i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

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RUMPLED’S TOP 5 TV SHOWS RELEASED IN 2022 [5/5] ↳ 1899, created by Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese

Steven Salaita, Palestine and the Anxiety of Existence

Do Palestinians throw stones as a weapon of warfare? Maybe. Sometimes. They’re more often a weapon of imagination, emblems of a dogged refusal to submit or disappear. No matter the intent when a Palestinian throws a stone, the Israeli perceives it as an act of rejection. It is an accurate perception. This act of rejection, not any perceived danger, provokes the Zionist’s disdain.

 Think about the moment in 2000 when Edward Said tossed a stone from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. The stone didn’t come close to hitting anything—the nearest object was an Israeli military watchtower—and the episode would have passed without interest had a photographer not furtively captured it. The photographer was smart. His picture became a sensation, launching a hysterical news cycle about Said’s genocidal tendencies and renewing demands for his termination as a professor at Columbia University.  

But what about the military watchtower? It’s the normative object in the scene. It wasn’t threatened by Said’s stone, but it threatens thousands of people. It’s the apotheosis of colonization and militarism. It houses soldiers whose bullets travel at a much greater speed than Said’s manual projectile. Said was well aware of the ridiculousness of the outrage, its sanctimony and disingenuousness. He noted that he had joined in “the spirit of the place that infected everyone with the same impulse, to make a symbolic gesture of joy that the occupation [of southern Lebanon] had ended.”  

The only inalienable possession of the native is the moral burden of violence. The colonizer owns everything else. Thus the military watchtower is an afterthought—or not even a thought at all beyond its existence as a backdrop to Said’s unconscionable action.

Vladimir Nabokov, letter to his wife Véra, Letters to Véra (ed. Brian Boyd & trans. Olga Voronin)

[Text ID: “I love you. Without end.”]

hey what if i kept trying anyway because it’s my life and only i get to decide what to do with it

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media that uses cannibalism and vampirism as an allegorical expression of desire, love, and hunger >>>>

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trans women cute reblog if you agree

KOFI SIRIBOE in Doja Cat’s ‘Streets’ music video dir. Christian Breslauer

knowing that succession is such a saturnian heavy show to have the main protagonist actor- Jeremy Strong being a triple Capricorn is iconic in all of itself 

JEONGHAN in YSL for GQ Korea Feb 2023 issue

being a Kendall roy stand is knowing that two statements remain rent free in your mind 

Watching succession and the bear just reminds me of how much I like pathetic (endearingly ) sad eyed men.