nyabbycat:

being on this app is so surreal. americans are usually the ones that learn about other places and people everywhere else already know about america because we’re everywhere online. we’ve never been on the opposite side where other people are learning about us – and they are horrified about our “normal”

the country america spent our whole lives trying to convince us is miserable and suffering under an oppressive government that starves everyone and controls their media? that’s just projection. turns out besides like… housing prices and few available jobs, china is doing pretty great. they originally believed we were all living it up “the american dream” way and now they’re all thankful they were born in china and have no idea how any of us are even alive

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27moremoons:

“Meet the sword with the sword, we are the people of Mohammed Deif”

“Salute to the Izz El-Din Brigades”

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noosphe-re:

What, for you, is the association of black and dreaming?

Black has depth. It’s like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

David Lynch, Lynch on Lynch, edited by Chris Rodley

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jt1674:

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kummatty:

The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak’s success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows’ diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, “If cows didn’t like mustard there wouldn’t be any movies at all.” By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a “transfer of life from animal body to technological media.” The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

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fellahimedia:

Can we have a moment to grieve for all the lives lost. And how little of worth they were to americans who considered them less than a vote. Hamas had agreed to a deal in the very beginning of all this but biden prolonged their unnecessary suffering. Biden and Israel killed the baby who died in the cold, the child looking for food, the father who was getting flour, the men and women running outdoor kitchens for thousands, the teachers, the students who never got to graduate, the couple that never got to have their wedding, to the freedom fighters killing iof shitheads posting their atrocities and without whom the zionists would have never come to a ceasefire deal, glory to all of our martyrs. They rest on our conscience

In the meantime, donate to the sameer project and the fundraisers you see online. Think of how lucky you are to be able to sleep in a bed and have clean water to drink and how so many are without both in this world

The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree

We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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infinitesofnought:

Little night: when you
take me in, take me in,
take me up,
three woe-inches above
the ground:

all the sand-made dyingcoats,
all the helpnots
everything, that still
laughs
with the tongue—

– Paul Celan, “[Little night]”, trans. Pierre Joris

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