Tamanna #BLM

Card-carrying intersectional feminist, professional language geek, cis queer Desi who is not here for your nonsense. She/her.

[Ben Schu @BenSchu]

If I was Lego, I would release a special set of Jimmy Carter building a house for Habitat for Humanity and raise the age to 100 just for that set. All profits go to Habitat for Humanity. Total missed opportunity.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. One of the biggest distractions for liberals with respect to every bad government bureaucracy is the illusion that more "training" will solve problems. Police, prosecutors, prison guards, and judges don't break the law and do bad things because they are poorly trained.

[Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix]

We have sacrificed liberal arts education on the alter of technology for years now. We’re finally paying the price: a complete lack of understanding of history, an inability to question things from an educated perspective, and a tendency to wallow in conspiracy and extremism.

[Tamanna #BLM @swingandswirl]

Why Barbenheimer makes me deeply uncomfortable (aka thoughts on whose stories get to be told and valued): https://t.co/aVnUpeHmRU

[Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo]

I think a lot of white liberals don’t realize that they are deeply invested in making white privilege more ethical rather than eliminating it.

This is why “respectful, authentic, cultural appreciation” has such a halo around it.

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

If you have a hard time understanding where the shortage of empathy for the sub crew comes from. here is a pretty good explainer.

[Amy Thurlow @athurlow]

Not every assistant should become a writer. The breaking of the ladder isn’t that there was ever anything in place that ensured this as a viable career, but it used to be that if a showrunner wanted to staff you they could.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing oppulance. Smh

[Lev Mirov (semi-hiatus) @thelionmachine]

I'm most angry that OceanGate already suspected submersible failure, hid that information, and let multiple governments endanger their sailors and specialists when we would have found the debris quicker if they had been honest. This in no way means the efforts were not heroic.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Hundreds are still missing and feared dead after a boat carrying migrants sank in Greek waters last week.

Advocates say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for 5 people. https://t.co/NYRoA3X3um

[Honey, the land! @angryblkhoemo]

The way pop culture has watered down "Karen" from "white women who weaponize their position under white supremacist patriarchy to enact violence upon Black and otherwise marginalized people (up to and including death)" to "white women being entitled and annoying in public" <<<<<<

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

OceanGate is a private business and was operating in international waters. Its owner and staff scoffed at safety regulations. They sent an unworthy vessel into danger with NO backup plan or emergency beacon.

One thing we are NOT going to do is blame this on the US Coast Guard.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Hey, Senate Judiciary Democrats: you have the majority & the power to launch full-scale investigations & hearings into Justices Clarence Thomas AND now Samuel Alito for their misconduct. Do it immediately. Start acting like you have power. Democracy deserves it.

[tar-minyatur’s court twink ✵ @caranthirs]

you ever notice how when cis queer men write something gay that sucks everyone is just like “damn, this sucks shit” and then moves on but when a transmasculine person writes something gay that sucks it’s like “think of the harm this Invader and Outsider is doing to queer men”

[༻Carly༺ @Xarluna]

Listen if y’all want a Titanic experience just go to Gatlinburg. They assign you a passenger & you find out if you survived at the end! You get to feel how cold the water was & they have OG costumes + things from the real ship! Don’t feed yourself to the Kraken for 250K. 😭

[Razorblade Snowflake (Keffy R.M. Kehrli) @Keffy]

Frankly, OceanGate is one of those situations where the super rich are reckless and they don't have to pay the full price of their business failure - that's being borne by the Coast Guard and Navy right now.

[Dr. Holly Walters @Manigarm]

We're mad at a system (that cares for rich explorers over refugees), not at individuals. We're angry with continued systemic injustice, not necessarily specific billionaires.

We're furious that they could have helped others with that money and didn't. All deserve rescue.