starting a collection

just a reminder that:

the phrase "say her name" is to used honor and bring attention to the murders of black women by the police or the state.

and the phrase "rest in power" is used to honor and signify the work that a black person has participated in, as far as the fight for social and racial justice.

Is this supposed to be art?

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, is "what the fuck is 6 7"

The computer, sadly, misinterpreted the space as multiplication.

something law school taught me is that however suspicious you are that "oh, oops this law accidentally created a loophole that allows for bigotry by accident" is a lie, you are not suspicious enough.

anyone affected by such laws could tell you as much, but it really is something to read the actual law, the legislative history, public comment, etc and see just how much it was on purpose. it really makes me lose my patience with people pretending otherwise.

"oh this silly law says your house has to be blue in this neighborhood and sometimes Black people were accidentally kept from the neighborhood because blue paint was sometimes hard to come by"

and anyone with two braincells thinks, "yeah it probably was at least somewhat on purpose"

but then you find out the town made a law that it was illegal to sell blue paint to people of color and illegally buying blue paint was punishable by life in prison and the city ordinance about blue houses is called like the Keep Our Neighborhoods White--I Mean Blue Act of 1999. and the town had a weekly newspaper issue talking about how crime had gone up in the paint district so we need more police but also all the people of color are strangely homeless and homelessness means more crime so we need more police, but the police are overwhelmed so you can sign up to be a deputy looking for paint thieves called the Slave-Catching Renaissance Ordinance

and the only proposed "solution" so far is that selling blue paint is no longer illegal.

"It takes a long time to undo all of these things" mhm, either that's also a lie or do you not find it a condemnation of how the system works that it's so easy to install these laws that are blatant on its face bigotry (most often and blatantly racism) but near impossible to get rid of them?

I sincerely cant remember the last time that staff rolled out a feature that improved this website in any way