HAPPY DAYS

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

[medievalthymes]

Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.

- V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[eunnieboo]

another life

[ryebreadgf]

i believe her

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[starlorddude]

Selina Kyle would dump his ass in minutes..

[vee-aye-en-deactivated20210725]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A career for a career - Megan Fox deserves to have hers back. Michael Bay deserves to be blacklisted, something he had no problem doing to her when she exposed him for his awful, predatory behavior.

[sunshine-tattoo]

Pitch for a new reality show: women hunt Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg for sport. All the money goes to supporting abuse victims.

[foil-flingza-roller-deactivated]

i think the world is ready to see this one :)

[andysambrg]

PARASITE (2019) 

Dir. Bong Joon-ho

[polyglotplatypus]

[gailsimone]

People don’t get jokes, you guys. :)

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

Unfortunately, I do love you now that you can dance

[mishafletcher]

ok, but honestly, it is unfortunate. you know how we’re always passing around that ‘you are not immune to propaganda’ meme? this is the propaganda it’s talking about.

it’s cute dancing robots! they have a cute robot dog! it’s cute! it’s friendly!

well, the robot dog friend? cute little jumpy guy, does some careful ballet-esque steps, often between the humanoid robots? so far, both the boston police and the nypd (heads up: autoplaying video, with sound) have ‘deployed’ the cute dog friend. both departments say that the robots are being used as ‘observation devices’, sent into buildings with lights and a camera that sends a videofeed back to the cops. 

part of why i think this video (and others like it) is so interesting is because boston dynamics has defended police use of the robots, saying that there’s a clause that the robots can’t be used in a way that would ‘physically harm or intimidate people’. i don’t know about you, but if i were at, say, a protest, or honestly literally anywhere, and a robot dog started running towards me, i’d be pretty fucking intimidated. i’d assume that it was going to hurt me. if one of the humanoid robots were running towards me, i’d assume it was straight-up about to kill me. 

but these videos do a lot of work to erode that assumption. how can anyone claim that they’re intimidated by, say, a line of robot dogs at a protest? the robot dogs do funny dances online! the video above has been live for about two months, and it has thirty million views. people love them! they can dance!

so when they start being used as mobile security cameras, or when they start being used to maintain a perimeter or for crowd control or whatever, it’s not really a violation of the contract. the robots are friendly! my bet is that when they start setting them out to do security or whatever—and i don’t doubt that they’ll be used for security, etc—they might even do funny little dances and interact with people who stop to gawk at them. anything to normalize increasingly autonomous roboticized policing. get one of the humanoid ones out in the field, and it’s a remarkably short step to autonomous, mobile cctv—that can also detain you if it doesn’t like what you’re doing, or if there was a crime and you’re in the area, or if your face looks like someone from a database, or—

and all that assumes, of course, that the no-harm clause stays there forever, and that police departments, so famous for their love of doing things by the book, adhere to it. but just for fun, watch that video again, and imagine even one of those robots weaponized, outfitted with even ‘nonlethal’ crowd control. 

i’m not arguing that the robots are inherently bad, or that there’s no reasonable use for them, even by cops. but the time to get critical of them is now, not in five or ten years when their use has been largely normalized. this is cute propaganda, but it’s still propaganda, and we should acknowledge it for what it is.

[radicalurbanista]

anyway this is how to disable the Spot robo-dog that the NYPD just purchased

[wondersmith-and-sons]

also? the naming of “Spot the police dog” goes deliberately hand-in-hand with how the language of anti-protest policing deweaponises it from the actual harm caused. labels like “non-lethal” and “less lethal” guns, which fire “foam rounds”, “bean-bag rounds” and “rubber bullets” have taken out eyes and cracked open skulls, are deliberately named to make them sound more harmless than they are. 

foam bullets are solid metal and foam-tipped, bean-bag rounds are sacks of cloth filled with lead pellets and rubber bullets are metal bullets that have rubber-coating - it’s a deliberate trick of language to make writing and reporting about it diminish the violence they cause the victims. 

“police fired bean bag rounds and foam bullets at protestors” sounds like the cops are using kindergarden weapons and not shooting to kill. 

“police deployed spot the robot dog for crowd-control measures” (which is how it will inevitably be written) makes it sound like it’s some cutesy doctor who sidekick out there yelping at protestors, rather than a weaponised, mobile, agile hunk of metal that is designed to break your fucking arm. 

