Noise Void.

Ash. 23. Brisbane Punk by attrition. I work with a local band doing management, advertisement and the lead guitarist. Pansexual, Agnostic, Anarchist and Feminist af.

[maisiewilliams]

What you missed on 7x01 of Game of Thrones:

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[lesbianshepard]

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

[lesbianshepard]

i also want to point out we know it tastes the same even after thousands of years b/c archaeologists who discovered two thousand year old honey tasted it. presumably right after they looked at each other and went “what the hell here goes nothing”

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[key--lime--pie]

I’m pretty sure they also identify human remains by taste. Archaeologists are straight up freaks.

[notaflippinmermaid]

No, no no… you identify bone from rock or other substances by touching it to your tongue. If it sticks, it’s bone. The taste itself has nothing to do with it. And most archaeologists won’t lick human bones if they know they’re human.

…and I realize that doesn’t actually do much to prove archaeologists aren’t freaks.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nam is jane and wen i dig i fynde some roks both smol and big i put my tung upon the stone for science yes i lik the bone

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[alsmitey-scythe]

i love rooster teeth gifs, because you have ones like

and then you have ones like

and it’s the same people

[this-tragic-affair]

how do people not swear??? like where does their anger go?? how do they show their enthusiasm??? what if they stub their toe??? like saying golly gosh isn’t really gonna cut it barbara 

[aegcn]

Cersei: *says anything*

Jaime: 

[thinksnake]

Jon: *says anything*

Sansa:

[trashpits]

who decided skeletons are scary like ???? you have a skeleton do not be afraid of u

[mxnrique]

[wiszvnheimer]

The best scene in the whole franchise tbh

[queeranarchism]

60 year old historian Martin Bühler (who identified himself to the press, I do not identify activists without consent) appears to ‘photobomb’ a lot of media images of the G20 in Hamburg. In reality he is a long time observer documenting police brutality. In Hamburg he chose to cultivate the most non-activist ‘white bystander in a suit with a bike’ look he could manage and casually walked in front of police. As police slowed down or interrupted attacks and waited for the ‘bystander’ to get out of the way (being caught on camera trashing what look like bystanders is bad press after all), activists had time to regroup or retreat.

[roguetelemetry]

this is pretty punk rock

[texnessa]

Chaotic good.

[patbaer-deactivated20240227]

acknowledge your privilege and use it against them. 

[daloy-politsey-deactivated20171]

Capitalists: It’s human nature for a small number of individuals to take control of the planet’s fresh water supply and demand that people pay in order to use it.

[mrssallbrazilian-blog]

I wonder how many times this post was reblogged from an iPhone

[rainbowgazes-archive]

[thesefewpresidents]

I’m also a fan of this one which I downloaded and never actually use.

[fizzydog-deactivated20240325]

“artists dont work for the love of art anymore, they just rely on commissions and patrons”

this is how art has literally always been the fucking sistine chapel is commissioned fanart of the bible 

[tastefullyoffensive]

[iwrotehaikusaboutbukkake]

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If I would have known just how things would have ended up

I just would have let myself die

[terror-foster]

And just like James, I’ll be drinking Irish tonight and the memory of his last work week will be gone forever Evelyn I’m not coming home tonight! If we’re never together If I’m never back again Well I swear to God that I’ll love you forever Evelyn I’m not coming home tonight!

[anfem-cripplepunk-blog]

Fuck this narrative.

It erases disabled people. The elderly. Children.

It’s classist, ableist, racist, and just wrong.

NOBODY DESERVES TO LIVE IN POVERTY! Period.

Fuck capitalism, liberalism, and political ideas of worth and value.

[seashellronan]

the extent to which straight people don’t get gay humour is incredible like the whole thing is a satirisation of how gay people have been treated for years like the reason we say “___ is for gays only” is because yall have been going around calling everything you don’t like gay and we’re making fun of that dumb mindset and taking away the power of it and having fun and yall still come onto every gay satire post with this “what if straight people said this about you” like you have?? that’s why the post was made in the first place i don’t understand how yall are this oblivious it’s honestly baffling to me

[afloweroutofstone]

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of “this is satire, duh”, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they aren’t tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, they’re laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, they’re laughing at sexual harassment, they’re laughing at child abuse, they’re laughing at anti-semitism, they’re laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.

