#cultural department

[cubbihue]

Peri's no good terrible bad day just seems to get worse and worse!

Timmy's hoping his baby brother didn't hear the whole conversation. But with that expression on his face, Timmy suspects it may be a bit too late for him. Timmy's companion scurried away as soon as he noticed Poof. A Pixie can sense drama and conflict from miles away.

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[ahoyimlosingmymind]

people trying to dissect Taylor's entire love life and apply the lyrics to her real life, meanwhile I'm over here figuring out the perfect way to project all the songs onto my blorbos and fictional ships

[taylornation]

Down bad crying on the street because Amazon Music’s most-streamed album in its first day on is up high on billboards around the world. 🥹🤍 Stream THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT on the Pop Culture playlist now.

[no-more-lies12]

do you ever just wanna ... Stop?

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

[spectre-rumi]

Happy day of the dead everyone!!! Make sure to visit your families and light them a candle of two

I really got inspired by how the candles looked 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ when we visited the graveyard at night (dw it wasn't scary there were so many people there we got stuck in traffic 😭)

Also it's Lloyd btw, if u can't see the green. And he's thinking about all the people who were lost in the merge . Also about Arin, since you know, the orange going all around the environment yeah??

Hope y'all like it

[yeoldenews]

A mother's word for word transcription of the imaginary phone call her four-year-old made to Santa Claus in 1911.

(source: The Harbor Beach Times, December 22, 1911.)

Through some outrageous case of serendipity I found a recording of another phone call this same child made 60 years later. Though I have to say his choice of conversational partner is a definite downgrade from the first call.

[swift13s]

So trueb

[sunbeamedskies]

I love Taylor Swift, but you all have got to stop falling for the media pitting women against each other.

Billie was most likely not shading Taylor- she was talking about how she personally does not want to do a 3 hour show, and she believes her fans don’t want her to do one either. She also emphasized releasing multiple versions of physical albums that aren’t eco friendly is a systemic industry issue.

I’m a huge Taylor fan, but not every comment another artist makes is specifically about Taylor.

The amount of people here who see anything that could vaguely be criticism of Taylor as a personal attack is not healthy. If you are prone to jumping to conclusions, you need to take a step back from the internet and chill. The media LOVES framing quotes from someone like Billie as being 100% about someone like Taylor because it gets them clicks.

Taylor is also not flawless. She is one of MANY musicians who release multiple versions of albums as part of cash grabs. She doesn’t need to do it- she’s the hugest musician on Earth- but there’s such a pressure to do so that she does. There’s nothing wrong with wanting her and all the other musicians who do it to do better

[hungerpunch]

the way that the oscar-winning 2017 film, call me by your name, launched timothay chalamay from relative obscurity to a leading man & household name and would have propelled the chronically-mediocre armie hammer to new heights had he not been exposed as a cannibal

versus

how no such thing happened for the leads of the oscar-winning 2016 film, moonlight (ashton sanders, trevante rhodes, jharrel jerome, andré holland), who have all toiled for small parts or infrequent leads in the years since their accolades.

i truly hate society.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Nathalie Baptiste at HuffPost:

Donald Trump promised over the course of his campaign to abolish the Department of Education. It’s been a pet policy goal of the right ever since the agency was created in 1980 under former President Jimmy Carter and is spelled out in Project 2025, the conservative playbook that Trump will probably use once he is back in the White House.

But Trump doesn’t need to shut down the department in order to launch an all-out war on public schools. He outlined his plan for education in a video last year, saying that not only will he close down the agency, he will bring back prayer in schools, end the supposed indoctrination of students and take politics out of schools. “We will ensure our classrooms are focused not on political indoctrination but on teaching the knowledge and skills needed to succeed,” Trump said, adding, “We will teach students to love their country, not to hate their country like they’re taught right now.” It’s the same agenda that right-wing culture warriors have been pushing in red states for the last four years — and Trump wants to spread it across the country. “This renewed push to go after the Department of Education isn’t so much a sincere push for smaller government or even reducing the federal role,” Jon Valant, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, told HuffPost. “It’s more about this continued attack on public education as a concept and eroding support for public schools in general.”

The Department of Education’s primary functions are providing funding for programs that serve low-income public schools and children with disabilities and protecting students from discrimination. If Trump were able to abolish it, it would spell disaster for the entire country. But public education has increasingly become politicized, and support for public schools, especially among Republicans, is now at an all-time low. The upcoming Trump administration will likely seize on that sentiment to further attack public schools through rolling back Biden-era rules designed to make them safe and equitable for all students, supporting the expansion of programs that take away funding from public schools and promoting laws that restrict books and censor teachers. “One of their first moves would be pulling back Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students,” Valant said. Title IX is the federal regulation that protects students from sex-based discrimination. The Biden administration expanded it to include protections for students in the LGBTQ+ community. Republicans have fought against the change from the beginning, and several GOP-led states sued to block the rule. An overwhelming majority of transgender students have reported feeling unsafe or unwelcome at school. Then there’s the Office for Civil Rights. This arm of the Department of Education allows students, parents and families to sue their school districts over civil rights violations. Often, the department works with both sides to seek a resolution because it’s a low-risk way of settling civil rights violations. But Project 2025 proposes gutting the office and only allowing lawsuits to go through the courts, thus eliminating an avenue for addressing discrimination in our nation’s schools.

[...] Multiple states have already passed their own versions of parental rights bills, like in Iowa and Tennessee. These laws often ban books that conservatives believe are sexually explicit but usually target books with LGBTQ+ themes. Teachers are typically restricted in what they can say about gender identity and sexual orientation and are required to inform parents if their child wants to go by another name or pronouns at school — even against the student’s wishes.

The Orange Fascist’s war on public schools could have very costly consequences for the quality of education across America, and especially for LGBTQ+ students, staff, and faculty.

[jedi-starbird]

I firmly believe we could solve all the galaxy's problems and ruin sidious's grand plan if we simply gave the jedi space tumblr

[rayyzcosmos]

in I hate it here, taylor says, 'like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy' and guess who was working in an insurance company but wanted to be a writer and spent all his life writing and considered one of the greatest of all time... Franz Kafka and he hated his life. Most of his works are fusion of reality with fantasy. his choice of words, his literary style, his main characters, all contain a sense of romanticism and then taylor says, 'i'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and i'll get lost on purpose' his major stories depicts how he wanted to move to another place, where he is seen, and taylor says, 'i hate it here so i will go to lunar valleys in my mind'

[lotuseaterwhowistlesthedark]

Its fine to do embarrassing stuff. Life is about growing with mistakes.

Most of the time self inflicted embarrassment is from a first time mistake or experience.

Like that one quote I read on Pinterest.

If you are not willing to be an foolish beginner you will be a graceful master.

[yearningforunity]

Young people dance in the streets in Quibdó, Colombia.

Photo: Nadege Mazars/Hans Lucas

[curiositysavesthecat]

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