The original poster’s name is Raneem. This is her baby sister Dina. This is the link to the original video - this entire account has been dedicated to chronicling the story of her family and making videos to honour the memories of each of them. Reem (as she calls herself) is now the only surviving member of her family, as of a few days ago.
US people with disabilities in the supplemental security income (SSI) program can’t have a penny over $2K in their bank account at any time in order to keep their benefits.
You know this economy. That amount is completely unlivable & makes it hard for people with disability to save for the future or have a safety net for emergencies.
A new bill would raise the max to $10K (or $20K for married couples). It would make a world of difference.
BP did hire PR firm Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, and coined the term ‘carbon footprint’ as well as creating the 'carbon footprint calculator’. This gave the impression that climate change was primarily the fault of the individual consumers.
From a New York Times opinion piece on carbon footprint (via the Wayback Machine): 'In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image, in part by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities.’
From a BBC Future article on 'how companies blame you for climate change’: 'Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like “carbon footprints” – which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what is “their carbon footprint”.’
From an Irish Times on individualising blame: 'In 2004, it unveiled a “carbon footprint calculator”, so that individuals could assess how much their daily activities were polluting the planet. The marketing campaign, led by Ogilvy & Mather, fostered the false idea that climate change was the fault of individuals rather than fossil fuel companies.’
Always hilarious to watch people on posts about the “yellow filter in the Middle East/Mexico in films” thing say smth like “well you don’t know maybe it’s just an artistic intention you’re not a color grader”
Hi. I’m a color grader. It’s not an artistic intention it’s just racist. You’re welcome.
I don’t want to get into the entire history of color grading (not in this post anyway), but there are a limited number of reasons to put a “yellow filter” on a film’s image.
First off I’d like to point out that the words “yellow filter” are misleading. You can have a warm color palette to convey heat or a sense of familiarity, you can have a sort of “aged” sepia tint to indicate that a scene takes place in the past, you can warm up the lower lights and shadows in your image to create the illusion of an earlier time in the day or a sunset…
It is in fact possible to have a scene with a predominantly warm, even yellowish color temperature, without it looking like the government is pumping agent orange into the atmosphere. When western films just slap a yellow or orange filter on the image with no symbolic or diegetic reasons, and they only do it in Arab/South-American/African countries, it’s just racism.
And before anyone pipes up saying “what if it’s just because it’s warmer there” - if the heat is not important to the film and is not shown in any other way, it’s just racist. places where it’s hot are not in fact, more orange.
my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”
he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.
his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’
The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend
what’s with those ppl who are like “I don’t know how you drink soda regularly, I can’t even finish one it tastes so bad 🤢🤮” as if soda drinkers are the weird ones??? we’ve been drinking poison for a better part of our existence and you think you’re better than us because your frail, weak body can’t even handle a fresh can of pepsi, insane
slaps the pepsi out of your hand and shoves you up against the lockers sexually
I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)
cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.
Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.
This is so vile. This is shameful. Imagine if this money was going back into our own communities instead of going towards the Israel war machine. Instead of going towards killing and displacing countless Palestinians since 1948. Shameful.
One hundred and forty six years ago my people were forced to move to Oklahoma, this event was known as the Ponca Trail of Tears. The land my people were forcibly moved to didn’t have any proper shelter or food, so my people both froze and starved to the point we are a fraction of what we once were.
The government and schools don’t talk about what America has done to my people, I only know because of my great-grandfather and his sister.
The American Government tried to take our identity away, our language is dying out. All because my people weren’t living the same lifestyle the land stealers were living.
I stand with Palestine because I see Israel doing what America did to my people and the many Indigenous tribes. I know what it is like to have your identity and culture oppressed and to be dehumanized, and I refuse to let history repeat itself. I will continue to stand with Palestine even when I no longer walk the Earth.
