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if a sims movie is truly being made, i want it to be a horror movie where they do not acknowledge being sims and there is no evidence of them being sims except that they speak simlish and have plumbobs. i want ladders disappearing from pools and strangers breaking into houses and random basement prisons and people catching on fire while making macaroni. the whole thing must be in simlish with subtitles like a foreign film. that’s the only way you’ll get me to watch it.
over the garden wall is just like. here is a cartoon. it is ten ten-minute episodes and is about the length of a movie. you can watch it in a little under two hours. its a masterpiece with incredibly beautiful backgrounds and perfect pacing and an absolutely charming autumn atmosphere. it's only seasonally appropriate to watch for about two months out of the year because It's The Autumn Show. you hear the opening song and your heart fills with so much nostalgia it floods into your throat and you want to start crying. it's a rock fact
STARTING TOMORROW
Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.
They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!
This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!
TUNE IN HERE
article I posted screenshots of here
“There’s a pretty robust scientific consensus that when it gets warm, ice melts”
Mr. Jorge Gutierrez is an inspiration, a trailblazer, a singularly visionary artist with an instantly recognizable style and I love him and admire him so much. But the family of the main character (girl on the left) in his new Netflix show “Maya y los tres” (”Maya and the Three” in English) looks like this:
and one of my special personal character design least favorite things is this god dang
HUGE DAD tiny dainty mom and look-alike dainty daughter animated family arrangement
and I am at my limit, sir. Mr. Gutierrez I love you and I’m going to watch this show but you are on thin ice my man
Hiccup isn’t a daughter but How To Train Your Dragon did this exact same thing and I was just as disappointed with that too. So he’s also invited to this post.
One day someone will do an animated family where the mom is huge and beefy and the dad is small and delicate, or the courageous daughter main character takes after Beef Dad much more than she takes after Dainty Mom, or some other kind of subversion, and on that day I will be healed. But today is not that day.
KASHMIR MASTERLIST
Background
- History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir's multi religious history and how we got to 1947]
- Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]
- Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]
- Another concise summary of the issue
Sites to check out
- Kashmir Action - news and readings
- The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir
- FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous
- Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir
- Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris [both Pandit and Muslim]
- These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also have explainers on the background (x) (x)
To read
- Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces
- Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination [available on libgen]
- Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies [excerpt]
- Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation [available on libgen]
- Of Occupation and Resistance - another collation of stories of Kashmiris living under state repression
- On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)
- Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems
Social media
- kashiirkoor
- museumofkashmir
- kashmirpopart
- posh_baahar
- readingkashmir
- standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 [their main account is banned in India. I wonder why!]
- kashmirlawjustice
- kashmirawareness
- kashmirarchive
- jammugenocide [awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS]
To watch
- Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle [filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit]
- Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people
- Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties
- In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance
Human rights abuses (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)
A note: The list of readings is not exhaustive. It is only an introduction to the history of the occupation. I know annoying "Desis" are going to see this and bitch and moan about how Kashmir is actually integral to their country out of a sense of colonial entitlement. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will entertain neither dumbfuckery nor whataboutism. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the state enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally & linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the way Kashmiri women are fetishised... yikes). It's not just a bilateral issue between the two nations over land, it actually affects the people of Kashmir
Hey y'all, so I'm in health insurance (I know), and we were talking about using social media to expand our clientele this morning (I KNOWWWWWW), and I will absolutely not be doing that over tumblr.com BUT! I DO think it makes sense to remind you all that:
1. OPEN ENROLLMENT BEGINS IN 2 WEEKS
2. OPEN ENROLLMENT WILL ONLY BE HALF AS LONG THIS YEAR
3. THE DEADLINE FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT IS DECEMBER 15TH THIS YEAR
4. INCREASED SCRUTINY MEANS IT WILL BE HARD TO SNEAK ON AFTER OE ENDS, FROM NOW ON
5. IF YOU MAKE UNDER $20,000 A YEAR IT IS WORTH APPLYING TO SEE IF YOU CAN GET MEDICAID!
and lastly:
6. NEVER EVER EVER EVER WORK WITH AN AGENT WHO WON'T SHOW YOU THEIR LICENSE!!!!*
*Jesus Christ the sheer amount of, not even fraud, but grift, completely legal ways to screw other people over, it makes my teeth hurt! Some names to watch out for (but not the only ones): Golden Rule, Manhattan Life, Philadelphia Life, First Health. Freedom life has 2 great plans and 1 Not Great plan, and if you're looking at them, PLEASE call me directly and I'll tell you which it is.
