Sold My Soul For Rock N' Roll

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

Cis man: I think I deserve to be treated as a superior to all women

This person has the best tutorials I've ever seen. No stupid videos, just text, illustrations, photos and little infographics explaining things as they go along. They've been plugging away forever, putting out both free and paid content since the mid-2000s and I would never have found them if not for some stupid aggregate website listing dinosaur patterns. Like, SEO is screwing them raw.

They have written literal books about how to sew, and are giving them away free, with no nag screens, no "sign up and you can get this pattern" data leeching, nothing. Just giving it away. I paid like $25 a couple years ago for a beginning sewing book so I could just have something in a format that I could understand, and honestly, her free resources are just as good if not better than the book I bought.

Not only that, check out the faq for info on how she lets folks use her patterns. It's actually amazing, how free she is with them. The only thing you have to do is not sell them as your own patterns, you can sell the plush you make from them. It is the barest, simplest thing anyone could ever ask for in return, and I swear I have a knife for whoever doesn't follow those simple directions.

Little bitty pride stingray!