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mysharona1987

My family had no money. NADA. ZIP. ZERO. I learned how to cook with the shitty cans of food no one wanted from the back of the food pantry. We all have high blood pressure because our food intake for six to eighteen years was basically solid sodium, all the time.

On class party days, the party frequently replaced lunch, which meant no hot meal for those of us whose parents couldn’t pack us a brown bag. Policies like this were othering, exclusionary, and most of all, cruel.

whenthesungoesblack

Hey USA what the fuck

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pascalcampion

Wouldn’t it?

Blacklivesmatter.carrd.co

#pascalcampion

epic-sorcerer

This shook me to my core

thesillyhaley

This was so lovely.

But it’s worth mentioning that the second I saw the panel with the cop, my heart dropped, and it’s a shame that this is the initial reaction that I have towards cops interacting with POC

odinsblog

The fact that the notes are filled with non-Black people who suddenly got worried when they saw the cop ….. in an illustrated story.

Now try imagining how hard it is irl for Black mothers, and Black people in general. Each encounter with the police could end with our death, even if we did absolutely nothing wrong.

I think most of us deal with it—bc let’s face it, we have no other choice—but I’d be lying if I said that every single time I come into close proximity to the police, somewhere in the back of my mind there wasn’t always the thought: “what if …”

“what if today is the day” … “what if this cop had a bad morning” … “what if this cop doesn’t like black people” … “what if he thinks my phone is a gun” … “what if he thinks I’m acting suspicious” … “what if he needs to fill a quota” … “what if he mistakes me for some nondescript black man but I fit the description anyway” … “what if my car insurance payment didn’t go through and I don’t know about it” … “what if I have a taillight out” …. “what if he thinks I have a bad attitude” … “what if it was a rough day for me and I do have a bad attitude” … “what if there’s not even any cops around but a white person thinks I look out of place” … what if what if what if

Obviously I cannot speak for everyone who is Black, but these thoughts flash through my mind every single time I see a cop. Every time. Maybe it only takes a microsecond, but it’s always there. Always.

LOL. I know we may make it look easy. But yeah, it’s still there.

And even though I’m very healthy and I manage to … adapt(?) to those fears, I figure that kind of constant on/off stress has gotta be taking some kind of toll on me, right? On Black people in general. It’s like perpetually unexpected games of Russian roulette. Or maybe like the Spanish Inquisition. (No one ever expects it).

Sometimes I wonder if white people understand the constant extra calculations that Black people are doing continuously as we’re out and about. Calculations for any contingency encounter with the police. Or with some white person who might call the police because they’ve mistaken my melancholy mood for “suspicious” behavior. Calculations that white people don’t ever need to do. At least, not because of simply being in the general proximity of the police.

Nice to see that some people “get” it.

ophanic

lizmitches

same energy

carolxdanvers

How dare you. The animation for Shrek at the time was INSANE.

norwayspruce

I feel like what people who were born after Shrek always miss is that it was actually a huge unironic cultural sensation. The minions want what Shrek had. The mcu sits awake at night cursing lord farquaad because they could never have a villain as well written as him

an-apocalypse-of-magpies

Shrek was a revolution for 3D CG animation.

Compare human figures in Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Monsters Inc. (2001)

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

and Shrek (2001)

Even Shrek himself counts

Look at that detail - Shrek and Farquaad have subtle stubble, Shrek has liver spots on his scalp, characters have pores on their skin, Shrek’s ears here even have a subtle transparency like real skin and cartilage. His linen tunic has scruffy and rough edges and lint bobbing on the shoulders. Shrek doesn’t just represent a step forward, it represented a BIG jump. Look back at the early 3D Pixar films and you’ll see a progression in what 3D software could effectively render - first plastic toys, then chitinous insects, then scaly or leathery monsters with an enterprising look into the astoundingly complicated field of hair and fur. Shrek is a joke now, but it revolutionised the field of animation. Shrek finally prompted the Academy to add an Award for Best Animated Feature; after Beauty and the Beast lost Best Picture a few years before, Shrek was the point they could no longer dismiss the art and effort that go into animated films.

It also killed interest in 2D animation in the west but that’s none of my business

gray-warden

i am indifferent towards your shoelaces

butchscientist

thanks. i obtained them through entirely legal means wholly unrelated to any country's head of state

catmat

Me: I've generally accepted my chronic illness and understand that this is my way of life.

