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sucking at something is the first step to getting good at it

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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment

The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime. When Sahrawi film-makers and journalists attempt to document everyday life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco. In contrast, when celebrated international names in the film industry wish to capture an ideal picture for an epic journey, and decide that our land is exotic enough to shoot the desired scenes, they are welcomed, escorted and granted access by the same authorities that usually deny us that right. [...] Nolan’s choice to film in an occupied territory highlights the extractivist practices embedded in the western film industry. Western cinema has often been complicit in mining stories and immaterial culture from the global south at a scale no smaller than the material resources mined by the western colonial industrial complex. International film crews parachute in, shoot our faces, clothing, dunes and material culture, then fly off. For them, it seems we are simply decorative elements for their sets and back in New York, London or Paris, they gain prestige, box-office returns and awards. For Nolan’s Dakhla shoot, he appears to have neither sought our consent nor considered the ethics of in effect helping to prop up and legitimise Morocco’s occupation, thus making the space even more unsafe for Sahrawis living under it. He is actively participating in a state-sponsored PR campaign designed to legitimise an illegal occupation.

2026/07/16

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[dukeofash]

What's your #1 tip for drawing sharks?

Sharks is stupider looking than you think. Just give a shape a party it and you’re probably good

[power-chords]

I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”

[ayellowbirds]

#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism

[elkian]

kestrel: i hate rained on!!

human: here is birds in water

kestrel: ......no.....

[kayl-the-snails-art]

Little baby duck in a pond, being all smol and cute.

[dykemessiah-deactivated20230125]

condola rashad as joan of arc i am free on sunday at 5 im just letting you know that i would be available on sunday at 5 if someone asked me to dinner on sunday at 5

[onyxcyon]

Dunlin (Calidris alpina)

trying to keep pace with my quota of redraw birds! original below per usual :>

[nyanletnest]

bwaow

[littleguysdaily]

Yeah

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[babushkaat]

[memory-is-treachery]

u heard him ladies

[spiralmindz]

like sure regardless of race if u live in usamerica u will have a higher quality of life compaired to the rest of the world (which is fucked up) but we are still oppressed under white supremacy and still killed and enslaved etc etc its so insulting that so many Big Brained hot takes abt people of color in america are basically like "u are not human. becuz ur a yankee :)" and if Black/Indigenous ppl are like "stop lumping us in with our oppressors" they have a meltdown abt "harassment"

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

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[cosmonautroger]

Isabelle Adjani, Possession, 1981

[crystalline-]

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours Tour, 1977.