Eating icecubes to induce goosebumps

[rosieandthemoon]

Schiaparelli zodiac necklace - 1938

[earthmoss-deactivated20150101]

train seat patterns from my trip to japan

[hilariabaldwinsspanishaccent]

[othersystems]

Ivar Arosenius, Love Duel (1908)

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supporting palestinian armed resistance is a must. absolutely imperative. theres no halfway about being for a free palestine and freedom of palestinians. not fighting back is a death sentence and not supporting them fighting back is you siding with the oppressor but quietly & hoping you can wait it out until theyre all killed and displaced by israel so you can go back to not caring again. fuck all that. fuck everyone who condemns people fighting back against usamerican imperialism and its rotten settler colonial extensions in the world. fascism will fail and palestine will be free inshAllah

[lizardsfromspace]

Loving the new counterpoint that not only is posting activism, not posting is complicity. Why doesn't everyone with any fame or internet presence immediately release a lengthy but perfectly-worded statement telling us where they stand on every issue? Is it because they're evil??? It must be because they're evil

And then the usual answer is "they don't post online very much". Which is all very suspicious, don't they know everything of importance is done by posts on social media now

[lizardsfromspace]

Okay I'm going to talk about this for the last time bc currently the stupidest manifestation of this I've ever seen is unfolding, and nothing can top it or explain this phenomenon better

So Amal Clooney was one of the lawyers who advised the ICC to charge Netanyahu with war crimes & issue an arrest warrant. But apparently there was already a backlash over her "not speaking up" which is already dumb, like, as far as I can tell she has no social media, but also she's a lawyer, she can't comment freely on cases, that could literally destroy the case

But she was trending bc people were saying she should be forgiven, for not posting. But also there are people adamant she not be forgiven. Because she should have spoken up sooner. Helping charge Benjamin Netanyahu with crimes against humanity is not good enough, she should have been posting, she needs to be held accountable for her lack of posting while she was, again, serving as a legal advisor on a international humans rights case against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Like when you're at the stage where people ask where a celebrity was, and the answer is "helping arrange an arrest warrant for Netanyahu", and your response is "why was she doing that instead of posting online" I really just have to conclude you think posting online is more important than anything else. Also that your online activism revolves around finding righteous ways to dislike celebrities you have entrenched parasocial relationships with that you rationalize by going "well I obsessively hate them so it's okay". But mostly the Posting Is More Important Than War Crimes Tribunals part

[kropotkindersurprise]

[girlmostlikely]

[nevver]

As if, almost, Louise Giovanelli

[rozieramati]

[femaleconvict]

Bill Viola, A Portrait in Light and Heat (1979)

[ymutate]

Edward Burne-Jones, Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth, 1861

[killed-by-overthinking]

[whimsicalwomon-deactivated20231]

I feel like a lot of liberals, especially the younger generation, don't really have any core beliefs other than "let everyone do as they please!" they're radical individualists. If something makes me happy, then it's good. If something makes them happy, then it's good because who am i to get in the way of someone else's happiness and freedom. No structural analysis. No attachment to anything other than individual personal fulfilment. Very spineless imo and antithetical to socialism and feminism.

[nobrashfestivity]

Albert York, 1967

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

Viggo Mortensen and Uraeus on the set of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

[o-fantasma]

just cos a friend hadn't seen it - here's marxist art critic john berger, discussing caravaggio with some school kids. it's really interesting both as an example of pedagogy and as illustrative of how gender can work in art and how kids can relate to that almost intuitively

this is from Ways of Seeing, which is a documentary he made on demystifying art and capitalist culture more broadly, it's all available for free on YouTube and i'd highly recommend you check it out. it's truly incredible to me that he managed to get something so genuinely radical and accessible shown on the bbc in 1972!