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Tomás Sánchez (Cuban, born 1948)

Allá el Aguacero [There’s the Downpour], 1996

Acrylic on linen

35.5 x 27.5 cm. (14 x 10 ⁷/₈ in)

Private collection

Night of blues , Blue Night - Hsin-i Kuo , 1921.

Taiwanese , b. 1974 -

Watercolour , 56 x 113 cm.

Red Onions and Garlic 2026 11"x7" Oil on linen panel

Paweł Kuczyński

So many political posts I hate boil down to "I don't want to organize and work with people I hate and fight for small, incremental victories, I just want to start a revolution where everyone magically becomes an automaton who acts exactly the way I think they should act"

Like damn man, I want that too. Unfortunately I live in reality though so we're stuck with the first thing.

captainjonnitkessler

"Modern movements are too fractured, too aimless, with too much infighting and corruption among the leadership. What we need is a revolution, which famously never have any issues with those things" okay then. Good luck I guess

This whole line of thinking comes down to "the current systems and leadership are bad. What we need is a fresh start with only people who are good, and then all the systems will be good". Which is simply not how anything has ever worked!

traycakes

"We don't have enough people, funding, and power to bring about changes through elections! We have to do an armed revolution instead which thankfully doesn't require people, funding, or power to pull off."

#useful advice

creativescollection

Left to right: tornado knot, diamond knot, spiral knot, and double eldredge knot

(source)

Tōshi Yoshida. 1966.

Graffiti on the wall of an apartment building

#murals

memegetter

happy pride month.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

LINK

#new zealand