lady-em :

northernlib :

Trump’s unidentified secret police force was not prepared to meet this guy.

krxs10:

in case yall been sleeping here’s a reminder that we just shut down Mall Of America, the largest mall in the USA, to protest the wrongful deaths of young black men by police.
#blacklivesmatter

char–star :

hello there!

sweeterxfiction :

Tete Gulley was a 31-year-old Black trans woman in Portland who was found hanging from a tree, dead. The police department ruled her death a suicide, and did not investigate further. Her family found out she had died through Facebook. Officials won’t look into the case further because there is “insufficient public interest”, despite numerous people of the homeless community witnesses contradicting that ruling. Someone even allegedly has a video. But due to negligent policing and, apparently, lack of public interest, the family hasn’t seen justice, let alone the autopsy.

We’re the public. Let’s show our interest.

Here is the petition demanding investigation into Tete, as well as accountability for the negligent behavior of the authorities. It also goes into further detail about her story.

nativenews:

yeah-just-ignore-me-thanks:

The only decent way to use white privilege

parlegee :

kiana996:

Welcome to dystopia

fullofdreamsyouoverslept:

so i’m sure by now most of you have seen the news story about the patriots using their team plane to fly ppe into massachusetts from china (or at least if you’re local to new england you probably have).

it’s being shared on the news as a heartwarming story of a football team stepping up for their local area, but it’s also absolutely a sign of how truly and deeply fucked the federal response to this has been.

some background: massachusetts has received somewhere in the neighborhood of 17% of the ppe requested from the federal stockpile, and not one single ventilator. we requested 1000 of those and have now had to up our request to 1400. we have repeatedly been outbid by the federal government and now, most recently, had shipments of ppe that we ordered straight up seized by the feds in new york.

so, in desperation, our governor set up A SECRET DIPLOMATIC BACKCHANNEL to essentially beg china to send us badly needed equipment and make sure the federal government couldn’t seize it this time

florida has received multiple shipments of supplies in this same time frame, on time and unmolested by federal authorities. the difference? governor ron desantis is buddy buddy with trump and florida is a big swing state for the election. states that get on trump’s shit list are having to beg, borrow, and steal so that more people don’t die.

this is deeply, incredibly fucked and i don’t want anyone to ever forget it.

also just want to highlight that the us federal government is not only stealing from states trump doesnt like, but also other countries. we are literally seizing necessary PPE from other nations. The ones listed here are France, Germany and Brazil. Also Barbados. Trump has also ordered American companies to not manufacture PPE and ventilators for export to countries in Central America and Canada. (same article as the first, mentioned later down.) The term used by Germany was literally “modern piracy.” 

If after everything we’ve seen in our lifetimes hasn’t convinced you that the US is a failed settler colonial state that does not deserve to exist, I hope this does. To me, it seems like the purpose of a federal government is to do what smaller units of governance can’t do on their own – like buy PPE in bulk and distributing it to states rather than encouraging a bidding war amongst states that are also competing against other nations and driving up the collective price of PPE and ventilators globally. The US can’t even get that shit right. And no, I don’t think the shamelessness of US capitalism will fundamentally change if Trump is replaced. Regardless of the party in power this country, founded on stolen land, has done nothing but terrorize the majority of the people who live in it, and the majority of people who live outside of it. 

justnoodlefishthings :

honestly fuck viruses they’re not even alive they’re just strands of punk ass DNA that go around fucking up us normal and god fearing life forms you don’t even have a nucleus you stupid bacteriophage looking horizontally transmitting RNA clump

jakeledgers :

“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.”  - Viola Davis

Lupita Nyong’o in Us (2019) dir. Jordan Peele

Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers (2019) dir. Lorene Scafaria

Awkwafina in The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang

Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho

greyhairedgeekgirl :

tubaterry :

Saw an op-ed that was on the surface a complaint about kids not wanting to take on family heirlooms but read like an elegy to dying traditions. The hardest part was the anxiety without recognizing that they didn’t pave the way for the decisions they assumed their kids would make.

