by momo

All joking aside, it’s a paradigm shift.

Khosekh got a Hanukkah present.

What if like…there was an exact copy of you somewhere, except they’re the other gender, like you guys could literally have a freaky friday moment and nothing would change. Imagine the best...

Pray for us, now and at the hour of our move.

The YouTube comments on this are fucking atrocious, but what should I have expected? Black Friday is a great day in America, because for 24 hours rich people get to mock poor people for fighting to acquire the same kind of electronic bullshit—albeit of a lower quality—that already adorns every room in rich people’s condos and McMansions. We reinforce the notion, via any number of channels, that owning a bunch of garbage is necessary to have a good life and then we humiliate people who treat owning a big damn TV like a matter of life and death. Just a real cool, excellent world we’ve built.

Black Friday Sale

Interesting… when I first saw posts about the “Knockout Game” my initial thought was how the media was going to use it as another excuse to portray young black males as animals. I think they were successful in doing that, because I saw a lot of folks posting articles & videos about this with comments like “These kids deserve to be shot/beaten/arrested.” Well, when I was a teenager I did countless things to harm the people & community around me. I’m not proud to say that I’ve caused physical harm to complete strangers before. Perhaps I deserved/deserve severe retaliation, but if I had gotten locked up or some random guy blew my head off, the work I’ve done in my later life to improve my community would have never happened. What I’m trying to say is, if the Knockout Game is real, it means we have a lot of young teens without guidance and the family structure in our communities are in bad shape. Without the proper support, our youth will never be able to turn their negatives into positives so think about what you’re doing to help with that before you rally for kids to be beaten & shot in the street as punishment. Actually, our kids are already being beaten & shot in the street by cops & Zimmermans and the last thing that we need is the media giving people more reasons to be scared of young black men. Also be careful about where you get your information from, because it’s a lot of BS floating around the internet these days. But what do you think?

My nephew was recently set on fire on an Oakland bus for wearing a skirt (made national news, you may have read about it), and I have conflicted feelings about the guy who set them (nephew is genderqueer and uses the plural pronoun) on fire. The attacker is 16 years old and will be tried as an adult, and a lot of commenters on the news articles (DON"T READ THE COMMENTS BRO!) are saying that he should also be lit on fire and sent to prison forever. I don't know what to do with him, but I don't think trying him as an adult is the answer to helping him become not an asshole 16 year old.

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Then driving to work this morning, it hit me. THE THOMAS GUIDE! I had totally forgotten about this guide. Parent’s had one, I’m sure everyone with a vehicle had one. Anyway, so yeah. That’s how people got around before map apps. With an actual map. 

Does this make me a real Texan now? #spider #tarantula #tw:spiders