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robustcornhusk

why did they choose to display these three on the same chart?

thecoparoom

Miriam Makeba making her night club debut at the Village Vanguard, with Harry Belafonte

Ebony, 1960

davidhudson

Miriam Makeba, March 4, 1932 – November 9, 2008.

Photo by Priya Ramrakha.

batewoman-deactivated20220802

I wake up to the sound of my alarm (the entire Pussy Whipped album by Bikini Kill), my jaw and tongue are sore from eating my girlfriend out for 6 consecutive hours the night before. Without turning off my alarm I hop out of bed to read the entirety of The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, my favorite. When I'm finished reading I say a short prayer in front of my altar devoted to Andrea Dworkin before measuring my armpit hair again. I'm disappointed to find that it has only grown a centimeter since I last measured it (yesterday), I make a mental note to double up on my vegetables and protein today so that my body hair can grow longer. After eating my breakfast (5 eggs, a protein shake, and an entire bag of carrots) I lift weights for two hours. It is now time for me to go to my gender studies class, during which I challenge my professor's liberal feminist and post-modern views. After I am thrown out I go yell at the men in the quad for an hour before graffitiing vulvas around town with my fellow radical feminist friends. When we're done we go to the parking lot of a strip club and rob men as they leave. I then come home and make dinner for my girlfriend before eating her out again.

funkyfeefee

The thing about American "leftist" comedians is that they aren't actually leftist, they are the Imperial Court Jesters. They stand on a stage, point directly at the blood-soaked gears of the war machine, make a little tee-hee noise, and the crowd erupts. Not because they are critiquing the machine, but because the laughter is a pressure release valve for the people inside it. Take the video of that stand-up asking the defense contractor if she helped Trump bomb those 160 Iranian school girls, and everyone laughing, including the contractor herself. That laughter is ritual absolution. The contractor laughs because she knows she will never face a tribunal. The audience laughs because they get to feel "self-aware" without having to actually stop anything. The joke doesn't condemn the contractor; it humanizes her, turns her into a lovable scamp who just happens to have a job graphing the velocity of shrapnel through children's bodies. By making it a punchline, the comedian sanitizes the atrocity. The blood is scrubbed off the stage. The audience gets to say "wow, we are so edgy for talking about it" while the person who builds the bombs gets to chuckle and order another drink. It is not satire, it is a team-building exercise for the empire.

Then there is the YouTuber talking about Transformers, casually dropping the "Iraq war aesthetic" like it's a color palette. Desert punk. Military core. A vibe. This is what happens when your country hasn't had a war on its own soil in living memory; the violence becomes media, a backdrop for childhood toys. The explosions are no longer the sound of mothers screaming; they are cool action sequences. They are digesting the visual debris of massacre as a nostalgic fashion choice, scraping the trauma off and compressing it into a genre for their retro-futurist fantasies. The apocalypse becomes a mood board.

And finally, the girl recounting celebrity love triangles from her childhood, flippantly mentioning how the U.S. was "busy with the Iraq war or whatever." Or whatever. That single phrase is the thesis statement of American innocence. Over a million dead, a region destabilized for a century, an endless river of grief; and for her, it was the commercial break between pop culture segments. It didn't raise her rent. It didn't stop her Wi-Fi. The violence is geo-locked to brown skin and distant deserts, just background noise like a refrigerator humming. She has the luxury of forgetting because the machine doesn't eat her children, it eats yours.

