[papasmoke]

Losing my mind remembering that pic chelsea manning posted of the extremely undercover and not at all obvious fbi agent who was tailing her after her release

[papasmoke]

[verminsblood]

what kind of sixth sense do american have to recognize fbi agents that easily

[demonius-darkblade]

to paraphrase her, its always the shoes.

[pedro-martines]

americans please explain to a foreigner, he looks like some random dude to me

[imnotafeddammit]

1. They all have the same haircut, almost everybody in law enforcement and the military have the same haircut due to regulations.

2. They all wear the same shoes. Same boots, and same overpolished dress shoes.

3. They act different. Shifty eyed and always on their own.

4. They’re kinda really bad at their jobs. I’ve encountered plenty of “undercover” cops outside of bars that ask questions no regular person in their right mind would ever ask. “How are you getting home?” “Who did you come here with tonight?”

5. America is a police state on a budget. Most officers are poorly trained, fbi agents require a 4 year degree (I think), but lord knows how much training they actually get. And the dumb kids from your high school always become cops.

It’s always the dense as a brick kid, with something to prove that becomes a cop. The kid that mouth-breathed and couldn’t chew gum and walk at the same time.

[derkartoffelkonig]

Their shirts are never form fitting so they can conceal a weapon and cuffs.

Always look at the watch, it’ll be expensive but in neutral tones (uniform standards strike again).

They will always sit where they can see their target and the nearest exit.

They will have a partner who is less obvious but wil point a recording device (phone or camera) at you. Check elevated positions, it gives them the clearest view to track you and keep an eye on their partner at the same time.

[jimmyfury]

One time when i lived in phoenix, I was driving home through residential streets from Panda Express on April 20th and there was a 40something year old white man standing quite literally in the MIDDLE of the fucking road wearing a brand new straight from the store weed jersey (jersey #420 with a big pot leaf), a wornout old raiders hat, regular-fit straight leg jeans, and cop shoes. This man proceeded to try to wave me down to stop since I was driving slowly (again, residential neighborhood) and as he did so fully yelled “You buying bro? You buying? 420 bro 420 you buying?”

I almost choked laughing so hard. I couldn’t stop myself from just yelling “NO THANK YOU OFFICER” as i drove by him.

[brunhiddensmusings]

for the past 60 years law enforcement, military, and even literal espionage/intelligence based organizations have assumed that rigid conformity to dress code was more important then actually training how to go undercover, blend in, or understand what the fuck theyre doing largely because the ‘we are infallible’ mindset is too strong for them to consider they might not be doing very good

[official-lucifers-child]

shoutout to the two “undercover cops” who were at my school to monitor the student body for a week, acting like “substitute assistants” and literally all of the kids immediately recognised them as cops and everyone would address them only as “officer” which annoyed the hell out of them because “we aren’t cops” like sir you literally have your badge in your back pocket and a taser what fucking substitute assistant would have an actual police badge and a whole ass taser??

[crazy-pages]

Just a casual reminder that this is what secret police are. Like, this is the literal definition. Police who are (badly or otherwise) pretending to not be police.

[swampgallows]

i know this has eight billion notes already but i love sharing these images

[chaoticchickengremlin]

This thread reminds me of this story lol

[inghrafn]

From Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test:

[hearthfire-heartfire]

I’m gonna go ahead and put a caveat here because undercover cops are easy to spot, but they recruit too. informants are harder to pin down and they are infinitely more effective. Red Fawn Fallis very likely had a gun planted on her at Standing Rock by her partner of a couple years who was an FBI informant. Fred Hampton was drugged and killed by COINTELPRO thanks to an informant in the Black Panthers. the US federal government, like any effective system, has lots of redundancy built in. yes, undercovers are easy to clock and avoid, but they are also essentially a lure to collect more valuable players. all it takes is busting the one person vulnerable enough to take a deal instead of prison time. feel free to ridicule, just don’t underestimate their potential to do damage if you find yourself near one.

[genderwizard]

wizard hat cowboy brim

[wizardsisananimal]

[trickstertime]

[witch-without-gender]

Witch o’ the Wild West

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

[gaycism]

anyone need serotonin?

