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noonesgaylikegatson

were--ralph

I want what they have

ringneckedpheasant

the final photos are so cute x

queer-joy-detector

Queer joy detected!

#the queer ideal

laurapalmergraduates

It is easy to forget just how central military violence has been and remains to business as usual. More than 5 per cent of annual CO2 emissions stem from the militaries around the world. We often talk about flying and how bad it is for the climate, and it is bad, but civil aviation accounts for about 3 per cent of the total. And the 5 per cent that comes from militaries precede actual war: these are peacetime emissions, made in the process of maintaining the logistical apparatuses and fighting capacities of armies before they go to war. When they do go into battle, the fuel is set on fire and the bombs rain down in bursts of concentrated additional emissions. The US, of course, is at the centre of all this. The emissions from the occupation army during the war on Gaza might be counted as just another category of American emissions. The US outweighs every other country; indeed, as Neta C. Crawford notes, 'the US military is the single largest institutional fossil fuel user in the world and thus the world's single largest greenhouse gas emitter In her book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War, she brilliantly charts the development of what she calls 'the deep cycle' The militaries of first the UK and then the US found coal, followed by oil, to be indispensable for waging war: for manufacturing weapons, transporting soldiers into the battlefield, providing mobility once engaged, bringing firepower to bear on the enemy. By basing its operations on fossil fuels, the US military contributed to their spread throughout the economy; and when both the military and economy were thoroughly dependent on them, the protection of this essential commodity itself became an imperative of war. No part of the world has been so deeply formed and scarred by this cycle as the Middle East. Although Palestine is at its centre, the devastation clearly extends to other countries too: think only of Iraq and Yemen.

— The Destruction of Palestine is The Destruction of the Earth, Andreas Malm

#current events

velvetnightgallery

christian dior by john galliano, look 2, evening dress of golden armor with embroidered gold “chain mail”, haute couture autumn/winter 2006

brigitte niedermair

#fashion

classic-art-favourites

Portrait of a Lady as Flora by Pompeo Batoni, 1775.

#art

grapnel

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

#language

eirene

Impéria, ca. 1899 Alfred-Pierre Agache

#art

rynsketches

these tags by @vaguely-concerned cracked me up so I had to sketch it as baby Orufrey

#witch hat atelier

ainawgsd

On the northwest Belgian coast, there is a little known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. The activity consists of what its name describes: fishing shrimp on a horse. In the 15th century, shrimp fishing on horseback was still practised on the North Sea coasts in France, the Netherlands and even the South of England. This activity represented an extra revenue needed for the household. Nowadays there is only one place in which it is still ongoing: Oostduinkerke, a sub-municipality of the municipality of Koksijde.

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#world culture

without-ado

Strawberry Full Moon over Ely Cathedral l VeronicaJoPo

master-john-uk

29th June 2026. This year's Strawberry Moon was extremely low in the sky, which made it look very large and bright. (A perfect photographic opportunity!)

#photography

jstor

New from JSTOR Daily: Meet Rollerena, New York City’s roller-skating Fairy Godmother!

In flowing gowns, vintage skates, rhinestoned glasses, and elaborate hats, Rollerena became a beloved presence in queer New York. She appeared at Pride marches and legendary nightclubs, using performance to create joy and make queer life more visible in public. During the AIDS crisis, Rollerena became an ACT UP activist and helped rally her community around creative expression and collective action. A newly digitized archive from Reveal Digital preserves the flyers, photographs, speeches, and collages that document her remarkable public life.

Read Emilie Hardman’s story about a queer icon who understood the political power of being seen.

Image: Leonard Fink. Portrait of Rollerena in the Street and Moving towards the Camera, from Christopher Street Liberation Day March, New York, 1975. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center Archives. Reveal Digital. JSTOR.

#the queer ideal

pallisia

whenever people express feelings to the effect of "i'm glad soulsov isn't super popular because fandom wouldn't be able to handle it" i think, with kindness, "don't speak that on me." i have very little interest in what Fandom Can Handle and a completely unremarkable desire to make money

pallisia

one might think, "well that's awfully cynical." of course making money is not my primary motivator in writing the weirdo vn that has all but consumed me over the past few years. i even considered going with "desire to see fanart of my characters," something which inspires more genuine fondness in me. it's just that whenever people talk as if the impact of lukewarm fandom discourse on my daily life could possibly outweigh the impact of 100,000 people each giving me 10 dollars, i can only roll my eyes at best. let's be honest with each other here

prokopetz

Everybody go give this person ten dollars.

#games

wizzard890

do you ever look at our world and feel like somehow, somewhere, because of greed or rapacious desire or cruelty or carelessness, a crucial piece of humanity has been shattered and that we're now living in a slow terrible grinding inevitable apocalypse as a result?

well so does christopher nolan.

go see the odyssey, it's really fucking good.

pyrrhiccomedy

There are a lot of people saying it has "historically inaccurate costuming" or that it "doesn't understand the original myth"

shut up!! shut up!! it's a movie about now!! it's a movie about us!! It is using the language and imagery of one of the foundational myths of western civilization to talk about how we are in the 'broken upon' part of the ever-turning wheel of history!! we have lost something that was maybe never even real but which made us better by believing in it and all of the monstrous miseries of our era are the consequence!!

"um, people in the bronze age would never refer to themselves as being in the bronze age"

THIS IS A MOVIE ABOUT US!! Stories about the past can serve more purposes than just slavish reenactment!! Invoking the past says something about the present!!

"nobody back then called them the Sea Peoples"

PENELOPE LITERALLY TELLS YOU TO YOUR FACE THAT WE ARE THE SEA PEOPLES. THIS IS A METAPHOR. HOW AM I LOSING YOU

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