No, Not the Mind Nimon!

YES GOOD :D

Especially aimed at Florida, but available to anyone!

And if you want to help them out and have some extra cash, you can make a donation to help them continue their work:

Every reblog and donation is another slap to DeSantis.

If you can, it's time to warm up that pitching arm.

The teenager was asked to write a short scene or draw a short comic using a comedic trope from a list on a handout in their HS American Lit class. They chose to do the comic …

the Bard will never die.

and this comic is fucking genius.

Now THIS is art. 😍

“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27

I wish for nothing more than that that little boy could see this and know that he was remembered.

This is the original painting, so you can see all of the people and clothes and objects - all details that were recorded for the sake of history, or able to be discovered afterward. You can see the boy in the right had corner; in fact, here’s a close up:

When I use this painting in my class, I ask students to spot the differences between each depiction of the boy. The first one they usually spot is where he’s looking - in the original portrait, he’s looking at the man who ‘owns’ him. In Kaphar’s portrait, he’s looking directly at the audience. Kaphar has also crumpled up the other part of the portrait in a deliberate way which forces Yale to look at the boy.

The other big difference, which is sometimes harder to spot, is that the original boy has a metal collar around his neck. Kaphar removed it.

My students also ask “If he’s a slave, why is he dressed so well?” For the same reason rich people dress their purse dogs in real diamonds. This boy is a status symbol to Yale and his friends. Everything in a painting is deliberately chosen.

The original painting was prominently displayed in the Yale Center for British Art for over half a century. Titus Kaphar painted “Enough About You” in 2016. From 2020-2021, “Enough About You” replaced the painting in the museum, and a team was created to try to learn more about the original painting, in particular the identity of the young slave boy. So far they’ve only been able to guess at his age: likely 5 years old when he was brought to England, perhaps 7 or 8 at the time of the painting.

More information can be found about it here. I wasn’t able to find out where the painting is being shown now.

What is Jake Sisko's worst outfit? I appreciate that Jake can experiment with his fashion, but it did mean it got inflicted on us. 😛 (Seasons 1-4)

The unanimous agreement kills me.

DOCTOR WHO (2005) 2.02 | ‘Tooth and Claw’

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

Amputees continue to be the funniest people on the planet why are the rest of us even trying

Farscape: Twice Shy

“do you really wanna be on that medication for the rest of your life :(?” yes actually I would love that. I know what I’m like off it

Creative way of saving camels from getting run over

my favourite things about this video:

1) the amount of time that went into considering this approach, which is a resounding 0.00 seconds

2) the baby's screm - yes it's sad bc the poor lil guy is scared but the way his yells for momma hitch with the guy's running have me lmao ngl

3) the guy either had the incredible good fortune or the foresight to put the baby between himself and momma so he could make a break for it. it was too quick. Too deliberate and almost instinctive. He has done this before.

4) the victory skips and turban twirling.

10/10 but please for the love of god there has to be a better way camels kick people to death

i feel like we're ignoring an important scientific fact, which is that this guy grabbed, at the minimum, 35 kilograms of terrified baby camel and did a fucking 6-second olympic sprint while being chased by, wikipedia informs me, 300-540 kilograms of angry adult camel.

the human body is capable of amazing things when it notices that it just picked up something that half a ton worth of pissed off camel would very much like to have back

"dont do kink in public!!" do you WANT those bitches who host taskmaster to lose their jobs?????

˙ʇɐqʇᴉnɹɟ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq oʇ pǝpᴉɔǝp ǝʌ,I

External shots of botanical gardens by Swiss photographer Samuel Zeller

There had been small rumors floating around.