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Major Gale 'Buck' Cleven + drinks

#masters of the air #prev: #the toothpick… #do you think he had to practice w a toothpick #was that part of austin’s preparation #‘how to look sexy while drinking cola w a toothpick in my mouth’

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Puking and shitting

#stop the laughing is making me cough

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I think a lot of what's currently informing my fellow white people curdling like milk and shitting their pants when asked to interrogate their relationship with rap is the way many people (especially well-meaning white people) still can't help but think of racism as something that you get accused of rather than something that influences the entire world in pernicious ways.

like, I think a lot of people currently posting the most cringe takes about rap right now would very much agree that Racism Is Bad and probably even acknowledge that rap has been and is still widely maligned and devalues for racist reasons.

but that last step, acknowledging that your personal tastes and interests are also influenced by systemic racism, is where a LOT of people stumble. it's very easy to assume that because you consider yourself against racism, then your tastes and interests cannot possibly be at all informed by racist. if you're a white American, that's simply extremely unlikely to be true.

speaking from personal experience, I had to Work to decenter whiteness in my media tastes. when I was like 19 I listened to a podcast where a white Jewish man talked about keeping a spreadsheet of the books he read to make sure he was reading a roughly equal number of men and women, and I started doing the same thing to track how many authors of color I was reading. at the time I took pride in my belief that I was reading diversely, but when the year ended I was shocked to discover that people of color had written barely a quarter of the books I'd read. I had been giving myself way too much credit while still unintentionally prioritizing white authors, because white authors were the ones I knew best. so I started making an extremely conscious effort to seek out books by authors of color, both fiction and nonfiction, that sounded like my kind of shit.

music was extremely similar. I grew up a little white girl in a very white city in a very white state; nobody was offering me an education in rap or r&b or soul or hip hop. as an young adult there were definitely some Black artists I liked, like Janelle Monáe, but I had to take the initiative of seeking out more artists to find out who I fuck with. you're not going to like everybody, which is fine, but are you even giving anyone a chance? are you even looking?

racism has roots everywhere, bro. it's not enough to just acknowledge it, you have to actively get digging.

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I’m really looking forward to the day at work when the CEO comes online and says, “Congrats, that was everything we were gonna do. We’ve done all the work. That’s all the stuff we’ve planned to do. The products are all really good right now and we shouldn’t change them anymore. It’s just cashing checks from here on out.” And we all go outside and play in the river.

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There is a sort of constant battle between the two of them to the degree that they are fighting, but they are taking care of one another. When the sugar goes on the cheek of Patrick, Art takes it off with his hand in a very nice gesture of kindness -- and very intimate, I would say. But at the same time, they are really tense. And I think it’s about being jealous of one another, but at the same time wanting one another.

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

#god i feel like i need to watch the chaos polycule movie already #challengers

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I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

#also like it’s not tricking when they shove their head into your hand demanding pets? #also also w monkeys in particular grooming is a bonding thing #idk what people are on about

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dream job is pair of eyeballs that fly around and look at shit

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Masters Of The Air | No Engine Cleven

#masters of the air

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#slap w an annoying rubber sticky hand

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3.06 | 3.07

#ted lasso

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a girl in full armour has been sighted in a macdonalds poking fries through her visor

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“when you think about it, who needs lungs? or an esophagus? or even a ribcage?” — this cold that started as allergies before becoming a head cold that settled in my chest

#also my grandma died #and one of my best friend’s dogs died #ITS BEEN A WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!! #it’s been a decade since i saw my grandma for [mumbles] reasons #it’s kinda weird though that all of my grandparents are dead #even my dad’s adoptive dad is dead #anyway every time i cough my lungs feel like they’re gonna pop #and breathing fucking burns #im on antibiotics now but jeeeeeeesus #i am literally the only one in my house who’s sick and also the only one who WFH #how did this happen

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I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

#every day i discover new ways the us sucks #can i leave now

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"No More Hotels"

Graffiti seen around Aruba in the Caribbean, denouncing the overconstruction of hotels and the extreme land loss the Indigenous people of the Island are facing.

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"You're the new king of the camp, and I'm just in the way? Oh, King Cleven says, 'No baseball. Just work, work, work.' That's all he wants to do." MOTA Part Eight – requested by @paratrooper56

#prev: #thinking about how callum scissored austin so hard he broke austin's rib #masters of the air

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Why did you learn Finnish?

To communicate with my parents and extended family. At age 1 I started to feel a bit hungry and decided I should start speaking so that my parents would feed me.

Hope this helps!