soulsistrin

reiddesigns:

“Several things should bother you about last night’s self stroking by the PM:

1. No Diversification policies
2. No Tobago policies discussed.
3. No Tertiary education policies discussed.
4. Laptops were the only education pokicy discussed.
5. No policies to improve healthcare discussed.
6. No policies to improve mass transit discussed.
7. Issues like abortion, lgbt and the environment were non existent.
8. No concrete policies to develop youth explored or discussed.
9. All allegations of fraud, corruption and scandal were avoided. ALL.
10. Reshmi lasted 8 days, not 2 as the PM fabricated.
11. The WASA figures of clean water are a lie.
12. The SOE was announced as a success and that is a LIE.
13. 8000 plus ppl were detained of which approximately 80% were ppl resembling John Sandy…Kamla cannot avoid the fact that she used ethnic targetting as a crime tool in this country and her supporters applauded it.
14. The PM, in a position to use statistics and data, chose instead to use none that was applicable or true.
15. Refurbished is not the same as built.

How is it possible to use state resources, control your own debate against panellists who couldnt even ask follow up questions and still not get it right?”

via @eternalpantomime ‪#‎MasterdBate2015‬

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I’ve had this headache now for more then a day. It must be my sinuses because it feels like there’s a connection from my nostril to my brain every time I breathe and it hurts. Why is the human body so imperfect? I want a refund. This is bullshit.

neesie09:

averageblackteen:

Where are those woke white people at!?

The amount of notes this doesn’t have bothers me…

quiyst replied to your photo “Lapis or turquoise? Can’t decide which stone to set in this pendant….”

My vote is for the lapis. It has such a beautiful gold flecking on it that just works really well with the pendant piece.

Yes I agree. That was my first choice. Plus I already use a lot of turquoise. I’d like a change

I like the lapis. Maybe you could make an identical setting for the turquoise?

lol I knew somebody was gonna say that. I can… it’s no biggie, I just needed to make a choice now. seems like I’m going with the lapis… which was my original choice anyway 🙂

• I went to sleep with a headache and woke up with it. I hate when that happens. I feel like shit for the whole day. I’ve decided to stay out of the studio for the day and watch this tutorial on soldering and fabricating I bought instead. It’s still work.
• Chris finally went to the doctor (I told him to go back on Monday). He has bronchitis. Poor guy, he’s been feeling like utter shit for a week. I’m mostly recovered from my cold.
• I feel fatigued after yesterday. I don’t generally get into fights with people online. I don’t post strongly worded messages either. But yesterday I had just had enough. At 42 years old I am wise enough to know that you can’t change anybody, you can’t make them do what you want and you sure can’t make them give a shit. But sometimes you still have to open your fucking mouth.
• That people are sad/shocked/disgusted that people don’t care about Black Lives Matter makes me shrug. Isn’t it obvious that they don’t care? Have you not been reading the posts (this wouldn’t have happened if fill-in-the-blank-tone/behaviour-policing, Black people just don’t know how to behave), seeing the anti Black sentiment EVERYWHERE (Dylan Roof!, burning of Black churches, calling a child a nigger at her birthday party while driving by with ten rebel flags on your car). I can’t speak for everyone, but I automatically assume a white person is racist until they prove otherwise. I do not assume I live in a world that loves Black people. Not when every country and culture in the world has negative words for Black people. Not when hate for Black people exists in every corner of the planet. So no. OF COURSE they don’t care. I don’t expect them to. If they cared this wouldn’t be happening in the first place.
• And that doesn’t just go for white people. Man, people will smile to your face and call you nigger the minute you turn your back. Don’t y’all know that? There’s Black people who hate Black people man. C’mon.

Oooh it’s raining yeeessssssssssssssss

THANK you, and thank YOU! xx

dmc-dmc:

avocadomami:

blkoutqueen:

They still struggle to be seen and heard and look at what they gave the world.

Stop erasing black women 2k5ever

Their names are Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors. Know their names.

EXACTLY!

laurensaysrelax replied to your post “Arabs are white. Get over it”

Wouldn’t they technically be Asian given the location of the continent

Yes technically many people defined as Arabs are located on the Asian continent. But I don’t believe they define themselves as such. But they don’t define themselves as White either. Arab people have been writing to the OP demanding that he stop defining them as White. He refuses. 

This is like the guy who tried to tell me that I was white because I was of Hispanic descent. NO DUDE. “But it’s like you’re white” ummm. NO.

Trust me I’ve had people tell me I wasn’t black because I didn’t speak like, “Yo ma nigga,” and come from the hood. It’s amazing what people will tell themselves (and you) to make things fit neatly into how they want their world to be. 

dogwithsharperteeth replied to your post: ask-rainz asked:Arabs are white. …

Arabs are white? When the fuck did that happen?