And the “satire” is so often pathetically weak. There isn’t a single nativist in this entire country who can’t laugh at a “der takin er jerbs” joke, because those jokes don’t actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. It’s just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for “satire” has been set? There’s occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.

But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, they’ll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. That’s why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.

[pervocracy]

I worked with a guy who would yell “derka derka jihad!” out of his truck at Middle Eastern people.  Or refer to them as “derka-derkas.”

“Derka derka jihad” is a joke from Stone & Parker’s Team America: World Police, and it’s (in a generous interpretation) a satire on “this is what narrow-minded Americans think Arabic sounds like, silly Americans!”

But about 95% of the audience thought the joke was “Arabic sounds ridiculous, it’s not even a real language!”  The movie does extremely little to discourage this.  [click here if you are prepared to experience a full-body cringe]  The level of satire is somewhere between “extremely subtle” and “alibi.”

I know satire is subjective and the public is hard to predict and all that, but I think an easy way to tell that the thing you’re participating in isn’t satire is when you’re inventing new racial slurs and they’re catching on.

[chickadee-sun]

South Park is the opposite of satire.

Here’s how South Park fans think Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal happened. Swift wondered, “what’s the most offensive, politically incorrect thing I could write about? I know! Eating babies!” He wrote an essay saying everyone should eat babies. People were very offended by this essay, which makes it funny. People thought Swift was serious but he wasn’t, kek, he was just being satirical! He fooled them!

Here’s how Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal actually happened. Swift lived in Ireland, a colonial property of England. He was enraged by the ways the English government, Irish puppet government, and Irish wealthy oppressed the poor of Ireland, causing poverty and famine. He wrote a bitterly sarcastic screed carrying their callous dehumanization to its logical extreme–with your cruelty, you might as well just eat their babies! Swift sarcastically included a long paragraph of his actual policy proposals in the essay: “Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients,” strengthening his accusation that to pretend it was impossible to help the poor was viciousness at the level of baby-eating.

The cruel English politicians Swift was satirizing didn’t misread the satire as agreeing with them, because he didn’t just say the same things as them in a snotty voice, because that’s not what satire means. Nobody said, “Yeah, Swift, that’s a great idea, let’s go eat us some babies!” The targets of satire aren’t supposed to agree with it.

The late great Terry Pratchet was a master satirist. His works are fucking hillarious. His friend and co-writer Neil Gaiman explains what made him such a great satirist: “There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld.” And “anger is the engine that drives him.” Anger at what? “ Against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness.” That is satire: a white-hot righteous fury at injustice, channeled into humor. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

Nihilistic apathy and opposition to any and all political opinions and “waaahhh, those buzzkills are telling me not to call people retarded, but that’s hard and I like calling people retarded” is not a basis for satire. If you were to take every distinguishing characteristic true satire has and do exactly the opposite, you’d wind up with something like the genre South Park popularized.

[academicfeminist]

“THE TARGETS OF SATIRE AREN’T SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH IT.”

[aviculor]

“Nihilistic apathy and opposition to any and all political opinions and “waaahhh, those buzzkills are telling me not to call people ret*rded, but that’s hard and I like calling people ret*rded” is not a basis for satire.“

[bogleech]

I’m so glad people are finally catching on to the fact that the South Park team is fucking terrible at satire and that satire has absolutely never been about “pushing the envelope” or “being offensive.” It is very specifically supposed to be an attack on harmful people and behaviors through obvious parody.

If it even needs to be explained as satire then it already failed.

[moonnlesbian]

me: i mean i don’t really care what other people think of star wars characters’ sexualities like. w/e, u know? different interpretations are chill 

some homophobe: but none of the star wars characters are gay there cannot be gay characters in star wars star wars does not have a single gay char

me: 

[constable-connor-deactivated201]

[cherryseltzer]

kat von d, who dated a neo-nazi, who sent ami james an antisemetic signed photo, whose family are germans and italians who emigrated to argentina in the mid-40s (ghmmm interesting timing), just posted holocaust footage showing actual bodies of dead jewish people to make a point about how eating meat is just like the holocaust, on instagram.

[ithotyouknew2-deactivated201710]

But y'all still buy her eyeliner!