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still from ‘blanket’, by inger bierma

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the mortifying ordeal of being known

On June 15th, 2013, author Tim Kreider wrote a piece in the New York Times[1] relating a story about how he was accidentally CC'd on an email by someone disapproving of his goats (he had rented out a herd of goats for reasons left unknown to us, as readers). He then discusses the anxiety about knowing what others think of one behind one's back, and transitions into positing that it is still possible, and perhaps even necessary, to love someone despite their flaws. He writes, "THE operative fallacy here is that we believe that unconditional love means not seeing anything negative about someone, when it really means pretty much the opposite: loving someone despite their infuriating flaws and essential absurdity." He then concludes with the phrase, "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known."

copied as read on Know Your Meme

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Sakamoto‘s composition “Riot In Lagos”, both issued as a 12″ dance single and on his 1980 LP, B-2 Unit, remains an important touchstone for electronic music and still sounds strikingly modern almost 40 years later. The song attempts to filter the infectious afro dance grooves that Fela Kuti was making at the time into a purely electronic setting. The results are surprisingly effective: a techno-modernist take on afro-funk that clearly had a subsequent huge influence on both electronic artists (notably Aphex Twin), the budding hip-hop movement and many others. - Alex Deley (for DJ D-Mac & Associates)

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so when people talk about 'michelin star' restaurants is that like, the tire company? are they one of the top deciders of restaurant quality?

— Valentina (@leftistthot420) September 22, 2019

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sculpture “drapery II”

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Siglufjörður, Iceland. 

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The Crimson King

“If you cover the smiling face, the eyes reveal an incredible sadness. What can one add? It reflects the music“ - Fripp

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When Oscar Wilde said Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation, and Jorge Luis Borges said I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

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joan clayton toni childs maya wilkes lynn searcy

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schwim

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For anyone who doesn't live with children or watch cartoons on a regular basis, Nickelodeon went off the air for 8 minutes and 46 seconds today. During that time, instead of playing shows or commercials, there was a Nickelodeon orange background with scrolling and repeating messages about racial equality, the right to education, and the right to be safe from harm and hatred.

For those who aren't aware, as I wasn't until I googled it, 8 minutes and 46 seconds was the exact amount of time that George Floyd was pinned on the ground.

There's nothing subtle about this and I'm just. Shocked. In a good way of course, I've just never seen this sort of rallying behind a race-based social movement.

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the night belongs to the poets and the madmen

Javier

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Coffee in the garden - sketchbook 2019