Chris went to visit his granny yesterday and she sent a massive bag of ripe mangos back. I feel so rich when I have so many mangos! I had three this morning. They were great.
The Secret Garden is an enchantingly sweet series of nature-themed porcelain tableware made by Worcester-based artist and designer Jill Burns. Each piece is handmade, with the illustrations hand-carved into the porcelain.
funraising fees are fucked up did you know gofundme takes up to 7.9% of everything people donate you + $0.30 per donation
that means that if 10 people help you raise $1000, you’re losing $82 bucks
if youre a kid in trouble trying to raise money dont make my mistakes and use youcaring which is apparently toally free, and not gofundme
Gofundme just sucks in general. After a woman tried raising money for an abortion, they pulled her campaign and changed their terms of service so that starting a campaign for an abortion is basically against the rules, but anti-choice groups (some of which are known to be violent) are still able to use the site. source
But they let Darren Wilson have his campaign after he murdered Mike Brown
^YouCaring is great, in my experience. They can stay free because they ask everyone who donates to a cause whether they’d like to donate $1 to the website to keep it running.
It’s also not racist and anti-choice.
I did not know this
GoFundMe have also deleted sex worker’s fundraisers even though they were for medical bills, had nothing to do with sex work, and didn’t mention it anywhere. Someone outed her to them, and they deleted it.
Boycott GoFundMe. Use YouCaring.
I do not donate to go fund me campaigns, even when I really, really want to.
I spent most of this weekend in bed sleeping. My uterus was doing a great job of keeping me down and then on Saturday night we both got a bout of food poisoning. Thankfully it didn’t hit us both at the same time cause we only have one bathroom.
I spend a lot of my time these days staring sentences with “I don’t understand how-” and finishing it with things like -people can sleep at night knowing that the money they took and their refusal to put some measure of control over guns has resulted in yet another massacre, and -someone can hate anyone who hasn’t done anything to them that much, and –what the fuck is wrong with America, and -what the fuck is wrong with this world. I feel emotionally exhausted. I want to get off this ride.
This past week was very hard for me re all the Brock Turner exposure. It was very triggering because my rape happened in a similar manner. I wasn’t drunk but I was drugged. For all I know there’s a gangbang tape of me out there somewhere. I read in some comments that someone asked the question, if you weren’t conscious at the time can it really affect you? Yes. It can and it does. For your whole life it will. Even when you think you are ok, one day you will choose to tell your story to someone and you will be surprised to feel tears well up in the corner of your eyes and your voice catch in your throat. I will never know the details but knowing that someone violated my body is enough.
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The Orlando Shooting Is the Third-Highest Known Toll
Only two mass shootings are known to have killed more people: a 2011 attack at a Norwegian summer camp, and shootings by a lone gunman in South Korea in 1982, according to research by Mr. Lankford. The research includes attacks dating back to a massacre at the University of Texas in 1966 that is often considered the first modern mass shooting.
The largest mass shooting in the US has been on LGBTQ people of color.
Before the 1450s, Europeans considered Africans exotic but not necessarily inferior. As more and more nations joined the slave trade, Europeans came to characterize Africans as stupid, backward, and uncivilized. Amnesia set in; Europe gradually found it convenient to forget that Moors from Africa had brought Spain and Italy much of the learning that led to the Renaissance. Europeans had known that Timbuktu, with its renowned university and library, was a center of learning. Now, forgetting Timbuktu, Europe and European Americans percieved Africa as the “dark continent”. By the 1850s many white Americans, including some Northerners, claimed that black people were so hopelessly inferior that slavery was a proper form of education for them; it also removed them physically from the alleged barbarism of the “dark continent”.
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen (via rumpleshtiltskin)
Gay Pride was not born of a need to celebrate being gay, but our right to exist without persecution. So instead of wondering why there isn’t a Straight Pride movement, be thankful you don’t need one.
Did one explode in your presence before? This is fascinating to me ��
No, just a fear I’ve had since I was a kid. But one time Chris was cooking something and the top blew off and we were cleaning soup I think it was, off the ceiling, thus confirming that I should never touch one.
‘The Ghetto Tarot’ – Haitian artist group, Atis Rezistans, re-creates the classic tarot deck into scenes, people and locations from their native Haiti.
