A Silent Siren

[gentle-reminder]

gentle reminder

people are thankful that you are around, even if you don’t see it - you are wanted and loved

[wreckedvibez]

My default setting is assuming people don’t want to talk to me

[tesb]

Boys and girls of every age Wouldn’t you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick

[botan]

[csenegb-deactivated20210520]

did you really think i’d go through october without drawing Wednesday??

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

From Wikipedia:

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the 2000s.

The worship of Santa Muerte is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is increasingly firmly entrenched in Mexican culture.

Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico, since many are considered to be outcast from society. Many LGBT people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.

Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico. The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.

Man how did I not know about this magical gay skeleton queen until today?

[itmustvebeenthefairies]

I would like to take this moment to thank John Mulaney for forever giving us “that’s what I thought you’d say you dumb fucking horse” as a way to react to literally every noise that comes out of trump’s mouth

[jenniferrpovey]

Had to post this somewhere.

I’ve been thinking about Elon Musk’s Tesla.

The guy shot a car into space. A freaking car. With a fake astronaut in the seat and the words “Don’t Panic.”

And people are seeing this as this bizarre conspicuous consumption or a weird Tesla publicity stunt. As a one percenter…

…but the more I think about it, the more I realize something quite simple.

This guy had to launch a test load. He had to put something on that rocket. Given the power of the rocket, whatever they launched as a test load had to be heavy enough to properly test the biggest rocket we’ve launched since the Apollo program.

It had to be well built and solid enough to survive the launch. Now, because of the size of the load, it had to be put into a stable orbit not, as happens with smaller test loads, set to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

So, assuming everything went well, whatever they put on that rocket? It’s going to be in space for a long time. Assuming it’s not hit by a bit of debris, or an asteroid, or whatever, it could be up there for millions of years. It’s in space, so it’s not going to rust or corrode. It will eventually develop pitting from micro meteor strikes, it’s not going to last forever.

So, what does the guy send up.

A freaking car with an astronaut in the seat and the words “Don’t Panic” printed on it.

It’s corny. It’s tacky. But what else is it?

It’s art.

It’s something that’s going to still be recognizable as art in a few thousand years. After we’re all dead. Heck, it may still be recognizable as art after our species is dead - extinct or evolved into something else.

Given the fact that he had to put some kind of object into a stable orbit in the solar system, Musk picked not just art, but ridiculous art. The kind of thing that hangs from diner ceilings, the kind of thing a kid would put together.

He put something out there that screams to the void “This is us. This is humanity. This is how utterly silly we are, how completely frivolous.”

And you know what, if the first..or the only…thing an alien civilization sees of us is Elon Musk’s stupid car, I’m quite happy with that.

They might not be able to decipher the message, but they’ll know somebody was here who, given the power to fly into space used it to play.

I’m quite happy with that.

[fozmeadows]

The only car in the universe with the words DON’T PANIC emblazoned in large, friendly letters on the chassis. 

Frankly, I think Douglas Adams would’ve approved.

[reasonandempathy]

Millenials don’t believe in democracy because we have never experienced it. In the United States, Democracy was repealed in 1976 with the Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court decision. This contended that giving money to political parties was “free speech” and could not be infringed. In the stroke of a pen, American Democracy was dead and replaced with plutocracy. The ability to vote can be powerful, but not nearly as powerful as the ability to bribe, and this decision legalized bribery and called it “campaign contributions”. Since then, virtually none of the after-inflation economic gains have been shared by Americans who are not high-earners and opinions of voters have had zero effect on policy. By contrast, opinions of donors have a very high correlation. Democracy has been dead since before any millennial was born, and every year the corpse that bears its name redistributes more wealth from the middle and lower classes to the corrupt. Can you blame us for disdaining a system that has done nothing but steal from us?

Justin Flynn (via sosungalittleclodofclay)

[timbllr]

[jugandbettsdetectiveagency]

guys… I don’t know if you know this but… if you wake up early… there’s so many more hours in the day

[anextrapart]

[onlyblackgirl]

I can’t believe I actually lived though the full transition from VHS to DVD. Like there are people alive who have never seen a VHS tape….I remember when we were still tryna figure out how the fuck they got a full movie onto a cd. 

[stirringwinds]

[com3150project]

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

Highlighted section of text from the 1917 trial of Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist (from the book “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”:

In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has “the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception”: if a woman isn’t willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn’t have sex.

Pro-life compassion, everybody…

[deejay]

[relucant]

my favorite thing about brooklyn 99 is that my favorite character is literally whichever character happens to be speaking at any given moment they’re all so good

[ithelpstodream]

[politicalcdnmama]

@allthecanadianpolitics Some flag/symbol information so you can know the racists.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Thanks for the heads up, and before anyone goes ‘There’s no nazi’s in Canada!”, yes, yes there are:

Right-wing extremist groups ‘prevalent’ across Canada, study warns

Canada not immune to right-wing extremism

Far-right extremist groups on the rise in Canada, expert says

[antifainternational]

Know your enemy

[tragikempyre-deactivated2013040]

[ethiopienne]

they won’t even admit the knife is there.

[alwaysbewoke]

The essence of the “color blind” movement right here.

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there.” - Malcolm X