If you want a free consultation I am happy to do that but you are gonna have to schedule a phone call with me. DM's and ask box are open
Also with the government shut-down and previous years’ shenanigans with the website, PLEASE don’t wait until the last minute to get started.
If you get insurance through your employer, double-check your employer's open enrollment deadline! (Mine closes tomorrow (Oct 20, 2025))
If I get insurance through my employer, do I have to go through them in order to apply for ACA care, or can I apply by myself?? Is that the only way to get thru open enrollment?
Anyone can apply for an ACA plan here at the federal marketplace website! You do not need to go through an employer and you are always free to explore options. I always suggest checking each year as plan premiums change year to year and insurance to insurance.
Your options are by STATE! If you have moved states since you last checked, you have an entirely new pool of options.
Every insurance company offering ACA coverage has their plans separated by state and the risk pools are based ONLY in that state. That means there may be options that appeal to your state's specific health trends.
Cost is always king, but keep in mind stability is a big indicator of a strong plan. That means middle of the road cost in general, but a long term successful plan means they have circled back to a large network that is underpinned by years of cost reduction measures (like process improvement, better targeted care for that state, yearly plan growth, etc).
The ACA is a long game for everyone involved, and this is the main reason folks working within the ACA machine are buckled down and closing care gaps where reach allows and bolstering processes in anticipation of a future rush of enrollees in future years. The name of the game is "resilience" and the ACA is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS strongest when people use it!!!
The eligibility changes are tragic and there was a sickening shudder through the entire industry when they were introduced. We are losing the most vulnerable people the ACA exists to serve. The changes have been described as "the cruelty being the point". It is horrendous. It is a ham fisted mockery of the monumental paradigm shift the ACA brought to the USA. The ACA is proof that healthcare belongs to everyone and healthcare becomes better when everyone uses it. Chronically ill, healthy, truly everyone's participation is what rockets the ACA to greater reach to more people. Insurance companies are federally required to invest a minimum of 80% revenue back into the plan benefits or directly into the pockets of customers. The growth is the point!
Preventative care, cancer treatment, pregnancy, ART, diabetic management, asthma/COPD care, there is SO much these plans have enshrined to serve you. Please, explore your options!
You can find out your eligibility and options at healthcare.gov. (note: your state may have its own marketplace site. You will be redirected from healthcare.gov once you select your state)
okay so I finished Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet Jacobs, and here are my takeaways, because it was AMAZING and I can't believe all US students aren't required to read it in school:
- shows how slavery actually worked in nuanced ways i'd never thought much about
- example: Jacobs's grandmother would work making goods like crackers and preserves after she was done with her work day (so imagine boiling jars at like 3 a.m.) so that she could sell them in the local market
- through this her grandmother actually earned enough money, over many years, to buy herself and earn her freedom
- BUT her "mistress" needed to borrow money from her. :)))) Yeah. Seriously. And never paid her back, and there was obviously no legal recourse for your "owner" stealing your life's savings, so all those years of laboring to buy her freedom were just ****ing wasted. like.
- But also! Her grandmother met a lot of white women by selling them her homemade goods, and she cultivated so much good will in the community that she was able to essentially peer pressure the family that "owned" her into freeing her when she was elderly (because otherwise her so-called owners' white neighbors would have judged them for being total assholes, which they were)
- She was free and lived in her own home, but she had to watch her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren all continue to be enslaved. She tried to buy her family but their "owners" wouldn't allow it.
- Enslaved people celebrated Christmas. they feasted, and men went around caroling as a way to ask white people in the community for money.
- But Christmas made enslaved people incredibly anxious because New Years was a common time for them to be sold, so mothers giving their children homemade dolls on Christmas might, in just a few days' time, be separated from their children forever
- over and over again, families were deliberately ripped apart in just the one community that Harriet Jacobs lived in. so many parents kept from their children. just insane to think of that happening everywhere across the slave states for almost 200 years
- Harriet Jacobs was kept from marrying a free Black man she loved because her "owner" wouldn't let her
- Jacobs also shows numerous ways slavery made white people powerless
- for example: a white politician had some kind of relationship with her outside of marriage, obviously very questionably consensual (she didn't hate him but couldn't have safely said no), and she had 2 children by him--but he wasn't her "master," so her "master" was allowed to legally "own" his children, even though he was an influential and wealthy man and tried for years to buy his children's freedom
- she also gives examples of white men raping Black women and, when the Black women gave birth to children who resembled their "masters," the wives of those "masters" would be devastated--like, their husbands were (from their POV) cheating on them, committing violent sexual acts in their own house, and the wives couldn't do anything about it (except take out their anger on the enslaved women who were already rape victims)
- just to emphasize: rape was LEGALLY INCENTIVIZED BY US LAW LESS THAN 200 YEARS AGO. It was a legal decision that made children slaves like their mothers were, meaning that a slaveowner who was a serial rapist would "own" more "property" and be better off financially than a man who would not commit rape.