(This is written entirely within the dominant white/western culture - about traditions that have neglectful stewardship rather than those actively suppressed)

The anxiety makes sense. You’re seeing, too late to do anything about it, that there’s no foundation - no space - for the traditions you expected to pass on. Your kids _can’t_ take your mom’s fine china. So now instead of enjoying what you have you worry about its future.

I see a pattern in these op-eds though - a pattern in what’s left unsaid. There were responsibilities tied to these traditions. You collectively assumed they _would_ be passed along. So collectively, what did you do to ensure those traditions _could_ be passed along?

Op-eds never speak for everyone, but it’s worth acknowledging the pattern in what speech is deemed worth sharing widely.  And in this particular pattern, there’s an answer: that answer looks like “nothing.”

You want the china passed down but your kids have no room in their rentals. You want grandkids but your kids don’t have the financial stability. You want that cross-country RV neverending road trip but you’ve had decades of wanting lower taxes more than you wanted infrastructure.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I kinda think that world-defining assumptions are always gonna break without maintenance. So rather than getting mad at whoever’s next for not carrying on the norms we didn’t do upkeep on, when it’s my turn, I hope I’m introspective enough to help instead of externalize & blame.

This.

The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them. The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?

I follow a Facebook group of “Memories of …” for my hometown - a rustbelt community that has gone from a thriving hub of industry to a much-less-thriving place.

The group is a collective lament.   Decades-old pictures of well-kept churches.  Aerial shots of the main intersection downtown, lined with big cars.    Scanned advertisemetns from local stores featuring pictures of their interiors.   These alternate with the drumbeat of news:  the Catholic diocese is closing churches.  Selling them.   Tearing them down.   STores downtown are closing.   The traffic light has been replaced with a four-way-stop.

“That’s the church my parents were married in!”
“How could they tear down that beautiful building.  Such memories!”
“All the businesses are closing.  It must be the taxes.”
”They’ve sold the old lodge downtown.”
“They’re not opening the skating rink this year.  We always used to go.”

And sometimes I chime in. 

“Do you attend that church?  Do you give? Or do you just want the building to look pretty for you? “
“Do you volunteer at that park?  Why not?”
“Did you vote for that recreation bond issue?”
“Are you a member of that Lodge? Why not?”
“Do you shop downtown?   Or did you start shopping at Walmart and Amazon to save a few bucks?”

If you feel something is worth preserving, why do you not participate in its preservation?  

Community is not a spectator sport. 

matt-ruins-your-shit :

gypsyastronaut :

Gervais unleashed

hawkeye1964 :

oldfashionedtransguy :

fatcr0w :

hawkeye1964 :

toothy-merpagan :

talesandthoughtsfromreality :

toothy-merpagan :

hawkeye1964 :

hawkeye1964 :

i went to the met today

i went back

Does op have a brain? Also, do they understand anything about Jackson Pollock?

Nope

abstraction for the sake of abstraction misses the entire fundamental purpose of art which is that it Says Something even if you don’t mean it to Say Something and all pollocks art says is “i have managed to remove all aspects of personality and substance from the process of painting” and 8000 male critics were like OAHAGAGHSB nuts everywhere. anyway purely technique-focused art is fucking boring and anyone in the world could shit out the same thing if they tried for a few hours as opposed to actual good art; when it comes to good abstract art then sure maybe you could replicate the technique easily but the feeling and the message behind it are impossible to duplicate and that’s what makes it interesting and worthwhile.

anyway stan louise nevelson

Adding on to this the only reason pollocks paintings were ever accepted in the art world was because America was trying to propagandize American individualism by pushing the ‘We cherish our avant-garde tortured arteests unlike the FILTHY COMMIES”  as if the man’s shit doesn’t look like every painter’s drop cloth. This is also the time where they pushed a lot of graphic type stuff like warhol and basically the entire 60s was the american art worlds “look at me im not like those other white guys” phase

Also pollocks art is so technically trash that it’s literally degrading at a rate that cannot be preserved so it effectively is falling off the canvas lol. 

I’ve studied a lot of art history throughout my life, and while I personally do like Pollock’s stuff, it’s worth noting that he would probably not have risen to the same heights if he were female. Gender inequality in art spaces is as blatant as can be, and for every male ‘superhero’ of art, there’s a woman who did the same years earlier, or who was (in some cases) copied by the male artist. 

