Julia Skott

Now imaging you’re one of the 1.4% of computers are running Linux. This doesn’t mean you’ve got a windows machine with a virus, it doesn’t mean your computer is broken, it doesn’t mean it needs to get replaced with a more common operating system. It’s not quite as good at some things most people take for granted, but it’s significantly better at a bunch of other things. But if you have a problem with your computer, the vast majority of people won’t have any idea what you’re talking about. They’ll give advice for how to deal with a similar issue on their own computer, and it will be worthless. The only people with any idea what you’re going through are going to be on linux forums. And you can mostly muddle through all the things everybody else can do with improvisation and lots of WINE, but it sure would be nice if the devs of that video game you were looking forward to would like, acknowledge the existence of your demographic.

me, at full volume: WHAT’D I TELL YOU ABOUT SLAMMIN MY DOORS

the ghost that don’t pay bills or rent: that i don’t need to be slammin doors if i don’t pay bills or rent

me, the full volume: EXACTLY *a bit quieter* I left some dishes out on the counter if you wanna make em float or something babe

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

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Ahh Set! Ahh Set!

ONCE AGAIN: We are not having a full discussion about gun violence if we fail to acknowledge that police brutality targets black people. When the police become a part of school campuses, the arrests of Black students only increases, as do physical assaults.

If you need a refresher, please recall how “School Resource Officer” Ben Fields body slammed a teenage black girl for the “crime” of being on her cell phone.

Arming school teachers is an incredibly bad idea. And placing Black students in proximity to police officers needlessly puts innocent Black children at risk. We need a better, more nuanced solution. “More police” fails as a solution for nearly the same reasons that “more guns” does.

Things you may not know about the legendary South African actor John Kani, who play’s T’challa’s Father/King T’chaka in Black Panther.

He lost his left eye to a beating he received from Apartheid Police and wears a glass prosthetic eye.

in the mid 1980′s, he performed in a play called “Miss Julie in Cape Town” Half of the audience walked out of the production when he kissed a white woman on stage – an act that resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt, in which he was stabbed 11 times.

in 1985, he lost his brother who was killed whilst reading a poem at a funeral when Apartheid police started shooting up at the mourners.

all of this happened in a minority ruled white supremacist country formed ON land where his people where the natives and the majority, apartheid “ended” in 1994.

sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/dominic-cavendish/4589941/The-Tempest-How-a-legend-of-African-theatre-was-stabbed-11-times.html

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/bonisile-john-kani

No forewarning in the casting call, just a dozen of the best aspiring designers chosen and when they meet the models, they happen to be size 12 and above.

Yeah… no.

1. This is a sponsored television program where designers routinely buy/waste more fabric than they’ll ever need on challenges and it’s all on the show’s dime. And it’s all for the art and show of it. They’ll never even be worn again. Cost is a ridiculous reason to reject creating plus size season… money is irrelevant here.

2. Also, not every type and print is fabric costs the same. Some are cheaper than others. If designers can deal with restrictive budgets on the regular PR challenges in order to create something unique and beautiful there’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t take the same budget and make adjustments to do the same thing for plus size women.

3. At the industry level, the idea that plus size clothes cost SO MUCH MORE than straight sizes has been debunked time and again. It simply doesn’t… especially at the quantities at which they are purchasing fabric for mass production.

4. Costs can also be brought down by cutting patterns out of fabrics in a conscientious way to reduce waste (which designers on PR already do when working with expensive fabrics or limited budgets).

5. The costs of men’s clothes do not vary as drastically as women’s do regardless of their size. If the fabric cost excuse were genuine, you would expect the same exorbitant price hike reflected there. Big and tall clothes for men are generally within a reasonable range of the lower sizes.

We both noted that we get a really good fit wearing maternity clothes. Sometimes a better fit than “plus size” clothes.

And the style of maternity clothes is so much better as well, because it’s not socially acceptable to make punitive fashion for pregnant women.

“oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to get around to fixing that window, but I’ve just been so busy, y’know?”