me: I slammed my finger in a door today by accident
someone from england: “door”? like what is that? you just have these things anyone can use to get into your homes and your cars? your country is so weird? here we have these, like, rectangular holes in our buildings and stuff, and a slab of some hard material, generally wood or metal, that covers it snugly and stays affixed with hinges and locks
In the trial of serial rapist ex-cop Daniel Holtzclaw—a man who took an extraordinarily evil bet on America’s disenfranchisement of poor black women, to the point of regularly pulling them over and raping them on the street—some took note of the fact that he was facing an all-white jury and had an attorney who suggested his victims had an “agenda,” and concluded that we might as well prepare for the worst.
Then, last night, On Holtzclaws 29th birthday,and after over 45 hours of jury deliberations, the judge read the Holtzclaw announcement on a live stream:
Facing a total of 36 counts, Holtzclaw was found guilty of 18 of them — including four separate counts of first-degree rape.
the all-white jury convicted Holtzclaw of charges related to eight of his 13 accusers, the Associated Press reported, with a total recommended sentence of more than 260 years.
After the verdict was read, sobbing Daniel Holtzclaw seems to mouth “How could you do this to me?” to the all-white jury that convicted him.
The AP reported that the mother of one of Holtzclaw’s accusers clapped as the verdicts were read.
According to the Oklahoman, some who had gathered at the courthouse sang “Happy Birthday” after the verdict was read. The newspaper reported:
Outside the courtroom, a prayer circle formed. “Thank you for justice, Heavenly Father,” one woman said.
After the prayer circle, two women began singing the “Happy Birthday” song.
“Happy birthday, dear Daniel. Happy birthday, to you!” they sang.
His verdict is a triumph for poor women, especially women of color, who, until now, might have fundamentally and truly expected that if a cop raped them, they wouldn’t be believed.
The x files opening is so funny to me like how it zooms in on a low quality picture of a UFO and words randomly appear on the screen saying like “GOVERNMENT DENIES KNOWLEDGE” “THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE” it looks exactly like a government conspiracy youtube video from 2005
Things That Interest Me: How memes align really well with germ theory and infectious diseases. Like okay some memes are the more virulent kind, like, for example, the breadsticks meme.
ok you have the patient zero, or this post; it remains relatively benign until June, where it gets its first contact with a high risk post. From there, the number of outbreaks grow exponentially; ravaging through the fandom communities, with each group getting at least a dozen smaller variations. Then, the meme enters its final, most virulent stages, dubbed the “surreal meme stages;” takes on the meme itself. this is the signal that the meme is being analyzed and is therefore on its way out. the movement from the Fandom to the Surreal stage is usually rapid, within a day. The rapid death of the meme means that it can’t infect other people so quickly, which means it dies out, with only small bursts of activity in isolated incidents.
This is compared to memes like Pepe, which are more benign, and therefore have more staying power, much like the common cold.
my fave thing about dragon age 2 is the fact that the framing device used is just varric telling cassandra, a stranger, how awesome his best friend hawke is.
