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oh my gosh. please if ur a student in the us, be careful. thereโs a website called canary mission that finds ur information, posts ur picture and information abt you if u actively support palestine. please stay safe.
i always share this pic whenever i see it on my tl bc it really gives you a sense of just how evil american settlers have been. itโd take several countries to eat all this meat, and they were intentionally wasting it to deprive the natives of food/shelter/clothing/weapons.
Jack Black says โall future creative plansโ for Tenacious D are on hold and the tour is cancelled.
This is all due to a comment that Kyle Gass made on stage about the Trump assassination attempt.
rotting โ relaxing, it is a depressed state of inertia where your anxiety increases exponentially as time passes. i understand the desire to normalize rest, but the term exists bc itโs specifically not that
my entire childhood (2000s-2020ish) there was a widespread public health initiative focused on getting people to cough into their elbows. before that, it people were told to use their hand. i donโt understand it becoming socially acceptable to cough open-mouthed and uncovered
if you grew up:
- with your grandma or an aunt/uncle living in your house
- spending summers and breaks living with your cousins
- splitting time between your guardiansโ houses
- calling your parentsโ friends auntie/uncle
you didnโt have a nuclear family. and thatโs okay
for those of you who say stuff like โpalestinians have video footage of their own genocide, thatโs why weโre helpingโ hereโs the video footage for haiti, of a concentration camp. will you mobilize now? or was that just talk?
fun fact: mosquitoes HATE geranium flower essential oil, aka geraniol. they hate it more than citronella or linalool, which are the most common herbal pesticides
in octavia butlerโs books, one of the clearest motifs is that humans have a penchant for living in denial of threats rather than adapting. thatโs the part of her writing that resonates with me the most. i see it with covid, the climate crisis, fascism, public infrastructureโฆ
white people care about ฤรธvฤฑd. they do not care about us. just so we are clear.
a functioning, safe community does not leave its people to die alone from disease. does not leave its people to care for themselves.
we are not in community with our oppressors. idc what they say.
i think constantly about how flooding in nyc is a consequence of settler hubris. europeans settled in parts of the city that the lenape deliberately didnโt live in bc theyโre marshes. and now the land remembers. it didnโt stop being swampy just bc thereโs concrete on top
I will never see an image of Central Park without thinking about the Black community its creation displaced. Even sitting here, camping in a National Park, I'm thinking about the Anishinaabe who were displaced. You can't love the land if you hate the people it cared for.
i think we spend a little too much time saying โamerican police are trained by the iofโ and not enough time saying โthe iof are modeled after american police, who are modeled after american slave patrolsโ
this is the natural conclusion of studying behavioral (factors of) health. because whyโd they smoke/drink in the first place? what stressors were they trying to cope with? and why should a human need to self-medicate mean they deserve to die painfully?
I donโt care if someone โcausedโ their disability. Like smokers getting lung cancer or addicts having cardiac issues or alcoholics getting liver damage. They are still sick, and they are still disabled. They still matter, and they are still people.
I donโt think people understand how far-reaching eugenics is as a political practiceโฆ.esp in America of all places
They had physical office spaces dedicated to it ๐ฅด
i saw a tweet that said something similar yesterday, and this is by no means an original thought.
but living in this decade where people are desperately eager to party after witnessing mass illness and death is really making me understand the 1920s in a much more personal light
@gowonanonly
i donโt think itโs a reach at all. china can sing but her true power is commanding a scene/stage. sheโs an extremely dynamic performer, and if she was that good at 13 she wouldโve absolutely been masterful with it by now, had she kept working at it
not everyone knows that you can make a peer-reviewed, effective air purifier out of cardboard, 4 HVAC filters, and a box fan. quality purifiers of that caliber usually cost $100-$350.
genuinely though, if you ask who from my childhood era of disney i thought had the best chance of having a janet- and britney-inspired pop career, i wouldโve bet on china. and i say them both specifically bc they were also both child stars
something very small but impactful most ppl can do is find/read a book of food-bearing plants native to your state/region. bonus points if theyโre heat/drought-resistant
i started looking at firefighters in a different light when i learned that they used to not respond to fires in black neighborhoods. so the klan would burn black homes and businesses, and FDs would pretend it wasnโt happening. this was a major step in gentrification
2 things can be true at once:
cancers, especially GI cancers, have been on the rise in youth for decades as a result of mutagen exposure and insufficient fiber in diets.
