B for bastard

Call me B

[kylebonallo]

by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔞𝔤𝔢 & 𝔦𝔳𝔬𝔯𝔶

[sweeetagony]

[nevver]

You only find nowhere when you come by it on the way to someplace else, Merton Wu

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Kim Keever

“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.” 

[midnightinshadow]

[sweetfirebird]

So I saw some people remarking that they didn't understand why "liberals" are focusing on the disaster of the Reflecting Pool paint job, and ok so when you see stuff like that, I need you to remember we are dealing with a wannabe strongman. Anything that makes him look ineffectual, wasteful, and incredibly stupid-- you get that between your teeth and you don't let go. Especially *especially* when it involves laughing at him.

Also... it is funny. Except for the poor ducks, it's funny. Man lost a war to algae. His "American Flag Blue" is green and slimy and the paint is peeling off, and all before his big 4th of July show that no musicians want to play. It's funny. Point and laugh. That is fighting fascism, actually.

[espanolbot2]

Like, this is the same guy who is trying to hide that a judge made him take his name off the Kennedy Centre by hiding the building with a great big tarp to obscure where his name used to be.

Any public slight, no matter now petty, no matter now little it matters to everyone else, gets under his skin like those screwworms he accidentally let Musk reintroduce to Texas (causing the government to call a state of emergency as it's trashing their beef industry).

[elalmadelmar]

Mocking the Reflecting Pool is Springtime for Hitler.

Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

And that's why we're riding that fucker so hard. This is what's under the power fantasy. Deep down, he's just pathetic. And that's what Mel Brooks understood with Springtime for Hitler. You don't fight the Nazis by making them big bad scary evil guys. You fight the Nazis (when actual weapons aren't a present option) by making them a laughingstock. There is no way to derive a power fantasy from being the object of derision.

[iconuk01]

I'm very proud of my countrymen for introducing America to the world of the proper football chant.

None of this cheerleader stuff for soccer, oh no sireee, I mean, no disrespect to cheerleaders who put a LOT of work and effort into their performances, but somehow "Rah-Rah! We're the best" from peppily gymnastic young things can't quite match the sheer power of entire stadiums of grown up fans yelling at the top of their lungs things like....

It's unclear if this one originated with the English of Scottish games (spelling of "old" as "auld" notwithstanding), but either way, well done.

And it's striking home too! :D

Sportsball holds no interest for me, but that doesn't mean I can't respect the participation aspects sometimes.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The rotting jack-o'-lantern's aides and cabinet have apparently been scrambling to keep him from watching any of the world cup games with English speaking crowds, because so many of the chants have been about Epstein and him.

This includes keeping him from presenting the winners trophy at the final game, because can you IMAGINE sixty thousand international fans with a live target for those chants? He might shit himself to death on the spot.

[divorcedwife]

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be

[justcallmedom31]

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[oodles-of-reblogs]

@thatlittleegyptologist my most sincere apologies for inflict this upon your eyeballs, but I simply refuse to suffer alone

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Bro put the Eye of Horus all over his car instead of the Eye of Ra. Cringe.

[insimafdat]

Unsure if I’m translating this correctly since the grouping is a little weird to my untrained eye but please correct me if I’m wrong lmao.

nk.t idt

Nk refers to intercourse, and it has the suffix pronoun .t which refers to the second person feminine. I believe this is in the imperative as it’s a command? But I really don’t have a strong grasp of ancient Egyptian grammar.

idt refers to the vulva or womb, but idt here I think is written backwards? Judging off the reading order from hieroglyphs V31 and D52 in the previous word.

So in all I think this translates to “You fuck your pussy”?? But I’m 90% sure I’m incorrect here.

@thatlittleegyptologist Maybe you can pick out all my mistakes translating your insult lmao

[thatlittleegyptologist]

.t can be the marker of a feminine verb or speaker (it’s not a pronoun, that’s =s the folded cloth which marks the first person feminine. Second person feminine is always =k), but it can also be used to mark the passive, a stative (which is in the passive), a relative form, and several other things. There are no pronouns in this sentence as they would come after the determinative and neither do.

Here the .t ending *is* marking the feminine but only because it’s agreeing with jd.t which is a feminine noun. Adjectives always agree in gender and number with the thing they’re describing. I’m also using it as a passive stative, so it takes on a descriptive “in the state of” sense. nk.t does mean to fuck, and yes I’m using it in the imperative. jd.t means vulva/vagina, but I’m using a far more colloquial word than pussy.

nk.t jd.t means “fucking cunt”

[happyheidi]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[angelicguy]

Many of you may be asking- what is rap? Well, to put it simply, rap is the part of the Gorillaz song that sounds- a little different.

[goodmemory-deactivated20240521]

[detournementsmineurs]

“The Circus Tent by the River” by Jorge Enciso, 1923

[sleepytrain]

Ridge

The Grampians, Australia 2018