The Frailty of Genius

“The Nymph caught the Dryad in her arms.” The New World Fairy Book Howard Angus Kennedy Illus. by H.R. Millar London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1904.

you look like a turner painting and i want to learn your textures with my fingertips

The Time Of Roses, 1916 John William Godward

I’m

The youth are lost

Not in a million years would I have ever thought of this

bugs is…. shrimp????

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

prints

—ursula k. le guin, from her left hand, the darkness by alison smith

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

Gromit being a relatable king

here's the thing about the fucking tariffs. besides Unfairly Punishing Our FUCKING ALLIES YOU MORON- okay okay. anyway. the other thing

the other thing is that we have no manufacturing here

most of the fabric I buy to make my clothes is made overseas. I would actually love to buy wool from a local, unionized woolen mill! I'd be pleased as punch to do that! it's better for the environment and creates good local jobs that don't have a barrier of entry re: college degrees, which we need more of!

except we don't have any more fucking woolen mills because your billionaire ilk outsourced all of them to avoid union rules, OSHA, and paying minimum wage, when those things became commonplace and/or law. you orange fuckface

"buy American instead!!!" okay FROM FUCKING WHERE. we don't MAKE shit here anymore. and the few remaining local producers have been forced to charge exorbitant prices because they're competing with cheap unethical labor practices from big companies, so most people can't afford to buy local

god it's all so fucking stupid and I have to suffer for other people's idiocy that I actively tried to prevent

That’s the real problem whenever anyone talks about how manufacturing jobs “went away.” No, they were sent away and no one ever talks about taking measures against the bosses and owners and companies who sent them in order to make a few bucks more.

On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

Happy Margaret Thatcher Death Day to all who celebrate!

A different point of view: Latin America upside down

i remember asking about this in school but no one being able to grasp what i meant.

37 people were illegally detained in Bellingham, Washington for the ‘crime’ of speaking Spanish. This is so fucking inhumane and cruel

⬆️ racial unity now is matching funds for the detainees and their families. please help if you can.

it's shameful how long i had to look to find an article covering this story that gives more information besides saying "37 undocumented workers were arrested wednesday." cascadia news and the AP were the only sources i found that include any journalism whatsoever beyond the police report.

Hey, this is local for me. It would mean a lot if you could help out even a little bit.

Bellingham Herald covered it among plenty of others in the region. Here's the Seattle Times.

The Stranger (Seattle based) didn't do a dedicated story on it (yet) but mentioned it twice, here and in the April 3rd daily slog here.

Whatcom News has something sort of about it

Not to mention that lots of local activist groups and individuals and locals are posting about it and talking about it on social media. I'm only really on Instagram and Threads to a much lesser degree. I'm also seeing Bellingham Herald, Cascadia Daily (aka Cascadia News?) on IG posting about the 37 taken.

Also in the same area, Immigration activist and farmworkers union leader Alfredo (Lelo) Juarez Zeferino was taken by ICE in Sedro-Wooley and is being held in Tacoma detention center the last I have heard. Here's a Bellingham Herald piece about it (lots in the area are covering it as well).

“Unfortunate! Anyway,”

gerard dubois' moby dick sells me on the cosmic horror whale

Seren, appeased after several minutes of screaming

just seeing a man pisses me off sometimes like can’t i get a break from you.