Also me:

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moonwatcher13

As someone who ran track and cross country for 4 years in high school, this always fucking mystified me the most out of all the insane shit PE had us do.

Track and field club taught all new runners how to properly warm up, stretch, pace, etc. Its a process, and doing it properly takes 15-20 minutes to make sure your body is ready so you dont hurt yourself.

PE didnt do jack shit, they just said "go run a mile" so 70% of the fucking kids sprinted flat out the first lap and basically walked the other 3. Multiple people did it in boots or tennis shoes. I'm amazed more of them didnt pull a muscle or worse in the process.

I dont know what the purpose of PE was, but it sure as shit wasnt proper exercise. And I think a lot of people suffered for that. If they spent the time teaching us about the importance of physical health, proper nutrition, how to safely stretch/exercise, etc, we would all be better off now.

renthony

Let's be real, PE exists to shame and torture the fat kids, and for pretty much no other reason.

genderfluid-and-confuzled

*Insert that thing with all the people who dread gym*

homemade-potato

this one?

hypokeimena

told my parents i miss archaeology and my mom was, very sympathetically, like: “do you want to dig holes in the garden?” and i was like. yes. i want to dig holes in the garden.

ruffboi-mags

my wife, after reading this to me aloud: It’s your people! …do you want me to break a clay pot for you to put back together?

me, burying my face in my hands: Maybe…?

mycroftrh

These are both moods, but unfortunately I am primarily a bioarchaeologist. (IE, I specialize in digging up old human skeletons.) And, uh, home-made bioarchaeology is tragically discriminated against by law enforcement.

autie-girl-power

Only if you get caught

messymindpalace

This whole post took an unexpected turn

thatdisasterauthor

Out of work paleontologists can take a page out of the Girl Scouts handbook and eat a chicken, clean the bones, encase them in a mud and plaster mix, then chip it back out. Which is legitimately how Girl Scouts earn their paleontology badge.

strixus

… I rebuilt my chicken by modeling muscles back onto the bones using clay, then putting skin on it and making it look like a dinosaur….

thatdisasterauthor

Perfect. Exactly the right way to add a part 2 to this project.

godh8er-deactivated20220626

WATCH THIS VIDEO

a very, VERY important post. spread everywhere and screen record the video to your phone. or message me and ill happily send you the video. give to every woman and girl you know.

bc as they both said / demonstrated, its not only super easy to do, but super easy to miss.

la-laborista-republiko

andthentheywilleatthestars

millennial-review-deactivated20

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you’re a joyless communist

tikkunolamorgtfo

Buy Tony’s Chocolonely Slave-free Chocolate. Fuck Nestle.

aimmyarrowshigh

There’s a whole movement of ethical, slave-free chocolate companies, and the advocates who work to track the legal battle to make ALL chocolate slave-free, worldwide, at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org

You can see the current (2020) list of slave-free chocolate companies on their website at http://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies, or below if you don’t click links:

Aloha Feels Chocolate

Alma Chocolate

Alter Eco Chocolate

Amano Chocolate

Askinoise Chocolate

The Beach Chocolate Factory

Belicious

Black Mountain Chocolate

Cacaoteca

Cacao Medium

Caribeans Chocolate

Castronovo Chocolate

Choquiero Chocolate

ChoCoaque Chocolates

Chocolate and Love

Chocolate Cartel

Chocolat Celeste

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Troubadour

Choconat

COCO Chocolate

Compartes Chocolates

Dandelion Chocolate

Dark Forest Chocolate

Denman Island Chocolate

Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate

Diego’s Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Co.