[grrspit]

I didn't know they could do bipedalism

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

HASSIDRISS “She Rises At Dusk” fall 2020 collection p.1

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Inky Month Illustrations by CinnamonDevil

[insecuredragon]

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

THIS IS A TRUMPET

THIS IS A TROMBONE

THIS IS A TUBA

AND THIS IS A FRENCH HORN

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

[jackadittyditty]

You mean trumpet

Slidey Trumpet

Big ass trumpet

Drunk Trumpet

[insecuredragon]

I’M GONNA PUNCH YOU

[random-homestuck-things]

My sides

[mosaicabstract]

AT LEAST YOUR INSTRUMENTS LOOK DIFFERENT 

[mrchrismad]

those are some fancy guitars

[thepantaloons-deactivated201609]

EXCUSE YOU THAT IS A BASS, A VIOLIN, A FIDDLE, AND A VIOLA

[charlesoberonn]

Those are big mama violin and her little violings

[cannedcream]

String trumpets.

[goddammityouscrewedupagain-blog]

THATS NOT A BASS YOU DICK THATS A CELLO GET UR FUCKIN STRING INSTRUMENTS RIGHT JFC

[spacememepng]

things heating up in the orchestra fandom

[xxhorsmaxx-deactivated20260511]

I know what a trumpet is I play one

[lemon-catto-deactivated20200427]

Time to reblog this and give my friends a stroke

[funkiidoinkz-deactivated2020072]

Being a past trumpet player and now a French horn this post makes me very angery

[mystic-quartelz-deactivated2019]

I tap keys

[zzoupz]

But hey what about

[h-cand-deactivated20210530]

Wow… Those are really strange trumpets, where did you get them from?

[faustandfurious]

What about this six-string viola I found?

[verycorrectlotr]

acoustic trumpet

[faustandfurious]

#m gonna punch you

Violins is never the solution

[lakeffectqueer-deactivated20240]

my favourite instrument is this weird fiddle

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

oh look its gotten worse since I last seen it

[sea-anon]

Those are all some pretty weird saxophones

[marching-band-hell]

No they’re obviously deformed piccolos

[bean-is-in-the-void-deactivated]

No, they are defective flutes, that’s super obvious

[axolotluv]

These pianos are weird

[daughter-of-hades1218-deactivat]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[stimman4000]

aurorabyz

[stimman4000]

jieax

[aurevoir-mes-amis-deactivated20]

This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!

[recycled-soul-deactivated201401]

This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.

[riskpig]

WHAT?

[endangeredslug-deactivated20170]

The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.

[riskpig]

WHAT?????

[thegrimmlovely]

Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?

[willowofthehearth]

Because the men in charge only care about the health and safety of women in so far as it enables them to have babies.

[mayothefirst]

https://www.healthline.com/health/air-embolism#outlook

[eattherich73]

Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.

[smooththegoofyshark]

WHAT THE FUCL I hate how I didn’t learn this in sex Ed AT ALL

[jehovahhthickness]

This is very true lol

[bundibird]

Yo what the f u c k

[safifonhasstrel]

[archangeltwins]

not the normal stuff i’d reblog but, uh, this is kinda??? heckin???? important?????

[thesaltofcarthage]

I feel like I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, but it’s definitely a thing.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

What the fuck

[gotterhag]

[panomoly]

i-

….thank you tumblr??

[awed-frog]

Digital artist Daniel Voshart recreates the ‘real’ faces of Roman emperors thanks to machine learning. You can learn more about the process, discover more emperors or buy a poster here.

[Marcus Aurelius]

[Lucius Verus]

[Trajan]

[pp-haver]

NO WAY IN HELL WERE THEY THIS WHITE

[a-themosthappy]

Today we are going to discuss a very serious topic: individuals who think that Italic people were POC.

[awed-frog]

I went down a rabbit hole of DNA studies trying to understand why people on tumblr seem to think the Romans were not white, and here are a few thoughts:

in Europe, ‘white’ isn’t a thing

in the sense that there are so many shades of white, it doesn’t really mean anything

like, Spanish white and Swedish white are different things, but we wouldn’t consider either ‘non-white’ or ‘whiter’

you can generally tell where someone’s from, but there are people who ‘look out of place’ a bit everywhere

either because recent or century-old migrations, or because of a previous population that lived there and then the borders moved or something

and: in a nutshell, Italian geography discourages friendships

that means that before the Romans came along, people generally kept to themselves, so there’s more genetic diversity the farther back you go

at some point in the Neolithic, there were non Indo-European tribes living in Italy, but we don’t know exactly where they came from

the Indo-European people, on the other hand, probably invaded from the North

except for the Etruscans, because as it turns out, Herodotus was right (AGAIN! HAHHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT HATERS) and they actually came from somewhere in modern Turkey

which still doesn’t mean they weren’t white, btw

even today, there’s plenty of people in the Middle East who look like this:

