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Barrel-Shaped Jug with a Fox and a Cockerel, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Glazed earthenware

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Reblogging for alllll this!

Also, did you know industries like almond farms use force pollination? That’s not vegan. Remember that the next time you’re enjoying your almomd milk and thinking you’re helping by not patronizing the diary industry.

And don’t even get me started on the palm oil industry.

vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs….why

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Gold crown with jade beads and pendants. Korea, Kingdom of Silla, 5th century AD [1440x1670]

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A reminder that, while ancient Egypt was an amazing culture (and I’ve been obsessed with it since I was 5), it wasn’t and isn’t the only wonderful, beautiful, and amazing culture in Africa.

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

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This is heartbreaking.

Meanwhile, your chances of becoming a citizen are 3 times more likely if you’re white and from Europe. It’s racism.

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~ Terracotta statue of a young woman. Date: late 4th–early 3rd century B.C. Culture: Etruscan Medium: Terracotta

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Jewelry of the Child Myt, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art

Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold, carnelian, silver, glass, blue paste, feldspar, amethyst, jasper, rock crystal, resin, linen twine, leather

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If you dare come at me about banning straws, I will throw you into the sun cannon. I’m disabled, I’m crippled, I need disposable plastic straws, and all those pricey ridiculous alternatives aren’t working as well. Plastic straws were invented for the disabled.

Way to shit all over a vital access need because you think straws are worse than corporate greed.

We all care about the turtles, the seals, the oceans, obviously. Notice how the easiest thing to yell about was something that would barely affect anything but appealed heavily to emotional discourse.

The disabled community is huge, and it can be joined by anyone. Most of those As Seen On TV products were invented for us. Society still mocks us and ignores us, and often outright harms us in multiple ways.

Communicate better. Listen better. But stop putting us out in the cold because you are inconvenienced by our simplest needs.

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Plum Galette

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Is this how you roll?

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August 15 2019 - An ICE prison guard rams a blockade of Jewish antifascist protesters in Central Falls, Rhode Island, after which his colleagues come over to pepper spray them. An eyewitness account:

Tonight I planned to be arrested protesting at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, RI. I wore comfortable layers. I made sure to not drink too much water. I left my phone and keys with a volunteer in a baggie with my name on it. The only things in my pockets were $40 and a photo ID. Four hours later, I watched the ambulances gather up the seriously injured.The action was organized by Never Again is Now. We marched from Jenks Park, singing, chanting, praying. We gathered outside of the facility, about 40 of us who had planned to get arrested, and large crowd of other protesters. We delivered a letter with demands, and when, as expected, the demands were not met, we lined up outside the two entrances to the Wyatt, one to block pedestrian access and the other to block vans. However, because they knew we were coming, they had rescheduled all prisoner transfers so there were no vans coming in or out. 

