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Sadan Vague - 'Twisted Trinity'

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Brassaï. Untitled (Couple embracing on a stony ground). 1932-1935

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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somehow we need to let girls know that their hallucinations are real

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Soo Joo Park and Molly Bair wearing Iris van Herpen inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider

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happy not my baby by alvvays tuesday

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once you watch twin peaks you carry laura with you everywhere

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The last applicant I spoke to said he didn’t care much about the politics of ICE—it was just that he thought his taxes shouldn’t be used to buy school supplies for “illegal alien children.” What he was really interested in, he said, was parlaying his wages as a deportation officer into buying Airbnbs. “My classmates came up in the same environment as me,” he said, “but now they’re off posting photographs of Lamborghinis on Instagram, standing on balconies of waterfront apartments.” 

Once, in the early part of his career, the [applicant’s father, who had worked at ICE,] had gotten to travel to Southeast Asia on various deportation flights and had sent his son photographs of a beautiful waterfall in Cambodia. “I was like, what the fuck dad?” the young man said. “I thought you were supposed to be deporting people!” 

The prospect of travel excited this applicant. And in fact over and over the DHS agents at the fair emphasized how it was the best part of their job. 

A longtime ICE agent said he had accompanied undocumented immigrants on deportation flights to more than fifty countries and stayed in numerous three- and four-star hotels. A White House rooftop sniper said that she had had “amazing experiences in foreign countries” and that the camaraderie of her sniper team reminded her of her college volleyball team. 

A CBP agent in Arizona said his favorite part of the job was riding horses through the mountains. The staff of the EMT Hazardous Agent Mitigation & Medical Emergency Response team (Hammer) said that he traveled with his ambulance all over the world, loading it into massive C17 airplanes and then sleeping beside it midair. He said it was “almost like camping.” 

The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust.

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one must imagine sisyphus locking in

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been thinking a lot about david

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La Pianiste, Michael Haneke 2001

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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

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William Eggleston, Girl with Red Hair, 1970

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Annie Nightingale in 1970, the year she became the first female disc jockey on BBC Radio 1.

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