June 2024

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that-bisexual-deactivated202409:

yeah, love is love. Even platonic love and queer platonic partners. Even aesthetic love. Even love without sex. Even familial love. All love is love.

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toskarin:

toskarin:

toskarin:

very common problem with the idea of an “artist discord” is that the optimal number of active participants in a fully art-focused community isn’t a triple digit number, but like… 12. anything past that and people either start fighting for attention or clam up and don’t have smalltalk ime

my rule of thumb here is that if it’s a number of people that would make going into a small cafe off-putting, it’s a number of people that would turn an art-focused space into a socialisation-focused space (or in the worst case scenario, make a portion of the community interact with it as a popularity contest)

crucially, if it’s a place where people start keeping track of how many emoji reactions their sketches get and caring a lot about that, you’ve passed an event horizon

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incandescent-creativity:

princessgemma12:

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

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girldraki:

girldraki:

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kimberleyjean:

bigenderdiarmuid:

post by tumblr user mengjue that reads: Ūropi (Europe) Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day. While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.ALT
post by tumblr user apas-95 that reads: recently ive been getting really into this foreign drink, it's like a sweeter, nonalcoholic version of pijiu (啤酒). it got really popular internationally a little while back. its called "coca-cola" and it's from the USA (i don't agree with their politics i'm just interested in USA culture)ALT

starting a collection

Seems important to note that Moehunga was a real person and his discovery of Europe is recognized by Moehanga Day in NZ.

Moehanga Day: New Zealand’s Māori mark the day they ‘discovered’ Britain

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kimberleyjean:

bigenderdiarmuid:

post by tumblr user mengjue that reads: Ūropi (Europe) Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day. While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.ALT
post by tumblr user apas-95 that reads: recently ive been getting really into this foreign drink, it's like a sweeter, nonalcoholic version of pijiu (啤酒). it got really popular internationally a little while back. its called "coca-cola" and it's from the USA (i don't agree with their politics i'm just interested in USA culture)ALT

starting a collection

Seems important to note that Moehunga was a real person and his discovery of Europe is recognized by Moehanga Day in NZ.

Moehanga Day: New Zealand’s Māori mark the day they ‘discovered’ Britain

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the-one-who-lambs:

salty-sweet-ren:

GUYS

THE CROWNS

THE CROWNS ARE FUSING?!

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?! HELLO?!? WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS?!

looking.

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depsidase:

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teaboot:

gildedproblems:

teaboot:

imeverywoman420:

Having an abusive parent is kinda funny in retrospect like mommy why do you have beef with me im 4 i love you

Haters (my dad) can’t stand to see a bad bitch (me, nine years old) winning (“drawing too loud”)

How do you draw too loud?

Well you see the thing is that child abuse is inherently irrational

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science-bastard:

are they… y’know… *mimes vivisecting someone* lab partners??

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:

furries are awesome and gay and a lot of people hide their queerphobia behind hatred of animal people hybrids

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geofffromaccounting:

lexibsparkles:

so a trans girl can’t post a fully clothed pic much less a nude without fear of getting banned because the advertisers, but THIS

THIS AD WITH A DILDO AND A JERKOFF MACHINE IS WHATS SPONSORING TUMBLR?

so- let’s really break this down.

You ban porn. You ban trans girls because they’re not “good for advertisers”

But you advertise… sex toys…

I. Fucking.. WHAT

@staff @humans you have some fucking explaining to do.

Spread this shit like wildfire. People need to know what a fucking dumpster fire this hellsite is. And the ones in charge need to be reminded, we aren’t going to keep getting pushed around.

I just want to add to this: the amount of fucking “THIS AI CAN GENERATE PORN IMAGES!!” ads I’ve gotten on Tumblr is ridiculous actually. To say nothing of all the mobile game ads involving sexually assaulting a woman.

So it’s not okay for us (especially trans women) to post even moderately sexual content. But they are as shit don’t mind using it to get money themselves!

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put maureno on the line:

do you know how much you hurt it?

nerves-nebula:

sighh. here we go again

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slowestsnailaround:

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brightlotusmoon:

jackironsides:

adamsmasher:

weonsinnombre:

What I love about this is seeing that he’s clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that’s why they’ve got knives on their feet, so it’s running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you’re trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that’s pretty neat.

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

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athenaevm-deactivated20250210:

bad joke o'clock

why do knights reject the idea of objective reality

Keep reading

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theanythingmachine:

my first favorite hobby is yapping. second is being extremely quiet and not talking ever at all ever.