- also so many examples of white people promising to free the enslaved but then dying too soon, or marrying a spouse who wouldn't allow it, or going bankrupt and deciding to sell the enslaved person as a last resort instead
- A lot of white people who seemed to feel that they would make morally better decisions if not for the fact that they were suffering financially and needed the enslaved to give them some kind of net worth; reminds me of people who buy Shein and other slave-made products because they just "can"t" afford fairly traded stuff
- but also there were white people who helped Harriet Jacobs, including a ship captain whose brother was a slavetrader, but he himself felt slavery was wrong, so he agreed to sail Harriet to a free state; later, her white employer did everything she could to help Harriet when Harriet was being hunted by her "owner"
- ^so clearly the excuse that "people were just racist back then" doesn't hold any water; there were plenty of folks who found it just as insane and wrongminded as we do now
- Harriet Jacobs making it to the "free" north and being surprised that she wasn't legally entitled to sit first-class on the train. Again: segregation wasn't this natural thing that seemed normal to people in the 1800s. it was weird and fucked up and it felt weird and fucked up!
- Also how valued literacy skills were for the enslaved! Just one example: Harriet Jacobs at one point needed to trick the "slaveowner" who was hunting her into thinking she was in New York, and she used an NYC newspaper to research the names of streets and avenues so that she could send him a letter from a fake New York address
I don't wanna give away the book, because even though it's an autobiography, it has a strangely thrilling plot. But these were some of the points that made a big impression on me.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl also inspired the first novel written by a Black American woman, Frances Harper, who penned Iola Leroy. And Iola Leroy, in turn, helped inspire books by writers like Nella Larsen and Zora Neale Hurston. Harriet Jacob is also credited in Colson Whitehead's acknowledgments page for informing the plot of The Underground Railroad. so this book is a pivotal work in the US literary canon and, again, it's weird that we don't all read it as a matter of course.
(also P.S. it's free on project gutenberg and i personally read it [also free] on the app Serial Reader)
update!!!!
So Harriet Jacobs's brother was named John Swanson Jacobs, and in her memoir she's like "btw my brother ran away too." But we don't learn a lot about him.
Well, guess what? John Swanson Jacobs wrote a memoir, too. And it was rediscovered. Recently. It was published in full for the first time since 1850 last year, in 2024.
Harriet and John Jacobs both ran away, but they lived very different lives. Harriet Jacobs took a more "typical" path for a Black abolitionist of her era: She asked a white abolitionist to take the credit for her book, since otherwise it wasn't going to get published/read (it was only proven in the 21st century that Harriet herself wrote it).
But John Swanson Jacobs?
He gave all of America the middle finger, became a sailor, traveled the world (the Caribbean, England, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, India, all over), then ended up in Australia and got his memoir published in a newspaper in Sydney, where he didn't need white people's "permission" to publish it, didn't have to accept the indignity of having a white editor, and didn't need to pretend that he wasn't really the author of his own book.
He called it The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, referring to the 600,000 slaveowners living in the US.
Like, whoa.
The historian who discovered his memoir,,and wrote a biography on him, describes him as a man with "apocalyptic intelligence."
It is so cool that this book exists. And it kinda sucks because I just know if it'd come out in 2020 people would have been all over it, but I haven't seen it in any bookstores. I got my library to stock it; maybe you can request it at your library, too.
The new edition is annotated by Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, the historian who found Jacobs's memoir in an 1850 Australian newspaper. He recommends--and I do too--reading Harriet and John Swanson Jacobs's memoirs back-to-back, and the annotations in Six Hundred Thousand Despots highlight parts where the siblings' books corroborate or differ from each other's accounts, something I'm personally enjoying a lot.
So yeah. Our only extant fugitive slave narrative written by a world-traveling sailor who told all of America to fuck off and went to live his life. Very very cool book. 10/10 recommend.
