#jun 7 2024

[fridayagaingarfiebaby]

Friday Again Garfie Baby

[andaniellight]

Love it when fictional character doesn't break the fourth wall but instead they're playing jenga with it and the fourth wall is quivering in its boots lmao

At this point bet Sang-cheol watched Mr. Sunshine and despised Kim Hui-seong to the point he admitted that the actor, Byun Yo-han, did such a great job at exasperating the audience with his antics hence the awestruck that happened that day where he first met Jung-woo, a stranger who looked awfully familiar, until he saved Sang-cheol's ass from getting severe concussion on the same day but much later at night. Cue to him frantically typing a text message on his old team's group chat: Can anyone find out then tell me if actor Byun Yo-han moved to Mucheon recently or is that illegal

An hour later, Ji-yeon (for some reason): Are you sober yet, at home, or should we send K-9 search party

[mikeywayarchive]

Instagram story by kristincolby

[Jul 2, 2024]

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The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says while some of the children have been released, at least 240 others remain in Israeli detention. “Many have been subjected to torture,” the group said in a statement. Children in detention are “exposed to all kinds of retaliatory measures, including abuse, torture, as well as medical negligence”, the group added. According to the group, some children currently held in Israel’s Megiddo prison have been detained from the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.

-- "At least 640 children detained in West Bank since October 7: Prisoners’ group" from Al Jazeera, 17 Jun 2024 15:55 GMT

[rinablet]

[ID: A screenshot of one tweet replying to another.

The original tweet is from Nougat Hand Bank / Wire Racing, and reads, "NPR just interviewed a young Zionist woman living in the Bay Area who says that reading pro-Palestine posts on social media caused her to have 'night terrors' and to spend hours per day crying in her closet. N G M I".

The replying tweet is by Jun [Palestinian flag emojio], [red triangle emoji]", and reads, "Don't ever think your posts aren't helping". It is from February 13 2024, 7:14PM.

End ID.]

[mikelogan]

TJ MIKELOGAN's HALLOWEEN 2024 EVENT

Day 17: POC in horror Names & films below the cut

From left to right, top to bottom:

GIF 1: Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017), Amandla Stenberg in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Kid Cudi in X (2022), Betty Gabriel in Get Out (2017), Rahul Kohli in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), and Jodi Long in Night Swim (2024)

GIF 2: Moses Sumney in MaXXXine (2024), Courtney Taylor in The Invitation (2022), Scatman Crothers in The Shining (1980), T'Nia Miller in The Fall of the House of Usher (2024), Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow (2024), and Park So-dam in Parasite (2019)

GIF 3: Sauriyan Sapkota in The Midnight Club (2022), Wunmi Mosaku in His House (2020), Kelvin Harrison Jr. in It Comes at Night (2017), Teyonah Parris in Candyman (2021), Jacob Batalon in Tarot (2024), and Adia in The Midnight Club (2022)

GIF 4: Laurence Fishburne in Event Horizon (1997), Michelle Ang in The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), Nassim Lyes in Under Paris (2024), Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep (2019), Gong Yoo in Train to Busan (2016), and Levy Tran in The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

GIF 5: Winston Duke in Us (2019), Tahirah Sharif in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Kang-ho Song in Parasite (2019), Avantika Vandanapu in Tarot (2024), Blair Underwood in Longlegs (2024), and Georgina Campbell in The Watchers (2024)

GIF 6: Steven Yeun in Nope (2022), Sophie Wilde in Talk to Me (2022), Giancarlo Esposito in Abigail (2024), Nathalie Emmanuel in The Invitation (2022), Colman Domingo in Candyman (2021), and Lupita Nyong'o in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

GIF 7: Carl Lumbly in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Myha'la in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Will Smith in I Am Legend (2007), Moronke Akinola in No One Gets Out Alive (2021), William Chris Sumpter in The Midnight Club (2022), and Natalie Mendoza in The Descent (2005)

GIF 8: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Candyman (2021), Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite (2019), Evan Alex in Us (2019), Aya Furukawa in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Sope Dirisu in His House (2020), and Keke Palmer in Nope (2022)

GIF 9: Daniel Jun in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Iman Benson in The Midnight Club (2022), Malcolm Goodwin in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023), Kim Su-an in Train to Busan (2016), Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), and Annarah Cymone in Midnight Mass (2021)

GIF 10: Rahul Abburi in Midnight Mass (2021), Crystal Balint in The Midnight Club (2022), Anthony Ruivivar in The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Liza Soberano in Lisa Frankenstein (2024), Choi Woo-shik in Parasite (2019), and Shahadi Wright Joseph in Us (2019)

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Prison-tech company bribed jails to ban in-person visits

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates – but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.

The pitch from these prison-tech companies was that they could cut the costs of locking people up while making jails and prisons safer. Hell, they'd even make life better for prisoners. And they'd do it for free!

These prison tablets would give every prisoner their own phone and their own video-conferencing terminal. They'd supply email, of course, and all the world's books, music, movies and games. Prisoners could maintain connections with the outside world, from family to continuing education. Sounds too good to be true, huh?