So we decided to relocate to the adjacent parking lot, to block guards from leaving when their shift was over. There was a large entrance and a smaller entrance off to the side. At first I was with the big group at the front entrance. Then a car started heading towards the side entrance, so some of us broke off to block that exit. The person in that car was a woman, and she left her engine on the whole time during what followed.At the main entrance, at about 9:30pm, a guard in a black pickup truck roared down the street, and rammed directly into the line of protestors on that side. Two people were injured. Then, WITHIN SECONDS, a horde of guards came streaming out of the prison and pepper-sprayed the protesters, including the injured. Let me be clear: there is no way that they could have gotten there that fast unless there was some communication ahead of time from the guy in the truck about his plan. Many people were seriously injured by the amount and manner in which the pepper spray was used. Prison guards absolutely do not have the authority to use their pepper-spray, a weapon that is part of their job, against civilians outside a prison. And none of the protesters was on prison grounds; we were across the street in a parking lot, which was adjacent to a soccer and baseball field. Earlier in the evening, there had been kids playing there. On our side, we were sitting across the entrance to the parking lot, facing outwards. The woman was still behind us with her lights and engine on. We heard screams but could not see the other group. At that moment, the woman in the car behind us revved her engine several times, to intimidate us into moving. We stood up and faced her. We did not move, and we wanted her to look us in the eye if she was going to run us over. She did not move.This was a premeditated attack. There were both local and state cops in the area - they were there all night keeping an eye on things, but they would do loops, they were not always right in front. The guard watched and waited for a moment when none of the 3 cars that were patrolling were within line of sight to carry out his attack. But he did coordinate with his fellow guards inside so that they were ready in an instant to pour out of the facility and across the street with their pepper spray. When the local cops came back, it was pretty clear that they were PISSED at the guards - I do want to say that in fairness. I do not believe that the local cops were part of the conspiracy. Honestly, this is going to bring such a stream of crap to Central Falls in the coming weeks, and this makes their life very difficult. National attention. But at the same time, they did not immediately arrest the driver. All they would say is that there would be an investigation. When it became clear how seriously injured some folks were, the rest of the protest was cancelled, including our group on the far side of the parking lot. So I came home with the $40 still in my pocket.I joined this action because I’ve reached a point where I look at everything I’ve done so far and there’s no risk, no personal cost. If I look at this moment in history, and all I can say is that I posted some stuff and waved some signs, but was unwilling to take any risk or do anything that might cost me, I simply cannot live with that. ICE is perpetrating crimes against humanity. I will not be a person who looked the other way, who hoped it would go away. […] EDIT [the next morning when I can speak more clearly]: For clarity, I don’t think the Central Falls police were involved in the planning of the attack, but they were very involved in covering it up by not arresting the guard immediately and in the way they responded to witnesses. Earlier in the night, they blatantly lied to us about who the woman was in the car behind us in an effort to get us to leave. All cops are complicit. Also, by now I’m sure everyone reading this has seen the video and the other news coverage and they made it more clear: he was outside the parking lot, ramming inwards. It’s not like he was inside and frustrated with us blocking him. Please, if you talk about this story, make sure to ask the question: if they treated us with this level of violence, a group of civilian protesters with cops not that far away and everyone having a cellphone camera, what do you think they are doing to those detained in the facility who have no way to get the word out about their treatment? One of the items that Never Again is Now was protesting about this facility was the lack of transparency and proof that detainees rights are being met. After last night, it’s not enough for the Wyatt to just cancel the ICE contract. The whole facility needs to be shut down. Tell your RI senators and reps: No for-profit prisons in RI!

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I’m super fair-skinned & blonde & my leg hair puts most men to shame. I have a “tuft” of pubic hair that grows front & center of my mons pubis that grows so long and straight I could braid it and put a Norse beard bead on it for decoration.

i hate when i make body-hair positivity posts and people (almost always white) comment with stuff like “yes fuzz is so cute!” like no….i’m not here for my girls with just fuzz i’m here for girls who have thick dark coarse hair all over their bodies, girls who have eyebrows thicker than their dad’s, girls whose eyebrows blend in with their hairlines, girls with mustaches, girls with thick sideburns, girls who have hairy arms, legs, toes, fingers, and hands, girls with nipple hair, girls who can’t tell where their tummy hair ends and their happy trail begins, girls with back hair, girls with unibrows. hair doesn’t have to be peach fuzz on a white body for it to still be cute.

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Doug Jones Appreciation Thread

as Amphibian Man in The Shape of Water

as the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth

as Faun in Pan’s Labyrinth

as the Angel of Death in Hellboy II: The Golden Army 

as Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus

as one of the Gentlemen in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

as Edith’s Mother, Lady Sharpe in Crimson Peak

as Silver Surfer in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

as Saru in Star Trek: Discovery

as Abe Sapien in Hellboy

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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON IS EXTREMELY FUCKING DANGEROUS

You almost certainly didn’t watch this week’s Democratic presidential debates. I sure didn’t. Aside from being more than a year out from the election, they’re not helpful, because the format of these early debates is almost aggressively bad. But I have read the news coverage of the first debate, and I am extremely alarmed to see self-help evangelist Marianne Williamson getting positive responses – despite some entirely justified comparisons between her campaign and Donald Trump’s.

The reason that the cynical theater critics of the American political press think Williamson is the Democrats’ Trump is that she’s a wealthy kook they don’t take seriously.

The actual reason Williamson feels like a Democratic Trump is that she’s a scammer who has a decades-long history of shockingly dangerous rhetoric about and exploitation of marginalized people.

Like Trump, Williamson is “skeptical” of vaccine science - that is to say, an anti-vaxxer. Unlike Trump, she is able to stick with a consistent position for more than five seconds. Williamson has a documented history of manipulating vulnerable people to reject the medical care they need in favor of her particular brand of crystal-mongering “positive thinking.” In the 1980s, she profiteered off the AIDS crisis, telling HIV+ gay men to think of the disease as their “Angels-In-Darth Vader-Suits” and promising that she could coach them to overcome it with acceptance and positive thinking. Please, please pay attention to gay men who lived through that era about how fucking monstrous this is.

