softjunebreeze:

starchildluke:

ohsosupreme:

littledirtyprettythangs:

So, today the Instagram photo app came to Android, after being only an iPhone app for at least a year. The Instagram app allows you to take pictures with your mobile device and put all these “groovy” filters on them and be an instant photographer and share your new talent with all your friends across your social networks. You can follow people on Instagram like on Twitter & “like” people’s pictures just like on Facebook. That’s cool right? Right. Lots of fun for everybody n’ all that jazz. The developers announced last month that they were on their way to releasing it for Android and I signed up to get an email when they did. HAAAY BOOO! 

What’s the FIRST thing I saw people saying about Instagram coming to Android?? That the trashy/ghetto/hoodrat and other slanderous labels for people who don’t own iPhones would be all on there posting their #StrugglePics and poverty photos. I can’t understand for the LIFE of me why people who own iPhones hate on Android users so hard. Is it because I’m not enough of a technophile to truly understand this beef? And why do Android users have to be labeled as “ghetto” or otherwise considered “low class”?? Apple products are not an indicator of wealth or an elevated station in life. Not when poor folks all across America are copping MacBook Pros with their income tax refund checks. Like I did. You can buy an iPod on Craigslist. Like I did. Twice. Y’all ain’t special, so stop being so rude. Instagram ain’t about to pay you jack-diddly for that picture of fresh-cut grass you just posted. 

The real question should be is why do the aesthetically-challenged think those filters will alter their reality? Why?? 

What the f*ck ever, man. Whatever. 

You can follow THIS HERE Android-owning hoodrat on Instagram »> ThePBG & get your entire life from my camera-phone photography. #AllFiltersEverything!

~pbg

Fucking preach!

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

bolded for emphasis. classist ridiculous egotistical mess.

Workers dig at a gold mine in Chudja, near Bunia, northeastern Congo. The conflict in the Congo has often been linked to a struggle for control over its minerals resources.

Is Your Christmas Gift Fueling War?

by TRISTAN MCCONNELL

December 15, 2010

What’s the true cost of that mobile phone in your pocket?

That’s the big question human rights group Enough Project wants you to ponder this year as it urges holiday consumers to be strategic when buying electronic gifts.

At issue: whether their new high-tech items were produced using “conflict minerals.”

The mobile phones, laptops, tablets and other electronic gadgets that define our age are all made with tin, tungsten, tantalite and gold. Those increasingly valuable minerals are mined in eastern Congo — where their profits are blamed for fueling the region’s ongoing war.

A new survey urges American consumers to press electronic manufacturers to make sure that their products do not contain minerals that cause war, mass rape, murder and exploitation in eastern Congo.

The world’s top 21 electronics firms are ranked according to their efforts to make their products “conflict free” in a survey published Monday by the Enough Project, a Washington-based pressure group.

HP is the best, according to the rankings. Intel, Motorola and Nokia ranked two, three and four, respectively. Microsoft and Dell round out the top five.

At the bottom of the rankings were camera-maker Canon, electronics companies Panasonic and Sharp, and video game giant Nintendo, all of which are deemed by Enough to have done nothing.

The scores were based on the steps the companies have taken, according to their responses to a Enough’s survey and publicly available information, said David Sullivan, research director for the Enough Project.

“As the scores show, we still have a long way to go but we are pleased at the positive momentum from the companies at the top of our list,” Sullivan told GlobalPost. “The leaders have set the pace and pushed others to follow.”

Sullivan said the industry has formed a working group to coordinate their response to the challenge and added that if the companies work together they wield a great deal of influence.

“Although Congo’s conflict stems from long-standing grievances, the trade in conflict minerals provides the primary fuel for the conflict,” according to the Enough Project report, “Getting to Conflict-Free: Assessing Corporate Action on Conflict Minerals.”

All these minerals are found in large quantities in the mines of eastern Congo. The mines are controlled by armed groups that levy illegal taxes and extract vast profits that run into the hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The miners are paid meager wages and work under terrible conditions. The profits from the mining are used to buy the guns and bullets that have kept eastern Congo in a near-constant state of conflict since 1996, according to human rights campaigners.

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