I just realized I’ve never done any sort of official self introduction. Shoot.
Hi, I’m Finn! They/them pronouns. I’m panromantic, greyace, polyamorous and nonbinary.
I’m ADHD, mentally ill, and doing my best. I like to write and doodle and sometimes just post random things.
@VynVoxVa@PlayRenegade@worldofdarkness Oh, eugh. Yeah as someone who experiences bleed a lot just because I'm very empathetic... it's not exactly fun? I wouldn't encourage it as a fun thing to try. :/
Covid attacks the body not like a flu, but like HIV. It infects and erodes your organs while killing T cells and throwing blood clots.
4k people a week are dying while millions more are being disabled. Demand accountability before it’s too late.
@woundedbear@bryanth2o@KeneAkers Absolutely, the destruction of family groups and separation of people who shared languages was 100% intentional and part of the systemic cruelty used to subjugate people for a cheap labor source.
@woundedbear@bryanth2o@KeneAkers Many historic forms of slavery valued slaves as people. They often became part of their owner's family. They could be educated! Some were translators! They could gain their freedom through military service or in Islamic cultures simply as a part of religious piety.
@woundedbear@bryanth2o@KeneAkers All of this!! Slavery existed before in many places but never in the same way that it did in the Americas. American Chattel slavery built itself upon the fundamental dehumanization of slaves. Previous examples of slavery were never so brutal, so bloody, or so heartless.
@ackeeandNafish@KeneAkers Well, the Europeans who were stealing and buying slaves often probably didn't care enough to find out what tribes or groups they had done trade with or not. Portugal spread propaganda pretty early dehumanizing Africans as a whole, which made it easier to do awful things.
@Camivette@KeneAkers They never separated the people they took from their sense of humanity. And it was not something that was hereditary. The child of a slave was not born into automatic slavery.
@Camivette@KeneAkers Slavery in Africa prior to the arrival of European colonizers was a very different practice.
They would often bring "slaves" into their own homes and treat them like part of their family and tribe. Children bought as slaves were treated similar to their own children.
@llkrome @KeneAkers The African people likely had no idea what they were sending people into. Slavery in Africa often looked like bringing people into your home and making them a part of your family. And treating them as such.
The slavery of the Americas was an entirely new form of slavery.
That's it. I've had the fuck ENOUGH.
"Death of the Author" is a philosophy that, in essence, means that you can interpret and analyze a work without input or permission of the work's creator.
Brianna Ghey wasn't the only trans teen killed recently. Just in the U.S., Ariyanna Mitchell, Katie Newhouse, and siblings Jeffrey Bright & Jasmine Cannady all lost their lives to violence. Every one of their names should be remembered in the fight to end trans dehumanization.
Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it's entered the Ohio River basin which is home to 25 million people.
This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it.
We've been talking a lot about an angle that we don't see being discussed much elsewhere: the unions tried to prevent this disaster.
https://t.co/ehv9XsVP92
Can we talk a minute about the transfem community and how y’all just real bad at actually listening to Black transfems or uplifting us a fraction of the same as you do white voices?
Y’all here for the discourse and the dunks but refuse to put the actual work in of listening.
Chernobyl Lite: A massive death plume spanning multiple counties in Ohio is raining down hydrochloric acid onto people because a train carrying vinyl chloride was deliberately classified as non-hazardous to save Norfolk Southern money and regulatory inconveniences. 🤬
General rule of thumb to live by — if the government is telling us not to worry, but arrests journalists covering the thing we’re being told not to worry about, then we should probably worry.