the post means what it means. it doesn’t mean come to the largest city in the country with a police force that is extremely, extremely violent and as well equipped as most normal countries militaries or come to a state with a coastline. that is, in fact, probably the riskiest thing you could possibly do.
do not come to the united states. there is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for.
We need one of those old fashioned tourism posters for the US with “There is nothing here worth dying or being sent to a slave penal colony for” as the tagline
This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”
When we had Moonlight: Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight
My favorite in recent memory, though: “The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”
Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?
Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.
The Dutch government has filed a protest with the US ambassador after plaques honoring black soldiers were removed from an American cemetery in that nation, calling it “indecent and unacceptable.”
‘Unacceptable’: Leaders demand permanent memorial for Black WWII soldiers after plaques removed
174 of the 8,200 U.S. soldiers who are buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery are Black.
Nearly one million African American soldiers fought in Europe during World War II. Now, plaques at a memorial site honoring the sacrifice of African American soldiers in the Netherlands have been removed at the only U.S. cemetery in the country.
According to NRC, the two panels celebrating the “Black Liberators” of the Netherlands from Nazi rule were removed from display “earlier this summer” without an exact reason given as to why.
More than 8,200 U.S. soldiers are buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. One hundred seventy-four of those troops were African Americans. Lawmakers in the Netherlands have called for either a temporary replacement of the plaques or a permanent monument to be erected in honor of the Black soldiers who helped build the cemetery, calling their removal “indecent” and “unacceptable.”
One of the panels at the memorial site celebrated the Black soldiers’ fight on two fronts: against Germany and racism in the U.S. military. The military was desegregated in 1948.
“Initially, that exhibition paid no attention to African-American soldiers whatsoever,” Kees Ribbens, a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and endowed professor of popular historical culture of global conflicts and mass violence at Erasmus University Rotterdam, said. Ribbens says he was “shocked” to learn that the plaques commemorating the soldiers had been removed and offered an opinion as to why it happened.
“It aligns with the Trump administration’s policy,” he said.
On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
This is a “plein air” painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was “Do you hate these banks?” I can honestly say yes.
And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.
I have to confess “your web browser’s assistive AI can be instructed to steal your online banking password via prompt injection because it operates with full privileges and treats all text it ingests as equally authoritative sources of user instructions, including the text of web pages it’s summarising” is more surprising to me than it should have been. There really is no one involved at any point in the development of these tools who actually understands what they’re doing, huh?
I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!
Scientists have discovered a surprising benefit of the acne drug doxycycline: it may lower the risk of schizophrenia. Teens prescribed the antibiotic were about one-third less likely to develop the condition as adults. The effect could stem from the drug’s ability to reduce brain inflammation. Researchers say the findings highlight an unexpected new direction in mental health prevention.
Laika is complete! Voting for ArtPrize starts tomorrow, September 18, 2025. The first vote you cast has to be within the grounds of ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI, but you can vote daily after that from anywhere, until the event ends on October 4. Please do attend and vote for Laika if you’re able! There’s prize money to be won and I gotta buy new hips for Mayhem No Bones Jones. Also it’s genuinely a super cool event and you should go if you can!
In 1957, Laika, a small stray dog taken from the streets of Moscow, was the first living creature to orbit the earth. Her trainers kissed her nose and begged her forgiveness, and then sealed her inside the capsule of Sputnik 2 three days before launch. She waited patiently in a compartment just large enough for her to stand as they readied the rockets. It was early November, and she was cold.
In the days before her historic journey, the scientist who had chosen Laika to fly took her home from the laboratory where she had been trained. He let her play with his children. He later wrote, “Laika was quiet and charming…I wanted to do something nice for her: She had so little time left to live.”
Sputnik 2 launched with Laika as its sole passenger on 3 November, 1957. It had a porthole, only six inches wide, where Laika could see the earth leaving her behind. The rockets roared beneath her, and Laika, Little Barker, was the first to look down and see the whole world spinning below her, blue and gold in the velvet blackness.
There was never any plan to retrieve Laika. We could send her up, but the technology did not exist to bring her safely down. But for days, the Soviets insisted that Laika was alive and well in Sputnik 2.
In reality, she hadn’t made it nearly that long. The heat and stress killed her mere hours after launch.
But she did succeed in her mission: Laika circled the world four times before she passed. It’s impossible to know what she thought or felt in the hours she orbited above us. Her story is a triumph of human ingenuity and a testament to human cruelty. We cannot consider Laika without marveling at the universe and wondering if it was right to subject her to the fate she suffered. Did Laika, viewing the world, think it was beautiful? Did she feel alone?
Eventually, months after she passed, her ship fell from orbit and broke apart on reentry, leaving a trails of fire in the sky that stretched from New York to the Amazon.
And at last, Laika came home in a rain of wishing stars.
oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever
Never forget, she was loved
She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it
She was loved
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great ritual for honoring Laika’s memory (from another thread)
I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.
King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!
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