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He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.
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Hi! @jeannereames ! I sent you a message privately, but I decided I am not willing to let this go unspoken publicly because I'm actually kinda tired of this racist cycle repeating itself 🙏🏾 so I'm going to post what I messaged to you, and then I'm going to continue on with my post 🙏🏾
"Hi, I got this sent to me and I can say this publicly if you'd like, because I don't want you to treat this as a private attack or on your character, but um- as a Black user who has seen the sort of virulently racist things this person has either said or stood by over the years, and the people she's spent time with and cosigned, am I allowed to have an opinion here? Like I fully understand wanting no parts of Tumblr drama, by all means, but um... No, I can't say I'm okay with this being dismissed as drama, especially when I as a Black fan have been targeted by the sorts of things she and her peers have said. And I don't know what your life experience is, but being told "I am not a racist" doesn't work on me when I am well aware of what I experience.
If it helps, I do run a page on racial sensitivity and media comprehension about Black characters as well. And am harassed semi frequently so I do know it looks like in many forms 😅
And I want to clarify this message isn't being sent in a cruel tone, I am just a bit hurt to see the bigotry I experienced and witnessed dismissed as mean girl drama and would like to offer a differing perspective, if you are genuinely seeking it."
The TL;DR: The creator you are unknowingly (?) supporting historically agrees with white supremacist sentiments, including with a user that was boldly being racist to me. When asked to overtly disagree with said user, she did not.
There will also be commentary on some of the people around her, because I am of the belief that if one willingly chooses to kick it with racists, then they are choosing to tolerate racism... And there's a word for that kind of person! I wanted to show you that while it may describe what you experienced, I do not consider what I experienced to be "mean girl drama".
Main Situation
So, back in November I wanna say, I was running an event where we would create Black edits of Dionysus from Hades Game. It was really fun! But apparently, people had a problem with that, and I ended up being told about it. I admit it made me extremely angry because while I am used to antiblackness from the Greek Mythology space on here, they don't get to potentially ruin everyone else's fun with their bigotry. Not in the safe, pro-Black space I'm building here, not this time.
Someone in particular, who went by @/Opal0684 , decided that they wanted to misunderstand my belief of "Afro-Greeks are real and always have been, and you don't get to say we aren't allowed to depict mythological figures as such, especially when it does not overtake the endless depictions of them as white," as "Greeks are Black".
This is a common misconception, one that I am starting to believe is on purpose, as it deflects blame from their true issue, which is that I'm depicting their favorites as Black. Anywho, they decided to go on the aforementioned racist run in my notes. A run that includes the sentence "saying Afro-Greeks are impossible isn't hating on anybody, it's just historically accurate." 😐🙃
Margaret chose to reach out to me directly. A respectable act! But when I asked her to overtly confront and disagree with said racist Opal, because she has a history of agreeing with said user on her own page, she dodged it altogether. Now, a peer of hers, @/galusandmalus, at the time accused me of not showing her comments and therefore her perspective. So, this time, I will show you the full conversation and you can come to your own conclusion.
Now, idk about you, but me? If I didn't want to be seen as agreeing with my past sentiments in front of someone harmed by them, especially if I see them as bigoted and inaccurate, I would loudly disagree! Instead, after I blocked her for this and publicly showed that I would not be forgiving her, Margaret took the time to rebrand to @/starweaverblog. You can also find that evidence in this same thread.
"Mean girl drama". Suffice it to say I firmly disagree with you, Ms. Jeanne, that that's what I was experiencing here.
Next Situation
As mentioned earlier, I do not believe that people who willingly cavort with racists can avoid that they, too, are racist. We will address some of those things here.
Around that same conversation in November, I had to deal with @/gemsofgreece (another person that Margaret and other peers publicly have interacted with) on what was an incoherently racist rant talking about the "hopefully small African American Woke Community", trying to colonize Greece and its stories in a way akin to Western Imperialism". It begs the question why someone would even answer a question that begins with the ask "why are foreigners obsessed with-" 🤔 unless... why are the "foreigners" obsessed with WHAT 🤔
Now I will admit, that phrase was kind of hilarious and we did have fun with that. Anyway.
Another person trying to pull the argument that I said "Ancient Greeks were all Black" and not "Afro Greeks existed in Ancient Greece". The overt tones of fear of Great Replacement- a white supremacist belief- ring quite loud. 😐 I'm going to be real. If that phrase doesn't also sound like a hysterical line right out of a Fox News/right wing network headline to you... Idk. But to me, it speaks for itself.
Next Situation
There's both a lot and nothing to say about the casual racism of her and Galus' peer @/katerinaaqu. From witnessing her live on someone's post casually saying that "North African Diomedes' dreadlocks and dark skin haunts her" (and I do know someone- @droodlebug -who also saw her say that, live), to subtweeting about my fanfic being insulting because I dared use an Ethiopian singer's works in an AU where I made Patroclus Black, that means absolutely nothing to anyone or anything because it's FANFICTION... Like. 😐 Just racist over silly shit that could be kept in her head, digging holes for people who won't publicly defend her.
