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[futuristicrunawaygardener]

the 70k notes smash potluck post

[phoenixyfriend]

Part of why I feel okay painting all the Kaminoans we meet with the same brush of "kind of an amoral dickhead that abuses the clones, even if they don't recognize it as such." Is that we don't see all the Kaminoans!

We see the megacapitalist scientists.

I'm sure there are Kaminoans that are like. Fine. But those aren't the ones we see! We see the Prime Minister (basically a CEO) and his assistant. We see politicians (driven by capitalism on behalf of the the primeministerCEO) and we see scientists (hired for their willingness to do the amoral things the CEO requires of them).

Like if I walked into Amazon headquarters and only talked to the C-suite, I'm not expecting any of them to be shining examples of ethics and morality who only have the best in mind for their slaves employees.

[luffycentric]

somebody asked about Ace sorry i got lazy on the end i didn't wanna draw Ace anymore lol im sorry

[enba-and-luka]

[brainscrems]

This what I mean when I say science writing is terrible and you need to actually go back to the academic publications themselves to get what’s going on

[athenasdragon]

Frequent enough issue that there's a greeting card about it...

[psychedelicmoonpie]

My favourite Adrian headcanon is that they're a biologist/zoologist who has seen so much shit, they're completely unphased by any and every alien habit of Grace's.

I mean full-on khaki-shorts-wearing, traversing-wilderness-with-nothin'-but-a-machete Adrian who yoinks snakes outta trees and pets swamp puppies and will unflinchingly dig around in elephant faeces for signs of a rare parasitic tapeworm if needed.

Oh, humans eat socially? No problem, Adrian has observed many many animals eat. Did you know that an obscure species of small underground dirt creature from the north side of Erid also eats socially? Adrian can give you a not-so-short presentation on them.

Oh, the human has no external carapace and so its internal sounds are absurdly loud, wet and off-putting? No problem, Adrian was just conducting an expedition last month researching the incredible eridian animal, the Wet Loud Worm from the south-east region of Wet Loud Wormland. They're desensitised, it's fine.

Oh, Grace leaks often from many orifices and it can be a bit of a learning curve to get used to? No problem for Adrian, see Wet Loud Worm paragraph again!

Meanwhile, Rocky is bewildered as to how he's managed to third-wheel both of his relationships, because both Adrian and Grace are nerds who nerd out about things, and Adrian is shaking in their carapace with enthusiasm to learn more about human culture and biology, not to mention everything about earth animals. And yeah, sure, Grace might be a molecular biologist, but he'll be damned if he'll pass up an opportunity to learn about alien fauna from a fellow scientist, and yes, Adrian, he'd love to hear about the small underground dirt creature from the north side of Erid, and he's so excited to learn more about the Wet Loud Worm, do go on.

[thoughts-from-the-trash]

Adrian the Steve Irwin of Erid.

[spatscolombo-deactivated2022030]

I’ll never forget the first time I saw “I, Mudd,” because this scene made me tear up a little.

Despite everything I already knew about these characters, I completely bought that Uhura was succumbing to temptation and turning on the crew—and that Kirk was going to shame her for it before coming up with another brilliant escape plan—because let’s be real, we’ve seen that happen a million times in a million shows, whether they broadcast in 1966 or yesterday. I was thinking, Damn, I thought this show was different, but here we are again. And I was feeling crestfallen, disappointed, but mostly exhausted, because it’s tiring to live in a world full of pop culture in which even the strongest female characters might at any moment betray everyone for a chance at youth and beauty.

And so the revelation that in fact she was saving Kirk’s life (and everyone else’s), meant so much to me—because not only is it another amazing Uhura power move, it also highlights the fact that her character didn’t happen by accident. Nichols, Roddenberry et al. knew what they were up against. They knew the stereotypes and sexism bought into by other pop culture (and audiences), and in this scene they actively played against those expectations to say, Not on this show, folks. 

I know TOS was far from perfect in the way it dealt with gender and race, but damn, I follow several television shows today that could learn something from this scene.

[prokopetz]

The thing I really like about it is that it’s a double subversion.

First there’s the obvious one, the one you expect: the weak-minded woman betraying her male companions for personal gain. This is handily avoided when Uhura’s “betrayal” turns out to be a ruse.

However, there’s another layer to it: the obligatory ham-handed Aesop wherein the woman’s male companions believe her betrayal to be genuine, only to be upbraided for their sexist mistrust. Even today, that’s how we expect this sort of scene to play out - but Star Trek subverts that one, too, by revealing that Kirk was in on the scam, and never doubted Uhura’s loyalty even for a moment.

The mere act of not hanging a lampshade on Uhura’s refusal to conform to the expected tropes is what legitimises it. Sometimes, what’s omitted can speak as loudly as what’s put on display.

[galacticsabc]

part two of Grace knitting on the Hail Mary. This time, he's crochet his besties.

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

everyone post your biggest hear me outs my friend just showed me two conventionally attractive white men in a row i need to teach him what a real hear me out is

[gardenofeden5457]

.world's largest excavator- nay, world's largest vehicle- the bagger 288

.also, scale reference! just the wheel is 70 feet in diameter

[writerlyn]

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

[pikles249]

[holidayslaughter]

whenever i see people call random edgy but not-at-all harmful artists "degens" i would like to refer them to the first sentence of wikipedia's "degenerate art" article

[aetherograph]

Reminder that this is the type of art the nazis were referring to:

(Kandinsky)

You cannot "well but I'M not referring to that kind of art, I only mean Dirty Pictures" your way out of this. You are being harmful and need to stop, not rationalise why it's okay for YOU to be doing it. You need to understand

censorship violates the universal human right of free expression and freedom of speech.

fiction is not reality. Fictional characters are not real people.

if someone SAYS a work of fiction inspired them to do bad things, that is not the work of fiction's fault. The person who did bad things is STILL at fault, because they have free will and must be assumed to understand the consequences of their actions.

discomfort is not harm. If a piece of art makes you uncomfortable, that's actually fine. That's the POINT of certain pieces of art. You need to learn to tolerate discomfort.

It is not in fact the government's job to enforce a set of morals on people. That violates people's universal human right to freedom of religion and creed.

There is no such thing as "just a little bit of" censorship.

[sals-geno]

It does not matter what kind of art it is, when you use the term degenerate to refer to art you don't like, you are using a word that is deeply rooted in bigotry. A word used to target marginalized groups.

[melonsharks]

promise???? 😳😳😳

[vahlance]

What kind of problems do you think that gun could create

[hadesisqueer]

Two World Cup finalists from opposing teams in this fucking picture, this sport isn't real

[hadesisqueer]

Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane

[joyflameball]

[the-owl-tree]

i'll always make fun of how stupid the "born evil baby" trope is but truly it is such a wretched trope i hope it dies forever

[the-owl-tree]

it's like the perfect package of "child you are allowed to harm" and "easy way to not interrogate how commonplace child abuse is". thank goodness this child was simply born wrong, we never have to examine the conditions they grew up in.

[bluemuffin-draws]

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

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