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enki2:

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Which carbon Is your favorite in Thymine specifically?

hellsitegenetics:

hellsitegenetics:

you cant say anything on here

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circleturk:

sketiana:

hand in unlovable hand

What’s funnier:

• everyone saying England

• Turkey saying Turkey

• Greece hating Turkey so much they deadname them

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yellowdaffodils-76:

I hate you forced random pairings at the last minute, I hate you love at first sight, I hate you “they’re obviously more than friends”, I hate you pity for single people, I hate you virgin jokes, I hate you amatonormative/allonormative media

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ginger-ale-official:

Jesus, after coming back from the dead: hey guys it’s me Jesus, just look at the scars on my hands

Thomas, a known freak: show us the feet as well please

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pawcakes:

harmalade:

“Run into a cave and break your ankle so that people have to come find you and they see you lying at the bottom of this beautiful cave and maybe there’s a waterfall and the light from the crystals makes you look really beautiful and they say “Are you okay?” and you say “I think so” and they say “oh my God have you been here alone this whole time with a broken ankle” and you say “it’s okay” and they say “you’re so brave” and you are brave and you look so beautiful surrounded by cave crystals and everyone stands over you and says “oh wow” and “you poor beautiful thing” and “I’m so sorry we let you run into the cave but I’m so glad we found you” and let them carry you home and promise to be your best friends forever and that everything’s their fault and also they named the cave after you and you’re prettier than all of your enemies and your enemies all died of jealousy while you were in the cave.”

— Daniel M. Lavery, How To Respond To Criticism (via boringoldraphael)

this bitch gets it

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sheepnosed:

I’m always feeling like wait did I just do something unforgivable? But all I did was walk somewhere or turn in a paper late

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escuerzoresucitado:

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blemgoid:

best job in medieval times was probably being the guy who pushes the ladders off the wall when the castle’s getting attacked

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reallyreallyreallytrying:

loved the message dude. the little face at the end… fantastic. an “emoji”, i assume. does he represent you or me?

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fairycosmos:

does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse

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micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

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princessnijireiki:

paxamericana:

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how many followers do u have?

chessys:

its just me n u bud

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poem about that fat ant i posted

fuckyeahantsandgrapes:

ever see a ant so fat you wanna pop it

ever see an ant so cool you wanna fuck it

ever see an ant so nice you wanna chuck it

dont throw an ant that ants to fat

if ou throw that ant that ant will splat

who will clean up that ant dont let the cat

i want to clean up the ant with my mouth

im a dirty boy i was raised in the south

i would suck an ants dick 

and then do a cool trick

i will fuck an ants dick

and then show i can lick (in all the right places) ;)

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throckmorton-the-skater:

bakelite-bliss:

nemesisdub:

officialfist:

OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

This your cousin? What team is he in?

Our cousin

Hey that’s me :D

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anarchistmemecollective:

a thread of tweets by Jason Hickel @jasonhickel on twitter: People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):ALT
1. First, and most importantly, it is defined by enclosure and artificial scarcity. The origins of capitalism lie in a systematic effort by elites to restrict people's access to commons and independent subsistence, in order to render them reliant on wage labour for survival. Over the past 500 years, this has taken the form of privatization of commons, forced dispossession, destruction of subsistence economies and - particularly in the colonies - taxing people in a currency they do not have in order to induce them to seek wages in that currency.ALT
This continues today, with attempts to ensure an artificial scarcity of access to essential goods such as housing, healthcare, education, transit, and so on - goods that could very easily be provided, at high quality, on a universal public basis. Where universal public goods do exist, these have usually been won by longstanding struggles by labour movements and other progressive forces (including the anti-colonial movement).ALT
2. Second, capitalism is organized around - and dependent on - perpetual expansion, meaning ever-increasing production of commodified goods. It is the only intrinsically expansionary economic system in history (meaning it basically has a crisis if it doesn't continually expand). Crucially, under capitalism the purpose of increasing production is *not* primarily to meet human needs, but rather to extract and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective. (It is also the main objective of innovation).ALT
It's important to distinguish here between small businesses, which quite often operate with a steady-state, use-value logic (and which obviously preceded capitalism), and corporations whose main objective is expansion and accumulation (which define the capitalist era). To sustain the process of perpetually increasing surplus accumulation, capital requires an ever-rising quantity of inputs (labour and nature), and requires that these inputs be obtained as cheaply as possible.ALT
This introduces a constant pressure to depress real wages and attack environmental protections wherever possible (in the absence of countervailing political forces). The result is a system that, left to itself, automatically generates inequality and ecological breakdown. 3. Finally, capitalism is notable for precluding democratic decision-making. Even in countries that prize political democracy, democratic principles are rarely allowed to operate in the sphere of production, where decisions are made overwhelmingly by those who control capital.ALT
The result is that decisions about what to produce, for what purposes, for whose benefit, and under what conditions are generally made in the narrow interests of the capitalist class (workers, the people actually *doing* the production, rarely get a voice at all). It is worth pondering how our production priorities (and our treatment of labour and nature) might be different under conditions of economic democracy. Existing evidence suggests that democratic conditions lead to less exploitation, more equality, and more care for ecology.ALT
In sum, the tendency to equate capitalism with "markets and trade" naturalizes a system that is not natural, and prevents us from having a clear-eyed view of how it operates and how we might want to do things differently. (The "more" I referred to involves exploitative relations of race, gender and imperial power, which are effects of the tendencies described here, and which sustain them, but this deserves a thread unto itself - coming soon).ALT
We can have a democratic economy organized around meeting human needs at a high standard, where production is socially just and ecologically regenerative. Such a system is possible, but it will require a political movement to bring it into being.ALT

