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briefly coming back from the advertise that chapters 9 & 10 of my jonmartin fic are now up!! a whole year late . oops

#jonmartin #tma #the magnus archives

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Hale (@skiddykid)

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We need everyone's help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People

The Amazon Rainforest is under a massive threat. I know you've heard this a million times, but this is different. There is a piece of legislation that will decimate the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It's unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they're voting tomorrow. As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

The thing you can do—and I know this sounds overly simple—is sign this petition—and tell your friends to do the same: SIGN HERE.

As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don't live in Brazil make any difference? Because it will give those opposing it political air cover. It will show the world is with them.

But we need a LOT of signatures.

Please do this simple act and spread the word.

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cannot stop thinking about this skit from the new i think you should leave season

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has anyone payed attention to the stuff going down in ethiopia or are we just Miscellaneous Blacks to yall

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Ornate dagger with gold engravings and blued blade, Europe, late 18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

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i'm choosing to build my basketball team aroubnd my buddy yggroth, who is 15 feet tall and weighs 800kg. he will be in charge of scoring. the rest of us will heal him.

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it's actually really weird to me that a lot of adults don't seem to remember the worst bits of being a child. were you not horribly aware of when adults were talking down to you as a child? don't you remember how little autonomy you were allowed, even when it came to things that seemed pretty harmless? don't you remember the times when adults would seemingly be assholes to you for no reason? even if you had nice and reasonable parents, didn't you ever have teachers or other adults in power who treated you disrespectfully? didn't it sting no matter how people justified it?

especially when I was a teenager, it seemed obvious to me & to most of my peers when an adult wasn't treating us with respect. you could almost smell it, in certain classrooms. there would be this palpable, shifting undercurrent of teenage dissatisfaction whenever some teachers started talking. and it made a lot of the kids act out! which of course made the teachers try to exert their power, which never worked because nobody respected them, which made them get more draconian, etc.

as a teen, I didn't really get why my peers and I seemingly had a superhuman sense for when an adult was on a power trip. but now I think I get it. kids are systematically denied autonomy, respect, and consistently have the validity of their experiences denied. like, flat-out. they're a vulnerable class of people made even more vulnerable by their lack of societal rights. being disrespected as a kid is so frequent that I would say it's a defining experience for most children. is it any wonder they tend to pick up on when an adult doesn't see them as worth listening to?

so yeah, of course a ton of kids want to be treated "like an adult." to them, that's synonymous with being treated like a human being worth listening to. it's up to you, as an adult, to understand that wish for what it is, and behave accordingly. you don't gotta be a child psychologist. you don't gotta be perfect at it. all you have to do is remember how painful adult disrespect could be when you were a kid & do your best to act with some compassion.

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As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”

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Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

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kurt vonnegut wrote "so it goes" and didn't even care that it would live in the back of my mind for the rest of my life

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like it might just be me but i think calling anyone’s degree “useless” and “a waste of time” is fucking rude at best. absolutely unnecessary and it’s not just because i’m an english major that’s a fucked up thing to say about any field. there’s a reason all of them exist and the world needs professionals from the fields western society deems “useless” more than ever.

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I can't believe we need to teach to some the basics that there's more to life than just skin colour.

In ancient times they didn't make comparisons because of the skin colour, but in ETHNICITY. There was a gap difference in cultures, languages and every empire tried to force their way of life. The same happened with the Hellenic empire as well, that's why many cities is Asia minor have Greek ruins. Same with Egypt, and asia dynasties.

The term white supremacism is something that existed in America and because apps like Tumblr mostly have Usians they try to debate on those terms but they confuse with other cultures and other times.

sorry anon but you get the same answer as the previous ask: it's both. it can be both. yes antiquity had differenct concepts of imperialism and (ethnic) supremacy AND could discriminate based on skin colour.

and white supremacy did originate in europe, people! the trans-atlantic slave trade started on this side of the atlantic ocean! it's not JUST american (where do you think all those white people in america came from??)

as to skin colour, let me share a bit of Ovid's Heroides, in particular about the Ethiopian princess Andromeda:

Sum brevis; at nomen quod terras impleat omnes est mihi, mensuram nominis ipsa fero. Candida si non sum placuit Cepheia Perseo Andromede patriae fusca colore suae. Et variis albae iunguntur saepe columbae, et niger a viridi turtur amatur ave.

(I may be short, but I have a name that resounds worldwide and this I take as my measure. And though I'm not pure white, Cepheus's dark Andromeda charmed Perseus with her native colour White doves often choose mates of different hue and the parrot loves the black turtle dove. (Ov. Her. 15)

The romans were still well aware of skin colour, thanks very much.

if you want to read about this particular case study (Andromeda being ethiopian/black in myth and her (western) reception, i can recommend this paper ad infinitum.

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glad we’re all having fun

#loz #totk #art

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asswipes really out there going "you should be working to decolonise your field bitch!" and then when you point out that you are, in fact, putting in an effort to facilitate exactly that, they'll just froth at the mouth and tell you you're being a sanctimonious cunt for saying that because it's never actually about the integrity of the field to them. it's always about them wanting to feel like they're better than the people working in these fields, no matter who those people are and what their reasons for doing so are.

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Its crazy how many people think everyone who works in tv and film is rich. The only rich people are the execs and the tippy top percentile of directors and actors. Listen to any actor who is well known for a tv show and they’ll tell you they make more money from cons than what they made on their show.

Support the writer’s strike and when the director’s guild and SAG go on strike support them too.