Jonathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove, Brett Hankinson.

Enough with using Breonna's name as a trend. Enough with a tiktok song that doesn't help.

Stop saying "arrest the killers of Breonna Taylor" and start saying "arrest JONATHAN MATTINGLY, MYLES COSGROVE, AND BRETT HANKINSON."

You need to do better for Black women. You need to do better for Black lives.

SuperMoon by pangea.

Cologne, Germany.

i hate it here

honestly what infuriates me most about this is that you know that in a couple weeks we are going to be seeing stories of disney workers who have to be in the park almost 24/7 desperately asking ungrateful and conceited guests to wear their masks and to put masks on their children who will still sneeze/spit/slobber on everything they can touch. and i already know that these same people will throw fits when they’re are told to put on a mask and will take it out on the poor workers who have to be there because they are treated like expendable resources by disney corp

your disney obsession at 30+ is not worth the lives of workers and immune compromised members of the community that you will inevitably pass the virus to just so you can go see mickey mouse

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Perfectly balanced as all things should be…

oh nooooooo

last time i reblogged this it wasnt balanced I’m glad it’s ok now!!!

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This country couldn’t be any more ridiculous. You literally can’t do ANYTHING in America as a Black person without risking arrests. Freedom is nothing more than a punchline.

physically speaking i’m alive and at home. emotionally? i’ve been dead at the bottom of a ravine in vermont for 11 days and they just discovered my body due to heavy snowfall burying me for the past week.

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A lot of people in the replies to this seemingly have no idea what “class” is.

It’s not a set of values or something you automatically earn after college or like some mysterious inherent quality your parents pass down to you. 

(Like, maybe your parents have enough money/assets where they can sustain you through economic insecurity, but let’s be honest…that’s not most people’s situation.)

If you are struggling with bills, if you don’t have savings, if you constantly question even small purchases, if spending a few thousand dollars on a vacation seems like a distant dream…you are not middle class.

And most importantly, saying you are not middle class is not an attack on your character. 

Instead it’s a reminder to fight for your own economic interests, and not to let companies, your boss, or politicians trick you into working against yourself by believing you’re part of the “mythical middle.”

Damn

What’s more, if your first response to “you’re not middle class!” is to treat it like an attack on your character? Then you really need to stop and examine what you think about lower-class people.

Had this conversation with a friend who looked at me and said “so, if we’re not middle class, what are we … poor?” 

And all I could think was … you’re working 2 jobs to try to make ends meet and still struggling, you’ve been working with what is probably a broken foot because you can’t afford a visit to the doctor, you can’t get ahead on anything because you’re always having to pay late charges because you don’t make enough to pay your bills… 

There are various methods of determining “middle class”  - how much you earn, how much wealth you have (retired folks often), or even just how much you can spend each year. None of these are “your moral standing as an individual.”

The scary thing, we used to expect even being working class to mean you could afford rent and food. What we’re seeing now is a lot of working poor. Not for lack of effort or education, but because too many people still have that Puritanical idea of blaming people for being poor. 

yes. We are poor. In fact the entire US is poor. The government has sunk the country deep in debt and the corporations and billionaires have sucked all the money out of the economy. We are poor in every way.

We live like a rich man who’s lost most of his money but still lives in his mansion as the utilities get cut off and the building falls apart.

We have some of the worst education, some of the worst healthcare, some of the worst infrastructure in the developed world, yet pay some of the highest costs of living.

We pay up to twice as much on health care per person compared to top ranking countries, but our healthcare is much worse. For example, mortality rates of mothers and newborns in the US is higher than in most developed countries and those rates are rising. Not only are those rates rising in the US, but they are doing so while those mortality rates are going down in almost every other country in the world. 

Let me just say that again. More mothers die from childbirth in our hospitals than in most of the developed world and that number is going up. It is worth pointing out that those rates of death are even higher among non-white US populations: black women are about 4 times as likely to die from child birth than white americans, and the numbers are similar for hispanic and native women.

It’s not solely this area, it’s our entire healthcare system; currently, we have one of the highest rates of covid infection, AND one of the highest rates of death once you are infected. 

But US citizens spend more money per person on healthcare, and more money per birth, than almost any other country in the world.

The U.S. ranks 27th in education. 26 other nations have better education than we do. …In 1990 we ranked 6th. Now it’s 27th, or, if you just look at math and science, 38th. And yet we still spend more per student than almost any other country on that terrible education

Our bridges and dams and plumbing and roads and electrical infrastructure are all reaching critical failure. 70% of our dams will be older than their safe lifetimes within the next five years - as of 2016 the American Society of Civil Engineers reported 15,500 dams in our country as “high-hazard”.  Electrical outage frequency has increased 1,000% since 1980. You read that right, one thousand percent increase in electrical outages. A sixth of rural roads and a third of urban roads are in poor condition, and there’s a $836 billion dollar backlog of unmet funding needed to fix the highways and bridges in the US. Speaking of bridges, one in three bridges in this country needs to be repaired or replaced.

