...And This Is My House

I saw this when running newpipe. But wait, it gets deeper. I clicked on the details buttons and it said as of today, we have 83 days left until Google rolls out this new requirement for apps inside and outside of the google play store. If any developer disagrees with their new terms and fees, they will be blocked!

I'll share some of the info below:

Looks like they're trying to nuke the remaining privacy and freedoms we have left on the internet.

What to do?

-Get your developer friends to not comply to their new guides

- Sign the open letter on the site and take action by checking out the full resources list on their website as well!

To summarize, this is all daunting especially when you feel all alone with unfair and inhumane regulations comming out faster than improvements but we got this working together!

Share the link with your friends, family and anyone who will listen!

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

I was realizing the scope of the damage, that his theory/history providing really showed. Of how America learned to- and then happily jumped upon- the ability to call Black people, Black men in particular- "crazy". To invalidate our emotions and our responses to the world around us by calling us "schizophrenic".

Because when I think about it. Everything I've posted that wasn't a happy smiley comment would have fallen under the category of "schizophrenic" for these doctors. But not because I actually display the symptoms! Think about it. If you were taught, in the 1960s, that the symptoms of schizophrenia were "aggression, delusions of persecution, paranoia, rejecting polite society for an African or Arab name"...

And then you saw a Black person who was (rightfully!) angry, claiming that White Society is purposefully ruining their life in endless systemic ways that you personally have not experienced and therefore do not think are real, because White is Right... On top of already being socialized to believe that Black people were liars and felt less pain...

Then yeah, you probably WOULD think I had a disorder! Even now, people will see Black people discuss their issues and act as if it's not necessary, as if it's a disturbance or that it's not real. It really shows what Metzl was discussing, how even this has become normalized to do outside of a clinical space.

It's like, you wrote the definition to include what you thought was wrong with me, so that you could label me with this when just maybe, there's something else wrong. And it's not like Black people with schizophrenia aren't real or don't suffer real symptoms. It's just that... Like with ODD. Do I actually have a disorder that needs treatment, or is this just a response to how you think I'm deviating from YOUR norm?

And it's also interesting because to be honest, running this page and dealing with the occasional racist dork has taken a mental toll on me. I recently started wondering if I had issues with reality, like maybe things weren't as bad as I thought they were, because surely this cannot be this hard to understand. Surely sensible people would understand, so maybe I'm losing my grip? Maybe I have emotional disregulation, that these things upset me in a way they don't seem to upset others?

But... we've been getting accused of essentially "being overdramatic" since the 1600s, and well- there was ALWAYS something wrong! It's validating to know that there have always been Black people, Black activists even, who have suggested that living under this WILL drive you crazy 😭 that there IS a strain that comes with this racist society that pulls down on our mental health, and is it NOT just in our heads.

I nod, setting down my chalk and spellbook. “It does sound like there might have been a bit of a misunderstanding.”

“She took against me, that's what happened,” the dead girl says with a scowl. She looks about fourteen, round faced and spotty, with whisps of brown hair peaking out from under her mob-cap. Her face and her crossed arms have a tell-tale bluish tinge to them. A cholera death.

“I been here for don't know how long and never gave any trouble. Nobody ever complained about me 'till her.”

…well, that's not strictly true.

Number 12, Barclay Street has been attracting rumours of haunting since the mid nineteenth century.

Sounds of faint singing and crying in the corridors at night. Cold spots. Doors that open and close by themselves. Animals acting strangely. Harmless, mid to low-level stuff, typical for a bored teenage poltergeist.

Still, pointing that out isn't likely to achieve much, and certainly the most recent complaints of blood running down the walls, screams in the dark and paralysing night terrors seem distinctly out of character.

The ghost toes the chalk again, more tentatively this time. It stays resolutely unbroken.

She could get out if she wanted to. I'm not one of those assholes who brings out their full arsenal of wards and sigils for a first meeting with a level 2 spectre. The summoning circle will keep her in one place for as long as I need her to talk, but it wouldn't hold for a moment if she really fought against it.

I take it as a good sign that she's still here. Pouting or not, she's clearly willing to work with me.

“None of the others could do this,” she says. “None of 'em even saw me.” She looks up. “Are you here to exise me?”

“Exorcise,” I say instinctively, and curse myself when she flinches. “Sorry, no, no! I don't exorcise people from their homes without good reason, not if they're happy where they are.”

“I was happy. Till she started calling in all them ghost hunters.”

Mrs Delaney had been quite persistent in her attempts to 'fix' her haunted house. Most of the people she found were charlatans, of course, but I'd still arranged an appointment as fast as I could once word reached me. It wouldn't have been long before she happened upon somebody with Talent, and unfortunately not everybody in this field knows how to behave like a professional.

“I think we might be able to help each other,” I say, careful to keep my voice calm and level.

“Don't see how. Not unless you can exorcise Her.”

“Not quite what I had in mind.” I pull out my phone and scroll through my photos. “You say that you're not the cause of the most recent incidents of paranormal activity?”

A pause. The ghost gnaws on her lip. I wait, patiently, keeping my body language open and nonthreatening. “I… I knocked her coffee cup over,” she admits at last. “She was being mean and talking on her telephone, saying I done all these things when I never did! So I decided to show her what I could do if I wanted.”

“Hmm.” The ghost eyes me nervously, as if expecting me to pull out a book, bell and candle and banish her on the spot.

“I only tipped it,” she adds. “I didn't break it or nothing!”

“You shouldn't have touched it at all,” I say sternly. “But… I can appreciate that you were frustrated, so let's say no more about it.”

The ghost looks relieved.

“My point is,” I continue, “if you weren't the one making blood rain from the ceiling or tormenting people in their sleep, then what was? There's no other ghosts on the property.” I find the picture I was looking for. “You can get anywhere around the house, right? Including behind the furniture and in the backs of cupboards?”

“Yes'm.”

I hold the phone up so that she can see the picture on the screen. “I'm going to let you go free in a moment, and I need you to see if you can find anything that looks like this.”

The ghost wrinkles her forehead. “What's that when it's at home?”

KKKrackers keep making new groups but not fixing the settings so we keep flooding the new ones too it’s still ongoing. I’m fuckin dying 😭😭😭

I did not know it was this goddamn hilarious.