Astoria

good vibes, good people, good music, and glass. 18 years old- Glassblowing student at SCC- life's good n stuff. myface.

[odinsblog]

If I Die In Police Custody…

In 2k15 America, Black people now have to proactively and publicly declare for the record that we, like anyone else, would neither lynch ourselves nor commit suicide while in police custody. 

This is (apparently) necessary now because if we are caught being human and - even once - state that we were even momentarily sad or depressed, that single statement alone can and will be used against us by corporate media and the police to blame us for our own murders…at the hands of the police.

#SandraBland  #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForSandra 

(to hear all of these Black women’s voices and to watch their full videos, please go to the tumblr or twitter of youth activist/organizer, millennialau. see full videos here)

[gregings-deactivated20180502]

More work on this strange landscape. 

Thread Leads To Heaven is the title of a tune on my favourite Susumu Yokota album The Boy and the Tree. I didn’t start out this image with it in mind, but the image seems to fit the title and the tune now, and that’s fine with me.

[karolindeans]

There’s thousand Nicki Minaj cardboard cutouts on the steps of Helsinki Cathedral in Finland

[andre-30008]

Is this a real thing?

[nevver]

Under the unminding sky, Gregory Thielker

[octopodz]

Actually. I think real love does not exist.

Not in a genuine sense.

I don’t even know myself so how can you?

[methexys]

[motionlessrk-deactivated2021020]

[viergacht]

Wish I knew the context for this.

[dongsanddamns]

I’m going cross country skiing immediately

[sporecored]

[hannah-michael-deactivated20150]

[objekt-a]

[tealiteful-deactivated20190307]

you are not defined by your mistakes

[spiritualsun]

good vibes here

[bvddhist]

organic // spiritual // hippie

[usako-chan]

[springfieldusa]

[micdotcom]

The side of the Baltimore riots you won’t see on TV:

On Monday, the media was quick to paint a single picture of Baltimore: a chaos scene of violence and mayhem filled with images of looting, rioting, the burning of a CVS and the torching of a police car. But on the ground, a very different story unfolded — and these remarkable photos and videos are proof.

[proletarianrevenge-deactivated2]

Melanie from Baltimore laying down the truth to Vice reporters during a livestream.

[cartoonpolitics]

President Obama has apologized (story here) for ‘accidentally’ killing an American and an Italian (both hostages) with a drone strike on the Afghan/Pakistan border. President Obama has not apologized for all of the other innocent civilians killed by the US drone program over recent years.  A Bureau of Investigative Journalism report found that only 12% of those killed in Pakistan by drones over the past ten years were ‘militants’. Al Qaeda members, the original intended targets of the drone program, constituted only 4% of those killed. Civilians aren’t just ‘collateral damage’, they are overwhelmingly the victims of America’s drone strikes. 

[lucy-fordd]

this isn't a war on terrorism it's a war for depopulation.