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blue sky and white clouds in ili by 刘知著

Braids by Donna Moses

— I was not able to find a source from this images. I pulled them off the Instagram of @fridacashflow — however when I searched (relatively briefly) for more information about Donna online I was not successful.

I will likely try on my desktop and review this post but for now some beautiful images of hair that I would like to commit myself to drawing.

#reference #draw

butchshevik

Honestly if your response to "I dont have many skills that would be useful in a post-capitalist society" is "so I guess I'll just be pursuing my intellectual hobbies as my contribution to my community" instead of "so I guess I'll be doing dishes in the cafeteria/janitorial work/manual labor" you should really reconsider how you come at the very concept of work and society as a leftist. Is socialism no longer appealing if you have to do the work you previously took for granted? Is the liberation of the proletariat not worth it if you have to contribute something besides your dream job in academia or leading support groups? Are you really "too good" for "that type" of work, even if it is for a world where no one starves?

we will still have hobbies/run d&d/learn other languages under socialism - in fact, we would likely have far more time to pursue them than under capitalism - but when we think of our future labor, we ought to consider the "menial" tasks that keep society running; loading boxes onto trucks, cooking in a factory kitchen, packaging medical supplies for distribution, building new homes as a worker and not an architect. these jobs will never disappear, and to assume that someone else will do them while you lead workshops or go to school to become a trained professional is to announce your continuing loyalty to petite bourgeois ethics. The dream of socialism is not a fantasy where you continue to do the exact same thing you want to do under capitalism, but now with a clear conscience about it. It's to build a better world as one global movement, to lift up the most oppressed and downtrodden from the muck; a task which requires, above all else, heavy and thankless work that we must be prepared and happy to undertake if we ever hope to succeed.

jamiemclellan

Our solar system moving through space..

ginalinettiofficial

yo i’m sorry did this just say our whole solar system is MOVING?????????? THROUGH SPACE????????

the sun is stationary right???? someone please for the love of god tell me the sun is stationary??????? it’s tuesday afternoon i don’t have the mental capacity to learn that our entire fucking solar system is MOVING right now ????!?

hockeylvr42

I mean I hate to be the one to break this to you, but everything in space, including the sun, is moving through space. Very quickly, actually. The earth orbits the sun at 64,000 miles per hour, sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 500,000 miles per hour, and the Milky Way galaxy itself is moving through space at roughly 1.3 million miles per hour.

ginalinettiofficial

oh

i

okay

thank u for

for the information

i uh

i’m just gonna. take a minute

i think that

i think that tomorrow i’m uh

gonna have to ask

where the milky way. is going???

but uh

yea i don’t think i can handle getting an answer to that particular query quite yet

hockeylvr42

Well since it’s now tomorrow I might as well answer your question about where the Milky Way is going. Really, there’s two different answers, a short and a long answer. The first, and shorter explanation, is that the Milky Way is heading towards our nearest galactic neighbor, the andromeda galaxy, and the two galaxies will collide within the next couple billion years. The second and much longer answer is that the Milky Way is apart of what’s called a “cluster” of galaxies. Basically, all the galaxies that are near ours. And this cluster is part of an even bigger cluster, called a “supercluster”. Superclusters are some of the largest structures in the universe, they stretch for hundreds of millions of light years and encompass hundreds of thousands of different galaxies. Our galaxy is slowly orbiting the general center of what’s called the Virgo supercluster, guided along by the gravitational pull of the galaxies around us and the structure of the universe itself.

thevisualvamp

Anthony Forever

classically-lit-memes4u

RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

#about me

neurospicy

College is wild because it really isn’t about intelligence or the ability to understand the material at all. It’s literally just a test of executive function and abled-ness. I had good attendance. I participated in class discussions…possibly to an annoying extent, I got A’s on my tests. When we did group work in classes, it was usually me knowing the answers and everyone else just writing them down from my paper.

But I watched those same people who copied my in-class work and who barely passed tests and who only understood the material enough to regurgitate it, not to expand on it, graduate while I flunked out. Why? Because I didn’t have the executive function to do homework outside of class. That’s it.

myfootyrthroat

Most of the barriers to finishing college have absolutely nothing to do with academics or learning. When I dropped out, it was because my housing situation changed, so suddenly I had to work two jobs just to not be homeless. I had one instructor who would make a point of calling me out in class for looking tired and how it must be because "the material wasn't important to me" (it was actually just because I was usually only getting 4 hours of sleep). Another instructor would lock the door at exactly the start time for his class, despite the campus having notoriously horrible parking issues. I'd regularly have to park at a shopping mall a couple of miles away and take a shuttle, but the shuttle system was so overloaded that you'd have to wait through 2 or 3 shuttles just to get one that could fit another person. Then I'd have to sprint across campus to get to his class at 8:01, just to have to knock on the door to be let in and be made to stand in front of the class and make a public apology for disrupting the class by being late (despite the fact that if he didn't lock the door, I could have just slipped in at 8:01 and not disrupted anything).