I truly believe if you just ASKED any of these folks directly- and she has been asked- "do you believe that some people in these stories can be depicted as Black", they're going to give you the runaround of how it'll only be acceptable "if" and "who". And it's not hard to tell why someone would do that. Because apparently you have to have permission and follow certain rules to draw people Black in these stories for fun. I wonder why that's not expected of white depictions? 🤔 I wonder what those rules will be? 🤔 I wonder why this energy isn't being expended under the creative pieces of everyone drawing Anglo Saxon blondes? 🤔
Last Situation
This is getting long. So! In case you feel like all of my notes here are solely directed towards my personal experiences of antiblackness, I understand. If I cited to you the creators of all the whitewashed Hades Patrocluses, we'd really be here forever, so I won't do that. Just know that it is very normalized to be antiblack in this space.
But, for proof that the culture of the space itself is not just antiblack, but racist as a whole, there are other users who have been harassed, some to the point of silence and leaving the app, for depicting any of these mythological characters as anything other than white. Dionysus-drawers like @mcsiggy seem to be a common target (Dionysus must be a favorite lmao); really all you have to do is draw a piece of that man and his wife while Not White and if they see it, here comes the microaggressive complaints.
There was also an entire anti-Asian campaign online with @/alatismeni-theitsa (yet another peer) because people had the audacity to enjoy the depiction of Hermes from Hades as Chinese or some other sort of Asian (because apparently South Asian Dionysus is cool, but THAT'S ALL!) Because I'm not of that community, I don't want to speak for them. I just wanted to let you know that while these folks seem to really hate Negroes, the smoke is available for anyone that isn't white! And once again- there's a term for that!
I'm just exhausted of the very obvious culture of white supremacy in the Greek mythology and Classics spacebeing denied. I don't know how anyone could walk into it and not notice it's a Whites Only space (except for the Approved Tokens), with anyone who does enjoy diversity pushed to the outskirts for safety. These are not connections made by happenstance; you can only be a comfortable bigot in a space where bigotry is deemed comfortable. We could at least be honest about it!
In Conclusion
I'm well aware that I will probably be called a bully for pointing out these people's acts. So be it. 🤷🏾♀️ If the violence of racism isn't harassment, why would pointing it out be? "Why do you have all this" well I wouldn't have to if people believed in Black people's pain and experiences when they said it 🤷🏾♀️
And you, Ms. Jeanne, said that you'd take perspectives as long as they weren't anonymous. I don't feel the need to call out racism anonymously! If the racism was public, the response should be. You- any of you- can always find me here and ask me questions and I will answer you outright- I literally do this every day. For free! And I know what racism looks like because I experience it. Every day. For free!
I am firmly against the idea that racists can seek out white forgiveness for their actions. That's unacceptable. While I understand where you're coming from, you do not get to make the call that Margaret isn't racist- she doesn't get to make that call! Not when you've got users of color and witnesses who could beg to differ! "Not racist" SINCE WHEN?
And while these are just racists kekeing on the internet, my genuine concern here is YOU, Ms. Jeanne, because you said that you're a professor. A teacher! Your word and your beliefs will be passed down to your students. And I worry that you might be spending time with folks that will reflect poorly upon you, or whose beliefs might slip into yours.
What gets taught to the next generation becomes normalized. And those students are gonna have peers of color. You may have students of color! You publish books! People are gonna read what you say, internalize the things that you believe! So I would like to believe you would choose to do the right thing.
As for the people I've mentioned here, if/when you see this: there's always a chance to reject what you once believed. Yes, everyone has the chance to grow! But so long as you continue to willingly choose racism- because it's been pointed out to you all!- as long as I witness it, I am going to hold you to task for it. If you want to be racist, you should not have a problem being identified as such. And if you don't want to be perceived that way, you're going to have to actually try to let go of those racist beliefs. Not seek out white validation for it to be forgotten.
"hey I was told you were allying with a known racist, I thought I'd warn you if you didn't know." "why do you even care? You're stalking me!" WELP! Once again I've seen all I need to see 👍🏾 @ahasiw-okitowin apparently she's indigenous, come get ya girl 👍🏾
From what I can see professor Reames claims to be "part-blood Miami-Peoria Indian" but it does not appear that she is registered or affiliated with either the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma or the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, which are the two federally recognized Miami and Peoria tribes. The Miami and Peoria are related but distinct peoples.
While many white north americans have some distant Native american ancestry, one ancestor does not an Indian make. Indigeneity is about connection to culture and community.
I'm certainly not about to play blood quantum police, but it appears to me that professor Reames is a white woman that may have some distant Native ancestry.
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So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.
Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.
Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.
-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.
Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.
