"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail. "Certainly," said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest. "Thank y- Hey! What's this?" "A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions."
This is a horror story to a techbro and a feel-good comedy to anyone with a sense of human decency.
Dark Mirror by Diane Duane
…And this is why when you’re writing and (being in the heat of composition) you use a “placeholder” term or phrase to mark a spot where you intend to come back and coin something more specific, you make sure to (a) make a note of the placeholder, and (b) actually do the coining in the “cleanup” pass on the submission draft. Otherwise something like “X and Y” may actually make it all the way to press.
(sigh)
And yet X and Y is a believable title for a modern avant garde Klingon opera
I don't think I've seen an actor who is this passionate about their role ever
Stuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it
You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought
Practice illegalism daily to see past the smoke and mirrors that make it look like the way things are is the way they must be. A better world is possible
Disobedience is a muscle that requires exercise. If you envision yoursef a resistance fighting and think you’ll start breaking the law once it becomes absolutely necessary, you will not have the skills, the experience, the realism, connections or the courage once the time comes.
The revolution isn’t an event to happen somewhere, someday, somehow.
It is happening everywhere, all the time, and in all of these different ways that each person has access to.
“You are what you do repeatedly,” and what you do now, immediately, prepares you for what you’ll do next.
Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)
this looks like the same party
they’re shouting back and forth across the club
I got an ask that disappeared at some point, about my existential crisis possum mug being wrecked and if I was making another.
this mug, I assume:
I did make a copy of this one, but forgot to take pictures lol. it’s still slowly drying on my shelf
I also carved a canine take on the mug too:
and I made an entirely different existential crisis possum mug just for fun
can I get Snappy Lines I Just Forced Myself To Delete From A Professional Email for $300?
"Did you also tell your logo designer you wanted something corporate and masculine? It’s giving ‘groovy boot camp.’"
My graphic design degree taught me how to critique art, not survive in the real world art industry where everything is hideous and nobody cares.
my plans to lurk in the attic and write during christmas vacation foiled by gran once again
DRAG IS NO LONGER BANNED IN TENNESSEE ✨✨
some troll account named 'MAN' just replied to one of my comments on a trans youtuber's vid with "you people never listen to any dissenting voices." His comment got deleted by the creator before I noticed but—lmao. Yeah buddy, you have put your sweaty digits directly on the issue: I, a third culture queer ex-evangelical, have never heard anybody disagree with me about my identity in my entire life.
Just look at these two babies, over in Hamburg causing havoc; and they only look about 12.
Vincent Price once told a story about an old woman coming up to him and saying, "Can I please have your autograph? I'm such a big fan of yours, Mr. Karloff!" Vincent Price, being the gentleman he is, and not wanting to embarrass her, autographed the photo as Boris Karloff, fifteen years after Boris passed away.
Kinda reminds me of Frank Thornton (Capt. Peacock on Are You Being Served) shaved his mustache off for a role and kept getting people shouting "Yes, Minister!" at him
if i tell yall what i did on the tram today yall would call it a fake tumblr story i think
oh?
so it helps to know that my mindset at the time was influenced by having been transphobically sealioned at a temping agency earlier, as well as spontaneously turning up to a different temping agency without an appointment & actually landing with them after THOSE guys turned out to be cool.
I was on the tram (crowded tram) (just after 11 AM) on my way home full of adrenaline still, and saw my dad eating a banana on the platform. I could get out of the tram to say hi, but then i'd miss the tram, or worse, hold it up. What i COULD do, however, is sprint out of the tram as soon as the door opens, take a bite from the banana my dad is holding, and SPRINT back into the tram before the doors close. So That Is What I Did.
unfortunately now roughly half of the passengers of the tram were looking at me like I was suddenly some sort of feral spirit of hunger or perhaps a strange insect of some sort.* Fortunately, the truth was also the ONE sequence of words that could make what they had just witnessed okay. I went "das ist mein papa!!!" which is german for "thats my dad!!!!!"
My dad seemed genuinely delighted by this btw. the look on his face was fucking PRICELESS
i would like to beat the little german boy accusations based on my behavior before they arise. i am in fact a tall german trans girl.
however in everything except body i AM calvin from calvin & hobbes
Ya girl is basic. Def 1
6 because they look like i could still lie down comfortably, but i could also attach fun little "earrings" on the branches
When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*
Always reblog Los Jibbities
On this day, 4 June 1950, the 43 Group of militant anti-fascist Jewish ex-servicemen and women voted to disband itself at an extraordinary general meeting in London, England. The group had been formed four years prior by Jewish people who had fought in the British Army against the Nazis in World War II, who had seen the horrors of the concentration camps, and who returned home to see fascists organising openly on UK streets. They resolved to continue their fight against fascism, racism and antisemitism by any means necessary. The group included people like decorated war hero Gerry Flamberg (pictured, left, outside court on trial for attempted murder of a fascist) , apprentice hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, gay former officer Harry Bidney and women like Doris Kaye, who infiltrated fascist groups, and Julie Sloggan, who was one of its most ardent street fighters. They disrupted and broke up fascist meetings, usually after breaking through the fascists’ police guard, and harassed fascist aristocrat Oswald Mosley and his followers in towns and cities up and down the country. Eventually Mosley went into exile, and fascist organising dwindled to such a level that the 43 Group dissolved itself. Although veterans of the group would throw themselves back into the movement when Mosley attempted a comeback in the 1960s. Learn more about the group in our podcast episodes 35-37: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-37-the-43-group/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=637872025052683&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
Heroes, all.
sending love to every disabled queer who will spend the month seeing pictures of unmasked superspreader events from our own community. it's okay to love pride, and also be upset that it's being hosted in a way that puts your safety at risk.
if you're not disabled, please mask in large crowds. pride is vital, and so is community care. covid is not over, despite the government minimizing it so that we'll go back to work like everything is fine. mask for yourself, for your community, and for disabled & immunocompromised people. 10% of first infections (even if you got a vaccine) and 20% of second infections result in long covid symptoms at six months post-infection. nobody can afford to continue on pretending this is not happening!
you can buy high-quality, tested masks here.
#SpreadPrideNotCOVID