Here's the catch: all of these services are blisteringly expensive. Prisoners are accustomed to being gouged on phone calls – for years, prisons have done deals with private telcos that charge a fortune for prisoners' calls and split the take with prison administrators – but even by those standards, the calls you make on a tablet are still a ripoff.

Sure, there are some prisoners for whom money is no object – wealthy people who screwed up so bad they can't get bail and are stewing in a county lockup, along with the odd rich murderer or scammer serving a long bid. But most prisoners are poor. They start poor – the cops are more likely to arrest poor people than rich people, even for the same crime, and the poorer you are, the more likely you are to get convicted or be suckered into a plea bargain with a long sentence. State legislatures are easy to whip up into a froth about minimum sentences for shoplifters who steal $7 deodorant sticks, but they are wildly indifferent to the store owner's rampant wage-theft. Wage theft is by far the most costly form of property crime in America and it is almost entirely ignored:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees

So America's prisons are heaving with its poorest citizens, and they're certainly not getting any richer while they're inside. While many prisoners hold jobs – prisoners produce $2b/year in goods and $9b/year in services – the average prison wage is $0.52/hour:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

(In six states, prisoners get nothing; North Carolina law bans paying prisoners more than $1/day, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly permits slavery – forced labor without pay – for prisoners.)

Likewise, prisoners' families are poor. They start poor – being poor is a strong correlate of being an American prisoner – and then one of their breadwinners is put behind bars, taking their income with them. The family savings go to paying a lawyer.

Prison-tech is a bet that these poor people, locked up and paid $1/day or less; or their families, deprived of an earner and in debt to a lawyer; will somehow come up with cash to pay $13 for a 20-minute phone call, $3 for an MP3, or double the Kindle price for an ebook.

How do you convince a prisoner earning $0.52/hour to spend $13 on a phone-call?

Well, for Securus and Viapath (AKA Global Tellink) – a pair of private equity backed prison monopolists who have swallowed nearly all their competitors – the answer was simple: they bribed prison officials to get rid of the prison phones.

Not just the phones, either: a pair of Michigan suits brought by the Civil Rights Corps accuse sheriffs and the state Department of Corrections of ending in-person visits in exchange for kickbacks from the money that prisoners' families would pay once the only way to reach their loved ones was over the "free" tablets:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/jails-banned-family-visits-to-make-more-money-on-video-calls-lawsuits-claim/

These two cases are just the tip of the iceberg; Civil Rights Corps says there are hundreds of jails and prisons where Securus and Viapath have struck similar corrupt bargains:

https://civilrightscorps.org/case/port-huron-michigan-right2hug/

And it's not just visits and calls. Prison-tech companies have convinced jails and prisons to eliminate mail and parcels. Letters to prisoners are scanned and delivered their tablets, at a price. Prisoners – and their loved ones – have to buy virtual "postage stamps" and pay one stamp per "page" of email. Scanned letters (say, hand-drawn birthday cards from your kids) cost several stamps:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

Prisons and jails have also been convinced to eliminate their libraries and continuing education programs, and to get rid of TVs and recreational equipment. That way, prisoners will pay vastly inflated prices for streaming videos and DRM-locked music.

The icing on the cake? If the prison changes providers, all that data is wiped out – a prisoner serving decades of time will lose their music library, their kids' letters, the books they love. They can get some of that back – by working for $1/day – but the personal stuff? It's just gone.

Readers of my novels know all this. A prison-tech scam just like the one described in the Civil Rights Corps suits is at the center of my latest novel The Bezzle:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Prison-tech has haunted me for years. At first, it was just the normal horror anyone with a shred of empathy would feel for prisoners and their families, captive customers for sadistic "businesses" that have figured out how to get the poorest, most desperate people in the country to make them billions. In the novel, I call prison-tech "a machine":

a million-­armed robot whose every limb was tipped with a needle that sank itself into a different place on prisoners and their families and drew out a few more cc’s of blood.

But over time, that furious empathy gave way to dread. Prisoners are at the bottom of the shitty technology adoption curve. They endure the technological torments that haven't yet been sanded down on their bodies, normalized enough to impose them on people with a little more privilege and agency. I'm a long way up the curve from prisoners, but while the shitty technology curve may grind slow, it grinds fine:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The future isn't here, it's just not evenly distributed. Prisoners are the ultimate early adopters of the technology that the richest, most powerful, most sadistic people in the country's corporate board-rooms would like to force us all to use.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

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Since year reviews are fun I wanted to see what were the popular posts on this blog (I added what each post is so it’s easier to know), the compilation ones are very popular as I expected! I’m mostly surprised the Annie one made it <3

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“Oh I wanna keep it” Taylor in the chilly Edinburgh weather

- The Eras Tour in Edinburgh, Scotland (N1) on Jun 7, 2024 (x)

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my summary for 2023 is here: https://www.tumblr.com/omagpies/738240234851008512/2023-tumblr-top-10 :) 

[matan4il]

In today's edition of "The UN is complicit," we now have proof that this "respectable" organization has been sweeping under the rug a crucial report on the situation in Gaza.