And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.
For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.
And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.
So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.
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DO NOT TAKE PART IN THE SONIC EMERALD HUNT ARG! Sega are using it for AI model training and are selling your data to shady AI companies if you agree to take part.
This is disgusting on Segas part and need's to be called out before it creeps into the games! The last thing we want is to see this stuff end up in the sonic games and if we don't make a stink about it then sega will do it!
This is the kind of stuff Sonic would be against, sega!
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I'm gonna quote yesterday's users logic: "But Planned Parenthood helps Black and brown women now. Would you be better off if this didn't exist?" And apply it to gynecology.
I sure wouldn't be better off if this didn't exist! I do gain help from the field of gynecology and Planned Parenthood, indeed!
And now we're gonna quote J. Marion Sims, said father of gynecology, here, one of the people whose actions we should let go because even though they're racist, these ideas help us now in the future:
"As a plantation doctor, Sims attended many children, but he used only the Black infants at subjects for dangerous experiments in tetany, a long-misunderstood children's neuromuscular disease characterized by convulsions and muscle spasms. The tetany that was epidemic among enslaved children was actually the result of severe calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D deficiency caused by chronic malnutrition, but Sims was erroneously convinced that it was caused by the displacement of skull bones during birth.
He took a sick Black baby from its mother, made incisions in its scalp, then wielded a cobbler's tool to pry the skull bones into new positions: "During this time, I would occasionally puncture the scalp over the lambdoidal suture, with the point of a crooked all, and prize out the edges of the parietal bones always, with the effect of greatly modifying the rigid fleure of the extremities..."
Cutting a baby's head open, taking an awl, and prying its skull apart. In a dirty shack where doctors don't wash their hands. 🙂 No, actually, I don't think I will be acting like Planned Parenthood, Gynecology, or ANY field of medicine should not be beholden to its racist past, regardless of how much it helps us today. Yes, I support modern medicine. Yes, I benefit from modern medicine. No, I am not going to act like these acts of cruelty that WEREN'T as often inflicted on white people were necessary to get here. We don't get to bypass these things!
Supergirl is a very disappointing movie that i do not recommend. i really wanted to love it, but the main conceit of the movie was deeply misogynistic, and the movie had multiple instances of racism. I don't think you should spend your money on it if you were considering seeing it.
More in depth explanation under the cut, but there will be full spoilers.
I could go on and on about what I disliked about this movie, but I will keep it brief.
The misogyny. The main villains of the movie are an all-male race of aliens who kidnap women to force them to bear their children. However, Kara's motivation is not to free these women, or related to these women at all; she's after them because they poisoned her dog and she wants the antidote. The aliens being a race of rapists is entirely played for shock value; none of the protagonists' motivations relate to saving the kidnapped women, and none of the kidnapped women ever speak or are given any character or motivation of their own. The brigands could have been a race of aliens who go around stealing everyone's chickens and the movie would be functionally unchanged. It's clear why the brigands are rapists; Kara and Ruthye, the protagonists, are both women (Ruthye is actually only a 13 year old girl.) Despite both having their own motivations, Kara, to save her dog and Ruthye, to avenge her parents, the villains they face had to be made rapists who specifically target women to make them "women's villains." Kara and Ruthye can't just face "normal" villains-- they have to be under constant threat of rape throughout the entire movie, just because they're heroes who are women. It sucks. Additionally, because the movie is PG-13, it can't even properly address this constant threat, so it just looms over the entire movie, in a way that feels really insidious and gross. There's an absolutely disgusting scene where 13-year-old Ruthye is being dragged between Kara and a man in a bar as a bargaining chip, referred to as "the merchandise," and yet the movie does not treat this as the horrifying scene that it is.
The racism. First of all, the idea of an entire race of barbaric aliens that steals and rapes women is racist. Any story that paints an entire race of people as some kind of inherent evil is racist, and specifically "the barbarians who will steal and rape your pure women" is a tired racist trope that i'm super angry we're still doing in 2026. Second of all, the movie features 3 Black characters- a couple who betray Kara and Ruthye and sell them out to get their daughter back from the brigands, and the daughter in question, who can barely be considered a character because she never says anything. Really, all 3 of them can barely be considered characters, because they are around for just long enough to betray Kara before all three of them- the couple and their daughter- are killed so that Kara can be sad. Aside from villains, these three Black characters are the only characters to die during the events of the movie. Additionally, the movie is set in space, so almost all other characters are some kind of non-humanoid alien- the movie makes the very specific choice to have these three characters be humanoid, have them be Black, and then kill them for the white protagonist's emotional development. Genuinely sickening shit.
I wanted to love Supergirl. I went into it with high hopes and throughout the movie I was trying to give it as much grace as possible because i really, really wanted to love it. but these problems are just too big for me to ignore. I hope this post helps anyone who is/was planning on seeing the movie get an idea of what they're getting in to.
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