I didn’t want to make the message ace-specific because I wanted to make a point of how all of the above include aspec people, but I tried to use an ace colour palette for the background :) I also think the message applies especially (even if not exclusively) to the ace community!
Hope you like these 🥰
@rockmarina possibly “all labels were made up at one point, stop being an ass”?
I played around with the concept a bit, I hope you like it anyway!
kurdish: “my story went to other homes, god bless the mothers and fathers of its listeners” (Çîroka min çû diyaran, rehmet li dê û bavê guhdaran.)
greek: “and they lived well, and we lived better” (και ζήσανε αυτοί καλά και εμείς καλύτερα)
afrikaans: “whistle whistle, the story is done” (fluit fluit, die storie is uit)
goemai: “my tale has finished, (it) has returned to go (and) come home.” (tamtis noe lat / dok ba muaan yi wa)
amharic: “return my story and feed me bread” (ተረቴን መልሱ አፌን በዳቦ አብሱ::)
bengali: “my story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat” (aamaar kothati furolo; Notey gaachhti murolo) *means something is irreversibly ended because goats eats herbs from the root
norwegian: “snip snap snout, the tale is finished” (snipp snapp snute, så er eventyret ute”
polish: “and i was there [at the wedding] too, and drank mead and wine.” (a ja tam byłem, miód i wino piłem.)
hungarian: “this is the end, run away with it” (itt a vége, fuss el véle)
turkish: “lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for our story’s heroes, one for the person who told their tale, and one for those who listened and promise to share. And with that, they all achieved their hearts’ desires. Let us now step up and settle into their thrones.” (Gökten üç elma düşmüş; biri onların, biri anlatanın, diğeri de dinleyenlerin başına. Onlar ermiş muradına, biz çıkalım kerevetine.)
spanish: and they lived happily and ate partridges (y vivieron felices y comieron perdices)
also: red goldfinch, this story has finished (colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado)
german: and if they haven’t died yet, then they’re still alive today (und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute)
If
you’re lucky enough to have stable employment and good credit, you’re
living cheap. Poverty is far more expensive than affluence. Take
check-cashing: even the sleaziest bank doesn’t charge you to give it
money — but what if you don’t have a bank account?
For
millions of Americans — the poorest, working the hardest jobs, for the
longest hours — getting paid is expensive. When a bank won’t do business
with you, you need alternative arrangements, like visiting one of the
check cashing places that are all over poor neighborhoods.
Providing
high-priced financial services to poor Americans is a $18.2b/year,
Made-in-America industry, built high fees charged to the people with the
least ability to afford them — $15 to cash a $500 check.
It
doesn’t have to be this way. We could follow the leads of many other
countries and open public banks that provide financial utilities to
everyday people at reasonable costs, wiping out the whole exploitative
industry at the stroke of a pen.
The
most ambitious version of this plan is something like the Public Bank
of Los Angeles, which would also provide payroll services for city and
county workers, as well as issuing loans for public projects and local
businesses.
We
should pursue that dream. But while we chase it, let’s do something
right now about predatory financial services — something like a postal
bank, where check-cashing is cheap and ATMs are free.
That’s
not just a plan — it’s reality. USPS is trialing it right now, in four
locations: the Bronx, DC, Falls Church and Baltimore.
The
Postal Bank pilot is limited and kind of convoluted — because its lacks
Congressional authorization, the “check cashing” is structured as a
“gift card sale” — you hand over your check, the postal clerk hands you a
no-fee Visa debit card for its face value less $5.95.
This
could be expanded through no-fee ATMs, and the cards could be
reloadable, avoiding the $5.95 fee for each check — that is, it could be
turned into a postal bank that fulfills the core functions of the
postal banks that USPS offered until 1967, to the benefit of millions.
The
bank trial owes its existence to APWU, the postal workers’ union, which
included the bank pilot in its collective bargain, and whose leaders
personally sold Postmaster General (and archvillain) Bill DeJoy on it.
As
David Dayen writes, a national postal bank would be hugely
consequential for millions of Americans — putting more money in the
pockets of the people who have the least.
What really makes Quannah Chasinghorse's outfit for me (besides somehow making silver and turquoise jewelry work with a gold lamé gown) is that she totally embodied the intention of that jewelry (which makes sense, given she had help from a former Miss Navajo). Jewelry from Southwestern tribal nations is so big and eye-catching because it comes from a tradition of ceremonial jewelry where the pieces are meant to catch the attention of the spirits. Quannah caught the attention of EVERYBODY, human and spirit!
For future confused Tumblr cockroaches, this post is about Facebook and it’s affiliated sites, Instagram and WhatsApp, temporarily crashing on October 4th, 2021.
We all gathered together to celebrate our refusal to fucking die and put a collective middle finger up to Mark Zuckerberg.
Like or reblog to flip Mark Zuckerberg off and receive good vibes :)
I agree with the message but?! this is tone deaf coming from one of the elitist, most prestigious fashion events in the world. you are rich to even be invited, an event where the ticket is literally $30,000…. I’m gonna eat YOU
None of you people understand the actual reality of how much the ultra-rich hoard. Aoc is not even a blip on the radar of rich. Aoc grew up poor in the bronx and continued to work as a bartender while she was on the campaing trail.
Is she wealthier than the average person? Yeah. No shit sherlock. But does she qualify…as RICH?? My fam…my guy….my bud…..the answer is simply No.
Aoc wants to tax the 1%. The people who can afford to buy space programs, influence elections and send countries to war.
She is not referring to…like….lil nas x here. Shes referring to jeff fucking bezos.
Please learn the difference between BEING WEALTHY (aoc) and being RICH (bezos, gates, etc)
Also this is just a classic case of the left trying to eat itself.
Some of you really need to ask why you’re trying to drag one of the most progressive American politicians for this. I mean for one, if any of us could afford to go we would, let’s not pretend lol. But secondly, damned if she does damned if she doesn’t right? If AOC attended and didn’t have a political statement, she’d be dragged. If she attended and did, she’d be dragged. If it came out that she had the opportunity to use her platform to make a statement at the event and she refused, she’d be dragged.
Some of you really think you’re achieving something by helping the right dunk on progressive figures for literally nothing, when AOC is the one who bothered to run for her position and put in the work and is sticking her neck out. Tumblr and Twitters love of dragging progressives who actually do the work is embarrassing. You all know rightists don’t care if you cancel them so you spend your time picking at the actions of the most progressive voices doing the work, from behind your screen.
AOC actually thought she was going to die when the Capital was stormed because she’s the figurehead of progressive politics, and you think you’re better than her because she went out and did something fun for once?
^^^Say 👏 It 👏 Louder 👏
I’m just repeating this on every version of this post. She didn’t pay for her ticket she didn’t pay for her tickeeeeeet she was the guest of the designer who designed her dress who also did that for free oh my god oh my gooood
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