Tha Jok3r @pyrojay - Tumblr Blog

the-wolf-and-moon

NGC 7293, Helix

the-wolf-and-moon

The Pleiades, Seven Sisters

officialjiggly

temptressbatz-deactivated202603

funnypages

We’ve all seen this cover and made jokes and homages to it, but I want to put in the context of its time.

Captain America first appeared in December 1940. A year before the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the US declaring war on Nazi Germany. Although there were many in the US urging the government to enter the war on the side of the Allies, there was also those who were sympathetic to the Axis who wanted the US to stay neutral or side with Nazi Germany. Father Charles Coughlin, an anti-communist Catholic priest, launched a radio program which praised Nazi Germany and its actions toward Jews, reaching an audience of millions of people every week. Famous individuals like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh made speeches on the Jewish problem at home and abroad. The German American Bund, which at its height had 25,000 members, praised Nazism and promoted American solidarity with Germany.

It is in this context that two New York Jews, Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, decided to create Captain America. While the character was popular, his first issue sold nearly a million copies, pro-Nazi groups began to picket and threaten the creators. But Kirby and Simon had powerful allies.

Fiorello H. La Guardia was the half Jewish, half Italian child of immigrants who became mayor of New York City in 1934. He fought against corruption and the mob and worked to protect the rights and improve the representation of the city’s Jewish, Italian, German, and Eastern European communities. The first time President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Winston Churchill in person, he wrote that Churchill “in many ways is an English Mayor La Guardia.” And as if he couldn't be more awesome, he liked comics. Upon hearing of the hate mail Kirby and Simon were getting, he called up the two and told them we would authorize police protection of their office if they wanted: “You boys over there are doing a good job, The City of New York will see that no harm comes to you.”

Since then Captain America has continually been a symbol fighting against racism and discrimination in America. He fought with Falcon against racism towards African Americans in the 1960s, in the 1980s he defended gays, and in the 2000s he stood by Arab and Muslim Americans.

America has had a dark past and an uncertain present, but Captain America represents America’s possible future. He is a symbol of the fight against injustice, racism, and fascism; created and supported by those who see what this country could be.

jaylahb21

I finally finished my Dropbox if you reblog this I’ll send you the link FREE😋😋

oaluz

eartha kitt (and nat king cole) in st louis blues, 1958

midnightsisterart

metacrisisdoctor

lionfloss

Roadside Lights by Eiji Ohashi

crazy-brazilian

k-simplex-deactivated20241001

The grip he had on that leaf... he wanted to go up

moodycow210

This video reads like a Calvin and Hobbs comic

hometoursandotherstuff

I don’t believe it. Thanks, I hate it.

therobotmonster

Okay, here’s what the headline doesn’t tell you:

It was made by a single industrial design student as a project.

It’s mainly intended to provide a larger scale demonstration of how bees pollinate because actual bees are tiny and you can’t see what’s going on when they do it. It’s primarily an educational tool.

But aside that, if you ever wonder why scientists work on all these little patch solutions for large, systemic problems, its because the people doing science research are not the people deciding how national and international policy is made.

Every time a scientist talks about how they’re working on something like de-extinction projects or artificial albedo creation there’s the inevitable sneering about how “we should just not let the animals go extinct in the first place” or “we should cut back on carbon emissions” as if those were not decisions being made by governments and oligarchs.

An industrial design student’s authority in his society stops at “make a cute robot”.

And also, this is your daily reminder that “headlines are lies designed to make you mad and/or get you to read the article.”

fuckyeahanarchopunk

ibetyoushebangslikeafairyonacid

If you don’t feel any need to reblog this unfollow me.

grab-them-by-the-puppy

Seriously what the fuck you spent money on those donate to a homeless shelter instead you fucking demons

mydeardetective

This is more common than you may think. Many urban areas that have high homeless populations are using “defensive architecture” more and more. Sloped and divided benches to keep the homeless from sleeping on them. Spikes placed in sheltered areas where they tend to stay. City planners argue they are only trying to relocate the homeless, pushing them to see out shelters and homeless centers. But that rings hollow. They just want them out of sight. I don’t have a simple, easy solution. But this isn’t it. Making things harder for the homeless does not help them.

aminnablack

All these corporations have so much money to spend it on putting spikes on places where homeless people sleep yet absolutely NOTHING goes to those who are homeless. This country really doesn’t give a fuck about the well being of homeless people at all

lebritanyamor-deactivated202601

this is heartbreaking fr .

ithelpstodream

Photos of women of color from the Victorian era are hard to come by.

humans-must-be-the-heroes

“It’s no fun reading about somebody who’s perfect. You want to read about people that you can identify with…because we’ve all got problems and if you can create and write about a character who is flawed but manages to overcome those flaws…then I think that’s pretty good.” - Stan Lee (1922-2018)

•

You have only seen the beginning of your legacy, for legacies are like gardens — they grow until they become legends.

Excelsior!

proudbeukrainian

F