PRockette

Trying to capture the spirit of the thing.

[havingapoemwithyou]

Sabbaths, 1993, I by Wendell Berry

[a-bit-of-fuckery]

If you don’t like a show, you can just stop watching. I don’t know when people forgot that but if a show makes choices you don’t like or don’t agree with you can drop it like a hot potato and move on. You don’t have to flood the tags of said show with bad faith criticism and doom posts about how “actually the whole show was always terrible and you’re terrible if you watch/enjoy it”. Seriously, stop hate watching and find something more to your taste, it’s really not that hard.

[vampirebrainrot]

repeat after me: just because media challenges your expectations doesn't mean its bad. Just because you have to think about text and subtext to understand it doesn't mean its bad. Just because a piece of art makes sense in the allegorical realm doesn't mean its bad. Just because art demands your participation in the creation of meaning doesn't mean its bad. Just because there are different layers of meaning that could be simultaneously true doesn't mean its bad. It's okay if you feel uncomfortable and unsettled. That's the point of serious art.

And I can't believe I'm saying this about the fucking gay vampire show

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

[pollytaylor]

I hope someone has a copy of this photo and it's tgeir favourite photo of their grandma or great-aunt.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/01/AI-Supercharging-Institutions/

AI Isn’t Replacing Lawyers. But It’s Supercharging Institutions | The Tyee

Canadians receiving insurance denials, eviction notices and collection demands need solutions to address a worsening disadvantage.

[queerasaurus-rexx]

So, uh

Sam Neill passed away.

A lot of people know him as Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park, but Sam Neill has an incredible catalogue of film and television, stretching back to 1975 on the big screen, but he cut his teeth in university productions of Shakespearean dramas.

All this to say, Sam Neill never let himself get pigeonholed as an actor. He was an incredibly versatile actor with a plethora of roles and genres to his name.

And that's not even touching upon his interests outside of acting. He was a passionate vintner (of the Two Paddocks winery) and an outspoken environmentalist who frequently spoke out against political policy that negatively affected indigenous peoples in Australia and New Zealand.

Jurassic Park is an incredible film, and I know many people have fond memories of the original trilogy.

But Sam Neill was more than just Dr. Grant. And I think that should be remembered too.

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[oldshowbiz]

Boost Manitoba: Join the Golden Boys

[redstonedust]

i really really like when an artist gets tired of a sketch when they get to a difficult part so they just label the thing they dont wanna draw. like this.

absolutely delightful i hope people never stop doing this forever.

[pollytaylor]

This is like me putting notes for details I'll figure out later in square brackets in my early writing drafts

[despazito]

Crazy shit goes down in South America

[diana-andraste]

The Black Sun, Bill Mayer, 2017

Gouache, with gold leaf, on watercolor paper

[clawmarks]

Maquettes de papier peint - Archives Isidore Leroy - c.1900-1935 - via via Paris bibliotheques

[tearlessrain]

I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you're training your neural pathways and it's gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone's mind after achieving a goal is "how/which people can we help next, what's the next step for improving things" and not "who do we need to attack next."

I'm not saying don't be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don't define yourself by it or it's gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.

[roach-works]

the easiest people to attack will always be whoever’s closest and whoever’s vulnerable.

if you’re training yourself to enjoy the thrill of righteous violence, your easiest, quickest joy is going to be from attacking someone in your peer group, not whoever’s actually got the social leverage to be oppressing you.

this is called lateral violence and is the absolute bane of activist circles everywhere.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wedding Dress

1882

Cincinnati Art Museum

[marzipanandminutiae]

to clarify, this isn’t a wedding dress in the modern sense of “immediately recognizable as a wedding dress and exclusively for a wedding.” it’s probably a dress worn by the original owner for her wedding, but people wouldn’t have known it was her wedding dress and not just a nice day dress, unless she told them

[maryoliveoil]

[earhartsease]

in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"

[death-born-aphrodite]

ghosts are real and they’re everywhere. in old photographs tucked safely in a box under your bed. in the walls of your childhood home waiting for you to come back. they live in old text messages and emails. forever frozen in time. they haunt your old best friends neighborhood. flickering in the street lamps. occasionally, on very rare summer afternoons; when the sun shines through the kitchen window in a certain way and all of the sudden you get this feeling in your stomach of melancholia; that is a haunting. a possession. those are ghosts trying to find comfort in the present because the past they once lived in no longer exists.

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.