Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

however it's a good occasion to post the best #starwars gif i have

i feel like as a star wars fan i should be more partying for may the 4th but between pain, and remembering peter mayhew as well as carrie fisher, i'm a bit sad_keanu.png about it today

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online a pun equivalent of a fart so rank that it causes an office to evacuate

I'M SO PROUD

@trashguts woaaahhhhhhh this is some big Black Rabbit of Inlé energy and i LOVE it

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online i am a little disappointed this means i can't say i've been banned for illegal pun use to be honest

so either berries.space just went down for a bit or i've somehow just gotten banned for that from seeing berries.space for my bad pun and honestly worth it

"harp isn't that a bit insensitive" sir please these are my emotional support terrible puns

so, looking out across the fediverse, i'm gonna guess that berries.space is about to be no more?

has anyone got far in describing this in puns

here i'll start

looks like berries.space users are now......................................................................................in a bit of a jam 😎

@Draekos ask for cute/eccentric socks, and that way people will be delighted to get them for you! sockdreams or the like might be worth a browse

also my mom got me some https://worldssoftest.com/ one christmas and honestly? fantastic present, 10/10, good socks are GREAT to ask for

note: if you are in europe going "oh i'm so glad we're not racist like that america, we have no race problems here", you will receive the same, but with a bonus six weeks of me blasting this ancient don't-use-weed-kiddos public service announcement commercial at you until you get the hint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

tldr for ranting, when examining the racism in the southern usa, don't gleefully declare that you're so glad racism doesn't exist at all where YOUR home is

because if you do, i will physically manifest in your bedroom to play, on loop, the chorus of Outkast's Roses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWju37TZfo0 , bass boosted horrifically, on loop for a period of no less than four weeks straight at max volume

it's the same racist shit. The Same Racist Shit.

but because the yankee knows he's "not one of those stupid racist southerners", he sits around preening about how clever he is and denies that anything could ever be the issue with *him* and *his viewpoints*.

PEAK YANKEE BULLSHIT!

if you see anyone pull that or try to pull it, i hereby ask you to firmly and decisively bite their fucking head clean off

peak example - one of the most odious people i met in college who once exclaimed, "i CAN'T be racist! i'm from NEW YORK! there are different cultures ALL AROUND YOU all the time, you can't grow up in that and be racist!"

and yet he interacted with other cultures in 2 ways only:

1. pretentiously telling minorities what their shit was about, as if he was the expert

2. "eewww that's so gross i'm glad i don't have to touch it"

this other-ing of the southern united states means that so much of the rest of the country is not even going to consider that what they're doing might be racist. because gawd it's not like there's a kkk rally or some shit, that's what those southerners do!

it's a cheap and easy trick to get yourself off the hook for ANY sort of self-reflection, and to let racism pass on through completely unabated and actively aided.

honestly i feel like a lot of those attitudes tie into this larger problem - the south as america's scapegoat.

i'm not going to say we were justified in the fucked up shit! at all! but too much of the country is way too content to look at it as "well it's the south, people are racist there. there's the racists. since we're not in the south, we just can't be racists, so it's fine!"

@InspectorCaracal a lot of people basically are quick to celebrate jim crow in the name of being progressive and it makes me roll my eyes out of my head every time

@InspectorCaracal honestly i feel like that opinion is great for only one thing, when i saw people saying things like "well fuck x state, they can all die in the hurricane, they voted for trump!"

for one thing, it was a lot closer in many places than anyone wants to admit (thanks electoral college)

for another - PoC populations have been intentionally kept around too poor to move and also disenfranchised, kept from voting... and to ignore that... well

i suppose i feel that keenly because the same blinders end up with people wholesale discarding the south if brought to its logical end

not only is this, well, not a tactically sound move, but they refuse to acknowledge the racism there (black people being disenfranchised, kept too poor to move) and the inherent classism behind "well - if these people were worth anything - they would have moved o civilization by now"