Slow Regard...

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

[shatteredstarlight45-deactivate]

Google doc is here

Discord is here

(If the links don’t work, feel free to hit me up and I’ll try to connect you!)

[aftabkaran]

Help Iranian people in their fight against religious fundamentalists by spreading the news.

[nothingbutloveforyou]

as a persian girl i really wish that everyone informs themselves about the protests in Iran !!! people have no internet access, are being k!lled and beaten to d3ath on the streets. the whole political system is a joke and a threat to human rights for all people in that country. it is my duty to use my voice for these people who aren't able to do so and i hope you do the same!!!

this is a women's rights issue and a human rights issue.

[shintin]

Don't let politics and borders distance us from one another. Please be Iranian voice...

[bundibird]

Photo from the protests in Iran over the murder of Mahsa Amini. (Source)

(Can someone translate the text in this photo? I'd like to add a caption but I don't know what it says and I can't paste it into a trasnation app.)

Edit: thanks everyone who's added a translation!! I've reblogged it a couple times with the translations but I'll add one here to the original post too (thanks @pineapplecrispy!)

[aftabkaran]

Be our voice. Help spread the news.

[you-are-another-me]

[ousia-poetica]

What will the animals think of the human being? Felicia Chiao´s

[strongermonster]

the joke writes itself huh

[aftabkaran]

People protect a woman who is burning her scarf

[natalieironside]

If you tell the average person "Yeah, back in the 80s the CIA was funneling cocaine into the US and helping spread crack into Black neighborhoods in order to raise money for fascist militias in South America, and then a journalist broke the story & he 'committed suicide' by shooting himself twice in the back of the head," they're gonna look at you like you're rambling about chemtrails and space aliens, but that's just like...a thing that happened. They made a movie & everything.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Twitter users are defending their right to assume Picasso was a renaissance artist. Tiktok users think watching any film made outside the US makes you a snob. “Replace classic lit with YA and fan fiction” discourse is flourishing. I think we’re just living in anti intellectual times.

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

it's not anti-intellectualism it's anti-snobbery

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Let me ask you this: how many “snobs” have you actually met? Because I have met many people who take interest in art history, watch vintage film or films from films from outside the US (which by the way are not all “arthouse” films), or read and cherish historically and culturally significant literature. But I have never met anyone who will treat me like I’m a bad person for watching Mama Mia or just wanting to be entertained once in a while. I have, however, met people who think art history is stupid and pointless and that those who study it deserve to live in poverty, who are xenophobic and dismissive toward any art made outside the US (or western Europe for that matter), or roll their eyes at people who read literature they consider boring because they’ve never given it a try. In fact, most of the people I know who you would consider “snobs” out of projected insecurity are cautious to bring up their interests because they think they’ll be made fun of. Is anti intellectualism “anti elitist?” At times, but it’s the sort of pseudo populism that fits comfortably within contemporary right wing discourse. Have you paid any attention to politics the last decade or so? If you are allergic to culture and new information, fine. Just don’t claim the moral high ground for it.

[pettydavis]

you could have just asked for her wig instead of snatching it like that

[liberalsarecool]

[uppityfemale]

[ubernegro]

When you just wanted to support people’s creativity and aspirations, but ended up as a vehicle for their healthcare and living expenses.

[fieldbears]

Dan Spoon finally decided to get political about it

[s-leary]

“Are you doing all right?”

“I run a website that hosts popularity contests where if you lose, you die. Would you be doing all right?”

[sosuperawesome]

Embroidery Art

Black Cat Creative on Etsy

[steampunktendencies]

Kevin Lenaghan, “Stairway”, “Glass Palace”, and “Crystal Stairway” (2021)

[theconcealedweapon]

Notice that the cop's response is to defend the hypothetical bad cop, not to distance himself and other cops from the bad cop.

If bad cops were rare, there'd be no desire whatsoever to defend them.

[i-mister-completely]

Hello, 9-1-1? I’d like to report a murder. Some kid just killed a cop. The weapon? Stone cold facts.