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Friends, Nerdthings, Art. All of the inspirational things I don't post on my artblog. ... Main/ArtBlog

[liberalsarecool]

Happy Mother's Day request.

[pinkasketch]

Shut up m'dudes, it's a national holiday

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[backofthebookshelf]

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

[lordgolden]

Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th

[runcibility]

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[druggonaut]

What are you playing at it’s not September for another 7 months and it’s past the second of the month anywa- oh… America

[runcibility]

It’s okay, we’ll keep the meat warm for you until September.

[cipheramnesia]

shoves the meat under my armpit

[heinkelfingerguns]

Japan abbreviates dates the same way, and February 9th is the intended reading that said (and as other posts have pointed out)… TWO meet days

[kropotkindersurprise]

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 8 2013 - Margaret Thatcher dies.

[willoftrees]

bb gresshopper

[ahno-nimus]

you won't believe the weather we've been getting [remembers to avoid giving away my location] the sky was turned to darkness and the moon to blood, and the stars fell from the heavens.

[issu]

I'm impressed that I still have so much stuff queued that posts have just kept on rolling...

Hey.

It's been a pretty wicked year and I've hit the point where I'm taking a necessary reduction in job time to find something that isnt grinding my health into dust. We'll see if that also means I have time to tumble more cause buddy I should probably be a little more in tune with art and news right now.

The break was welcome though. At the start of my vanishing act I really needed to tune out national news for a while with the exception of whats important. And its been a rough... everything. All of it.

[headspace-hotel]

a lot of scholars have written about Enkidu's "domestication" in the Epic of Gilgamesh as being about the tension between the new, urban, settled way of life and the "wilder" nomadic lifestyles of the past. Which, sure. That definitely influenced the Themes and Dynamics that were meaningful to the listeners. But it's also about Being a Person

There are a lot of things you can read into Shamhat's "taming" of Enkidu through sex, some uncharitable. I think it's really interesting that loss of "virginity" in this story irreversibly changes you but doesn't have a gendered or "moral" meaning. I feel like interpreting it as a condensed way of depicting, like, 'adult' experience/interfacing with other people/intimacy/understanding that Other People Are People and You Are A Person in a mature way

Up until this point Enkidu's relationship with other humans is distant and dislocated, like he knows that other humans exist but he hasn't Realized. He feels more kinship with the animals than human beings. And then he meets Shamhat and he gets intimate with her and it's like...oh shit. He IS a human. Once you've realized you're a Person you can't un-realize it.

Like experiences do change you. And throughout your maturation process you repeatedly realize: Oh no. I can't go back.

Like Enkidu's beloved animals fleeing from his all-too-human smell, the things that once were important to you seem to slip away when you try to get close to them. You've changed. It's not a bad change but it is maddeningly permanent. You know what I mean?

[shutyourmoustache]

[telomeke]

[Video description–

Two videos uploaded to TikTok by Harper Watters @‌ theharperwatters, who is the first black queer soloist in the history of the Houston Ballet.

The start of the first video is captioned with a reply to a comment by someone with the handle ‘broadcast711’, that reads:

Post more for Black history month please [clasped hands emoji, red heart emoji, black heart emoji, green heart emoji]

The videos show Harper Watters executing some fluidly elegant ballet choreography in a studio. At various junctures he freezes momentarily as the camera cuts away to a photo (often vintage) of a male black dancer in exactly the same pose that Harper has adopted, heightening the drama of each pause. The choreography is studied, deliberate and respectful, and the videos read like a beautiful homage to talented dancers who have come before (and perhaps helped to pave the way) for Harper himself.

The dancers featured in the various cutaways are:

Benjamin Feliksdal

Sylvester Campbell

Kiyon Ross

Jermel Johnson

John Alleyne

Rubinald Pronk

Christopher Boatwright

Ronald Darden

End video description.]

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[oneheadtoanother]

[1995lahaine]

no bc this video has me in TEARS it looks like a sketch or a bit or a fucking tiktok but no that woman is legitimately fighting for her life while this bitch records some socmed segment for a ski resort

[ashyguysworld]

And they uplo… they uploaded it.

[pencilium]

The following day:

[thebirdinator3000]

environmental storytelling

[bolaneno]

Linda Infante Lyons, The Sovereign of the North (2022)

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[hiveswap]

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

[xiaguangmagpie]

Yes actually I will not shut up about how these foods are from the Americas/cultivated by the people there, and did NOT exist in Asia, Africa or Europe before the 1490s, there was an absolute food revolution going on in the 1500s. Whatever you think is traditional food for your country? Check again, you’ve maybe only been using that ingredient for maybe 500 years. Here is the full list of crops, it is very interesting :))

[imkeepinit]

[three--rings]

Not to undermine the very important point of this post, but for the fucking boomers to have forgotten Kent State is something.