A Time Capsule Of Current Events

Located in the USA

[cumpriest]

so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this

[deoidesign]

ok

[arsonsara]

Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

[sunshine-tattoo]

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

idk why tf the images were deemed to be ‘violating community guidelines’, but here’s what this post used to look like

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[anarchistmemedistro]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[jakeperalta]

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!

[extrasushi]

I went back to school for a second bachelors this year, and many of my classes require us to use it. It’s cool that they want us to experiment with it, and explore the limitations. But I don’t want to. Just let me write my paper.

[phantomrose96]

That thing where milkmaids were often immunized against small pox because they'd already contracted the weaker cow pox earlier in their lives. That's Tumblr, to me, against whatever the hell social media landscape is happening in 2026.

[us-politics]

The President of the United States is threatening to commit a genocide tonight.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

[zzzucker]

i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.

I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.

of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My youtube has been flooded recently with videos with titles like "how to survive on a fixed income" and "how to start building a pantry with just $5 a week" and "boring changes you can make to survive the financial crisis" and I can't tell if it's a sudden flip in my algorithm specifically because I looked up one too many budget slow cooker recipes or if this is a dire Sign of the Times.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

we are in full-blown unironic reddit fascism

[theconcealedweapon]

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

[balaclava-trismegistus]

The thing about this shooting is that, even more than the Renee Good shooting, it was just a fucking execution. This guy was on his knees, surrounded by officers, being beaten. He had been stripped of a legal concealed handgun which he wasn't brandishing moments before the shooting started. Once the shooting started, it continued while he was laying flat on the ground, motionless, not presenting any kind of potential threat at all. They just fucking killed him for no reason. There's no argument to be made that he was a threat. He wasn't in a moving car. He wasn't presenting a weapon. He was just murdered.

[nosuchthingasaburdenonsociety]

I haven't watched the video (I find I can't with such videos) but one description I read asserted that Pretti got flipped over onto his stomach, and that that's when the ICE agents saw his gun and then one took it and moved off and then the one who'd knocked him down fired several shots into his back. Then, like the cowards they are, they "dispersed".

They want us afraid. But what they haven't grasped is, fear leads to anger.

[queerlyexhausted]

The urge to keep watching, sharing, and reposting is often our nervous system saying "this is unbearable and I don't know where to put it."

That urge makes sense, but it doesn't always help us, or anyone else in the long run.

If you're feeling as restless and activated as I am - If you're feeling that pressure that says, "I need to do something!" here are some things you can try that might help you regulate your body and help you sustain your resistance long term.

• Step away from the videos/images, but stay with their names. Light a candle, say their name out loud, write it down. Witness doesn't have to mean repeated exposure to graphic harm.

• Channel the energy into support, not spectacle: donate if you can, share vetted resources, mutal aid links, legal funds. Do it once, intentionally, instead of endlessly circulating the violence itself.

• Check on someone you trust. A simple "thinking of you. today has been heavy" builds more resistance than a hundred reposts.

• Move your body in a way that releases tension. Walk, stretch, shake, pace, breathe. Rage needs motion.

• Rest on purpose. Not because you don't care, but because exhausted people are easier to silence.

Bearing witness matters. Grief matters. Your rage makes sense.

But constant exposure to violence doesn't make us stronger. It wears us down.

We don't honor the dead by destroying ourselves. We honor them by staying human, connected, and capable of acting again tomorrow.

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[naughtynanzhu]

Alex was recording, which was well within his right, and was shielding other people from pepper spray. He was trying to help. You'll hear people blame him for having a gun, which he had a permit to carry and the only time it was out of the holster was when ICE took it before shooting him. You'll see people claim he shot at officers, but that is a blatant lie.

[capacity2]

People who talk about the last 15 years like they remember what even happened and it wasn’t all just a grey fog or pain and fear and loneliness