She is hostile to psychiatric medicine. In practice, that mostly means she lectures people to stop taking their meds. But she, like the right-wing propagandists at InfoWars, also blames mass shootings on antidepressants. Seriously. And she sells eating disordered rhetoric dressed up as new age woo.

In fact, she’s hostile to medical science in general. She claims in her book that “cancer and AIDS and other serious illnesses are physical manifestations of a psychic scream” because “sickness is an illusion” that “does not actually exist” and only seems to respond to medical care because of the placebo effect.

Naturally, she has dismissed criticism on this point as fake news.

Like Trump, she’s a talented con artist, which means that she knows how to capture voters’ attention by appropriating and regurgitating language on an issue that’s important to the party’s base. With Trump, it was his campaign promises to protect Social Security and Medicare. With Williamson, it’s her comments about reparations and racial injustice. Racial injustice is important and reparations are good. So are Social Security and Medicare. Someone who exploits people as a career is still dangerous even when they say the right things; that’s how they get in a position to exploit people. Whoever she stole her reparations commentary from was correct in their diagnosis. That doesn’t mean she cares about people of color more than any of the other marginalized groups she’s latched onto – which, incidentally, is exactly as much as Donald Trump cares about Medicare recipients.

Williamson has spent decades exploiting the predatory psychology of the “prosperity gospel,” but applied to health instead of finance: if you were pure enough of mind and heart, everything would be fine for you! Oh, things aren’t fine for you? Well, I can enlighten you, for this low, low fee! It’s Trump University, except she victimizes cancer sufferers instead of aspiring real estate agents.

Unfortunately, she is also like Trump in that the press fucking loves her and is giddily shouting over the people she endangers.

The issue here is not only that she is a bad person who should not be president, although that is obviously true and we’ve all seen how that shit can get out of hand. It’s also that just being on the stage with decent people legitimizes her. Her airy-fairy magical thinking receives praise for “recognizing the gravity of our moment” and becomes an excuse to denigrate the serious candidates who are offering compassion for people’s problems along with rationally defensible public policy ideas to solve those problems.

Her presence is distracting and cruel to important parts of the Democratic coalition. The July debates were supposed to be about health care. If disability activists, LGBTQ voters, or women who have suffered from a dangerously disordered relationship with their bodies tuned in to hear about health care, they could not avoid the painful reality that someone on that stage thinks their health care needs would disappear if only they’d think happy thoughts. And now, if they want to learn about health care policy, they have to get their information from reporters who have publicly legitimized or even praised this person.

This is unacceptable. It needs to stop now.

When she is off the stage, we will be able to have an interesting and possibly even useful conversation about the respective vulnerabilities in the progressive and conservative coalitions to toxic con artists, and the similarities and differences between the dangerous charlatans who were drawn to each party. That will only be possible AFTER she takes her toys and goes home, which in turn will only happen when she stops making the debates with even 2% in opinion polls, or when the campaign becomes a liability for her brand instead of yet another scam. Make sure people know exactly who she is – especially if they’re starting to fall for it.

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Floral designs taken from ‘Art Embroidery’ by Mary S. Lockwood, Elizabeth Glaister, Thomas Crane.

Published 1878 by M. Ward & Co.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library.

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A group of faience jerboa figurines, 4 cm high

Possibly from Heliopolis, Egypt, ca. 1850–1640 B.C. (Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12-13)

Already in the Early Dynastic Period, Egyptians deposited faience figurines of wild animals in temple precincts. These figurines were reintroduced in the Twelfth Dynasty, but as a component of burial equipment and with new species added to the repertoire. The controlled representation of desert animals may have assured the Egyptians of eternal safety, though they also likely had symbolic meanings.    

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Indigenous people in Attawapiskat cannot drink their water or bathe themselves, and haven’t been able to for weeks. They called a state of emergency.

What is Justin Trudeau’s response?

1 litre per day of water for kids under 2 years old. 1.5 litres per elder. The Tribal council must pay for this water in advance before they can be reimbursed next month.

This is shameful.

https://twitter.com/CharlieAngusNDP/status/1152558561496616961

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