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hi. this an extremely serious post.

so, Big Oil's lawyers, Texas, and other states with a very little IA/NA (Indian American/Native American) populatuion has decided that The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is unconstitutional. because of this, they decided to being it up to the Supreme Court for decision making. they believe that ICWA is unconstitutional. this fall, they will have a discussion on whether or not this will be overturned.

This is a summary from the Lakota People's Law Project

"If the Supreme Court overturns the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — a federal law that keeps Native children with Native families — tribal sovereignty could soon be a thing of the past in the U.S. Should the justices rule in the plaintiffs’ favor in the case of Brackeen v. Haaland, we could quickly see a return to blatant, pre-1978 genocidal practices — when Native babies were legally stripped of their families, culture, and identities."

Key Points to Take Away

Big Oil's lawyers, Texas, and three other states with very few Native inhabitants are attacking the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).

The Texas Attorney General is asking the Supreme Court to declare ICWA unconstitutional.

The Plaintiffs argue that tribal affiliations should be considered racial, rather than political, designations.

Overturning ICWA could be the first legal domino in a broader attack on tribal rights and sovereignty.

ICWA was enacted to protect the interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families. Overturning ICWA will be the first domino to effect Tribal Sovereignty as a whole.

Before you do anything else today, please sign this petition telling President Biden and The Department of Justice to defend ICWA, Haaland, and Tribal Sovereignty with all available means.

we need your support. please.

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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

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

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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"

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ooooh this one is really nice

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

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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!!!!

arcaneimages

This taxidermy was found inside a late 19th-century French mansion which has been sealed up for more than 100 years. Via National Geographic.

we-did-an-internet

Good to know people were just as fucking weird before the internet.

kineticpenguin

ancient frog memes

shermansky

et tu, dat boi?

hellsite-hall-of-fame

Do you think the wind gets lonely when it can't sweep us off our feet with it?

yes :(

lilaccatholic

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

reinanova

terror-billie

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flicking back through my procreate library what the fuck was this

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authors notes: there is absolutely no one true meaning intended for this piece, but I guess my thoughts while making it were the plain, boring and literal way you talk about the world after seeing something traumatic , or the way things seem to lose all meaning and significance . and also the way you minimise an event to make it sound like it's not so bad , the way you remove detail from the memory.

like .. there is something over the river . there is something unspeakable over the river . when you recount it , you have to make it seem so small . it's just a body. the state the body is in can't be made out like this . you hide the details from yourself to forget how bad it really looked . you hide it in general - so insignificant you could miss it entirely ! it was just a body and The Something that killed it looming , and birds flying away .

and the world could be full of colour , but you can't see it that way any more . the grass is just grass . the trees are just trees . the fish in the river that's just a river are just fish , and that's just a body .

Also SPOILERS for anyone who wants the solution to the eye-spy:

kinthonic

[Image Description: two images of the same piece, where the piece is made up of a white background with black text spread over it. The words make up images to create an outdoor view of a river running between two grass hills with trees on either side. The hills are made up of the words Grass and Shrubs. The trees are made up of the words Tree. In the distance is the word Distance, while the negative space above the land has multiple instances of the word Sky. The river is made up of the words River and two instances of Fish. In the upper right hill are an instance of the word Eyes between two trees and Body in the hill.

The second image is the exact same image but highlights Eyes and Body in red and the two instances of Fish in blue to indicate their locations.]

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s is for slug

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World Heritage Post

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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

— Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via bookaddictiion)

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durnesque-esque

eonblueinmay

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

samfodo

Its obvious to me when people who post about canaries in mines have never met a canary. Like yeah the miners had a special device to revive the canary because canaries are one of the most adorable creatures on the planet and they make adorable little chirping sounds and honestly probably loved the sounds of machinery and people talking so it was probably loud and friendly with the workers. Whatever though maybe meet a canary sometime and youd understand

samfodo

If you see this animal every day at work, and it sings to you during your hardest bouts of labor, you will be distraught if it dies. Even if you know this creature is meant to die in lieu of you, you still hear it when the labor is at its hardest and your muscles are struggling against the weight of your work. It is so small, smaller than your soot-stained hands and louder than the death that follows you. You dont want it to die. The same as a woman does not want her candle to run out ; she knows that is the point, its flame is meant to burn the wick and melt the wax ; but she is not indifferent to its wasting away. She may even save her favorite candle as not to burn it too quickly. Now imagine you are that woman, and there is a way to rebuild your favorite candle that you love the smell of and the way it flickers. Would she rather throw her candle out? Or would she rebuild it? That is a canary to these miners. Would you allow an animal to just die when it has been singing for you? It reminds you that it is alive, and you are too. Its stop of song signifies the lethal danger you are in. Why abandon it? Is the miners' love for a little bird really that surprising?

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Why does this read as though written by a coal miner of the era in which a canary was needed.

whatwwwwwww

Because time is an illusion and love is infinite

rainbowangel110

@theshitpostcalligrapher

elwenyere

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

oldshrewsburyian

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

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theriu

Guys I was GIDDY with excitement when I realized the stick is how they figure out the standing-up perspective!!! I always figured people doing this stuff just had magical perspective powers but that makes SO MUCH SENSE what a cool tool!!! Amazing job!

unbfacts

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!