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I don’t even want to write a review of “Top Gun: Maverick” honestly, I’ve seen 1,500+ movies and I’ve never finished one that left me more depressed about the future of this country. I just want to stop thinking about it
By popular demand:
The White House just shared a video using footage from “Top Gun: Maverick” right before real footage of US bombs hitting Iran. I am sorry to announce that I have been 100% vindicated in my views on this movie.
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City em
"Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media."
Can we please not do this. The lesson from this is not "so long as your payment can't be traced to you you're fine." The lesson here is that Proton will give the FBI (via the swiss govt or not) whatever info they ask for.
in order to exist they have to comply with local laws, the benefit of proton and signal and other similar platforms is that they straight up do not have the majority of the information they could be subpoenaed for. finances are the exception legally, you still need good opsec
The lesson here is not "Proton pretended to be good guys but secretly they were bad guys :( "
The lesson is that you cannot just find a "privacy focused" email or message app and assume that means you can say whatever you want because no one will ever know it was you.
Email is inherently insecure communication. Proton is a decent company that mostly avoids collecting the kind of data the fed wants. But you are not invisible behind a proxy or a vpn, encryption is not a magic ward, and you need to have at least a basic understanding of opsec before you got doing shit the fed might come looking at you for.
I was today years old when I learnt about what those symbols in Aboriginal art represented I honestly can't believe we never got taught that, even when I was studying art. I always assumed they had meaning but no one [no white person] had ever bothered to mention it. I'm glad I learnt something new today.
Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to look down on Aboriginal art because they think it's a form of abstract art that is just lines and shapes but almost all of them tell a story. Sometimes it's a very obvious story, such as the emu dreaming where the waterhole flooded, and sometimes it's more symbolic.
the circle in the middle is a waterhole/dam or billabong. The squiggly lines coming out of it are small rivers. the dots represent the earth but because they are in neat lines, it almost feels as if they have been flattened by the flooded water, especially as the vector lines draw out from the waterhole in the middle. the emu tracks are heading toward the waterhole, and the three lines in the middle are marks left by their tail, implying that they are wading through the mud to get there.
It's a birdseye view of a moment just after the waterhole floods and afterwards the emus go looking for food.
It's Interesting, because the original artist D. J. Ross was from Yuendumu which is in central australia, so this would have been a rare time that there was enough rain to flood the waterhole.
Dreaming stories, kinship links, sacred rites, keeping track of biodiversity and songlines are some other topics covered by Aboriginal art.
In the same way monet painted the middle class and the local landscape in the late 1800's/early 1900's Aboriginal people also paint the average lifestyle of our people. It just looks different.
For example, this picture shows a LOT of activity. The men at the top left of the picture are doing a cultural burn near and around a sacred site, the women at the bottom left are digging for food. across the river, on the right the people are preparing food and in the center, two people (presumably elders) are preparing for a ceremony.
I wouldn't say these all happened at the same time, more that this was a common undertaking over a set of time.
it takes time to understand and not all symbols are the same in all areas, but once you do understand them it becomes easier to see the story being told.
So yeah, I hope this gives you the chance to look at Aboriginal art with new eyes
Cool article from the U.S. National Gallery of Art about Aboriginal art
Oh this link is really good.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are warned the link features names of the deceased.
“Myth” as in short for mythology, not the laymen meaning of “fake”. I should change the tag to mythology so it’s not ambiguous. Or something else? It’s difficult to condense all of human spirituality, religion, mythology, folk tales and legends into one concise word as an easily reference-able tag because there really isn’t one. I’m open to suggestions.
If you're wanting to condense all of human spirituality, religion, mythology, folk tales and legends into one word, 'Culture' is a much more acceptable term, and doesn't hold the negative connotations of 'mythology'.
Unfortunately, no matter what your intention is, the term 'mythology' implies a fantasy-like nonexistence. For example, unicorns are considered 'mythology'.
To add to that though, the paintings above feature absolutely none of the things you've listed, which is where my confusion is stemming from. Both of the paintings in this post are considered 'current events'.
If I showed you a picture of some Emu's hanging out, would you tag it as mythology?
If I showed you a picture of my family bbq with a superimposed edit of my brother trying to catch a fish at the river, would you call that mythology?
Because that's the topic of these two paintings...They're not ''stories from an ancient time'' they're just paintings of normal australian everyday events...from the 80's.
