EnrichmentPumpkin

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

But here it is again

I've been experimenting with posting some of the stuff I say here, but as videos

I'm going live in about 15 hours

I have a Subreddit!

It's for a certain group of literary works that I can't name because this dumb website will stop showing this to you

The black community, and my own blackness, has been a major part of how people see me my entire life.

I'm living here in Norway and, for a lot of people, whatever interaction they have with me may be the most significant interaction they have with a black person that YEAR.

I'm proud to be black. I'm proud to be a black woman living in Norway. I'm proud to represent the black community and the transgender community and the wider queer community in every place I show up. And please understand that I'm calling out injustices BECAUSE I THINK THEY CAN BE FIXED.

If I didn't think Molde, or Norway, had any path to being a more accepting and loving place for someone like me, I wouldn't be reporting failures I see. I wouldn't be trying to make friends here and I CERTAINLY wouldn't be willing to... and TRYING to tie myself to someone here as a potential long term romantic partner here lmao

Norway is lovely and there are a lot of wonderful people here.

OK

That being said,

If you are not actively, seriously fighting to improve the lives of black people around you then get the fuck out.

You do not get to stand with us and claim solidarity one day out of the year and shit on us the other 364.

Intersectionality exists and I am a LIVING goddamn example of it because the very people who will stand on a fucking stage and SCREAM that they see me as a woman; that person will suddenly fall into the fucking shadows the moment I turn on a song from Busta Rhymes.

That person who swears my being an American is a BENEFIT to Molde suddenly becomes a white supremacist sympathizer the INSTANT I imply that maybe some of the injustice I've experienced here in Molde happened because FOR SIX YEARS IT'S BEEN BORDERLINE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TO KNOW ANYONE AND THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THAT'S NOT BEING ACTIVELY FUCKING CELEBRATED IS THE FACT THAT I'M FUCKING BLACK.

People get FUCKING AWKWARD when you bring up race. They want to pretend it's just not a thing anymore. Like they just don't see it. Just don't notice it. Like maybe the fact that you can't get to know people is just because you're not trying hard enough, or that every single case is just an individual who is weird and crazy and "there's plenty more cool people and I'm sure you'll meet them soon"

I'VE BEEN HERE SIX YEARS MOTHERFUCKER. IF THEY WERE HERE I'D HAVE

Fucking

met them by now

And I have to say this AGAIN because there are some stupid ass bad faith motherfuckers living here and they'll try to pretend I'm talking about everybody even though I clearly said I run across really nice people all the time.

I run into really nice people all the time.

But that doesn't fucking fix anything

It doesn't make me any less fucking isolated.

It doesn't get me one singular scrap of fucking help

It doesn't make my goddamn phone ring with friends who want to come over my house and spend time with me.

After six fucking years twisting myself inside out trying to find those so called cool people I'm having a hard time believing they fucking exist.

I have to say these things on my blog because good fucking luck getting more than 3 words out when you're being critical of a place like this. People will cut you off and be like "iS iT rEaLlY tHaT bAd!?"

And then they'll start implying that YOU SHOULD LEAVE

That's what white supremacy FUCKING SOUNDS LIKE

"If you don't like it, just leave"

Motherfucker WHERE? Where on this FUCKING EARTH am I gonna go where I actually fucking FIT IN?

I don't fit

You're gonna have to make a fucking space for me. Because I CAN'T FUCKING DO IT BY MYSELF

So happy fucking Juneteenth tomorrow yall

Your assignment ALL OVER THE WORLD is to make PERMANENT friends with black people, include them in your life, and MAKE your spaces safe for us, even if that means you, your family, and your friends have to be a little less comfortable. AND IF ASKING YOU TO BE LESS COMFORTABLE SO THAT WE DON'T FUCKING DIE MAKES YOU ANGRY, THEN LOOK AT YOUR FUCKING SELF BEFORE YOU RESPOND.

BECAUSE IT'S NOT OUR GODDAMN JOB TO EXPLAIN WHY YOUR COMFORT ISN'T WORTH MORE THAN OUR LIVES.

And finally, give a black person some money.

Just for the fuck of it. I don't give a fuck. Do it just to show solidarity. Do it to show off to your friends by giving a bigger donation than they did

Here, you can start with me

I thought about just tagging this 'nuff said, but it's not.

I want to say something to all of the women under 50 on this site. Ready? You do not have to be over 50 to start taking up space.

I've been attending the meetings out of curiosity; I hear the restaurant's music sometimes, but I'm far enough away that it doesn't actually bother me. I rarely go out at night, so I hadn't encountered the "nuisance" aspects of it, which include lots of loitering drunk people, mysterious box trucks with no license plates blocking bike lanes while unloading, and bouncers swearing and trying to stop and frisk people walking past the restaurant.

("Why does a restaurant have bouncers?" you ask. Well, one of the complaints was "He's operating a nightclub but just using a restaurant license to do it.")

Anyway, I was intrigued to attend the latest video call because last time ONE DERANGED PERSON got on the line and spent ten minutes telling everyone else that the place is fine and if it isn't nobody cares and if you do you're a narc. I wanted to see if they were gonna come back to rant again and they did, but they got stymied by the moderator, who insisted that if you wanted to talk you had to "raise your hand" in the video call and they clearly couldn't figure out how to do that.

But then. After the airing of grievances and the owner's lawyer apologizing for no-showing at the last meeting, the alderman's spokesperson got on the line. FIFTY MINUTES into a one hour meeting, she said, "Before you inform the owner about the steps he needs to take to prevent this from becoming a legal issue, the Alderman has a question. He understands that the building landlord has served the owner with an eviction notice for the business, and we'd like to know if you and your client are aware of this?"

Every visible face on the video call did a jaw drop. It was awesome. I was muted and I still went "OooooohOOOOOOHHHHH!"

So yeah turns out the owner is "a little behind on the rent" but is confident he can bounce back, and then the moderator gave him a list of twenty things he needed to do (or not do) to fix the non-rent-related problems, two of which were "Stop doing unlicensed bottle service" and "No sparklers indoors".

The blurb said the shot was taken in Granada, Spain, by Agneta Fondén.  No other info, so I have no idea how old, etc.  There's a game (from 1988) that uses a similar pattern on one of its pieces, but this could predate it by at least a thousand years  — or not.  But the pattern intrigued me, so I made a texture map and used Blender's geometry nodes (no generative AI) to set up a hexagon grid with random rotations for the tiles:

That's all done with a single design:

You'd think this would have a name, right?  (For its historical use as an architectural / decor tile — although I've found out more about its use in games, that's not what I'm looking for.)  Like the Penroses do (and no, it's not one of those).  But I've had no luck finding it, or any other info.  Any (human only, please) help?