Toasty

22, any/all, pan as fuck

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

[ralfmaximus]

The note inside a bullet.

B-17 bomber is riddled with German anti-aircraft fire but miraculously survives. Later they discover the explosive shells were all inert; sabotaged by Nazi slaves working in armament factories.

Inside one empty shell is a written note: it's all we can do for you now.

[gothlovingoth]

The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesn’t seem like anyone is doing anything doesn’t mean it’s true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one that’s never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Blessed is the Flame

Serafinski Blessed is the Flame An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism 2016 Taken from the original book: Run

Audible Anarchism

Philosophy Podcast · Updated weekly · A podcast broadcasting Anarchist texts and audiobooks

[gaykittycorps]

The Rise of the Techno-Pastoral

When criticizing the present, we keep dreaming of the technology of the past. Is this logic sound?

I made a blog!

been thinking a lot about our relationship to technology and what I find unsettling about "tech detox" culture

go read it

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[gh0stlyyearning]

why am i bad at drawing bro,,,

[doubleca5t]

I would argue that the two most perfect critiques of Harry Potter come from a pair of 4chan posts, which take opposite approaches to their critique but reach equally damning conclusions

[isuggestlandback]

35 years ago today a 17 year old boy from Salteaux First Nation was found dead in a field outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

His name was Neil Stonechild.

Neil played hockey, and he loved wrestling. He once won a bantamweight provincial title in Saskatchewan. His brother Chris described him as fun loving and caring. His mother Stella's nickname for him was baby boy.

Neil went out with his friend Jason on November 24th, 1990. It was -28° C outside. Later that night he was picked up by Saskatoon Police Service officers Brad Senger and Larry Hartwig. Neil was not charged with any crime and the officers did not keep any record of taking Neil.

The last words his friend heard him say were "Jay, help me. They're going to kill me."

Neil was found dead on November 29th, injured and with one shoe missing. He was wearing his favourite letterman jacket, which his brother Chris had given him. There were bruises on his face and cuts around his wrists. He had frozen to death.

Neil was murdered in what canadian Natives call a Starlight Tour, in which Indigenous people are picked up by police and left outside the city. Some are told to walk home. Not all of them make it.

There are reports of Starlight Tours as far back as 1976 and as recent as 2018.

The Saskatoon Police Service investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong.

The RCMP investigated and told the Department of Justice that they would not be recommending any charges in relation to Neil's death.

Canada's police services were created to confine and oppress Indigenous people. They are brutal and racist. 9 Indigenous people were killed in interactions with police between August 29th and October 4th, 2024. That is 36 days. 9 people in 36 days.

Indigenous people make up 5% of the population of Canada, but make up 16% of police related deaths. 31% of people in Canadian prisons are Indigenous.

Land Back means justice for all the victims of colonial police brutality.

Neil's possessions were never returned to his family.

The officers were fired in 2003.

Neil is still dead.

Fuck kkkanada.

[cadmiumflavoredsoju]

So if for some goddamn reason you still have tiktok? Maybe delete it

This shit is dystopian as fuck

Delete it as soon as you can do not fucking use the app at all

[crow-caller]

Yeah, so, "TikTok is officially under the control of a cadre of pro-Trump billionaires including Larry Ellison."

[zinaanqar07]

Last night, I stayed awake pressing a piece of cloth against my sister’s wound as blood soaked through again and again, listening to her breathing slow while fear filled the room. I will not forgive anyone who scrolls past and keeps browsing without even sharing my post.

[zinaanqar07]

My sister urgently needs medicine and care I cannot afford. Time is running out, and every delay makes her condition worse. Please donate now—your help could stop her bleeding and save her life.

[zinaanqar07]

I am a sister begging the world to notice before it’s too late. Do not let her be lost to silence. A share, a prayer, or a donation today can give her another chance to live.

GoFundMe – Vetted #213

[satanfemme]

sometimes I talk about disliking copyright/IP on here, and I always try to stress that the reason these conversations matter is because copyright law is used in real life to hurt real people. I want to highlight a current example of this happening which I haven't seen talked about on my dash yet.

