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mellifexfarm

forever70s

AIM activists at the occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)

fandom-man

mumiisaprettygrl

yo: no se q voy a almorzar

la humilde milanesa en la heladera:

mumiisaprettygrl

not @milanesa42 reblogueando mi post sobre milanesaa

milanesa42

platypusinplaid

Everyone please look at this snapping turtle, walking to the pond outside my house, still groggy from a 6-month nap.

saint-batrick

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

theinfiknight

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

antifainternational

This short Vice documentary on antifascist action and black bloc tactics from 2017 is a cool look at the movement at that particular time in Philly and the US, but is also sadly still necessary, relevant and informative today.

antifainternational

Scotland Reportback - Dundee, 17th June 2026

Last night we were proud to stand alongside around 200 anti-fascists to oppose an anti-immigration protest organised by local fascist Derrick Murdoch. The far-right had a pitiful turnout, being outnumbered at least ten to one. Amongst the fascists were self-confessed Nazi Richard McFarlane of Patriotic Alternative, who didn't seem to realise he was flying their flag upside-down, and domestic abuser Stuart Peddie. Our counter-protest persisted for several hours until nearly 9pm, not letting up until all the fascists left. Police Scotland protected the fascists, cautioning one counter-protester and using ridiculously disproportionate force to arrest another.

- Anti-Fascist Action Dundee

(in case you can't spot them in the video, the fascist demonstration is the tiny group of people in the comically large pig pen on the left)

human-pet-they

COME ONNN

human-pet-they

who is dick grayson

magic-workers-union

With the defeat of the HOA our power has increased greatly comrades!

To celebrate this event, we will be providing universal free healthcare to all within the union.

#wizardposting #wizards of the world unite

mold-wizard

It's always fun to see how confused adventurers get when they see the sky through the big bay windows in the chamber of contemplation in my underground dungeon. It's like they've never seen simple spatial linking before.

#wizardposting

sattickate

I am not a straight people.

Reblog if you are also not a straight people.

guerrillatech

lacicapatrera

Via @rajaeen1 in Instagram

if this isn't a great example I don't know what is

druid-for-hire

There's this sort of anthropomorphizing that inherently happens in language that really gets me sometimes. I'm still not over the terminology of "gravity assist," the technique where we launch satellites into the orbit of other planets so that we can build momentum via the astounding and literally astronomical strength of their gravitational forces, to "slingshot" them into the direction we need with a speed that we could never, ever, ever create ourselves. I mean, some of these slingshots easily get probes hurtling through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour. Wikipedia has a handy diagram of the Voyager 1 satellite doing such a thing.

"Gravity assist." "Slingshot." Of course, on a very basic and objective level, yes, we are taking advantage of forces generated by outside objects to specifically help in our goals. We're getting help from objects in the same way a river can power a mill. And of course we call it a "slingshot," because the motion is very similar (mentally at least; I can't be sure about the exact physics).

Plus, especially compared to the other sciences, the terminology for astrophysics is like, really straightforward. "Black hole?" Damn yeah it sure is. "Big bang?" It sure was. "Galactic cluster?" Buddy you're never gonna guess what this is. I think it's an effect of the fact that language is generally developed for life on earth and all the strange variances that happen on its surface, that applying it to something as alien and vast as space, general terms tend to suffice very well in a lot more places than, like... idk, botany.

But, like. "Gravity assist." I still can't get the notion out of my head that such language implies us receiving active help from our celestial neighbors. They come to our aid. We are working together. We are assisted. Jupiter and the other planets saw our little messengers coming from its pale blue molecular cousin, and we set up the physics just right, so that they could help us send them out to far stranger places than this, to tell us all about what they find out there.

We are assisted.

And there is no better way to illustrate my feelings on the matter than to just show you guys one of my favorite paintings, this 1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice to show the Pioneer probe doing this exact thing:

"... You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. ..."

Gravity assist.

ambrosial-sunshine

For the painting especially there’s a beauty in depicting some of our most advanced technology as synonymous with the most ancient. Very few people throughout history have had the privilege of seeing the face of Jupiter but many would recognize the sling thrower immediately.