a reminder that your advocacy for ending the occupation of Palestine should also extend to advocating for Indigenous and First Nations peoples’ liberation in your own country. The anti-colonial struggle is a global one. Show up for Indigenous people everywhere you can because we are under occupation almost everywhere. Not to mention the Zionist occupation is supported almost exclusively by the colonial world powers. Your advocacy for the liberation for Palestine must go hand in hand with advocacy for First Nations liberation and Land Back.
Well, that don’t work in the scene I’m doing it’s too cute not to draw.
DAWWW SO CUTE :>
they use human chairs but really badly
same
Wait elongated chairs y’all. Eight chair legs instead of one, they can lie down majestically and put their chins on the table like they were always meant to.
Well, that don’t work in the scene I’m doing it’s too cute not to draw.
DAWWW SO CUTE :>
they use human chairs but really badly
same
Wait elongated chairs y’all. Eight chair legs instead of one, they can lie down majestically and put their chins on the table like they were always meant to.
For those who don’t know, this piece is titled ‘Unfinished Painting’, by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn’t have time to make more art. 'Finishing’ Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring’s grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn’t even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity
The tweet is a joke. It’s making that exact point. It’s part of a series of tongue-in-cheek tweets using AI art to completely and totally misunderstand the point of the art in 'improving’ it, and this tweet has been taken out of that context and turned into rage bait. Nobody’s seriously suggesting that 'completing’ Unfinished Painting with AI is valuable. The tweet is railing against AI art. You’re agreeing with it. There’s nothing to get angry at here.
ironically the amount of anger at it proves it qualifies as transgressive art
why do i end up sitting straight up in my sleep. ignore how many blankets I use.
Bestie it is impossible to ignore the amount of blankets you use at first I assumed this was a meme and those were the layers of the crust of the earth
I actually have 4 more blankets I sometimes add but I didn’t want to make my blanket number look excessive
Are you okay
The results are inconclusive on that.
Bestie. the reason you end up sitting up is your lungs think you are being crushed.
The tories aren’t any better and they’re the only real alternative
That’s peak English voter thinking and it’s exactly why the UK is as shit as it is.
Classic Aye, always gotta find a way to shit on the English for being stuck in a shitty system that most of them didn’t vote for (a situation which is completely exculpatory but only when it applies to Scotland, apparently).
Look. Don’t vote for Labour if you’re in a safe seat. Absolutely. Do whatever you can to force them into an alliance or at least to stop taking left-wing votes for granted.
But if you’re in a Lab/Con marginal and you vote for a minority party, you’d better hope Labour ends up winning your constituency in spite of you, because even fewer of us will survive another Tory government than would a Labour one.
We’ve have over a decade of Tory rule because of England. It’s not ‘shitting on the English’ to point that out and I have the right, along with everyone else in the devolved nations, to be frustrated with that. We are powerless to stop it because of the Democratic deficit within the UK.
No, not all English people vote Tory. But there’s been a complete lack of rallying behind any party that’s pushed for proportional representation (and progressive policies for that matter)
Labour are doing so well in the polls because the Tories are shit. They have all but totally collapsed, and now the Tory voters in England feel comfortable voting Labour because Labour have shifted so far right.
I’m tired of seeing people look at the two parties with near identical policies and going ‘more of us will die under the Tories’ - that’s only true if labour opt for different policies and judging by the headline above that’s not going to be the case.
“peak English voter thinking” certainly comes across as shitting on he English, and I think if you dialed the self-righteousness down a bit you’d realise that. I agree that people have a right to be frustrated with the current state of affairs. I agree that people in the devolved nations have an especial right to be frustrated with it. I do not agree that a realistic assessment of what’s the case in most constituencies is “peak English voter thinking” that’s causing all the UK’s problems.
Yes, we need more people to vote for third parties to oppose the Lab/Con rightward ratchet. You will note that I explicitly recommended this. But in many constituencies, doing that at the next GE will split the left vote and bring in the Tories. It’s a shit system and we need to change it but you know what that means? It means we stop Only Doing Politics For General Elections. It means we need to actually put in the work to take councils, to build local party support, so that there will be fewer constituencies that are either safe for one of the big two or lab/con marginals.
It does not mean we talk exclusively about how bad those two are and how nobody should ever vote for either of them and harm-reduction thinking is fundamentally stupid or (implicitly-exclusively) English, with maybe a sprinkling of how one regional party is better. You know what those things do? They don’t encourage people to actually improve politics. They just get left-leaning people not to turn up at all.
I hope you’re proud of that, but I’m certainly not.