Take, for example, Yayoi Kusama. Kusama created daring and innovative artworks, making them very personal and speaking freely about her mental illnesses and the domestic abuse she endured as a child, painting from the most honest depths of her heart. She was copied by many male artists, who are now revered as being geniuses. Even, at one stage, the wife of a male artist approached her and said, ‘I’m sorry, Yayoi’, because she knew her husband had unashamedly ripped off Kusama’s vision and hard work.

Andy Warhol copied Yayoi Kusama, and didn’t even make an effort to hide it. His Cow Wallpaper piece is a blatant ripoff of Kusama’s Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show. Kusama put her heart and soul into her art, working with repeating images and polka dots as a method of calming the hallucinations she suffered on a daily basis.

With reference to the art theft of Claes Oldenberg, this article describes the following:

[Oldenberg’s] actions caused Kusama to become deeply depressed. So discouraged by the lack of recognition she received for innovating a new kind of sculpture, Kusama would often lock herself in her studio without coming out for days.

Question what you’re taught. Question the legacies of white male artists, who– in some cases– have profited off the talent of women of colour, like Kusama. Racism and sexism allowed Kusama to be pushed off to the side while men took credit for her creativity, and that same bigotry is going strong today. The objectification of women as pieces of art goes hand-in-hand with the erasure of the female gaze in art.

THANK YOU!!! this is such a good addition

mixed-ace-hufflepuff :

laderdesders1 :

fitmaree :

Can’t risk it

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

I mean worth a shot 😂😂😂

sappedsoliloquist :

geminiagent :

lucentkat :

tenttle :

catgirlvanguard :

you guys are missing the best fucking part

Kind of feel like doing a massive overhaul of this tumblr so I can actually use this as my main blog again, kind of feel like leaving it as a musty relic of my garbage high school self

catboyjohnnytruant:

Today I was getting my hair cut and I pulled up a picture to show the very nice lady cutting my hair and she looked at it and said “uh. Are you sure you’re showing me the right picture” and I looked down at my phone and I was showing her this

kirkypet :

denyandfollow:

morganoperandi:

allthebeautifulthings9828:

Guys, look. They finally made a baby stroller for wheelchair-bound mothers. This is so important.

My wife is a physical therapist.  She started tearing up when I showed this to her.

I love seeing ableist norms broken.

Just a quick wave to RemapNI who adapt devices for people with disabilities

animution11:

gluten-free-pussy:

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????

jesterball :

vicholas :

vicholas :

One time when I was younger I was curious if my country counts as a third world country. So I googled “Is Chile a third world country” and one of the arguments in favor of Chile being a third world country was was “people pee in the street” and I will never forget that.

I think of it every time I see people believe that “first/third world countries” is a good way to divide the world

new york city is a third world country

digitaldiscipline :

totallynotreimuhakurei :

fuck-scrappydoo :

bass-fucker :

fuck-scrappydoo :

jakemorph :

fuck-scrappydoo :

scythfi-writer :

This is not Loss.jpg artistically, but it is mood wise.

This is the best thing you could ever say to me thank you

I’m going to DIE at this English class analysis of my comic thank you so much I love you

i had to bring it full circle

it’s a goddamned matryoshka doll of memefuckery in here some days

newromaantics :

this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

drugballad :

Days of Being Wild (1990) Dir. Wong Kar-wai

humanityinahandbag :

videohall:

artist animates over real life with sharpies, whiteout, & cels

THIS IS SICK AS HELL

tromroan :

lectorel :

tyrannosaurus-rex :

mineyoung-churyuu :

hubriscomplex :

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses :

8ddict :

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses :

captainlordauditor :

some iconic dialogue that sounds like its from the great canon of literature but are actually from memes

1. I will face God and walk backwards into Hell
2. “I’ll do whatever you want” “then perish”
   
3. I have been through hell and come out singing

feel free to add more!

