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itsblueberry13-blog:

decolonize-the-left:

The tags on my whiteness post said to me that white people (at least those that are racially aware) and colonized natives perhaps have more in common than most people think. Or at least more than they talk about it in public.

Not that they’re the same. Misogyny and transphobia are not the same, but they are both veins of oppression in a patriarchy. Similar.

In the same way, that empty hollowness white ppl feel where your culture should be is not unlike what I feel as a native, from what I’ve read of your accounts. Learning your ancestors chose whiteness and safety and comfort over culture and identity. That now you have nothing because of the colonization and assimilation your grandparents experienced when they got to the USA. Because of whiteness. Because of the power it has even just as a concept in the US.

We experience these for much different reasons and at least your loss bought you privilege.

… but they aren’t total opposites either. A hollowness where you know rich history used to be? Having culture but feeling a disconnect where you know More used to be? Feeling like you only have scraps of the culture your family used to have? Clinging to what you can get your hands on? Feeling like it’s so detached that it’s not really yours?

I get that and I bet I’m not the only one.

The USA’s habit for white supremacy, racism, and colonization hurt all of us.

And it will benefit all of us to discard the systems those things built. They’re still there and still hurting every one of us.

We can build a future that benefits us all instead as soon as we all start working on that together.

But we can’t do that if some of us refuse to admit the system is what’s hurting us. If we refuse to acknowledge that even with perfect politicians our Systems would still prevent progress because they are built on outdated and white supremacist ideals we’ll just continue to suffer together under those systems instead.

We can’t keep attacking each other just because some of us refuse to look at the ideologies fueling our current reality.

Originally posted by fairweathermyth

#i always frame the journey my ancestors took to whiteness (conditional or otherwise) as a deal with the fucking devil#you feel it the most as a jewish person but it’s a conversation i’ve had a lot with my irish-irish friends about my irish half#how irish-americans paid for their whiteness by becoming the enforcers of white supremacy (i.e. police)#and honestly i see a lot of parallels in this same vein between diasporic jews and indigenous people#the erasure of language and pressure to assimilate#being constantly displaced and/or murdered because we were inconvenient or someone felt entitled to what little we had#being cast as a scapegoat or some other unifying enemy for those trying to consolidate power#the goalposts that move from ‘if you convert you’re our equal’ to 'actually you’re just bad by birth bc you’re part of these people’#so yeah op this is a really lovely statement of solidarity#right back at you

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rjzimmerman:

Extreme Heat Is Here to Stay. Why Are We Not More Afraid?

In “The Heat Will Kill You First,” Jeff Goodell documents the lethal effects of rising temperatures and argues that we need to take hot weat

nytimes.com

Excerpt from this book review from the New York Times:

Heat, according to the journalist Jeff Goodell, has a branding problem — though unlike the desperate politician whose P.R. flack is on speed dial, heat doesn’t need to be better liked; it isn’t loathed nearly enough.

In his fast-paced new book about climate change, “The Heat Will Kill You First,” Goodell denounces the term “global warming” for sounding “gentle and soothing, as if the most notable impact of burning fossil fuels will be better beach weather.” He says that the word “hot” has too many pleasing connotations: sexy, winning, in demand. Sure, hell is supposed to be hot, too; but for those who can afford it, air-conditioning has sapped the metaphor of its power, allowing a hellish heat to seem like a matter of intermittent discomfort instead of eternal damnation.

As this terrifying book makes exceptionally clear, thinking we can just crank up the A.C. is a dangerous way to live. Goodell, who has written about climate change for more than a decade, is currently based in Texas, where “every heat wave is a nail-biter” — including, coincidentally, the one that is happening right now. In addition to the viciousness of the climate-control cycle — we cool ourselves on a warming planet by making the planet warmer — powering all those air-conditioners is like playing chicken with the electrical grid: “If power goes out for long on a hot day, businesses shut down, schools close and people die.”