Speaking to Op here, for clarity’s sake:
I want to give more words to my opinion of this but I don’t have the mental energy, so imma keep this short
responding to ‘but we don’t have any other choice’ with 'english people say this all the time (derogatory)’ is… bad? It doesn’t… help? Or educate? Or accomplish any of the goals you have shown you care about, and which this blog is mostly about? It really does just come off as shitting on english voters? And pushing away leftist voters from voting altogether? Like it’s not practical?
Like, I know you have more cohesive feelings and opinions on practical efforts, I’ve seen you comment on them before. Would not a post you could link to about practical ways to change things be a better way of handling shit like this rather than what feels more like just… negging?
I genuinely wouldn’t say this if it were a personal blog, you’re a person, you’re allowed to not be completely professional in your entire life. But like… on a political blog, if you make comments like this, you’re going to push people away from voting which I’m pretty sure is not what you’re going for
I entirely agree. Unfortunately, this is one of Aye’s blind spots, I think — the understandable resentment over the general state of the UK and Scotland’s position within it, not to mention the incredibly obnoxious britnats he occasionally deals with, seem occasionally to sublimate into a general “England bad, Scotland good, everything bad is English voters’ fault, fuck 'em” attitude which can be useful for the specific cause of Scottish independence but isn’t great for things like Westminster elections.
It’s fine to analyse my blind spots or whatever. I’ve been running this blog for 10 years and it’s definitely made me a lot more jaded because I often get asked the same questions over and over.
My snarky comment there was deliberate and intentional. I’ve tried to take the tactical route and if I was in a better mood last night I’d probably have tried again. I normally talk about the alternatives and what strategy English voters can take.
Voters are going to sleepwalk into voting for Labour in the next election.
Labour who have said there will be no money for infrastructure projects, or public sector raises. Labour who are going to continue the privatisation of the NHS. Labour who’ve said the Tories haven’t been hard enough on immigration, who have dropped their support for trans rights, and who couldn’t stand with unions during the rail strikes.
Yes, I’m being flippant, of course not all English voters want things to stay as they are. Some of them will feel trapped and scared.
But when there’s examples of other parties in the devolved nations advocating for and actually doing different policies to make society a bit better - it’s frustrating as hell to say there’s no alternative.
There’s Greens & LibDems - England could do something great and force the hand of the two major parties to do deals. Even in Tory/Labour swing seats - there’s definitely enough of you to cause an upset. Also fight for proportional voting.
It’s all well and good to say we’ll focus on taking councils etc - but Westminster needs a boot up the arse, and electing a labour majority who will continue the exact same policies as the Tories isn’t going to help anyone.
We’ll be in the exact same position in 4 years time, except you’ll have more people disillusioned because Labour kept things as they are.
When those in power constantly lied about the little things, it isn’t hard to see why people have tuned out–and even questioned whether masks were even effective against the virus.
western hypocrisy. if you mourn the suffering of innocent children in Ukraine but don’t mourn the suffering of innocent children in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, etc. you need to self reflect. Deeply rooted hypocrisy and white supremacy.
cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.” - Brennan Lee Mulligan
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
OHMY GOD SO I JUAT PLAYED AKINATOR AND TRIED TO MAKE HIM GUESS HIMSELF BUT HE KEPT ASKING IF THE PERSON I WAS THINKING OF WAS GAY AND HAD A BOYFRIEND AND I JUST KEPT PRESSING YES AND THEN
I was sad, but a drag queen lent me her violin for a while, and I started playing it. I got quite good at it despite the fact that I didn’t really know exactly what I was doing, until I played it a little too hard and it broke. I cried, until she later came up to me and comforted me, saying something like, “All that matters is that you played,” and then I woke up.
The state, through its actions (and inactions), desperately wants the unhoused to be killed off by exposure to the elements. And it certainly doesn’t want anyone to be proactive about helping their fellows.
“unalive” should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet
common misconception - no costuming or makeup was required for this video! instead, before they started filming, Ludacris would simply squeeze a can of spinach so hard that the lid flew off and the contents soared up into the air. then he would catch the spinach in his corn-cob pipe (not pictured), suck it through (like a straw) and swallow it
What are the Americans going to do to Yemen that their best friends in Saudi Arabia haven’t already done? How are you going to bomb them into submission when there’s nothing left to bomb? America and the UK will not win. They might succeed at opening the canal for a while, at a horrific human cost and while dramatically escalating the risk for a full-scale regional war, but they will not win. They will have to fully occupy Yemen, because bombing will not work for what they want, they will not open the canal that way, and they will lose that war. It will take years, but they will lose, just like they lost Iraq and Afghanistan. This will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the Americans won’t even achieve their long-term aims. The death-throes of Empire will crush many under it - we can only hope and pray (and work towards) that it dies faster.
btw. being kink positive means ALL kinks even the ones you think are “immoral” or whatever the fuck. “but what about-” especially that one. no sex act between consenting adults is immoral actually. kill the cop in your brain.
of course that doesn’t mean you have to be comfortable with every kink. it’s fine to have limits for your own personal stuff. but if you judge people based on what they do with their consenting partners, I cannot stress this enough, you are being a bad person.
