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nevver

Word on the street, Felix Gonzalez-Torres

chicken-delight

i have tested positive for tzatziki

dame-de-pique

Artificial lightning produced in a laboratory, n.d.

drowning-lessonz

daily affirmations

i am the unkillable faggot

i can exist in grocery stores

i have the shittiest music taste in any room

i have a gun

robberofpearl

Iron Heart

Atelier Versace haute couture fw 97, Christian Dior haute couture ss 98, Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture fw 03, Enfants Riches Déprimés rtw fw 24

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emmaklee

nemfrog

Naturgeschichte des Tier- Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs. 1888.

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allcops

“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”

— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)

noneedtofearorhope

since i think many will have had the memory slip with just how many other atrocities have occured in the past 11 years, or are simply too young to remember, the last bit about the sale of untaxed cigarettes isn’t just some hypothetical, it’s a reference to the killing of eric garner

this is the origin of the slogan “i cant breathe”, which was revived in the wake of the killing of george floyd.

alanshemper

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

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imacone

"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."

-Our Wives Under the Sea

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