The Real K.L.T.

I'm Kyle. I reblog things and write stuff. My Carrd

[therealklt]

I’m a social media influenza. 

[orphanbird95]

Sam Neill, ‘Jurassic Park’ Star, Dies at 78

Sam Neill, the versatile actor whose was highlighted by appearances in the blockbuster 'Jurassic Park' franchises, has died. He was 78.

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[tropiyas]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

New York empties out on holidays, so this little Dachshund had Madison Avenue at 30th Street all to himself. July 4, 1958.

Photo: Associated Press via Stuff Nobody Cares About

[therealklt]

@staff Settings toggle idea: "I'm not interested in any communities."

[cathkaesque]

It is so disingenuous when supermarkets have "grown by: Farmer X" on their packaging because it's like, I'll be looking at a pack of strawberries grown by farmer x and he'll actually be the managing director of a fruit farm that employs 2,000 people as pickers!

[jambeast]

It feels like the mental idea of what a "farmer" is hasn't caught up with the economic reality of the past 200 years, where people hear "farmer" and think of small, rural, poor, honest (and specifically ethnically and culturally native) subsistance living, and not essentially a factory owner where the factory is made of dirt and manufactures strawberries, staffed by hundreds of cheap immigrant labourers.

Labourers who, it seems, are rarely ever *referred to* as 'farmers', despite being the ones who do the farming, as opposed to being the ones who own the farm.

[digital-magus]

"a factory owner where the factory is made of dirt" is an excellent summation that also gives me a slight but acute pang of existential dissociation

[therealklt]

To contribute further to this discussion:

The majority of American so-called "farmers" are millionaire landlords who inherited their land from their parents, who likely inherited it from theirs, and who know precious little about agricultural science. They couldn't tell loam from clay. The person who actually runs the farm is usually the farm manager, employed by the "farmer," and they still require agricultural consultants to tell them how to do it well.

[seasonofhorror]

US

2019, dir. Jordan Peele

[therealklt]

I don't know about the son of God stuff, but I think Jesus was a social scientist. When he said to love your enemies, he may have understood that ostracization accelerates further radicalization. Then again, that quote is from the Book of Matthew, likely not written by Matthew at all, 50 years after Jesus was dead, so maybe it was really the unidentified Greek guy who was the social scientist. Either way, good advice.

[handlinepic]

[manderley]

THE SEARCHERS dir. John Ford (1956)

[therealklt]

Sports fans will pay $400 for tickets to Mastercard Stadium to cheer for a team owned by a Comcast subsidiary. They’ll accept a 4,000% markup at the concession stand, then spend more on merch produced in factories where workers are paid 80 cents an hour. They’ll sit through jumbotron ads for wireless providers for 3 hours to watch 20 guys they don’t know play a game, each earning around $100,000. And then they’ll walk out, stoked, saying, “We won!”

[newyorkthegoldenage]

An NYPL bookmobile, 1924.

Photo: Alamy

[therealklt]

Being disparaged as a "centrist" for supporting practical, incremental compromises and pragmatism is really funny, if you think about it. It's kind of like if the neighborhood homebody who never leaves their yard called you a wimp for looking both ways before crossing the street because they were opposed to traffic laws or something.

[joeinct]

New York Stevedores and Boxcar, Photo by Gordon Parks, 1957

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[therealklt]

A person will post on this website that the 40hr work week is why they rely on food delivery services and claim office life is to blame for their poor mental health, but then you'll go to their blog and they're of the generation that statistically spends 9+ hours a day on social media.