…it is still 7:34am 😂

What about texas shaped eggs?

texas shaped eggs

and since youre here for breakfast why not sit down and have some

texas shaped waffles

texas shaped toast

and a texas shaped cup to hold your drink!

i can’t make this up

this post makes me cry bcuz i live here now

WELCOME TO TEXAS

From my personal collection:

Texas Shaped party trays

Texas Shaped stepping stones at a Hospital

Texas Shaped cookie cutters

Not Texas-shaped but just marvel at these

And not from my own photographs:

Texas Shaped Pizza

Texas Shaped chips

Texas Shaped Chocolates

As someone who’s lived here almost 25 years I can confirm: Texas has NO chill.

Having lived in Texas hella long, it weirds me out that other states don’t have this

This isn’t normal? lol

@irritatedhiss

I can confirm that all of this is 100% accurate, I’ve seen most of this, and im surprised no one listed the birdbaths

note the boots

also, hate the crust on ur PB&J but wanna show how much u fuckin love texas too? Get this piece of shit and ruin ur life

Not good enough? HOW ABOUT A GODDAMN TEXAS FUCKIN SINK

OR A TEXAS TABLE

or something completely useless

i hate this state please help me

texas u ok

Australian comedian Jim Jefferies points out the ridiculousness of American pro-gun arguments. x x

America was never great.

this pleases me greatly

I really wish people would stop making fake corporate accounts to stand up against bigots because doing so makes Home Depot look good when this was the response by the verified Home Depot account:

which is troubling, especially considering:

“Lake, a Bernie Sanders supporter, said she has seen other employees wearing pro-Trump pins and pendants on their uniforms — yet no one has ever told them not to wear them.”

Please don’t make companies look good when they are actually the opposite of what you want them to be.

(source)

sigh look America's greatness, like that of any nation or, hey, social group, consists in the stories it tells itself and how it acts on them. both of these things. they need to be equal. america is great at the stories. 'america' is a story. 'freedom', 'democracy', 'great'. but how it acts on them? ugh. guys. to the rest of the world, you are NOT freedom. you are NOT democracy. You are terrifying and new-age imperialist and... and this part isn't just you, but in the last 15 years (yes, coincidentally that DOES date back to a certain key event in 2001) the world has become more full of hate. not that it was ever free of it, but... the rhetoric of hate, the actions of it, have become more acceptable as public emotions. Hated has become a more acceptable social adhesive, something that people are more willing to congregate around. Especially in America. And, because American media dominates and infiltrates everybody else, in the rest of the world. Make America great again? Make it great for the first time, and stand up as the leader it proposes itself to be. Not in dominance, but in those keywords you love, like 'democracy' and 'freedom'. Because, right now? You are terrifying. And that affects everybody else in the world. Even if you don't really believe that we exist.

Anderson Cooper speaks with the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner.

I’m glad someone is more interested in talking to these women than paying racist murdering shitheads 6 figures for interviews.

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Over 1,000 Protest in Ferguson, Call for Highway Shutdown Monday

Ya’ll they so badly are hoping we forget. That this will lose steam..

August 18, 2014

August 19, 2014

According to a Pew Research survey, only 37% of white Americans think the events in #Ferguson raise important issues about race.

Okay, fellow white people. We need to talk.

Let me tell you a story: I was an angry punk teenager. Not violent, but I did a shitton of trespassing, and I got into a lot of screaming matches with cops.

I have never been arrested.

I have never been violently attacked by police. Hell, I have never been seriously threatened by police.

I am fully aware that I’ve survived to adulthood largely on the benefits of my race.

When you are white in America, you get away with all sorts of shit. Have you read this account from a white dude who actively tried to get himself arrested? You should. It’s telling.

So, if that’s your main frame of reference for dealing with law enforcement, it is really easy to assume that when someone else gets targeted by the police, they must have done something really bad. After all, you know the police aren’t that petty, right? They’re there to help: That’s what TV tells you, what your teachers told you, what your parents told you. “If you’re in trouble, find a police officer. They’ll help.” And, y’know, if you’re white, most of the time, that’s probably true.

When you’re white in America, it is awfully easy to pretend that you don’t live in a country where the nonviolent physical presence of black people, especially black men, is considered sufficient threat to justify use of lethal force. It’s really easy to pretend that laws are enforced equally; that arrest rate has any demographic resemblance to actual crime rates; that the police are there to protect us from the bad guys.

And, I mean, I get that. It’s a lot more comfortable to pretend that safety correlates to virtue than to confront the ugly truth that a system that benefits you very directly does so at the cost of other people’s lives; that what you were taught was the just reward for being a good person is, in fact, the privilege of your skin. That’s a big part of why we work so hard to retcon narratives about how the black people our police murder must have been dangerous, highlight every casual infraction like it’s a killing spree. We are so desperate to believe that the system that feeds us is just.

