@ray_ban just received my custom sunglasses order and they are completely the wrong colour frame! Considering how much they cost, I am so disappointed. How to I get them changed to what I actually ordered? I hate what has been sent, hence why I customised them so specifically.
Ok people, enough of Farago. Here's why I hate him. Eight years ago I could travel in Europe passport free, I could live in any country and work in any country and stay as long as I liked. Now I cannot. I can stay only three months in all of Europe. He effectively burned my passport. For that I will never forgive him.
Does anyone else have recurring places in their dreams? Not recurring dreams themselves, but like actual places you revisit? I've been having dreams in what I've called The Other Place for almost 20 years & I've never met anyone else who has this issue.
Billie Holiday recorded the first great protest song of the Civil Rights Movement, ‘Strange Fruit’
The Chilling Story of Strange Fruit and how Billie Holiday was targeted.
A THREAD!
How Slavery continued after the 13th amendment ‘abolished slavery’
A THREAD!
In 1866, a year after the amendment was ratified, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor.
The remains of 215 Indigenous children were found on the grounds of Kamloops Residential School last year, as part of a system that has been called "cultural genocide."
The British royals have an est. $34.3B in assets, with #KingCharles set to receive ~$500M without paying inheritance tax.
At its peak, the British empire colonized parts of every continent but Antarctica and subjugated 1 out of 5 people on Earth.
A 🧵on its destructive impact:
Thread:
1/. As the death toll rises to 41 today, four women you should know who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in Iran when protesting gender apartheid and the killing of #Masha_Amini:
Hadis Najafi, aged 20, shot six times when security forces opened fire on her.
In the 1990’s police in Saskatchewan, Canada would arrest Native men and drive them to remote locations in sub-zero temperatures. They would then abandon them to freeze to death. This deadly practice was known as a Starlight Tour — No police were ever convicted for their deaths.
Word of the day is Zugzwang [tzoog-tzwung]: a situation in chess (and life) in which a move must be made, but each possible one will make the situation worse.