I’ve been laid up all day with cramps and a headache feeling tired and now hungry and I was feeling for junk food and Chris just left to go buy my some and I just have the best husband in the world.
reblogging this again because this is from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents and I’m reading it right now and it’s incredibly awkward to read about my entire life’s problems neatly described by a complete stranger
I defrosted what I thought was chicken today only when I emptied it into the pot (it was already seasoned) I realised it was this pork we had bought at the market and the last time we tried to cook some of it we had to pressure cook it cause it was so tough.
Chris is at class and I refuse to operate the pressure cooker (I am terrified of it) so I asked him if he wanted to do it when he got home or if I should order a pizza. He said get the pizza. So that’s dinner.
I looked into that but custom made swimsuits are wayyyy too expensive for me. I actually found some decently priced pieces on Amazon (of all places) so I’ll be doing my shopping there.
Shopping for swimwear when you are large busted is a nightmare.
I am trying to find something that is not black, and not billowy in the midsection. I do not carry a lot of weight in my torso, I just happen to have a large chest. And I don’t want to wear a bikini.
My last tankini top I got from Lane Bryant. It is black and while it fits my chest it’s too big in the torso, making me look larger than I am. I’d really like something fitted.
Let’s not talk about price either. Like… lemme not go there.
Me: Hi babe. Woke up naked and still don’t wanna put on clothes
Chris: I was forced to. To go to work.
Me: Sucks.
Me: Yeah cause you’d have gotten fired otherwise.
Chris: Or a promotion.
Me: Bwahahahaha!
Happy. I remember having some profound thinking sessions on this and at a very young age I came to the conclusion that what I wanted out of life was to be happy. That hasn’t changed and I’d say I’m doing pretty good with that goal.
26. Celebrity crush?
Haha that would be the lovely Idris Elba, along with half the women on the planet. He’s just so… mmm!
45. Last text you sent?
“Sorry babe I had just gotten home when you texted. I passed out.” Sent to my poor friend Roland who I can never seem to meet up with. I’ll try again today because he’s going back to England this weekend.
The thing that occurs to me is that had Brock Turner a) not taken the case to court as his victim expected and b) not asked for and received this ridiculously lenient sentence, then most likely this case would have just gone under the radar and disappeared. No one would have known about it and he would likely have been able to resume his privileged special snowflake life to some extent after his sentence. But because of his own actions, now everyone knows who he is, and his rape of this woman will haunt him for the rest of his life. And if that isn’t poetic justice then I don’t know what is.
So I’ve revamped my Etsy shop and I figured hey, maybe if you actually TELL PEOPLE then you might actually sell something…
So anyway, this is my shop where you will find jewels for your FitBit or other fitness trackers. To kick it off I’m going to even throw in free shipping (promo code:
TUMBLRFREE) for the next few weeks. I’ve got some more that I haven’t listed yet so maybe I can do those over my four day weekend.
Anyhoo, thanks for looking and feel free to share! I promise I won’t blow all of the money on hookers and blow.
Small business boost!
Thank you to all of those that have shared this. That’s one of the many things I love about this community, we rally around small business owners. So check out the shop, grab something with free shipping and let me know if there’s something custom you’d like…
I have a friend who went for a massage for the first time the other day and the masseuse massaged her boobs. And between being horrified and cracking up I was kind like, girl you got felt up. So I was just asking to make sure cause I’ve had my fair share of massages… That’s not supposed to happen right?
There’s a website where you can learn ASL (American Sign Language) on your own, free and it’s a 31 Day program! The woman on there, her name is Rochelle Barlow, she runs the site and she actually is a homeschool teacher and teaches ASL. I am passing this on to some of you guys cause most of y’all on here is open-minded and curious and it is something important to learn.
I truly believe this site is helpful for some people who can not afford to going to ASL classes, or someone like me that just enjoys learning something new. This site will help with that. Once you sign up you will put in your email address and Rochelle sends you emails on tips on how to sign, gives you practice sheets, and gives you your weekly videos. And its all online. No need to paying for anything. (Unless if you want to she has something very different to this program)
IMO and yes, this site is really amazing and is important because you never know if someone who is deaf or HOH needs help, if you end up losing your hearing ability this is something you will at least have on the back of your head, and it is just like any other language and should be taught.
I just opened the Facebook app and this was the first picture I saw. It was posted by my half sister with the caption “First time Dad met his granddaughter!”
I think it was so unexpected to see him pop up like that in a picture I’d never seen before that my immediate reaction was to tear up. It was nice to see him looking so happy and healthy. I’ve been missing him a lot lately.
