[qelflinq]

smoking weed& having a dog feels like this

[genderoutlaws]

Gilbert Baker helps hoist one of the two original rainbow flags created by the decoration committee for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day | 1978 | ph: James McNamara, lead seamster of the flags

[peachfromcmbyn]

Hi there we're a group of queer housemates. We're looking for a new roomie to share some of the rent. You'll live in the infinitely expanding labyrinth of madness that used to be the basement. Rent is $7,000 a month which we feel is very generous because of the square footage you would have (infinite).

[boobyruby29]

modern art exhibit titled "I bet you won't kill yourself" that is just a loaded gun on a podium in a museum

[sleaterkinneycomments]

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[my-dailydreams]

[thevelvetgoldmine]

VELVET GOLDMINE (1998) dir. Todd Haynes

[butch4prints]

A zine of questionable haircut advice :)

Download for free here

[2colde]

it's thousand yard stare summer

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[orchid-u]

Docehii for Cosmopolitan 2025

[389]

‘Watchdog’ (1996) Nam June Paik

[weepingwidar]

Hyewon Kim (Korean, 1993) - Interior of a Mysterious Bus (2023)

[catgirlforeskin]

Have any of those mechsploitation traumadoll authresses done anything clever with the fact that tramadol is an opioid that's among the pharmaceutical drugs most abused by special forces. Do the girls who write that fiction have intimate knowledge of the real world war criminals they're imitating? <climbing into your lap> would those girls like to hear my reading list

[transcendingirl]

Tell me more, beautiful. :3

[catgirlforeskin]

<clears throat>

catgirlforeskin's "let's hate US special forces with mama" reading list

-Kill Everything That Moves by Nick Turse

-Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill

-Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

-The Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill et al

-The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp

-Alpha by David Philipps

-On Killing by Dave Grossman

Supplemental

-The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

-Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko

-What Have We Done by David Wood

-Targeted: Beirut by Jack Carr

Non-Books

-podcast Blowback History

-youtube channel GDF

The last two books in each list have good information but take pro-US stances at times so, read at your peril. These are all the most relevant of what I've read, I can give 20th/21st century memoirs and histories but they're beyond this immediate scope

[somewhereoutinthedarkness]

I would also recommend "American Sniper". The text itself is both bad writing and pro-special forces (as it was written by a guy that made 'SEAL with the most sniper kills' his entire personality and career) but reading it with an ounce of critical thinking was a deeply interesting experience that made me hate the US special forces a lot more.

Chilling anecdote example:

During the last stage of SEAL training, the trainees are split up into squads and do a competition! The winning squad gets to go to Afghanistan a month early to kill civilians sooner. The author is in a losing squad, and is devastated. He thinks this a morally neutral and normal response to have.

The entire book is basically like that.

[catgirlforeskin]

It's worth reading paired with Alpha, recommended above, which follows the life of SEAL platoon lead Eddie Gallagher, who takes a lot of inspiration from Chris Kyle (bad thing to do!!!!) and has some broader history of the SEALs and jumps between various perspectives, as opposed to purely memoir like American Sniper.

Likewise, this video by GDF goes over ways that American Sniper, the book and movie adaptation, serially lie to the audience. I'm generally apprehensive to give YouTube as a source but GDF gives minimal commentary and primarily quotes directly from primary and secondary sources, all of which are cited, giving highly informative videos that serve as good jumping off points for further research into a subject, a bit similar to the references section on a Wikipedia page

[papasmoke]

a second bumblebee has hit the twin flowers

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air