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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.
If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.
I loveeee marcille because she is proof that you can be insanely high-strung and constantly constantly freaking the fuck out over nothing but still be cute and go on adventures and have friends that get you and love you
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee
From March 10th, 2024.
An undisclosed “state recipient” has been authorized to buy Swedish weapons systems for almost 12 billion SEK (€1.04 billion). The Swedish people are not told who the recipient is, what weapons are being exported or what they will be used for. – We have received indications that they do not want it known who the buyer in the deal was, David Åhlén, head of the war material unit at ISP, told Bonnier-owned TV4. – If we report this information, we risk disturbing Sweden’s international relations with the country, which means that the information is covered by foreign secrecy, he continues. The secret actor is only described as a “state recipient in an established partner country in the Western world” – unlike the 56 other approved buyers, who are not anonymized.
I don't necessarily think the recipient is Israel, but with the part about it being an "established partner country in the Western world" I wouldn't rule it out either.
Either way I think it's a scary development that huge weapon deals like this is being hid from the Swedish public.
Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995) dir. Ang Lee
Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts
The Forest
She's so perfect she just goes right back to doing her thing
Chinese zokor (Eospalax fontanierii). Despite their mole-like appearance, zokors are actually rodents, being closely related to blind mole rats and bamboo rats. But unlike other burrowing rodents, they dig using their claws and not their incisors!
They’re also really cute.
And people say her lyrics aren't deep
love listening to music where you can hear the singer smiling or hear them inhale or when there’s like snippets of band members talking. yeah i wanna know that you’re people and not disembodied voices singing.
No single line has ever wrecked me as hard as this one from the Good Place and I think about it constantly
Little harbour moment 🚧
tim: sweet dog you got there. gordon: yes, this is our new drug-sniffing dog. tim: still training huh? gordon: red robin.. what do you mean? tim: ... tim: nevermind...
Guys, stop with the DARE Tim versus stoner Tim discourse, obviously both are true and he's a lying hypocrite!
Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"
Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.
Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?
Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable
[ID: An excerpt from an opinion piece by John McWhorter, a Columbia university linguist who “explores how race and language shape our politics and culture.” The text reads: "Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is 4'33", which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that period of time. I had to tell the students we could not listen to that piece that afternoon, because the surrounding noise would have been not birds or people walking by in the hallway, but infuriated chanting from protesters outside the building. Lately that noise has been almost continuous during the day and into the evening, including-" the text cuts off there.]
i don't know much about art but i think my favourite painting is the banjo lesson by henry ossawa tanner
look at this little boy getting a banjo lesson from his grandfather... look at how their hands are holding the banjo... look at the tenderness in the granfather's face and the concentration in the boy's face... look at the light and shadow... look at the everyday clutter in the room... oh i think i'm gonna cry
fervently assuring that my devotion to another woman is purely platonic while my associates just keep pulling out polaroids of the two of us where we have the utena rose overlay to my increasing dismay
