#1 mcluhan hater

Elise / Any pronouns / a beeeater is a kind of bird

[socialistexan]

Not getting a ton of reporting in US news, but the Trump administration is going after donors to Palestine, including going as far as international extradition under the guide of "counterterrorism"

[eclecticopposition]

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[teaboot]

When I was a teen in the 2010s boys would call each other Gay to say they were too effeminate but now it’s 2026 and we’re “Better Than That” so I just overheard a kid on the bus tell his buddy “you gotta get on T man cause you are NOT passing” 😭😭😭😭😭

[teaboot]

If I was paid I’d do a study on this

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

top economists are saying today that so long as the coyote doesn't look down he will never fall

[transattacks]

not seeing a lot of people on here talking about ICE murdering another man yesterday. His name was Lorenzo Salgado Arajou. He was a Mexican man living in Huston Texas. He was killed at age 52 and lived the past 35 years here in the USA, and was in the process of obtaining a work permit. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop that ICE claims was part of a targeted operation, and claimed he was “weaponizing his vehicle”- the same claim ICE agents made when they shot and murdered Renee Good.

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salg

[beeeater]

Maybe the most hype I have gotten a summer camp to be is when I showed this at stop motion camp. However I fucked up and showed this on a Tuesday rather than a Friday. So by Friday I was running out of cool stop motion (to children) and was showing them Fuyu no Hi the japanese-russian series of stop motion animations based off haiku. (Cool to me)

[gatheringbones]

[“Child removal proved to be a profitable career path for many white women. The civilizing machine required humans to run it: white women teachers. The boarding school movement presented them with significant new career opportunities. Middle-class white women in the mid- to late nineteenth century were still largely confined to the private sphere. But civilizing the West was deemed an appropriate extension of women’s domestic duties. This “manifest domesticity,” in scholar Amy Kaplan’s memorable phrase, thrust white women’s work into the center of the settler colonial enterprise. White women could respectably extend their own realm of power and influence through adopting a maternal attitude that saw Natives as children in need of their guidance. According to historian Margaret Jacobs, “the majority of boarding school employees nationwide” were white women.”]

Kyla Schuller, The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

[captain-price-returns]

Oh wow the 250th Fourth of July parade has been cancelled lol

[captain-price-returns]

Fun fact: the DC area will be hotter than 99% of the earth tomorrow!

[captain-price-returns]

Also I get the sense that very few people in DC are aware that federal officials wrote detailed analyses warning of the air quality health risks of the enormous 850K fireworks set to go off — and that the admin did not release those findings to the public

[beeeater]

i was sooo confused reading birdeater reviews and multiple people watching for shabana azeez bc I looked at her film list and it was like. Mostly short films. I was trying to parse how people were fans of her, but luckily the first thing I learned on Tumblr was that she was in the pitt. 🙂‍↕️ Good for her. But also I hope she gets to be in more movies because I don't watch tv

[onscreenpretties]

Birdeater (2023)-Timestamp Roulette

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[mircalla]

you've been summoned for july duty

[beeeater]

I'm really trying to hype myself up about reading john cowper powys because I am a bit intimidated by the length of his books and am not actually recommending him. So I keep bringing him up in conversations remote to nothing to build my own excitement up.

[madilik]

my moroccan friend is stuck in the deportation center (hard to talk abt so dont ask me) and we're trying 2 get them out but at the same time theyre trying to organize help for a libyan queer person they met in there lol i really admire this kind of person like using their limited time on the phone to also try to arrange help for someone else. id like to think i would act the same way if i were ever imprisoned but who knows. hoping to not find out but you know how life is

[madilik]

Anyway we are trying 2 collect a legal fund for our friend Siman, they need it for a good lawyer who can prevent deportation to a country where they'll be persecuted and imprisoned likely, and for other expenses, this is the text from their other friends:

A dear friend, political activist, and queer feminist organizer fleeing persecution in Morocco is currently held in deportation detention near Istanbul (Tuzla). They urgently need €4,000 for legal representation, appeals, and basic necessities like food and phone access to endure these highly unsafe conditions.

Every contribution supports to secure their release and safety. Please

donate or share this link with your trusted networks:

https://4fund.com/dae7ea

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Emergency Fundraiser | Legal Defense & Protection – Donate on 4fund.com

* Arabic, French, Turkish versions below *Dear friends,Dear comrades,Dear surrounding,We are reaching out for urgent support for a dear frie

with clickable link, sorry i forgot the first time

[postarcadian]

as my followers can probably tell I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the Pre-Raphaelites and their engagement with ancient Mediterranean material (as well as D.H. Lawrence, who is later than the Pre-Raphaelites but whose aesthetic theory has a lot in common with them - see Sproles 1990 and Comer 2020) in a way that is very much me enjoying my immediate post-dissertation freedom but also might turn into an article/book project down the road. and it’s a touchy thing appealing to past aesthetic movements for any kind of guidance for the present, especially when it's a movement as ideologically multivalent as the Pre-Raphaelites whose tent included utopian socialists and libertines but also Catholic and Anglican traditionalists and neo-feudalists. but in the context of my post from yesterday about abolishing the logic of optimization and the idea of “necessary” and “unnecessary” scenes in fiction that’s now making the rounds, I do think there’s a turn I’ve noticed in about the last ~5 years in certain corners of generally left-aligned artistic culture that I’d call a kind of neo-Pre-Raphaeliteism, including an interest in medievalism and/or the ancient Mediterranean, a celebration of eroticism in its various dimensions, and a rejection of minimalism and irony. and I think there are lots of reasons for this turn but the pandemic and the hollowing-out of online communities and the growth of generative AI fueled by imperialist capitalism loom especially large, and I think the trick is to lean into said turn but in a way that doesn’t actually just become a pipeline to the ultra-Eurocentrism and tradcath revivalism that's already happening on the right

[obligatorymorningfart]

originally for #makeaterriblecomicday but I was late

[altcomics]

people of extreme levels of dysfunctionality, chronic loneliness, unteachable demeanors, economic disaster, victims of abuse and social ineptness gravitate to comics, as readers and then as artists, in a far higher ratio to functional humans than perhaps any other medium