do you guys realize that…the videos and articles about the “good cops” who are “protesting” are propaganda designed to make you think “not all cops are bad”? do you realize that when the chief of police of flint said “let’s not make this a protest, let’s make it a parade,” he was successfully de-escalating the situation and dissolving the protest?

the police force has been corrupt since long before you and i were born. people don’t become cops to protect and serve, they become cops to feel strong and to use their strength against others. you are falling for propaganda if you believe that white men kneeling a la colin kaepernick mean the cops you see firing rubber bullets and batoning people are the exception to the rule. 

all cops are bastards. full stop. 

RIP Aiyana Jones, who was killed in her sleep by police 7 years ago this week. black kids deserve to grow up too. #BLM

Tell me again how we’re all one and just need to love each other. 

Her grandmothers screams in that courthouse… My God…. Chills.  It even shook the officer and he lost it… you knew she was telling the truth.  How he sleeps at night… I don’t know.

probably on a pile of money donated by racists

It’s a fucking shame… maaan… smh.

Wow

She would’ve turned 18 this year and graduated high school. The protests are for her too!

’90s Teenagers in Their Bedrooms, Adrienne Salinger 

In 1995, artist Adrienne Salinger wanted to depict the authentic lives of young people in ‘90s America — a contrast to the perfect Beverly Hills 90210 types portrayed in the media. She photographed teens in the most intimate space of all: their bedrooms.

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Callout post for rude baby seen at grocery store

I’m calling out a baby (approx. 12–14 months old) from the grocery store due to its rudeness. I’m guessing its age based on appearance, motor skills (atrocious) and whatnot. Anyway, I smiled at this baby and it just stared at me. As soon as I began to move on, though, the baby said “no!” and started giggling when I turned back around. This happened multiple times. The baby’s actions were toxic and manipulative. The baby was also manhandling a package of dried fruit which wasn’t yet paid for (which is quite minor) and was just generally sitting around and not helping.

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

Unpopular but true: a large reason why grocery store are empty now isn’t just because there’s a bunch of greedy, awful people panic everything in sight to spite others. Sure, there’s some hoarding assholes, but a lot of it is people realizing they will now need over a month’s worth of groceries in one go when they might usually only buy enough to last them a week, maybe two, and people who can no longer supplement with going out, people who are now eating three meals at home when usually their kids eat lunch at school and they have lunch at the office… that’s a hell of a lot more food than most families need to have on hand, including people who normally never cook and just grubhub everything. The food supply chains will hopefully stabilize a bit in the coming weeks - just wanted to point out it’s not all malicious and people aren’t as awful as is being said. I’m under self imposed quarantine, social distancing, working from home and staying away from others. Hoping all of you guys are safe and feeling ok.

just about every person coming through my line at the grocery store is just buying what they’d usually buy when they buy groceries.  They’re just buying MORE of it than they’d usually buy.  Because they’re needing more than they’d usually need.  I lost count of how many times I was asked if we had any more eggs simply because people told me they were cooking sit down breakfasts for their kids now instead of ‘something they can send them out the door on the way to school with’.  We’re not sold out of milk because we’ve got milk hoarders stalking up their garage for the next five months with milk.  We’re out of milk because everyone’s home now and drinking more of it.  Same with bread.  Our cake mixes aren’t flying off the shelves because people are worried about dessert shortages.  It’s because people are home and doing baking with their free time.  So - yeah - there are some assholes out there hoarding shit.  But its not that simple.  It’s rarely that simple.  Beware of people that tell you its that simple.

should also point out that my store, and most others, have, for a couple weeks now, had a limit on how much of a certain thing people can buy.  So no, even when we do get trucks in, no one’s walking out of our store with two cartloads full of toilet paper.  And I’ve only had to turn away two people that tried to overbuy in the past two weeks as well.

Huh. Hadn’t thought about it like that before

#we should all try to be critical and thoughtful when encountering narratives that suggest that humanity is inherently selfish #or promotes the perspective of viewing your community as a hoard that you’re separate from#cause these beliefs really do limit your ability to trust in your neighbors and establish mutual aid networks &#make you more susceptible to eugenics propaganda#criticize individuals behaving badly or even specific behavior that is widespread- but when it comes to criticizing ‘humanity’ or whatever#be careful and think about what you actually mean#I saw someone criticizing getting 3 months of meds & like I normally get my meds in 3 month batches as of like a year ago#cause I’ve been consistently on the same meds for like half a decade#and also I don’t know if I’ll even be able to see my psychiatrist in the coming months (via @closet-keys​)

So much this. I’m not hoarding anything but I need four loaves of bread to get through a week at home with my kids! (Yes my kids eat a lot of bread, they’re kids.)

Exactly. I spent my entire month’s grocery budget in two trips. Because I’m hoping/planning to go several weeks without shopping again. Normally, there are at least a few items where I’m like, “Oh, I still have a bit of that left. I’ll get it next time.” But this time I bought all of those items now, and some an extra backup. I mean, I’m a single person shopping only for me. I didn’t buy a huge amount of groceries. But I did buy in a single week what I would normally buy in 3-4 weeks. And if it was ONLY me doing that, it wouldn’t matter. But because EVERYONE is doing it at the same time, suddenly the grocery store’s normal amount of product isn’t enough to cover everyone buying more than they usually do. It makes sense. 

On top of that:

People who are shopping for 2 months all at once may also have good reason to do so. They may be living with an immuno-compromised person, which means every extra trip is an extra risk.

But

also

I wanna stress this

In times of great uncertainty, when the future you thought was gonna happen is suddenly uncertain and you feel out of control, it is a normal, common and even healthy response to try to improve your mental stability by focusing on things that you can control.

And having enough food to not have to leave your house for a month? Is something people can control. It’s tangible. It’s measurable. It’s physical.

It’s not ‘brainwashed hoards of capitalist sheep’. It’s a completely normal coping mechanism for scary times. People aren’t selfish, they’re having a normal reaction to an attack on their mental health.

And shouting at them isn’t going to fix that. Nonjudgmental listening might. Offering support might. Solidarity might.

Yeah, I know ‘solidarity with the hoarders’ sound counter intuitive. But people don’t become worthy first and get support second, it works the other way around. When people feel supported, they act like people who are supported.

love it when people walk into the bathroom loud as fuck bumping into shit etc making hella noise then bust into the stall next to me and start pissing hard as hell. no time to waste we making this one sloppy

Where do they sell these vests

Why do I have to work at a grocery store 😩🤕

They cut operation hours, and it just keeps getting weirder and weirder... and people keep touching my hand when they give me money 😭

Some lady made me put all of her items back in her cart when she saw that I wasn’t wearing gloves...and then she went to the person behind me...and the thing is that I would be wearing gloves to protect myself from her!! Also my workplace doesn’t provide it’s employees with gloves during this situation, and I’d have to buy my own and wear them which I would if we had any to even buy lol. And my coworkers who were wearing gloves only had them because one cashier shared the rest of the gloves she brought.. Also, I had already touched her shit???

Also we have these?? It has gone too far...

CATHERINE ET L'ARMOIRE by Théâtre du Mouvement. 1985.

Astronaut Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space, seen here aboard the Shuttle Endeavour, September 1992.

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Girl, you’re thicker than a bowl of oatmeal i’ll tell you h’wat

“How to tell the temperature from your cat’s sleeping position.“  From Your Incredible Cat: Understanding the Secret Powers of Your Pet by David Greene.

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cats can tell you everything you could ever need to know