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Jeroen Toirkens, girl holding two reindeer in Taiga, Dukha, Mongolia

His lack of nipples is disturbing.

his nipples were shot off in the war

I find Steve’s lack of nipples disturbing.

Biba, August 2000.

Ph. Lars Botten

Horace Bristol: Yakuza Bathhouse, Tokyo (1946)

disabled people are worth whatever cost or resources is needed to keep them alive. disabled people are worth it even if they don't live long. they're worth it even if they will need extra support and resources for every day of their life. they're worth it even if they spend all they life indoors. none of it is wasted. none of it is in vain. time, effort, money, resources spent on a life are not wasted. these things have served their purpose. the joy of someone's existence is not undermined by not lasting forever. there's no meaningful point, some threshold where you can say "okay this is enough. after that it's not worth it." it's always worth it.

ph. Danko Maksimovic - Warsaw, Poland (2023)

Film: Rollei RPX 400

Społem store, Warsaw, 1975. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive. 

A mood

nothing you can say to me will ever make me sympathize with people willingly joining the us military. im sorry but absolutely no level of propaganda or incentives should convince you that killing brown and black people for cash is worthwhile. you are just a racist !

and yes i am including people drafted in. jail for some time is better than murdering people. you just don't wanna inconvenience yourself and you view your life as worth more than the lives of the billions of people living outside the united states

My Jan/Feb 2024 reading. No long fiction yet this year. This breaks down as two plays, one short story collection (The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, excellent), one collection of comics and the rest non-fiction.

My Mar/Apr/May reading — 7 plays, a memoir of Toronto’s mayor, a memoir of a former U.S. Border Patrol officer, and some Neil Gaiman.

June reading - a play, a classic coming of age novel, a travelogue by some guy called Mark Twain. Twain travelled across the Atlantic in 1859 and visited the Azores, Tangiers, Paris, Genoa, Naples and Athens.

Jewelle Gomez in Pride episode 3 (2021) dir. Cheryl Dunye

The number one cause of death in pregnant women is murder. Think About That.

...oh.

Time for a new poll! I'm curious to see the spread of answers on this one (and hear any other series not on the list.) Tried to go for a range of older and newer series on here, more on the older end of the spectrum, but I can't cover everything with the limited poll options here, so I hope you'll share your answers! :)

Please reblog for a larger sample size, thank you!

Hardy Boys, then Columbo re-runs, then Sherlock Holmes.

"The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military dissenting coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.

Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.

Never in the history of our Republic has a President had reason to believe that he would be immune from criminal prosecution if he used the trappings of his office to violate the criminal law. Moving forward, however, all former Presidents will be cloaked in such immunity. If the occupant of that office misuses official power for personal gain, the criminal law that the rest of us must abide will not provide a backstop. With fear for our democracy, I dissent." - Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion

“Wow after just a few years of birding I feel like I can now identify some birds based on just their general shape and movement; I wonder if birders have a specific term for that. I should look it up”

Me after looking it up:

@thetinybutimportantthings

I think this 100% real excerpt from Wikipedia illustrates the use of the term better than I ever could

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizz_(birding)

Use the Jizz, Luke.