Steps to judge if a sex/kink thing is okay:
1. are all involved parties adults? (including planned observers)
2. did all involved parties give informed consent while able to give consent meaningfully (including uncoerced)?
3. did the actions stay within the bounds of said consent, not adding on new things while someone was unable to meaningfully consent?
if yes to all three: IT’S FINE
if it passes all three conditions and you still think it’s morally wrong: you’re judging based on your own sense of disgust, not any reasonable moral framework!
if you are trying to say “okay but what if…”: did you read what i just fucking said??
you don’t have to like it. you don’t have to interact with it. you don’t have to look at it. but you do have to tolerate it and not condemn its practice based on your personal feelings!
bringing this post back with my lovely gf’s addition in case any of y'all haven’t seen it yet
things that this post is about: ageplay, fauxcest, consensual nonconsent, petplay, somnophilia, intoxication kinks, and much more
things this post is not about: fanfiction, any other kind of fiction
I actually want to address the 2nd tag here because it’s very important: several of my kinks are illegal. every time I (allegedly) slap my partners’ ass during sex, it’s technically domestic abuse. it used to be illegal to be gay. WV is currently trying to make it illegal to be trans. legality ≠ morality
muting this now. stop derailing my post to talk about fiction. this post is about real people having real sex.
jerry was in my elder scrolls online guild, and he’s one of the sweetest guys I’ve ever known. i feel sick every time i come across his image online because it’s almost always the exact same baseless derision and shitty implications about him because he’s fat and wearing a fedora for a photoshoot. the photoshoot this image is from was leaked from his private facebook. the harassment that he’s faced from his memeification is worse than anyone knows.
If anyone wants to donate to his GoFundMe towards his recovery after being put in a coma and losing most of his mobility due to COVID
I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link
someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper
okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.
My friend’s book is mentioned in this paper!!
There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it’s worth. It is
[romcom movie trailer voice] hes a doctor who cant diagnose his own feelings… hes a photographer that cant quite see the bigger picture… can they break the chains that are holding them back from each other… this summer… Saw….
we should legalize polyamorous marriage for all the other reasons we should but also because I wanna see what polygamous divorce looks like
as a family law attorney i can tell you that the one time my family law class in law school got Absolutely Lit was the day our professor came in, dropped the casebook on teh table, looked at all of us, and said, “tell me why polygamy is *il*legal in the united states.” and a bunch of people came up with answers (monogamy is the cultural preference, christianity, etc) and she swept her hand and went “WRONG! it is because if you have polygamous marriages then the family and trust & estates law systems as we know them today would DIE A HORRIBLE PAINFUL EXCRUCIATING DEATH” and i think about that class every day
There these seemingly contradictory societal double binds that are used to enforce conformity.
Example: A Lesbian is told that “everyone is actually bi” while a bisexual woman is told to “pick a side”. Seems contradictory but really they just want us to be straight lmao.
Another one: A woman who does not perform womanhood to society’s standard is not a real woman vs. You can never change the gender you were born with. One is butchphobic/anti gnc women, the other is transphobic. Clearly both enforce transmisogyny.
The insidious thing is that these double binds also foster inter community division. Its easy to hear one side of these, for example: “everyone is a little bi” and assume that means bisexuality is more accepted. But on the other side bisexual people are getting the same shit.
None of these are contradictory when you realize that bigots simply don’t want lgbtq+ to exist at all.
i think im in the minority on tumblr in that i actually LIKE driving but every time i see a semi truck my life flashes before my eyes stay away from meeeee
crying and creaming and throwing up because an 18 wheeler is behind me
u ever just think abt the fact that since mainstream western news media did not broadcast the south african case of the trial at the hague and since the white house press release did not explain why yemen was blocking shipping in the red sea and since all western leaders have downplayed and outright denied both the genocide and their complicity in it that there are millions of people out there who are just walking around with a completely distorted view of the world. like people who straightforwardly have no idea why pro-palestine protests would even be happening. like most zionists are simply just unmoved at the image of palestinian children dying and the knowledge that they keep palestinians subjugated but a good chunk of white americans and europeans over 35 don’t even have the facts at all. most of them just don’t want to know idk the thought makes me crazy lol