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anarchistmemecollective:

a thread of tweets by Jason Hickel @jasonhickel on twitter: People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):ALT
1. First, and most importantly, it is defined by enclosure and artificial scarcity. The origins of capitalism lie in a systematic effort by elites to restrict people's access to commons and independent subsistence, in order to render them reliant on wage labour for survival. Over the past 500 years, this has taken the form of privatization of commons, forced dispossession, destruction of subsistence economies and - particularly in the colonies - taxing people in a currency they do not have in order to induce them to seek wages in that currency.ALT
This continues today, with attempts to ensure an artificial scarcity of access to essential goods such as housing, healthcare, education, transit, and so on - goods that could very easily be provided, at high quality, on a universal public basis. Where universal public goods do exist, these have usually been won by longstanding struggles by labour movements and other progressive forces (including the anti-colonial movement).ALT
2. Second, capitalism is organized around - and dependent on - perpetual expansion, meaning ever-increasing production of commodified goods. It is the only intrinsically expansionary economic system in history (meaning it basically has a crisis if it doesn't continually expand). Crucially, under capitalism the purpose of increasing production is *not* primarily to meet human needs, but rather to extract and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective. (It is also the main objective of innovation).ALT
It's important to distinguish here between small businesses, which quite often operate with a steady-state, use-value logic (and which obviously preceded capitalism), and corporations whose main objective is expansion and accumulation (which define the capitalist era). To sustain the process of perpetually increasing surplus accumulation, capital requires an ever-rising quantity of inputs (labour and nature), and requires that these inputs be obtained as cheaply as possible.ALT
This introduces a constant pressure to depress real wages and attack environmental protections wherever possible (in the absence of countervailing political forces). The result is a system that, left to itself, automatically generates inequality and ecological breakdown. 3. Finally, capitalism is notable for precluding democratic decision-making. Even in countries that prize political democracy, democratic principles are rarely allowed to operate in the sphere of production, where decisions are made overwhelmingly by those who control capital.ALT
The result is that decisions about what to produce, for what purposes, for whose benefit, and under what conditions are generally made in the narrow interests of the capitalist class (workers, the people actually *doing* the production, rarely get a voice at all). It is worth pondering how our production priorities (and our treatment of labour and nature) might be different under conditions of economic democracy. Existing evidence suggests that democratic conditions lead to less exploitation, more equality, and more care for ecology.ALT
In sum, the tendency to equate capitalism with "markets and trade" naturalizes a system that is not natural, and prevents us from having a clear-eyed view of how it operates and how we might want to do things differently. (The "more" I referred to involves exploitative relations of race, gender and imperial power, which are effects of the tendencies described here, and which sustain them, but this deserves a thread unto itself - coming soon).ALT
We can have a democratic economy organized around meeting human needs at a high standard, where production is socially just and ecologically regenerative. Such a system is possible, but it will require a political movement to bring it into being.ALT

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coughloop:

Sorry my dumb as fuck follower replied to your post I will escort him back to the dungeon he broke out of

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hellsitegenetics:

hellsitegenetics:

big shout out to trans women

shout out to big trans women

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aspecmemesdaily:

Source | Day 7

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a-kind-of-merry-war:

a-kind-of-merry-war:

who wants to see a deeply cursed item that I need with every fibre of my terrible and sticky being

so that’s just a ring, right? A wee froggy ring! Nice! Lovely!! He’s got a crown, how sweet.

But he has a secret.

WOAH little froggy butthole!

But wait…………………. there’s more. You turn him around and BAM:

He’s a prince with his dick and balls fully out. Just right there.