• There are no gods here
  
• Do I look like the kind of man who dies
  
• God’s dead and soon we will be too
  
• I thought there were no heroes left in this world 
  

• you kneel before my throne unaware that it was built on lies

• Impudent of you to assume I will meet a mortal end
  
• This is hell’s territory and I am beholden to no gods
  
• Bury me shallow, I’ll be back
  

- take this gift, for the gods surely won’t

• God wishes he were me
• One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled

Violence for Violence is the Rule of Beasts

I hope your gods forgive you because we surely won’t.

You’re rearranging deck chairs on the titanic my friend

orthelious :

Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series. 

kemurikusa :

the opening scene from ponyo is so fucking well animated it’s unreal

paperbeatsscissors :

small

thescriptorium :

thescriptorium :

thescriptorium :

thescriptorium :

thescriptorium :

ive been thinking and honest to god: i think i would actually join a girl gang if the offer came. like a legitimate, hierarchical, “let’s carry knives under our skirts and beat up men” gang. fuck college

bringing back the sukeban girl gangs from the 70’s that wore long skirts against teen sexualization and fucked things up for the patriarchy

and this was no “5 girls in a small town” who made the news—this was yakuza level shit. 20,000 girls getting into gang fights and shoplifting and getting pissed off that only men were allowed to be rough and violent and angry

and y’all wanna know the funniest part? immediately after this trend blew up, the Men decided to sexualize the hell out of these girls. this included movie adaptations and pornos where the skirts were made shorter and the tits were bigger cause apparently they had found their new fetish

but here’s how they actually looked, and it’s actually pretty badass:

so anyways. who up for a girl gang

kitty :

i dont care what you’re doing take 1 minute out of your day to watch this you wont regret it YOU NEED SOUND

thesnadger :

thesnadger :

pinkiepiebones :

thesnadger :

Into The Spiderverse took 100% of its critically acclaimed visuals from comic books and street art and while there are obvious in-universe reasons for this it can’t be ignored that BOTH of these are traditionally seen as “lowbrow” populist art forms, here celebrated for their inherent beauty, complexity and sociopolitical importance. In this essay I will-

Where’s the essay OP

Not a full essay but lemmie tell you. Spoilers below.

Why does Miles stop at a time-sensitive moment to paint one of Peter’s suits when he’d probably want to get going as quickly as possible? Three reasons.

One, on a character level Miles is about to go into the scariest endgame fight he’s been in the entire movie. Taking the time to make the costume his own, to take this little part of the old Spiderman’s legacy and probably get some encouraging words from Aunt May is important to pysch himself up enough to do this.

Two, suiting up for the first time is an important rite of passage in superhero comics. It represents the character deliberately taking on the role. Miles has been wearing a kid’s costume because he feels like a kid trying to take on the role of a hero. By putting on a real costume, his own costume that he designed, he is becoming his own hero.

Three, his costume is an extension of his art. He uses spray paint to alter it, and we see little drips and splatters in the costume’s design. Miles is a street artist and his spider-suit is a street artists’s creation. 

Miles’s street art and his coming into his own as Spiderman are directly linked in the narrative in a way that’s too perfect to be accidental. His costume is made with spray paint. He’s bitten while painting a mural. He uses his spider-powers to put a sticker where his dad can’t find it. Jefferson doesn’t like Spiderman’s methods or Miles’s art. But in the end, he’s willing to work with both. And street art is the shared history Aaron, Jefferson and Miles all have even if they ended up on three drastically different paths.

Miles paints murals, throws stickers up on street signs, etc, both as self-expression and an expression of love for his city. It’s that same love for his home that makes him Spiderman, the city’s protector. His vigilante heroism and his illegal art are expressions of exact same thing.

And comics! This movie loves the language of comics! 

It loves the humor in seeing the words float in the air around the characters! It loves stylized human figures and kirby dots and dynamic transitions! It loves the way comics tell stories (note that every time a characters is narrating their backstory in Into The Spiderverse it switches to comic format, doing highly comic-specific things like having three characters telling their stories side by side.)

Miles reads Spiderman comics in-universe and they’re what helps him understand what’s happening. How many people who worked on this movie do you think read a comic at a formative age and saw themselves in it, in some way?

Of course, if I’m going to talk about the “language” of comics or the “language” of street art I can’t ignore the fact that these two art forms have influenced each other immensely over the years, joyfully borrowing from each other at every opportunity.