DeliaChristina

DeliaChristina, 1 year ago to random

I really want to lift up the mods of the SFBA instance: @cd24, @Ingurido, @jeffkibuule

I, a Black woman, have had a marvelous experience on Mastodon because these mods don't play. For being a place-specific instance, SFBA has a very clearly expressed value system and it's reflected in the mods. They are proactive, even-handed, and respectful.

I wish others on #BlackMastodon and through the #BlackFediverse could say the same of their instance mods.

DeliaChristina, 2 months ago to random

Getting older needs a handbook.

Like, my body really does not move and recover the way it used to. I never noticed that my gait is all effed up. I never paid attention to my hips and back (outside of shenanigans). I never worried before about mobility and about how to keep it...mobile.

Youth enables ableism. You just think everything is going to work the way it always worked.

But getting older ...oof. If the body is a temple, this temple needs some assistance. The roof is leaking, the gutters are clogged, the doors are hanging wrong, and the hinges are all squeaking.

It's a paradigm shift.

#Aging #MiddleAgedStiffness

DeliaChristina, 5 months ago to random

I'm really curious how many white folks in the fediverse have any close BIPOC friends.

Like, work pals don't count.

These are folks who have let you see the inside of their homes, you know whether or not you have been invited to their cookout, and you know how to reach a member of their family in an emergency.

(All my Besties know how to reach my sister or dad and/or have met them.)

Like, are you a Mark or a...Karen?

DeliaChristina, 17 days ago to random

I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this:

While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world.

Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true.
It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence.

It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis.

Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true.

And so do the rest of us.

DeliaChristina, 9 months ago to random

I'm a few paragraphs in on that Black women+menopause article and already I want to slap the medical profession.

Medical folks really cling to their racism and sexism, don't they? Like, they hold them close like a lover.

DeliaChristina, 6 months ago to random

dammit.
my first positive #COVID test.

4 years!!
and i get tagged because of my boss' jewelry party.

goddammit.

DeliaChristina, 1 month ago to random

Don't even get me started on that new Bumble ad.

DeliaChristina, 9 months ago to instagramreality

Awww!
This is wholesome as hell.
I wanna see Saturn.

#TikTok #Brooklyn #Space

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8F7D7fG/

DeliaChristina, 7 months ago to random

Girly lunch was slightly tense.
Bestie said shared she's been feeling some kind of way about Global Events.

It's so complicated, she said.

I made some neutral noises and listened as she walked a fine line between not being Zionist, but repeating their talking points, and saying what's happening is terrible but Gaza brought it on itself.

Me: Well, in about 3 months all this will be moot. Gaza will be wiped off the map, and the people with it, and then the West Bank will be next. That sort of eases the complexity quickly, doesn't it?

Her: [silence]

Me: Because in the end that's all that matters. We can debate fine points all we want, or not. We all know what the Nakba was. We all know what was not supposed to happen in the west bank. None of that really matters now. In the end, a people and a region will be obliterated. When it happens I hope folks will have the intellectual honesty to call a thing a thing. Because I will.

I had three mimosas.

DeliaChristina, 2 months ago to random

Unlikely.
The young women of South Korea are in revolt. The 4B movement shows no sign of stopping.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-hopes-new-speed-train-links-will-help-boost-birthrate-2024-03-29/

DeliaChristina, 1 month ago to random

I swear, having a Black president literally made America go insane.

When I think about how utterly wiiiiild everything is, I think, Hm, what was the catalyst? What was the thing that made half this country go completely bonkers?

Barack Obama.

DeliaChristina, 4 months ago to random

#Sunday morning coffee playlist:

Leila - Poolside Remix by Miami Horror
https://open.spotify.com/track/1btQN0JRiAzQxdKdJXADUh?si=QO2N2vVcRvqGTjzS7-k9Ng

DeliaChristina, 6 months ago to random

Wow.

56% of polled REPUBLICANS want a ceasefire.

80ish% of Democrats want a ceasefire.

And the Administration out here just going lalala I can't hear you.

