OnBearFeet / Kat Beaufort

1. Big drink

2. Air conditioning

5. National parks 🏞️

6. Halloween 🎃

7. Broadway 🎭 (thanks, Jewish Americans!)

8. Buffalo 🦬 (thanks, Native Americans, and I’m so sorry for what we did to them and you!)

9. Bald Eagle 🦅

10. Jeans 👖

11. I know the Walt Disney Company is no angel, but I really do love that we have the world’s best theme parks. 🐭🏰

12. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. YOU WILL NEVER CONVINCE ME THAT THE USA IS WITHOUT ITS MERITS AS LONG AS WE HAVE PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 📚

13. Comic books and superheroes (thanks, Jewish Americans!) 🦸🏻‍♀️

14. Jazz music, blues music, rock ‘n roll, rap, and hip hop (thanks, Black Americans!) 🎶🎼🎵

15. Birthright citizenship 🗽

16. The Americans with Disabilities Act ♿️ (thanks, disabled Americans!)

17. Animation and cartoons (shoutout to Mel Blanc, another Jewish American who gave us all the Looney Tunes voices) 📺

18. The Muppets 🐸🐷

19. No official language 🌎🗣️

20. Mac and cheese 😋

21. Our Mexican cuisine (thanks, Latino Americans!). I know it’s probably not what you’d get in South/Central America, but if you’ve ever tried to get a taco outside the Americas, you know what I mean. 🌮

22. State and county fairs 🎡

23. Despite its shitty origins…Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday about sharing a meal with your family and being thankful for what you have. It’s nice to have a holiday that isn’t about buying stuff. 🦃🍗

24. Juneteenth and MLK Day (thanks, Black Americans, though I fully acknowledge that if we lived in a just world, those holidays would not have been necessary) ✊🏾

25. Labor Day and the labor movement. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

26. USAID 💔

27. PBS 📺 We have AMAZING public media and I am forever grateful for it.

28. Movie theaters 🍿🎥🎬🎞️

29. Our universities and the fact that not only are women allowed to attend them, they’re actually becoming more educated than men. 🎓

30. No school uniforms 😎

happy in his blankeyy

-the rightful heir is a baby and they can tell it’s the right baby because of a giant birthmark on his asscheek

-the main character’s only talent is singing and the rest of the pseudo robin-hood group just kinda tolerate him because he repeatedly fucks up

-he gets hypnotized into believing he is this amazing swashbuckling sword fighting hero along the lines of Wesley from the Princess Bride and ends up fighting the villain while snapping in and out of hypnosis

-the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true “what”

-he stumbles his way through the entire plot and never knows what the hell is going on

-Danny Kaye is the funniest motherfucker you’ve never heard of

Irene Adler’s an opera singer. We still have those! They don’t have the same subtext exactly, but nothing is going to because we aren’t the Victorians. She could continue to be an opera singer. I have never seen this happen.

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th: