Non-practicing Intellectual 💜

30+, ADHD/autistic neuroqueer. Married to @strongeststars. She/they. ENFP-A. Miss Ester Duanda on Tales Of the Dew Drop @teatrpg

[A Betrayed Maroon @MBEmpower]

The summer where undercover cops and federal agents were dropping off boxes of fireworks in various neighborhoods in every borough. Yes we recall 2020.

[rosie⁷ ✨ @taehyungieplum]

BUSAN PRE-CON EXP IS ALWAYS A FUCKING SHIT SHOW!!!!!!!!

it’s 7:30 pm kst and we’re still outside waiting for the gift bc they ran out and everyone is stuck here unverified!! the show hasn’t started yet and there’s still a lot of ppl outside from diff entrances THIS IS CHAOTIC 😭

[isa⁷ in korea 🪷 ⋮ ⊙⊝⊜ 🪭 @isa_ipmp]

lol Even if you reserved pick-up they aren’t letting you in (even later slots) saying it’s sold out when you actually reserved days before!!! People are MAD!!!!!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Few better ways to celebrate this city — and the World Cup — than cheap eats.

That's why starting June 11th through July 19th, New Yorkers can celebrate the World Cup with $26 meal deals at hundreds of restaurants across the five boroughs — from Little Caribbean in Flatbush to not one, but two Koreatowns.

Bring fellow fans or team rivals and discover what makes New York City the world's city.

[Loli ⁷ Hobi 🌱 MYG 🍵 @Loli_Seok]

This is the worst organisation by staff ive ever seen in my entire life i attended +50 concerts i never saw something like this. You have to do entire round of the venue to go somewhere. After merch pickup ? Cant just exit you have to follow till the inpass at the auxiliary, pick up line ? So bad. The staff there (not hybe staff tho) is USELESS they don’t know anything ITS A MESS

[쪼이💜 @Joy180101]

머리아프고 탈수증상 와서 스텝한테 말했더니
여기가 의무실이라고 하는데
이게 맞아요?????
의무실에 구급함도 하나없곸 ㅋㅋ
간호사나 의사도 없고
의료진이 확인이 안된단다
물이라도 사서 마시게 나가게 해달라니까
나가면 재입장안된다고 미쳤나
어쩌라고 개새끼들아
너네 뉴스 나고싶음?

[🌍 @URlENS]

Ik the ruling class is so amused by the fact that antiblackness is more important to people than having a decent life is

[Non-practicing Intellectual 💜 @rubyquill]

@knightedmoon I can't thank you enough for this

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If your bank forced you to legally put a certain amount of your paycheck every payday for 30 years into a savings account for your "retirement," didn't give you interest, then when you were getting ready to retire, said "we're only going to give you 70% of your money back, because we can't afford to pay you the full amount."

Would you accept that?
Vote every Republican out.

[𝟙𝟛𝕋𝕊 Come Over @Nyathi613]

I've had this uncomfortable feeling since March. SK is intentionally setting BTS and Hybe up for a disaster. The way the gov & citizens are moving feel like they WANT a disaster to happen. Their hate for BTS far outweighs their love for their country

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1945, a sixteen-year-old girl in New Orleans sat in a classroom and listened to teachers describe Black people as inferior, ignorant, and dangerous. She knew it was a lie. And she decided, then and there, that she would spend her life proving it.
That girl was Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.
By the time she was seventeen, she had already helped organize the New Orleans Youth Council — a bold, interracial group fighting for African American voter registration in the heart of the segregated South. She marched, she organized, she was arrested. She did not stop.
But her most extraordinary act of defiance came decades later — not in the streets, but in a courthouse.
While conducting research in Louisiana in the 1980s, Hall opened an old ledger written by 18th-century notaries. Inside were names. Hundreds of them. Names of enslaved Africans — their origins, their skills, their families, their rebellions. Details that English colonists almost never recorded. Details the world had assumed were lost forever.
Hall was astounded.
She spent years traveling between archives in Louisiana, France, and Spain, piecing together fragments of stolen lives. With the help of five dedicated assistants, she built something the world had never seen: the Louisiana Slave Database — a searchable record of over 107,000 enslaved individuals, documenting their names, ethnicities, occupations, family relationships, and places of origin.
What she found also shattered a long-held assumption in academic circles. Scholars had believed colonial Louisiana was shaped primarily by Haiti and the French Caribbean. Hall's database revealed the truth: most enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana came from Senegal and Gambia — a finding that forever changed how historians understand the roots of Creole culture.
But perhaps the most profound impact of her work is the most personal.
Families — for generations separated from their history by the deliberate erasure of slavery — could now search a database and find an ancestor. A name. A face in the darkness of history, finally brought to light.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall passed away on August 29, 2022, at the age of 93. She is remembered at Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, where two long walls bear the names of every person she found — 107,000 lives, no longer forgotten.
She gave them back their names. And in doing so, she gave us all a more honest history.

[Cooper Lawrence @CooperLawrence]

“Runaway brides” should be called “near Mrs.”

Thank you, this is why I have a PhD

[Covie @covie_93]

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list who raped kids.

[音色 @thracia776_bts]

釜山とBTSを巡る騒動について振り返り、個人的な意見を述べます。
#BTSARMY #BTS_twt

【時系列】
1月：HYBEが釜山公演発表
5月：HYBEが公演災害管理の最終計画を提出
6/5：釜山市が公務員約900人の「強制動員」を通知
　→匿名掲示板に���民間企業の金儲けのために公務員をタダ働きさせるな」と釜山市公務員からの告発文が投稿され、報道により拡散
6/8：労組からの抗議を受け、市は「自発参加」へ変更
　→安全要員は1800人から1228人へと大幅に縮小
🔗https://t.co/WSEUWCdlCL

【意見】
BTSの釜山公演は平日を含むのに、その対応に公務員を900人割くというのは、現場を軽視しすぎた対応だと考えます。
しかも一週間前の募集で準備期間がなく、当日すべき業務は残業に回ります。
匿名掲示板で告発する手法の是非はともかく、不満が出ても当然だと思われます。

釜山市は予め予算枠を用意し、民間スタッフを雇うべきだったのではないでしょうか。
光化門ステージの例や、現在の入国者数の急増を見ても、公費を民間企業のために支出できないなら、治安維持予算を取る必要があったと思われます。

去年の段階から公演はわかっていたのに、何故今こんな問題が出るのでしょうか。
強制動員の通知タイミングも遅すぎるように感じられます。
2023年の釜山コンサートでHYBEが巨額の負担を引き受けたことが成功体験となり、今回もそれを織り込んでギリギリまで延ばした結果が、開催一週間前になっての身内動員ではないか、という憶測を呼ぶのも当然かと思います。

HYBEは会場使用費を払い、公演法上必要な会場内部の安全管理に対応しています。
会場外の人混みや交通の管理は自治体の役割です。
「私企業が儲けるための活動に公費が使用される」という性質の報道は、梨泰院事件などの教訓を軽視する、視点が低いものだと評価せざるをえません。

この状況を招いた釜山市と、それをあたかも民間企業とアーティストによる公費搾取のように報道する一部メディアには、猛省を促したく思います。

今回は、釜山万博招致と言う名目があった2023年の釜山コンサートや、政府とソウル市が「国家行事」として乗り出した光化門ステージとは違い、無料公演ではありません。
光化門の時でさえ「一歌手の公演に公費を使うのか」という声が出たことを、学びとする必要があったのではないでしょうか。

経済効果は欲しいが、予算を組んだりシステムを整備したりするのは面倒、という自治体の杜撰な対応がこの状況を��き、結果として巨大な経済効果をもたらすIPのブランド棄損に繋がっているのではないかと懸念せざるをえません。

あくまでも「受益者負担が原則」という姿勢を貫くのであれば、釜山市も公演に便乗して観光招致をしている姿勢を振り返るべきではないでしょうか。
https://t.co/nywvRmDKam

2023年の釜山コンサートでは、インフラ整備を含む巨額のコスト（総額70～100億ウォンとも言われる）を、HYBEが直接負担し、兵役前のBTSメンバーも無償で協力しました。
今回の釜山公演では、宿泊費の高騰や不当キャンセルなどの問題が発生し、政府が対応に乗り出しています。

私はBTSメンバーの故郷を愛していますが、こういった対応をけして忘れてはいません。
これらの様子は、直接現地に参加したファンによって今も共有されており、ネット上で生き続けています。

私たちは４月からのワールドツアーで、各国がBTSに賞を与え、祝日を設け、大���領公邸に迎えて歓迎する様子を嬉しく見守ってきました。
今世界中のファンが注視している中で、釜山市と韓国は信用を勝ち取れるのか、それが問われています。

一度の経済効果と引き換えに失ってはならないものがあるのではないか、最大の宝をその手で地に落としていないか、振り返って欲しいと切に願っています。
@BusanCityGovt @Jaemyung_Lee

[𓆩♡𓆪 GODS FAVORITE 𓆩♡𓆪 @soulaaangel]

SPEAK

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

One of the things we don't talk about enough is what a hypersexualised culture does to young girls.

I remember being around 13 and already scared of "heterosexual" sex because were told it was inevitable, that it would hurt, that penetration was something that had to happen to "take away" your virginity, and that boys would expect things things such as a blow job. When I said I didn't want that, I was mocked, dismissed, and told when I grow up I'd want that for myself.

Meanwhile, boys are raised to look forward to sex, to see it as something they gain and take from girls. Girls, on the other hand, are prepared to expect discomfort, pressure, even humiliation as part of the experience.

This is a very fucked up way to socialise children and teenagers, and I hope none of you are passing these ideas on to your kids.

[blue @bluewmist]

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE CERTAIN I AM THAT WE KNEW EXACTLY WHO WE WERE WHEN WE WERE LITTLE, AND THEN ADULTS TALKED US OUT OF IT

[⊙⊝⊜ @ameviil]

some members of the national assembly were not pleased with the deal bts made with netflix either, because the government did not see any profit from it, and i think they are trying to take revenge for this. i think the busan government needs to pay its 7 billion won debt from 2022 first 🙂

🔗 https://t.co/Vcvo85SubL

[‏ً @itsnwts]

My husband cheated on me ONCE. One time in seven years together, and suddenly I was expected to “hear him out” and “work through it” because “people make mistakes.” But when I packed my things and left, I became the villain for not forgiving him fast enough.

A year later, he still tells people I “threw away” our marriage over one mistake, like seven years of loyalty from me meant nothing the moment he decided to betray it.

Funny how betrayal is called a mistake when men do it, but a woman is branded a monster forever.