medio-core

[flowrrs4u]

and it's so deserving

[westiec]

You've gotta love Jews more than you hate Nazis.

You've gotta love trans folks more than you hate TERFs.

You've gotta love your unhoused neighbors more than you hate the billionaires.

You've gotta love immigrants more than you hate ICE.

You've gotta love queer kids more than you hate christian fundamentalists.

You've gotta love fat people more than you hate the diet industry.

You've gotta love disabled people more than you hate the insurance companies.

You've gotta love your fellow humans more than you hate the worst that humanity has to offer. You don't have to like every person you're fighting for, and you sure as hell don't have to give up your righteous anger, but hate is ultimately corrosive.

You've gotta love.

[thirdity]

“None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did.”

— Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”

[macrolit]

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

— James Baldwin

[humanoidhistory]

Alien production still.

[389]

Caroline Polachek for EVADE

[daxnorman]

Chaotic Good

[migatito]

[archbudzar]

But Love Was The Archer, 2024

Colored pencil, acrylic, and ink on bristol

[jisuto]

[havingapoemwithyou]

training by Diannely Antigua

[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[mauveflwrs]

Gerhard Richter Untitled (5 Jan 1990), 1990

[noura-pal-deactivated20200817]

غزة - 2019.

[abdel-hamidd]

Palestinian child Walid al-Shawa celebrates his birthday with his family on the rubble of their house which was destroyed by Israel’s recent bombing of Gaza.

[la7ma-mafrooma-deactivated20251]

You know what breaks my heart more than anything? Palestinian children are trying to describe the atrocities they're witnessing using English instead of their native tongue to try and get their message heard globally. Palestinian children are also describing the scenes in Gaza while sounding like grown ups and not children because they've witnessed too much at such a young age. These children were deprived of their childhood. Their circumstances forced them to mature and be able to talk about watching their loved ones die. They are literally trying to speak a second language to try and call world leaders to stop killing them and their loved ones. World leaders cannot even utter the word "ceasefire" while a Palestinian child had to explain on camera that she recognized her friend's body only by her coat because her friend's body was beheaded in the bombings.

It's not a conflict; it's ethnic cleansing.

It's not a conflict; it's colonialism.

And if you're somehow convinced that any of this is about religion or antisemitism, I recommend you read this.

[escuerzoresucitado]

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, Aristid Lindenmayer and Przemysław Prusinkiewicz.

You can freely read it here.

[sixmonthsandgone]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018), dir. Arwen Curry

[aiweirdness]

The next line of her speech is also great: “Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”