Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey.

Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work.

It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

One of the superpowers of coming up on late 90s / early 00s forums is an ingrained sense of a barrier between IRL life & The Internet, which is a place, its own distinct hellworld where nothing is real. Makes it easy to not fall for all the fake BS when you inherently view Online as 99% shenanigans

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

For "Echoplex" on NIN's 2008 “Lights in the Sky” tour, we created a real functioning drum sequencer with virtual buttons for drummer Josh Freese to build the song’s beat in real time. I designed the drum machine’s interface based on the minimalist visual style I created for “The Slip” album art. 1/

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

I see. So what you’re telling me is we need to organize a grassroots, civil-rights-style mobilization of the people to fight for the restoration of the germ theory of disease.

Ho’opono 🌊

#HappyValentinesDay #FreeHawaii #HawaiianIndependence #Hoopono #Justice

I used to drive past the concert hall every day on my way to and from work and it never gets old about how cool this building is.

A fascinating subject for #architecturephotography that I never tire of shooting. A real piece of art. I have so many photos of this building still waiting to be processed. Basically, I think I need a lifetime to process all the photos I have.

#WaltDisneyHall #FrankGehry #LosAngeles #bwphotography

This excerpt from 'The Band of Gideon' by Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. is over 100 years old, but feels all too relevant today. 🖤

#ForgottenPoets #poem #poems

today I’m thinking about the future.

Trump Daydreams About What He Would Do If He Were Rich
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"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened."
—Nikki Giovanni 💔

#poem #poems #poetry

Everybody seems to be coming over here so let’s check out yet another SM app.