I think we on the left could use a lot more friendly, approachable media. While I love me some good aggressive graphic design, right now, I think the right is consistently winning the propaganda game in part because they wrap their ideas with really easy-to-swallow tone and appeals to common sense. We can do that too, in pursuit of a more compassionate, humane, and just world.
So I made a couple images for my local chapter of the IWW that I'm pretty proud of.
I have SVG versions of these if people want to play with them. I'm happy for these to be spread widely; please download them, share them, modify them, whatever. Information wants to be free!
anyway my thesis is on how shakespeare is positioned as 'timeless' and 'universal' and therefore deployed for social conservatism. the perceived 'timelessness' of shakespeare is used to position transness as a new, niche cause that is fundamentally unserious
Really excited (aka, not remotely excited) to see the Wall Street Journal doing PR work for the edtech surveillance industry.Journalists should do more than act as stenographers.
At the rate crypto-capitalist exploitation is progressing, we won't be able to produce anything that requires a data processor or flash bit storage by the end of the year.And well...that's pretty much everything.
We're rapidly sprinting towards the neo dark ages.
anyways yet another illustration of the degree to which even the defenders of the oldest, most orthodox hierarchies feel these days a deep need to cast themselves as nonconformists and rebels
Capitalism continues to invent new forms of artificial scarcity to bleed for profit, with zero concern for externalities.
wow! it's even worse than we thought!
Today NASA put out this statement about how irresponsible China is being, I'm fairly sure they said nothing last month about SpaceX.
This is all despite the fact that SpaceX's debris fell over populated American cities, one piece almost hit someone's home. China's ended up in the Indian ocean, I don't think there's been confirmation that any pieces hit land.
Further proof that "cancel culture" is, by and large, code for "having to face consequences for my actions".
Bob Baffert blamed "cancel culture" after his horse, Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby, failed its post-race drug test."We live in a different world now. This America's different."
Christopher Nolan, eat your heart out.
Genuine question: Was there *literally anything* on Quibi as well constructed as this kid’s zero-budget TikTok
We're literally watching the largest labor movement in modern American history happen in the form of paper signs taped to the windows of fast-food and fast-casual restaurants!
When you see tweets from accounts like this, please keep in mind that they're intentionally perpetuating the VERY DISTINCTLY NAZI idea that modern art is "corrupt" or "degenerate."Don't retweet them.
NEW (via NY AG Letitia James): “After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans...”
The gall.
The fucking audacity.
Brands are not your friends.
Well, there’s no way around it: @tumblr is one of the queerest places on the internet.How queer? Apparently, folks on Tumblr are 193% more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+ than on any other social media platform … including t.w.i.t.t.e.r. Is that you? Are you #tumblrqueer?
It seems that the FBI is cultivating a similar relationship within groups like the Proud Boys, in order for them to act as an independent vehicle for violence against the State’s enemies: autonomous social movements from below.
I've seen two separate tweets about how William Jackson Harper would be a great Clark Kent/Superman, and how Giancarlo Esposito would be a great Lex Luthor.Seeing them side-by-side, I absolutely agree. I'd love to watch a Superman movie with these two
I love shit like this, or like the recent research that showed that ancient cave-painters who dove deep into the earth using torches for light would be experiencing hypoxia.
This is magic. And I don't mean that derisively.
“Haunted” houses are actually just carbon monoxide poisoning 🤯
@LinfieldUniv’s current state on May 2,2021 is full blown authoritarian control. I have also heard from several faculty how campus security entered faculty offices and took down their signs expressing any support for @pollackpelzner and any critique of our administration.
The first May Day in 1886. "A day of revolt - not of rest!" (Foner, May Day)
More than 300,000 workers strike across the United States. The movement is centered on Chicago, where 40,000 strike & even more march through the streets led by anarchists, Albert & Lucy Parsons (Avrich)
I've been reading through bills banning teaching of the 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory etc This from Missouri captures how the bills purport to be about something specific but are actually intended to chill any kind of interrogation of history that the right doesn't like
I feel like Keanu Reeves and Nic Cage are opposite ends of a spectrum, both illustrating how narrow our definition of "acting" is.
I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded.
I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded.
There are new #Netrunner cards coming at the end of the month, so I'm sorting my collection in preparation.
God, I love this game.
[heads up: lewd joke in photo]
Whoever painted this door at my veterinarian's office did not think it through all the way.
On my node, posts with an attached link to a WordPress site are not displaying properly: the link preview is entirely absent and just displays as an empty rectangle.
This is a screenshot of this post, as it appears on my node. I see this behavior on both my phone and my desktop:
Has anyone else encountered this? Any ideas on how to solve it?
I'm running Friendica v2021.01 with PHP version 7.3.19-1~deb10u1.
Thanks in advance. 🙂