all the clouds are cumuloft

i shoot things here: ajayjames.com

[twixnmix]

Classical piano prodigy Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967) photographed by Carl Van Vechten on May 9, 1951.

[spiced-wine-fic]

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[kuroii98]

[interstellar-space-cadet]

I’m every one in this

[closecaptionvevo]

MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!

WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!

MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!

MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!

[kosciuszkovevo-deactivated20200]

It’s back!

[j-sillabub]

I looked this up because I had to know what it’s from. It’s a film called The Gay Deceivers (1969), and it’s about two straight men who, seeking to avoid the draft, claim to be gay, but then have to keep up the pretense when the army places them under surveillance.

The man in the red cardigan in the clip was played by Michael Greer, who was openly gay himself - unusual for the time. He actually worked closely with the director and rewrote much of the film’s dialogue to reduce the homophobia and make it more realistic. As a result it’s quite progressive for its time, having a gay character, played by a gay man, living in a happy same-sex relationship, which is more than a lot of media offers us today.

Plus the clip is delightful.

[absurdlakefront]

I just needed this again.

[sonicguillotine-deactivated2025]

Liberals who think the rules and regulations will save us from fascism constantly receive L’s and yet keep going. Bruh this is the county in which the Trail of Tears was determined to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and all Andrew Jackson had to say was “they’ve made their decision, now let’s see them enforce it.”

Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump understand American power far more than their liberal detractors. Liberals can’t do more than appeal to the rules, when the ruling class wrote those rules not for itself but for their subjects. It is military force that determines political outcomes, not some words in a book. Andrew Jackson essentially taunted the Supreme Court, stating their decisions are invalid because they don’t have the military on their side.

There’s a reason Trump admires Jackson. Trump isn’t an aberration, he’s the realization of America’s already existing racist, nationalist and antidemocratic tendencies. He’s not a deviation from American history, he’s part of a continuous line of tyrants.

[porterr-robinson]

[sashimi55]

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

[dambiex]

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

There's more:

[wolfwoodbignaturals]

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

[wolfwoodbignaturals]

sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

Hate it when you're wearing "military-esque" clothing like camo pants or combat boots and some old vet asks you if you're from a military family like fuck off papa war crimes I'm appropriating your culture here.

[trashiesttrashboy]

How are you appropriating a vet’s culture??? Aren’t they just like, animal doctors? What do vets have to do with the army?????

[sonnearchive-deactivated2022120]

I love you

[guerrillatech]

[hekatontarch]

[queertail]

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

12ft – Hop any paywall

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

[sola-whumping]

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

[totaldivasepisodes]

[mexicanjesuschrist-deactivated2]

hey quick question, how do straight people watch this?

[heauxset---tastoned-deactivated]

with they dick hard

[homofied]

[historicaltimes]

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

All of those people around him are demons

[chemicallywrit]

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man

he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?

when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times

the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)

he’s still alive!

hark, a hero of our times!

[profeminist]

[profeminist]

[sirrah1940]

That is unbelievable courage!

[lochnessblobster]

Why is the guy in the last photo wearing a swastika???

[cum-rade]

Girl he’s there to enforce Jim crow laws with physical violence Why Do You Think

[rapidhighway]

Nooo i just saw a TikTok of someone calling their mom a hoarder cause she has a CD collection and going "i can play these faster on an app" and telling her to throw them away BITE BITE BITE BITE KILL KILL KILL KILL if someone said that to me i would rip them apart with my teeth i would burn them alive the violence that would take place would be unimaginable i would be an unleashed demon hungry for blood and meat. unimaginable horrors. death and destruction. killing. maiming. no one could survive that. it would be a nuclear apocalypse. leave the fucking CDs alone

[caparrucia]

Okay but if you have an extensive CD collection you need to back it up into digital/new CDs!

And it's not about apps or digital being faster, I'm all up for physical media, but commercially produced CDs from the 90s and early 2000s are reaching the end of their functional lifespan*, and are starting to fail.

If you have a lot of CDs, it would be a good idea to rip them into high fidelity digital audio, to preserve them.

*CD/DVD lifespans are tricky. Some estimates in peak, perfect conditions and maintenance go for almost 200 years. Others calculate between 20 to 30 years in "normal" use, though no one can agree what normal is.

I recommend buying a cheap DVD reader/writer unit -I bought mine for less than 20 USD - and then batch ripping stuff. Surprisingly Windows Media Player works out of the box, just make sure to save things in the correct format (mp3 or MP4) so you're not limited in playback.

You can of course find more robust options online, including VLC, to rip your files. Ripping a CD will not damage it or prevent it from working, it'll just make sure you have the option to burn a new one if your original happens to fail. This is 100% legal and ethical (and would be ethical still even if illegal, because piracy is always ethical in late stage capitalism and corporations are not your friends.)

I recommend redundancy for your backups (remember that time Apple fucked up with people's files by replacing them with itunes shit? Yeah) and if you're really techy, set up a NAS by your router, with your backups.

If your rips are high quality you can feed it to your computer/tablet/phone/any device in your network and always have access to CD quality audio no matter where you are.

Sources!

How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever

Preservationists are worried about troves of records stored on what was once considered a durable medium: the compact disc. Many discs can l

The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying - CDM Create Digital Music

CDs and other optical media don't last forever - then can even rot. But storage can help. Here's what archivists and research can teach us.

Learn how to rip (copy) and burn (create) CDs  and data DVDs using Windows Media Player.

Looking for ways to rip CD music and songs? Here are 2 easy methods on how to rip CD musics with VLC media player with ease.

[darlingsweetprince]

might have been said in another comment already BUT

if you are saving digital audio for long term use make sure to use a lossless file type like .WAV

yes it’s a lot larger of a file but it won’t degrade over time

you can use .mp3 files for daily/casual use on a playback device but they won’t keep their quality as they get compressed

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[ironpour]

[spookyfbi]

This is like one of those art house horror movies with symbolism I don’t understand except I understand what this is trying to convey perfectly holy crap

[maeofthedead]

Same energy 

[thenimbus-deactivated20200907]

nominee for best tiktok of 2020 holy shit i got chills

[autumngracy]

This was originally about the inital phase of the pandemic and lockdowns but honestly? This is the exact mood I’m feeling right now watching the US descend into fascism

[theycantalk]

ballpark