Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

It is the time of the semester when only irasutoya's person who does not get out of the futon can express my emotions

(aka, new icon)

After discussing an event where he had to testify in court about racism in the university & admitted that he was the only black person in his department & was also the only person who hadn't received a raise: «Now I’m not saying somebody discriminated against me, they just treated me differently»

A professor discussing his appointment to a committee meant to promote equity for black students on campus in the late '60s: «I was 21 or 22 on a committee of 21, I was the only Black person in the room»

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magnolia stellata #florespondence

idk I hate that I had to move to the most aggressively aggressively anti-pedestrian place I ever lived and I hate that everyone thinks this place is fine and normal, actually. And I hate that they’re right about it being normal even if its absolutely not fine because literally anywhere planned after the fifties is either exactly like this or worse

The frequency with which otherwise seemingly reasonable people complain about bikelanes or streeteries (park-lanes temporarily converted into outside dining as part of Philly’s COVID response, many restaurants put theirs in loading docks, aka not even legal parking spaces in the first place) because, bikes are *so* annoying & they’ve lost a few parking slots is unreal

If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment

I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things

okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars

like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV

Okay but the real reason we write summaries in the present is because otherwise you're going to tangle yourself into a horrible conjugation knot

«Pravda has switched to mixing and bottling Molotov cocktails – small homemade explosives thrown by hand – in repurposed beer bottles to help repel the Russian army.

While the beer operation is down, Pravda launched the Brew for Ukraine campaign, sharing its recipes and brewing techniques online, asking anyone and everyone to make their beer for them.»

Two local breweries, the Stickman Brewery and Wilmington Brew Works are taking up the effort & donating proceeds to humanitarian aid in Ukraine

https://whyy.org/articles/philly-area-brewers-join-global-brew-for-ukraine-campaign/

Wehhhhh audacity pls just let me edit this audio :(

As a sort of tag to my friending meme promo (which is still going on btw!) Dreamwidth has posted some notes about successfully importing to Dreamwidth from LiveJournal: https://mobile.twitter.com/dreamwidth/status/1501280756068495361

The short version: LJ is intermittently blocking the IP addresses Dreamwidth crawls from, possibly because of people misinputting passwords. There’s not a ton they can do about that unfortunately but trying again later will usually work

If you’re on dreamwidth or want to be on dreamwidth & are looking for accounts to follow, there’s a friending meme going on right now!

Targeted at the current LJ exodus but welcome to all: https://friending-memes.dreamwidth.org/1083.html

Cannot believe I tutored stats without touching excel for two years only to get tricked into it by the library archives

if I get three layers of excel recursion deep you have permission to confiscate my computer