the lathe of heaven

“Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either." Andrea Dworkin

[huariqueje]

Night Lake - Isca Greenfield-Sanders, 2025.

American , b. 1978 -

Mixed media watercolour with colour pencil , 14 x 14 in.

[rozczarowanko]

Amanda Acker

[jkottke]

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from the Internet Archive, images from Wikimedia Commons, & files you’ve uploaded, and create art collages from them. This is great — be sure to check out the gallery.

[classicalcanvas]

Among the Waves by Ivan Aivazovsky

[overdose-art]

Eero Järnefelt (1863- 1937), Sunset over a Lake, 1894.

[ymutate]

Stefan Johansson

Nattsken, 1934

Watercolor on canvas, 15.16 x 12.8 in

[cyberthot666]

NO ONE IS OWED SEX

women should not have to bare the burden of male depravity. our bodies are not commodities to be used as the solution for outcast men.

[kragehund-est]

hey i just saw your post critiquing a societal norm. well, i like doing everything that society expects of me and i was actually raised in an empty 8x8 cube for the first 18 years of my life. i am the only person to have ever been raised in a vacuum and i came out with all the behaviors expected of my age, sex, and origin without ever having seen another human being before. so. maybe keep that in mind next time you post, mkay?

[uncertainwaters]

in order to build muscle you need to train to failure and we say that a lot but dont really explain what that means.

most people stop when their muscles start to feel the "burn", or get a little shaky. that's fatigue, not failure. if you're training to fatigue, you'll increase oxygen uptake and endurance in those muscles, but not so much size or strength.

failure is when you physically can't do another clean rep- you try to do another pushup, but you arms just won't lower you to the floor or even really hold your weight anymore. it shouldn't involve any sort of sharp pain, sharp or shooting pains mean STOP IMMEDIATELY. but it should feel physically impossible to do another rep, like when you try to lift something too heavy for you. and you should have pretty bad DOMS the next day- sore and stiff. you want to create microtrauma in your tissues via progressively overloading them to stimulate growth.

an effective exercise should get you to failure within ten reps. if you can do more than ten, try a harder variation if you're doing calisthenics, or add more weight if you're lifting. your strength ceiling is VERY high. women start out with less overall lean mass, but we actually build a higher percentage of muscle proportionate to what we already have, and recover more quickly than males, so your work will pay off if you train properly.

[deerwomann22]

What exercises you would recommend for someone who is a beginner?

[uncertainwaters]

to be honest i just pick a muscle group and search online for calisthenics exercises and variations to target that group. strengthening your core is always a good place to start. i usually focus on upper body/arms, back, core, legs on different days. dont do your whole body in one day. you wont be able to move the next day LOL

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

@exvini

[turning0nthelatheofheaven]

Start with the big four! There are a million exercises you could do, but these are the basics and will work your whole body. Feel free to add more specific ones if your want but this is the foundation.

- Bench press

- Overhead press

- Deadlift

- Squat

[whjwiwowpwlsskwjwbwbkwkwlwnw]

prostitution is legal in germany but the crux is that you have to get REGISTERED as a prostitute - and most prostitutes are NOT meaning they are still working illegally.

they get fined, arrested and they dont profit from social insurance (health insurance, sick pay, unemployment benefits) which the german government claimed was the goal when the law was introduced.

on top, this has increased demand, which naturally leads to more trafficking. impoverished women from eastern europe are the biggest group among prostitutes in germany - especially the young men and women from bulgaria and romania often dont even know german. tell me, how are they supposed to consent if they dont even understand what to? do you think they know their rights?

this also puts prostituted people in more danger: if you are not registered, you are working illegally. you will most likely not go to the police if you get assaulted.

on top, prostitution being legal has made it easier to groom young people into it - prostitutes as well as sex buyers. it is not uncommon for young groups of men going to the brothel after they graduate.

also, the german government claims it is unethical to tell people how to have sex - so there are no regulations for sexual practices. how long should a blowjob be? how much choking, hitting and spitting is allowed? how long should anal be? does the „customer“ have to come? how many minutes and hours of penetration per day is okay before it becomes a health hazard?

and furthermore, prostituted people have to get checked for stds regularly - but sex buyers dont? they also dont have to prove that they dont have a history of sexual violence? how are these people allowed to pay for sexual dominance over vulnerable people, no matter their criminal record?

the law was pushed through under the guise of protecting people in prostitution, but has essentially just left the most vulnerable in a precarious position while legitimising sexual exploitation and making shit easier and nicer for sex buyers and brothel owners.

[ymutate]

Maynard Dixon

Approach to Zion 1933

[ymutate]

Adelchi Riccardo Mantovani (Italy)

"Po Valley Nocturne" 1994

[porcelain-dollbones]

men will often pull a neat rhetorical trick where they act like women and men are perfectly matched, equal parties on neutral territory who simply need to iron out their differences and come to terms. of course, this is not at all how they behave, and the way they treat women reveals the disparity of power that in fact plainly exists

[goblinous]

A lot of women want to believe this and try and pretend it's true, putting themselves and other women in danger because convincing themselves of a lie is a lot simpler than facing the whole of inequality.

[boyfriend-beater]

reddit having a normal one about ummm. the uk banning an act that’s been observed to cause brain damage from being shown in porn

[fillejondrette]

#''stay out of our bedrooms'' is so funny like what part of your bedroom is contained in porn studios

this is so true, they try to frame it as some violation of their private life, as if everyone is watching their own homemade sex tapes instead of watching videos commercially produced by companies with paid actors, cameramen, editors, advertisers, etc. if porn is so legitimate, they should have no problem with it being regulated like any other industry.

[huariqueje]

Cooking Jam  -  Teija Lehto, 2016

Finnish,b.1965-

Woodcut,61 x 77 cm.

[sullencrab]

Source

[animalwoonz]

Personal space? Nope - never heard of it.

[alaimo]

Is that…… them

[goatguy7399]

YALL THERES MORE TO THE SERIES

[its-terf-or-nothin]

If you haven’t put your life on the line to defend your rights I don’t want to hear you breathe a word of criticism about how Malala Yousafzai isn’t a good enough activist.

This post is aimed at leftists btw. A lot of them have been saying she’s too quiet about everything going on in the world and that she needs to be more vocal and to that I say “ She hasn’t been quiet, you just haven’t been paying attention, but even if she did go quiet, doesn’t someone that was shot in the head deserve a break?”.

[turning0nthelatheofheaven]

I know nothing about her political beliefs or activities so I don’t really have a dog in this fight but a vibrant political process pretty much requires us to be able to critique people’s stances. No matter how much someone has been through they can be wrong about something. It’s OK to disagree.

[sarcasticsweetlara]

Short version of what Malala Yousafzai went through:

Malala was shot in the head, almost died, and indeed lost an eye.

So of course she wants to protect her life, but Malala has still kept fighting for women's rights of education from abroad, and even funding a school for pakistani girls; but apparently according to western women it's not enough and Malala should lose more parts of her body

[turning0nthelatheofheaven]

I’d like to see citations that there are women calling for her to “lose more body parts.”