My dentist fixed my chipped front tooth yesterday (for the third time) and now I can’t stop running my tongue over it. I’m probably looking like a moron but I can’t help it
Also my flossing regimen is paying off, he asked me when was the last time he cleaned my teeth (about six months ago) cause they were looking so good.
I spent so much time driving that my heel got sore from resting against the floorboard of the car. Perhaps next time I should wear sneakers.
Scarfed down some sushi and did not enjoy it. Never eat sushi in a hurry. Sushi must be lingered over.
I’m at Chris’s office waiting for a call from yet another mechanic. It’s freezing in here and I really wish I’d brought a sweater.
West Indians never know how to use air conditioning properly. They never have it at a comfortable temperature. Air conditioning must always have the place freezing.
I’m also reminded of a friend who went to the home of some West Indians living in New Jersey, during the winter time. They had the heat up to 80-something degrees. He had to leave he said it was like sitting in a sauna.
So I guess we don’t know how to use any kind of climate control properly.
The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow.
The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.”
My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable.
These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.
But just as fascinating as it was to witness my mental and physical changes, it was just as equal of an adjustment to comprehend how other people were responding to me.
In short, I was being treated better by everyday America because people were reading me as a young, white, straight (?!) male. And I recognized many new privileges that came my way because of it.
I’m trying to find the good today, the peace. But every time I open any social media I see Brock Turner’s face and many men posting about what a piece of shit he is, his father is, the judge is…
I ask you, have you ever talked to your sisters, mothers, significant others, friends, or coworkers about their experiences? Have you heard a woman close to you in your life talk about being raped, assaulted, harassed? Do you ask us? Do you listen? Do you try? Or do you puff up your chest at news stories that outrage you, do “your part” in having a voice, a small comment, and pride yourself in knowing you could never be “that guy”? There are so many wonderful men in my life who I truly believe try to be feminist allies. But few men I’ve known have asked me about my experiences being a woman, no man I’ve known has heard any of my stories, no man I know is talking about the sexism and fear culture the women in YOUR lives deal with daily.
You want to do something? Quit reposting a triggering photo of someone we KNOW is in the wrong and start having a real conversation with your sisters about what you can do in your daily life to create change. Listen. Ask. Act.
Back to your regularly scheduled selfies and booze photos.
Why i seen a post calling out Beyonce about using patois in hold up ?! 🤔 and Rihanna for making ’ work ’ because its dancehall and not from her native country…. Whatsjshsshe idk about all of dem tings 👀🤔
All beyonce said was “me sing say”
Literally like three words. It’s not that deep. Drake on the other hand had like four whole ass songs where he’s trying to be down with dancehall/reggae and failed so let’s get that nigga instead
Also dancehall and reggae and soca don’t belong to one island in the Caribbean because contrary to what most Americans think not all the music in the Caribbean comes from Jamaica and Trinidad. Shocking I know.
^ Thank you but I will say certain genres come from certain countries
Reggae (Jamaica, started in the 1960s)
Dancehall (Jamaica, started in the 1970s)
Soca (Trinidad & Tobago, started in the 1970s)
Not to say other countries don’t participate in those genres but they certainly originated in those countries. But we’re not going to drag Bey for like a few lines while Drake out here stealing whole cultures for years. He’s the male Katy Perry but on a deeper level. Like Katy will do a video and will culturally appropriate or do some stupid racist shit.
Drake will infiltrate entire cultures, speak some shitty ass version of Patois with some garbage accent – and shout out artists like he’s known them for the longest then steal these styles and put them on various tracks. It’s wild and I would say it needs to stop but let’s be honest – if Drake doesn’t steal how will he sell? What kind of life has Aubrey led that anyone would be interested in hearing about? He’s kind of stale right now when it comes to new material and being himself would make everyone drop asleep.
It’s a lose-lose for him at this point but he needs to start giving these artists love through features on tracks if he’s going to go through those kind of lengths to pretend to be something he’s not.
Beyonce has Bajan blood also if I’m not mistaken so she should be out of the question
Either way its not just them. Their trying to start a new genera called tropical house so songs like work and one dance and even sorry by Justin which has a old reggae back beat to it is considered a different genera. I find it extremely stupid also i feel a bit disrespected because soca dancehall and reggae are west Indian thing! Wither your Bajan, Trini, Guyanese, Jamaican or w.e its still something unique about the west indies. I LOVE how its blending in with how music is now because at parties now i would here a one two machel or kes song and some popcann and ting. But i dont like how they are trying to turn it into something that they started. Fuck tropical dance give credit where credit is due!
