Sopotism Shall Rise

You can call me Sopot :) • He/Him • 21+ Lover of Joy | Believer of the Fact that Art is Inherent in all Life | Community over the Individual | Malaysian | Marxist-Leninist 🇵🇸 From the River to the Sea 🇵🇸

[justiceamberheard]

Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers

The actor and musician faces allegations from 10 women in total who say he mistreated them as teenagers.

Four women have accused Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct, with the alleged offences having taken place when they were teenagers.

In total, 10 women have spoken to the BBC documentary - Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret - with nine of them sharing their stories publicly for the first time.

All the women say they encountered Leto between 2002 and 2016, when he was in his 30s and 40s. He is now 54.

"This was 25 years ago… he has gotten away with it," says one of his alleged victims.

The BBC has corroborated a number of the women's accounts with friends and family who were told about the encounters with Leto at the time. In some cases, we have also seen pictures and messages that support the women's accounts.

[garysinises]

Reblogging to add this excerpt as well. 120.

[nohoperadio]

just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.

[tamamita]

Always center Palestinians in the conversation, because they are the ones being genocided, fuck Jewish feelings

[tamamita]

You either listen to the oppressed or the oppressor, Zionists are oppressors whether they are in New York, Tel Aviv or anywhere else. You don't listen to them

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[swagophile]

Other useful trueisms about coolness

People who think theyre cool generally are not

Cool people are also broadly actually not cool deep down

There's no such thing as a cool person. We are all dogs fighting for scraps

Soon this world will be given a new purpose. The existing social structures we know will crumble and collapse

All of you will succumb to my will.

[blackwatersinkingship]

When I finish this whale shark lamp all 4 of you are gonna be So I'm pressed

[blackwatersinkingship]

She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciöusee string

[god-sent-gender-bent]

Are you gonna show us the lamp? 👀

[blackwatersinkingship]

Good news! Whäle shark lämp 🥰

[hollyevolving]

A lot more than 4 of us are impressed

[riddlecats]

"Superheroes always stand in opposition to conservatism" looks inside most popular superhero in the world. recurring villain whose entire gimmick is based around having an evil alter that is represented through facial deformity. other recurring villain whose dynamic with the hero gets described as a "homophobic nightmare" by hero's most prolific modern author. other recurring villain based on fu manchu. yeah okay

[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofdrymice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[yet-another-heathen]

[queerasaurolophus]

Counterpoint: I think it absolutely would have been excellent to bring to their climate lit class. Like yeah, they worded it in terms associated with positive emotions, but if you assume good intentions? that’s a great idea actually—make college kids realize that climate change isn’t some distant thought experiment.

…Seriously y’all when did “assume best intentions” fall out of favor? I can 100% see this as an autistic person passing their thoughts through the “how people write on the internet” filter to mask and not realizing there’s a subtext. Like I get the sentiment but I think we need to actively try not to tear into each other when we’re grieving and upset.

[spreadsopotism]

"when we're grieving and upset" are you people incapable to not center everything around yourselves? You are not the victim here. Are you an agricultural labourer working for poverty wages under severe heat to the point of losing teeth? And you're other reblog is even more horrendous, "First they came for the neurodivergent people..." like oh my god we're not talking hypotheticals here they've already come to multiple groups of people that people like you have been ignoring for ages. The article is right there, read it. The people who are suffering are in front of your faces and you want to get into hypotheticals through misusing a poetry? The poem was also specifically a statement made after the state did go after the Jews, Communist and Queers, it's not even a hypothetical. What are you even on about? This is lame and embarrassing and for what? To make yourself feel better for defending a possibly autistic person leaving a tone deaf remark? What about OP or the other repliers who take issue with those tags? Is it impossible that any of them are autistic? Why defend autism only when it comes out as being offensive and hurtful? Oh it's okay to be racist and dehumanize others, as long as you're autistic?

[enba-and-luka]

He's such a cutie

[pukicho]

My doctor said an old crazy man is going to kill me. I didn’t come here to be given a harrowing horoscope. What do I do?

