The handsome Skidsy!
Sounds like operator error on the part of OP
My body is bodying, the face card has never declined so there is no need to mention my confidence π
Your skin looks amazing. You look not only confident, but super happy. Itβs damn good to see it. π₯°
Nobody's stopping you from taking 4 tablespoons of butter, melting it in a pot, and adding two tablespoons of minced garlic. Nobody's stopping you from letting that garlic saute for like two minutes, or from then adding in two tablespoons of shaved parmesan. And nobody will stop you from stirring half a pound of al dented pasta into that buttery mess, cracking some pepper over it, and feasting on the garlicky spoils gained from such labours.
Nobody's stopping you. The cops can't even arrest you for it.
I did exactly that yesterday, and it was delicious!
The fact that you think Iβd be a great parent doesnβt change the fact that I donβt want to be a parent.
Your choice, no one elseβs.
US Military and CIA interventions since World War 2.
βOMG why do they hate us?β
Iβve been saying this exact thing since 9/11. You canβt go around poking your nose where it doesnβt belong and βfixingβ things that are none of you business for years and years, then be surprised when one day, one of them decides to attack you.
wise man of the mountain
Gandalf the orange
Shifu!
it really is not hard to communicate with someone who speaks english as a second language without being confusing or condescending, but from watching how y'all interact with a certain cat blog you'd think it's much more difficult than it really is
I feel like Iβve accidentally walked into a corner of internet assholery that I never knew existed
I live near a port, so we have a LOT of tourists where I work. I think the key to not being condescending towards those who have English as a second language is to remember that they have 2 (maybe more) languages swirling around at all times. Theyβre trying. Being patient isnβt all that hard. Itβs just a matter of acting like a decent person. My FIL has English as his second language, and has lived here for over 50 years, but still sometimes gets things jumbled up. NBD. Heβs a wonderful human. Heβs so insecure about people not understanding him that, when weβre in public, he often has one of us speak for him. I hate that people have made him feel that way. Heβs intelligent and should never be made to feel less than when he speaks more languages than most US born people.
me hanging out with black people in the summer:Β βaye, yall donβt forget to put on sunscreenβ
them:Β
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesnβt leave me with a white cast. And Iβm dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and itβs one of the better ones Iβve used.
Wait cocoa/shea butter and coconut oil donβt protect you from the sun we really do need sunscreen??
Yea fam. All that βwe donβt need sunscreenβ shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists donβt know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and itβs a nasty combination.
Yeah, itβs harder for us to get it but when we do itβs deadly. I know two people who died of skin cancer, both were Black.
βWhile incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.β
Sorry about the link, Iβm on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isnβt the most recent but itβs still SUPER IMPORTANT. Yβall please wear sunscreen. With Google itβs even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
https://blackgirlsunscreen.com/ is Black-owned!
I use this sunscreen from Walmart. Itβs cheap, doesnβt leave a white cast, and smells pretty good.
Duuuude my family uses that and itβs Soo nice it even smells good
Same for brown people, are skin may be dark but we do burn!
Korean and Japanese sunscreens are also a great option for deeper skin tones! Their formulas are way more sophisticated that most US sunscreens, donβt feel greasy, and most donβt leave a white cast. Biore Aqua watery essence and Purito Centella green level sunscreen are especially nice and not crazy expensive
this. Is everything.
Please.
Black folks can definitelyΒ get sunburned, and I have seen some bad cases.
Find a sunblock that works for you and use it. Please.
So important! As a very fair-skinned red-haired Caucasian, I have been laughed at so many times when I suggest customers donβt forget the sunscreen. Just because you donβt turn the color of a cooked lobster doesnβt mean sun damage isnβt happening. Sunscreen, people! And donβt forget to reapply!
I left my mask hanging in the restroom at my doctorβs office last week. I know this because I found it, untouched, in the exact same spot today. πππ https://www.instagram.com/p/CQy6oKCgRkPzN9VI7Uxaf3VnY4yL_CS05IOYfU0/?utm_medium=tumblr
He night night so cute with his tail hanging down!π»π»π» https://www.instagram.com/p/CQw_ksSg4H3ZF_siADXLH13HzFPqUQYMOgpjAQ0/?utm_medium=tumblr
lol I'm Muslim and I got anon hate saying I Can't be Muslim because I'm white
What? Have they never heard of the Bosnians? Or the Albanians?
