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yaaynature:

Lahore Pigeons

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kvltkunt:

roseanne barr is a transphobe, don’t vote for her. just don’t vote at all.

I had mad respect for Roseanne Barr, until her true transphobic and transmisogynist colors showed.

There are no words for how disgusting this is. And it’s not technically Facebook, but it’s wholly unacceptable.

And just on a practical, non-civil rights/decent human point: how is Roseanne going to the bathroom that the genitals of other bathroom goers are in her face?! I have never been to such a bathroom. I have been to bathrooms where I waited outside for my freshman year roommate, a trans man, to come out of the men’s room and make sure nothing bad happened. I feel certain that Roseanne has never been asked to do that.

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I get that it’s exhausting to pick shit apart looking for flaws. I get that it’s exhausting to see other people picking shit apart looking flaws. I get that it’s hard to see something you love get lambasted, or tarred with a brush you’d rather not think about, or called bad names. I get that it feels like things are being ruined, like people are looking for things to hate, like people are taking things too seriously. I even get that, as much as we’d like to pretend otherwise, it can feel like a personal attack to see a piece of media we’re attached to get put through the wringer. I get that, in seeing someone say, “This piece of media is dangerous and flawed and sending a bad message,” it can feel like they’re saying, “You are dangerous and flawed and sending a bad message for liking this.” They aren’t saying that, but I get how it can feel that way, because it’s felt that way for me. That’s what happens, when you get attached to things and somebody talks shit about them. That’s what happens when media is designed to emotionally manipulate you; you become emotionally manipulated. It’s just how it works.

But consuming media critically is a skill, and in an age where media is more prevalent than ever before, it’s a skill worth having. It’s a skill worth having because you are going to continue to be exposed to media, and it is going to continue to attempt to manipulate you. It’s a skill worth having because it makes it less difficult to see people talking shit about things you like, not more. It’s a skill worth having because some of the shit being taught en masse by media is horrible…

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mymbley:

“new atheists aka 20-something year old white dudes who think theyre so edgy for believing in “science” (basically a rudimentary idea of how evolution works) and how it was soooo hard for them to obediently go to church when they were younger and deal with ~lesser minds~ and how hard it is for people to accept them now for daring to get upset when they insult every religion out there for some karma on reddit”

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brocialism (via queerhairyvag)

and this is why I don’t call myself an atheist

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The issue, of course, isn’t atheism itself, but these “nu-atheists” who cannot and refuse to understand religion as a cultural praxis, and the various Euro-centric and white-centric their views often take. As such, their discourse, rather than subverting oppressive institutions, re-inforces them wholesale, including racism, anti-Semitism, Euro-centric ideals, imperialism, colonialism, and more besides.

And therein lies the problem.

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Milky Way Shows 84 Million Stars in 9 Billion Pixels

Side Note: The two images shown above are mere crop outs from ESA’s recent hit: The 9 Billion Pixel Image of 84 Million Stars. These two focus on the bright center of the image for the purpose of highlighting what a peak at 84,000,000 stars looks like.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have released a breathtaking new photograph showing the central area of our Milky Way galaxy. The photograph shows a whopping 84 million stars in an image measuring 108500×81500, which contains nearly 9 billion pixels.

It’s actually a composite of thousands of individual photographs shot with the observatory’s VISTA survey telescope, the same camera that captured the amazing 55-hour exposure. Three different infrared filters were used to capture the different details present in the final image.

The VISTA’s camera is sensitive to infrared light, which allows its vision to pierce through much of the space dust that blocks the view of ordinary optical telescope/camera systems.

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gothiccharmschool:

Malice Mizer: their outfits are a good example of neo-romantic goth look I’ve been talking about. Perhaps tonight I will dig out my big photobooks of them and the early G+L Bibles.

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egyptiansoapbox:

Cultures that endorse modesty and cultures that endorse hypersexualization are the *same* thing. Both define female sexuality by how it relates to the male gaze. In both cases the female body exists as an ornament either to be kept carefully hidden or put on display. Neither is an empowering feminist achievement.

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