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midgar-incidents:

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eight-legs-to-the-wall:

imjustexistingtbh:

your-icy-blues:

jaybearr:

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judygemstone:

hydrojinn:

motherfucker-somewhat-limited:

bondsmagii:

sigynpenniman:

huffylemon:

“Sunset over the Grocery Box,” by me. The view from my father’s front yard in January 2014.

“Sunset at the End of My Driveway (Excluding Pavements Covered With the Shite of One Million Dogs)” by me.

“Sunset from My Front Yard Taken on an iPod Touch in 2010″

“Sunset in Nov 2021 Taken in the Parking Lot of the Pharmacy”

“sunset from the parking lot of the diner taken on an iphone 5 in 2016”

the view across the road partially eclipsed by house, 2017

Taken from a stepladder putting up Christmas lights

-2014, front yard

Sunbeams in the Costco Parking Lot, 2019

parking lot of an indian restaurant in the denver area, year unknown

Top of a parking garage, 2015

Had to pull my car over on a highway, 2015

Sunset from the Cliff Behind the Walmart, 2022

Sunset from our drive home from my grans house, 2022

Sunbeams at the Strip Mall, August 2022, taken on a broken iphone

Sunset Over a Busy Street, June 2021, taken on a broken iphone

Sunrise taken outside the school cafeteria on an Old Samsung, 2019

Sunbeams over a McDonalds, 2021

sunset and jupiter outside of a MOD pizza, 2019

sunset i saw during a walk taken on a broken iphone se, 2020

Sunset over a random road, 2021 (taken from the passenger seat dw)

Some fuckin county route, upstate NY, the other day

actively driving on the nys interstate, last week <3

fuck it. I DO love the colour of the sky

Sunset in the grocery store parking lot, 2022 (

View out my dorm window at 6:30 AM after pulling a terrible all nighter.

Sunrise from my roof window last week

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betterbemeta:

midnightssea:

local Twitter user comes to “terrifying” realization that someone’s physical appearance does not always indicate their political beliefs

politics as aesthetic is a reliably fascist-enabling mindset. That may seem like a crazy take and obviously nobody’s brainwashed for having a style or recognizing others with that style. but listen.

there is a reason why the right wing targets ‘diversity’ beyond just obvious racism, sexism, bigotry, control issues: the need to know someone else’s 'place’ ON-SIGHT is CRITICAL to a strict hierarchical society. This is also why they get mad at poor people having nice things, or art from marginalized minorities becoming influential.

The cruise control of seeing only people who look like you and act like you is critical to conservative’s emotional goals. At the extreme, a conservative ideal doesn’t even have to navigate other real people at all: just archetypes. Which is pretty handy if it’s agonizing to contact your real living conditions with your whole authentic self.

Conservative political movements are style over substance: the feelings they solicit from their base are promoted as more important than the actual decision-making that will occur at right-wing hands. Again, a handy tactic when the choices you want to make are abhorrent for everyone but the aristocracy.

Punk and metal scenes– genres that are famous for anti-authoritarianism– have to be active in barring fascists from participation. They can’t cruise control based on how people fit 'the style.’ Meanwhile, the signals that fascists use to identify one another often are aesthetic-based because to state their political beliefs out-loud is (or has been…) punishable.

The warm and fuzzy feelings of safety you get when everyone looks like you are very easily exploitable. I know that we live in an age where everything functions like an advertisement and aesthetics rule all, but by law of demographic sizes alone more queer people and queer allies are going to look like a random middle aged dude than you think. Especially as people born after the AIDS genocide actually make it that far.

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kurowrites:

depsidase:

People literally died for that.

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cynicjovial:

So let’s say that, hypothetically, I’m cutting down Truffula trees, let’s say, with no care about their role in nature, and let’s say, for the sake of the argument, I’m using them to make Thneeds. Let’s say that happens. Really, how bad can I be?

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headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

ms-cellanies:

modern-politics111:

‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

the Guardian

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:  

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

OUTSTANDING MOVE

Y'all know what to do. Use Walton’s naming system. Make it catch on.

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marzipanandminutiae:

lame-kid-on-couch:

chillyfeetsteak:

dogmotif:

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

man people really just say stuff on here huh

Noooo haha don’t spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands

I work in postcolonial USAmerican history (museums in New England, Revolutionary through Victorian) and I constantly find myself correcting tourists who say we “don’t have anything as old as in Europe here”

they don’t usually mean anything by it; they’re just not thinking and often get a bit embarrassed when I gently say “nothing EUROPEAN that’s that old.” but I will keep saying it until I run out of breath, if necessary

(also some pueblos are still occupied! Acoma Pueblo has been continuously occupied for 2000 years! which is incredibly cool!)

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Spoilers under the cut! Read at your own peril. I’m not really doing any deep analysis and this is just my first take right after finishing the lesson and my general reaction.

jcrewguy:

ALT

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prismatic-bell:

mikermccall:

prismatic-bell:

jellybeanium124:

In the wake of the dual strike I would like to remind everyone that “hollywood elites” is an antisemitic dogwhistle and if you are referring to company executives call them executives

I would further like to add that “cabal” is an antisemitic dogwhistle a pretty decent chunk of the time. You’ll really only see it used in three contexts: people using it as a dogwhistle, people using it not knowing it’s a dogwhistle and thus making it easier to fly under the radar, and, rarely, in a joking way where they not only don’t know it’s a dogwhistle, they’re not even entirely sure how the word is supposed to be used.

It has its origins in the word “Kabbalah,” which is a Jewish learning pathway so closed that even most Jews can’t partake in it. (It’s Jewish mysticism, and at an absolute bare minimum to begin study you should be a Jewish adult extremely well-versed in Torah and Talmud; the stricter Orthodox practice states you must be a learned, male, married Torah scholar over the age of 40.) Because people enjoy shitting on closed practices, goyim were quick to go IT IS SECRET SINISTER WORLD-DOMINATION PLANS, and that is where the word cabal came from.

So: if you mean “monopoly,” as in “The Walt Disney Company has brought almost all modern major audiovisual properties under its control in a monopoly that controls well over 75% of wide-release and streaming media,” please say monopoly.

And if you mean a group of individuals or corporations who together have a monopoly, the word is cartel.

Sorry for the digression, but cabal, being a collective term, doesn’t even make sense for a single monopoly. Anti-semitic and wrong.

The other place I have seen cabal used is in referring to an actual group of occultists, kabbalist or not, notably in occult fantasy stories. Do you have a problem with it in that context, given its origins?

It makes sense if you’re saying something like “the Disney cabal” to bring in Iger, whoever the head of the Marvel division is, whoever the head of the Star Wars division is, whoever heads Disney+, and so on.

I absolutely do not understand why, when told “this word is antisemitic, please don’t use it” so many people need to go the “if a white kid was dying and wanted to say the N-word” route. If it’s wrong it’s wrong. Period. Regardless of whether it’s being used in fantasy or not. You’re the third person to ask me for some kind of special exception permission.

opomo:

mlep;.-