Goodell’s stripped-down style suits his subject. This is a propulsive book, one to be raced through; the planet is burning, and we are running out of time. Death is a common refrain, and it doesn’t apply only to humans. “When it gets too hot, things die,” an agricultural ecologist tells Goodell. Or, as Goodell writes of creatures that adapt by moving to cooler places: “If they can’t find refuge, they die.” A hotter world puts the most vulnerable at risk — the old, the sick, the poor.

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southmountainninja:

‘Memories’ (1995). Directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo, et al.

siir-poesia:

I sometimes feel really small in comparison to the universe, I feel like a drop, a tiny one, I sometimes wonder if my existence means something or if it actually makes any difference in the world, I sometimes look at the sky and realise how lucky we are for being alive…

Let’s smile!

yuukihiro

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silvermoon424:

nerdygaymormon:

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wizard-council-bureaucrat:

tropics777:

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.

I wrap this blessing around you like a shroud, so that no ill can find you, and every warmth is held close

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urban-trek-thru-middle-earth:

Incorrect Lord of the Rings Quotes

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beautifulminduglythings-moved:

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radicalgraff:

“60,000 vacant units, 4000 unhoused people. Shame on you San Francisco”

Seen in San Francisco, California

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ggreeeenheart:

prokopetz:

treegona:

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oswald-privileges:

prokopetz:

I think the message of Howl’s Moving Castle is that in order to maintain a successful relationship with some kind of fucked up wizard, you must find it in yourself to also be some kind of fucked up wizard.

See, I don’t think that’s the case. Certainly, Sophie’s magic is often more practical than Howl’s, but if you think that the practicality of one’s magic is a reasonable measure of how good a fucked up wizard is at being a fucked up wizard, you don’t understand fucked up wizards.

By some metrics, Sophie is a more fucked up wizard - Howl would never mess something up by accident! But here’s the thing, they complement each-other. Sophie is practically-oriented, but she’s not always competent to do what she intends, nor does she know what she’s doing. Howl always knows what he’s doing and why, and it’s usually useless bullshit for terrible reasons. Howl knows what he is intimately. He knows his strengths and his weaknesses and he knows that he’s got a spine like wet, single ply tissue paper. Sophie complements this by doing whatever it is she sets her mind to, but having exactly zero capacity for self-reflection (or if she does it’s through a funhouse mirror)

Your honor, they’re both a better fucked up wizard than the other, just how they’re supposed to be. 

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bettsican:

subtly-shakespearean:

hamptercatapult:

dicknouget:

guerrillatech:

average marvel movies fan

Average American Liberal

“is this worker strike going to cause me unrest and discomfort as the labor i take for granted and do not respect is not being performed?”

update: 

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Anonymous asked:

mr. email, cumcumber is a friut

wizard-email:

asquared-ohgodnotthehorrors:

wizard-email:

wizard-email:

DAMMIT

I don’t have a favourite vegetable then. they all fucking suck

Alright anon, you piece of shit motherfucker. Time for a lesson:

Vegetable is a culinary term. Scientifically, they do not exist, because every part of a plant can be labeled as something that isn’t a vegetable. Meaning vegetable is defined purely on texture, taste, and cooking capability.

Fruit, however, is a culinary and scientific term. So while some vegetables may be scientific fruits, no vegetables are culinary fruits.

Therefore, while cucumber and tomato and whatever the fuck are scientific fruits, they are culinary vegetables. Please stop spreading misinformation.

discorse in the vegetable fandom

nsomniacsdream:

whatwwwwwww:

nsomniacsdream:

power-chords:

I am a recreational Noticer. I love to Notice Things and Make Connections and Identify Patterns. This is one of my favorite activities and it requires me to behave in compulsively silly ways online.

In real life, this manifests itself by suddenly asking a coworker “so how long has your wife known about your mistress?” Because he stopped bringing in a packed lunch and I saw him scrubbing lipstick off his neck one day when he “went to the bank”

how did that go?

So good

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