deliciousKaek

still unpacking...

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[redstonedust]

extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.

[haunting-kind-of-high]

I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt's real name

[redstonedust]

NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT

[willgrahamscock]

⚠︎ ! your body has kept the score.

[willgrahamscock]

⚠︎ ! hospital ⚠︎ !

[kushblazer666]

[aretasreads]

Wunmi Mosaku via Vogue🌼

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@importantpics

[omgthatdress]

MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs

The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements

TL;DR: A pot made by Dave The Potter, who was an enslaved artisan who was unique for signing his name and putting words and poems on the pots he made, has been returned to his descendants, even though the pot was bought and sold to begin with.

It officially belongs to the family, but will remain stewarded by the MFA for the next two years. This is a really interesting way forward for conflicted items in museums, being that the family owns it but it will remain with the museum. At least for two years.

The pot is obviously a tremendous piece of history, illustrating the class of highly skilled artisan slaves who existed but often get forgotten in the field slave/ house slave narrative that gets pushed. For real there's sooooo much to learn from this pot, I'm glad that it gets some kind of public visibility while the family gets control of it.

[marzipanandminutiae]

also, they returned another pot which the family immediately sold back to the museum, so they will get to keep one- with the important caveats that:

the descendants got the right to DECIDE what happened to it, and

the descendants got paid fair market value for the piece, with their express agreement to the sale

I think it's critical that non-museum people understand that this, too, is what repatriation can look like. sometimes the museum keeps the piece, temporarily or permanently! it's not necessarily always a case of "the proper owners take it back and keep it!"

what matters is that they are given the CHOICE. they have the final say in what happens to these objects, regardless of whether they stay in the museum or leave it

[genderkoolaid]

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Here's an exhibition held by The Met on Dave's works as well as others from Edgefield. That link also has a video tour of the exhibition and some other content related to the pottery.

The exhibition also includes a lot of these "face jugs" that were done by enslaved potters, in their own time, for their own use, and potentially connected to West African cultural/spiritual traditions. Apparently, the clay present to this area in South Carolina (kaolin clay) was also present in West Central African and was used for spiritual purposes there.

Dave the Potter also has a Wikipedia page, which is where I learned that he was also disabled as he had a leg amputated at some point for unknown reasons. This is just really, really incredible history and I hope a lot more people learn about this.

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[rainbow-femme]

To update this, the astronaut didn’t actually do it, she and her wife were getting a divorce and the wife plead guilty to lying to the feds about it

And framing your ex for a crime mid-divorce while they are actively in space is some Agatha Christie level shit

[padawan-historian]

Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e

https://gofund.me/530afb61e

[plavoptice]

Community demands accountability at vigil for father of 2 killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge

Advocates say that before Keith Porter was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent, he fired gunshots as part of a New Year's Eve celebrati

[heterosexualgayhusbands]

link for the fundraiser is down this is the new one

Donate to Support for Keith’s Daughters After Tragedy, organized by Keith Porter

My 43-year-old son, Keith, was tragically killed on New Year's Eve in Northri… Keith Porter needs your support for Support for Keith’s Daugh

[t4tvampireisms]

Not that Renee Nicole Good doesn’t deserve justice, because every person murdered by the state deserves that, and more; but that’s exactly my point. It’s not lost on me that most of the general public only started to care about the public executions and kidnappings of citizens when a white woman was revealed to be the victim.

[t4tvampireisms]

I also personally don’t care for her death being compared to George Floyd’s. Especially since Black children like me were mocked and harassed in school for even remotely caring about his murder, while for the most part people take Renee’s death seriously.

[t4tvampireisms]

Think about how many immigrants are dying and/or are dead in ICE detention centers, and we don’t know about it. And if we do, it’s only because a family member or an insider has spoken up about it. The only times in which we hear about the extent of the state and ICE’s brutality is when an American citizen is killed.

The people who came here illegally, the mother without a green card, the father who waits in front of gas stations or Home Depot in order to find work because no where else will hire him, they don’t deserve to be killed either. They also deserve to go home to their families and have dinner at the end of the day.

[bisforbutch]

Hi its DJ. Really need help with my phone bill and electric so I can keep looking for a job.

I have zero dollars as small things around the house chipped away at my meager cash and the stress is obliterating my sleep.

Depressed. Feel like no one cares anymore.

Cash and pay are both agenderdread

V_nmo is deejwalker365..

