What we do to get through life.
The red line for a university taking a political stance ought to be scholasticide.
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“Gnarled Goddess” by David Lorenz Winston
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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
Ilya Repin
oil on canvas, 1884
Rafah was the safe zone us hysterics were told would always be there.
600,000 children.
But yeah, chants on campus.
Way, way late to this revelation I know…
But realizing that the main actor and creator of the show Baby Reindeer IS the person the whole story is about is throwing me.
It was great before but now as a kind of performance art, it’s even better.
it bothers me that neither reason nor compassion are universally unhackable code to being human and that both may be overwritten so easily.
A proper summation of this moment in time would be to play The Tortured Poets Department album over a series of Tik Tok clips of war crimes being perpetrated in Gaza.
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Kate Bush performing Wuthering Heights, 1979. © Pete Still
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"A world without trans people has never existed and never will"
Poster spotted in Olympia, WA
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[ID: hopper painting nighthawks positioned on a white wall so the stripe of sunlight that falls on it aligns perfectly with the lines of light in the painting's diner. end ID]
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Vlad Miroshnikov, ‘Old Trees’, 2019 Oil on Canvas, 110 x 110 cm
Just a reminder for people who may not know, in light of protestors at UCLA being shot in the face with rubber bullets— rubber bullets are not bullets made of rubber. They are metal bullets encased in rubber.
Despite being called “non-lethal” or sometimes “less lethal”, they are well known to cause death and permanent disability.
Here’s a photo showing their size— these are actual rubber bullets used during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.
Do not let them downplay the severity of what they are subjecting this students to for standing against genocide. Stay safe and stay educated.
UCLA thought
funding genocide > risking potential lethal harm to students
“I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
