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soph 29 idk im just talking to myself !

[rockabillywife]

Latex would not have been my material of choice for everyone to fetishize if it was up to me. Have you guys ever worn high quality wool

[fatartappreciation]

Nude With Camera. Rimbun Dahan 3 (2014) by Myanmar artist Sandar Khaing

[ilynpilled]

jensen ackles doing so much in that hanging himself gif he shouldve been a mime instead of the world’s first omega

[ilynpilled]

[achillesinhighheels]

in a parasocial relationship with My true self

[glittergroovy]

blowing a kiss to SZA who found out that she's autistic about a decade after putting out several of the biggest autistic girl anthems

[glittergroovy]

i thot she knew

[christinaguilera]

Charli xcx photographed by Gus Van Sant for Rolling Stone Magazine (June 2026)

[regging]

eating disorders and abortions are two things that are like, spoken about in most mainstream discourse as though they are pretty rare and aberrant, but then when you’re actually friends with a lot of women you come to find out that they are extremely extremely common and kind of banal & mundane

[hagenlastkiss]

Katharine Hepburn pruning a tree in Connecticut around 1980 (aged 73), being transported on a motorcycle by Nick Nolte in the movie 'Grace Quigley' in 1984 (aged 77), shoveling snow from the roof of her NYC townhouse, 1988 (aged 80),

[3liza]

i think a man being handsome is more predictive of his being a dumbass than a woman being beautiful. and someday i'll finally have the NHS research funding to prove it

[etiennelux]

the ideal chai latte is one of the most amazing things on this earth. it’s a shame that most cafes think they have to serve either a cup of grit or milk that they whispered the names of spices to

[khoesib]

Let's just think a second about it and answer the questions I posited.

Israel was founded as a state for a specific ethnicity, the Jews.

It has never officially annexed Gaza and West Bank specifically because doing so would increase the Palestinian population of Israel. This is also why Israelis, even Liberal ones, find the idea of a one state solution abhorrent, because they'll be a minority.

The "Nation State Bill" declares Israel to be a nation for the Jewish people. Imagine if a country with a significant minority like the US or Australia declared that the nation was meant for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Would this be racist?

Palestinians can not get Israeli citizenship even if they can provide proof of having lived in Israel in living memory. People point out countries like Polands "citizenship by decent" law but Poland doesn't only do so for ethnic Poles. A descendant of Jewish or German Polish citizens has the same rights as a descendant of Polish citizens.

On the other hand, Jews with 0 known ancestry in Israel (including converts who have very little ties to the "imagined Jewish people") have the right to move to Israel.

"Arab Israelis" can not pass their citizenship onto their spouse or children if their spouse is from Gaza/West Bank. This has led to Palestinians born in Israel to an Israeli parent and with an Israeli spouse and children being deported. If they were Jewish that would not occur. These are legal discriminations based solely on whether you are Jewish or not.

A Palestinian born in West Bank does not have the right to Israeli citizenship. A Jewish settler in West Bank does have those rights. They live in the same territory, under the same government but the sole difference in their rights is their ethnicity.

This is not even really discussing the occupation of West Bank and the de facto occupation of Gaza but these facts are already far more radical than any other supremacist state on earth. Not Sri Lanka (which gave Indian Tamils citizenship in 2004), not Myanmar, not India, Malaysia or Bhutan. Definitionally, not the pseudo-ethnostates of Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.

In fact, they're far more radical than groups like the AfD, Reform or National Rally, none of which have suggested limiting citizenship to one specific ethnicity.

[batshit-auspol]

Please enjoy the infectious laughter of the Australian senate struggling to keep its composure while grilling a man about bee semen

[batshit-auspol]

Regularly forget we posted this and then are hit like a brick with notifications like this one

[artofmaquenda]

I love how color can tell a story. In this case, it reflects the way I tend to see colors within colors, layers unfolding into more layers, endlessly connected, just like life and the universe itself. Everything contains something else, and every small detail is part of a much larger story.

Maybe that’s also why childhood memories feel so vivid to me. As a child, the world is experienced through all lenses at once, with fewer filters and less judgement and a heightened sense of awareness. Sounds, smells, colors, textures, and sensations are all felt more intensely, not necessarily because they carry a specific meaning, but because they are so immediate and alive.

[artofmaquenda]

I know I haven't been posting much art lately. I've mostly been absorbed in gardening, plants, and my side job at an organic plant store. It's been helping me reconnect with a part of myself that isn't centered around making art... or maybe it is, because life always finds its way back into it.

Some days it scares me how little I'm creating, but deep down I know I need this, in the same way I did when I was a kid. Social media has changed so much, it leaves me feeling more burnt out and bored than inspired. At the same time, I miss feeling connected to other artists. I miss the way things used to be, but I also know things are always changing.

Anyway, here's a little snippet of something I'm very slowly working on. It's a sharp contrast to the lush garden I've been immersed in lately, but I'll always have a darker, quieter undercurrent in my emotional landscape. I try to meet it on the right days and give it somewhere to exist.

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[tockthewatchdog]

genuinely the number one thing animating populists on the right and the left is the idea that we all lack free will. classical liberalism treats free will as an absolute truth and a necessity for its function. neopopulism treats free will like a mirage. every idea is organized around the core belief that you fundamentally lack control over your behavior. not just that you're influenced by your circumstances but that you are a complete and absolute victim to them. the vast majority of the time, in this ideology, "the elite" aren't even a coherent group, it's whoever you don't personally like or are polarized against, who you can scapegoat as having complete and total control over your life. every disagreeable circumstance is a machination. it's like a version of OCD that exports control to someone else. instead of being a hostage to your own obsessions or compulsions because you're convinced this will prevent bad outcomes, you pin the source of the bad outcomes to this external force which can be killed, imprisoned, or chased away, and obsess over that

unfortunately this idea is appealing to basically everyone. when people consciously turn away from it, for the most part it's because they've seen the absolute worst things this idea can do, or it's because they know that if a majority gives into it, their life will get much worse. at some level, even those of us who are tempted by the idea that we don't have free will understand that we don't want OTHERS thinking they don't have free will. we understand that this can easily be used as an excuse to harm and exploit us

but the more we are disconnected from the known risks of this mentality, the more we feel disconnected from others, the more we can entirely avoid dealing with other people (especially strangers), the more we think of other people as not quite real, and the more propaganda we consume that tells us we have no free will, the easier it is to justify it to ourselves

[gothicprep]

the late senator graham and i disagreed on pretty much everything, but credit where it’s due. this quote of his is an all-timer:

it’s arguably the most honest thing that anyone has said in politics.