Americans don't hate the machine; they love the output. They hate the mess of it. So they turn it into jokes, into aesthetic, into "whatever." Because if they stopped laughing, if they stopped scrolling, if they actually looked at the 4K drone footage of the aftermath instead of the cool explosion CGI in their movies, they would have to realize that the lithium in their phones, the gas in their tanks, and the comfort of their suburban cul-de-sacs are all greased with the fat of foreign children. And they can't handle that. So they laugh. They turn it into a vibe. They call it "the Iraq war or whatever." You can't deconstruct the master's house with the master's jokes, especially when the punchline is the corpses holding up the floorboards.

fujoshane

when i add ........... to the end of my sentence im leaving room for curiosity. i'm encouraging you to get comfortable with the unknown.......

carpathxanridge

gyns, how disappointed in me would you be if i shaved my legs for the first time in 6-7 years? (i still won’t shave my pussy or armpits…)

very disappointed, you are a failure to radical feminism

mildly disappointed, cringefail behavior

i don’t care, do what you want

Voting ended onJul 5

((this is not me seriously searching for validation, i probably wont do it, my mom just said something that kind of got to me. and it kills me that it’s been 6-7 years since i last shaved, and even more years since i shaved regularly (the last few times in my teens that i shaved, i regretted it immediately, and then would go months without doing it again), and yet it’s still that easy for me to fall for patriarchal thinking again. and it wasn’t even a negative comment that did it. i think, if my mom said the judgmental stuff she usually does like “ew you look like a man” i would feel more righteous indignation. but instead she said “wow you look so pretty, your legs look so good in that outfit, you should shave next time.” and i’ve also been self conscious a few times, recently, that my male peers and family members are almost all less hairy than i am. and my brain just goes “yeah, you could be a lot hotter and more desirable to the average person if you shaved.” and goddamnit, i shouldn’t care! i don’t personally think women with body hair are any less hot, i actually think they are MORE hot. but i’m acutely aware that the more femininely i present myself to fit in a bit more with my peers, the more dissonant it is to people i know when they notice my body hair. i think femininity is really a trap in that way, that the more you indulge it in one respect, even a relatively harmless one (wearing flowing comfortable skirts and slightly more feminine clothing, styling your hair femininely, wearing jewelry) the more you feel pressured to conform in other, more harmful ways (shaving your legs or wearing heels to “match” your skirt, engaging in consumerist spending to look “cute,” wearing “just a touch of makeup,” etc.) all so your natural physical form doesn’t look incongruous to your presentation…))

carpathxanridge

also recently, i decided i didn’t like what my presentation was communicating to others since my hair got sooo long over the past year while i was busy and had no time to get it cut, and so i cut my hair short myself, to feel more like myself again. but now, there is that impulse, i think, to compensate through other forms of femininity. and i’m still so susceptible to this thinking, despite it not being the first time in my life i’ve had short hair, having spent maybe 50% of the last few years with short, even buzzed hair. but i got so used to seeing myself with long hair and to seeing myself as almost even pretty, that i am fearful now of no longer being seen that way. and, i think another part of the psychological impact is whether or not people assume me to be attracted to men or not. because, i get “bi” a lot if not straight, but for many people, assuming someone is “bi” is just shorthand for “attracted to men but kind of alt/quirky and liberal-seeming.” and, for the past 2ish years, i’ve gotten used to being that kind of “straight-passing.” but, i am always treated TOTALLY different the moment i have short hair, and it’s noticeable every time, and it leaves me… torn. i miss being treated better, living a more frictionless social life. but i’m ANGRY at the difference, and i appreciate being able to reveal who around me is misogynistic/implicitly lesbophobic, or at the least i can tell who is just essentially SHALLOW, or has ulterior motives around me (if male). it’s a power, in one sense, but it’s also socially alienating. of course i’d rather live in reality, choose to free myself of that desire for external validation. i just wish i could fully deprogram myself from seeing beauty as a virtue, as aspirational.

