It took me several years to understand what I was seeing.
At first, I thought the problem was Twitter algorithms. I thought that was the explanation for why what I was calling rage-inducing simplifications spread like wildfire.
When my sister sold her home, she had her white realtor come to show the appraiser around. She LEFT HER OWN HOME during the process. Right now, my college friend is removing all signs of Blackness from her home before she puts it on the market. All art, photos, statues are being packed. All books are being turned spine in. THIS IS WHAT RACISM DOES.
I installed that cloudfare cache plugin people were recommending so if you get that 500 error let me know (and I will growl -- but not at YOU. I will growl at Mastodon)
@Teri_Kanefield I never subscribe to anything but I just subscribed to your blog. Thank you for your reasoned analysis. It rarely fails to improve my understanding of what the hell is going on.
From time to time #Perseverance uses its fixed down looking camera, or EDL_RDCAM, to record movies of, well, the ground 🥴 , probably while the ground radar RIFMAX does its thing. And let's not forget that it's the same camera that captured those epic images during the rover's descent to the Martian ground.
Debayered, processed EDL_RDCAM
Image captured from RMC 51.0030
Sol 1094, LMST: 12:55:27
Monday’s episode has the potential to be good, but every time the convicted rapist character has gotten close to accountability in the past, something has always happened to prevent it.
In the 21st century, a "constitutional republic" [sic] (where people at times feel good to call it a democracy) has not yet decided whether a President can pardon himself or not, kill his opponents, steal state documents, rape, act like and be a moron, and in general do what ever he likes. 🙄
Here's a concept for a #language learning reality show: 50 people who want to learn a language from zero to B1 are sent to a region where the target language is spoken. They live with a local family, attend intensive courses, participate in cultural events, etc for 20 weeks. Everyone who passes a B1 test after those 20 weeks wins a life-time premium subscription to Lingoda. Additionally, whoever scores higher gets to pick the language to be learned in the next season. You are welcome, Netflix. 😁