Beyoncé does have West Indian blood in her but even if she didn’t, I wouldn’t give two damns over the “me sing seh” line bc it’s literally three words. Like fbp said, “it’s not that deep”. As for non WI people blending WI genres with other types of music, I don’t really mind it much, but yeah perhaps some credit is due. (I don’t wanna hear whites doing WI music though- you’ve had UB40 and these Germans that think they know what soca is. Your time been up and you did a shit job at it)
Beyonce is a “west indian person” (allegedly) so she gets a pass… But Bieber and UB40 get flamed cause they’re white? And then Drake is half black and half jewish, and he wrong too? But Beyonce is ok though? Seems a lil… Unbalanced IMHO.
(And just FYI, I say this as a person actively working in and weaving a living legacy in West Indian [Soca] culture for the last couple decades.)
Her father is Bahamian apparently. I don’t know her attachment to that part of her heritage but come on, all those people are just borrowing phrases and accents and riffs from our culture. Honestly I find it ridiculous when I hear it, just the same way I also think Niki Minaj sounds ridiculous when she speaks Jamaican patois cause we damn well know she’s Trini. Don’t be wearing other people accent fuh style.
I have a ring to set with a stone in it and today is the third time I’ve broken the fucking ring. Well I’ve broken off the prongs. I’m never setting a stone this shape ever again. So fed up.
I was gonna ask but I figured it wasn’t for me yes 😉
The Beetham is an economically depressed area of Trinidad. Many women of the lower classes put copious amounts of baby powder on their bodies, especially their chests and neck, ostensibly to show that they have taken a bath and are clean (at least that’s my understanding of it) and because they are Black (I’ve only seen Black people do it) it is very obvious. It’s considered a tacky and low class thing to do. So when I said I had covered myself in baby powder and probably looked like a “Beetham powder neck” that’s what I meant lol.
It’s sad that many of your followers won’t understand the “Beetham powder neck” reference. It made me cackle though cause it seems sooo un-you *dead* (Daiz not yuh scene nah boi *wet man voice*) lol
Last month I bought some pimento salt from one vendor and I’ve been putting it on everything. So I decided to buy some more flavors from them (I got citrus and bacon). I also bought lemon pepper and shadon beni (cilantro) salt from another vendor. We ran out of salt at home. I may have gone a little overboard.
My last purchase with a massaging soap of charcoal and nettle salts. It smells really lovely I also got a sample of body oil which was very moisturizing and smells great too.
I’m gonna make some chicken pot pies for dinner and try out some of that bacon salt. Yum.
This week’s free Photoshop brush is ’Hatch Mesh’ a Photoshop cross hatching brush with a light line weight and a generic evenly spaced four line hatch pattern.
I completely forgot tonight was Game of Thrones. I slept through it. Oh well I can catch it tomorrow. I wonder if Chris saw it? Last thing I remember he was watching tv with the headphones on but that was hours ago.
Also I seem to have heartburn or indigestion or something, one of those things that I never get. How bloody annoying.
I’m still thinking about making a baked potato and sprinkling some of that bacon flavored salt on it. Bacon flavored salt y’all! Epic
I’m not sure what time I passed out this afternoon but now it’s 10:42 and I’m wide awake and trying to figure out what to do with myself and not wake Chris.
I forgot to post my UpMarket buys today (too tired) but one of them was BACON flavoured SALT. It tastes fucking amazing I cannot WAIT to cook something and throw it in there.
Thanks for the info. Would love to find a 25/7 diner in TnT with good service, so I’m curious what your husband says about the burger when he does eat it lol
well I’ll try and remember to tell you what he thought of it
Four skateboarders received special recognition after they stepped in when a man was sexually assaulting a woman, scared him off, chased him down, and held him until police arrested him.
The young men — and 25 other Calgarians — received an award from Chief Const. Roger Chaffin in recognition for their exceptional bravery at the Chief’s Awards Gala Thursday night.
When I got home I immediately jumped in the shower cause UpMarket was so hot I was sticking to myself gross.
I wanted to take a cold shower but it was so hot today that the water was coming out warm from the pipes.
I’m now in the a/c in the bedroom, covered in baby powder cause I just can’t deal with any part of my skin touching itself and I probably look like a Beetham powder neck but I doh care I feeling good and smelling better.
