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happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

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The Speaking Hands of Travancore (Говорящие руки Траванкора)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1981

The story of the Indian dance of Kathakali from Travancore, and the Hindu myths/stories associated with it.

[eng sub]

[vanglaggle]

u need to draw fatter arms it can't all go to the butt and thighs #SORRY

[vague-humanoid]

Benjamin Robert Siegel, "Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkiller...

Markets of Pain offers a sweeping history of the business of licit opium--following cultivators, merchants, scientists, and policymakers--and shows how this potent crop reshaped global trade, medicine, and geopolitics.

For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium--how it was farmed, refined, and used to build modern medicine and shape state power--has remained largely untold.

Drawing on archival sources from Asia, Europe, and the United States, Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers (https://bookshop.org/a/12343/97801975...)  (Oxford UP, 2026) traces the global arc of licit opium from poppy fields and processing plants in India, Turkey, and Australia to the clinics and laboratories of modern medicine. It shows how both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic treated the opium poppy as a national resource and a means of securing global stature. In postcolonial India, by contrast, nationalist leaders initially rejected opium's imperial legacy before embracing its strategic value amid the shifting currents of the Cold War. At the heart of this story are the cultivators, scientists, bureaucrats, and policymakers who shaped the licit opium trade and grappled with its far-reaching consequences. Their work and visions demonstrate how colonial empires and postcolonial states helped forge the global pharmaceutical industry as it struggled to govern a drug it could not abandon.

Markets of Pain reveals how a seemingly marginal crop became an unlikely engine of modernization, a tool of Cold War geopolitics, and a harbinger of today's global opioid crisis. Blending vivid scenes from opium's fields and factories with incisive analysis of scientific and diplomatic archives, Benjamin Robert Siegel recovers a buried history with urgent relevance for global supply chains, international power, and public health.

Markets of Pain offers an account of the global drug trade in the twentieth century, focusing on the transformation of opium from a colonial commodity into a modern resource for the American and European pharmaceutical industries. Challenging simplistic ideas of licit and illicit drugs in the twentieth century, it reveals how the modern global drug regime was formed by India and Turkey's navigation of the international anti-opium movement, the rise of the pharmaceutical industry, and the complex relationship between agriculture, medicine, and global capitalism.

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Jessica Vollrath - Atlas, 2025 - Oil on linen

[catchymemes]

[willabee]

stop drawing willabee only

[blackfilmmakers]

"Sword Yoga" if yall don't just go practice Tai Chi with the aunties in the morning-

[blackfilmmakers]

Y'all can just go attend your kids' martial arts classes

Or join a lightsaber dance party...

[blackfilmmakers]

Is it necessarily a problem to practice shaolin martial arts? No. My issue is this insistence white people have with removing the “ethnic” aspects of all the cultures they find fascinating

Boba is too “ethnic”, Agua Fesca got to be spa water, Bantu knots gotta be mini space buns - how bout I start throwing bricks at your windows, but instead of calling it Vandalism we call it something stupid like Redecorating Hints 💕

[i-love-my-gays]

I have said this so many times but I think I need to say it again FRIENDSHIP IS NOT LESSER THAN ROMANCE

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mid-way pride month check-in

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just saw someone comment under a videoclip of the sylvia rivera interview where she insists on the modern (circa 2001) pride movement being a capitalist smokescreen, a “straight gay” movement that worships the almighty dollar, that:

and this person is likely quite young but this really really really captures the limited imagination of capitalist neoliberal indoctrination around freedom and liberation. radical queerness treated as a paintjob over a prison as opposed to the bulldozer that tears the prison down. we have to dream for so much more and endure the pain of dreaming.

[cryptotheism]

I sit alone in an unfurnished room for several hours, locked in meditation. After several days of silence, my eyes snap open.

"I just passed the Bechdel Test"

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[anglaised]

invincible self insert oc…super hero name cyclone, real name is gale, cyclone can control all air particles within 10 meters of them…. (under a read more bc its long sorry)

…..and can use their powers to “fly” move objects, breathe under water, suffocate people, crush things, stop bullets, and even cause hurricanes with enough exertion etc etc, as long as it’s within their range, cyclone doesnt want to be a hero tho as they have poor control of their powers on living things and have accidentally suffocated or crushed people before, they are a little air headed (lol) bc they can physically feel every particle of air around them to a uncomfortable degree of awareness and its extremely distracting, they are in college and they r extremely awkward and quiet (autistic asf) and they work at a amusement park with their best friend scooping icecream and heating up hot dogs

anyway a freak accident involving mutants happened about a year ago at said amusement park that they helped prevent a few dozen deaths and a top league hero (who is their love interest) saw them use their powers and not take credit for it and has been having like homoerotic arguments and physical fights every time they cross each others paths after bc they think cyclone could be doing more and cyclone dgaf but they want to physically provoke cyclone into using their powers more, cyclone is kinda bitchy and smart mouthed but only when in their hero suit bc they get more confidence to do so bc nobody knows who they are, i might change the design later or maybe not idk yet

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[felysha]

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

[felysha]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

[hylianengineer]

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

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happy pride 😢💕🫶🏽 im a Black nonbinary lesbian artist in recovery for some p severe trauma, please donate if you can so i can afford soup to take my meds on a regular basis while i get a lot of painful dental surgery and go through physical therapy c4$h4pp v3nm0 p4yp4l k0fi

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goal is soup, please help if you can my friend’s cat just threw up and we have to take her to the vet, still havent gotten to eat

[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — Levels (oil on canvas, 1987)