wide eyed

spitballin sideblog [working class][jewwitch][doodler] [prostitute][anarchist]

[memescomedy]

[necrobob]

That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.

[whatisthisplaceidonteven]

After mass protests, the Prime Minister of Iceland was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

After mass protests, the President of Pakistan was forced to resign, along with many other members of the ruling party.

Worldwide, hundreds of people – many rich and powerful – were arrested.

Billions in stolen assets were returned to the people.

And 82 countries changed their laws to crack down on the wealth hoarding the papers revealed.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.

Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.

[nevver]

All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

[read-books-by-women]

THE XX BRAIN: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering WomenTo Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease by Lisa Mosconi

The first book to address cognitive enhancement and Alzheimer's prevention specifically in women — and to frame brain health as an essential component of Women's Health.

Women are far more likely than men to suffer from anxiety, depression, migraines, brain injuries, strokes, and even Alzheimer's disease. However, through the lens of 'Women's Health', women's brains won't make the cut. Now, the director of the Women's Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medical College gives women the first plan to address the unique risks and strengths of the female brain.

Until now, medical research has focused on "bikini medicine," assuming that women are essentially men with breasts and tubes. The XX Brain confronts this crisis by revealing how the two powerful X chromosomes that distinguish women from men impact our brain first and foremost. The XX Brain builds from the recognition that women's brains age distinctly from men's, due mostly to the decline of a key brain-protective hormone: estrogen.

Taking on all aspects of women's health, including brain fog, memory lapses, depression, stress, insomnia, hormonal imbalances, and the increased risk of dementia, Dr. Mosconi introduces cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to protect the female brain, including a specific diet proven to work for women, stress reduction, and sleep. She also examines the controversy about soy and hormonal replacement therapy, takes on the perils of environmental toxins, and examines the role of our microbiome. Luckily, it is never too late to take care of yourself.

The XX Brain is a rally cry for women to have full access to information regarding what is going on in their brains and bodies, and a roadmap for the path to optimal, lifelong brain health.

[pjharvey]

i don’t understand how neil gaiman intellectual properties still trend on here so regularly he literally trafficked women. like it’s not even a discourse thing or a “he’s problematic” thing he was “cancelled” for human trafficking. he repeatedly isolated women, usually his or his ex-wife’s fans, with no support system for the purpose of raping them while they were dependent on him for income and housing. that’s human trafficking

[feralplantwife]

I still remember watching the first season of Sandman before the scandal, specifically the last episode with Calliope.

For those who may not know, the story goes like this:

An author has become an overnight sensation with his debut novel, only to experience complete and utter writer's block while trying to write his next book, as is required by his publisher. An author he admires gives him a gift in the form of a dark secret: the author captured, imprisoned, and raped the Muse, Calliope. This heinous act provides inspiration, forcibly taken instead of given freely.

Despite his horror at this revelation, the author takes possession of Calliope. When he cannot reason her into helping him find inspiration for his next novel, this author too rapes her, taking what he wants from her by force because she will not give it willingly.

Eventually, she is able to get a message to Sandy (her ex), who comes to her aid to free her and punish the author.

Initially, for me, this story served as an indictment of how men have an ongoing habit of co-opting the talent and stories of women for the own gain, either on a literal level (for example, F. Scott Fitzgerald stealing the writings of his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, in order to publish The Great Gatsby), or a figurative level (the recent influx of men trying to infiltrate women's reading spaces while being performative or pejorative instead of engaging in the ongoing conversations).

Then a woman spoke out against Gaiman. And another. And another.

And suddenly, I haven't been touched by a story of liberating the voices of women from the patriarchal hegemony that has ruled the art world for centuries. It wasn't about women at all.

It was about a man.

It was a confession.

I cannot separate this supposed work of fiction - about a women imprisoned in a man's home and raped, used and abused in unspeakable ways, in order to inspire a selfish coward of a man - from the living, breathing monster we loved for so long.

It makes me sick. Fuck Neil Gaiman. I hope he rots. I hope we forget him. He certainly won't be getting another penny from me.

[doyouwantalist]

Another good example of men confessing to hurting women in their creative works is D4vd's music videos where he had an actor who looked exactly like his ex girlfriend (who was 14 at the time and he was 19 btw) being murdered by him. They found his ex girlfriend dead in the back of his car last year. Those music videos were confessions.