Today, apparently

The Romans were white along with the Arabs. Please induldge me on what I git wrong.

I love how y’all want to claim the Arabs now. When they’re being Muslims they’re other.

Just understand one thing: the history you have been taught has an AGENDA. And you’re just parroting that agenda. You need to explore history books that were not written by and about white men.

clara-oswild:

whatwhiteswillneverknow:

ask-rainz:

Tumblr is all about calling out white people and how shit they are. You need to remember that white people (especially white men) are the scourge of humanity.

I mean, what have white people ever given the world?!

(Excluding: the industrial revolution, modern medicine, the scientific method, planes, trains, automobiles, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, cartography, philosophy, universities, space exploration, liberalism, secularism, rationalism, civil society, democracy, the rule of law, the globe’s lingua franca, literature, classical music, sculpture, art, all the world’s major architectural movements, oh and global prosperity and trade)

War, disease, assumation, genocide, and racism.

Lol you think white people came up with chemistry, biology, and mathematics? YOUR NUMBERS ARE ARABIC NUMERALS. HOW IGNORANT CAN YOU BE? And law? Literature? ART? Honestly. What a joke. Fuck right off.

Cartography??? Philosophy??? Universities??? DEMOCRACY????!!! Jesus christ read a fucking history book. Shit just go on wikipedia if you’re too lazy. You’re so way off base I can’t even fucking deal right now. 

As for global prosperity… GLOBAL PROSPERITY FOR WHO?

gtfo

I truly never looked at it that way. I personally struggle to understand why or how anyone could simply not care.

But people can’t care about everything. The world wears you down. We all have our personal struggles to deal with. Life is challenging enough as it is. 

For some people, expressing outrage about a lion is as far as it’s going to go. Other people march in the streets. Other people will give up their lives for a cause. Everyone is different. Not everyone gets fire in their belly when they hear about things that are unfair. Many people remain unaffected because they are unaffected. It doesn’t change their lives. It doesn’t touch anyone they know. So it doesn’t matter. And we have to accept that. It’s not productive to focus our energy on people who don’t care. We cannot change anyone. We cannot force people to give a shit.

What we can do is WHAT WE CAN DO. So we must focus our energies on ourselves and our own efforts. That is the only way to change things. Each person must be the change they wish to see in the world. It has to happen on a personal level. And if you are outraged then good! Do something about it! Focus your energy on that. Don’t waste time on people who don’t care. It does nothing. We cannot force people to give a shit.

abbyhatake:

repeat after me:

there are white people suffering in the world

but the white people who are suffering are not suffering because they are white

When they say “All lives matter,” I hear “but what about meeeee?!”

Exactly!

liznessdiscopanda replied to your post “Just because I support Black Lives Matter does not mean I do not think…”

I hope you realize that’s not what I’m screaming. You can care about both. My outrage is that so much more care was expressed about the lion than about black lives and that’s infuriating to me. people that are silent about black lives shouldn’t be

I understand exactly your frustration. That’s not what this was about. 

I understand that it’s easier for some people to care more about animals than people. Animals are after all defenceless against us. And there are many people who like animals a lot more than people. 

As a person of colour, I see people getting outraged by everything BUT what happens to the Black community. I don’t expect everyone to care or give a shit. Maybe that’s why I’m not outraged by the outpouring for Cecil vs. Black Lives. I accept that many people, even good people, will never care about Black people because it is simply too far removed from their experience. There are Black people who don’t care what happens to other Black people. That’s the way the world is.

I am simply tired of the policing that happens around here. This whining about everyone’s suffering and everyone’s having a hard time and if I didn’t do it then how is it my responsibility to do something about it? Everyone isn’t suffering EQUALLY. Everyone isn’t having a hard time in THE SAME WAY. If you benefit from a system of privilege then you HAVE PRIVILEGE even if you don’t recognise it. You can be poor and have privilege. You can be Black and have privilege. It comes in many different forms. Educate yourself. It’s so easy for so many people to feel victimised because people who have ALWAYS been victimised are finally being heard. I’m tired of this idea that we must care equally for all people. NO. I care about MY people more. Because MY people are more likely to suffer violence or death at the hands to the people who were sworn to protect them. That doesn’t make you a victim. It just means for once that you’re not the first person everyone gives a fuck about. And that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable.

Again, not directed at you xx

Just because I support Black Lives Matter does not mean I do not think that all lives matter. I am drawing attention to the lives that in jeopardy right now. I’m allowed to draw attention to a specific group of people, especially if they are MY people, especially when they are getting murdered by authorities and have been historically devalued.