So yeah, I ended up dropping out, despite being on the dean's list.

#college #executive dysfunction

365filmsbyauroranocte

Visages villages (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017): Agnès’ hands

blackwoolncrown

Colonization and it’s systems isn’t just a death cult it’s a murder suicide cult that is actively trying to end life on earth and I think about how my actions can lead to escaping and or destabilizing it every day.

blackwoolncrown

It's not about whether or not you 'let them win' , this is not and never has been a proper battle. This is not a meeting of regular foes, this is not a territorial skirmish, this is not a regular human war over resources, this is something else entirely. For many of us I believe the path is not about convincing their leaders, because that is validating their *invalid* worldview and agreeing on their perception of the world where they are sane, and right, and hold power we have to ask them back for. That is a delusion. This is about reality. About divesting as completely as possible from the curses and illusions they have cast. Have you ever known a narcissist? Have you ever noticed how they become lost in their own delusions? Their own lies they once used simply for control take on more power t han they ever had, their fear has a life, a spirit of its own and it consumes them until they truly live in the warped world they convinced YOU was real as a way to control you. You don't stand there and play by their game rules, that's not how you find your way out. That is where these people are, they are blind, they don't see the earth, they don't see anything outside of their scope of reference which is extremely small. You cannot convince them of anything because that is not how healing happens- not by force, not by from outside, it happens from inside when a person surrenders and opens themselves to it. These people are sick, so sick and their sickness is so extremely contagious. Do whatever you can to connect to the Earth and mutually strengthen you and Her, whatever you can do in your own life. That's it. That's everything. That's what we have.

ambientbruh

gigithedolly

Can you elaborate?

ambientbruh

Ahem...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/18/african-americans-techno-music-los-angeles-clubs-whitewashing

Rave Reparations, a social experiment, is working to make LA’s dance parties more black – through donations and discounts based on oppressio

https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/2015/02/04/before-techno-was-white-and-hedonistic-it-was-black-and-poor

Today, thanks to some cultural smudging, "techno" has become synonymous with a multi-billion-dollar electronic music industry — a far cry fr

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/detroit-is-techno-city-and-techno-is-black/Content?oid=12291432

How a homegrown artform took over the world

https://djmag.com/news/history-detroit-techno-explored-new-documentary-black-techno

Narrators include Juan Atkins, Kodwo Eshun and Greg Tate

https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/02/filmmaker-jenn-nkiru-reclaims-the-black-origins-of-techno/

With her new film ‘Black to Techno,’ commissioned by Gucci and Frieze, the filmmaker looks to the genre's beginnings in the Motor City.

https://afropunk.com/2020/02/why-the-dweller-festival-matters/

Brooklyn’s Dweller Festival matters because knowing history matters — because futures are built on knowing history. Especially Black History

Have fun.

deadryn

Gettin REAL annoyed at all these posts about black techno not posting any examples OF black techno.

The content itself is arguably more important than the discourse surrounding it. Black music is stolen and reappropriated time and time again throughout history, and I'm sick of the music being used as culture war fodder and discared rather than their legacy being experienced and celebrated.

Like, Acid Tracks spawned an entire GENRE. This one track made by a couple of black men fucking around with a cheap synth most regarded as tacky and useless created a musical INSTITUTION, and the black roots of acid house and acid techno are borderline forgotten nowadays. How many people associate ska with white late 90s skate culture rather than the Carribean blacks that created it?

Don't just talk about it, listen to it!

hauntedearth

bloomingsalma

did we all have a goldfish growing up who we liked to call “friend”? polly jones / margaret preston / vittorio reggianini / elizabeth nourse / henri matisse / janet fish

beloved-child-of-the-house

the difference between romantic love and platonic love is mostly intent

beloved-child-of-the-house

love lives in the cultivation of it!!! if you want a relationship, any relationship to thrive you have to build it and grow it and nurture it. you have to be honest and respectful and vulnerable and affectionate. there are some things most people only do with romantic partners, but that’s mostly a matter of taste and custom. people have sexual encounters with friends. people have love affairs without ever having sex. people co-habitat with friends. people live in separate dwellings from their spouses. love isn’t a feeling or an instinct. it’s a sustained, mutual effort. ultimately your relationship is what y’all mutually decide it is and what y’all mutually make the effort to create together.