AND
SARS-CoV-2 is verifiably carcinogenic and has caused a sharp uptick in cancers in just 4 yrs with it
remember that train derailment in east palestine, ohio? the one that caused toxic pollution so bad that thousands of land and aquatic wildlife died? thereโs more
iโm always seeing tweets where ppl long for the nuclear family without really understanding that if your parents gave you a village, that is not nuclear. that is communal parenting. and itโs good. the more safe and trusted adults in a kidโs life, the better
when i say โTS is for yt pplโ itโs not because she sings country or folk or americana, which are notably black in origin. itโs because her music (like everything she does) is soulless, drenched in yt mediocrity and half-assery
hi, this is a very clear indication that our immune systems have gotten worse since 2020. historically, parvovirus has only really impacted those with immune deficiencies, like children and cancer patients. the fact that covid causes acquired immunodeficiency is likely to blame
it is genuinely disturbing how quickly black americans become the global scapegoat, even in other black peoplesโ mouths. iโm really gonna need us to unpack that, because itโs sinister as hell and iโm tired.
i donโt wanna fearmonger about bird flu or covid or any of it. but iโm 80% done w/ a masterโs in health policy & seeing my coursework in real time. the airborne nature of bird flu + high mortality + govt apathy + pandemic burnout + health agency distrust + covid organ damage = โน๏ธ
no diaspora war but other black ppl really do see haitians as the nggerest of nggers. itโs so sobering watching haiti be denigrated in guyanese, kenyan, bahamian, etc media
for the record, when we say โprepare for a brutal future,โ thatโs not pessimism or anxiety or doomerism or whatever. thatโs a natural conclusion based on observing the past 50 years of climate inaction and individualism
i donโt think joy = resistance. i think joy is what weโre fighting for. joy is what we wish for subjugated and marginalized people to experience whenever possible, and resistance is the path we use to get to that place. resistance is the means, joy is the end.
iโve been lying in bed for 4hrs trying to drown out the pain w/ naproxen and EMS therapy and itโs still a sensory nightmare. everything about it sucks. the weakness/fatigue, the cramping, the bloating, and the endless stream of warm blood dripping out of you like a leaky faucet
the UAE is responsible for DROPPING VACUUM BOMBS on sudanese civilians. these use air pressure to kill and are extremely lethal, more so than they seem at first impact.
According to the documents, the UAE had supplied the RSF with drones modified to drop thermobaric bombs, a controversial weapon with a wider damage impact than conventional weapons of a similar size
the cleaning product industry has done a number on ppl fr. because itโs entire swaths of the population that still think bleach is the ultimate, or that โnaturalโ cleaners are scammy
lemon juice literally does kill salmonella, it just takes a few hours. but if you add salt and/or antimicrobial herbs like thyme, rosemary, oregano, etc., salmonella can be undetectable in ~30 mins. there are loads of studies on this; you just wanted to discredit black knowledge
@_ShamGod
Yeah when I realized thatโs what some people meant I was like okay thatโs fine but the idea that either that or just rinsing with water gets rid of bacteria (a claim I see all the time, as if lemon juice will get rid of salmonella) is when Iโm like โthis is psychological lolโ
mathematically, if over 30k ppl were killed in under 3 months, we'd be at least at 80k now if israhell was consistent in their assaults. and we know for a fact that they've been escalating, to the point where thousands are dying almost daily. we're definitely at that point.
John Legend is an Ivy League-educated man with a degree from UPenn.
He just wrote a book on Black love. This man is not ignorant and knows exactly what choices he made, the racism of the woman he made his wife, and why it's anti-Black.
thatโs without even getting into the ecological disruption. pics like this one are irrefutable proof that settlers do not act in good faith. bc you canโt argue โwhat if they were just hungry?โ when no one possibly needs that much meat. it cannot be anything other than ill will
yโall be saying โblack and brownโ to be performatively inclusive to the latam origins of hiphop bc you donโt realize that it was afrolatines who contributed. they were black too. itโs not โand brownโ if hiphop is afro-fusion. foh with that
"โNot Like Usโ isnโt just a Drake diss, itโs a rally against perpetrators who shifted hip-hop from a Black and Brown community with culturally understood modes of being into an at-times parodic circus."
