I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

I'm a ridiculous human and genuinely couldn't sleep until I tried my hand at a better, more balanced list -- though of course, I have my own biases when it comes to what corners of this website I've lurked in over the years. For what it's worth, I did consult the last several Years In Review, while also drawing on the fact that I've been here for over a decade. But if there's anything that truly doesn't feel like it should have made the cut, blame my mutuals for putting it on my dash all the time.

(And apologies, but I couldn't seem to find Goncharov among the website's listings)

What is this, 1671?

Yep. Here's another piece on the same raid.

Also here's some screen grabs from Instagram of the events in question.

i hate everyone who even implies that greenland could benefit from being a part of america on any level. you want to colonize an indigenous island with 50k people. you want to destroy it

"A cluster of huts known as Pituffik ("the place the dogs are tied") stood on the wide plain where the base was built in 1951; a main base street was named Pituffik Boulevard. The population was forcibly relocated to Thule. Later in 1953, the USAF planned to construct an air defense site near that village, and in order to limit contact with soldiers, the Danish government again relocated 130 inhabitants of "Old Thule", settling them 97 km (60 mi) north in a newly constructed village also named Thule (colloquially "New Thule", now Qaanaaq)"

Literally this

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

why be radically exclusionary abt queerness when you could be radically inclusionary instead. let's inflate the numbers. let's become the majority. the sky's the limit

"we can't let just ANYONE call themselves queer!!" what are you talking about. I'm steepling my fingers and gleefully cackling every time we Get Another One and you should be too. lock in.

The thing is the more people we welcome into the queer community the more people who see it as thier community and the more people who see it as thier community the more people we have to fight for each other the more people we have fighting for each other the more likely we are to win this is just basic math, it's a good strategy, divided we are weak, together we are strong

it's crazy when gay men are misogynistic because at every high school debate there's a teenage girl fighting for gay rights like she's their personal lawyer

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I've faced extreme difficulty and prejudice for being transgender while seeking care for my autism and chronic illness. The state of Indiana doesn't even have specialists who are able to diagnose my other health issues.

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Einsatzgruppen say Gestapo tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement

treat black queers kindly and love us. that's all.

and don't add any stupid shit derailing this, this is about black queers only. make your own damn post.

please if you're going to reblog this, please reblog this addition so people get the memo along with:

listen to our voices and make us feel safe and comforted.

this person's flex on my sister's post has me dead

You ever think about the MOVE bombing and then think about the fact that so few US Americans even know that the MOVE bombing like. Happened.

"The United States is dedicated to moving bombs away from people who would use them for nefarious purposes! Google MOVE bombing to learn more!"

jesus christ 😐

this also doesn't come close to telling the whole story.

the Philadelphia police harassed the MOVE organization for over a decade. MOVE began with peaceful protests against conditions at long-term-care facilities and against the city Zoo's mistreatment of animals. in 1972, police classified the group’s use of profanity as riotous and designated them violent threats to public order. the actual reason was their radical abolitionist message.

the Philadelphia police department had a brutal, corrupt, and racist reputation long before MOVE entered the picture. despite that fact, MOVE’s claims of police brutality typically fell on deaf ears, even when they had undeniable proof of mistreatment. the bombing is only one part of the story both because it is the culmination of violence between MOVE and the police and also because it is part of the broader narrative of police brutality in Philadelphia that is still largely played out today.

in 1957, two Black men were beaten by three off duty and allegedly drunk police officers, putting one in the hospital for 19 days. the commissioner at the time testified that all officers were trained in "race relations," which involved things such as having officers brandish shotguns out the window of their patrol vehicles as a show of force in so called "shotgun squads." the three officers were not convicted of any crimes.

in 1960, shots indiscriminately fired by officer Robert Marinelli killed two innocent Black bystanders. Marinelli was charged, tried, and then found not guilty on all charges by an all-white jury.

in 1967, a guy named Frank Rizzo became the police chief. his nickname while working in West Philadelphia as a captain was "The Cisco Kid," which referenced the fictional cowboy who "killed for the love of it or any other reason that came to mind." he referred to "vermin" in Philadelphia as the source of the crime and decline.

shortly after he was appointed, he sicced 300 officers in riot gear on Black students and advisors protesting the Board of Education who were protesting the lack of Black studies and Black teachers. Rizzo ordered the officers to "get their Black asses." 57 protesters were arrested, dozens were beaten, and 15 were hospitalized. Frank Rizzo was elected Mayor of Philadelphia 3 years later and during his bid for re-election in 1975, he said that he would "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" once he was reelected.

so yeah, not only is the MOVE bombing virtually unheard of by the average person in America (and it's not much better in academia, for that matter), but the story that is often told when people do hear about is that this all happened in a vacuum "due to the actions of a violent Black resistance group." in reality, it was the culmination of over 50 years of brutality against Black people and minorities in Philly.

Orange feather wing moth, Alucita xanthodes, Alucitidae

Photographed in the Mandalay rainforest, Airlie Beach, Australia

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Freshwater fish I‘d have if I had the money and dedication for that hobby:

Going only by fish that do in fact ever get sold in aquarium stores however seldomly:

Thalassophryne amazonica - a tiny freshwater predator convergently similar to a stargazer

Compsaraia samueli - a knifefish from river waters so deep and murky it has reduced eyes and enlarged jaws like a deep sea fish

Asterophysus - a catfish similarly inhabiting such dark river environments it looks like an abyssal animal and its stomach can stretch to fit prey twice its size

Cetopsis candiru - not actually the “candiru” that sucks blood but shares etymology with it, this dumpy looking fish is what amazon locals actually do worry about instead of piranha, will bore a hole straight into flesh and look like an idiot doing it

Chaca chaca - an “angler catfish” that imitates a rotten leaf and wiggles its little whiskers to attract prey that it vacuums up, named because it makes a noise like “chaca chaca” to attract a mate

A little more conventional looking but I’m also liking the pugnaciousness of Rhaphiodon here, though I think this is one of those fish people buy tiny and that’s not good because it’s meant to get several feet long and live in huge open areas.

Special mention to mudskippers which are actually brackish, and I kept one alive (or my mom did for me, at least) for almost a year as a kid which was a miracle because there was NO care information and we definitely were not keeping it correctly.

Special mention to “freshwater” flatfish because a lot of brackish species just get sold as such and there’s debate over identifying the ony species that actually prefers fresh