Just because I express outrage at the death of an animal doesn’t mean I don’t care about the deaths of people. I can care about more than two things at a time. They are not mutually exclusive.

The idea that because someone expresses support for a particular cause mean that they automatically do not care about other causes is based on false logic. 

Stop making assumptions about what people give a shit about and stop telling them what to care about. Stay in your lane. What are you doing about it anyway?

FYI Black Lives Matter is meant to be an inclusive statement, because historically speaking black lives HAVE NOT MATTERED. So tack an “also” onto the end of that and maybe you will understand. It does not mean “only”.

Saying All Lives Matter is like saying All Cancers Are Horrible Not Just Breast Cancer. See how fucking stupid that sounds? Just stop it.

In the mood for gnocchi. I bought some the other day. I think I’ll have them for lunch tomorrow not as good as homemade but they’ll do.

Self, you are not having pasta at midnight go to sleep.

merfology:

jennisgreenribbon:

isaidnotomatoes:

louhocnee:

30isthenewpleasekillme:

#30isthenewpleasecockme

Loucocknee

Isaidnocock

Jennisgreencock

Might need to see a doctor about that.

Cockology

Soulcock. I dig it.

I’m so tired of the ineptitude of everything Caribbean. It just wears you the fuck down.

Trying to check my Caribbean Airlines miles balance and I can’t remember my PIN so I click retrieve PIN expecting I’ll eventually get an email and it’ll be fine.

No of course not. I get a phone number to call. And an physical address to write a LETTER to (??!!) and an email address. So I call the number which is a 1-800 number but isn’t actually toll free at all. And finally after selecting this and that I get a message that their offices are closed. 

But of course they are. 

Why must y’all make everything so fucking hard?? God I am fed up of nothing ever working right or fast or at all

rebirth-of-a-soul replied to your post “zeroisaplaceholderzero replied to your post “I don’t understand…”

He should receive several fines. Plus, he should be permanently banned from entering that country. Damn sicko! Who the fuck hunts for fun, if it doesn’t pertain to food consumption?! Sport fishing is another hobby only demented people partake in.

Yeah I’m not into that either quite frankly. I don’t see a need to traumatise a poor fish to satisfy your stupid ego.

I just saw the Yelp page for his dental practice and I think his business is pretty much destroyed at this point. 

I just cannot understand how in this day and age with how many animals are endangered that it’s legal to hunt lions, rhinos and other “big game”. We should be doing everything in our power to protect these animals. People make me sick.

liznessdiscopanda replied to your post “everydayjewels replied to your post “I don’t understand hunting for…”

The story to tell. I don’t hunt but know plenty of hunters. If it’s not hanging on their wall they’re telling you the story every time they get a chance.

I just don’t understand how killing an animal you have no intention of eating is considered a sport. It should be illegal. 

zeroisaplaceholderzero replied to your post “I don’t understand hunting for sport. I’m never going to fucking…”

Ditto. I love shooting. That’s what 1000yd ranges and steel targets are for. Not endangered species.

Hell I’ve fired a gun and I’m pretty anti guns but I figured might as well see what the other side sees in these things. I can understand the appeal. I’m not against killing animals for food. But I can’t understand how you could stalk a lion and kill it to keep it’s head and skin as a trophy. Like what the fuck is that? How is killing a sport? Sometimes it makes me sick to be part of the human race.

mr-circumstance replied to your post “I’m supposed to be working on a logo design but I’m procrastinating…”

Maybe because jewellery making resonates with you more?

No, I think the creative process is different. When I’m making jewellery I don’t have to convey a message or consider a client’s needs… it’s a very free form of creation. Basically whatever enters my head I make it. With graphic design there’s a lot more to consider than what you feel like doing. You have to think about colour and fonts and look and feel and a bazillion other things. And in a logo it’s all mashed into one thing so it’s that much more complicated. I think that’s why I always drag my feet to start.

everydayjewels replied to your post “I don’t understand hunting for sport. I’m never going to fucking…”

I know people who hunt for sport. It is a macho thing and also they love playing with their “toys” (guns). They laugh if I tell them what I think of it, because I am just a lefty bleeding heart (and a woman at that). So gross!!

But what’s the endgame? What the purpose? The trophy? An animal’s head on your den wall? I don’t get it. Maybe I’m just never gonna get it.

I don’t understand hunting for sport. I’m never going to fucking understand it. Why would you want to kill a magnificent wild animal?

How is it even a fair fight when you have high powered rifles and infrared cameras?

Why don’t you go out into the fucking wilderness with just your bare hands and take down an animal one on one. Then let’s see who’s the hunter and who’s the hunted.

