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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:18:05 -0400

jades6pence: allthecanadianpolitics: I’m not seeing much...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:03:45 -0400

allthecanadianpolitics:

I’m not seeing much information or outrage about Orlando Brown (outside of social media), a Black Canadian man who apparently was killed by Barrie Police Officers who tasered him to death.

These are the only articles I could find, none of which name him or make it explicitly clear that a black man was killed by the police:

SIU investigating after man dies following arrest by Barrie police

Ontario man dead in police custody after Tasering

Friends of Barrie man who died after being Tasered on Friday shocked, upset

This is FUCKED UP:

Barrie police say the arrest took place at around 2:30 p.m. on Friday. Police have not confirmed the exact location of the ordeal.

They say the man was then taken to the Barrie Police station for processing where he went into “medical distress.” Paramedics provided first-aid at the station and transported him to Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre where he later died.

Family and friends have identified him as 32-year-old Orlando Brown.

A witness who captured video of the altercation on his cell phone later posted it on social media. The video has been viewed thousands of times.

The video appears to show the officers struggle with Brown while trying to arrest him near some trees between two buildings.

Throughout the video, the sound of a Taser being deployed could be heard before Brown is brought to the ground. An officer shouts “stop resisting” and “put your hands behind your back” while the others forcibly hold him on the ground.

Lance Freeman, who recorded the video, told CTV News Barrie that he watched the officers approach Brown while he was asleep near a bush.

“They asked him to see his ID and before he even had a chance to pull his ID out, the one guy just kicked him and the other started chasing him,” Freeman said.

He said he pulled out his cellphone when he saw one of the officers kick Brown “right in the temple.”

“Everybody was telling the cops to stop, that they were using force,” he said. “How do you expect someone to sit still when you’re Tasering him?”

Freeman claims he stopped recording when one of the officers pointed at him and said he was “next.”

Continued:

Barbara South, Brown’s aunt, said her nephew was a generous and loving person who has “never been aggressive.”

“Yes he goes off the track a little bit… nobody’s perfect, but he doesn’t have a mean bone in his body,” she said.

South believes Brown would have never died after his arrest if he was white.

“They de-escalate and they find ways to get to calm a situation without any violence when the person is white. But when you’re black, your life has no value,” she said.

“My nephew was murdered… There’s no doubt about that.”

The mother of the victim’s 11-year-old child told CTV News Barrie that she’s beside herself with grief.

“She’s left without her dad,” Donna Dubois said via phone. “How do I explain this to her? How is she going to think that police officers are safe when this is what they did to her dad?”

Dubois said Brown was a “fantastic dad” who was always willing to help a friend in need. She said she believes Brown had “run-ins” with the law and had a warrant out for his arrest but intended on turning himself in.

“He did not deserve this whatsoever, not whatsoever,” she said. “I’m completely devastated I couldn’t even watch the video. I’m disgusted.”

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

#ORLANDOBROWN

This is why I never go up to Barrie. The cops there have the most disgusting attitudes. We always get stopped for “standard/random checks”. So tired of fucking country cops being overly aggressive, like your not a high crime area, you live in small pocket towns. Just because there aren’t many minorities up there doesnt mean that any there are “dangerous”.

Fuck Barrie, Port Credit and Innisfil. Those three areas suck ass if your a poc.

prokopetz: More dumb magic items for your D&D campaign: A sword that inflicts emotional wounds A...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:35:45 -0400

prokopetz:

More dumb magic items for your D&D campaign:

A sword that inflicts emotional wounds

A hat that, when left alone with another hat, will mate and produce hybrid offspring

Negative gold pieces

A map that is the territory

Armour that becomes more effective the uglier the wearer

A living pocket-watch that never needs winding, but if you don’t feed it, it dies; it’s an obligate carnivore

Goggles that put censor bars over monsters of the Aberration type

An instructional tome in the secret language of ducks

A dagger that glows in the presence of one particular goblin

Angry shoes

xbrizelx: Marcianito 100% Real, no fake 👽✨

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:07:10 -0400

xbrizelx:

Marcianito 100% Real, no fake 👽✨

spiderboyneedsahug:MayDay and Annie-May yes she has knee pads

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 05:39:09 -0400

spiderboyneedsahug:

MayDay and Annie-May yes she has knee pads

fyeahspideytorch:The Best of Spideytorch, Part 1 of ?