'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do
maybe y'all didn't notice but fat people who don't hate ourselves sure did notice that people were obsessed with shitting on fat people in the late 90s and early 2000s (conservative political time) and now are again (fascist political time), coincidentally while the market for weight loss has become a 90 billion dollar industry due to glp1s.
you are not immune to propaganda. it makes some people a whole hell of a lot of money for you to hate fat people and fear becoming (or staying, I think like 70% or something of the US is fat) one of us.
a lot of the fearmongering over fatness comes from studies directly funded by the weight loss industry...i think people don't really realize or think about the fact that research can absolutely be influenced and skewed by its funding. there is also research that shows that an amount of the negative health outcomes for fat people come from anti-fat bias. if you go to the doctor with concerns and the doctor simply tells you to lose weight, your problem is neglected and you may not even bother going to the doctor with the next problem.
every fat person you know for the most part probably has a story like this, of medical neglect. many of the stories i've heard personally are when the complaint or the doctor wasn't related at all, like being told to lose weight at the ear nose and throat doctor or at the dentist. it's straight up just bias. it's such a thing that in the show Shrill it's portrayed, when Aidy Bryant goes to the gynecologist and her doctor suggests she get gastric bypass.
the studies on health and fatness are simply not that black and white and there is basically no research that shows that more than an incredibly tiny minority of people can lose weight and keep it off for more than like 2 years. bodies have set points that they gravitate towards, it's not a personal failure. this also is how the weight loss industry succeeds so well - repeat customers.
some of the harm associated with fatness is also due to weight cycling, which is very hard on your body and is even worse if you get off a GLP1, which according to a recent study causes weight to be regained at a rate that is 4x faster than without taking a GLP1.
you don't have to hate yourself. you don't have to hate other people for their body type either. it makes me so sad to see the thinspo tag going around again in 2026 a lot like it was back in the day.
some resources to learn more here:
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/feeling-fat-may-be-worse-for-you-than-being-fat-idUSTON079061/
A study spanning almost four decades and involving more than 100,000 adults in Denmark found that those with an 'overweight' body mass index
there's so much crazy shit once you go down the rabbit hole. for example, BMI was not invented by anyone with a medical background. it was never meant to measure individual health.
The U.S. weight loss industry reached an unprecedented high in 2023, estimated at $90 billion, largely driven by surging sales of the widely
Evidence is mounting that our body fat supports everything from our bone health to our mood, and now, research suggests it also regulates bl
just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight
Raqib Shaw (Indian, 1974), Untitled (Garden of Earthly Delights), 2004. Acrylic, glitter, enamel and rhinestones on board, 42 x 59.4 cm.
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Lesbian hip hop group Yo Majesty at Øyafestivalen, Oslo, 2007
everything surrounding the id laws that just passed in Kansas is fucking horrible
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getting a concerning number of people on that post stating that they had no idea what aotearoa/new zealand looked like or how big it was or even where it was on earth prior to seeing that post. how. how. I'm not trying to be rude I am genuinely just baffled that people can Not Know this. we're larger than england, ireland, scotland, and wales combined. we're big enough to stretch from florida to new york. we're very clearly a massive fat bunch of islands slap bang in the pacific ocean. how does this happen
“big enough to stretch from florida to new york” sounded strange to me, so I went to that one website to check and
oh. I see.
WORLD SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
(Then and now) OSPAAAL poster, 1980 by Víctor Manuel Navarrete
The revolution that overthrew the US puppet regime of Batista in Cuba
Smiling Crocodiles. Isabel De Obaldia. Glass.
Hiromi Tango textile work functions as both static, otherworldly growths in galleries across the globe and elements activated through performance art. See more here.
Art and Healing Gardens
5 artist references for our project
Julie Paterson: Community Gardens Projects
https://www.juliepaterson.com.au/communitygardens, https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/community-garden-art-project, accessed: 30.09.2024.
Hiromi Tango: Healing Garden, The Condensory, 2023-2024
https://thecondensery.com.au/healing-garden-2/, accessed: 30.09.2024.
Fiona Hall & Yaluk Langa, Healing Garden, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, 2021
https://www.heide.com.au/landscape/article_landscape_healing-garden/, accessed: 30.09.2024.
Trent Jansen & Maree Clarke
https://www.wesleyplace.com.au/images/librariesprovider10/art/0u1a2111-2.jpg?sfvrsn=31fdf474_2,
Trent Jansen: https://trentjansen.com/
Maree Clarke: https://www.australiandesignreview.com/tag/maree-clarke/, accessed:19.10.2024
“… relationships many of us form with specific rainforests constitute part of our individual and shared experiences of Australian place and identity. For others, deeply embedded in alternate ecosystems, the arid scrub or weather-beaten coastline may be the landscape most typically Australian. For many of us these natural places are intuitively linked to our comprehension…”
Trent Jansen, https://trentjansen.com/studio/, accessed: 30.09.2024.
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Juundaal
Sookja Rho (Korean Artist, born 1943)
"Sunflower", 1985.
Pigment Mixed with Stone Powder on Paper,
145.5 x 66.5 cm.
