#the nation magazine

[workersolidarity]

The Military Industrial Complex Is More Powerful Than Ever

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Chance For Peace": Speech Delivered April, 1953

(Just want to add, The Nation isn't innocent in all this, having published countless articles supporting Liberal Interventionism and US Regime Change operations in the past)

Also, another great piece on US Military Spending:

[happycrabitat]

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

[sovietpostcards]

"Nice to meet you." Illustration by Tatyana Yeryomina, published in Murzilka in 1957.

This piece references the 1957 Youth Festival in Moscow. 34 000 foreign guests visited Moscow for the festival, and for the vast majority of Russians it was the first opportunity in their life to see a real foreign person, let alone a person of color.

[musette22]

Chris Evans surprises shelter dogs with cuddles and treats to celebrate National Dog Day ♥️🐾

[nearlydark]

View on 4 Mile Trail Yosemite National Park, May 2024

[jadafitch]

Outdoor cats kill over 2 BILLION birds every year! Here's some illustrations I did for National Audubon Society of a few catios on the market. A great way to keep cats happy, and birds alive!

Audubon Article

[lisamarie-vee]

[frogshunnedshadows]

Newspaper front pages and the cover of National Geographic magazine, regarding the Apollo 11 moon landing, 1969.

[anotherpapercut]

my friends and I had a collage night where we all worked together to make masterpieces

[kitsunetsuki]

How Other Magazines Would Photograph A Playmate: National Geographic & Sports Illustrated (Playboy 1970)

[swiftupdates]

Taylor Swift is named TIME Magazine’s person of the year! You can read the article here.

[alicvnt]

i find it hilariously funny that ewan mitchell admitted to not knowing anything about moisturizer up until a few months ago… truly….the straightest thing that a man has ever said 😭

[madisonlennon]

Ewan 🫠 so beautiful

[sovietpostcards]

Cover of Murzilka magazine, August 1957

[markscherz]

do you like becoming tumblr famous or is it scary

So far, it's pretty good. I get an astonishing number of asks, and I feel bad that I cannot answer or address them all, but other than that, practically everyone has been lovely so far.

I have a bit of an odd relationship with fame. For much of my childhood, I idolised people who were famous, and dreamt of one day being famous, too. As I grew up, I met or interacted with more and more famous people, and later even got to know some very well. When you see it up close, it is often not desirable at all. It is in fact a huge strain on these people. And that's something I think we often forget; these are just people. Just apes wearing silly scraps of fabric and worrying about their families and their health, just like everyone else.

And so, I have no real interest in being famous, tumblr or otherwise. But I do enjoy having a wonderful, large, and continuously growing audience who revel in and enjoy the weird and wonderful creatures that I spend so much of my time thinking about, working on, and pursuing. I hope that it continues to grow! As I say, you have all been really lovely so far, and I could not find a better community on any other platform—of that I am sure! 🐸

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