Goal is 140.

0/140

[bisforbutch]

Please help 🙏 I have 10 days but donations on the other posts have completely stalled. I do not know how I will make rent.

[afloweroutofstone]

The US government's military operation in the Caribbean is supposedly intended to target "narco-terrorists." In my latest article, I explore the history of the term to argue that "narco-terrorism" is mostly a myth— a "political slogan" which does not accurately describe the world. By focusing our attention on foreign suppliers, this myth distracts us from more important factors, including the US government's own history of supporting drug trafficking.

Unpacking the Dangerous Myth of 'Narco-Terrorism' | Common Dreams

Framing “Operation Southern Spear” as a battle against “narco-terrorists” is a desperate attempt to commit new violence using old excuses, o

To say that “narco-terrorism” is a myth is not to deny the obvious violence associated with the black market drug trade, but to acknowledge that the term does more to confuse than to clarify. The idea does not accurately explain the complex dynamics of the global drug trade; instead, it radically oversimplifies the problem. By portraying military intervention as a response to drug trafficking, the “narco-terrorism” myth allows politicians to ignore all of the ways in which military intervention is a cause of drug trafficking... Perhaps the greatest flaw of “narco-terrorism” is that it encourages us to believe that complex human problems have simple military solutions. Sociologist C. Wright Mills once astutely criticized US elites for accepting a “military definition of reality,” a distorted perspective which prevents them from imagining policy solutions that do not involve military intervention. So long as the government insists upon seeing non-military problems through a military lens, they will never be solved.

[afloweroutofstone]

It is important to remember that the US government’s case against Maduro is almost entirely fictional

[afloweroutofstone]

The US Ambassador to the United Nations repeated the claim that Maduro is the leader of the “Cartel de los Soles” in his ravings to the Security Council this morning. It continues to not exist.

The term “Cartel of the Suns” originated as a colloquial term used by Venezuelans to mock the military officials who maintained close ties with drug traffickers within the country’s corrupt power system (Venezuelan generals wear symbols of the sun on their uniform). It has no territory, no leadership, no structure or coherence at all; it is a reference to a systematic national problem. The concept of a “crooked cop” does not suggest that there’s a Crooked Cop Incorporated office building we can go after, but that’s what they’re doing by designating “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

[teaboot]

Idk who has to hear this today but sometimes the devil doesn’t need an advocate. Sometimes the devil is already winning

[teaboot]

Saying this as a recovered devil’s advocate btw, that bitch didn’t need my help he just wanted the exposure

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[liquidpaperfoundation1]

My Very Punctual Wife Gets My Night Worm can also be used to remember the order of the planets in the solar system!

[cryptid-on-a-string]

Mercury Venus Pearth Wars Goopiter Maturn Nuranus Weptune

[mayra-quijotescx]

Something else that hit the news yesterday (07 Jan. 2026) that you may not have seen but I want to make sure you do is that Avelo announced it will end the deportation flights it's been doing for ICE, citing controversy and costs after a months-long grassroots public pressure campaign to get them to stop.

Source is WHYY, because public media is still alive (and if you can support it, please do.)

We're not helpless, and they're going to fucking lose.

[synchodai]

Convenience isn't bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don't care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don't even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.

The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the "grind" as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.

[synchodai]

I'm sorry but this is the exact thing I was talking about when I said "convenience does not rot your soul."

You talking to a person over the counter to order food at a restaurant is not an anymore meaningful interaction than talking to someone who delivered that food. Delivery and take-out have always existed. That option to pay more for that convenience has always existed. The major difference now is that most restaurants no longer employ people in-house to do delivery, because it's being done by contracted gig workers who get absolutely no benefits or protections. The major difference now are the working conditions.

I agree societal connections are good, but you just going outside to order food and the coming back is not meaningfullly participating in society. Removing deliveries or any sort of accesibility service (cafes not having wifi for example) will not force people to interact with strangers if they don't want to do that. Convenience facilitates people who already don't want to interact with others, but convenience isn't what's making people lonely! You cannot passively consume your way to community.

Most people aren't gonna talk or build relationships with folks in that restaurant. They're gonna eat and leave, and that's less "community building" than someone who ordered take-out so they can stay home to participate in an online book club or zoom their loved ones in another country. Do not romanticize past toils and lack of accessibility. Convenience and accessibility leads to people having more time to connect with each other, not less.