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Finn; 22; he/him; queer; pinko commie rat. world's foremost scholar on mark zuckerberg and burgers.

[fakeoldmanfucker]

welcome to my blog :)

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[i-am-the-oyster]

[hollowofhaze]

half-serious musing: can phil's especially strong reaction to the events of the 1968 dnc in chicago be partly attributed to him being high off his shit

see;

an interview conducted circa july/early august 1968 (will scan and upload soon) ((this aged HORRIBLY)):

him in his dnc guest badge portrait:

his thoughts while running from police brutality there:

(relatively) shortly thereafter:

[hollowofhaze]

CONFIRMED!

- guitarist vince black on the events of august 23rd, 1968 in an article for the chicago reader, april 22nd, 2026

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs (2nd from right), vince black (3rd from right), jerry rubin (4th from right), stew albert (5th from right), and three unidentified yippies pose after being arrested for nominating pigasus j. pig for president of the united states at the democratic national convention in chicago, august 23rd, 1968 / photo from the donaldson collection

[ivy-michaels]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[ivy-michaels]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

[secondquarrel]

so venezuela has become a usamerican colony. like that happened and everything carried on like normal

[secondquarrel]

like i know venezuela is going through a huge humanitarian crisis right now and their political regime is low in the list of priorities when tallinmg about it obviously it's just it shocked me to read trump congratulating his secretary of energy on how well he's running what used to be a sovereign country until a few months back you know

[hollowofhaze]

phil ochs (2nd from right), jerry rubin (4th from right), and five unidentified yippies pose after being arrested for nominating pigasus j. pig for president of the united states at the democratic national convention in chicago, august 23rd, 1968 / photo from the donaldson collection

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Dare I say people are losing the intended meaning of the term panopticon.

[theriverbeyond]

tbh I can't stop thinking about how i went into Hadestown being like "this is a tragic love story based on a greek myth I enjoy :)" and I came out the other side covered in blood being like "this is a thesis about how capitalism inevitably leads to both personal and global ruin, and so we are duty bound to resist it even as we lose, again and again and again. no matter how impossible it feels or how many times we fail and hit a wall and fall, we try again"

[treasurecryland]

Guy who’s seen black sails, watching any other show: I’m not getting enough black sails vibes from this

[theinternetarchive]

pins collected by dr. hilda a. hidalgo during her years of lesbian activism, c. 1970s.

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Why is it so hard to find red bean bao?? There are only two places in my hometown that serve it, one of which is a bakery that sells out pretty quickly. And in the place I'm moving to, I can't find any places.

[weirdgirl247]

every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.

go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.

[weirdgirl247]

rbing with other places you can donate to to support those impacted by the fires!

true north aid (an organization aimed at providing support to remote/northern indigenous people in canada)

canadian red cross wildfire fund

ontario spca and humane society (links to their donate page specifically aimed at supporting pets and animals in areas impacted by the fires)

and the anishinabek nation’s page where you can donate to support the namaygoosisagagun nation who had their land destroyed by the fires is still accepting donations

[peripateticpatentrefrigerator]

charcuterie board this and charcuterie board that. you people just can't appreciate a cute sharkery board

[thecoparoom]

Phil and Patti at Max's

Village Voice, 12/27/1973

[thememedaddy]

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.