ALT"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
letterpress postcards by Pottering Cat, Japan
Christmas advice for ladies (crossposted from Old Weird Scotland on mastodon, with permission)
I want you all to keep this in mind!
Christmas Eve at the Church of Nativity, Bethlehem, Palestine 1951
George Rodger
[ ID: a grainy, black and white photo of a group of people, dressed nicely, inside a large church, which has columns on both sides, chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, and towards the end, a large, ornate cross hanging up in the ceiling. Rays of light come in from the right. /End ID ]
"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different
@magicallarynx You asked for a source, but tumblr wouldn’t let me provide a link in the replies, so I’m adding a couple sources here
"End the genocide. End the occupation." [@/theslowfactory on X. May 16, 2024.]
Slow Factory created an infograph attached above in this X post with pictures/icons above the following information: zionism is: genocide, starvation as a weapon, 3 million displaced since 1948, ethnic cleansing, state sanctioned terrorism, ecocide, supremacy, rupture of International Law, domicide, scholasticide, settler colonialism, 40,000 plus murdered since October 7th, crimes against humanity, 9,000 Palestinian hostages held with no charges, illegal land annexation, battle-testing murder tech on sieged and concentrated population, facism, torture and abuse of Palestinian hostages, segregation, 300 Palestinian children in cages/year.