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The news today was so abysmal i finally stopped being shy about what i've made and am slapping it up all over the internet:

Please show your best, angriest U.S. friends my Boat-Flipping Orca stickers, so we can sneakily undermine fascism ❥ I need to sell ten of them each month, either individually or in subscriptions, to just break even.

$8 & free shipping for 3 Left stickers so you can show vulnerable members of your community that whatever they see on the news, GOOD people are out here, watching out for them.

The doofy watermarks are just to keep these from landing on Wish in thirty seconds. Only the tiny, unobtrusive "here's the site where you can get more" url is printed on the sticker.

(Obviously you should be putting the stickers on your water bottle, not bus stops, light poles, electrical panels, park benches, drinking fountains, trash can lids, exposed pipes, handrails, stall doors, mirrors, windows, or every single street sign. Obviously.)

#activism #radical left #antifa #anti-fascism #antifascism #fuck 45 #LoveThyNeighbor #activist art #graffiti #street art #stickers #sticker art #stickers that piss off assholes #the darkest timeline needs love and anger both #no human is illegal #protect trans kids

mortalityplays

the day after tdov should be international try it out for a minute day. try on something you'd wear if you were trans (and nobody is saying you are), try out makeup for the first time (for the novelty), imagine what your name would be if you were to transition (and you don't have to), think of yourself with a different pronoun and imagine people casually referring to you that way (just because it's international try it out for a minute day). it's april first, who says it means anything. just try it out for a minute.

rhan-hastur

I've recently come across an abridged version of Buffon's Natural History for kids. Nowhere does it credit the artist for this specific 1818 edition, but I find the wildly inaccurate plates incredibly charming - and since tumblr seems to agree on that, I've scanned and cleaned most of them (the book is very damaged, I've skipped n°11 because someone had used that page for painting practice, but otherwise they're all there.)

Full plates under the cut:

beneathsilverstars

tomorrow i have to give my daughter’s pikachu plushie gender-affirming surgery

beneathsilverstars

her results look great, congrats pikachu! 💖⚡️🏳️‍⚧️

xanaxfarts

A caiman in the Amazon wearing a crown of butterflies that feed off the young crocs salty tears. (2016) Photog. Mark Cowan [source]

vandaliatraveler

Water and ice make magic on Glade Run earlier today,

thecollectibles

Color Variation sketches by Pavel Oleinik

thebellekeys

okay but what's yalls obsession with only reading books by good human beings

olameni

no sure if you were actually looking for responses but this is something that i think about often.

firstly, I do understand the impulse as I think we have a responsibility to not be complicit in harm. so the issue becomes about the criteria by which we make that decision or in other words what are we willing to forgive.

this gets out of hand to me when it becomes about virtue signalling, or when our personal dislike and refusal to engage with something keeps us from respecting how others may imagine ways a text may be useful, provided of course it is well reasoned.

There is a balance that must be struck or else we risk a world of art that can no longer challenge us.

hamletthedane

O holy night?? Tbh I didn’t know anybody under the age of fifty liked that song lol

Oh no anon, O Holy Night is the BEST. Listen.

First, it’s gorgeous and so moving. You can sing it in church on Christmas or while caroling, but still be blown away by an exceptional performance of it. The Romantic rises and falls, and the way it builds…it’s perfect. It’s been described by several ppl as the “lord of the rings” of xmas carols.

Second, it’s an explicitly very religious Christmas song written by a Jewish atheist composer who was trying to capture what he thought Christmas was like for christians. He created this incredible hymn of hope and the dawn of a new world during the darkest days of the year, and the coming of a person who would protect the meek and overthrow the powerful oppressors.

And then it was translated into English by a Unitarian Transcendentalist who used it as a rallying cry against slavery and racial discrimination. His translation somehow skewed even MORE hopeful and awed. I feel like it truly conveys what it feels like to celebrate a spark of hope in the middle of winter.

Third, it has an incredible history. Once the French churches found out it was written by an atheistic jewish man (in French), it was banned. However, it continued to be people’s favorite hymn, and the ban was universally ignored to the point it became known as the “religious Marseillaise.” There are stories of French peasants filing out of Christmas mass to stand outside of the church and sing the song in defiance of Churches’ prohibition of it.

Additionally, the lines in French are implicitly, and the lines in English are deliberately and explicitly, in favor of abolitionism, which is why it spread through North America so quickly: “chains shall He break, for the slave is His brother / and in His name all oppression shall cease.”

It was also the first song to ever play over airwaves (via violin) one Christmas Eve, as part of a chemist’s experiment. And it was allegedly sung by French, English, and German soldiers all together on Christmas during the Franco-Prussian War and in the trenches during WWI.

Ymmv anon, but MAN this song with its sweeping and building Romantic tone, explicitly defiant lyrics, and incredible history make it - for me - a very transcendental piece that really does seem to promise a “new and glorious morning” in the new year.

capricorn-0mnikorn

Reblogging for the history. Now, I need to find a version of it sung in French.

ghostowlattic

The Blue Vote of Lesser Evil 2020

"If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons." - Joe Biden, 5/9/24

Rafah, southern Gaza, after ethnic cleansing.

-Dr. Seuss

acti-veg

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World