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i cant believe there are people who still havent seen this video
I could probably recite this entire video, word-for-word, on demand.
Goddamn, this is nearly thirty years old and it fits like a glove into contemporary shitpost cadence and aesthetics, this is High Art
idk if itβs more wild that this was actually made in 1990 or that 1990 was 27 years ago
Heβs Florida Man.
βPlace of Worshipβ
This is from Feb 2019!
A link to a Wikipedia article, and the bill.
YES!!
Conservatives are vehemently against making sure everyone has a day off to vote and that honestly tells you all you need to know about them.
Republicans are calling itΒ βA Power Grabβ
Whatβs it called when the people grab power from oligarchs? Oh yeah β democracy.
waitβ¦.are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldnβt concede to western oil demandsβ¦.and how that coup was the reason for the shahβs return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorshipβ¦..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???
No. No we donβt know about it.Β
Americans arenβt told this shit.Β
The only thing weβre taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) itβs where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. Thatβs it. Maybe if youβre lucky youβll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isnβt about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, itβs not important.
Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. Itβs not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shahβs return to power, and even then youβd be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: theyβre racist as shit) by the time they get there. And itβs almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.
The only reason I knew about it is because thereβs a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.
βAll the Shahβs Menβ by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.
I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people itβs insane.
Sheβs 60. She never heard of this.
As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.
He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fishΒ inΒ his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods. Β Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but thatβs a side tangent.
And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said βYeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasnβt surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldnβt they resent us for that?β
And she just looked floored.
βSoβ¦β She started, after a few minutes. βWhat do you think of Trump?β
βI hate him. Heβs a coward and heβs going to get good people killed.β He didnβt even blink. β
She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.
βI research things.β I said. βGoogle is great.β He nodded enthusiastically.
And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, βI didnβt know.β
She lived through it.
American schools donβt teach you any of this sort of thing.
Reblogging this because itβs never too late to start learning about this kind of stuff. If youβre reading this and you arenβt familiar with the stuff above, start reading about it. It is vitally important that you have knowledge of recent US history to understand the problems that weβre living with today.
Our political and economic systems are deeply and seriously broken and we cannot fix them until everyone learns to see it. And we live in a country where people try to make sure that children donβt learn these things as part of our history. Intentionally.
This is what Kurt Cobain wanted.
He would fucking love this.
WHEREβS THE FULL VERSION OP
The brain is just 8 lbs of meat that sits in complete darkness and plays a video game of what it thinks is the most realistic thing ever.
itβs 3lbs, not 8. also itβs not really meat, itβs mostly fat with some water and salt. You have a wad of soggy bacon inside your skull. And this blob of gross unprocessed jello somehow manages to run a complex biomechanical suit using less electricity than it takes to work a lightbulb. And people wonder why humans are so fucking weird and have odd experiences that arenβt actually real. I mean, if a bowl of tapioca pudding managed to hallucinate so vividly it invented calculus, it also going βdude, i heard a weird noise and iβm 100% sure it was the ghost of the neighborβs cat which hasnβt actually died yetβ would be just as expected as anything else.
Omfg dying
lukas.schlagenhauf
Milky Way time lapse on top of the Grosser Mythen above the sea of fog.
Iβve been waiting for that possibility quite some time.
Fantasy Is A Metaphor For The Human Condition, a comic about magic, and art, and speculative fiction, and being sick, and how they all intersect. Originally laid out/pencilled November-December 2017, when I was in a very difficult place emotionally as I was relearning how to draw post-brain injury.
See more of my Brain Injury Comix at this link & in Dirty Diamonds #9: Being
THIS IS AMAZING
One of my fav comics
imagine the sweetest guy in the world but he shouts every word he says
Whatβs better than one octopus? A THOUSAND OF THEM
πππππ! While diving in the deep waters of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, researchers aboard the E/V NautilusΒ came across more than a THOUSAND octopuses! These octopuses β Muusoctopus robustus β were in a likely brooding posture. They were tucked into nooks in the seafloor with their arms inverted, covering their bodies and white egg clusters.
Yes, those white dots are all octopuses. Hereβs a closer view of one of them:
(Isnβt she beautiful? Thatβs her siphon that sheβs showing off. Octopuses squeeze water through their siphon to swim and steer. They also use their siphon to blow oxygen-rich water gently over their eggs.)
The octopuses were near shimmering fluid seeps, which were previously unknown to occur in this region. Near the octopuses, you can see sea anemones, sea snails, and other organisms. This dive was at about 3,000 meters (1.9 miles). We have footage of the octopuses for you, too:
The E/V Nautilus is currently in port to repair its ROV cable, but should be out at sea again soon! Find photos, videos, and information about the expedition here, and visit nautiluslive.org to watch the dives.
(GIF 1 description: Many white octopuses resting on the seafloor. GIF 2: An octopus rests on the seafloor and displays her siphon through her arms. GIFs/video credit: Ocean Exploration Trust/NOAA)Β
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Do not let them consume you. They donβt define who you are.
Ok but as a dysphoric trans man the whole βyou need dysphoria to be transβ actually baffles me because even tho Iβve always has crippling dysphoria, it didnβt actually help me figure out my gender at all. I usually dismissed my dysphoria as βinternalized misogynyβ or just not being feminine enough, which actually just caused me worse dysphoria.
You know what made me figure out that Iβm trans though? Gender euphoria. The minute I got called a βsirβ is the moment that I realized, βshit this feels right.β And at that point I realized that I could no longer deny the fact that Iβm not a woman and that I couldnβt keep living as one.
Hereβs a hot take: maybe being trans isnβt so much about how uncomfortable you can be in your AGAB, but rather how much more comfortable you can be.
I stand corrected
mikeβs hard look at yourself
Over the Garden Wall is great because you can watch the entire thing in an hour and fifty minutes and then think about it nonstop for the rest of your life.
did you know that in 1953 eisenhower issued an executive order which banned gay people from being employed in government
and it was specifically to root out lesbians who enjoyed the job security of government work
βTo protect their careers, lesbian government workers moderated their behavior to avoid suspicion. They refused to socialize with other lesbians in public, attended social functions with gay men as their βdates,β and carefully chose their wardrobes and makeup to project a feminine persona. Male employees who resented reporting to a female boss could trigger an investigation into her sexuality.β - Robert J Corber βCold War Femmeβ
this era was called the lavender scare and was both a direct result of mccarthyism and the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness during ww2. over 10,000 lesbians and gay men lost their jobs and as a result the daughters of bilitisΒ (the first ever lesbian activist group in the u.s.) formed in order to protect themselves and gay men
Important history
and itβs John Kerryβs apology for these events that was removed from the State Department website days after Trump took office Β
