forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

unconsciously Neüller lol

the reason most anti bullying psa's completely fail is because they fail to identify why people bully others, and fail to identify that kids actually do internalize oppressive structures REALLY early on. white kids understand that racialized kids are easy targets, and white teachers either fail to catch racism or are racist themselves. non-disabled kids understand that disabilities are easy to pick on, kids recognize the sissy archetype very early on, boys internalize that girls are lesser than them, kids notice they can take advantage of autistic behavior, and it flies under the radar cause teachers offer little to no support to marginalized kids or outright victim blame them. "ignoring bullies" is a model that assumes bullies just want attention. we should instead assume bullies are taking advantage of others.

of course having a wife and hair doesn't mean that a man isn't gay and bald. he could be bi with hair plugs. we just don't know.

why is FIFA... a football organisation... giving a peace prize (not football related?)... to donald trump in the first place anyway

they love women so much they’re doing exactly what everyone’s been doing for decades: ostracising them

sat with this for a little longer and i’m absolutely fuming. they’re seriously just going to stop posting about women’s sports and stop “championing female athletes” on their main channels, and they’ve disguised it as showing their support for women. sky aren’t a nightclub offering women’s only nights so women have somewhere to feel safe, they’re a broadcaster whose job it is to report on all sports. and they think it’s completely okay to segregate female fans, athletes and sports from everything mainstream. i’m fed up.

just save time and call all women dumb & man-obsessed next time you post

this is something about "when you cater to everyone, you cater to no one". instead of actual good reporting on womens sports with a few jokes here and there, they are trying to farm cheap likes from randoms who don't really care while ostracizing the main audience. the average tiktok meme enjoyer probably isn't going to start keeping up with football bc of "hehe matcha latte💖" but the average womens football fan isn't going to like this change. so who is it for exactly?? who is the target audience?

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

Backdropped by the West Bank city of Nablus, Japanese and Palestinian footballers play a friendly women’s football match on October 22, 2011. (via Photo from Getty Images)

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

female characters are always lighter than male characters. strong characters are almost always dark. aggressive characters are almost always dark. peaceful and intelligent characters are almost always light. even amongst darker characters the lightest one is usually either the leader or the girls. dark is evil and light is good.

if you try to explain this to a white person they look at you like youre insane

briefly pursuing a career in animation radicalized me on this. So many stories from the industry about how you have to start with your character design as dark as possible, because INEVITABLY you'll get "notes" from higher-ups asking you to make them lighter.

In a class about making a pitch bible my teacher once role-played as a shitty executive with a classmate, pressing them in intentionally abrasive ways about why they made their characters diverse. He emphasized that we had to learn to defend these things, because the racism in the industry is extremely deliberate.

Ronald Wimberly's comic essay, Lighten Up, stays evergreen

dont forget to spend uncountable hours of your one precious life on your phone btw 👍

beautiful wisdom on a reel with 1 like

leverkusen firing ten hag after 2 weeks is hilarious

airport employees saying passengers' names on the PA system have access to phonemes the rest of us can't even imagine