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[spiced-wine-fic]

[nyansense-the-nyanbinary]

via @123i321 you can't just leave that in the tags

[wingdingle]

attention to all dashcon attendees

someone urinated into the ballpit while it was empty and posted it in the tag

stay out of the ballpit

[wingdingle]

there are people who think this is a joke

this is not a joke

please stay out of the ballpit for the safety of your health

[defunctblog1]

Ancient scribes detailing horrible events

[thetyrannosaur]

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[ralfmaximus]

The note inside a bullet.

B-17 bomber is riddled with German anti-aircraft fire but miraculously survives. Later they discover the explosive shells were all inert; sabotaged by Nazi slaves working in armament factories.

Inside one empty shell is a written note: it's all we can do for you now.

[gothlovingoth]

The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesn’t seem like anyone is doing anything doesn’t mean it’s true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one that’s never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Blessed is the Flame

Serafinski Blessed is the Flame An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism 2016 Taken from the original book: Run

Audible Anarchism

Philosophy Podcast · Updated weekly · A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks

[anarchistmemedistro]

[bigdykethanergy]

"there comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to throw your bodies upon the wheels and upon the gears. Upon the levers. Upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!"

~Mario Savio

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[therobotmonster]

[leothewerelion]

inshallah he will be drank

[raccoonmilf]

Hi if you somehow weren't able to study raccoons what would your animal of choice have been?

Sorry if you get asked that a lot

Coyotes.

A lot of my interest in raccoons has to do with their existence within anthropogenic landscapes and how they interact with humans. And also how they are deeply misunderstood. That can apply to coyotes too. And they are very cute!! They just aren’t as smart and they can be harder to find for observational studies (aka I’m lazy as fuck.)

Anyway, here is a coyote I grabbed by hand while the cops and animal control watched

[digitaldiscipline]

[stay-chill-vibes]

REBLOG IF YOU ARE HELLA BORED AND WOULDN’T MIND SOME CURIOUS ANONS.

[parksrway]

he makes me so happy and so profoundly sad at the same time

[initforthecache]

like this?

[itseasytoremember]

someone help me find that image of 4 cats being held up in front of a brightly coloured background. the cats look calm being held but each have their own personality

[itseasytoremember]

nvm i found it

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[3000s]

they hate each other.

[barin-mclegg]

hey bestie you forgot the poll

[3000s]

oh sorry

would you kill and eat these animals?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 3, 2024

[barin-mclegg]

I was talking to prev, asshole. The fucking critter-creature-beast poll blog? That person? Don't be a fucking dickhead.

[3000s]

sorry for being silly on my post it wont happen again

[3000s]

would you kill and eat @barin-mclegg?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

[konoko]

[scary-ivy]

[cheddar-baby]

No. 14 (White and Greens on Blue), Mark Rothko, 1998, Oil on Canvas, 90.2 × 69.9 cm

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[spn-fandom-breathing-heavily]

not even risking that shit

[codyslipring-deactivated2015060]

scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button. 

[tumblgang]

She ain’t no games in real life so I take her serious all the time

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

I’m not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, 🙅🏽🙅🏾🙅🏿 Negative.

[skuubasally]

Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.

[luckytaters]

who the fuck is Madame Zeroni

[saudadesinfinitas-deactivated20]

Look at these stupid children who don’t know who Madame Zeroni is

[drayaintshit-deactivated2019030]

☝🏾😂

[callmedeku24]

Man lissen if you don’t know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button

[lesibab-deactivated20180324]

WHO TF DOESN’T KNOW WHO MADAME ZERONI IS ?? ????

[rebvodkaramirez]

Oops gotta reblog she don’t play games

[moonballspls122]

Girl I don’t fuck with that shit. I gotta exam two hours-I rebuke thee!

[slavicularz]

I am terrified mind you

[smokestackenrgy]

Oh…well…double and give it to the next person

[puffmamaa]

every time.