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 05:10:36 -0400

fyeahspideytorch:

The Best of Spideytorch, Part 1 of ?

why-does-this-need-a-name: thejusticethatissocial: You can buy...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:42:35 -0400

why-does-this-need-a-name:

thejusticethatissocial:

You can buy Peace by Chocolate’s Pride Bars here! While quantities last.

https://peacebychocolate.ca/

@allthecanadianpolitics

mxnoncompliant: asymbina: korrasera: sounddesignerjeans: prokopetz: Millennial culture is...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:14:35 -0400

mxnoncompliant:

asymbina:

korrasera:

sounddesignerjeans:

prokopetz:

Millennial culture is falling for the updog bit on purpose because the alternative is to leave a meme dangling and by God, not on your watch.

what’s a milennial

what’s a god

What’s a meme

What are thoooooooooose?

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:46:06 -0400

pervocracy: Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:18:05 -0400

pervocracy:

Everyone knows that on Uber/Lyft you should always give the driver five stars unless they, like, drive the car into the ocean or something, right? You can’t say “the ride was fine, nothing special, so I gave them three stars,” because the company will punish them for being anything less than perfect.

Well, you should know that the same rule goes for any kind of customer service survey. Unless the service you received was unacceptable, give them 5/5 or 10/10 or whatever. It’s annoying, because it ruins the sensitivity of the survey, but it’s how it’s gotta be. 9/10 gets treated like a problem and 6/10 gets treated like a disaster. Understand this and do the workers a favor by grading easy.

Tired of losing your favorite buttons?

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:49:35 -0400

lastxleviathan:

tenaflyviper:

I just stumbled upon this awesome post showing a way to keep pinback buttons from falling off of your backpack/purse/etc. using safety pins.

However, it reminded me of another method that I’ve used since high school, and continue to use to this day: Rubber earring backs.

You know…these things:

I had originally bought a package of them to keep my nose stud from falling out while I slept (it was the “screw” type), but then after losing a button off of my high school backpack, I stumbled upon an even better use for them.

If you place them on the pinback of the button, just ahead of where it closes, the pins can’t slip off.

It doesn’t matter what size or shape the button is. Also, I happened to find one that wasn’t closed when I went to take pictures:

The earring back basically acts as a rubber stopper. They’re made specifically to NOT slide off in order to keep earrings in place, so they work just as well keeping buttons in place, even if the buttons aren’t closed.

Considering the backpack that I had in high school…

…I can tell you with complete certainty that rubber earring backs are, bar none, THE best method of making sure you never lose another button ever again. Also, they’re cheaper than safety pins (which can also pop open, thus allowing the button to slide off) and you won’t have to poke extra holes in whatever you’re putting buttons on.

Or hell, combine the rubber earring backs WITH the safety pins! Your buttons will be COMPLETELY UNLOSE-ABLE!

Oh dear gods THANK YOU

meathorse: direct action

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 02:21:34 -0400

meathorse:

direct action

dailytweets:

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:53:05 -0400

dailytweets:

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:25:04 -0400

goth-shitposts: sun in goth, moon in bitch, edgelord rising

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:56:35 -0400

goth-shitposts:

sun in goth, moon in bitch, edgelord rising

princessgorgon: mrmanager: this is the most powerful post on...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:32:02 -0400

princessgorgon:

mrmanager:

this is the most powerful post on this entire damned site

j1r4ch1: kinkstertime: gotosweep: shadeddaxion: goomba-oasis: ...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:03:36 -0400

j1r4ch1:

kinkstertime:

gotosweep:

shadeddaxion:

goomba-oasis:

poison-liker:

gotosweep:

new ebbits! new site!

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

can someone explain this to me?

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

ooh i love the explanation

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

Gonna be real I was the shorter guy until reading this and i feel kinda like an asshole ut good job OP for changin my mind

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Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:35:35 -0400

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Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:11:04 -0400

thearkenstoneandtheacorn:Tolkien is 1000% done.

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:42:35 -0400

thearkenstoneandtheacorn:

Tolkien is 1000% done.