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stop removing usb ports and audio jacks and buttons from electronics stop it you're hurting them stop it stops top stop it

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wardrobe appreciation » Watts ☆ Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

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Gunn/Fred + Kisses

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BAMBI (1942) dir. David Hand

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cinco de mayo by meelisa tapia cortez

this poem is not about el cinco de mayo

it's not about the pack of white boys coming into work yelling cinco de drinko it's not about one of them asking for my number because wouldn't it be awesome to fuck the mexican chick on cinco de mayo it's not about my manager thinking it was flattering

this poem is about dread the dread that wraps around the absence of tired footsteps coming through the doors when you know your parents were supposed to be home already the dread for that knock on the door when you know your parents' bodies have been branded as illegal

this poem is about my little sister who refuses to listen to spanish music because it's embarrassing sister my refusing to listen to spanish music when I came to this country because I knew it was supposed to be embarrassing my stripping myself of all my colors my watching her reject all her colors my knowing the years of regret she'll face when she realizes they're robbing us of our colors sister

this poem is about méxico mi lindo y querido méxico my you're fading away from my memory méxico my ten years away from home is too long méxico will I ever get to see you again méxico

this poem is about hurt and anger the hurt and the anger of driving through a nice neighborhood knowing the only time I'll see my people is when they're cleaning up after people who don't want them to be here the hurt and the anger for the street vendors and el swap meets with their destroyed and confiscated trucks they're crying being trying to feed their families here and back home

this poem is about my mom mi mami you never had an option but to be strong mami why does the world never give our women the option but to be strong mami my kind mami my funny mami my immigrant mami my listening to javier solís on sunday mornings mami mi chingona mami mi cabrona mami my cruel if she felt like it mami my I fucking understand how you could be so cruel mami my you have too much shit to do to fight this fight so I'll try to fight it for you mami

this poem is not about cinco de mayo cinco de mayo is every day when you watch your culture sliced and butchered served up to the greedy hands of those who want our culture but not our people who want our food but not our stories who want our words but not our voices to be heard who want our hard work but not our humanity who want our complexion but only if it's wrapped around their white bodies who want their share of our paradise without their share of responsibility for destroying it who want our colors without the red they splashed all over them

this poem is about you

Watch the poet perform the poem here:

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These Met Gala themes are getting out of hand.

Slavitza Jovan as Gozer the Gozerian in Ghostbusters (1984)

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If you see prominent right wing figures "suddenly making sense" when they talk about Israel or Palestine - don't be tempted to think you have common ground with them.

It's not "wow, even this evil person sees how bad these people are."

It's "this right wing propagandist found a tool to push their views into the mainstream."

They're using the cause to make you listen to them. They're trying to get you used to their conspiracies and their talking points. Anyone who has a platform full of antisemitism or Islamophobia shouldn't be listened to, even if you think their words right now make sense.

That's intentional. It's a recruitment tactic. It's a way to normalize their views. Watch who you're listening to.

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Will Smith performs “wild wild west” one of the best performances i’ve ever seen

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For U.S. folks, a guide to state supreme court races in your state this year: https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/

These downballot races can have a huge impact on life in your state. If you have judges on the ballot this year, please read up on the race!

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something that's easy to miss when we talk about problematic tropes about marginalized characters is that a LOT of them are fundamentally really just side effects of the fact that the story is so rarely ABOUT those characters. women get shoved in refrigerators to motivate male characters because the writer never cared about the woman as a character in her own right in the first place, just about her effect on the man, and this is just where it's becoming really obvious. characters of color get to be wise mentors or quirky sidekicks because the writer liked the idea of a diverse cast in theory but wasn't willing to write a non-white lead and those are the good-guy roles that are left. if you want to do better the answer is usually not to go down a checklist of problematic tropes and make sure you're not doing any of them, it's to treat marginalized characters as fully realized people with agency and narrative focus in the first place, and if you're doing that right a lot of this will follow naturally.

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government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program

hell fucking world

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most influential moment in cinema history 

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FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, dir. John Hughes (1986) ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, 3.07 "CoBro" (2023)

Bonus:

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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There Are Birds Here by Jamaal May

For Detroit

There are birds here, so many birds here is what I was trying to say when they said those birds were metaphors for what is trapped between buildings and buildings. No. The birds are here to root around for bread the girl’s hands tear and toss like confetti. No, I don’t mean the bread is torn like cotton, I said confetti, and no not the confetti a tank can make of a building. I mean the confetti a boy can’t stop smiling about and no his smile isn’t much like a skeleton at all. And no his neighborhood is not like a war zone. I am trying to say his neighborhood is as tattered and feathered as anything else, as shadow pierced by sun and light parted by shadow-dance as anything else, but they won’t stop saying how lovely the ruins, how ruined the lovely children must be in that birdless city.

Watch an interpretation by Motionpoems here:

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the slayer... i cant see her. its dark where she is.

a distorted reflection

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buffy and drusilla are broken mirror reflections of each other and buffy hates that bc drusilla is the physical representation of angels violent past that they can no longer try to ignore and also both girls that angel targeted and seduced bc they were young, pure (virginal), and special (buffy chosen as a slayer and dru with her psychic sight) and while buffy is used as an ideal that angel can redeem himself drusilla is used as the ideal of the depths of his cruelty and buffy hates being reminded of how similar they are bc it blurs the line whether angel is that dissimilar to angelus. also buffy and drusilla have the same birthday. and they should kiss