It doesn’t feel good to acknowledge that stuff. It feels gross. A system we trusted—one we should be able to trust, that should work for the benefit and protection of everyone has made us accomplice to some deeply horrifying shit.

But here’s the thing:

This happened. This is happening. Not recognizing it; stonewalling and insulating ourselves in our little bubbles does not make it go away.

And not acknowledging it, not having asked for it, does not make us any less complicit, or any less responsible for owning and fixing this. We are actively benefitting from a fucked, corrupt, murderous system. That is on us. As it should be.

So educate yourself, get the tools, and start dismantling this fucker. You have the time: after all,  no one’s shooting at your kids.

Privilege is the bandwidth to speak up and dismantle because you’re not in fear for your life. And there is no conscionable excuse for failing to use it.

Hey, White Americans. We Need to Talk.

As we wrap up this terrible week and weekend some final thoughts before I get my black ass back to work tomorrow to fight fictional demons instead of feeling powerless against the real ones —

Although he wasn’t by any means a close personal friend, the death of Robin Williams affected by greatly. Working with him and David Duchovny on the film House of D was a privilege and seeing how he treated everyone he encountered regardless of race, class, gender or orientation remains a hopeful reminder that genuine kindness and empathy does exist in the world. Whatever the ultimate reasons for his decision to take his own life I pray for him, his family and all who suffer from the unrelenting grasp of depression and substance abuse. By shining his light on us all for the period of time he did, I am 100% certain that Robin left this world a better place than he entered it with a legacy that will not soon be forgotten.

That said, if we spent even a fraction of the time given to the tributes about Robin and the late Lauren Bacall also remembering the lives of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Ezell Ford or Dante Parker (the 5 unarmed black men killed by police just in the past month) or honestly looked at the data about how often police shoot unarmed black men and women in this country we would all hang our collective heads in shame.

In the midst of thousands upon thousands of peaceful protesters who came out demanding answers and marching for justice with the powerful and heartbreaking refrain Hands Up. Don’t Shoot. the actions of a small few in Ferguson (many of whom were anarchists that intentionally came into the city to stir up trouble and perhaps a few others from the community who had simply reached their breaking point in the face of racial, economic and social injustice) gave the white power structure the cover to quickly change the narrative to one about the violence in the city (in reality almost entirely perpetrated by the militarized police rather than the demonstrators) instead of the murder of an unarmed teenager by a cop who “never meant for this to happen" (and don’t even get me started on that fuckery which should instead read "a cop who never meant to be held accountable").

In this way, a PROTEST became a RIOT. Images of demonstrators THROWING BACK tear gas canisters launched at them became stories of rioters throwing molotov cocktails AT THE POLICE (and yes I am aware of media reports showing that molotov cocktails were in fact used by protesters in some instances but not in the way that it was ultimately spun). And the police released incendiary and ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT information about Michael Brown that the media lapped up because it reinforced the all too familiar trope that “the violent black dude was a thug who got what he deserved”.

Black victims are regularly eyed with suspicion and contempt (and ultimately deemed responsible for what happened to them) while the media too often generates headlines that exhibit an air of disbelief at an alleged white killer’s supposed actions.

Even in our outrage at what happened at this week and the necessity for our voices to be heard so this story is not swept under the rug, we all know something like this will happen again. And again. And again.

Until each of us (black, white, brown, etc) demands accountability from our elected officials we will get the country we deserve. Tweeting is not enough. Feeling bad is not enough. Acting like we’re overreacting and it can’t really be that bad makes you an accessory after the fact (not to mention an asshole). 

Which is why, as the GIF above shows, I’m giving America a down vote.

So how can we stop feeling powerless? What can we actually do?

Honestly, there are people much smarter than me who can do a better job of answering that question.

But trying to answer that question for myself is a large part of why I do what I do for a living. Because representation matters. Because being in control of our own stories empowers us to show a wide range of depictions of blackness and “otherness” (shockingly, not only do we not all LOOK ALIKE but we also don’t all THINK ALIKE) that are far more interesting than what we’ve been spoon fed in the past. I’m the first to admit that we’ve still got A LONG WAY TO GO and that’s where you all come in.

Although my engagement in fandom is embraced by some and side-eyed by others, these spaces of interaction may in fact play one of the most significant roles in the future of media and representation as we know it. At the very least it will create a future generation of professional storytellers (and social justice advocates) who were raised in the trenches of Live Journal, Tumblr, ao3 and other platforms currently in use or yet to be created.

I know this is your turf and even though there are times some of you wish I’d go away I genuinely appreciate the opportunity to interact with you here.

Together, we can make a difference.

Trollando out.

Crikey.

*Single tear rolls down cheek* Conceal. Don’t feel. Don’t let it show.

Oh yes. America. That country starting with A. Or something like that.