acid0174963047393649462528135

remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right

penglue

gyns, how disappointed in me would you be if i shaved my legs for the first time in 6-7 years? (i still won’t shave my pussy or armpits…)

very disappointed, you are a failure to radical feminism

mildly disappointed, cringefail behavior

i don’t care, do what you want

Voting ended onJul 5

((this is not me seriously searching for validation, i probably wont do it, my mom just said something that kind of got to me. and it kills me that it’s been 6-7 years since i last shaved, and even more years since i shaved regularly (the last few times in my teens that i shaved, i regretted it immediately, and then would go months without doing it again), and yet it’s still that easy for me to fall for patriarchal thinking again. and it wasn’t even a negative comment that did it. i think, if my mom said the judgmental stuff she usually does like “ew you look like a man” i would feel more righteous indignation. but instead she said “wow you look so pretty, your legs look so good in that outfit, you should shave next time.” and i’ve also been self conscious a few times, recently, that my male peers and family members are almost all less hairy than i am. and my brain just goes “yeah, you could be a lot hotter and more desirable to the average person if you shaved.” and goddamnit, i shouldn’t care! i don’t personally think women with body hair are any less hot, i actually think they are MORE hot. but i’m acutely aware that the more femininely i present myself to fit in a bit more with my peers, the more dissonant it is to people i know when they notice my body hair. i think femininity is really a trap in that way, that the more you indulge it in one respect, even a relatively harmless one (wearing flowing comfortable skirts and slightly more feminine clothing, styling your hair femininely, wearing jewelry) the more you feel pressured to conform in other, more harmful ways (shaving your legs or wearing heels to “match” your skirt, engaging in consumerist spending to look “cute,” wearing “just a touch of makeup,” etc.) all so your natural physical form doesn’t look incongruous to your presentation…))

skaldish

To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.

skaldish

1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.

Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.

Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.

This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.

Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.

skaldish

And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.

Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.

Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Cult experts frequently point out that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to this once the initial hooks are in, and the harder they are to deprogram. This is because while this kind of conditioning does not rely on intelligence, the ability to rationalise does -- the smarter someone is, the better they can rationalise what they already believe, so if they’re committed to following their feelings, a smart person is much better at making it seem (to themselves as well as others) that they’re actually using logic and reason rather than making ad-hoc justifications after the fact.

Also, people who know (or believe) that they’re smarter than average tend to assume that this makes them harder to fool, conditon, or lie to. Which makes somebody much easier to fool, condition, or lie to.

faint-petrichor-deactivated2026

So I am from the US but now live in Argentina, and as The American(tm) I often get reasonably asked the question, "Why are Americans, you know, like that?"

The best and most immediate answer I could come up with, and the one I've stuck to, is telling people that America is a country defined by being a haven for cults and religious extremists since its inception. And people are always like "god that makes so much sense."

But you know, the wildest thing is if I tried to tell any given American this (which I have) chances are they'd be like, "No way, that's absurd." And I think the thing is, if you're an American and have lived most or all of your life in America, this is just your normal. But when you live somewhere that is less saturated with religious dogma, cults and anti-intellectualism, it's readily apparent.

sergle

are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?

sergle

turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i

Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc

moki-dokie

whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!

fluxxdog

"But I don't want to turn people into dinosaurs. I wanna cure kittie kidneys!"

rorleuaisen

Update: So they have done clinical trials and have submitted it for approval as of april 2026. They are expecting it to be available late 2026/early 2027

The AIM protein drug for feline chronic kidney disease has been submitted for approval in Japan (April 2026). We break down clinical trial d

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%

New 2026 study: AIM protein boosts cat kidney disease survival from 20% to 80%. Discover how this scientific breakthrough is changing the fu

idiomagic

Our cat Scout is in the early stages of kidney disease. This might be available in time to save her!

women when are you more horny?

ovulating

on my period

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

i need to know if i am an insane hormonal outlier or if my experience is normal. i don’t care if you’re most horny another time of the month or if you’re never horny or if you’re a comparable amount of horny both of these times, just pick one or the other. this is obviously not meant to be a super accurate detailed statistical representation of the average female experience of horniness relative to the menstrual cycle, i am just curious how rare my own experience is, because it seems to go so counter to how women’s sex drives are often represented in media or spoken about colloquially. talk about your experiences in the tags/notes if you want!