Bro, WHUT.
🍉

DeliaChristina, 2 months ago to random

About that #ceasefire veto vote by the Security Council:

The resolution was vetoed because the US-drafted language was weak ass baby shit. (That's the technical diplomatic term.)

There's a stronger, more explicit draft in process and the U.S. continues to demur, saying it will disrupt delicate negotiations. Bish, when your closest ally has become a genocidal murder bot, and your reelection hinges on turning the political tide in your favor, delicacy flies out the window.

I do not believe anything this admin is saying about negotiations as long as it keeps supplying aid and comfort to Israel. Not one word.

Good luck to Joe. #FreePalestine

https://www.barrons.com/news/un-security-council-vote-on-new-gaza-ceasefire-text-postponed-to-monday-diplomats-e2f0fe6c

DeliaChristina, 5 months ago to random

I'm now going to watch a stupid movie about a giant prehistoric shark eating humans.

DeliaChristina, 4 months ago to random

Half the U.S. can't afford rent.

But the economy is doing 'better'.

Something is wrong here.

DeliaChristina, 8 months ago to random

Favorite denouements:

The reveal in Death On the Nile (1978)

Excellent reenactment; Poirot is not too over the top here; the red herring suspects are still plausible; and the reveal is both satisfying and sad.

The remake with Branagh could only WISH it approached this perfection. GAH. It was so bad.

#OldLadyMysteries #AgathaChristie

DeliaChristina, 3 months ago to random

This made me so mad i couldn't even finish watching. Saved it though.

#FranceCanSuckIt #WhatFranceDidToAfrica

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3nJvmx/

DeliaChristina, 1 year ago to random

Adding Icy Hot Pro to my shopping list.

#MiddleAgedHotness
#BensonUpdate

DeliaChristina, 2 months ago to random

Wait. What? Israel attacked an embassy? Today?!?

What.
Is.
Happening.

I hate 2024.
WTF.

Why can't shit be normal?!?!?

DeliaChristina, 11 months ago to random

Yeah....the gloss has utterly worn off the #4thofjuly .

I used to say that the US was still worthy of celebration and sentiment.

(I remember my Ex, at the time, looking at me with his pitying anarchist eyes. Sigh. He was right. I was swimming in patriotic bullshit.)

Nah. Not today, Satan. Not today.

So read the words of Frederick Douglass' What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? and color me unbothered.

https://www.theroot.com/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-1836083536

DeliaChristina, 5 months ago to threads

I have a feeling the #Threads/federation conversation is somewhat important but, sadly, I am absolutely at sea when it comes to understanding the different positions.

Like, is it that Threads is like the big loud highrise development that's moving into quaint Rockridge and bringing all sorts of shenanigans (like more traffic, sucking up all the parking, more SF tech bros and overpriced ramen) that the current residents will hate?

Or is it that the big loud highrise development moving into Rockridge is a Trojan Horse hiding something that is meant to replace all the quaint craftsmen bungalows with big ugly mirrored highrises?

Cuz I don't get it.

DeliaChristina, 6 months ago to random

Thank you email sent to Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) for supporting a ceasefire.

Ask emails sent to CA Sens. Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler urging them to support their colleagues in the House, the over 80% of Dems and the 56% of Republicans who also want a ceasefire.

I kept it polite but pointed.

#cease_fire_now #Gaza

DeliaChristina, 4 months ago to random

How do I tell recruiters I really have no interest in joining teams led by men?

DeliaChristina, 2 months ago to random

I was watching a Korean monster movie that was a thin comment on the Japanese occupation of Korea before independence and there was a line from one of the protagonists.

When he was trying to convince the rebels to help him stop what the occupying Japanese forces were doing to Korean inmates at a large secret hospital (hence, the monster part), he said something like, "At some this becomes less about a war between nations and more about what human beings are doing to one another."

I thought immediately about Israel, Gaza, and the rest of the world.

We see Israel's brutality against a defenseless population. Humanity vs. humanity.

THEY don't see their actions as brutality or the people they're doing it against as people.

Which is the unique and horrifying myopia of an Oppressor/Occupier.