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Welcome! I started this blog to support and promote my side project, Something True and Beautiful.

This is an attempt to do something, anything, about the atrocities we are witnessing each day all around us. But instead of simply tearing something down, I wanted to try building something up.

This tweet has done numbers here on Tumblr, and has lived in my head and heart rent-free for years. It's easy to point at what sucks — I want to illuminate truths that all of us can believe in.

So check out our website.

Listen to some inspiring tunes.

$5 from every item purchased goes to Protect Democracy.

Stay optimistic. Be Kind. Be the change you want to see.

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lustik

Christine Tenenholtz.

taraljc

This is the most the ‘70s thing I have ever seen in my life and I grew up in the ‘70s and didn’t evolved like SO MUCH MORE wood paneling than you realise

itsmythang

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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jarenka

Multi billion dollar corporations: We make crap AI ads because we rather hang ourselves than pay an extra cent for a quality work.

Midsize art supply manufacturer: We commissioned a watercolor artist to make an illustration for every color of our watercolor palette and make it into an art book with swatches.

(Ekaterina Goland for "Old master" watercolors by Gamma)

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bowlby4

A mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame was unveiled in Roubaix, France, one day before the United States celebrates Independence Day on July 4. The mural, titled “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest,” was created by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, who painted the it over six days a building on Rue de Chemin-de-Fer. De Leeuw said the city of Roubaix "has a large migrant population, and many of them live in extremely difficult circumstances; the values that the statue once stood for—freedom, hope, the right to be yourself—have been lost for many,” she said.

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liberatingreality

If you’re only trying to be the opposite of a thing, you’re still letting that thing define you.

Claudia Gray

jkottke

From John Ganz in Nov 2024: “a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen”. Many have come to pass. The obstinance in recognizing what’s plainly happening here is upsetting — it wasn’t hard to see it coming.