Solar Being is a small business run by two natural hair sculpting artists. their art has gone viral online a few times, and one of their most recognizable creations are their shaped hair puffs:

recently, their business has been under attack by frivolous DMCA & copyright infringement complaints by a competing company. Solar Being has had to close pre-orders for their hair extensions and redirect the funding they raised through a kickstarter campaign into now building a legal defense fund, at the expense of their allocated labor and production budget. in the meantime, they can't even post uncensored photos of their star puffs to social media without facing copyright claims. this issue goes beyond just promotional materials and is also affecting any posts where they (or their customers!) have their hair puffs visible.

on Solar Being's legal defense page they say they "believe [geometric hairstyle] designs should remain free for others to use, reinterpret, and express through their creative and commercial endeavors". and if these copyright infringement complaints are held up, it will likely affect the rights of other natural hair sculpting artists to create designs like this.

if you'd like to support Solar Being's legal fund they're accepting donations now, and I'd recommend supporting them through social media as well. I'm not personally associated with Solar Being and am just repeating what they've already said through their website and social media.

lots of people around copyright/IP discussions like to talk about supporting artists, and if you want direct that supportive energy somewhere productive I feel this situation is one that deserves your attention.

[bliindclown]

[certainly-april]

Ragebaiting my fat dog? More like master baiting my fat hog!!!!!!!!

[grimoiremanifest]

❗️Great Hog is displeased by this.

The kingly pig looks taken aback by this statement. "You claim to be 'baiting' our kind?.. A master of it, no less - after all the trust we hsve placed in you?"

- Your relationship with the Hog Society 🐖 is now Unfavourable.

[trauma-tits]

Black Panther Party in Philly at ICE protest ✊🏿

[gh0stlyyearning]

father is working hard in the mines (I am drawing character sprites and most of these characters have been redesigned during the process) Tommy looks crazy in comparison since she's the first very obvious monster design compared to Dean and Charlotte and Nina are human

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[thefairytaler]

Some of you care way too much about Pantone for the wrong reasons.

I mean this with my whole heart; stop giving a shit about “the color of the year.” The whole thing is just corporate astrology, and it exists to keep creatives, brands, and consumers orbiting a company that absolutely does not deserve that kind of cultural authority!!

Pantone is not a neutral art resource. It’s a massive corporation that has spent decades trying to assert ownership over color systems through IP law.

Pantone asserts that its color numbers and pigment values are its intellectual property, and that free use of those lists is not allowed. This is why Pantone colors are often missing from open source software and frequently excluded from low cost or community built creative tools. It’s also why Pantone has repeatedly been accused of being intentionally vague about the exact scope of its legal claims. That vagueness is the point. It creates fear, hesitation, and compliance.

People treat Pantone like a design oracle, or get mad that “the color of the year is boring or sucks,” I need you to zoom out a little!!

The problem is not that a megacorp picked an ugly or boring shade.

The problem is that a megacorp is trying to gatekeep color itself behind paywalls and licensing schemes.

Color is not proprietary.

Color is not a brand asset.

Color is a shared human tool that predates corporations by tens of thousands of years. Using IP law to restrict how people reference, reproduce, or standardize color in software and art is deeply, unabashedly disgusting, and it actively harms accessibility, open source development, and independent creators.

If you’re going to spend energy being mad at Pantone, be mad about that.

Be mad that entire creative ecosystems have to tiptoe around a corporation’s legal threats just to describe colors accurately!

Be mad that open source tools are kneecapped so Pantone can keep selling swatch books and subscriptions!!

Be mad that “owning” color is treated as a reasonable business model or concept at all!!!

I am not concerned that Pantone chose a shitty color of the year.

I am concerned that they think they can own it.

[alteredpanel]

ice begins to melt

[mohamed-gaz]

Unfortunately

Our tent was flooded and torn due to the winter.

If you choose to ignore this, then you need to question your humanity.

[mohamed-gaz]

No one cares about us anymore. I say this honestly. We are We feel extremely cold hungry and desperate in Gaza. After this flooding, we urgently need another tent. Please donate, share, and speak about us before it is too late.

Vetted gazavetters line #88