[antique-scarecrow]

[ramnamsatyahai-deactivated20210]

[sloth-incarnate]

Never has this gif been more appropriate

[gem-femme]

A vegetable is a social construct.

[jynxtaposition]

“Vegetables don’t exist.” is my new favorite counter point to any argument.

[ryebreadgf]

god... like i've known the lyrics to this song are sad but god

[majortomwaits]

fuck it, Toshiro Mifune fancam set to Kate Bush

[anais-ninja-bitch]

hey op, what’s it like being a goddamned genius?

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[bauliya]

you know what's going on with lil nas x is persecution, right. it's not "just" internet trolling—he's only 21 and being targeted by SITTING SENATORS for his art. this is textbook persecution, complete with the coalescing of religion and political power, and the fact that he can fire off meme-y one liners doesn't change that! fucking hell! it horrifies me how this is being played off for laughs, even by leftists and "we are the daughters of witches you couldn't burn" crowd. it's terrifying and the actual, bodily threat to him is VERY REAL regardless of how funny his responses are.

[bauliya]

I'm not Black so I didn't think it was appropriate of me to talk about his Blackness but dear GOD the disparity between lil nas x's vulnerability and openness about his sexuality in his art and public appearance, and the amount of backlash and discrimination he's suffered for it vs the amount of public recognition and institutional support he's gotten as compared to harry styles who put on a fucking skirt and got hailed as the King Of The Gays™ is so blatantly racist.

[g3nosarchive]

this is just from my tags but i 100% agree. at the max cishets and all of those 'christians' will accept white lgbt artists and barely anyone else. nas, being a black, darkskin man with obvious (beautiful) afro features is also playing a big part in this - people are saying hes doing too much, hes pushing a demonic agenda, hes harming their children meanwhile harry styles barely if ever gets this type of backlash; lighter-skinned black artists do have a privilege in the music industry (for ex. i hate to use her here but cardi b was embraced a lot easier compared to megan because she could actually choose to embrace her blackness or not which is a whole other story but).

the only reason all of this hate didn't come earlier is because since nas had tattoos and wore clothing people agree men should wear, that hes darkskin and goodlooking therefore hes not really gay because hes not acting typically feminine enough. <- which is another example of him being demonized and people are still going around saying its such a pity he's gay bc they want his bbc.

black artists in general whenever they get popular are always surrounded with rumours of selling their soul, being the devils puppet and etc. which is really harmful for obvious reasons. when u have white artists who actually gaybait, like taylor swift, they dont get these same reactions. harry styles no matter what he does will never get this type of reacting from the general public, hes still a white man.

then, again bc of racism, colorism, demonization and all of that shit nas isnt even allowed to showcase any anxiety or nervousness towards this issue. hes giving those funny tweet replies only because thats the only thing he can do right now to alleviate the situation somewhat and not make it drastically worse. if we're being honest, if he publicly said he was hurt and affected and even planned to take a mental health break, nobody would take him seriously. if he took the legal side of dealing with things... like u said actual senators would attack him so

[thepurifyingflame]

[id: tags that read "#yall are forgetting hes black so hes not gonna get the harry styles treatment #important #antiblackness" end id]

[prismatic-bell]

I think also, he had the audacity to be a Black gay man who entered into a genre that’s almost entirely white (and, these days, blatantly white-supremacist in the “we love the KKK” kind of way). He didn’t “stay in his place.” He said “bitch, this IS my place, shut the fuck up” and The White Establishment At Large didn’t like that.

I’d suggest further that he’s suffering because he’s a gay man, as opposed to a lesbian or bisexual woman. WLW don’t have a cakewalk either, but there is a certain level of queerness women can get away with in the public sphere that men can’t. (As an example, although both these people are white: when Lady Gaga came out as bi, she was a “bicon” and it was “fresh” and “brave.” When Adam Lambert came out as gay, it destroyed his American career. These two things happened within a year of each other.)

LNX is that intersectional person the right yells about as “unrealistic,” and I suspect that’s the thing that’s most damning of all. He’s a Black gay male (who is gay! And a man!) who just kind of said “fuck genres they’re boring” and treats gender roles as a bad suggestion. Every item on that list is one more tick-off for a large subset of American culture, and that’s why it’s so fucking bad.