[top to bottom: a Kurdish fighter; Iranian politician Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; Syrian writer Samar Yazbek]

so the notion of ‘race’ as it’s understood in the US doesn’t really work elsewhere

if it even works in the US, that is

so anyway, from what we know from literary sources, the Romans weren’t incredibly dark

(btw people abroad, and especially Americans, tend to have a fixed idea of what Italians look like and act like)

(but most of the Italians who emigrated to the US came from four Southern regions - Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, and Sicilia - and because Italy basically became a united country, like, 20 years ago, it’s still a very diverse nation)

(so what you think of as a ‘typical’ Italian is probably the great-grandnephew of a ‘typical’ resident of one small village in Sicily)

and the ‘typical’ Roman you often see in movies, with tanned skin, dark eyes and curly black hair, probably wasn’t a ‘typical’ Roman at all

those traits are way more common in some areas of the South - where about 37% of the population has Greek DNA because ancient colonies

so while blond hair probably wasn’t really common (we can tell because it was greatly admired and sought after, and people generally like what they don’t have), neither were darker skin and black hair

in fact, a lot of politicians and other VIPs are described in the texts as having light eyes (light blue, green and gray) and some had blond or red hair

others died their hair blond with pigeon poop, but that’s another story

so the bottom line is - like modern inhabitants of Italy, ancient Romans were white, but in many cases you could probably tell from where their family came from, and some were ‘whiter’ than others depending on their ancestry

that said, the European past was a lot more diverse than our instinctive perception of it

there was a lot of trade going on, slaves from conquered lands, wealthy and poor people roaming about, and units of foreign-born Roman soldiers in unlikely places, so that’s something to keep in mind.

As a bonus for reading this far, here is a smiling wolf.

(Also please stop saying those guys are chads, daddys and DILFs. Most of them were dangerous sociopaths who’d feed you to their pet eels if they could.)

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

@ink-phoenix uh. Have at it?

[ink-phoenix]

OP forgot to add these:

Pertinax

Caracalla: (UL) Vatican Museum; (UR) Met, NYC; (LL) The Severan Tondo; (LR) Naples National Archaeological Museum

Philip the Arab: (L) Vatican Museum

244–249 (died aged 45 — Killed in the Battle of Verona by Decius

Quintillus [Marcus Aurelius Claudius Quintillus]

Florianus

Carinus

Numerian

To add to the commentary above, many of the greatest men in Roman history came from provinces outside of the Italian Peninsula, but they were and have since been considered Roman (examples: the emperor Trajan was from Hispania, and Septimus Severus was born in an African province).

Later in Roman history, under Caracalla (who was born in Gaul and of mixed Berber and Syrian descent, so another Roman figure not Italian-Roman) in 212 AD all free men in the entire Roman Empire was granted citizenship. That meant that any Germanics, Africans, Latins, Hispanics, Syrian, etc. were all considered Roman! Regardless of race.

This is what encompassed the Roman Empire:

So you can imagine the intermixing that went on at the time and how the concept or “white” the way America presents it is absolutely inconsequential for the time period we’re talking about.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Commune cities formed, autonomous republic that survived exclusively on Marine trade with Spain, Africa, and East India. Amalfi, Gaeta and Venice in the 11th century were already autonomous maritime republics. Around 1100, Genoa, Pisa and Ancona emerged as independent maritime republics too.

Trade, shipbuilding and banking helped support their powerful navies in the Mediterranean in those medieval centuries. Immigration and ethnic inter-mixing was pretty common — to the point that Italians to this day look as varied and different from north to south and from city to city as it behooves the multicultural and trade-rich peninsula it always was.

[awed-frog]

Thank you for the great addition, @ink-phoenix! 

(Just in case there’s any doubt, the reason I didn’t include them is because I had no idea this post would be so popular and literally screenshotted the first twenty emperors on the chart to save time - and also they’re the ones I know best, there were people there I’d literally never heard of - like Ulpia Severina, I had to go and Google her.)  

[caledoniaseries]

An American friend of mine, while casting for a film, complained that she kept getting “white men” applying to a role she’d advertised as “Mediterranean”. 

I showed her a photo of the man who plays the angel in my film, who is both quite evidently white and is also from Greece, born and raised. Many other directors replied and told her that “Mediterranean” can mean just about anything. This same actor told me that he had responded to several auditions asking for “Mediterranean” looks, and would then tell him that he was not what they were looking for, because by “Mediterrranean” they meant “a darker skin tone”. He’d explain the same thing to them and when they’d double down on their description being accurate, he’d say, “But I’m Greek!” 

