“I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment we raced each other in that park. I’ve loved you at every dance, on every walk, everytime we’ve been together and everytime we’ve been apart. You do not have to accept it or embrace it or even allow it. Knowing you, you probably will not. But you must know it. In your heart. You must feel it, because I do. I love you.”
Original TikTok: What’s a piece of information that you learned that feels illegal to know?
Collab response: So this site called LittleSis.org is a database of the who’s-who and who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
They describe themselves as “an involuntary Facebook of the 1%.” And as “a resource for investigating cronyism, conflicts of interest, and systemic corruption.”
Looking at some of their side projects, the uh, Oly—Olygrapher? You can see the corporations that fund police foundations as well as the police foundations that work with corporate power.
And then they have like a whole course on mapping power, “research for the resistance,” and have a toolkit and research guides and how you can build your own research pod.
so netflix thought that it would be a good idea to give me (an emotionally unstable hopeless romantic who is obsessed with bookstores, christmas, new york and cliche love stories) dash and lily (a show which just happens to have bookstores christmas new york cliche love stories lovable characters and christmas songs) in NOVEMBER? not cool.
↳ Imagine you are in New York and it’s Christmas. You’re surrounded by people, by possibility, and the hope that somewhere in the city, is that one person that’s meant for you. You just have to find them. It’s the most detestable time of year. The forced cheer, frenzied crowds. The carolers who’ve had so much eggnog they’ve forgotten the words. And of course the couples naive enugh they mistake holiday spirit for being in love.
a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity
brooklyn bail fund
minnesota freedom fund
atlanta action network
columbus freedom fund
louisville community bail fund
chicago bond
black visions collective
richmond community bail fund
the bail project inc
nw com bail fund
philadelphia bail fund
the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme
george floyd’s family gofundme
blacklivesmatter.com
reclaim the block
aclu
turn off your adblocker and do not skip ads. between each time watch 3-5 other videos (mix it up) before restarting. this will ensure you aren’t marked as spam by youtube. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere but don’t mute the video itself. and let. it. play.
youtube will donate to blm for you.
please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.
1. These aren’t pictures from Venice, the pictures are taken in Burano. The canals there are always clean and filled with fish and swans.
2. These pictures (unknowingly) transport ecofascist ideas. They transport the ecofascist idea that the Corona virus did the earth a pleasure, which paves the way for genocide and eugenics. It’s racist and ethnonationalistic. It’s social Darwinism. The people who are killed by natural disasters and pandemics (which “clean the nature”) are mostly poor, disabled, Black and Indigenous People of Color, non-westerners, and other marginalized people (aka not the people who caused them). The people who exploit(ed) humans and nature are still profiting. They buy their bunker, they are able to buy food when others can’t, they get tested, they are able to work remotely and get paid, and able to do social distancing/quarantine. They still get to profit off of it (now buying cheap stocks in the crisis which will get pricier once the pandemic is over). They own hospital chains, supermarkets and online shops, which now make lots of money but still pay their now-so-existential staff badly, give them zero-hour-contracts, lay them off and/or ignore safety measures. It’s capitalism which enables the exploitation which leads to natural disasters and pandemic crisis.
3. People should have clean water and air whether or not there is a pandemic.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19.
COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways, caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
Researchers at a Chinese university identified two separate strains of the COVID-19 coronavirus, finding that 70% of cases were the more aggressive type, while the less aggressive type comprised the other 30%. That more aggressive strain was found in early cases from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus is thought to have originated from, and the researchers believe it may have evolved from the less aggressive type.
i always think about that study where they had adults hold a baby, and when they were told the baby was a girl the adults said she was cute and small, and when they were told the baby was a boy they said he was big and strong. they rated the baby’s ability to do things and tendency towards certain toys differently. they even held the baby differently. (x) or when they rated the baby’s physical ability to do various tasks such as climbing up a slope differently, (x) & when they measured how much parents told their girl children vs. their boy children to be careful and stop being so rowdy (x), & when they measured how often girls and boys were told to be quiet. (x)
this was, obviously, all unconscious behavior in the adults. they’re not all like, raving sexists who outspokenly believe that women can’t do stuff or that girls really should just be quieter, be more still than boys. like its not even counting the direct, actual messages, its just literally how every single person in your entire life treats you, and if asked they would probably deny that its even because you’re a girl. how the fuck am i supposed to believe this doesn’t affect a child’s development when its literally constant throughout the entire process
This is called socialization and it impacts literally every aspect of our development. Gender is a social construct.
Did you know the first computer coders were women? Did you know they were given that role because coding was thought to be a menial and clerical task, like punching a card? Did you know that the women who were given the job of coding all had advanced degrees in mathematics and could calculate missile trajectories by hand and were relegated to doing work perceived to be equivalent to that of punching a fucking card?
Did you know the women were forced out of coding when the men realized it was a skilled, lucrative job that required a shot ton of logic and complex thought? Did you know the term ‘coding’ was replaced by the term ‘programming’ because ‘coding’ had a feminine connotation? Did you know that the “professionalization” of any field typically requires the exclusion of women?
Did you know that girls were socialized to believe computers were for boys as women were excluded from an industry they were instrumental in creating? Did you know that the aptitude tests administered to identify good potential programmers unintentionally alienated half of the survey pool because questions tested mathematical skills boys were more likely to have during a time when girls were vehemently discouraged from STEM? That girls with ability were unconsciously passed over by computer science teachers in the 1980’s and that computer time was reserved for the boys instead?
And now people wonder “why are there so few women in tech?” Bitch I dunno, maybe because you used lazy screening practices, disparaged the ability of women to code, changed the feminine term to a masculine term and then told women interested in programming that they couldn’t understand it and then refused to teach them????
here’s to all of the people whose names have been lost to time. the unmarked graves, the forgotten memories, the writers of anonymous scribbles on the walls, the ordinary people who made great men great, the people who perhaps did not impact as many lives but who nonetheless made a difference. your stories may never be told, but despite all that, you too are history.
