#October 15

[shisasan]

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟷 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ourgoodfriendjonathan]

Thank you @vickyvicarious, this is indeed much more accurate

[typelikeagirl]

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Pink Fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus)

(Photo from WWF)

Conservation Status- Data deficient (Data inadequate to determine a threat category)

Habitat- Central Argentina

Size (Weight/Length)- 15 cm

Diet- Small inescts; Worms; Plant roots

Cool Facts- Being the smallest species of armadillo, the pink fairy armadillo has a lot to live up to. Living in an environment with cold nights is hard, but these armadillos have a trick. Their entire body, sans their osteoderm, is covered in thick fur. By curling into a ball at night, their osteoderm keeps warm air inside and cold air outside. Spending the majority of their lives underground, the pink fairy armadillo relies mostly on touch and hearing to travel long expanses of tunnels while searching for prey. Thought to have been extremely rare, recent studies show there are more pink fairy armadillos than previously expected due to their subterranean lifestyle.

Rating- 13/10 (They have fluffy butts.)

Animtober- Armadillo (The chariot of fairies.)

[literallyluznoceda]

Maybe my hyperfixation is acting up but please tell you see it

Like damn I am so sorry hunter

[chalamet-chalamet]

GQ 2020 ✨

📸 by Renell Medrano

[unofficialdigby]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREWSTER!!!

This gorgeous pigeon is the master of all coffee, the patron of hot beverages, and the greatest delight in the world to know! His favorite coffee only says N/A because he can’t decide on a favorite, he loves all coffee equally (even iced coffee, though it must be a properly prepared cold brew). Today, celebrate brewster with a brew of your favorite coffee, and just think! Sometime next month, Brewster will finally join us in New Horizons!!!!

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 2nd Birthday to

“Learn to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds”

[thethirdromana]

For someone who is very concerned with the precise details of railway timetables, Bram Stoker isn't much interested in telling us about the experience of travelling by train. I would have appreciated about 50% more 1890s travelogue details in this entry.

[todaysdocument]

Speech given by college student Raymond Anthony Mungo at the Boston Common for an anti-Vietnam draft rally, 10/16/1967: 

“I'm here today, and this is a very historic day, to go with you . . .I say again, I have nothing more to do with the Selective Service System.”

File Unit: Boston Common, 1928 - 1976

Series: Precedent Case Files, 1928 - 1976

Record Group 118: Records of U.S. Attorneys, 1821 - 1994

Transcription:

RAY MUNGO:  I am going to talk very briefly.  I'm not exactly sure why I'm here to speak to you because I can't speak as elegantly as either of the two gentlemen who preceded me, and I'm not black, and I'm embarrassed by the fact that nobody black is up here; and I'm not working class, even though my parents are working class, because I obviously went to college, you know.  But I have learned a few things since I started going to college.

When I started going to college, the Civil Rights movement was the big thing and I thought that was great because there were these people down South pounding people and beating people and I assumed that was very un-American.  The American character was to be peaceful, to be non-violent, to be just and I assumed that south was the festering sore in American society.  That is why I started going to college.

In 1964, three men died in Philadelphia, Mississippi.  Their trials were just coming up this week in Mississippi.  Their murderers will no doubt be acquitted.  In 1965, I was aware of the war in Vietnam.  [following underlined in red ink:] I burned my draft card on the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.  In 1967, I'm here today, and this is a very historic day, to go with you to the Arlington Street Church to say that I have nothing more to do against, and I say again, I have nothing more to do with the Selective Service System. [end underlining]  Now I think this country is getting very close to being a fascist state and I'm afraid, I'm deeply afraid, and I'm afraid of the draft too and you know you are too because it affects all of our lives.  I am eligible for the draft and so are you, even though I am in college.  It affects people's career positions.  It affects the way you look at things.  I do not believe, for example, that it's a coincidence that the United States Army, that the same United States Army that is destroying people in Vietnam, can be destroying people in Detroit.  I think that it's connected.  I think people who go to fight and kill people find it easier to come back here and kill people, and I think killing

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people is wrong, categorically in any situation, because people are all that we have.  People are it, man.  You know!

For the fascism that we have in the United States of America is not like the German fascism.  It is not like World War II or the Atomic.  It is the fascism of the $100-a-plate diners in San Antonio, Texas, who can sit and mildly, smugly, applaud the President on his (word inaudible) when he makes statements that indicate that he's mad, that he is out of touch with reality, and it is the fascism of - yes, it is the fascism of BU student and Harvard University student and Brandeis University students who will not stand up and say anything about the war.  It is the fascism of people who continue to pay the taxes, and people who continue to register for the draft because they do not want to stir up any trouble.

I was in (place inaudible) with NICK EGGLESTON  (Phonetic).  I met a girl that was 23 years old.  She had 200 shrapnel wounds in her body because she was teaching in elementary school when it was bombed again and again.  I saw pictures of women whose children were born with metal pieces of lead in their faces that went through the woman's womb before birth.  I saw people that had their skin seared off by this war in Vietnam, and I've seen black guys in the United States that had their heads bashed in, and I think we’re all going to end up in the can sooner or later if we take a moral stand on this issue, so I'm willing to do it now.

I might be crazy.  Why am I subjecting myself to the possibility of jail?  Why do I not sit and accept the arguments that may political activists have offered me, that it is more effective to stay out of jail and play along with the system?  Because you can't revolutionize the system and you can't change a country that is rotten to the core unless you make a complete break.  I cannot object to American materialism if I depend on American affluence and if I'm afraid of jail.  I am not afraid of jail.  I'm afraid of killing people and being killed and I am afraid that this whole planet is going up in smoke if we don't do something about it immediately.  Jail is not to be feared.  Jail is an honorable alternative to this war in Vietnam.

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I feel - Eugene Bent (Phonetic) said in 1918, "I am accused of being against the war. I admit it.  I am happy to be against the war.  I will be against all wars".  And then HENRY DAVID THOREAU said, considerably before that when he was in jail, somebody came up to him and said, "Why are you in there".  He turns around and says, "Why are you out there, baby?"

Because a society - in a society which is (word inaudible) unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.  EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY said in the closing lines of a poem "Am I a spy in the land of the living that I should deliver men to death.  Though the password and plans of our city are safe with me, never through me shall you be overcome."  [following underlined in red:] If resisting the Government in the United States of America, which is killing people abroad and killing people at home, black people and yellow people and poor people, if that is treason, I want to be a traitor.  I want to be nothing but a traitor.  It's the only honorable thing to be, and I want as many of you as are ready to take this step today to come with me and a lot of other people down to the Arlington Street Church to tell the United States Government together, today, that you are men, and not tools, that you have rights and you have dignity and you belong to the human race.  That's all I'm asking you to do.

If you believe in killing people, it is crazy to register with the - if you don't believe in killing people, it's crazy to pay your taxes.  It's crazy!  Don't give them a nickel!  If you don't believe in killing people, it's crazy to register for the draft.  You've got to make a break now.  Please come with us today. [end underlining]

[naidje]

King Laugh x Judge Moneybag OTP

[shisasan]

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟻, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 -𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ourgoodfriendjonathan]

Real life pictures of our good friend Jonathan's journey on the Orient Express

[maddennfl86]

My favorite Richard photos (Medici: Masters of Florence' premiere-October 15, 2016) 💥💥💥

[umarthiels]

Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotise her at such times. At first, some effort was needed, and he had to make many passes; but now, she seems to yield at once, as if by habit, and scarcely any action is needed. He seems to have power at these particular moments to simply will, and her thoughts obey him. He always asks her what she can see and hear.

there's something in this, though I can't quite assemble my thoughts just yet. the way mina has learned to yield to van helsing's hypnosis, the way jonathan describes it as van helsing willing, and mina's thoughts obeying... it really hammers in that dracula and van helsing are foils, and van helsing seems to have a great deal of power over hypnotized!mina's thoughts and willing her to speak, vs dracula using the psychic bond to restrain/suppress mina during the day.

[niallhoranhasthat1thing]

October 15 2021