have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it’s no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don’t

I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade. Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won’t talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend’s parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved, even for a heartbeat.

the LAPD is having a town hall and getting fucking eviscerated

The automated YouTube captions are bad in places so here is a transcription of this incredible call.

[Video description: A Zoom call featuring a video grid of seven attendees, all of whom are members of the Los Angeles Police Commission. There is a timer in the upper left corner for callers keeping them to two minutes. The current caller is Jon Barr.]

LAPC President Eileen Decker, responding to the question “can you hear me?”: Yes, we can.

Barr: Great. Uh, first things first: Chief Moore, you’ve got to do a better job of pretending you care about this, man. I’ve been watching you roll your eyes and offer halfhearted smirks acting like a teenager who’s falling asleep in detention. Are you not aware of the war crimes your department’s doing, or are you just that impatient to go do more of them? I see a lot of you, particularly Soboroff, only react when folks use profanity in their remarks. If you think curse words are bad, wait until you hear about these 600-plus murders your department has committed over the last seven years! As long as Moore’s out here equating peaceful protestors with cops who murder black people, you all could pretend to be as angry about murder as the F-word, okay kids? I know you’re all having a rough day, what with everyone here telling you you’re bad at your jobs. Have you considered being good at your jobs? If not, you could find new jobs in retail or restaurants. I know how desperate Garcetti is to get Angelenos consuming again during a global pandemic. Where were the curfews then, by the way? Weird. Chief Moore is morally obligated to resign. Mikey, I know you said you didn’t mean protestors are as much to blame for George Floyd’s murder as his murderers – that’s a lie! It is what you meant! And we all know it. Mikey’s made it clear in his racist actions and empty platitudes that he doesn’t care about the well-being of his constituents. He loves to tear gas them, blind them, force them indoors with curfews that are announced only a half-hour before they take effect, and racially profile as he does so! Don’t think I didn’t hear about how yesterday you sent out an alert in English saying curfew started at 5PM, and sent out an alert right after in Spanish saying it started at 6! What’s up with that, bud? All your cute Zoom background photos of the city won’t trick us into thinking you care about anyone but yourselves and what’s in your pockets. To close with a James Cameron quote, “Cops think of all non-cops as less than they are: stupid, weak, and evil. They dehumanize the people they are sworn to protect, and desensitize themselves in order to do that job.” That’s you pigs to a T. Black lives matter, act like it. Happy Tuesday.

I don’t care if the world isn’t ready to hear it, but I’m going to say it:

“Sugar We’re Going Down Kung Fu Fighting” is better than either of the original songs that comprise the mashup

for those who need to hear it

Watch 100 Years Of Black Men’s Hair Trends In One Minute

Hair and politics are always intertwined.

YES!

I never seen one with a black man

I love it

I am RECEIVING the time periods he is transmitting with his gestures and expressions. That’s amazing! How did he act “the 1970s” with his face, and how did I understand it, despite having never touched a single 1970. How is that slight eyebrow gesture absolutely the 2010s. He made the same Grandpa Face that all of the men of the 1940s could make in photos: amazing.

in 2020

it’s going to be 420

for a whole month

*touches the ground*

this…. a relic…

….a relic of a more hopeful time

Friendly reminder that hating Pokemon Unite isn't just about ""no Sinnoh remakes or no let's Go Johto"".

Fucking Tencent is the one making it.

Tencent is known for spyware, punishes those who support the Hong Kong protests, are KNOWN to rip off larger companies or buy out larger companies if they're seen as competition, are extremely rampant with censorship of any kind, and were receiving personal information from Apple such as I.P Addresses, and the CEO is extremely honored by the communist party that supports Muslim concentration camps.

This company is absolutely fucking garbage and it's pretty obvious from the comment section of the video that everyone who knows about Tencent is chiming in with them dipping the moment they announced it was made by them.

And if that's not enough to stop you from wanting to play tencent has driven many players who actually did enjoy their games away due to the rampant cheating that occurs and isn't dealt with in their other online games. They're known to try and milk their gamers for money with pay to win deals and from the sounds of it ""free to start"" means you'll have to pay eventually no matter what and then continue to keep paying in order to succeed or advance in later levels due to the pay to win structure.

For those who are excited about this there are LITERALLY so many other games on this oversaturated market that spent time on their back grounds, and textures, and design that dont make them look like a dollar store rip off game. Please look into literally anything else.

Pokemon Unite is NOT the way to go

I'm sure that people in the videos comments did a MUCH better job of explaining the dangers of tencent instead of me and theyre most likely a lot more well aware of the first hand experience with them. But please just take my word for it when I say that the ""unfair hate around this game because it's not a Sinnoh Remake"" is bullshit.

There's hate for a reason

I’ll admit I was skeptical of these points bc there are no links or resources to back em up, so I did a little research.

