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MY OWN THOUGHTS by Helena Minginowicz (Polish, b. 1984)

acrylic on paper towel, 23x48 cm, 2026

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toastbutteregg

hairscare

pisses me off when i see people on other platforms talk about "everyone" abandoning tumblr after the sex ban and what a big impact that had. THE WEAK LEFT THE STRONG SURVIVED. REAL TUMBLR USERS WILL NEVER STOP. they could make a new update where you can only post 3 words at a time and id still be on here like "hey guys whats"

sirfrogsworth

The dangers of being photographed by a photographer who doesn't like your fascist bullshit.

There is a crazy story by Vanity Fair about Trump staffers.

And some of the photography was... interesting.

Including these wild facial close ups.

There is ZERO retouching done on these. Which is very unusual for photos taken this close up. The expressions chosen are very odd. The lighting is a ring flash very far away (probably to create a catchlight in the eyes) and then another diffused light source from the side. The ring flash was placed below their eye line, so you get a tiny bit of that creepy uplighting like in a Frankenstein movie. And neither light source was placed very close so the harder light really shows every pore and wrinkle and lip filler injection site. (See: why hard light is bad for porn.)

Basically, he used the opposite of every technique one would employ to create a flattering photo.

But the reason I think this photographer twisted the knife to make these photos look worse was his use of white balance on Karoline Leavitt and Susie Wiles.

If you want to make someone look sickly and demonic, you make their skin tone less warm and add green. When I corrected the white balance on the photos, I discovered the photographer reduced warmth by about 15% and increased green by about 45%.

This is not a camera setting oopsie.

This is not artistic color grading.

This is a photographer thinking, "I'm gonna make these bitches green."

And when you see the photos adjusted to a neutral white balance, this act of photographic sabotage becomes clear.

The only other explanation would be that this photographer is incompetent. But when you look at his other portraits of them, they are quite well done and properly color graded.

So... yeah, he made them bitches green.

thefrogman

The photographer, Christopher Anderson, has spoken about these photos since they were released.

His book was called "Stump" and he extensively used this close up style of photo with no retouching and unflattering light.

His photo of Hillary was... intense.

Everyone is talking about the extreme, crunchy detail but no one is talking about the green. I have searched a great deal of his portfolio and I could not find a single example of him making people green.

I think his book gave him the precedent to say, "This is just my thing!" But I do think there is subtext where he is like, "I made these fascist bitches green."

His quote about Steven Miller was very telling.

Kaoru Yamada.

Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.

starfieldcanvas

They're right, though. Now is exactly the wrong time to make dramatic investment moves. Everybody's shit is doing the same thing; unless you need your retirement money in the next twelve months or whatever, you're better off leaving it alone and waiting for the eventual correction. Like, this is not a comforting lie, this is good advice!

digitaldiscipline

Adultier adult here, having had to talk to my retirement management people earlier this week. (I hate it. It's useless. But I told them to divest me from anything that holds TSLA in the portfolio/fund because Elon is an asshole and the company's financials are shit.)

This week has caused about three percent (3%) of my 401(k) to vanish.

And that's okay.

I can't touch that money without a tax penalty (or emergency) until the 2030's. It's not paying for cat food or keeping my electricity on. This is a privilege not everyone enjoys (yet).

If you're in a position to have any kind of investments, don't do anything rash and/or bananas with important chunks of money. (My financial guy gave me this advice, too. I specifically asked about cashing out the whole fucking thing.)

cyle

TUMBLR'S AGING USERBASE

strange-aeons

If tumblr dies for real where do you think people will migrate to?

sabrsiren-deactivated20250418

“You are in the embrace of the history” — Deir el-Bahri in Nile West Bank. Luxor, Egypt

“The first written words started here” — Uruk, Iraq (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

wanderinginjuly

relaxingthings

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apollowhore

neshamama

wish we had more internal organ emojis

gunsandfireandshit

Sending spleen emojis to my depressed friends to indicate that their excessive black bile is causing their melancholia

sufficientlylargen

The spleen is deep purple and slightly curved:

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So you can convey this with any emoji of similar color and shape. You could also indicate an excess of bile by showing liquid seeping out of the spleen, and of course melancholy is already covered by existing emoji, so to clearly communicate the message "I think you are depressed because your spleen has too much black bile" with existing emoji you should text your friend:

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