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@andrejgee
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iโm begging people to understand that the WH is screwing us. by their own admission, theyโre only offering tests again now bc the spike weโre in is only gonna get worse. but **we keep having spikes because they keep removing public health measures every time the numbers go down**
and black people especially (i canโt speak for anyone else) have a history of communal parenting, both out of ancestral practice and necessity. like how my momโs family first lived with cousins when they came to america. they got a place to stay and someone to show them the ropes
wearing pads or free bleeding is like sitting in a wet diaper. tampons leak sometimes and the feeling of removing them from you is terrible. iโve never tried a menstrual cup but i know iโd hate removing it also. sometimes i think about getting on BC so i donโt have to do this
@LuckyGhost0
when i tell you i was astounded by how many athletes willingly brought their newborns to the olympicsโฆjust biologically vulnerable, out in front of massive crowds, with covid surging. and no headphones on most of them babies either
โpoc solidarityโ is not getting anywhere until yโall begin to see the entire post-columbian era (transatlantic slave trade, scramble for africa, jim crow, postcolonial imperialism, etc) as the black genocide it has been and continues to be
idk why it has to be specified that โdonโt bring your fresh baby out the houseโ does not literally mean they canโt be outdoors. it means donโt take them to social functions or commerce hubs, or on mass transit if it can be helped. and obviously you should take them to the MD
especially when โcongoโ can mean one of 2 countries (๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ), or the river, or the river basin, or the language (kikongo), or the people (kongo). being intentional with our language means specifying โDRCโ
letโs be clear: the shift happened when articles started coming out about covid ravaging black and native american communities the most. a lot of white people stopped caring bc they thought it meant they were biologically invulnerable/superior, and bc they donโt care if we die.
Then something shifted - people got tired of having to be accommodating. They missed their old lives. Suddenly โprotecting the vulnerableโ was seen as a giant sacrifice not worth making because it wasnโt the way we โdid things before.โ /5
the US is doing EVERYTHING they possibly can to make haiti seem like a lawless land of savage african brutes running amok. theyโre manufacturing consent for invasion. please donโt buy into it. know that everything is planned; the gangs are US-funded and their guns are US exports.
Gang members have attacked Haiti's National Penitentiary and helped multiple inmates escaped, according to
@GazetteHaiti
. More to come as the situation unfolds.
@HaitianTimes_
i like โbed rottingโ because iโve never heard another term that so aptly describes how it feels to want to move but be completely unable to do anything but sit there stressing yourself out
"here we are with slavery abolished, and people are still walking around wearing cotton" american clothing companies pay haitian textile workers less than $5 a day
tonight there was a vigil for our comrade who draped herself in a Palestinian flag and lit herself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Atlanta on December 1. she has been in Grady hospital since then.
@RVRLDJ
this is what i mean fr when i say the CDC/govt is failing us real bad. they explicitly told ppl covid was fine if you were young and healthy, and not a word of it was true. iโm outraged
like i see videos of the DNC blasting corporate party music and crowds dancing, no masks in sight, while one room over there were doctors whoโd seen unbelievable horros in gaza begging the harris campaign to do anything to reverse the latest round of funding to israhell.
i have an aunt who my parents helped raise so my grandma could work. i grew up seeing her as a big sister. that same aunt helped all her sisters raise their kids. when i was a toddler and my mom wanted to go back to work, i lived with a different aunt for months. thatโs community
iโd be willing to say that if your godparents played an active role in your life, thatโs non-nuclear too. but all of that is good because even tho it only takes 2 ppl to make a kid, being raised by only 2 ppl w no additional support will cause burnout, and kids will suffer.
we donโt talk enough about how evil it is that the US actively encourages american jews to colonize palestine by paying for relocation AND their healthcare.