So Tencent is a ridiculously large conglomerate holding company whose investments in video games ALONE pile up fast:

(Outside of video games, Tencent also invests in “search engine[s], e-commerce, retail, real estate, software, virtual reality, ride-sharing, banking, financial services, fintech, consumer technology, computer technology, automobile, film production, movie ticketing, music production, space technology, natural resources, smartphones, big data, agriculture, medical services, cloud computing, social media, IT, advertising, streaming media, artificial intelligence, robotics, UAVs, food delivery, courier services, e-book, internet services, education, and renewable energy.” Needless to say, the company has a LOT of influence and power.)

Regarding OP’s mention of the Hong Kong protests -- Tencent made a partnership with the NBA to secure rights to stream its U.S. games in China, but in October 2019, when Houston Rockets general manager Morey expressed support for the protesters in Hong Kong, “Tencent began sending out refunds to customers after cancelling the broadcast of NBA games" due to NBA executive manager Adam Silver’s support of Morey’s “freedom of political expression.” (x) 

Regarding OP’s mention of censorship -- oh boy there’s a lot of info that proves their rampant censorship. Most notably, Tencent owns the social media app WeChat (which has “a billion active daily users”) and uses it to facilitate Chinese government surveillance and censorship. Millions of WeChat conversations were found to be relayed to police; people have been interrogated and arrested due to their private conversations. (There have been ”penalties against numerous WeChat users for mocking President Xi Jinping, criticizing judicial officials, commenting on massive floods, sharing information about human rights abuses, or expressing views related to their persecuted religion or ethnicity.”) Also, WeChat SIGNIFICANTLY distorts the news available to its users by using AI to find and delete select topics (including in 2018, the “deletions from some 4,000 public accounts...[of] major news stories like the U.S.-China trade dispute, the arrest in Canada of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, the #MeToo movement and public health scandals”). (x)

Regarding OP’s mention of ripping off other companies -- Tencent’s founder and chairman, Pony Ma, has famously said, “[To] copy is not evil.” There are plenty of allegations and remarks out there about his inclination toward copying.

Regarding OP’s mention of Apple -- at least in iOS 13, Apple’s “Safari browser uses Tencent’s Safe Browsing system to help fight malicious webpages--but Tencent may log IP addresses in the process.” Apple’s also had many issues with surveillance and censorship in China. (x)

Regarding OP’s mention of Tencent’s money-grabbing -- their popular technique of gaining revenue from games is to publish “free-to-play” games, such as Pokemon Unite, and then include in-game transactions so people will pay *after* having gotten into the swing of the game.

TL;DR: Tencent is a despicable company whose hand in a Pokemon game should be a red flag. Don’t support this company.

Y-you are an absolute godsend

I didn't expect this post to blow up like it did, but that's probably a poor excuse for no links

Thank you so much for taking the time to find sources 🥺🥺🥺

are advertisers aware that if one of their ads interrupt me i will, at best, forget about the product, and at worst, become actively hostile to the product

Cops shoot at window of guy recording in Louisville, Kentucky

I was at a Black Lives Matter protest when this woman ran her car through the group of protesters. A 71-year-old man was hit on his bike, which was destroyed under this woman’s car. We have her face and a picture of her plate number.

When the police were called they said “We thought you didn’t want us here” and never showed up. The Taylor police department was literally right down the street where the protest was. They did nothing. And according to the Twitter of Trilogybeats, when the did show up, they started harassing the protesters: https://twitter.com/trilogybeats/status/1273034091533918210

Tumblr, do your thing.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/617400055801413/permalink/625408988333853

There is a video of her running through the group. 

In the mean time here’s a GoFundMe to help the gentleman get a new bike:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-bike-for-my-gramps?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

Make her famous :)

Plate number is allegedly ECV 3411, traces back to an ‘07 Chevy impala, which checks compared to the vid

City of Taylor: (734) 287-6550 “2” for non-emergency police line  "5" for police tip line 2007 White Chevy Impala MI license plate # ECV 3411 Assault with a deadly weapon Leaving the scene of a crime No police response until 1 hour after the incident

@visibilityofcolor @racistsgettingfired

We’re all having “hard conversations” about racism, police brutality, and #BlackLivesMatter I hope. 

You’ve probably noticed that detractors often use the same “racist talking points” in response. Here’s a researched and sourced guide to help you answer, for the times you may get stuck.

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when an author sets up a narrative choice where all the options are scary and bad and the protagonist chooses kindness and it changes everything because it opens doors that shouldn’t be possible and every single time i go FERAL

So I know on one hand this is a Very Serious Blog™️ but also…

We need more non-binary memes in the world

Show me the enby memes

It’s 2 am and I should be sleeping, but

YES THESE ARE GREAT

All of these are moods

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but souls always find a way