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Today is the day

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

my mom is friends with this trans woman, who was really sweet and she was super cool, but then i tried to come out after my mom expressed how much she liked her trans friend and how amazing she is. i told my mom about my crippling chest dysphoria and how much i’d love to be called by he/him pronouns and my preferred name. i told her about how i’ve always felt this way and i’ve known since eighth grade.

well the thing is, her friend is a transmed.

my mom is an uninformed person on trans issues, because she didn’t really care about them until recently. she took resources from her transmed friend and it ruined my life. she went off about how i’m not really trans because i didn’t come out sooner, i have piercings, my hair is always a crazy color, i still like girly things, and my glasses are weird. she kept yelling about how i didn’t have dysphoria before, so i obviously have the wrong definition. she told me if i was trans it would’ve been diagnosed by my therapist already, and it was just a cult bandwagon phase. i was locked away from the outside world for a month.

when my next year of high school rolled around, i was out as trans. my partner provided me with a binder and all was well. i came out to all my peers at the beginning and about halfway through the school year to my teachers. it was quiet, under the table. i told them my mom didn’t know and under our school guidelines, they were not allowed to tell my mom that sort of thing. well, one of my teachers ended up being lgbtphobic and i didn’t know, and announced to the class that she didn’t “agree with the lifestyle” and that “gay marriage isn’t what god wanted.” my mom got an email that day about me being out as trans at school. i wonder who could’ve sent it?

my mom blew up. she was sending me treat after threat because i was a trender, all i did was lie for attention, that i chose to be trans because it was trendy and that real trans people wouldn’t flaunt their transness. of course, she got these resources from her transmed friend. she pulled me out of public school and cut my contact with the outside world for three whole months. i didn’t get back into school until february.

We got super gatekeepy and “you must be THIS GAY to ride this identity” and we complained at length about it being “trendy” and how girls only did it to be “cool” and to get attention.

And so among other things I know one person I love is, for example, only JUST getting to have her FIRST relationship ever with a woman at slightly older than me because this shit got into her head and she didn’t think she was “allowed”.

So watching people turn the same bullshit on even more vulnerable kids?

beginner texts

primary literature:

the communist manifesto - karl marx & friedrich engels

socialism: utopian and scientific - friedrich engels

value, price, and profit - karl marx

secondary literature: 

the revolutionary ideas of karl marx - alex callinicos

why marx was right - terry eagleton 

formation of the economic thought of karl marx - ernest mandel

an introduction to marxist economic theory - ernest mandel

unravelling capitalism - joseph choonara 

intermediate texts

primary literature:

a contribution to the critique of political economy - karl marx

the german ideology - karl marx & friedrich engels

the origin of the family, private property, and the state - friedrich engels

the condition of the working class in england - friedrich engels

secondary literature:

state and revolution - vladimir lenin

reform or revolution - rosa luxemburg 

marx’s ecology - john bellamy foster

moneybags must be so lucky - robert paul wolff

marx’s concept of man - eric fromm

the theory of capitalist development - paul sweezy

monopoly capital - paul sweezy & paul baran

marx on money - suzanne de brunhoff 

marxist economic theory vol 1 - ernest mandel

marxist economic theory vol 2 - ernest mandel

contending economic theories - richard wolff & stephen resnick

seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism - david harvey

an introduction to the three volumes of karl marx’s capital - michael heinrich

advanced texts

primary literature:

capital vol 1 - karl marx

capital vol 2 - karl marx

capital vol 3 - karl marx

theories of surplus value - karl marx

grundrisse - karl marx

secondary literature:

the production of commodities by means of commodities - piero sraffa

capitalism: competition, conflict, crises - anwar shaikh

reclaiming marx’s capital - andrew kliman

marx’s theory of price and its modern rivals - howard nicholas

essays on marx’s theory of value - isaak rubin

money and totality - fred moseley

late capitalism - ernest mandel

marx’s economics - michio morishima 

Letting men wear eyeliner.

Letting men wear lingerie.

Letting men be feminine.

Everyone recognizing that men can be victims of sexual abuse and violence. The person who harmed them can even be a woman. (Wow, such a shocker.)

Everyone recognizing that men can also develop eating disorders and letting them get the proper treatment for it.

For people to stop saying and thinking that men aren’t allowed to cry and show emotion.

Letting men wear dresses.

For people to stop fetishizing gay relationships, especially mlm relationships.

Trans men exist and are completely valid. They are real men, believe it or not.

Men can also be victims of the patriarchy just as much as women can.

I told him that however many notes this gets, is every day he stays alive….please I want him to be able to have a family….he wants to get away from his father…. spread this post…..

Manny, I may not know you at all, but you’re so strong. You may feel weak and helpless, but you’re strong for just not giving in.

Manny, I was once in your shoes. I thought life could never get better for me. I felt alone, hopeless, stupid, worthless etc. However I got the help I needed. And I’m not going to say my life is like..all perfect now, cause it’s not, but I appreciate every moment I get to eat, sleep, pet a cat or watch stupid online videos, knowing I almost threw it all away.

Manny, you’ve been through difficult times. You’re strong. Remember that. You can overcome this hurdle. Take as long as you need, but you’ll make it. You have before most likely.

Stay safe and remember that many people care about you,

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^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

Guys. Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!!!!

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed!

Article 13 just got passed.

Article 13 just got passed.

I don’t know if I’ve said it enough. So…

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

I have been on tumblr all morning and haven’t seen one post about it yet! I don’t understand how!

ARTICLE 13 JUST GOT PASSED!!!!

It was a 438 to 226 fucking landslide vote too. (https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17849868/eu-internet-copyright-reform-article-11-13-approved)

They’re voting on it one last time in January 2019, but that’s barely any time to change anything!!!!

You still have time to call your MEPs so PLEASE!!! Do so.

If you’re outside of the EU, sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/axel-voss-save-the-internet-reject-article-13-and-11?recruiter=839558037&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

If you don’t know what this means, it’s basically then end of how the internet currently is in Europe. Memes? Nope. Youtubers? Bye!

You’d need a license for everything!!!!

And my fellow Americans my be all like, well, what’s the big deal for us? It’s a Europe deal.

No, because the Youtubers there that you love so much? This effects them too! I’m freaking out because Jack, the person who helps my depression go away, may no longer be able to do what he does!

Guys, we need to stop this somehow. Please.

Call your MEPs. Sign petitions. Protest (Peacefully please. Don’t get hurt).

I’m sorry for tagging you guys if you don’t want to be or already know, I just want as many people to know as possible!

I can’t tag everyone, but if you see this, please reblog it. Spread the news. Sign the petition. Call your MEPs. Do what you can to help stop this from passing in January.