who wasn’t allowed to be Hermione.

But instead of being hurt, I’m just over it. I’m living my life as is whether that’s fat or not. And I’m going to be the best damn Hermione and no amount of name calling is going to change that.

To the rude anons, Instead of worrying about my weight, please worry about your shitty personality because lord knows there’s no fixing that

So sweet, I could cry 😭

1.7% of people are intersex, 2% have green eyes, and 1.5 percent are redheads, but yeah red is a natural hair color, green is a natural eye color, and being intersex is a 'deformity'. Keep pretending gender isn't a social construct

I just really want to say that the BLM movement is not a 2020 disaster by any means. I know a lot of ppl keep saying that this year keeps getting worse but I think that black voices finally being heard is a sign of improvement

my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

Chaotic good

NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn't just mean cheeky!

this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work

malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism