Donté K. Hayes

Donté K. Hayes Claps Back, 2019 Ceramic, 14″ x 13″ x 13″

cabbage boy..

dip in the pool 

1994

Lala Albert’s Rat, from Kuš minis. The latest of many scans of her work collected here.

Adolph Reed, Django Unchained, or, The Help: How “Cultural Politics” Is Worse Than No Politics at All, and Why

Drew Angerer, A storm closes in on Paducah, Texas, on May 10, 2017.

Chosen.

If this were to happen to me i would burst into tears

Bonfire. 1914.

Same

so I never thought I’d be one of these people making this post but my living situation has turned into a horrific, abusive one. My dad choked me because I got into a car accident and my mom defended him. This is the least of what they do. I need to get out of here as soon as possible, but I don’t have many options. If you can find it in your heart to cash app me or Venmo me and help me get out of this abusive environment I’d really, really appreciate it.

cashapp: $priscilaperez97

Venmo: priscila-perez-5

PayPal: priscila.perez97@gmail.com

my parents found out I was trying to move out and literally cut me off from all resources, I literally only have my paypal to fall back on. They took away my phone, my laptop, and cut me off from everyone who was helping me. All I have is my paypal. I opened another bank account so they couldn’t get their hands on it. donate if you can please, my paypal is listed above but just in case it’s:

Paypal: priscila.perez97@gmail.com

Cover art by Justin Todd ‘Tales from Outer Space’ 1975

Anyone else feel like an accused outcast village witch?

“This photograph of Joni Mitchell skating across Lake Mendota in Wisconsin is unreal to me. I love the negative space in the photo, and how it gives the sense of total freedom.”

© Joel Bernstein, 1976

“The world is overpopulated.”

Nope.

“Well, that’s just carbon emissions. What about places for all those people to live?”

If the world’s population all lived in one city that was as densely populated as Manhattan, that city would be the size of Ecuador. The space taken up by ourselves and our toys is actually rather insignificant next to that taken up by our farmland.

“Ah-hah! Farmland! We’re not producing enough food for all those people!”

The problem here is we are insanely wasteful with our food.

Firstly, half of all food grown in the US goes straight into the dumpster.

Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.

In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.

“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”

Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.

We’re all going to die because the rich are selfish and their cronies are too.