check this shit out

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Someone admitting they don't care for nigg*rs

"I'd rather be a white than being a watermelon felon"

the defense of the peculiar institution of u.s. slavery

that asking people not to be racist while drawing your characters was "sticking to your comfort zone"

being "forgiven" for thinking I could dare "set rules" for how to better design Black characters by someone with ravenclaw in their bio calling for race war

and you mean to tell me I have to keep my head up and carry on through a thousand cuts just to be in the same place y'all are, with a limited experience due to safety...

But being told when you're being racist on your public platform, where you were in fact being racist in front of everyone, is akin to social murder. Okay. Well.

peculiar institution

of u.s. slavery

link to the specific video from the screenshot above here:

it's part of their series "A People's History of Native America," playlist link here.

and while I'm here I'll plug some other channels because PBS does solid work. also, iirc they are (...were? I'm not actually sure what applies to them now that they've been defunded) legally required to include captions and they actually do that, so you won't run into auto-generated nonsense.

I haven't checked out PBS Documentaries yet, but they have some stuff tackling similar topics. (I am adding things to my watchlist as we speak.) channel link here.

PBS Terra doesn't pull punches on climate change. channel link here.

PBS Eons has some super cool videos on the history of life on Earth, channel here, and Storied does awesome work on linguistics and mythology, channel here.

aaand while we're talking about defunded USA public media that doesn't pull punches when critiquing our history and government, I am once again going to plug a couple NPR podcasts. Throughline does deep-dives on history, culture, laws, and so on (link here); I'm especially partial to their We the People miniseries, which covers our rights from the Amendments. Code Switch covers culture, focusing on race and minority groups, and has been doing some especially good coverage on what the Trump administration's fuckery means on a practical level (link here). (these aren't the only NPR podcasts that talk about this stuff, but they're the big ones afaik.)

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

So I have set up a Ko-fi goal, any donations will immediately be given to the utility company with receipts, but I do desperately need help at this point, bc my lease means I will be evicted if any of my utilities are turned off

This is canon and definitely happened. Trust, Tobias Fox told me himself.

I fear I’ve become a Blellow addict- they’ve infected my brain and they’re making me draw them

(Also happy ending for them- Yellow will not rot in jail eternal-style dw)

I been somewhat following the "Argentinians being Extremely Racist during the World Cup" saga, and like... BONKERS lmao. How do you manage to purge an African population of 30% without some true hate 😭

It does explain that mindset that I have always found odd about Latin American racism, which is that (valid!) resentment of the US for being part of the Global North and Imperial Core, while simultaneously sharing so many of its racist, white supremacist beliefs. It's like... So you don't hate the racism portion? That's not the problem to you? 😅

here are some fun desktop themes i put on my virtual machines.