MARS

[achillesinhighheels]

yasmin warsame for vogue germany 2003 by ruven afanador

[velvetys]

Getting kicked off love island for trying to poison the men

[paintingafterpainting]

Tippoo's Tiger, mechanical organ, about 1793, Mysore, India

[ilynpilled]

Safety Is When There’s No One Dying | Mary Turfah

The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund is based in the Blue Building, a medical center across from the American University of Beirut, in the

[friedricenietzsche]

[ilynpilled]

ID:

While I was in Beirut another doctor told me the story of a child from Gaza, who, after coming to Lebanon, learned that a man had died a natural death. This child did not understand. He did not know that death could come this way. It had to be explained to him, that people die of old age. The only cause of death the child knew was Israel. And he knew it well.

[argumate]

I keep thinking this! very frustrating

[argumate]

fuck!

[nourishingbroth]

torngat mountains | unknown photographer

[weird-ecologies]

Photo by Darroch Whitaker, Parks Canada

[guerillas-of-history]

PLO-IRA; One Struggle.” An Irish Republican mural expressing solidarity with Palestine. Northern Ireland, 1981.

[mickstart]

You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

[mickstart]

Demonitizing Irish people's videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.

[crazysodomite]

The popularity of the "incompetent stupid piece of shit husband and competent wife who loves him anyways" trope in media is a psyop to make women believe its normal to settle for an incompetent stupid piece of shit husband

[jadeseadragon]

Black vulture (Coragyps atratus), a.k.a. the American black vulture, Mexican vulture, zopilote, urubu, or gallinazo.

[07242024-deactivated20240725]

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

[followthebluebell]

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

[archivlibrarianist]

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.

Wikipedia’s article on Marion Stokes may be found here.

A documentary of her life, Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project, was released in 2019, and seems to have good reviews, though I have not yet seen it.

[aliensexdream]

From archive.org (Internet Archive) - The Marion Stokes Papers contain documents related to the life and activism of Marion Stokes (1929-2012), civil rights activist, feminist, and news archivist. Stokes’ social activist career began in the 1950s, and encompassed many areas of left politics during a particularly transformative time in America. Her groundbreaking television show (co-produced with her husband John S Stokes Jr), Input, addressed many pressing issues, and much of it remains relevant today. Additionally, Stokes amassed a huge archive of videotaped television news, which is slowly being made available through the work of the Internet Archive.

[xjmlm]

Ibrahim El-Salahi, The Bull and the Mint Shrub, 1972

[queer-as-city-folk]

Old man, sitting in the pool steps reading his book

[queer-as-city-folk]

Artists sketch

[spacemancharisma]

UNRESTRAINED SUMMER FUN

[queer-as-city-folk]

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

Fishies to make it all hurt less

[wilderbutch-deactivated20250413]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𓍊𓋼𖡼𖤣𖥧𓆏𖡼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𓍊𓋼𖡼𖤣𖥧𓆏𖡼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𓍊𓋼𖡼𖤣𖥧𓆏𖡼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊

Froggies to make it all hurt less

[tikser]

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(˚ˎ 。7

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じしˍ,)ノ

Cat to make it hurt less

[todaysbat]

Some bats to make you smile

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[waxenneat]

This was a man, dressed as a plant, making pigeon noises at people walking by. I said hello, asked if it was okay to take his picture, and then asked why he was dressed as a plant. He said, “I’m just working through some stuff. Thank you for asking. No ones asked yet.”

[anekie]

I’ve been dealing with stuff the wrong way. 

[kaylmao]