Author: immortalwave

lifelivingwithaspergers:

Me shopping for clothes basically sounds like this:

“It feels weird”

“It’s too itchy”

“It’s too tight”

“I don’t like those patterns”

“Why’s it got writing on it? I don’t want writing on my shirts”

“It’s not comfy enough”

“It’s too baggy”

“It doesn’t look nice enough”

“Ughhh, this is impossible”

“Are we done yet? I’m getting bored now, I’ve had enough”

scottmccute:

butterflycatislander:

voluptuous-lady-with-freckles:

chrissongzzz:

Wow just wow.

What the fuck man

Sources in case y’all want/ need em: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

This is real and happening as we speak.

A few thousands people (mostly of African descent) protested in front of the Lybian embassy in Paris this week so that they would acknowledge what their country is doing and take action. Here is a petition you can sign (it’s in french but i think it can also be displayed in english) : https://www.change.org/p/contre-l-esclavage-des-migrants-en-libye-fermons-les-marchés-aux-esclaves?utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_campaign=triggered&j=184438&sfmc_sub=289623271&l=32_HTML&u=34203740&mid=7233052&jb=180701

tyleramato:

tyleramato:

It’s Thanksgiving which means tables decorated with tiny porcelain figures of Native Americans sharing corn with pilgrims. It’s a holiday about being grateful, coming together, and being at peace but while we use caricatures of a great people, mainstream media ignores their cries for help. While we set tables with servings of food that are far too large, the original inhabitants of this great nation struggle to fight for clean drinking water and respect for their ancestors.

I’m not great at words but this issue is very dear to my heart so here’s some art.

It’s been a year since I posted this and today over 200,000 gallons of oil blackens the fields of South Dakota because of the Keystone Pipeline. So tired of watching this country take steps backwards.

prokopetz:

The whole net neutrality discussion seems to be focusing on download speeds and access to particular services, but does anybody remember back in 2006 when AOL got caught blocking people from sending or receiving emails that expressed criticism of AOL? There was no sign that it was happening, and the emails would appear to be delivered – AOL’s mail servers would even report a normal “accepted for delivery” status code – but they’d just never show up in the recipient’s inbox. Or how about the incident a year earlier where Telus imposed fake service outages for websites expressing support for the
Telecommunications Workers Union? Again, no indication that any blocking was taking place: just a error page falsely claiming the affected sites were down.

Under the proposed deregulations, this sort of thing would be explicitly permitted, and we know it’s possible because it’s been done. Now consider how much more communication happens via the Internet in 2017 than in 2005/2006. It’s not even email or websites; big chunks of the telephone network now pass through ISP-mediated VOIP channels, and those conversations would likewise be targetable by faked outages.

Like, this isn’t some dystopian sci-fi scenario; we’re talking about horseshit that major ISPs were getting up to on the sly over a decade ago, and are now about to be told can be engaged in without regulatory penalty.

apocalyptic-mailman:

kropotkhristian:

So since we are going to definitely lose Net Neutrality since nothing people say matters and the rulers are blindly evil – do you think we could push this into a fight for municipal broadband with direct democratic control? Can’t be fucked by Comcast if we create our own fiber-optic internet that is controlled by the people.

This might be relevant: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

TLDR, we can totally DIY an internet. Don’t even need no fancy-schmancy fiber optic, which makes it more accessible (and thus less susceptible to capture by the state), to the point where you wouldn’t even need to do it through municipal government–you could do it yourselves, with some friends, in your neighborhood.