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"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

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Met this lady on a hike recently, and she reminded me autumn is close

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40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

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the most basic form of political activity is social-democratic ttrpg campaigns. the most advanced form of political activity is voting. this is the entire spectrum of politics, the beginning and the end. beyond this lies Extremism

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Laura Makabresku.

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hot take apparently but i think it's good for white people to relate to poc's art. i think it's good for straight people to relate to queer art. stop acting like we're different species who could never possibly understand each other what the fuck is wrong with you

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Chia-Chi Yu

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 I found an excellent photo today

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Came across this on the cover of an old magazine at work today. It was published in Epic magazine in the early 1980s. It’s called ‘Self Portrait, with Wings’ by Barry Windsor-Smith.

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Magnus Enckell 1870 - 1925. Details: | Kultakausi, 1904 | Vuoteella lepäävä miesmalli, 1906 | Makaava alaston mies, 1908 | Kuoleva Adonis, 1915, | Lepohetki, 1919 | Diana ja Endymion I, 1921.

"Enckell asetti maskuliinisuuden kyseen alle esittäessään miehen "värillisenä" korean aistillisena, haluttavana ja passiivisena (alistettavana, haavoittuvaisena) objektina. [...] Värimiehet paikantuvat intiimiin tilaan: metsän syleilyyn, fantasiamaisemaan, kylpy- tai makuuhuoneeseen… Tällainen intiimiys oli juurtunut naisruumiin esityskonventioihin, mieskuvissa se vaivasi."—Värin hurma, taiteen turma: kromofobian välähdyksiä enckellianassa. Harri Kalha teoksessa Magnus Enckell. Ateneum, 2020.

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Jia Li (Chinese, b.1964), Summer Light, 2015, Watercolor on paper

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Friedrich Kunath, “Storms Never Last”, 2023

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Iris Scott - Lunar Eclipse, 2020 - Oil on canvas

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“Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan”, c.1630 by Diego de Velázquez (1599-1660). Spanish painter. Museo del Prado, Madrid. oil on canvas

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Gustav Klimt - Study for the Figure of "Lasciviousness" (Beethoven Frieze), 1901

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i promise its not ableist when people say you should try things that arent kids shows and fanfiction