Additionally, the Guanche - the native tribes of the Canary Islands - were white, despite the islands being located off the coast of northern Africa. The same is true of the modern-day Amazigh Berber people, who the Guanche are said to be related to. Skin tone and skin colour are extraordinarily varied throughout Europe and indeed the world.

[bellybuttonblue-deactivated2021]

[forcedfarce44]

[omartheon]

For those interested in a very detailed video on the history of the USPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A 

[derpypandaqueen]

Since I know none of yall have lost your energy for supporting black people right now, you should check out this blog with over 1000 black-owned online shops.

https://themadmommy.com/black-owned-etsy-shops/

[fireandwonder]

It’s organized by category (so it’s not as overwhelming as it sounds) and there’s an LGBT section!

[stimman4000]

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[comicsareforkids]

Fourth in a series I of comics about protesting safety tips I made with @this.is.ysabel . This one is about the dangers of police surveillance and how to avoid it if possible. Keep being safe when you go out. Don’t get snatched!

[grlquartz]

hey y’all! wanna take a minute of your time to help fight for the USPS?

if you haven’t heard, tr*mp is refusing to help the postal service financially during this pandemic (and beyond) in an effort to starve it of funds/resources and kill it off so it can be privatized. also:

obviously this is not great, as tons of us rely on the USPS for all kinds of different reasons, and the privatization of this essential service would have a dramatic effect on the entire nation. namely: voting by mail would become nonexistent (❗️), and the cost of shipping mail and goods will change astronomically.

if this sounds terrible to you (and if you live in the us, then it should!), then text USPS to 50409 to sign the petition and instantly send a signed letter to your senators and representatives. it’s fast, easy, and it’s action that you can take right now.

the letter urges your senators to make the financial support of the USPS a priority, and outlines why the USPS is an essential service in our country that must be defended. here’s my letter:

don’t want to use the text service/send an electronic letter? mail a paper letter to your senator’s office.

you can also call your senators and house representatives at [phone] and urge them to support the USPS financially.

you can also buy a roll of stamps right now to help financially support the USPS on an individual level!

in conclusion: please take a minute to help support the USPS in any way you can. this is an important issue that affects all of us here in the US.

it would be AWESOME if you could reblog this & spread it, or if you’d rather not reblog this post, then i encourage you to make your own post on the social media of your choice and share with your friends.

thx!

[hashtagloveloses]

FYI: Petitions and form letters are often ignored by Congressional offices. Call your state’s US Senators and demand they work to pass S. 2965 the USPS Fairness Act, which passed the House and has been sitting in the Senate since FEBRUARY 2020.

S.2965 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): USPS Fairness Act

Summary of S.2965 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): USPS Fairness Act

The American Postal Workers Union has a good explainer on this, as well as Last Week Tonight. Even before Trump’s DRASTIC directive to screw over USPS, a 2006 law from the Bush administration and Republican-led Congress has basically slowly led to the US postal service’s decline, and this is a final nail in the coffin.

The TLDR is that that 2006 law required the USPS to pre-fund postal workers health care benefits for 75 years, which meant they had to have money for employees who weren’t even BORN yet.

Support the USPS Fairness Act

For over a decade, the United States Postal Service has been plagued with the onerous burden of prefunding its retiree health care benefits

Here is more on this issue:

Also, the issue with Trump’s latest target at the USPS isn’t just refusing coronavirus aid. His new appointee to lead it is now purposely handing down directives to restrict employee overtime and late delivery trips so that mail delays start to pile up. The guiding slogan was “every piece, every day.” Now it’s “get in, get out.” Just like Betsy Devos forcing schools to reopen, this will destroy trust in these systems, force reliance on private companies, which is exactly what Trump and the businesspeople he appoints want a) as capitalists and b) to surpress people further as they become more reliant on worse and more expensive services.

Mail delays likely as new postal boss pushes cost-cutting

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general.

[theartingace]

Ohh, finally this one has actionable things to yell at our senate about!

Contact your senators! Just send them a quick email telling them to get their butts in gear! pass S. 2965

https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[hearthome-deactivated20210601]

Additionally, if you are financially able to, buy stamps, bags, and other merch from the USPS to support it. It has many cute stamps, lovely tote bags, prints, and many other items in their “gifts” category of the USPS store.

[evileidolons]

if you dont feel inclined to buy stuff from usps just look at what they have! cute stamps!! rat mug!!! a crop top!!?! make a phone call to your senators and buy some stuff!

[thiiccwick]

PLEASE READ !!!

Sign the Petition

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[peaceandcoolvibes]

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