We have more people in prison than any other country, we have less protections for employees than almost any other developed nation. Technically we have a large economy generating a lot of wealth, but economic measurements place the US near the top of countries ranked by economic inequality and unequal wealth distribution. Plus a much larger percentage of our nation’s budget is from taxes on citizens and small businesses when compared to the tax incomes of other governments - billionaires, large corporations, intelligent management of national resources - these do not contribute to our nation’s budget as much they do for other countries. 

OH. And you know that huge national debt we have? You know what that’s from? WAR. You hear so much about how war makes money, but it’s all private companies profiting from that death and destruction, meanwhile the country itself goes into debt to pay for it

Do you know how a country goes into debt? One big way is the government sells bonds to the public. You’ve heard of stocks and bonds? Well when you buy a bond from the US government you’re basically loaning the US money. The bond has a value, an interest rate, and a lifetime. If the lifetime is 30 years, the government pays you the interest for 30 years and then buys the bond back for the same amount you spent on it and tears it up. It’s a loan. See all that debt up there? Huge amounts of it are owed to the American public. WE paid for those wars.

But not as much for that last bit, because for the wars in the middle east, our government has borrowed directly from private institutions (banks and investment companies) and, even more sus, has borrowed from itself. Because it can print money. But if it prints money, it devalues the existing money – just like everything, the more there is the less it’s worth. To stabilize this effect, the Federal Reserve prints the money and immediately uses it to buy bonds, which attaches an interest rate to it so it becomes investment debt. In other words, the thing keeping monetary value up is the government’s promise to pay interest on the money.

So when you hear “war is good for the economy” or “the US made money from ww2″ or whatever, what actually happens is the government borrows all that money from the US public, gives it to the private companies that build tanks and guns (or more recently, to literal mercenaries - we call them private contractors, but they are men with guns we hire to do war; currently 75% of the US “soldiers” in the middle east are these private guns for hire). The government does this and promises to pay us back.

But the U.S. can’t pay it. We’re like the proverbial credit card junkie, who can only afford to pay the interest, but we keep getting new credit cards and maxing them out too.

The U.S. is both broke, and broken.

The US, with the exception of a handful of people and corporate entities, is very poor, and frankly, approaching crisis, and all corporations care about is this quarter’s profit margin, and all politicians care about is the next election.

 America now is all dream and no substance.

This is a serious issue though.

Ferrai has this bullshit agreement that if you buy one of their cars new off the lot, you have to sign a contract saying you basically don’t own the car and have to uphold their brand standards with it.

It’s sets a startling example of not owning something despite buying it and the court needs to use this as a chance to strike it down as unethical.

This shit again? And I thought it was bad enough with ford and john deer telling farmers they didn’t own the tractors they bought from them….

Yeah, they have this really unethical clause in the purchase contract you can’t modify the car or do anything with it that they’d consider “unbecoming of the brand”, which is why they were able file this suit.

It seems kind of bizarre at first until you realize how horrifying that is in the age of “do you own what you buy?” being a huge a debate (especially in tech).

This is pretty much Ferrari’s philosophy from the start, they are extremely prideful of their cars like if they were made from God’s hands or something. They are very snobby, infact the owner of Ferrari doesn’t like the people who buy their cars since because they are bought for “status”. They also never test their cars on public tracks in comparison with other racing cars like when they wanted to test out the Porche 918 Spyder vs The McLaren P1 vs LaFerrari. Take a guess who bailed out on the performance test.

Just an update

Lambo are the perfect people to jump in on this because they make insane cars and they are never above clowning them up because Lambo are all about THE DRAMA ™

It’s worth noting that Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company originally only made tractors. His company became successful and at some point he bought a Ferrari, but had a complaint with the car. He ended up taking this complaint to Enzo Ferrari, himself, who told the man he did not take advice from a mere tractor maker. Four months later the first Lamborghini sports was birthed out of pure spite. I’d like to this somewhere he’s enjoying this immensely. 

So basically what I’m hearing is Ferrari is Anish Kapoor and Lamborghini is Stuart Semple, but with cars. 

Some Beetlejuice sketches

It’s showtime. Beetlejuice (1988) dir. Tim Burton

Eastern Spadefoot Toad!! Only the second one of these beauties I’ve ever seen. So cool! Did Not like having his picture taken!!

Cologne, Germany (by Marco Federmann)

how INSANELY fucking funny would it be if 48 hours before the election this year both joe biden and donald trump inexplicably at the same time just dropped dead. like it was just their time to go. their half-corpse bodies had just had enough of this shit and they both just gave out. i think that would be the tipping point that would destroy america once and for all

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