This expression speaks volumes. Prism, 2020. Such glorious work by @jenny_saville_art via @art_seeking. posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CQPPY_5rQMu/

hugggggg / gouache painting on paper

Engineers going to uni for years to learn what beavers 🦫 know intuitively. Embarrassing.

What an autistic person says: "How long is it going to take?"

What they mean: "I want to know whether to activate my short term waiting mode where I just wait and do nothing else, or activate my long term waiting mode where I occupy my mind with something else. I fully understand that both are possibilities, and I have no problem whatsoever with either one, but I want more information so I can best adapt to the situation."

What neurotypical people hear: "I am impatient and demand that everything I want happen right now. Please scold me and publicly humiliate me for it."

reply function etiquette?

Decided to check out Tumblr again after a break of several years cause everyone said it was great (again/anyway). But they added the reply function, and i can't figure out the proper etiquette for replying (vs tags and vs reblogs which i was used to). Any advice?

From Here To There: A growing map of Manhattan made only of directions from strangers on scraps. 

so i don't teach kindergarten but i teach at university. and the problem is that teachers are just as broken as everybody else. they don't go into that profession because they don't care about children, it's obviously the opposite. But that care for children has been abused to hell and back for the past years to push the teachers far beyond their limits, with no help or aid or compensation or guidance on what the fuck to do. And even now, instead of blaming the problem on larger societal structures, you're still demonizing the individual teachers pushed far beyond their breaking points.

on r/teachers there is almost zero acknowledgement of, and actual zero empathy for what children have been through in the past ten years and especially during the pandemic. constant rhetorical demands about why a 5th grader might have trouble tying his shoes or have poor emotional regulation or not know how to hold a pen correctly when there are actual material reasons for all of these things and they aren't just "his parents hate you, teacher, personally". and the majority of their solutions to these deficits is "just refuse to help him until he figures it out". it's rare to see anyone say they even tried teaching the missing skill first, just that they "put their foot down". maybe having bad parents is not his fault, if he has them. maybe we nationalized schooling of young children as a failsafe for exactly this occurrence, to get kids without adequate care into at least partial supervision by people who trained for it and PRESUMABLY WANT TO DO THE JOB

Blanket octopus (Joseph Elayani)

Antique Missouri Crazy Quilt

Dear [Gay Community News (GCN)]: As a news writer for GCN, I’m at least vaguely aware of some of the internal controversy about covering “non-gay news,” specifically disarmament issues. As a member of the feminist/dyke affinity group which recently did civil disobedience at both Avco and the Park Plaza missile technology conference, I wanted to write some personal thoughts on the GCN presence at these actions. At the arrests on Dec. 12, I was the last woman from my affinity group to be thrown into the police van, I had been dragged and tossed in upside down, and was somewhat preoccupied with righting myself and not getting the doors slammed on my legs. Imagine my surprise as I surveyed what I thought was our all-dyke police wagon and saw [GCN reporter] Larry Goldsmith sprawled in the corner. It was the beard that gave him away. Even though I knew Larry hadn’t intended to get arrested in a show of solidarity (and he emphatically told me that it ruined his day), I was really happy to see him. At that point, he embodied for me the spirit, presence and support of all of GCN. I think I blurted something absurd like, “Larry, I’m so glad you’re here!” Over 50 of us spent hours in a dark, filthy, hot and smelly cell. In between our periodic confrontations with the cops about booking and fingerprinting, we held endless strategy meetings, sang songs, gave backrubs, and read an Ann Bannon novel out loud. As non-cooperators, however, our affinity group refused to give our real names, and refused to walk. Often throughout the day, then, we were both verbally and physically abused by the cops. They kicked us, dragged us by our hair, and were brutal in dragging us on and off the police bus. Many took their badges off to avoid identification. I write this to convey a small sense of the intensity of the day — a see-saw of exhilaration and fear. When we got to the courthouse at about 4pm, we entered the lobby to the cheers of the many supporters who had been waiting there for all of those arrested. It was fantastic, but in the chaos of the moment, I caught only a few familiar faces before being herded into the courtroom. Once inside, though, the first person I saw was Sue Hyde, GCN’s news editor, and my sense of relief was enormous. In many demonstrations I’ve chanted, “We are everywhere,” but I was truly grateful that day that “everywhere” included that courtroom. The point of all this is that, for me, it was really important to feel the support of the lesbian and gay community through this action. While in jail, we gave each other strength and encouragement, but we were all isolated — not knowing who was outside, what was going on, and if anyone knew what was happening to us. And although there were many dykes in our cell, I felt some discomfort and awkwardness from some of the straight women about the strength and visibility of our affinity group. The cheering and encouragement we got from the supporters at the courthouse was tremendously inspiring. But I felt it was support for me as “generic protestor.” Support for being a dyke protestor is not always so clear, and I’m painfully reminded sometimes that, as in the rest of society, there is also homophobia in the peace movement. That’s why I think it was important that GCN people were at Dec. 12. I felt like all of me was being recognized and supported. As such a longstanding and visible part of the lesbian/gay community, GCN felt to me on Monday like a symbol of our power there as a movement. When I saw the news editor in the courtroom, not only did I feel the personal caring of people at the paper, but I also felt support for being part of a movement within a movement. So, my feelings about GCN covering disarmament issues goes beyond the somewhat remote fact that, if the planet gets blown away, queers get blown away too, so we should be interested. It basically centers on the fact that gay men and especially lesbians are a vital part of the peace movement, and it’s really nice when GCN is there. In solidarity, Janice Irvine Cambridge, MA P.S. Larry, if you can’t organize a faggot affinity group before the next action, you can shave off your beard, put on overalls and hiking boots and join us!

Janice Irvine, writing to Gay Community News, Vol. 11, No. 25, January 14, 1984 (PDF). (via enoughtohold)

As someone queer who works in disarmament this made me smile.

y’all, jokin: *postin about marxist symbolism and class relations in spongebob*

mark fisher, dead serious: “Take Disney/ Pixar’s Wall-E (2008). The film shows an earth so despoiled that human beings are no longer capable of inhabiting it. We’re left in no doubt that consumer capitalism and corporations – or rather one mega-corporation, Buy n Large – is responsible for this depredation; and when we see eventually see the human beings in offworld exile, they are infantile and obese, interacting via screen interfaces, carried around in large motorized chairs, and supping indeterminate slop from cups … It seems that the cinema audience is itself the object of this satire, which prompted some right wing observers to recoil in disgust, condemning Disney/Pixar for attacking its own audience. But this kind of irony feeds rather than challenges capitalist realism. A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity. The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any sort of subjectively assumed belief.”

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