[bl00dl3ss-c0rps3]

kill every old crazy man you see

[pukicho]

It's the only way.

It's the only way.

[sanminzhuyi]

Ho Chi Minh's passionate greeting to Mao Zedong upon the former's arrival in Beijing for his first official visit, 1955.

[tiredguyswag]

rules to interact with westerners on this site if youre from the global south:

youre wrong

your problems dont exist

if they do exist, theyre not as bad as usamerican problems

if they are as bad as usamerican problems, theyre not as important

if they are as important, you should stop complaining about them not acknowledging it because they literally used your problem as a gotcha in an argument/a learning moment for the global north

youre not a real person

youre wrong

youre doing it wrong

[thepotatowithahat]

American war veterans will literally invade a country, bomb people's home, kill thousands of innocent people and leave them with crippling PTSD, and then go back home and complain about how bad they feel about it.

[mellodrammattic]

i hope every veteran who helped destroy my country is haunted by every life they ruined forever, those yankees don't deserve to know peace after what they've done

[morganitism]

"Hey stop donating to the fanfic website run by people who do Israel apologia and instead donate to the imperialist propaganda website run by people who do Israel apologia"

[morganitism]

This is about AO3 and Wikipedia in case it wasn't clear

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[transgendervoiceproject]

tumblr will nuke a trans woman for existing but seizure inducing “kill yourself” gifs are fine actually

[tamamoland-of-the-deep-abyss]

tumblr staff has stated directly that making death threats against transfems specifically is perfectly okay

and will then nuke the transfem receiving those death threats because she responded to one by saying "kys"

[butchstalinist]

Reminder that the fall of the Berlin Wall was a tragedy for humankind, and that Marxist-Leninist LGBT+ Liberation will always be superior to rainbow capitalism. ☭ 🏳️‍🌈 ☭ 🏳️‍⚧️ ☭

[butchstalinist]

Risen from the Ruins: The Economic History of Socialism in the German Democratic Republic

‘Risen from the Ruins’, the first edition of the new series ‘Studies on the DDR’, follows the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (

Studies on the DDR #2 - "Socialism is the best prophylaxis"

Although it existed for only 40 years, the German Democratic Republic (DDR) was able to construct and advance a fundamentally different heal

Some additional reading for people curious about the DDR/GDR! There will be a third article released from this organization all about the history of land reform in the DDR/GDR— that’ll be shortly released so here’s the full site to find it once it is. :3c

Studies on the DDR

It is precisely the everyday living conditions under socialism that appear increasingly hard to imagine in today’s capitalist reality. "Stud

[butchstalinist]

DAS ANDERE LEBEN

Im Episodenfilm DAS ANDERE LEBEN geben elf Interviewpartner aus der Sicht ihrer Lebensgeschichte Einblick in die Gesellschaft der Deutschen

Here is a great collection of interviews from various former DDR/GDR residents if anyone's interested (there's english subtitles) :0

[butchstalinist]

Also here's a good book:

Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It : John Green and Bruni De La Motte : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[butchstalinist]

THE UNTOLD SUCCESSES OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

4 part series on the GDR! ^

[smsomah]

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't see any good reason for institutions to hoard thousands of photos taken by people who are no longer alive, keep them hidden, and then make money from access and from people wanting to use them for their own projects or any other purpose. these images are part of our shared history, not commodities. they should be seen, not stay hidden.

[smsomah]

the asala collection (spanning 130 years, 355 albums/items, and more than 30.000 images) is a perfect example

the collection has been exhibited and promoted, & it is clearly an important historical archive. but who gets meaningful access?

a single rare photo album like those in collections such as this can cost thousands, putting them mainly within reach of wealthy collectors, universities, or museums.

these images are records of human history. when our shared visual heritage is locked behind ownership, price, and restricted access, most people lose the chance to see and learn from it.

they should be preserved, digitised & made accessible.

there is a pdf giving a glimpse into this huge collection; here. and this is only one collection; focused on the middle east & arabian peninsula. there are countless others.