Black Panthster
A blog about being African on this planet. A bit of activism, a bit of spirituality, and a bit of humor and randomness. "Panthster" is kind of like a "hipster" except African and therefore aware of the shoulders we stand on. I am not even pretending to be original. I exist only because of the strength of those who came before me.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Friday, November 11, 2022
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
How Ads Are Killing Your Site
Though I am not a big fan of automated ads, I am not totally against advertisement altogether. When Google Adsense first opened to smaller sites and blogs, I took the deal because at the time it was very helpful.
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s there weren’t many resources for ethnic and cultural specific sites, so it was nice to have a handy link to a resource where one could buy the products they were reading about. Targeted ads were a great idea on paper, and were also great in the beginning, but then things went bad when “targeted” started to mean exploitative.
We started getting ads for skin lighteners on African and south Asian cultural sites. When we objected to this, their solution was to tell us to block domains individually, as if that was even practical. One couldn’t block a topic or type of product, just the domain.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
Selected Goddess Art by Nicole T. Lasher
Selected Goddess art from between 1997 and 2022:
Holding YouTube Accountable
YouTube claims to try to be a safe place for everyone, but why do they support hate speech and penalize those who fight it? It's about that republican blood money. If the issue is that fascists pay them and freedom advocates don't then they should admit that so we at least have a shot in the bidding war. Don't tell us you want a safe place when you don't care about safety and will take money from and promote literal leaders of literal domestic terrorists.