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Charlize Theron as Mary Ann Lomax The Devil’s Advocate (1997) dir. Taylor Hackford

“I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to the sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There’s an element, it has always seemed to me, of bewilderment and complaint. Now that may sound very harsh, but the gay world as such is no more prepared to accept black people than anywhere else in society. It’s a very hermetically sealed world with very unattractive features, including racism.”

— James Baldwin, from a 1984 interview given with Richard Goldstein, in the Village Voice

vital-dust

achillesinhighheels

cyberpunkpavlichenko

Sleep Dealer - Wikipedia

I don’t actually have more than a passing interest in cyberpunk truth be told.

But I have repped this Mexican cyberpunk film from 2008 about a near future in which the border has been permanently closed but the need for Mexican labor persists and Mexican workers are forced to install electronic nodes into their bodies to connect to robots that do manual labor like construction and agriculture in the United States remotely from Mexico. Also explores drone warfare and water privatization.

cyberpunkpavlichenko

kaylmao

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

kaylmao

YES!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lilacchao

of note: 95% of libya is desert, and giraffes are not found there! but this predates not just the libyan desert, but the entire sahara desert it's a part of! giraffes aren't found there any more and this is a memory of a time when things were giraffier

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

and we have pictures of giraffes of the time! what a beautiful gift from such a distant past

memory-thought

king-the-pathetic

The thing about being autistic with low support needs is that non autistic folks can't tell that you're autistic but they know that something is Wrong with you.

This makes them uncomfortable. And they don't know how to deal with that feeling so surely you must be punished

worldsandemanations

'Marsh Moon'. Naomi Tydeman.

decapod-of-the-day

Decapod of the day: Coenobita scaevola | Red Sea Land Hermit Crab

bunbuttbread

Because Tumblr is very English speaking and some ppl like France a little too much I just want to remind you of a few things:

- France abolished the Code Noir 2 months ago. That law project that said hey you can enslave, mutilate, kill, cross breed, etc. black people at will bc they're not people they're property ? Yeah. Abolished 2 months ago. We are in July 2026.

- the last human zoo closed its doors in 1994 in France due to social pressure. Not bc they were running out of business, no. Ppl still visited that place until it closed its doors. No, it was bc (black) French people were fed up. That human zoo was specialized in displaying black (presumed Congolese) people in fake huts in enclosures, for white entertainment.

- now while this might no longer be the case, when I was growing up, I went to a French school (as in. It was an international French School w the French flag n all) and the way we were taught French geography was that France has the biggest and largest access to the sea in the world. And they'd show us a map of France and its colonies around the world. It's all occupied indigenous lands. I don't know if they still teach that. I hope not. But they absolutely did until I graduated high school in 2017. Again, I write this on July 21st 2026, for the record.

Anyways that's all I have for now. Y'all don't hate France enough. Y'all need to hate France more.

apricops

it used to be that “fascism is aesthetics as politics” was the sort of thing that took several steps to demonstrate, but now everyone in roman-column twitter says “my ideal world is this AI generated picture of a centurion driving a spaceship” and you don’t even have to draw any connections to anything they just say it out loud.