SideKickSaba

My name is Saba, and this Tumblr is wildly inconsistent. Queer demi pan, they/them. I love fan art, photos of nature, magic, sad songs, and silly things. Cheers :)

[gogomrbrown]

late capitalism sure is fun

[dripped-in-my-pearls]

When I got to the E-Trade one I thought “oh it’s satire haha I get it” and then I saw that it was a genuine ad campaign and now I think I will have a nap

[anarchblr]

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[accras]

“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]

[startrekrenegades]

[Dad: How’m I doing on your hair? Child: Good! Dad: Let’s see, do I need more grease? Child: Yes. You need more grease on there. Dad: More grease? And then what? Child: And then you gonna need to brush it, and then you put a band on there. Dad: A band on it? Child: Yeah! Dad: Aww.. Child: You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job! Dad: Aww, thank you, sweetheart, so much! Daddy’s trying, doing the best I can. Thank you so much. Child: You’re welcome! Dad: I’m almost done! Child: You been doing great! Dad: Aw baby, thank you so much, you’re so encouraging to Dad. Thank you. Child: You’re welcome. Dad: I really appreciate you so much. You’re so awesome. Daddy getting your ponytails ready for school.]

[gardnerhill]

Interrupting all the political ugliness to make you melt with cute.

[sangrexderramada]

Me as a father

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

this is so pure

[valerie1972]

Kids that age are parrots of tone and phrasing. So the whole bit with “You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job!” means that there is at least one adult, if not more, in her life that regularly talks to her that way.

Everything about this video makes me happy.

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

[mayflower-gal]

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

-Stephen Jay Gould.

[las-lus]

This quote is great because so was Einstein himself! He never saw himself as a genius, as a mind like no other. He saw himself as a guy who studied alot and he was very dedicated to give that opportunity to others. He also spoke very openly against racism and was one of the few professors that thought black people at the time. Here are some great pictures of him in 1946

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

Adding onto this: I really recommend Einstein’s short, entry-level essay “Why Socialism?”, found here. It’s ~10 min read and it does a great job of explaining the crux of socialism. 

Here are some of his major points:

The individual and society form a symbiotic relationship. A healthy individual needs a healthy society and a healthy society needs healthy individuals.

Capitalism undermines democracy by concentrating wealth into the hands of an economic elite, which in turn funds a political elite to represent its interests in government. The ultra-rich also control the media and educational systems to manipulate public opinion and prevent free thought. (Here Einstein is pre-empting Noam Chomsky and Ed Herman’s propaganda model).

Capitalism’s profit motive entails human needs going unmet to satisfy human greed.   

The “worst evil” of capitalism is the crippling of individuals, which begins in school where an exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student.

A transition to socialism is necessary to overcome these problems, and is in fact imperative to avert constant warfare and ecological catastrophe. We need a fully democratic society where society’s productive capacity is not concentrated into the hands of a few, but owned by workers and society itself. 

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[cxndaquil]

A moment in history

[jonsnowboard]

[woyaogaoxing]

These are fucking amazing

[mizjesbelle]

The figure swinging the earth –  The Force Of Nature by Lorenzo Quinn

The guy being dragged by a bird – part of an installation titled Hacienda Paradise – Utopia Experiment by Fredrik Raddum.

The balancing elephant – Balancing Elephant by Daniel Firman.

The tea splashes kissing – Kiss of Eternity by Johnson Tsang.

The figure emerging from the wall – Break Through From Your Mold by Zenos Frudakis

The meditating figure splitting apart – Expansion by Paige Bradley.

The horses running through water – Mustangs at Las Colinas by Robert Glen.

The giant peeking from under the lawn – Popped Up by Ervin Loránth Hervé

The man under the raining umbrella –  L’uomo della Pioggia (The Rain Man) by Jean-Michel Folon.

The huge bearded guy – The Appennnine Colossus by Giambologna.