Eating Evolved

Eat Your Hat

Eclipse Chocolate

El Ceibo

The Endangered Species

Endorfin Foods

Enliven Cocoa

ENNA Chocolate

Equal Exchange

Fairafric

Fine and Raw Chocolate

Fire Fly Chocolate

Forever Cocoa

Fresco Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate

Gayleen’s Decadence

GEPA Chocolate

Giddy Yo Yo

Grenada Chocolate Company

Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate

Guittard

Habitual Chocolate

Hilo Shark Chocolate

HNINA Gourmet

Hogarth Chocolate

Honest Chocolate

Hooray Tuffles

Indi Chocolate

L.A. Burdick Chocolates

La Iguana Chocolate

La Siembra Cooperative

Lillie Belle Farms

Madecasse

Maverick Chocolate Company

Mayan Monkey

Mayordomo

Mexican Arabica Bean Company-Wholesale

Mia Chocolate

Montezuma’s Chocolates

Nayah Amazon Chocolates

Neary Nógs

Newman’s Own Organics

PARRÉ Chocolat

Pasha Chocolate

Purdy’s Chocolate

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company

Ombar

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate

Original Hawaiian Chocolate

Parliament Chocolate

Montevérgine

Patric Chocolate

Plamil Organic Chocolate

Potomac Chocolate

Pure Lovin’ Chocolate

Raaka Chocolate

Rain Republic

Rapunzel Pure Organics

Ritual Chocolate

River Seas Chocolate

Samaritan Xocolata

Sappho Chocolates

Seed & Bean Chocolate

Shaman Chocolates

Sibú Chocolate

Solkiki Chocolate

Sweet Impact Chocolate

Taza Chocolate

Terra Nostra Organic

Terroir Chocolate

TCHO

The Xocolate Bar

Theo Chocolate

The Original Chocolate Bar

Tobago Estate Chocolate

TONY’S CHOCOLONELY

Truffle Pig Chocolates

Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate

Valrhona Chocolate

Videri Chocolate Factory

Viva Cacao Can

Vivani Chocolate

Vosges

Wei of Chocolate

Xocolatl Chocolate

Zaks Chocolate

Zotter

Nestle’s net worth as of today is 10.46 BILLION dollars.

The largest, most prosperous of these slave-free chocolate companies (Vosges, which is also a female-owned corp if that matters to you!) is worth… $100 million.

That means that Nestle has $10,360,000,000 more dollars with which to pay its employees, INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY the cacao farmers who are the backbone of their entire industry.

If all of these companies worth LITERAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS less than Nestle can afford to be slave-free, so can fucking Nestle.

trash-kidt

yooooo

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trnstlanticism

if you didn’t already think thor ragnarok was one of the best films in the marvel cinematic universe please consider: this picture

beyonceisstraight

This has the same aura as the birth of venus

turing-tested

this is literally so fucking funny

turing-tested

im really not even mad because only LGBT people can be this funny so i know my $5 is in good, gay, hands

bfire92

I love how they owned up about it being a publicity stunt. Makes me want it even more.

repotting

the “holding out as married” rule is so fucked up

like… not only can I not marry the love of my life without losing my health insurance and the $800 or so a month I’m forced to survive on

but I can’t even CALL her “my wife” casually

like literally the US gov’t has people whose job it is to go and interview the family, friends, & neighbors of disabled people to just make sure that they never refer to anyone in their life as “my wife” or “my husband” etc

and if you DO, then SNAP! You’re defrauding the US gov’t of the pittance you can barely survive on and you are no longer entitled to your disability benefits

(some kinds of benefits might remain in diminished form but if you were disabled before age 22 you are fucked COMPLETELY and can’t get them back even if you divorce… the only loophole is if the other person was ALSO deemed disabled before 22, because that fucking makes sense)

and this is just… legal and no one but disabled activists ever talks about this shit

so yeah I’d love some of that gay marriage shit but I will never be able to get married, and to add insult to injury, I can’t even casually refer to my partner as “my wife” without risking the health insurance and income I need to survive as a disabled lesbian

valtsv

there's just something about holding or carrying an animal that's just sitting there Chilling while you hold a conversation or perform a task that elevates it to the next level

valtsv

lecturing a class: yawn

lecturing a class with a cat curled around your neck like a scarf or a raven perched on your shoulder: vibes

valtsv

all those supervillains with fluffy white cats and bunny rabbits that sit on their laps while they monologue about their evil plans made some points

twitterlols

today’s the day

wallow

fuck I posted this a day late

borderline-bxtch

Time is an illusion you fuck.

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coolestfinch

i rly dont like the mindset that all lgbt people want is to be “accepted” and that all out community is about it “inclusion”. no. we want access to trans health care. we want anti discrimination laws for housing and employment. we want marriage equality. we want to stop trans kids from being forced to go by their dead name at school. we want to abolish the gay/trans panic defense. we want to stop corrective rape. we want black trans women to stop being murdered. being “accepted” by cishets isnt the goal, and neither is being an all-inclusive club. i want to be able to live my life freely as an lgbt person. our community was created out of the need to survive. that has nothing to do with being “valid”.

awed-frog

flirting in the 21st century

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