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[gillespiejr]

⋆.˚ 𓆝 riv | adult | f 🎗🕯️

✶ college student, unpaid mossad intern (american exchange program)

✶ catholic

✶ military history enjoyer, common sense appreciator, anti cloud storage activist

✶ i 100% unironically <3 capitalism, personal ownership, and democracy

✶ politically homeless

☞ i write things now!

required reading: pg. 10, Anti-Zionism [x]

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I add $5 to my Israel trip fund for every hate or gaza gfm ask I receive

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[marzipanandminutiae]

If you've ever seen images of sweatshops in the early 20th century, in New York or the UK or other developed countries

Guess what

Your clothing is still made in a place that looks like that. The only thing that's different is the tech level of the sewing machines and the race of the workers 

[barksbog]

This also applies to all plushies. Every single plushie is made by people, there is no way to make them without human labour.

Unless you buy them from small scale makers who make them themselves, this means they were made in a factory, the same way clothing is.

[withnailrules]

Eartha Kitt performing in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1955

[liberate-women-now]

Since 2005, there are more registered female drivers than males and for the past 30 years male drivers account for 70% of all fatal car accidents.

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[expressions-of-nature]

El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite by Haotian Zheng

[postcardsfromwanderings]

Cappella di san maurizio in front of the Sassolungo in the Gardena Pass, Dolomites, Italy

[gillespiejr]

I'm about halfway through Babel and I don't know if I can finish it... I really like the plot and storyline, and even the writing style, but oh my goodness are the discussions of racism & colonialism seriously lacking. Pretty disappointing :/

[gnomebutch]

some people really do think that the average straight man respects masculine lesbians and finds solidarity with them instead of viewing them as an affront to his presentation and potential rape target lol

[lilyblisslys]

I can see now that “oh fuck I’m gonna soak my jorts” was not an acceptable response to seeing how much pork shoulder I can get for 20$. I’m listening to the grocery shopping community and holding myself accountable.

[wyf-of-bathe]

I never care about film reviews but Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's Odyssey is so amazingly, bizarrely bad and I can't stop thinking about it.

Like it's a bad review in the sense that she's an elitist who does not think movies count as art and does not seem to understand movies as a medium at all but it's also bad in other, much weirder ways, such as 'the POC actors in the supporting roles are all doing the Black Best Friend canard regardless of the role or whether the actor is even Black' and 'not killing your own daughter is a modern American value'. And of course, 'there's no sex and the food looks horrible' which we all know are definitely valid and reasonable critiques of a film.

There's also just many examples of her claiming things did not happen in the movie that factually, provably, explicitly happen in the movie, and then she complains the movie is inconsistent and shallow. Also she claims the historical consensus is that the 'Sea peoples' did not exist at all and were a 19th century theory that has since been debunked, which is just not true? The idea that the Sea peoples caused the Bronze Age Collapse has been generally debunked by historical consensus, but not their existence.

Just... what the fuck is she talking about? I'm obsessed with how someone with this academic background and achievements can say shit that is this stupid.

[wyf-of-bathe]

Absolutely cannot get over how bizarre this review is. She throws in that first line and literally never explains or comes back to elaborate on it at all.

She literally never connects the 'American family man' thing ever again.

That's the caliber of about 75% of this review. The movie is bad because it deviates from the source material (despite her saying adaptations SHOULD deviate), it's too modern or American (using your own child as a human sacrifice is apparently not taboo in the UK), and, most of all, Odysseus doesn't have enough sex. The rest varies between problems she invented because she apparently watched a different movie than the rest of us and the very rare good point.

Anyway here's her thinking the literal point/message of the movie is actually a flaw because she fundamentally does not understand how art, especially narrative-based art, acts as commentary on contemporary issues.

She genuinely just does not understand what a fucking movie is. Also just hilariously conservative and reactionary. Why do all movies have to be so POLITICAL and criticize things like XENOPHOBIA, can't we just enjoy a nice apolitical story? Lmao.

[gillespiejr]

I'm about halfway through Babel and I don't know if I can finish it... I really like the plot and storyline, and even the writing style, but oh my goodness are the discussions of racism & colonialism seriously lacking. Pretty disappointing :/

[mysterium-solis]

Regenbogenlandschaft (Rainbow Landscape) by Franz von Stuck (1927)

[vegas2014]

[emerges from the movie theater covered in blood] yeah hadestown was really good

[femme-fangs]

it's mandatory i fear. sorry i don't make the rules :/

[beautifulmars]

HiPOD: Eroding Ice-Rich Deposits in Two Craters in Arabia Terra

This image shows two craters in the Arabia Terra region with interesting texture patterns on their floors. These textures are indicative of the presence of ice-rich materials, likely having been deposited from the atmosphere during periods of high obliquity (tilt) millions of years ago, when ice from the poles was mobilized and redeposited in the mid-latitudes.

The ice is gradually eroding away, leading to the interesting patterns displayed in the southern crater in the image. Although uncommon in shape, these erosional patterns are not inconsistent with ice sublimation as their formation mechanism. In the northern crater, ejecta deposits from the crater impacted on its western rim have intermingled with the floor deposits, leading to interesting textures there as well, indicating different types of geologic materials being introduced from the subsurface.

ID: ESP_092480_2160 date: 19 April 2026 altitude: 294 km

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[shelterpub]

Hallig Habel, a farm in northern Germany on the North Sea, an area of low flatlands and mudflats. This photo was taken during an extreme high tide. From Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

Photo by Hans Joachim Kürtz