made an instagram for discussing sickness and disability on film. as if i needed more social media profiles to look after. excited about it as a little project though.
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Trans couples ⚧ photography by Camila Falcão anti-patriarchal artist & photographer based in São Paulo, Brazil
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Fabiola by Francis Alÿs
Fabiola is an installation of over 300 painted copies and reproductions of fourth century Saint-Fabiola, collected by Francis Alÿs from flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and America in the last 20 years. They are all based on a now lost original painting by french artist Jean-Jacques Henner made in the nineteenth century.
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I was working with an item today that just utterly flabbergasted a part of me (the other was deeply frustrated with the catalogue record AS SOMEONE APPARENTLY THOUGHT IT WAS PRINTED ON SILK, coming back to that in a minute) … but ANYWAYS … said item is a replica of a medieval manuscript prayer book THAT IS ENTIRELY WOVEN out of grey and black silk … WOVEN … text, images, intricate grey scale, WOVEN … NOT PRINTED …
And it’s flabbergasting because it’s from 1888, Jacquard machine, IT USED PUNCH CARDS to weave these intricate pages … something like 400 weft per near square inch … IT looks like a page of textured paper, but it’s not, it’s entirely SILK … F*CK …
Anyways …
OKS I’ve since calmed down and found out that the reason they used “printed” is because it is essentially printed by a computer … in a weird way; when I import the record, I’m just gonna take that note out …
BUT this is the item btw
WOVEN! WOVEN ON A LOOM using f*ckin’ punch cards!
This portrait of Joseph Marie Jacquard was also woven with punch cards in 1839!
"Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart."🪩🫁
In 2020, for the first time since being laid in 1772, a section of a King’s College lawn the size of just half a football pitch was not mown. Instead, it was transformed into a colourful wildflower meadow filled with poppies, cornflowers and oxeye daisies.
[Researcher Dr Cicely Marshall] found that as well as being a glorious sight, the meadow had boosted biodiversity and was more resilient than lawn to our changing climate. The results are published today in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence. Despite its size, the wildflower meadow supported three times more species of plants, spiders and bugs than the remaining lawn - including 14 species with conservation designations, compared with six in the lawn.
The meadow was found to have another climate benefit: it reflected 25% more sunlight than the lawn, helping to counteract what’s known as the ‘urban heat island’ effect. Cities tend to heat up more than rural areas, so reflecting more sunlight can have a cooling effect - useful in our increasingly hot summers. “Cambridge has become more prone to drought, and last summer most of the College’s fine lawns died. It’s really expensive to maintain these lawns, which have to be re-sown if they die off. But the meadow just looked after itself,” says Marshall.
We all have a responsibility to fight to end all pipelines.
i've been reading white cat, black dog by kelly link. it's a phenomenally good collection of short stories. every single one is strange and compelling, and not a single one of them wraps up neatly with an ending that ties everything together, and i think that's part of their power. so many things happen in these stories that i can't logically figure out why it was included, but it makes me want to keep reading.
i went to look up reviews, and not surprisingly, this book was very well reviewed critically, but has a lower than average 4-star goodreads rating because no one can quite figure out what these stories are. it seems to be a chronic issue for her, from this article:
I found out that Diners were originally inspired by train Dining Cars. some of the oldest ones were actually just old dining cars they put on the street
finally a descriptor for whatever the fuck american animation studios have been doing for years
Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
I have never not been employed. I was made for work. I never had a childhood either, though I've tried to imagine one. My human coworker sometimes talks about not wanting to work, and then he'll say something quite odd and rather silly. What is it he says, now? There's more to a person than the work they do, or A person is more than just their work? Something like that. But what else could person be? Where would your food come from? Who would keep you company? How would you get by without work and without coworker? Would you be left standing in a cupboard?
Olga Ravn, The Employees, transl. Martin Aitken
In the winter of 2016, I crossed the Arctic Circle for the very first time and visited a sleepy town in Sweden called Kiruna. Sitting atop one of the world’s largest iron ore deposits, Kiruna was a flourishing mining town in the 20th century, but it is now sinking due to all the mining tunnels that were dug underneath it. The whole town is currently in the process of being relocated. What struck me most during my visit to Kiruna in January was that the sun barely rose above the horizon, making the world look like twilight time all day long. When the sun did approach the horizon at sunrise and sunset, an intense pink glow that I’ve never experienced before filled the sky. Curious to see more of this, I set off to Arctic towns in Norway and Finland in 2018 and 2019 to produce a growing body of work titled ‘Polar Warmth’. Below is a selection of my favourite photos from this series. — Maya Beano
A federal investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, launched in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, found that the police department and the city itself engage in a "pattern or practice" of excessive force and racial discrimination that violates both the United States Constitution and federal law. The so-called pattern-or-practice investigation — like the federal investigations into police departments in cities including Baltimore; Ferguson, Missouri; and, most recently, Louisville, Kentucky — focused on widespread issues within the police department rather than individual incidents. The Minneapolis Police Department, the probe found, “uses excessive force, including unjustified deadly force and other types of force”; “unlawfully discriminates against Black and Native American people in its enforcement activities”; “violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech”; and discriminates against people with behavioral health issues.
Cool. Can we finally defund them like 73% of Minneapolitans wanted in the immediate aftermath of the George Floyd's murder?
Someone on my idpol post put in the tags “I DO think cis people should tell everyone they are cis tho.” I don’t! I don’t think cis people should need to disclose it. I don’t think straight people need to disclose that. I don’t think anyone should be forced to reveal their gender and sexuality labels no matter what they are, actually!
“It’s bare minimum as an ally” It’s not!!!! They’re not required. They don’t have to. It’s not that they “should”, they very much should not unless they want to. Straight trans people exist, that you desperately want to “out” as an ally and not a member. Questioning people who haven’t made a decision and default to “straight” or “cis” shouldn’t be forced to reveal themselves to you.
A well-meaning asshole in one of my zoom classes once approached me for being one of the only people who didn’t add pronouns to my name and suggested I add pronouns to “show (I’m) an ally.” Buddy, not only am I trans, I am so trans that I was struggling so deeply to distinguish what pronouns I wanted to use, after changing them in the past, and not only use but use in a legal professional setting.
The absence of pronouns wasn’t an absence of support, it was keeping a private struggle private until I knew how I wanted to be addressed. The most bland ass cishet looking motherfucker in the world could be grappling with an identity so complex it would make you puke, OR they could be cishet and it would be equally none of your business until they decided to disclose.
I see a lot of people on tumblr getting really cocky about "how could this person believe that ChatGPT would give them real information and then present it to other people as the truth without verifying what an idiot" considering that they're chilling on the share screenshot, eat hot chip, and lie website.