Zero

Fine art photographer based in Atlanta. My hobbies include photography, anime, reading, and 3ds games.

[frankiszero]

I think I like storms because during and after a storm the sky is the most interesting it will ever be. Like a normal cloudy rainy or sunny day is so bland in comparison. But a sunset after a storm? Magic!

[frankiszero]

If I had my way I would travel the world photographing and painting nothing but seaside storms.

[frankiszero]

I once met a Musk fanboy who also worked for Tesla. On one hand I learned about some of the stuff Tesla and Space X are doing, some good projects that will be pretty helpful if they succeed. On the other hand I learned that Elon Musk has a fandom, and they’re cringe.

[guerrillatech]

[richardjager-deactivated2023010]

“Autism hasn’t got anything to do with it. He’s an asshole because he’s got about 70 different silver spoons shoved straight up his ass.”

-My Aunt Debbie, discussing Elon Musk after several glasses of Chianti.

[funkygraveyards-deactivated2023]

“free Palestine” and “don’t use what’s happening to Palestinians as an excuse to spread anti-Semitism” can and should co-exist

[funkygraveyards-deactivated2023]

spreading hate to jewish people as a response to the actions of the israeli government isn’t woke, it just makes you anti-semitic. you can be critical of the israeli government and not be anti-semitic

[the-main-diloolie]

As a Palestinian, honestly, a ton of non-Palestinians join the movement as an excuse to be antisemitic and I DON'T WANT Y'ALL SPEAKING FOR ME.

[liberalsarecool]

People want good work.

[barcott]

A Coruña

[imiging]

by Ana Rifon, barcott.tumblr.com

Daily original photographs and creations selected by the imiging team!

[ineedtothinkofatitle]

dear caretakers of children: stop telling kids “I don’t care who started it!”. you’re teaching children to ignore unequal power balances. that leads to legitimate belief in things like reverse racism, misandry, heterophobia, etc. you’re teaching children that it’s wrong to retaliate when they are wronged. “who started it” is very, very relevant.

[apersnicketylemon]

It can also teach them that defending themselves is wrong and set them up for abuse later in life.

It always matters who started it. One person is defending themselves, and one person instigated it. When you tell them you “don’t care who started it” you’ve taught one of them that if they defend themselves they will be punished for doing so. You’ve taught the other one that they can do whatever they wish to others, no one will punish only them for it, their victim will be seen as equally accountable for what happened.

Is that really a lesson you want your kids to absorb?

[ladyartemisia28]

Wow that is strange that it seems so normal to hear “I don’t care who started it!”

I…. wish I would have heard this more….

[spiletta42]

All these “zero tolerance policies” really ram home these same terrible lessons.  In many schools, getting punched in the face is punished equally with punching someone in the face.

[rabenzart]

[silver-frog]

Le ciel peut attendre.

[call-me-emrys]

My coworker: im not gonna get the vaccine. How’d they make it so quickly?? Not a good sign

Me: it’s because we’ve known about coronaviruses for a while

My coworker: you literally said earlier that we couldnt have caught corona when we were kids because it didnt exist yet

Me: i said we couldnt have caught it when we were kids because it hadnt made the jump to humans yet, for one, and for two, there’s more than one coronavirus.

My coworker: what

Me: there’s more than one coronavirus. SARS and MERS have been studied for years, and vaccines for them have been studied for years. The COVID vaccine wasnt built from the ground up, we just already had a lot of the starting work done already.

Me: Like. Is anybody surprised when Toyota comes out with new cars every year? No. They don’t cry witchcraft and say shit like “oh they made that car too fast, it must not be safe,” because they didnt reinvent the car, they just added some new bells and whistles. Same with the vaccine. They didn’t reinvent the wheel here, they just looked at an existing wheel and altered it to make it work better.

My coworker: oh. *turns to other coworker* i cant believe you were afraid of the vaccine!! You just gotta do your research, man

Me: YOU DIDNT DO YOUR RESEARCH EITHER

[call-me-emrys]

To follow up on this since this post has been getting reblogged a lot recently, 2 other things helped get the vaccine approved in record time:

1) Demand. SO much demand for a working vaccine, which translated to SO much funding. Like fistfulls of money just being chucked at it. This wasnt the case for the earlier coronavirus-type vaccines, which is why a vaccine for those were never completed. Neither SARS nor MERS ever became pandemics, so there wasnt much funding. But for COVID, the entire world was demanding a vaccine. That much demand = a shitload of money. Money talks, man,

2) usually vaccines take so long because all the steps happen sequentially. Like Part A has to be completed, then Part B, Part C, etc. But one of the (subjectively) cool things about this vaccine is that so many governments went “yeah that’s too slow” this time, and started doing steps concurrently. It sped up production A LOT because the folks in charge of Part C didnt have to wait for Part A and Part B to finish, they could just jump on their tasks right away.

All this info is easy to find just by googling “why was the covid vaccine finished to quickly,” btw, in case y’all want to gather some more knowledge to dunk on all y’all’s antivaxx coworkers, or to bring anybody who is just genuinely under-informed up to speed.

[moonsongpink]

SOLD

Introspection 20 x 20in ©️Cara Gonier

[frankiszero]

I fear I have that coid anxiety thing going on. I get pretty pissed anytime I see a crowd.(or maybe that’s pretty irresponsible behavior and I’m right to be angry)

[frankiszero]

As it turns out a pandemic is both boring and terrifying to live through, Like I don’t get to go to festivals but at the same time 15 people died today in my state.

[fuck-customers]

[frankiszero]

On one hand it makes me nervous that almost no one who planned Jan 6th has been punished yet. But on the other I know that investigations take time and particularly when it involves powerful politicians. So maybe I’m just impatient, but it seems really dangerous to me. Like these idiots are still trying.

[afloweroutofstone]

[rociopath]