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was so tired of blobfish misinformation İ made a whole track about it in 2024

Enough depressurized blobfish. I'm here to spread living blobfish propaganda.

Look at them. Gorgeous. Wonderful. Living comfortably at depths to over 1,200 meters in the ocean. Be nice to them.

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Shark from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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a little artist :)

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codependency

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its 1 william years too late for tma meta but it really is crazy how in all the things i ever saw get said about melanie king i dont think i ever saw anyone mention what to me felt like very obvious implications that she was at some point in her past a victim of some sort of abuse

like what happened to you?!?!?

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It’s fine to replace someone’s blood vessels and nerves with a tree of thorns if they don’t look at you

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i designed office worker ocs while studying fashion photos and joked about writing an office worker yuri but guys i dont think its a joke anymore

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IT FUCKIN YURI DAAAAAAAAAAAY

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if mario was trapped in a cave for generations he would gradually become pale and lose his eyes and start hunting for fish and centipedes by sonar but he wouldnt lose his overalls or hat

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Eartha Kitt drinking honey before a performance in 1958

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Job search is going really well

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Greetings in different languages from the Voyager Golden Record that I constantly think about.

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“.… a deep, dead silence and strange light that grew less and less ....”

Boris Dolgov (1910–1958) - illustration to “The Leonardo Rondache” by Manly Wade Wellman

from ‘Weird Tales’ Vol. 40 #3, March 1948

source

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Traditional wedding/ Pleven region, Bulgaria

Source: Radostin Kitanov

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Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:

I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.

Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we're not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don't complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.

Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don't just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. 'Roadman' has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav') with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug'. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people's violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road' means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture'.

But it isn't all doom and gloom. There's so much history and culture here in our spaces. I'd be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I'll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I'll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.