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dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.

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The parallels between Aika and Miss are so good.... I just noticed with these recent doodles that they also share struggling to consistently dye their hair as they become more exhausted and unhappy with their lives and that's such a fun character design parallel!!!

(On the topic of character design btw I just LOVE the details w/ color and clothing. Miss in particular going from a sleeveless light-colored fancier shirt showing off her tattoo, to a dark-colored shirt with long sleeves covering up the tattoo, thus also cutting off a piece of her personal life from her work and not letting herself out of that shell she built for herself. Aaauuhgh this concept is so cool and I love the subtleties of character design)

Yaaa glad you noticed! I love when characters do the same things in parallel ways but for different reasons. Aika purposefully not dying her hair all the way to sort of reclaim who she was before her work and Miss just neglecting to dye her hair as she loses her sense of self and individuality to her job.

And heehee thank you! I love!! Visual storytelling!!!

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It looks like autism is pulling ahead as the leading defense. Along with "Roman salute" and "giving his heart."

I have a few autistic friends and they seem to have been able to reign in their accidental Nazi salutes. I didn't know they were enduring this hardship all this time.

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And this is exactly why they hate fact checking.

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shocking

No one could have seen it coming

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me: new year, new me!

you: 2025 started 3 weeks ago

me: what

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3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

source

Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

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Posted for the beauty and eloquence of this comment:

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I am literally begging people to understand that LA is not filled with “rich elites”. It’s mostly filled with people just like me - people with extremely modest success in an industry they’ve probably been passionate about for their entire lives; people who work hard and grind every single day to have (or probably rent) a home in one of 2 cities the nation where their dreams even have a microscopic chance of becoming a reality. Actors whose names you wouldn’t recognize, screenwriters who are writing pilots that don’t get picked up, camera operators for mid tier reality shows, musicians who have had one song in the background of a commercial, makeup artists who get hired for a C-list celebrity red carpet appearance once in a while. Just ordinary fucking working people with dreams.

I don’t think it’s likely anyone who follows me agrees with the fucked up shit I’m reading atp, but as someone who lives in NYC for my career and could just as easily live in those neighborhoods in LA (and I have almost moved there many times), it’s so fucking difficult to read comments about “rich people” and categorize the entire entertainment industry - which is largely comprised of exciting but otherwise average trade jobs - as “out of touch elites whose houses deserve to burn” when it couldn’t be farther from the truth. To wish such horrible things and have so little empathy to people just like me. For my peers, and my colleagues, and my friends. To be reading unfounded disdain about them (and again by extension me and everyone like me) everywhere, and to have the struggles of my industry be this misunderstood, have who we are generalized this much, have people laughing or not caring that these working people are losing their homes, losing their dreams, having everything they’ve made happen for themselves reduced to rubble... it is the absolute worst shit fathomable. It is fucking crushing to a degree I cannot even describe.

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An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago.

The maker appears to have deliberately flaked around the shell to preserve and place it in a central position. As a result this handaxe has been described as an early example of artistic thought.

From West Tofts, Norfolk.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Courtesy Alison Fisk

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My brain will take ANY excuse to make a list