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Mona Hatoum, Grater Divide, 2002 Mild steel, 204 cm x variable width and depth

#art #palestine

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BEYOND obsessed with this house in fort worth, texas i mean

okay pretty normal, let’s look at the interior photos—

WHAT THE FUCK

here we see the first example of a pattern that will recur throughout the house, which is that once your eyes adjust to the bonkers dictator chic marble-and-gilded-everything, you notice some pretty egregiously shoddy workmanship. look at how that baseboard intersects with the outlet. look at how the marble… uh, thing on the wall (i was gonna call it a fireplace but it’s not a fireplace, i have no idea what that is) has gaps and weird angles wherever two pieces meet. it’s like they’re trying to recreate versailles on an ikea budget

i… don’t hate the kitchen. i mean, obviously it’s ugly and #toomuch and there was zero effort made to match the very modern appliances and sink to the cabinets, but still, i’m a sucker for a pass-through and a big sink with a window above it.

this ceiling Fucks but the wrinkly, uneven curtains and terrible caulking around the faux-column in the middle anti-Fuck

why did we suddenly completely switch aesthetics. why is there an old TV set into the wall at floor level. why is there a tiny set of doors next to it. why does the fireplace look like an asset ripped from the original dark souls. i feel a sinister presence sucking at my soul the longer i look at this photo

i feel like whoever designed this monstrosity started with the dining room and then once they’d finished it realized they’d blown half their budget on just this one room. it’s so overdecorated that the gaudiness feels intentional, like it’s a statement rather than a side effect of genuine tastelessness. i can applaud that.

here we have the antithesis of the dining room. i don’t know what this room is supposed to be but i hate it. i’m pretty sure everything in this photo literally came from ikea. there is a lack of commitment here and it is rancid

ladies, gentlemen, distinguished colleagues, we have now hit the cornerstone of any great tacky real estate listing: the heart-shaped bathtub! this one gets bonus points for being next to a gilded mirror and surrounded by bright red damask wallpaper. as a bathtub i’d give it a 1/10 because those angles look incredibly uncomfortable, but as a place to shoot my lover through the heart while wearing a gauzy fur-trimmed bathrobe before fleeing with our ill-gotten fortune i’d give it a solid 11/10

here we are with the lack of commitment again. this literally looks like the kitchen in my college dorm but with a weird fringey lamp and some curtains that are absolutely too long for their windows

again, the mix of styles here is just killing me. half damask wallpaper and carved wall panels, half normal-ass bathroom? really? isn’t there anything truly unhinged left in this house? anything truly opulent, decadent, off the chain, extravagant, gaudy—

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT BAY BEE!!! THAT’S MORE THE FUCK LIKE IT!!! COMMIT! TO! THE! BIT! GO BIG OR GO HOME! IF YOU’RE GONNA STICK A CEILING DOME IN THE FOYER OF YOUR SUBURBAN TEXAS HOUSE IT HAD BETTER BE TWELVE FEET IN DIAMETER AND PAINTED WITH DOZENS OF FLOWERS OR ELSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE??

and finally, to close out the show, a reminder that this entire acid trip of a real estate listing took place in an ordinary, modern single-story house in texas, one with a backyard and utility boxes on the exterior walls and neighbors who may be blissfully unaware that they live mere feet from a yawning pit of madness.

i love tacky real estate listings.

#i appreciate op for bringing this to our attention #but the only relevant statement is 'this fucks'#someone loved this house so much #and it shows with every rococo flourish #bless this house #interior decorating #interior design

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theres cowardice theres perfidy and then theres the actions of Indiana U's administration

#indiana university #indiana #Palestine #us news #palestine protests

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dipstick-university · 2 days

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i went to the butchart gardens with my mom today. the is first time in my adult life i have actually gotten her alone for more than a few minutes. it drizzled all day, cold-in-the-bones kind of damp, but the gardens are exactly how i remember--opulent and edwardian and uncomfortably british. it exudes the atmosphere of a royal auntie, one who thinks exacting control of her garden validates all her good intentions, colonial though they may be.