And he can be yours for the low low price of £1,440.36 🐸

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bulbekuggeleh:

the-haiku-bot:

imviotrash:

“Kill them with kindness” Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK* 🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏

“Kill them with kindness”

Nah, fuck that, CRICKET BAT 🏏 🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*

🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏*SMACK*🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

This opens up a lot of possibilities for what a haiku can be

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theconcealedweapon:

This is why we stop creating wars for corporate profit. This is why we stop using the threat of student loan debt in order to pressure people into joining the military.

There. I provided actual solutions. Saluting the flag does jack shit. Standing for the national anthem does jack shit.

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redmegarex:

thelandofmemes:

This is very true, be more like little kids!

yes.

the default state of humanity is kindness

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tpwrtrmnky:

alternative treatments

[ID: Four panel pills that make you green comic.

Panel 1: A plain stick figure is on the left, while moss green is on the right.

Plain: “I’m just concerned, I mean you’ve heard about the conversion therapy laws, haven’t you?”

Moss: “Hm?”

Plain: “I mean it’s really ridiculous, they’d criminalize simply encouraging other alternatives to turning green!”

Panel 2: Zoom in on Moss’ face, which reads “(having a flashback)”. The plain stick figure continues talking from offscreen:

“I mean you need to be able to pursue a variety of options, these experimental drugs should really be a last resort. I sent my own child to a very nice therapist and they came back so much more well behaved and obedient and- Hello? I am talking to you.”

Panel 3: Framed as a thought bubble from Moss’ head in the preceding panel. A smaller stick figure is strapped to a chair wearing a helmet with wires coming out of it, connected to the chair. A larger stick figure has their hand on a lever.

Small: “It’s been over a year, when are you actually helping me?”

Big: “Soon, honestly. We just need to rule out a few more possibilities.”

Small: “Like what?”

Big: “Uh… Compulsive green ideation.”

Small: “I was already evaluated for that.”

Big: “Just sit back and let me zap you, you little shit.”

Panel 4: The flashback ends and the plain stick figure is still talking, while Moss is putting on a bandana.

Plain: “I mean it would be ridiculous if I had to go to prison for that.”

Moss: “Sure, yeah.”

Plain: “Ah, I’m so glad you agree.”

Moss: “Prison would be too merciful, yeah. It’s good that I’m here I guess.”

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sacred-portal:

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theconcealedweapon:

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choicescarf:

catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241:

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processedlives:

“The way that racism operates aesthetically is to neglect or, in extreme cases, erase whoever is not white. In the 1950s, for example, Kodak measured and calibrated skin tones in still photography using a reference card featuring “Shirley,” a white model dressed in high-contrast clothing. Ultimately, Shirley ended up being the standard for image processing in North American photography labs. It didn’t matter if the photo in question contained entirely black people; Shirley’s complexion was still treated as the ideal. Kodak’s film was so bad at capturing the different hues and saturations of black skin that when director Jean Luc Godard was sent on an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, he flat-out refused to use Kodak on the grounds that its stock was “racist.” Only when the candy and furniture industries began complaining that they couldn’t accurately shoot dark chocolate and brown wood furniture did Kodak start to improve its technology.”

— Morgan Jerkins, The Quiet Racism of Instagram Filters

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internet-sentences-deactivated2:

the-crone:

the-crone:

My new bread pans make the most… Symmetrical loaves & they scare me kinda

THE TAURUSES ARE BULLYING ME!!!!!

Ingot

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gobodegoblin:

euniexenoblade:

Honestly, it can stand as it’s own post. The tobacco industry is evil they want to get you smoking yadda yadda you’ve heard it a million times and like. I think we hear it so much but that a lot of the younger generations in the us dont really get why there’s such an aggressive anti smoking campaign, I think people buy into the narrative South Park has spun about it “the cigarette companies are all upfront about it and people still chose their service and everyone against smoking are just obsessive fascists” and it’s like. Genuinely, the cigarette companies are some of the most evil entities this world has ever seen. From knowing cigarettes caused cancer before anyone else and lying about it, to being the reason the majority of 50s television existed (shows like I Love Lucy existed to sell you cigarettes) to specifically making flavors of cigarettes and cartoon mascots to sell to kids. And I’m not saying that if you smoke cigarettes you’re bad but I do really want the tobacco industry abolished and have it’s wealth distributed to the society it controlled for so fucking long.

Seriously, go read about it. They did shit that manipulated the country, politics, and the lives of your parents and their parents, and likely their influence is affecting your life in this day and age still.

One of my grandpa’s died from lung cancer, and my oldest aunt had lung problems through most of her childhood and young adult hood from second-hand smoke