“I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.”
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Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,”
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Alain Delon with Romy Schneider at the 1962 premiere of Roger Vadim’s Le repos du guerrier
People should thank this man
Sorry Jennifer not everybody can look like Chris Evans while doing a huge service to the general public.
Anyway this guy is amazing.
Did you see the video? He has such a glowing personality and his eagerness to share knowledge is infectious.
some people will take any chance they can to dehumanize fat people
theres also been a motion to write more articles about women because the gap in articles about men vs articles about women is astronomically huge, and he’s written hundreds or thousands of them and is a huge proponent of this. he’s done a lot of great work and he spends countless hours a day researching things so that we have access to that knowledge. he’s a hero. he doesnt do it for money either, tho apparently his regular job also involves research. but he does this purely because he believes in how important it is for information to be free.
he’s done 600 articles on women as a part of this push for more
He looks like a nice guy and I know people like to sneer at it but Wikipedia is a good, ACCESSIBLE starting point for learning about things, so like, haters can fuck all the way off.
“How much money do you make from this?”
“None.”
“So why do you do it?”
“The idea of it, making it all free, fascinates me. My mother grew up in the Soviet Union. So I’m very conscious of what it can mean to make knowledge free. To make information free.”
how can you hear that and think anything other than that this is a brilliant, kind, generous man
scandalous
i will reblog this as many times as it takes me to stop finding this funny
I want more saucy cat soap operas.
Set I
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest?
2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?
3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?
4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?
5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.
12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
Set II
13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future or anything else, what would you want to know?
14. Is there something that you’ve dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven’t you done it?
15. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?
16. What do you value most in a friendship?
17. What is your most treasured memory?
18. What is your most terrible memory?
19. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?
20. What does friendship mean to you?
21. What roles do love and affection play in your life?
22. Alternate sharing something you consider a positive characteristic of your partner. Share a total of five items.
23. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people’s?
24. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?
Set III
25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling … “
26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could share … “
27. If you were going to become a close friend with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know.
28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time, saying things that you might not say to someone you’ve just met.
29. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.
30. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?
31. Tell your partner something that you like about them already.
32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
33. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven’t you told them yet?
34. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?
35. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?
36. Share a personal problem and ask your partner’s advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen.
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antiblackness is unreasonable
Reparations are a part of a proper apology.
A proper apology is a part of justice, trust repair, and community building.
These things are needed if we intend to heal the Very Real damage that the descendants of slaves still have.
To paraphrase Malcolm X, we need to offer reparations, freely, willingly, and knowing why, before the knife is going to come out. Until the knife is out, the healing cannot begin. Until the healing is ended, descendants of slavers bear the burden of shame and guilt for the suffering of our fellow humans.
You can attain no absolution without offering a solution.
I can go first, if you need to see how it works.
To any and all descendants of the victims of the American Slave Trade:
I am deeply sorry. Slavery is an immoral and reprehensible degradation of human dignity that leaves scars on the very genetic code. The tools of oppression cut deep, and I recognize there is still traumatic damage to undo. As of now, I am not a therapist nor financially able to give direct monetary compensation without endangering my ability to continue repairing the damage*. In this understanding, I propose that instead I lift your voices as high as I can when you ask those with the skill and means to begin to undo the horrible injustice you face. I will be there when you need me, I will give you support and unconditional empathy as frequently as my own disability allows*. I will speak out about racism in venues where I know my voice will be heard, and I will listen to you so I say what you want said. I will prioritize Black-owned businesses, donate when I can to charities for the promotion and protection of Black lives. I know this process will take time, probably my lifetime. I am willing to commit to this as long as you want me around, and willing to change any aspect of it to better suit your needs as long as that does not endanger my survival*. I will do my best to undo what was done.
—-The Descendant of a Slave Holder
* These conditions are present only because I know that outside of a few, individual, dramatic, photogenic cases, dead activists are next to useless. Please trust me as an expert on myself: I am not good martyr material.
Brie Larson and Lashana Lynch - Captain Marvel World Premiere
Not to get all poetic but they look like the sun and the moon and these should be in the MET
The seldom seen, full mating display dance of the Hooded Grebe, Podiceps gallardoi. @moomgene and I were luckily enough to see a breeding colony develop out of nothing in a few days, and see the whole social dynamic of displaying to pair formation to nest building and egg laying play out less than 10m from us.
why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like…
rainbow mountains (peru)
red soil (canada/PEI)
rings (saturn’s if they were on earth)
bioluminescent waves
northern lights (canada)
salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)
and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens
BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species
I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:
Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar
Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)
Chocolate Hills, Philippines
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…
Earth is effing amazing!
Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina
Lake Retba, Senegal
Tepui, Venezuela
Tianzi Mountains, China
these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:
Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)
(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)
Lake Natron, Tanzania
(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)
Lake Baikal, Russia
(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)
and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.
it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:
(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it)
anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk
Just adding onto this collection—Star Wars aside—because there are some manmade places/landmarks that are pretty extraordinary too.
Field of Jars, Laos (ancient, uncertain origins; heavily damaged by American Forces in the Vietnam War, now partially a hazardous minefield)
Stone spheres of Costa Rica (ancient, uncertain origins/purpose)
Anasazi ruins, USA (ancient, uncertain origins)
Nazca Lines, Lima, Peru (ancient, uncertain origins)
Malakoff Diggins, Nevada City, USA (result of hydraulic gold mining)
Nuestro Pueblo “Watts Towers”, Los Angeles, USA (lone man spent 33yrs building these in his yard)
Aaand a couple natural things that I can never get over:
‘Sailing Stones’ of Death Valley, USA (they move on their own)
Banyan trees, India (one tree takes root repeatedly and looks like many trees)
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