Ummβ¦what? What exactly does skin color have to do with religion? You can choose any religion you want. Your skin color is something you are born with.
Billie is a sensitive man. I really feel for him too having to deal with the fact that he had a public meltdown, and I can see the struggle in his response to it afterwords (I don't remember it, I'll never watch it, it wasn't me, but hey maybe it was punk rock idk, etc.) I had a panic attack in front of a friend ONE TIME and i'll never get over the shame/embarrassment so I can't imagine the feelings he might have. I didn't remember him being supportive of Britney but it's very Billie of him.
I feel bad for him that it keeps getting brought up in interviews all the time now. Sometimes I worry that it could be triggering for him, because I get the feeling that the whole ordeal was very traumatic for him. Like how at the beginning, he struggled to talk about it at all, and said he couldn't watch any of the footage of it (Someone asked him in an interview if he's ever watched the footage and he was like "No, definitely not, I can't go there"). I mean, imagine millions of people seeing you at your lowest point... that HAS to be traumatic.
Also I've noticed that this seems to be a common theme amongst celebrities who have obvious mental illness symptoms - the media sort of reduces them to their illness, never lets them live it down... For example, how Kurt Cobain is always remembered for his addiction and suicide, even though he was so much more than his illness.
Interviewers have done the same with Robert Downey, Jr. in regards to his past problems with addiction. I know in one instance, he just got up and left.
When someone goes through something big like a public meltdown, like Billie Joe, or a problem with addiction, like RDJ, but they get through itβ¦thatβs something to be applauded, not rehashed over and over. These people are in the spotlight all the time, and get virtually no privacy. When they go through things like mental illness, addiction, divorceβ¦they do it under a microscope. Thatβs got to be hard as hell. In the end, theyβre just people like us. Very rich, very well known people, but still people. We should maybe be gentler on them.
i'm not christian so i apologize if this is a gross overgeneralization but it's weird how Certain Types of christians seem to exclusively prefer to depict and refer to jesus as a baby or a dying/dead martyr... almost like Alive Adult Jesus might have some opinions that don't gel with their lifestyles lmao
You are definitely not alone in observing this, anon! In fact itβs a perennial discussion both among academic theologians and in the pastoral community.
If youβre into Christian history, there are definitely periodic trends in terms of which aspect(s) of Jesus are most emphasized, and they are unsurprisingly very much related to the social and cultural context of the people βdoing theology.β
So for example, Iβm personally most familiar with early/classical and early medieval Christian history. The earliest Christology was focused primarily on the resurrection (with Jesusβ death seen as an important step on the road to resurrection, but the emphasis always being on resurrection, not the death in and of itself), and the language used by the early church was explicitly the language of liberation. Salvation meant freedom from sin and death, and crucially, sin included what we might now call βsocial sinβ: that is, the sin of inequality in this life. The first Christians preached resurrection, and as a direct result of that, they also preached communal living and a welfare system that would see every member of the Body of Christ taken care of.
They certainly didnβt get everything right. St. Paul encouraged Christian slave owners to free their Christian slaves and consider them siblings, but he never actually called for an end to the institution of slavery or acknowledged it as inherently evil. But we have historical records of Christian communities where the common social divisions of classical Rome were more or less completely broken down, where slaves and free, men and women, people of different cultural and class backgrounds all interacted as equals. In fact, the oldest versions of Christian baptismal creeds we have (which can be found as quoted bits of poetry in a couple of Paulβs letters) make explicit reference to egalitarianism as the greatest hallmark of Christian life.