[robustcornhusk]

seen coming home

[karrakazz]

Time for my semiannual meditation on how "being smart" and "being right about stuff" are two vastly different things that are only connected sometimes. Like way less than youd think actually

[chantssecrets]

Leo and Diane Dillon, cover illustration

[catchymemes]

[tboy-offical]

[weaver-z]

So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED

I mean

[frenchroasted]

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

[kudeita]

we just want to help...

[gleerant]

if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

[gleerant]

this one took off quickly - are you guys ok

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

WIZARD PSA: Chronomancy might be weird and confusing, but one of the few solid rules of the discipline is keep your promises. Time is a library, and you don't want to meet the librarian.

[daydreamerdrew]

It’s All For U (If U Rlly Want It)

woven jacquard, glass seed beads and machine embroidery

59 x 85 1/2 in

2024

Waiting to Exhale

woven jacquard and glass seed beads

2022

Qualeasha Wood

[headspace-hotel]

STOP SCROLLING ITS WOVEN

[diana-andraste]

Tooth and Nail, Nilo Akbari for Carcy Magazine Issue 12

[thegreatwound-deactivated202311]

Christa (1974) by Edwina Sandys • Woman Crucified (1913) by Frantisek Drtikol • The Crucifixion of St. Julia (1497) by Hieronymus Bosch • The Crucified Venus (1913) by Norman Lindsay • Christian Martyress (1866) by Gabriel Cornelius von Max • Eulalia (1880) by Emilio Franceschi

“I’ve often thought of a female Christ. David told me there’s one in a church in Montreal. Mostly the world can’t take it. Because of people’s feelings about the delicacy of women and also because of what a meaningless display female suffering simply is. If you belittle us in school, treat us like slaves at home and finally, if you get a woman alone in bed just tell her she’s all wrong, no matter what sex you are… or maybe you just grab one on the street and fuck her real fast– in an alley, or in her own bed. I mean if that’s the way it usually goes for this girl what would be the point in seeing her half nude and nailed up? Where’s the contradiction? could that drive the culture for 2,000 years? No way. Female suffering must be hidden, or nothing can work. It’s a man’s world and a girl on a cross would be like seeing a dead animal in a trap. We like to eat them, or see them stuffed, we even like to wear them, but watch them suffer? Hear them wail? The complaining lines were expunged from Florence Nightingale’s book.” - Eileen Myles, Cool for You

[fairycosmos]

[catgirlbiceps]

[sandmandaddy69]

[woefully-undercaffeinated]

This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.

[jesuisloupseul]

Old school CRT monitors had the same issues.

Back when, I worked at a small whitebox pc manufacturer. One day, a service tech brought back an older, gigantic (30 inch or so) AutoCAD monitor from a service call. The customer said "Made me feel nauseous"

So, we put it on the bench and fired it up. You immediately felt the hair on your body stand up, and my co worker put his hand up close to turn the power off, and his hand and forearm started spasming - I yanked the power cord from the wall as the tingle I was feeling began to feel hot.

No idea what was wrong with the thing, but it was kicking out some serious electro magnetic radiation.

[funnelcloudd]

Remembering the almost imperceptible high pitched buzzing that let you know the tv was still on even when nothing was on the screen. Also putting your forearm near the screen and watching the hairs stand up

[silvysartfulness]

The little crackle if you touched the screen to wipe it...

[effeminate-wastrel-deactivated2]

Omg no one's even talking about the smell of the screen

[horrorobsessor]

This is both horrifying to read and nostalgic

[aquawyrm]

I liked to turn the back of my hand to the screen, right after it was turned off, and pet the static with the little hairs on the backs of my fingers. It felt soft and fluffy.

[hms-no-fun]

one of the reasons CRTs are such a hotbed of glitch videography is that unlike modern monitors that block irregular signals, CRTs don't have an opinion about the signal you feed into them. they will display anything. and if you've ever done glitch work with a video modulator or such, you know what it's like negotiating with a living beast. the images you can get are often unpredictable and impossible to reproduce even with the same settings on your hardware, because it's just electricity. there is something magical and strange about the cathode ray tube and when you play with them enough you really remember why The Ring fucked people up so bad. samara climbing out of an HD flat screen is a laughable image; but her climbing out of an old school boob tube? yeah man, i believe it. there's fucking demons in that thing

[angelasscribbles]

[eos-sign-deactivated20250622]

Dust if you must, by Rose Milligan (September 1998)

Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better

To paint a picture, or write a letter,

Bake a cake, or plant a seed;

Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,

With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb;

Music to hear, and books to read;

Friends to cherish, and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there

With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair;

A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,

This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,

Old age will come and it's not kind.

And when you go (and go you must)

You, yourself, will make more dust.