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Since the 1980s, flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas was unfairly scapegoated as "Patient Zero" who supposedly imported AIDS to North America, but we now know HIV/AIDS had been circulating quietly for decades, spreading along transportation networks as early as the 1920s. This video gives an excellent summary of the research that led us to figuring out the true origin of the HIV pandemic.

#HIV #epidemiology #paleovirology #biology #be smart #Youtube

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CYBERPUNK 2077 | Carmel Street

#night city #cyberpunk 2077

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Keith Haring for Sesame Street

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5 Dancing Men (1993)

#keith haring #sesame street

The voyage of the Cebu ship, Big Papa!

I went snorkeling and island hopping off the coast of Cebu today with my boyfriend, and the cliché of “pictures don’t do it justice” actually holds true. We drifted over reefs alive with a kind of obscene abundance, schools of tropical fish flashing in colors that felt almost excessive. I didn’t capture anything underwater, out of a quiet refusal to mediate the experience (and becauseI don't have underwater photo equipment). The water itself provided enough color by staging a private exhibition of dazzling blues and greens.

#i guess I'm an underwater thing #despite being from Indiana I think I may have been a sailor in a past life #cebu #Philippines #sea blogging

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Shop: shoptylerspangler.com

#tyler spangler #design #collage #illustration #painting

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#ice #abolish ice

US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms

The US constitution gives Trump no power over elections, instead giving it to the states. But perhaps the most sinister line of his speech on Thursday came towards the end, when Trump said his administration would be taking more action to try to take control over elections. The Department of Homeland Security, he said, was holding a briefing tomorrow to discuss vulnerabilities in state voting systems and would order states to remove noncitizens from the rolls.

#fuck trump #us elections #democracy

#jonesy #political cartoon #wild fires #late stage capitalism

kosmogrl

Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.

So much of modern right-wing politics can be boiled down to resentment of the fact that modernity has granted many women the ability to say no to men. That resentment doesn’t go away when these men get horny, it just turns into a sexy woman with a Black Lives Matter flag saying no.

The modern right’s language of humiliation, dominance, contamination, and loss of control uses pornographic tropes to actively supply its imagery and emotional logic.

I think when traditional markers of masculine success erode, the imagination does not become more rational but more mythic. It reaches for narratives of betrayal, invasion, and humiliation because those are the stories that make loss feel understood. The right’s obsession with control over women and theatrical displays of strength are clearly a compensatory performance. The “cuck” insult reveals a theory of a world where losing political power is akin to being feminized, displaced, and rendered irrelevant.

#red pill #right wing cuck fetish #liberal currents #manosphere

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Psyche of Capua, marble copy of a Hellenistic original, 1st century B.C, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, photograph by Giorgio Sommer, ca. 1865

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We Are the Daughters of the Microbes Who Could Survive in an Oxygen-rich Atmosphere

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Vanity Fair Feb 1993 - David Parsons by Annie Leibovitz

#annie leibovitz #leibovitz #photography #chrysler building #male form

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Completed in 1896, Louis Sullivan’s Guaranty Building in Buffalo

#louis sullivan #architecture #ornament

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Art by Aryz

“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, "Thank God that son of a bitch is dead."

Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...

There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

― John Steinbeck, chapter 34, East of Eden

Being good does not require perfection, only a consistent alignment toward the elevation of others.

#john steinbeck #steinbeck #death #living a good life #be worth missing

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Pedestrian traffic lights

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Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):