The impossibly balanced stones on a beach – Untitled by Adrian Gray

The dragons with an egg – The Dragons in Love or The Varna Dragons by  Darin Lazarov.

The stairway to nowhere –  Diminish And Ascend by David McCracken

The underwater circle – Vicissitudes by Jason deCaires Taylor.

The epic warrior guy – General Guan Yu by Han Meilin

The sinking library –  Sinking Building Outside State Library, Melbourne, Australia.  I couldn’t find an artist’s name.

The giant hand holding a tree – The Caring Hand by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber

[setheverman]

what's your morning routine

suffering

[gobblechopstv]

[silver-tongues-blog]

sometimes i forget that bart is canonically a telepath

[popegoodvibes-returns]

HES A WHAT

[roosterreturns]

[strolling-in-the-moonlight]

5 states in the US have banned abortion from the point of heartbeat detection. Following that logic, I propose two additional policies:

1. Child support starts at the same point, including 50% of all medical bills

2. If the mother dies in mandated childbirth OR the child is stillborn, the father and doctor are charged with involuntary manslaughter.

See how keen they are on their “Pro-life” horseshit then.

[myothercarisauhaul-original]

3. Pregnant women can’t be in jail because the fetus would be in jail, and since it’s a full human you would be punishing an innocent person

[grungegoths]

[yorksilk]

why is this being reported like it’s a good thing? and it’s not just women who are at risk, I’m sure this would cause hell for illegal immigrants and people who are running from abusers

[cabyll-ushtey]

What would happen is: murder, sexual assault, home invasion, burglary, stalking, abuse, doxxing, kidnapping

And this goes for everyone, especially Poc, queer folks, disabled folks, immigrants and women.

(I most likely even forgot some.)

In short: hell would break loose. Sounds like a fucking black mirror episode.

[clatterbane]

Also, from another reblog:

(A little more on this: The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It)

[gardenofroseandthorn]

PALANTIR? ‘Cartoon villain’ indeed, what the fuck.

[berniesrevolution]

They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

by Andy Warner and Jess Parker

(Continue Reading)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[latinexplains]

After 20 painstaking years of research, Eva Ramon Gallegos, a Mexican scientist has finally developed a cure to eliminate 100 percent human papillomavirus and prevent the spread of cervical cancer among women. (x) (x) (x) Y’all they cured HPV

Yet Trump’s America wouldn’t want you to hear about this nor help it go mainstream

[yanimodowey]

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[throwingmuses]

[queenrecluse-deactivated2025062]

the doctors assigning me a sex at birth

[afairfight]

“… Sorry for saying BJ at the Oxfam Gala.” – Mae Martin on biphobia

[despairhasitsown-calm]

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Howl hits all of these somehow

[girlbossjodiarias]

[unending fart noise]

[bubblegum-pwussay]

They literally hate for employees to do anything but slave away I swear

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

This is literally my job I get all my work done in an hour and my boss always trying to catch me sitting down

[danielle-mertina]

Most office jobs really don’t require 40 hours a week of work. You should be able to just do what you need to do and then move on. Offices would be more efficient if people were rewarded (with going home) when they finish stuff early.

I don’t know why most jobs want you to sit doing nothing for like 8 hours a day. Who does that benefit?

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Psst it benefits an economy built on the premise that your time and energy are extremely limited.

[attickbird]

It’s also built.on the assumption that you’re supposed to be paid for time, not work. The employer here is irritated because the employee gets the same amount of work done in less time, but wants him to work more.for the same pay as others, focusing on time, not what’s actually getting done.

He’s telling his employees that the work doesn’t matter, as long as he owns them.for a certain time period and the work gets done in there somewhere.

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

I also want to make it abundantly clear this is why people say “fuck cops” and why “Blue Lives Matter” is bullshit. It may only be a “handful” of corrupt cops (which is also bullshit) but it’s the entire institution behind them that enables them and refuses to take any form of accountability. Every single cop is complicit. Every single one.