And that was what worried the Romans. If you grow up in almost any Christian tradition, youβll hear stories of the martyrs. Christians love our martyrdom stories, youβre absolutely right about that, anon. But all too often we miss the actual reason for the early martyrsβ deaths. They werenβt killed for being βfollowers of Christβ in the kind of generic, near-meaningless sense of βbeliefβ that so many American Christians often consider to be βfollowing Christ.β The Roman imperial authority, as a rule, did not particularly care who its subjects worshiped, so long as they paid their taxes, didnβt rebel against Rome, and didnβt rock the social boat. The majority of early Christian martyrs were killed for things like refusing to sacrifice to the emperor (which was seen as a symbolic act of rebellion against Rome, as making sacrifices to the emperor was a pledge of political loyalty), refusing to serve in the Roman military, rejecting the authority of Roman governors, upsetting the social order (with all that egalitarianism), and, in the case of the vast majority of women martyrs, refusing to get married (which is another form of upsetting the social order, and a particularly dangerous one because it represented a statement of female independence, both socially and financially).
In the early church there was a heavy emphasis on the the death and resurrection of Jesus, but that doesnβt actually mean that his life was overlooked. It would be truer to say that, for those early martyrs, his life and teachings were intimately tied up with his death and resurrection.
Because hereβs the thing that we American Christians, in particular, often either gloss over or entirely forget: Jesus, too, was killed by the Romans. He lived as a second class non-citizen in an occupied country, and he was killed by the occupying authority because he was seen as a threat to that occupation. Thatβs a historical fact that gets covered over for a variety of reasons, not least the fact that the gospels themselves actively attempt to disguise it. (Why? Because the gospels were written by and for people who were still living under that occupying authority, and who were therefore concerned to make it clear that they were not, in fact, an existential threat to Roman power and did not need to be eliminated.)
And, of course, once Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it was also in a position to benefit from the privilege of imperial power.
Jesusβ life - and his death - were profoundly anti-imperial. Thatβsβ¦a really awkward fact for a religion that has become the backbone of empire to reckon with. So the emphasis of Christology changed. The emphasis now was on Christ as heavenly king, conqueror, ruler of a kingdom of God which looked, for all intents and purposes, exactly like a heavenly version of the Roman Empire.
And American Christians are very much in the position of those imperial Roman Christians. America is an empire. We have vast wealth and resources, much of which weβve obtained through war and colonial exploitation. We are literally a country built on the backs of slaves, and we used the Christian scriptures to justify that slavery. We use it to justify slavery still. We have a thousand metaphorical explanations for what Jesus may have meant by βsell all you have and give it to the poor, then come and follow me,β because we are terrified of taking him literally. We are profoundly concerned with policing sexuality and gender because that early message of Christian egalitarianism, where there is in Christ no slave or free, no male or female, but all are one is every bit as threatening to the American social order as it was to the Roman order two thousand years ago. We donβt like to talk about Jesusβ cry for justice, about his eager anticipation of the toppling of empire, because we are that empire.
But thatβs conservative white American theology. The liberation theology of Latin American, the post-colonial theology of Africa, the womanist theology and the poor peopleβs campaign arising out of the African American experience of Christianity - itβs no accident that these theologies are far more focused on the life and teachings of Jesus. Because any attentive reading of the gospels cannot fail to notice that, more than any other topic - practically to the exclusion of any other topic - Jesus is profoundly concerned with the liberation of the poor and oppressed.
Thing is, we donβt know. Nothing is written. All that is known is that he lived a human life.
This guy got stuck in my store for about 15 minutes before we got him out. π https://www.instagram.com/p/CQYsjO2gD13FJzdN3cQ03g-JIBtOEl50cC05Bw0/?utm_medium=tumblr
βsome people donβt deserve redemptionβ redemption isnβt something thatβs deserved, itβs something someone does. itβs making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what theyβve done. we canβt change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about βdeserving.β
It should also be mentioned that it doesnβt matter if other people think you deserve it, either. Redemption is about the individual, not about how other people feel about that individual. If someone only makes changes for the better in order to gain approval, it will never stick and tends to lead to resentment. It should be purely for self improvement. Itβs one of the few times in our lives when the correct thing to do is to be selfish.
Oh my God! π You dropped this queen π
To think I thought I knew what ethereal beauty was before now. Laughable.
sheβs so beautiful i had to include a few more photos
Her instagram is @queennyakimofficial !
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Iβve reblogged her before, but really, you canβt have too many dark-skinned Black queens on your dash.Β
Damn she is so beautiful! Wearing dark clothing or bright clothing or just brightly colored paint! Sheβs awesome! And that smile! She deserves all the love!