Wayne Thiebaud, 24th Street Intersection, 1977 i am so fond of this whole series of San Francisco city scapes. especially this one. they make my eyes want to jump up and down and my heart goes “aaahhhh.”

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btw i just looked at the playlist they linked and i am so fucking mad

The resurgence of rick rolling has brought about a new form of rick rolling. A rick rolling where you trick someone into thinking you’re going to classic rick roll them, only to link them to a photograph of the video, or an ashley tisdale cover, or this playlist. 

Like living creatures, memes must evolve to survive….

We’ve witnessed the birth of the Neo-Rickroll

the rollissance is upon us

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OK SO LET ME SHOW YOU GUYS SOMETHING THE FIRST PHOTO IS MINE OF A ROCKET LAUNCH IN FLORIDA AND THE SECOND IS THE UFO THINGY SO IT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN A ROCKET OR MISSLE LAUNCH BECAUSE LOOK AT HOW DIFFERENT THE TRAILS OF EXHAUST ARE

It's not a comet either because comet trails look nothing like that, and it was too close to the ground. Same with an asteroid.

isn’t it weird how the US not only has a hugely large prison population and that we also make it illegal for felons to vote even after they have been rehabilitated by prison (which is actually not the case in like canada or europe where even inmates are allowed to vote apparently)?  so we have effectively taken millions of people out of the voting pool and that group of people is overwhelmingly poor and are mostly people of color?  

I just looked up stats: we have over 20% of the worlds prison population in the US alone.  1/31 adults is under some form of correctional control.  58% of the US prison population are African American or Hispanic people even though those groups combined make up only 25% of the United states population.  The NAACP estimates that if trends continue 1/3 black men alive today could expect to spend time in prison in their lifetimes… thats 1/3 black men who wouldn’t be allowed to vote.  thats a pretty sick facet of the prison industrial complex that i don’t see addressed often.  Apparently the technical term for it is “felon disenfranchisement”. 

Wait you want to hear the cherry on top? Where are most of those prisons? That’s right, rural areas that are judged to be “low risk” of criminal activity to assist prisoners escape or do something similar - so basically comparatively White areas that are largely lower population density. Except, because the census and related counts of people are based off of where people are in a given moment, those lower population densities are upped a bit, to include the incarcerated. Who can’t vote.

And this isn’t some fudging the numbers a small amount kind of thing, as some experts on felon disenfranchisement have noted:

So yeah, holy fucking shit. Now also recall how that parallels the history of the 3/5ths rule, which insured that slave-holding areas had their (non-voting) slave populations counted for representation purposes, inflating the political power of those permitted to vote in those areas. This is part of why people discuss mass incarceration as a dimension to how slavery-based economic and political organization has continued to operate post-abolition.

And it all ties in to the prison industrial complex, where those disenfranchised people of colour imprisoned on trumped up charges or drug possession, etc., are put to work to make money hand over fist for corporations.

Slavery is still alive and well - thriving, even - in the US today. Lock up your non-white population, deny them access to the political process while using their numbers to inflate voting power for white people in their area, and make money off their essentially unpaid labour.

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