[darylandbethfanforever9]

I always reblog

[machine-unlearning]

My flu isn't all that bad, but I had a super weird flu dream about a world where if you died and your body hadn't been found yet, all your online accounts would keep posting in a mildly annoyed tone from the pov of the corpse. None of the posts were creepy, just stuff like "Stuck laying facedown in my bed forever #mybedforever," and because it happened somewhat regularly it was all treated pretty normally, some kind of “the spirit hasn’t moved on yet” schtick. And it'd be a little tragic to find out grandma died from her facebook post "the cat is sniffing my face... he can tell I'm not breathing but is so very polite and not eating me yet... 🤣🐈😿" but it'd kind of be last words in a way and at least more personal than hearing she died over the phone from some coroner.

The main awkward thing was sometimes the person behind a big tumblr would die and their tumblr would start corpse posting, but none of their mutuals know them irl to recover the body, so you're all stuck waiting as days pass and their account keeps corpse posting, with the knowledge that nobody from real life has checked on them, and that when someone eventually does they'll find a decaying corpse

[weaselle]

[catholickedd]

- cherry wine is about domestic abuse. it’s now called a cute proposal song.

- too sweet is about seizing the day and ignoring healthy habits in favor of having more fun with unhealthy ones. he’s actively critical of himself in the song. it’s now called a song about thinking you’re superior for drinking black coffee.

- take me to church is about worship as a metaphor for sex. it’s called a religious song.

- eat your young is a song about war and political greed. it’s called a song about sex.

- now, the strongly political message of nobody’s soldier is being ignored in favor of calling it a metaphor for hozier’s relationship with his fans.

when are we going to stop simplifying hozier’s music down to cute little cottagecore bogman forest music? maybe you dont want to hear this but i don’t care. quit listening to hozier for the aesthetic. there’s a reason why empire now, foreigner’s god, butchered tongue, etc. songs with unignorable political messages are among his least popular songs.

[edenisquiet]

I was honestly shocked when i found out how unpopular Empire Now is. Really? The song that gives me goosebumps every time i listen to it? The song that made me want to scream its lyrics in broad daylight? The song with the line "Future's so bright it's burning"? And most people have no fucking idea it exists?

I dunno, maybe it's just the place i've lived in for the majority of my life both being rich with greenery and nature and having its citizens live in constant fear of being killed/losing their home in a political conflict, from natural disasters, or deathly diseases spreading so fast here that made me resonate with hozier's music so much.

What i wanted to add to the original post, and what, in my opinion, every hozier fan should understand, is:

It's perfectly fine and nice for a hozier fan to go for a forest walk with Would That I playing in their headphones, but do not ignore the hozier fans who blast Nobody's Soldier in their room to stop hearing the siren wailing outside.

It's really cute and romantic for a hozier listener to dance to Work Song with their significant other, but do not forget the hozier fans who listen to Nina Cried Power after their government gives them another reason to be killed or arrested.

Hozier pours his soul and mind into his every political anti-oppression song, but people choose to ignore it for their own comfort.

There's so much more to Hozier than romance and forests, and i need more people to understand that

[khione-nxl]

I think this is an important point, but I'd add one nuance: the existence of multiple interpretations doesn't erase the one Hozier intended.

People falling in love to Work Song or proposing to Cherry Wine isn't the problem by itself. Art inevitably becomes personal once it's released. The problem starts when the original context is forgotten entirely, or when songs that are explicitly about abuse, colonialism, war, oppression, or resistance get flattened into "cottagecore forest vibes."

One of the reasons Hozier's music resonates so deeply is because he refuses to separate beauty from brutality. He'll write a song that sounds tender while describing horrific abuse. He'll wrap political anger in gorgeous poetry. That contrast is intentional, it forces you to sit with uncomfortable truths instead of looking away.I think the best way to appreciate his music is to allow it to be both.

Dance to Work Song. Walk through the woods to Would That I. But also listen to Butchered Tongue, Empire Now, Foreigner's God, Nina Cried Power, and Nobody's Soldier with the same attention. If we only celebrate the romance and the aesthetic while overlooking the songs asking us to confront injustice, we're missing a huge part of what makes Hozier the artist he is.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Imagine if politicians actually cared about the health and well-being of the people, instead of feeding corporate greed.

All our lives would be better.

[kitts-mechanix]

"B-But that's socialism!"

Me:

[tigerator]

theres something magical about someone using their normal ass name on the internet. oh, your discord name is just 🪱🤙💯💯whats gapppening help me. oh your discord name is just "charlie"? thats really cute and sweet. its also extremely unhinged when you find out their name is actually george

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit: