Unbetitelt

27 January, 1945 | The liberation of Auschwitz

When Soviet troops arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp on the 27th of January, 1945, they found roughly 7,500 living prisoners–most of whom were weak, ill, and starving–and hundreds of corpses. Though the camp remained largely in tact, the retreating S.S. had demolished several buildings, including the gas chambers, in an attempt to hide their crimes. Overall, an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered in Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, making it the most deadly of all the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The majority of the victims were Jews.

Auschwitz-Birkenau became a museum in 1947, and the UN appointed January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Seventy years after its liberation, Auschwitz remains the dominant symbol of the Holocaust

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

I just think you should sing no matter what you sound like and draw or paint no matter what it looks like

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

the uncanny valley between “this academic article doesn’t make sense because i’m an idiot” and “this academic article doesn’t make sense because the author is an idiot”

The Pacific Ocean is wider than the Moon. Anyway how’s your day going?

dip moon like cookie

so meaningful

me leaving a theatre

I love how the black family is like sirius (star), regulus (star), andromeda (constellation), bellatrix (star), narcissa (personality disorder)

the inherent embarrassment of having interests

human instincts

Seems legit

turns out my life purpose isn’t supposed to be as small and silent and accommodating and convenient as possible

Found the Ocean

can’t stop thinking about this $3,800 painting by ringo starr

Visualizing yourself being watched and performing is a capitalism coping mechanism

!!!!!!!

“…the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

- Margaret Atwood

Europeans: colonize and enslave most of the world based on racial superiority doctrine

Europeans: we don’t have racism here in Europe, we actually have no idea who on earth all these racist Americans got these ideas from. The world may never know

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then