sambot @sammy@vulpine.club

If you are white or NBPOC and you want to actually learn what you may be doing wrong and how to stop, here is some more words on it:

https://twitter.com/pgorski/status/1267067209450434560

http://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/3530741
source: https://pockicchi.tumblr.com/post/174254431891

i built a tool for quickly scrubbing metadata from images and selectively painting / blurring faces and identifiable features. it runs on a phone or computer directly in the browser, and doesn't send info anywhere:

https://everestpipkin.github.io/image-scrubber/

i'm matching up to $3000 of donations, reply on this thread or birdsite with receipts

https://twitter.com/vivjlim/status/1267284248186064896

If I seem distant, its because antiblackness is everywhere and is exhausting. Also, I’m starving, a payment is being delayed and I need some food now.

If someone can please give me some money for a quick meal that would helpful, thanks.

Cash: $Underwraps
Venmo: FarahT

national guard are at newbury now, bail if you are still out there

aight i've found someone i can stay with in seattle

now i just need to raise money to actually get up there

i need around $200 for a train ticket and anything else you can spare for everything that'll come after (phone bill, food, etc.)

my paypal is https://paypal.me/v33b33

thank you so much, all of you, for everything

So. We need to straighten out a few things. I was following the protests on Twitter all night last night, and noticed two recurring themes.

The first is that a lot of Black protestors have been talking about how their protests were peaceful until a bunch of white people showed up and started wrecking shit.

Apparently, Black organisers have had to ask white protestors to calm down, and some Black protestors have had to put out literal fires which white people started.

We all know who gets the blame in these things. We all know who faces the harsh consequences and who gets to walk home without much hassle.

There are a bunch of reports of this stuff in a thread by @FreeYourMindKid@twitter.com (I trust him as a reliable source):

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1266598693647638528

https://www.universalhub.com/2020/more-protests-vigils-planned

imagine getting more mad about property damage than police brutality

I can't do a lot of thinking or working lately. The circumstances don't allow it.

But I can't help but be bothered by the internet finding yet another of Martin Luther King Jr's quotes to say what they want him to say.

I have privilege as a white-read person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice:

I can go birding (#ChristianCooper)

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery)

I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson)

I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride)

I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark)

I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards)

I can play loud music (#JordanDavis)

I can sell CDs (#AltonSterling)

I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)

I can drive a car (#SandraBland)

I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown)

I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice)

I can go to church (#Charleston9)

I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin)

I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell)

I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant)

I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland)

I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile)

I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones)

I can shop at a store (#JohnCrawford)

I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher)

I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott)

I can be a 10yr old walking with my grandfather (#CliffordGlover)

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)

I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)

I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)

I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)

I can run (#WalterScott)

I can breathe (#EricGarner)

I can live (#FreddieGray)

I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

Colorism and white privilege are real. Say the names of those it kills.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=ivR988qCPik&t=14m14s

#BlackLivesMatter

The North Star Health Collective has also asked people to spread their website. you can also donate there:

https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/

more bail funds:

Philadelphia:
https://www.phillybailfund.org/

Brookyln: https://brooklynbailfund.org/

the bail fund for Minneapolis protestors:
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

for donations of medical supplies or cash for medical supplies:
https://northstarhealth.wordpress.com/donate/

The family of George Floyd have confirmed that this is the only legitimate fundraiser they are operating. not sure which fake ones, if any, may have been going around here earlier but this is it: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Oh, hells yes: The transportation union drivers are refusing to transport arrested demonstrators. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8zaw/minneapolis-bus-drivers-refuse-to-transport-george-floyd-protesters-to-jail