I’m so fucking disgusted. 

If you’re gonna kill it you better fucking need to be eating it.

I’m supposed to be working on a logo design but I’m procrastinating instead. My graphic design jobs always start off like this. Even when I was into it I’d drag my feet. I don’t know why. It doesn’t happen with jewellery making. But I just feel so meh.

Fine I’m gonna go read my book. My insomniacs fell asleep. Failures. Every last one of you. *throws scarf over shoulder and exits dramatically*

James is up too. Insomniacs United.

Ok that’s a boring name for a club. I’m not very creative at this hour.

Can’t sleep que ladilla

quiyst replied to your post “funinthesunshine replied to your post “I keep forgetting that my…”

TouchID supports up to 10 slots. Some people double-up slots to improve recognition, but still, up to 10.

Good to know. I haven’t had any problems with recognition except when my fingers are wet. I’ve added my other thumb and index finger now too.

funinthesunshine replied to your post “I keep forgetting that my iPhone is not acquainted with my left thumb”

I’ve got both my thumbs and a pointer finger, just in case.

How many can you have? I need to get on that

I keep forgetting that my iPhone is not acquainted with my left thumb

I contacted my bank to update my skybox (U.S. mailing) address a while back which I use for credit card verification when shopping online. 

Then my statements started coming from Miami. That is, they were mailing them from Trinidad to my Miami address, which was then forwarded back here to Trinidad.

I just called them to rectify it and it was this whole big fat hairy ball of wax. Sometimes I think that bank is run by monkeys.

They also still cannot tell me what happened to the card that the ATM ate over a month ago. *We’ll call you* Yeah right.

wanderfckinglust:

✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Wow this cold has been kicking my ass. I’ve been exhausted from merely existing and all I could do these past two days was sleep.

I’ve been super congested (it’s a dry cold thankfully). I tend to get a little paranoid when I can’t breathe through my nose because I have asthma and in my mind that makes me more likely to die. Which is stupid because no matter where you’re breathing from asthma is still happening in your lungs but in my mind this makes sense that if my nose is stuffed up then I’ll get an asthma attack and die. That’s the same person that can’t sleep with covers on her feet because claustrophobia.

Anyway I made it into the studio today. I have some new pieces to debut. So I’m glad I got that done. I’m starting to feel like people again. Yay me.

timelordparadise:

tassiekitty:

ranetree:

extravagantshoes:

cellostargalactica:

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

BREATHE – THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH – THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER – TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER – TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

LOSE – TO MISPLACE SOMETHING

LOOSE – UNATTACHED

YOU LOSE SOMETHING BECAUSE IT IS LOOSE

DEFINITELY NOT DEFIANTLY

COULD OF – NOT A THING

COULD HAVE/COULD’VE – YES A THING

vasolinebajebus:

Sure. Cards isn’t working out.

Poor Chris seems to have gotten the worse end of this cold we got. I just have a bit of congestion. That and I cannot seem to keep my eyes open for the life of me. I literally slept all day yesterday. Today’s only slightly better but I’m not gonna make it into the studio anytime soon as I had hoped. The rain isn’t helping. Somebody come put the roast in the oven please?

Internet and cable are back up. of course I’m playing a game now on my laptop and couldn’t give a shit.

My mobile provider has been having issues with service because of seismic activity in the area. In short, there is an underwater volcano off the coast of Grenada that’s been acting up lately and it’s been disturbing the cables on the ocean floor. I don’t use my data often but it’s been really sucking these past few days when I have had to use it.

Now my internet and cable provider have been out of service for hours today for reasons unknown. It’s still down.

So it’s like the perfect storm of shitty communication issues.

To top it all off there’s been escaped prisoners, deaths, and shootings at various police stations that has the country feeling really jumpy right now. Last thing I read was police notice asking the public to look out for certain vehicles carrying weapons that were last seen in my area.

This is really not a good time to be without communication.

I’m feeling rather vulnerable. I’m glad I’m home and don’t have to go anywhere.

Chris moved my car for me back into my space while my neighbour was out.

Im gonna leave it there. Asshole.

Our cable and Internet are out. Scrolling tumblr using my phone’s data is a painful exercise. Chris has put on a movie but it’s about men and war and guns and ugh.

I think I’ve finally figured out what my hell would look like.

I cancelled my bone graft appointment today because of this cold I got. Gosh that sounds serious, a bone graft.

I’m really glad Chris stayed home from work. Three prisoners escaped from the jail downtown and Port of Spain is on lockdown with massive gridlock to leave the city.

I redesigned my website. Have a look: www.sundarajewelry.com. I think it’s a lot more user friendly.

I feel a nap coming on…