#this is bordering on

[breakdownsbuttlights]

[commanderfreddy]

as a duel hellsite citizen i feel it is important to bring news from twitter: namely that on this, the exact same day that tumblr starts trialing paywalls, twitter is trialing dislikes

[odinsblog]

I will keep on saying this: If the mass deportations of Black and Brown people was considered racist under Trump, it doesn’t magically stop being racist just because a Democrat™ is doing it now. The silence from “allies” who were screaming bloody murder about immigration abuses under Trump is as deafening as it is hypocritical.

And I will keep saying this too: Abolish ICE. ICE is beyond “reforming.” And prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents who commit human rights abuses.

[tikkety-tok]

This is the most border collie shit I've ever seen 😭😅

[fieriframes]

[Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. Five miles south of the Canadian border. Twelve miles west of the state line. I've never seen so many trees in my life.]

[happyheidi]

Border-Leicester Sheep ♡

[radicalurbanista]

“In a 6-to-3 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that border agents may unconstitutionally enter a person's home without a warrant and assault him and ... federal courts are powerless to do anything about it. The border, once again, is a Constitution-free zone.”

“60% of the population of the United States just lost any constitutional protections against warrantless assault or home invasion by armed agents.”

[selfeating]

see, to me, as an eastern european, the rampant orientalism of ‘dracula’ is yet another dimension of its comedy, but i want people to take a moment to consider how our friend jonathan talks about ee, and think about how his narration is very much in line of how real-life westerners described the region. 

you may wonder for example, what is orientalist about count dracula reading english train schedules? as one academic notices in this article, dracula’s obsession with trains mirror that of jonathan, who mentions a couple of times how he’s leaving railroads, a symbol of western ‘civilisation,’ behind, and with that he also leaves ‘europe’. this narration is a perfect reflection of travel reports from decades before. similarly as our friend jonathan, a real-life historical figure count de segur remarked that he left europe entirely when entering poland, at the same time also moving back ten centuries  and finding himself among hordes of hands, scythians, vent, slavs, and sarmatians. same attitude displayed by coxe, who summed up his impressions of poland recalling villages wretched beyond description, and going on to talk about the hovels all built of wood seemed full offilth and misery, and everything wore the appearance of extreme poverty. also not too far from what wrote john ledyard, when he claimed that he had not reached europe until he was in prussia. 

but to westerners, ee was not only foreign and poor, it was also a land of “terror,” look: lady mary wortley montagu describing her travel through hungary as if she was going to war, talking about how she was going to be froze to death, bury’d in the snow, and taken by the tartars who ravage the part of hungary [she] was to passe. this idea surely seems like a fantasy, but in terms of imagination, travellers often got even more extra: take, for example, salaberry describing the hungarian noblemen as the centaurs of fable (lol).

so, what i want people to know while reading dracula, is that the setting is not described the way it is only because it’s supposed to be a horror story; to many [most. all, even] westerners, the very idea of travelling to ee was equivalent of a nightmare, anyway. 

[klemd]

Cove harbour

ID: Portrait orientation watercolour painting of an old harbour. The focus is two brick cottages along a sloping path in the middle. A crow sits on one of the chimneys. There are old cement stairs going down to the water on the left, and a white ladder leaning against the bank of the harbour in the centre, with a white and blue wooden rowboat docked in front. End ID

[elbiotipo]

I knew you guys were fake

[obsob]

oh potatus et molassus etc etc

[robertacolndrez]

Derry Girls (2018- ) ➤ Sister Michael ↳ Bonus:

[probablyasocialecologist]

Perhaps most offensively, when colonial countries panic about ‘border crises’ they position themselves as victims. But the genocide, displacement, and movement of millions of people were unequally structured by colonialism for three centuries, with European settlers in the Americas and Oceania, the transatlantic slave trade from Africa, and imported indentured labourers from Asia. Empire, enslavement, and indentureship are the bedrock of global apartheid today, determining who can live where and under what conditions. Borders are structured to uphold this apartheid. The freedom to stay and the freedom to move, which is to say no borders, is decolonial reparations and redistribution long due.

Harsha Walia, Why climate justice must go beyond borders

[megpricephotography]

Autumn is Flynn’s favourite time of year. The woodland paths are covered in a million fluttery, crunchy leafy toys! 

[biophonies]

ah, i’m so bad at posting here. acknowledging this Day of Mourning from the lands of Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Potawatomi, Myaamia & Ochethi Sakowin people, aka Chicago, derived from a native word for garlic (mmm...) which is really suitable for me because I live here now 🌱🧄✨

whose.land are you on? talk about it over dinner this weekend with your fam & what it means to give the #landback. considering everything, listening & learning from indigenous people is the least you can do.

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