Doggedly Jo says

An Easter cartoon for the Guardian

Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel, in 1973, 1992, and 2011. Photos by Francis Khoo (top, middle) and Jean-Pascal Deillon (bottom).

when someone says "why would you want a physical copy of that? you can just stream it" i physically recoil. a feeling of dread comes over me like an evil spirit just passed through my body

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

I’d like to add i hate you “content” I hate you influencer I hate you parasocial I hate you algorithm I hate you platform I hate you monetization

*screams incoherently*

Chocolate guy has learned how to make corrugated cardboard. he is a powerful eldritch being who cannot be contained. The only reason we seem to be alive is because his interests are exclusively in the making of delicious lifelike desserts.

PACKING TAPE?? fucking PACKING TAPE??

Wow, I haven't seen Chocolate Guy in weeks.

Has he got a show on Food Network yet?

I can remember if I’ve posted this edit on here before, but here it is again anyway. For the purposes of propaganda for Buster’s entry in @hotvintagepoll

Buster Smiles and Laughs in the Roscoe Arbuckle films

Music: When You’re Smiling by The Benny Goodman Trio

Buster Keaton in The Cook (1918)

Stars and dots. Our Earth and Its Story - Volume VI. 1932.

Little fucking guy alert!!

I love him, your honor.

[ID: a tiny blue and white porcelain triceratops with gold horns]

every now and then I get amazed by how much I love music like wow. I love music so much. music is so cool, I'm so glad music exists. music is the best thing this world has to offer and we can listen to it all the time, it's mindblowing

sorry to say this but not every act of protest is meant to be palatable. actually scratch that, to protest is to disrupt, it's to inconvenience, it's to make you unable to ignore the protesters message, it's priority should never be its palability.

actually im going to elaborate on this. self-immolation is meant to disturb people. its meant to scandalize and to mark you. it is a radical act of protest at an incredible high cost and it should be treated as such. Aaron Bushnell's death should be mourned because it was preventable. it was as preventable as the 30,000 Palestinian deaths. but his choice should be honored and respected.

in his own words : “my name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the united states air force, and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

the whole point of his protest is to highlight the violence and pain that the usa and more specifically the usa army is complicit in. in a way that could not be ignored.

to blur his final moments to make them more 'comfortable' to watch, to consume, is extremely disrespectful.

mind you i am not saying that you should go out of your way to expose yourself to such footage, especially if you are not in a place mentally that allows you to do so.

but his final wish was to force us into a conversation around the pain and violence we are complicit with. so much so that it has now become 'normal' rather than outraging.

it is important that we do not let the media sweep up or minimize his actions (something that the blurring facilitates). just in the last not even four months we have had 3 separate self-immolations in protest against at least two ongoing genocides. this is what the fucking wikipedia page for political self-immolation looks like as of today.

here's some links to check out:

https://www.focuscongo.com/en/

https://www.unrwa.org/

not all heroes wear capes

I love how doesn’t even pretend to wonder if he’s the a-hole in this situation, he knows he isn’t

being on the internet

food is one of my favorite tastes. not only that, but drinks are amazing