the place radiates aesthetic philanthropy and invisible labour. on display is a letter written to the owners humbly thanks them for allowing the orphans to visit and drink tea among them. a statue allows visitors to emulate saint francis of assissi's halo of birds in flight. ('with enough goodness, you, too, can speak to nature'.) the garden staff work on the large wire frames of animals across the garden, pulling out the dead brown moss and replacing it with dead green moss. (is there a more on-the-nose metaphor for colonialism?)

over a million visitors come each year. it is genuinely fun and pretty. my mom and i ride the carousel, the fastest in bc. i take her to afternoon tea, where she refuses to eat any 'grain combined with potato product' (this means any bread with baking powder.) instead she digs out the innards of the sandwiches and takes the smallest bites of the fragrant layered lemon cake while i eat everything she cant. (is there a more on-the-nose metaphor for the child-parent relationship?)

over tea we discuss my father's family. my grandmother's electroshock therapy (already known family fact) and my grandfather's physical abuse of her (fun new family fact). how my uncle left his cats to cover the family house in their shit. how my father now makes her keep her phone in a faraday cage, her credit card in an altoid tin.

my father calls me, later. she is not picking up her phone, he says. i miss you, he says. i hope you are both okay, he says.

now, behind me, she blasts her jehovahs witness meeting. tells everyone on the zoom call that the gardens are just like the garden of eden. even with earplugs and earphones on maximum i cant drown it out (is there a more on-the-nose metaphor for leaving an abusive religion?) she spent the day misgendering me and my partner, calling me by the wrong name. we are now the physically closest we have been in years. i feel grateful this is our only night in the same room. i sit next to the space heater and try to keep out the chill.

#snippets #dear diary

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biology facts: only two recognized genders are adhd and autism. nothing else is valid. anyone who isnt one of these two things is lying.

#i feel this way about every work environment ive been happy in #every once in a while a normal will be working there too and i refuse to believe their really like that #only a matter of time until they become One of Us

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everyone agreeing with this tweet is so lucky because cell phones have absolutely been in my dreams, specifically DREAMS ABOUT TUMBLR DISCOURSE. I literally had a dream my mutuals made a callout for me i'm not fucking joking helppp

#which half is the asd's and which is the adhd's?#dreams

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From the UBC Social Justice Centre: While we study at UBC, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues halfway across the world. The distance between stolen Coast Salish territories and Occupied Palestine might give the impression that our university is detached from the Zionist system of apartheid. In reality, the flows of global capital and academic exchange have implicated UBC in Israeli crimes against humanity.

UBC’s latest holdings disclosure report revealed that the Board of Governors had approved investments of over $66 MILLION in banks and companies complicit in the Zionist settler-colonial occupation of Palestine, the Israeli apartheid system, and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Over $10 MILLION is invested in notorious weapons manufacturers like Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and Elbit Systems, all of which are currently supplying the Israeli Occupation Forces with the weapons used to massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

In order to educate our community on UBC’s complicity in the genocide, the Social Justice Centre’s International Solidarity working group partnered with Graduate Students for Palestine to produce this resource: the UBC Apartheid Investment Database. Please find the full list of companies linked in our bio.

We hope that this resource deepens your understanding of the connections between settler-colonial occupation, oppression, and dispossession from the Salish Seas to Palestine. We also hope that it highlights the responsibility we all have as UBC students to stand against racism, militarism, and apartheid.

We cannot let this be normal. It is our duty to honour Palestinians’ own calls for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) by loudly and clearly rejecting the Board of Governors’ undemocratic and unconscionable choice to fund companies profiting from the systematic annihilation of Palestinians.

#Palestine #israel #university of british columbia #UBC #i wish all ubc portfolio managers a very unpleasant existence

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columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight

#kent state #vietnam #palestine

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i wish someone had explained to me how young i was at 22. that for how ancient 35 and 40 felt then, 20 and 25 are now so so young.

which is why it feels all the more reprehensible when state violence is used against college students. those are just kids. how did we even get here?

#palestine #vietnam #usa

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)

#tags #tumblr

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