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Ganchar

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Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

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did it work

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Victoria cruziana

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Jenny Bloomfield. Cats in the Meadow.

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The Westbury Horse, 1939 by Eric Ravilious

Train Landscape, 1940 by Eric Ravilious

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An Austrian silver fish form spice box and a group of seventeen silvered metal articulated models of fish. Via Bidsquare

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GUARDS!! console me

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rather dangerously, you can buy these on Etsy.

hair fork

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art nouveau tile pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs ! like or reblog to use <3

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true story

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There are people in the tags and comments who have convinced themselves this post is a neo-Nazi dogwhistle and, look, while it is good to be alert to dogwhistles—

This post is, in fact, a semiotics joke about emojis, made by someone who is not a neo-Nazi.

I would like to remind people that in 2020, a trans author was driven to near-suicide because an online mob interpreted her author bio (which simply read "So-and-so was born in 1988") as being a neo-Nazi dogwhistle. (Because, you know, 88.)

Thousands of people piled onto this person who was trying to come out as trans, because those people had gone conspiracy-brained and decided her actual birth year was a dogwhistle, and the author must be secretly a neo-Nazi transphobe.

She was not a neo-Nazi. She was in fact a trans woman trying to publish a story that was, fundamentally, about gender and transness.

But thanks to the online mobbing, she was driven to the point of nearly killing herself. She had to check herself into a psychiatric ward. The neo-Nazi accusations turned out to be untrue—but the woman herself did almost die. That part was real.

Be a little more thoughtful about this. For fuck's sake.

Use context clues, take a look at the blog of the person, take a closer look at the post itself. Don't leap to the most paranoid inflammatory accusations without digging into things even a little bit. Actually take a look and think about what you are saying.

It does not help the world to devolve into a paranoia that leads you to accuse random innocent people of being neo-Nazis over, like... an emoji joke. All while real neo-Nazis are absurdly unsubtle about their dogwhistling, and a single glance at their blogs gives them away.

Someone unknowingly saying a common and innocuous phrase that could, in a specific neo-Nazi context, be a wink at fellow fascists is not in itself a dogwhistle. What would make it a dogwhistle is the goddamn context.

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Green Door , acrylic on canvas 2019