On Jun 5 this year, headlines based on false statements from the UN released on that day were still being published, claiming that by mid Jul over 1 million people (about half the Gazan population) could be facing the highest level of starvation if the war continues. This was when we've been going through 8 months of war, in which the UN constantly made claims of imminent genocidal starvation, now, right now, truly, any moment now, if the war doesn't stop.

Except, it turns out that on Jun 4 already (a day earlier than the UN's starvation claims were being made and published), the IPC (an organization made up of several NGOs and UN bodies) has had to admit that there is no reliable evidence of starvation in Gaza, or that its existence is even plausible. This is particularly significant because it was actually the IPC's own Mar 2024 report that many of the claims regarding starvation relied on!

(please read the linked article if you can, it also links to researchers like Mark Zlochkin, quoting the findings of the Famine Review Committee, which are compelling in showing that there is no starvation in Gaza)

This means the UN has known for two weeks at this point (in an official capacity) that there is no starvation, but proceeded to ignore and even contradict its own people on this.

It means Israel has been slandered by false accusations of causing intentional starvation when there is no evidence that there even is one for EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS, it means that the "clearest piece of evidence" of the supposed genocide in Gaza has never been substantiated, it means every Israel supporter accused of being pro-genocide has been deeply wronged, it means every antisemitic abuse of a Jewish person attacked over the situation in Gaza has been based on an antisemitic libel, it means countless anti-Jewish crimes have been justified using a lie that the UN has been actively enabling for two weeks (if we only count the time they've known about this on an official level, but since the UN has 13,000 employees on the ground in Gaza, it surely knew even before the Jun 4 report)...

And I find it particularly gruesome that I found out about the IPC report on the same day I learnt a 12 years old Jewish girl in France was gang raped as an antisemitic hate crime. This is the second time a Jewish female has been raped in France due to antisemitic motivation in recent months, when during the first rape (that we know of) the rapist was clear about his anti-Israel motivation. And we all know where the inspiration came from, to rape women just because they're Jewish, and knowing they will be victims who will not be listened to, or worse, whose rape will be justified as "resistance"...

IDK how anyone can have a conscience and not be bothered by this. All of it.

The UN is complicit.

The international NGOs are complicit.

The news sources that have not published the report are complicit.

The people who didn't believe rape reports from Oct 7 just because they came from Jews are complicit.

They all prove that Jews are NOT protected, or even just treated with basic human decency, as we should be.

My heart breaks for this girl. I wish I could do something for her, but there is nothing, except to scream here over this abhorrent injustice, and to beg people to raise their voice. Our sister's blood is calling out to us from the ground, and we CANNOT be silent.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[snarkspawn]

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I was tagged by @pharawee thank you bb 💕

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Very unsurprising overall but I’m happy some of my favourite pieces this year actually made it to the top 10 :D but also

hehe ... nice.

tagging @sotc @plushchimera @kruk-art @kinnbig @galedekarios​ @hoiist​ and everyone else who might want to do this <3

[dbdpromptober]

Dead Boy Detectives Promptober 2024

Catch-up Calendar

The participation this October has been beyond my wildest dreams, but if you didn't manage to keep up with the daily prompts, don't worry! I've set up this weekly calendar to catch-up with the ones you've missed, or to start the challenge from scratch at a more relaxed pace.

The prompts are the same, but this time you'll have a whole week to fulfill each of them.

The rules are also the same:

- creative works can be of any type (fanart, fic, poetry, cosplay, photography... Anything you can think of!);

- post them on the week of the prompt or afterwards on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter and/or AO3 tagging this account and adding the hashtag #dbdpromptober2024;

- you don't have to do all the prompts, just have fun!

More info on the original post:

The prompts:

1. Mirrors (November 11 - 17)

2. Death (November 18 - 24)

3. Eternity (Nov. 25 - Dec. 1)

4. Light (December 2 - 8)

5. Magic (December 9 - 15)

6. Books (December 16 - 22)

7. Blood (December 23 - 29)

8. Hell (Dec. 30 - Jan. 5)

9. Past (January 6 - 12)

10. Lantern (January 13 - 19)

11. Dream (January 20 - 26)

12. Eight ball (Jan. 27 - Feb. 2)

13. Demons (February 3 - 9)

14. Sorrow (February 10 - 16)

15. Crow (February 17 - 23)

16. Knives (Feb. 24 - Mar. 2)

17. Mushroom (March 3 - 9)

18. Friendship (March 10 - 16)

19. Forest (March 17 - 23)

20. Investigate (March 24 - 30)

21. Lighthouse (Mar. 31 - Apr. 6)

22. Downtime (April 7 - 13)

23. Sight (April 14 - 20)

24. Cats (April 21 - 27)

25. Dandelions (Apr. 28 - May 4)

26. Bones (May 5 - 11)

27. Snow (May 12 - 18)

28. Tricksters (May 19 - 25)

29. Doll (May 26 - Jun. 1)

30. Love (June 2 - 8)

31. Spooky (June 9 - 15)