Idk I'm tired

Idk anymore guys I'm just here to distract myself from the shit show and have a good time. I hope you are too. So yeah enjoy!

[hyperions-fate]

No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

[hyperions-fate]

[wlwillow]

[secondbeatsongs]

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

[sockdreams]

We often eat pie at work...for morale.

[eerian-sadow]

"As a treat" implies a special occasion, a temporary state. "For morale" makes the joy essential, because you have to have good morale to keep going.

[secondbeatsongs]

buddy I'm deficient in vitamins they haven't even discovered yet

[quixoticclown]

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

[prince-luffy]

I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.

[warrior-of-the-runes]

beautiful compilation from @orc-sign-language

[vinceaddams]

"Joined the great majority" is a good one that I practically never hear.

[vinceaddams]

Heard another good one in an old radio drama the other day - "He slipped out of my arms and stopped paying taxes."

[sinistra-orlok]

[snek1046]

It’s June

[bees-official]

[scottsumrners]

[naughtynanzhu]

MILDRED?????

[micawindow]

Every one should go to bed. Let’s all go to bed and figure this out in the morning

[romanceyourdemons]

most basic treatments for sickness involve some form of salt water (drinking electrolytes, gargling with warm salt water, epsom salt baths) as a way of microdosing going to the seaside

[cosmosarcana]

if you ever tell me that you go to a chiro this is what i envision them doing to you

[maria-ruta]

Help

[atlas-prime]

[grootficguy]

it must feel good as hell when you’re a horse and you take a big bite out of an apple like ttshoke

[rubensmuse]

your command over onomatopoeia is unmatched bestie

[simkaye]

Boy howdy, looks like these cowpokes are in a bit of a scrape 🤠

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night Artist: Dora Wheeler Keith (American, 1856-1940) Date: 1886 Genre: mythological art Medium: silk embroidered with silk thread Dimensions: 114.3 cm (45 in) high x 172.7 cm (68 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[taibhsearachd]

This large-scale embroidery is thought to be the sole remaining example of what Candace Wheeler (1827-1923) called "needlewoven tapestry." As early as 1880, she and her associates were producing these subtly embroidered works that were as carefully modulated as paintings. In 1882, Candace Wheeler had patented the technique, in which stitches are passed in and out of the web of a loosely woven silk canvas (also patented by Wheeler), giving the appearance of a traditionally woven tapestry. Candace's daughter, Dora, created this design of Odysseus' faithful wife Penelope while studying painting in Paris and designed numerous other needlewoven tapestries depicting female figures from literature; most of them, however, have completely disintegrated. Although this piece has substantially faded and the fibers have begun to break, the essential image remains intact.

Okay I'm just going to spend the rest of my night grieving a beautiful kind of art that simply doesn't exist anymore. Like.... I will blame Candace Wheeler for patenting an ARTISTIC TECHNIQUE, apparently, I don't think that's reasonable....

I'm also very happy that if there were to be a single piece preserved of this artistic style... it couldn't be more appropriate for it to be Penelope unraveling her work. The decay of the piece, poorly cared for, gives the impression that she is unraveling the work she exists in. If anything was going to exist of this art style, I'm glad it's this one.... but also we'll never know what other works of art existed. Art in a format that is firmly women's work is so powerful, and it's devastating that a whole style of art that uses women's work existed and died within a relatively short span of years.

[mamapluto]

Although, for it to be patented its methodology must be documented. Surely if a record still exists of the patent document it can be revived?

[thelaurenshippen]

you want me to come out of my cage AND be doing just fine?? in this economy???

[motziedapul]

Maybe it's just me as a Filipino who has lived through a murderous dictatorship and oligarchies in a queerphobic country controlled by the rich who brutalize grassroots pro worker movements all under the military abuse of US imperialism but...

You just gotta keep showing up. Support each other. Don't just fight for yourself. The work is hard, but you just gotta keep doing it. You'll always see results, even if they're not always the ones you want, or as big as you want them to be.

All your work always matters. Even if it doesn't feel like it at first. It always matters.

[motziedapul]

12 years of murderous and plunderous dictators but fuck it we ball

[motziedapul]

I forgot to update this when it happened but Duterte was arrested by the ICC because people, especially women in the Philippines, never stopped working to bring him to justice. Dr. Raquel Fortun examined the bodies of drug war victims and the evidence she found is being used in the case. Photographers like Raffy Lerma and Ezra Acayan took photos of the many killings by police.

People like Jude Sabio, Antonio Trillanes, members of the Magdalo partylist, and Leila de Lima, submitted the case to the ICC, then activists and family members of the victims led by the National Union of People's Lawyers also submitted documents to the ICC.

People like Patricia Evangelista and Maria Ressa continued to bring his crimes to light internationally.

All this, alongside the continuous work of activists, is what helped us get to this point. Sara Duterte in impeachment proceedings because of her corruption as Vice President. Rodrigo Duterte in the ICC awaiting trial. After 7 years, because they never stopped working towards justice.

The work always matters.

[kaity--did]

I'm gonna say something to Americans right now and I'm going to beg of you to have some reading comprehension and literacy when I say it and know what I'm talking about.

Your government wants you dead, this year there is no discourse at Pride.