Not just a pretty ace

YES GOD FINALLY.

This is an essential part of emerging tech rights, esp for young influencers and media users. Kate Eichhorn recently wrote a fantastic book abt this called The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media that explores the ways permanent records of childhood — particularly representations the children themselves may not be in control of, such as the children of mommy-bloggers or influencers used for clout — can have lasting influences on how we mature in a digital society

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

After seeing the practical joker prank the rest of the ship, why would they assume that it wouldn’t prank the rec room too?

George Floyd would have been 47 years old today. He should be alive, celebrating his birthday with his loved ones.

He should still be here.

(Sometimes I wonder: What to say to you now in the soft afternoon air as you hold us all in a single death?) I say— Where is your fire? I say— Where is your fire?

You got to find it and pass it on. You got to find it and pass it on from you to me from me to her from her to him from the son to the father from the brother to the sister from the daughter to the mother from the mother to the child.

I say,

Where is your fire?  I say where is your fire? Can’t you smell it coming out of our past? The fire of living…not dying The fire of loving…not killing The fire of Blackness…not gangster shadows. Where is our beautiful fire that gave light to the world? The fire of pyramids; The fire that burned through the holes of slaves hips and made us breathe;

The fire that made guts into chitterlings; The fire that took rhythms and made jazz;

The fire of sit-ins and marches that made us jump boundaries and barriers; The fire that took street talk and sounds and made righteous Imhotep raps.

Where is your fire, the torch of life full of Nzingha and Nat Turner and Garvey and DuBois and Fannie Lou Hamer and Martin and Malcolm and Mandela.

Sister/SistahBrother/Brotha Come/Come

“sus” is *not* just internet slang made up to play a fun game about murderous space beans. “sus” is *not* recent. “sus” comes from AAVE and users have been persecuted and harassed for speaking English that way. 

So give credit to Black communities for the creation of the word, *don’t* fucking harass people who use it IRL, especially BIPOC people, and spread this information about AAVE words to other people.

I know/learned that a lot of internet slang that I used to use was from AAVE (salty, Yass queen, slay, literally anything that white gay people like to pretend they invented) so people need to actually pay attention and at minimum give credit to AAVE for inventing those words/phrases. 

I have been working on not using AAVE from my speech because I’m white and we need to fucking stop taking everything from Black culture while at the same time demonizing Black people who do the same thing because they literally invented it.