Where is this located and what are their opening hours? Also how was the food & service?
It’s on the corner of Fitt St and Ariapita Ave. They open 24/7 (I know!). The service started off slow, they seemed to take a while to take our order but after that it was good. I ordered a panini which was quite good, came with fries. Chris ordered a burger which looked really unappetizing and he ended up eating the fries and bringing the burger home so I don’t know what it was like.
After UpMarket sustenance. We’re both tired and hot. Chris ordered a milkshake with his burger. I’m getting a panini and an iced coffee. I hope they’re good.
hermes:where do you want to travel that you’ve never been before?
Jesus it would be easier to ask me where I don’t want to go! My dream vacation is Paris first and foremost but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I want to visit my ancestral lands so that’s a lot of places (India, China, Mongolia, Australia, different countries in Europe, Nigeria). But honestly I’m up for going almost anywhere new. I think the next new country I will likely visit will be Spain hopefully next year.
odysseus:what’s your favorite place to travel?
I like visiting the States a lot. It’s a second home to me and I’ve lived there. It’s comfortable and familiar and also very diverse. I also really love Mexico. I’ve been there a few times and I really love the culture there. The people are lovely and the food is fantastic too. I’m heading there in December if we can find a decent price on the tickets.
We blindfolded 15 homophobes and asked them to hit piñatas with a stick. The piñatas were actually deadly Asian giant hornet nests. What happens next will warm your heart.
This is disgusting bigotry against Christians at its finest.
I love the part where this post never mentioned Christians but you saw the word homophobe and jumped to your own defense anyways.
I’m not sure I consider myself to have a tumblr family. But I do have some people I consider friends here, who have been part of my tumblr journey for quite some time. There’s Gary @trinilikesalt who is an old friend IRL and brought me here. There are various Trini people I interact with @red-oman, @mistavybe , @mr-circumstance@splitsun on a regular. Some of my “girlfriends” here such as @casaofjules2, @millerflintstone, @harlot-k , @everydayjewels, @womaninterrupted and a bunch of others (yourself included) that I would absolutely love to get all together in one place cause I bet we would have an absolute blast. There are also a bunch of guys here that I get along great with that I’d definitely consider friends. Why y’all gotta live so damn far? I love you all though.
zeus: if you could have one power, what would it be?
poseidon: do you prefer the ocean or land?
apollo: what are your favorite pieces of poetry?
aphrodite: do you believe in true love?
athena: what are your favorite classic novels?
ares: are you a confrontational person?
artemis: do you prefer night or day?
hera: who makes up your tumblr family?
hestia: where do you live or want to live?
demeter: do you enjoy nature?
persephone: what’s your favorite season?
hades: do you believe in an afterlife?
hephaestus: what do you enjoy making?
hermes: where do you want to travel that you’ve never been before?
odysseus: what’s your favorite place to travel?
echo: what’s something you can’t stop talking about?
narcissus: what’s your best trait?
icarus: what’s your fatal flaw?
orpheus: what’s your favorite song or type of music?
eurydice: what’s something you regret?
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
I was trying to make it there tonight too but I’m nursing this shitty headache and I’m upset
I’m not feeling so great myself but we missed the last one and we promised we would come to this one so I’m going to make the effort. Hail me out if you get there!
Chris said he wants to go but he’s still lecturing and wants to take a bath so I guess he’ll come home and then we can go. I have some time to mentally prepare myself to socialise then. Ugh what to wear. I’m PMSing so I look like a moose.
Our friend Gillian is performing tonight. I am really tired (PMS) and Chris is in class and I still don’t know if he wants to go but the show starts in 20 minutes and guess who’s sitting here with no pants on?
I received an email a few days ago saying that the curator of one of the stores that I sell my work in is no longer associated with it. My first reaction was that some shit went down between her and the owners of the hotel where the store is located.
The Shop, as it’s called, showcases only local products, jewellery, housewares, clothing, food items, all of it made in Trinidad and Tobago. She has handpicked every vendor herself and carefully curated what has become the only place in the country where you can buy a wide variety of 100% locally made goods.
I just received an email stating that the hotel owner basically stole the store out from under her. What he’s done is illegal, but in the meantime she’s urging us all to remove our goods. I’m so disgusted. I’m going on Monday to collect my last cheque and remove my stuff.
soulsistrin 