>:U

I have an artblog! Consider some scribbles linked under the 'other blogs'-button below

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[rnismatch]

my camel straight up told me "man i am not carrying another fucking straw" like wtf asshole its just one straw whats your fucking issue

[akeussel]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Anyway one of the best things you can do for engaging with political discourse is to stop viewing different analytical frameworks as competing teams or a decorative element to add to your bio, and instead view them as what they are: Methods of interpreting stuff that happens in the world, some more reliable than others, some more tailored to specific situations than others.

And then also recognize that sometimes individuals deploy those frameworks badly.

Which in turn means that when you see an absolutely shit take from someone who's usually spot-on with their analysis inside their preferred framework, you can just go "oh, they're outside their domain of applicability, what a shame" and move on with your day.

[tpwrtrmnky]

A big one to avoid is taking the knowledge from a framework meant for analyzing large-scale power structures, learning about how those affect material conditions at population levels, and then starting to go "ohhhh am I being Bad At The Framework if I try to change my material conditions with individual actions" to which the answer is... no. That's just outside the scope of the framework.

[tpwrtrmnky]

That's all to say that when you see someone from any branch of feminism starting to slip into "gals, is it heteropatriarchal if we do lesbian BDSM" you can just laugh to yourself and go "haha, she's individualizing the systemic analysis" and move on instead of trying to formulate a Theory Of How Being A Good Girl For Dommy Mommy Is Actually Super Feminist to counter.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

A few pictures from last week in Sierra Leone.

A pharmacy tech counts pills out for TB patients at Wellbody Clinic in Sierra Leone's Kono District.

Dr. Girum Tefera, who saved my friend Henry's life, points to areas of concern in the healthier lung of a person severely ill with TB.

Reunited with Henry Reider in Freetown.

Nurse/midwife (and TIME Woman of the Year) Isata Dumbaya tours us through the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital.

Visiting people living with TB and HIV alongside community healthworkers, a reminder that CHWs are the least expensive and most effective healthcare intervention on the planet.

Boats at sunset.

Nurses and midwives are essential leaders in the fight to expand maternal and infant care.

Photos by Marina Waters.

[juney-blues]

I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...

[juney-blues]

hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

very mysterious

[juney-blues]

oh doing his name in russian gives me some actually useful results, why didn't i think to do that

[juney-blues]

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

Осень "Autumn"

[juney-blues]

ooooh this one is really nice

Огни трудового Тагила, "The Lights of Labor Tagil" acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.

[juney-blues]

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other works!!!!

[oronge]

think about it long time

edit: there's a full set now!

[alciedoodles]

im late but happy vday everybody

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[hawkin-byrd]

what is this from

[graceofgosh]

the titanic

[truder]

I FUCKING FORGOT I QUEUED THIS

For all who celebrate man’s hubris!

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[pardalote]

It's been a while since I bombarded you all with a swarm of beetle photos. So here are some beetles I've stitched, including some little peeks under 'the hood'. :D

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[davidhellman]

My comic about why we should all be activists. Made possible by my wonderful patrons at patreon.com/davidhellman Please share, and get involved in your local community!

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Repeat to yourself as needed: “I only have to be one little brick, in the barrier wall that stops fascism”

[enki2]

[circusheart]

I will never be accepted into the greater artist community until I learn to love the acrylic charm. Yes master the American social media artist selling mass produced acrylic charms with their own digital design printed upon it is the most exploited proletariat in the world. No master I will never ever learn about the exploitation of global south workers. Yes master the acrylic charm was spontaneously generated as soon as the Artist paid a completely arbitrary fee. No master the Artist is the only person who matters

[circusheart]

A mid-sized western art youtuber can hire a team to design a plushie, have that plushie manufactured in a South Asian country, get it shipped to America, and sell it for 30 dollars. And this is just some arbitrary number with no geopolitical context and if you, the Consumer, think it's too expensive. Then you are Starving The Artist, the poor poor prole who can't afford to eat but can, somehow, afford to use the labor of 400 Bengali women to make a plushie of a frog wearing stockings.

[nanisnae]

About International law...

I've seen a lot of posts going around that have lost all faith in institutions such as the UN and the ICC, with good reason. As any person vaguely familiar with the subject can tell you, enforcement is a key issue for these courts. Essentially no country is bound by these judgments unless they choose to be.

But now seems as good a time as any to remind people what international law can mean against your government.

It's a tool. As my professor said, "It is only law." But what law offers is legitimacy. It is supposed to be a beacon of objectivity, which means that you can prop up your position with it. Call on it when you contact your representative. Acknowledge war crimes for what they are.

I know that so much of international law has already been dismissed by many- that they don't care about Fucker #1 or #2's arrest warrant, or what the UN describes as forbidden acts of aggression... But an important thing to remember is that any law is only as strong as the systems and the people fighting for them. National law isn't so different in that regard.

I'm not sure if an ICC warrant has ever led to an immediate result, but even years down the line it may just be the cudgel that finally enables some semblance of justice to prevail.

The law matters when it concerns your, or anyone else's basic rights to build a life worth living. In a democracy where your voice is supposed to matter, you must never shut up about that.