think about it. โno, you canโt have healthcare here, but if you move there and steal someoneโs land weโll help you out :)โ
i see more people flexing on socials than before 2020 despite the fact that everybody but the 1% is poorer than they were four years ago.
and all of it recontextualizes 1920s literature like โthe great gatsbyโand โthe sun also risesโ
i see people quick to get back to uncritically vacationing abroad several times a year while indigenous lands are being lost to resort companies and the locals who work there keep getting sick from all the touristsโ unmitigated diseases
the blaring transphobia, the antihaitianism, j*nathan m*jors, the poor handling of their bigotry storylines, and no mental health care for the actors. itโs very much not okay to have blk actors talk about lynchings at length at not make sure theyโre good after
lovecraft country was a fucking mess & thatโs okay. youโre not more cultured than anyone because you enjoyed that rubbish, and youโre not smarter than anyone cause you โgotโ it.
the convo was started by sudanis, in sudan, because of a โjokeโ about sudanese aid. why do AAs get dragged into it every time? what on earth have yโall got against them? what is it gonna take for you to stop badmouthing them?
i want everyone who uses nasal sprays as their first line of covid defense to know that it cannot possibly be safe or healthy to give your sinuses chronic exposure to antimicrobials. like you will lose your sense of smell and decimate your nasal flora if you do that daily
@gowonanonly
but she already had success among her target age demo. look at the success s*lena g*mez has found from acting on disney, fronting for the scene, and then singing on her own. her disney fans have followed her all this time, and have grown with her. couldโve been the same w china
WHO adds Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox to new pandemic watchlist
The Black Death plague, bird flu and mpox are among 24 threats that have been added to an influential watchlist of the pathogens that could trigger the next pandemic.
well she died. 15 months from symptom onset and 11 from diagnosis, she died of ALS. the typical life expectancy is 2-4 years after diagnosis and she died in less than one.
since this also seems to be blowing up: if you care about the safety of children, who are always the most vulnerable members of any society, take a look through this thread of crowdfunds for children experiencing genocide
woah this blew up overnight. if youโre just seeing this and you care about the continent of africa, help the people on it. gonna link fundraisers from sudanese and congolese people. and be sure to visit
every day on here i see more people than ever before trying to prove their perfect human physique will save them from illness and/or disability. it's so jarring
malcolm x was part of a faction of intentional, strategic, militant black freedom fighters. him being armed with a gun means something. a water jug here is watering it down, and using this phrase for it is not it, especially at the request of someone not black
Yโall remember surveillance testing for COVID? Back when folks understood asymptomatic spread so we should just be in the habit of knowing our status
this also applies to anthrax outbreaks like the one in haiti btw. people AND animals can be vaccinated for anthrax but the global north hoards resources like itโs their job (it kinda is and thatโs why they gotta go).
Reminder: the reason mpox is a global health emergency is because of vaccine apartheid. If the vaccine had been made available in the affected countries in Africa this would likely never have happened. And yet here we are, again, because of racist health priorities.
this was the most heinous example of overt antiblackness iโve seen on โleftistโ socials in a long time. them ppl have nothing if not audacity fr. meanwhile, itโs black americans who coined โamerikkkaโ in the first place, about their own experiences
I saw someone refer to Black Americans as Black Amerikkkans in a derogatory manner and that's just sick...the KKK killed and raped my ancestors, not yours.
What's up with undergrads missing class constantly due to sickness? I've heard this is a thing at multiple institutions. My class has been repeatedly decimated.
@transcends_time
ppl who stay stuff like that fr donโt understand the rate at which ecosystems are being destroyed. like we genuinely donโt have that much time left if shit doesnโt change
@TdashGlaze
unfortunately common sense ainโt always common. ppl be going to parties and sporting events with babies so fresh theyโre still pink like a plucked chicken. just exposed willy-nilly.
fun fact: cannabinoids can also down-regulate cytokines and prevent cytokine storms in the lungs! most ppl who die of covid pneumonia experience cytokine storms
I just realized that the timing of when I got infected with COVID lines up with when I stopped smoking weed ๐งand we know smoking weed inhibits ace2 receptors and mitigated infection. fuck