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Real talk time.
Colonialism still exists. The effects of original colonization still exist.
Native Hawaiians cannot afford to live on our own land. Everyday tourism kills us.
We are fined for using our water. We are screamed at by tourists. We are stacked in concrete apartments the size of shoe boxes. Waiting lists for apartments are decades long. The government never provides aid. The money that belongs to us is wasted on half finished monorails and hotels. Tourist take pictures of us like we’re an attraction.
In 2018, the UN acknowledged the present day occupation of Hawai’i. And they did nothing.
“The Living Wage Calculator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says that one adult in Honolulu needs to make $16.59 per hour for a living wage. If that is a couple with 2 children, each adult needs to make $17.70 per hour.”
-RealHawaii.Co
My culture, my people, are sexualized, ignored and stepped on.
We cannot live. And everyday more of us die.
And no one even notices. So notice. Notice. Notice.
i think the weirdest thing about the shelter-in-place has been the nightly howl, which i forget about every night until i’m walking my dog and the neighbors just suddenly start fucking howling.
see, we all live literally miles from each other; with the shelter in place in effect, most of us never see other humans FOR DAYS besides the ones we live with. so my neighbors decided we should just howl— like dogs— every night at approximately the same time to ‘encourage community bonding and release tension’.
it’s also a useful reminder that everyone is still alive. i’m not sure what we’re supposed to do if we notice a howler is missing.
at least one neighbor suggested, “hey, maybe we should just set up a telephone tree instead” but was soundly called off because “listen, we all moved to the mountains because we don’t want to talk to other human beings, we’re just going to howl instead”.
You know what? I miss it. I miss the Nightly Howl.
My neighborhood evacuated due to the fire. We’re all scattered now, almost lost. We’re in cities that are not our own, and voiceless.
I haven’t heard a single howl. 8 pm is silent now, which is somehow the worst aspect of this. It passes almost without notice.
Someone on the site asked if we could still howl, regardless of our location. Maybe we’d find our neighbors that way.
Maybe I’ll head out to the beach tonight with my dog and howl.
i’m delighted to inform you all that the Nightly Howl is back. Now that evacuation is lifted, the werewolves are back and louder than ever. i’ve NEVER heard so many howls, so many voices, and for so long. Someone even has some sort of horn.
So I just binged Star Wars: Visions.
Just one question: why, in those last two-and-a-half-ish hours, I have seen more varied, creative, amazing, and sometimes totally bonkers forms of lightsaber combat and design than what I have seen in 30+ years and 9 movies?
It's always "big glow stick hits big glow stick" until someone (usually a Skywalker) loses a hand. Occasionally one takes the force to grab their saber from afar, but often that's just it for the most part.
But now, in these shorts we have had:
- an attachment that essentially redirects your lightsaber beam into an umbrella of some sorts
- A whole armor getting supercharged with lightsaber-power, resulting in a bloody LIGHTSABER FROM THE HIGH-HEEL. Stay classy, Trigger.
- variable lenght lightsabers and their use in combat
- lightsabers that change color and blade-form depending on the force user
- someone de-activating their sword mid combat to evade the enemy block, only to re-active it through someone
- Lightsaber with images inside the glowing bit (writing/symbols in this case)
- a proper Dual Wielder
- proper use of OTHER SCI-FI TECH to empower fighters (seriously why did no one think of that before?), in this case super-speed boots.
- someone blocking a lightsaber with their bare hands and the Force.
- The probably first mechanical user since General "a fine addition to my collection", and they actually USE their unique body instead of it just being "random spin attack".
Seriously where has all that stuff been in the the last decades?
all cyberpunk stories are like “If you wanna crack open a cybercroissant this nasty, you’re gonna need a real top notch e-driller. i know a guy- Toledo Killswitch- he’s got the frag ordinance you need to grizzle this bocce ball.”
This is the funniest tweet I’ve ever seen.
Dude, you can’t just post this without showing what that guy casually described as “a plate of fish and chips”
I agree with the message but?! this is tone deaf coming from one of the elitist, most prestigious fashion events in the world. you are rich to even be invited, an event where the ticket is literally $30,000…. I’m gonna eat YOU
None of you people understand the actual reality of how much the ultra-rich hoard. Aoc is not even a blip on the radar of rich. Aoc grew up poor in the bronx and continued to work as a bartender while she was on the campaing trail.
Is she wealthier than the average person? Yeah. No shit sherlock. But does she qualify…as RICH?? My fam…my guy….my bud…..the answer is simply No.
Aoc wants to tax the 1%. The people who can afford to buy space programs, influence elections and send countries to war.
She is not referring to…like….lil nas x here. Shes referring to jeff fucking bezos.
Please learn the difference between BEING WEALTHY (aoc) and being RICH (bezos, gates, etc)
Also this is just a classic case of the left trying to eat itself.
Some of you really need to ask why you’re trying to drag one of the most progressive American politicians for this. I mean for one, if any of us could afford to go we would, let’s not pretend lol. But secondly, damned if she does damned if she doesn’t right? If AOC attended and didn’t have a political statement, she’d be dragged. If she attended and did, she’d be dragged. If it came out that she had the opportunity to use her platform to make a statement at the event and she refused, she’d be dragged.
Some of you really think you’re achieving something by helping the right dunk on progressive figures for literally nothing, when AOC is the one who bothered to run for her position and put in the work and is sticking her neck out. Tumblr and Twitters love of dragging progressives who actually do the work is embarrassing. You all know rightists don’t care if you cancel them so you spend your time picking at the actions of the most progressive voices doing the work, from behind your screen.
AOC actually thought she was going to die when the Capital was stormed because she’s the figurehead of progressive politics, and you think you’re better than her because she went out and did something fun for once?
“NYC elected officials are regularly invited to and attend the Met due to our responsibilities in overseeing our city’s cultural institutions that serve the public. I was one of several in attendance.”
HUFFLEPUFF: “You can put your strength down. I’m sitting here with you at your kitchen table. You don’t need to say anything.” –Eden Robinson (Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted)