#john harlan wallpapers

[jcdas-a]

hamish linklater. cis man. he/him. ⸻ i saw JUDAH PREAKER around THE FOREST, you know? the FORTY-FIVE year old that was driving from HARLAN, KENTUCKY when they saw the tree on the road. JUDE has been here for FIFTEEN YEARS and i think they were A GRIFTER before they got stuck in the town. with the way things are now, they are struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy and seek a way out without losing themselves or dying. lets hope you at least survive the night on their own.

 DO NOT PRAY ANYMORE; THE SKY IS DEAF.

full name    judah caelan preaker nickname(s)    jude, judd, father ( per his priesthood ) age   forty-five gender identity    cis man orientation    repressed bisexual place of birth    harlan, kentucky date of birth   september 14 faceclaim    hamish linklater

former occupation career grifter positive traits   benevolent, cogent, steadfast negative traits   pious, headstrong, misguided moral alignment  chaotic neutral parallels preston teagardin (the devil all the time), the priest (fleabag), john pruitt (midnight mass), sam foster (stay) current residency    the town current occupation priest ( some meld between catholic with evangelical christian tendencies )

BIOGRAPHY tw for the following content: religious trauma, forced drowning, child abuse/abandonment, mentions of alcohol & mental illness.

you were an odd child, born to a peculiar family that lived in a little yellow house on the edge of a bluebonnet field. for years, these hues of pallid yellow and lavender paint your life━though they only paled as the years marched onward. your hometown is one that’s never felt quite new, rather, there’s always been a tinge of the past. like that old mining town, you were run down sooner than you knew.

the sacred walls of your little yellow house are where you’d tell your first lies. crosses nailed in each room, wallpaper cracking with temperature and peeling away at the edges. you spent your childhood wondering if it was always like this. soil-covered hands pressed together, you would pray for the unfortunate children down the road who’d just lost their gran. god, you would say, but you knew you were speaking to your father. the shadow in the door frame that stood in that small creak of light, a lean figure stretches out as if you did not see him there. oh, please bring them good graces in this time. let you take the pain from their shoulders. learning to be a ghost in your own home.

taught to behave like a young man ought to, taught to take the deer by the antlers but not to look it in the eyes. you knew only to pray for others, only to care for the world around you, rather than the bruises on your back, or the grazes on your knees━or you mother who left when you were too young to know. the woman who since lived with her new husband, and kids━leaving you and your siblings with him.

you're just a child that first time pa takes you and you watched him wash the sinners clean. you watched them cry out hallelujah and praise jesus, praise your pa. it was your pa’s hands on them, not god’s. pa tells you that god is in you too, and this will be the first and last time a reflection you recognize ripples across the water. 

god is in you, boy. so you let your father take you to the water’s edge again once you were a bit older. you can still hear the hum of the hymnals even now. do you hear the word of god? have you believed another gospel? pa plunged you, washes you of the sins not committed at your hand, but rather, those of your mother. because if she could not be there, you would take her place. shoved beneath the frigid surface by the hands of your pa, under the guise that god made him do it, sending his own son thrashing like some wild thing your pa once claimed he could tame.

your father considers it only a miracle of god that you hadn’t drowned that day. you returned to your siblings, sopping wet on the porch of the little yellow house with the peeling wallpaper. you begin to pick at it when no one was looking, chipping away the watery gray floral print to unveil the wood paneling beneath it. life is stripped of its color but at least you're not alone in this suffering. not that it makes it any better that your siblings are subject to your father’s delusions. it stays like this for a long while. seeing your little sister off to the schoolhouse each morning, and making a point of not eyeing the brown and green glass bottles that she would string up on the tree in the front yard like liquor store wind chimes.

now ... your father wasn’t the man you thought him to be. when you're alone you consider that maybe he was always like this and that you were the last to realize, the last one to find complacency in your disillusionment. and while you very well make it out of harlan alive, you only last a short while before you find yourself betwixt in what you've only known to refer to as purgatory. you look a whole lot like pa these days, wearing black & looking like death incarnate, yet you’ve always got a hymnal tucked into the side of your cheek.  through all the wretchedness,  you are still holy;  from where you’re standing at least.  after all no monster would ever deem itself as such,  this town has turned you inside out,  sure,  but it has also granted you something your life before couldn't: freedom. 

#from.intro #𝐉. 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑⠀ ⠀ 〳 ⠀ ⠀abt #ty and goodnight 🫡

[namgix]

john harlan

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[necrofuturism]

edited some 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' phone wallpapers and thought y'all might like 'em (from Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, art by John Byrne)

+ bonus book/video game cover

#i have no mouth and i must scream #ihnmaims #harlan ellison #ted #am #sci fi art #sci fi #my edits

[stoweboyd]

Bar Owners To The Rescue

It's a failure of government when businesses have to set and administer public policy.

Yena Kwon/Unsplash

I have griped for years about the lack of public toilets in the U.S. As Emily Stewart recently pointed out, in Corporations aren’t going to save America, companies have stepped in to wallpaper over this public policy failure:

Starbucks is sort of America’s bathroom. In cities like New York, where public restrooms are hard to come by, it’s the de facto spot to stop and pee. Mike Bloomberg, who tried to set up a network of public toilets when he was mayor, once reportedly shrugged that perhaps “there’s enough Starbucks” to address the city’s bathroom needs anyway.

But Starbucks is an imperfect public toilet because providing a public toilet is not the point of Starbucks. It has tried in the past to limit its facilities to employees, or, at the very least, to require people using those facilities to buy something first. That proved to be a problematic system after employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks in 2018 called the police on two Black men who asked to use the bathroom while waiting for a business associate. And so, the coffee giant has begrudgingly accepted its fate as many passersbys’ emergency loo.

The solution is far from ideal. But in many places in the US, there aren’t many immediate alternatives. The government has failed to meet a very basic biological need, and so a private company fills part of the gap.

Or, the government has failed to make effective public policy, and Starbucks grudgingly steps in. (Note: I live in Beacon NY, which has no Starbucks, just numerous small, independent restaurants with ‘no public bathrooms’ on their entrance windows.)

But we seem resigned to the Starbucks solution in this case, and maybe in the case of a resurgence of COVID, too. Health networks and hospitals are requiring health care workers to get vaccinated (or be subject to frequent testing). Many teachers’ unions are in favor of a similar policy in schools.

President Biden has begun to require that federal employees in many agencies get vaccinated or frequently tested, but strangely, not the military, who are commonly vaccinated for a wide variety of diseases when stationed overseas. He seems averse to mandating vaccination, although the federal and state governments clearly have the power to do so, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1905 (Jacobson versus Massachusetts) and 1924 (Zucht v. King):

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote [in 1905] about the police power of states to regulate for the protection of public health: “The good and welfare of the Commonwealth, of which the legislature is primarily the judge, is the basis on which the police power rests in Massachusetts,” Harlan said “upon the principle of self-defense, of paramount necessity, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.”

[…]

When a separate question of vaccinations—state laws requiring children to be vaccinated before attending public school—came up in 1922 in Zucht v. King, Justice Louis Brandeis and a unanimous court held that Jacobson “settled that it is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination” and the case and others “also settled that a state may, consistently with the federal Constitution, delegate to a municipality authority to determine under what conditions health regulations shall become operative.”

But states have not stepped up to mandate vaccinations, nor to require those adults who refuse vaccination to be quarantined.

The San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance — a group representing 500 bars in San Francisco — are moving toward a Starbucks solution, taking the public good into their own hands. Members of the alliance will soon require customers to prove they are vaccinated or test negative for COVID for entry. As reported by Taylor Bisacky,

So, this is only the latest example of businesses making policy decisions — or instituting public good — that you might reasonably expect governments to undertake. In our situation in the U.S. today, governments are either split by partisan animosity so great that the public good is pushed aside for political purposes, or are simply unwilling to act on the authority that the Supreme Court has ruled on, time and again.

In fact, elected officials seem blind to their own authority, claiming that individuals have the right to refuse to be vaccinated. The Supreme Court does not agree. And neither does the SF Bar Owners Alliance.

Let’s hope that more bars, restaurants, movie theaters, pharmacies, stores, beauty salons, health clubs, and, yes, Starbucks, demand that would-be patrons vaxx up or stay home. Companies can also require employees to get vaccinated to enter the office.

If we wait for the States to take action, it could be too late to save the anti-vaxxers and vax-hesitant from themselves, and too late for the unvaccinated school-age kids to be afforded the protections that we should be providing them.

#urbanism #public toilets #politics #vaccination #public health

[beaconstreets]

Bar Owners To The Rescue

It's a failure of government when businesses have to set and administer public policy.

I have griped for years about the lack of public toilets in the U.S. As Emily Stewart recently pointed out, in Corporations aren’t going to save America, companies have stepped in to wallpaper over this public policy failure:

Starbucks is sort of America’s bathroom. In cities like New York, where public restrooms are hard to come by, it’s the de facto spot to stop and pee. Mike Bloomberg, who tried to set up a network of public toilets when he was mayor, once reportedly shrugged that perhaps “there’s enough Starbucks” to address the city’s bathroom needs anyway.

But Starbucks is an imperfect public toilet because providing a public toilet is not the point of Starbucks. It has tried in the past to limit its facilities to employees, or, at the very least, to require people using those facilities to buy something first. That proved to be a problematic system after employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks in 2018 called the police on two Black men who asked to use the bathroom while waiting for a business associate. And so, the coffee giant has begrudgingly accepted its fate as many passersbys’ emergency loo.

The solution is far from ideal. But in many places in the US, there aren’t many immediate alternatives. The government has failed to meet a very basic biological need, and so a private company fills part of the gap.

Or, the government has failed to make effective public policy, and Starbucks grudgingly steps in. (Note: I live in Beacon NY, which has no Starbucks, just numerous small, independent restaurants with ‘no public bathrooms’ on their entrance windows.)

But we seem resigned to the Starbucks solution in this case, and maybe in the case of a resurgence of COVID, too. Health networks and hospitals are requiring health care workers to get vaccinated (or be subject to frequent testing). Many teachers’ unions are in favor of a similar policy in schools.

President Biden has begun to require that federal employees in many agencies get vaccinated or frequently tested, but strangely, not the military, who are commonly vaccinated for a wide variety of diseases when stationed overseas. He seems averse to mandating vaccination, although the federal and state governments clearly have the power to do so, as ruled by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1905 (Jacobson versus Massachusetts) and 1924 (Zucht v. King):

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote [in 1905] about the police power of states to regulate for the protection of public health: “The good and welfare of the Commonwealth, of which the legislature is primarily the judge, is the basis on which the police power rests in Massachusetts,” Harlan said “upon the principle of self-defense, of paramount necessity, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.”

[…]

When a separate question of vaccinations—state laws requiring children to be vaccinated before attending public school—came up in 1922 in Zucht v. King, Justice Louis Brandeis and a unanimous court held that Jacobson “settled that it is within the police power of a state to provide for compulsory vaccination” and the case and others “also settled that a state may, consistently with the federal Constitution, delegate to a municipality authority to determine under what conditions health regulations shall become operative.”

But states have not stepped up to mandate vaccinations, nor to require those adults who refuse vaccination to be quarantined.

The San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance — a group representing 500 bars in San Francisco — are moving toward a Starbucks solution, taking the public good into their own hands. Members of the alliance will soon require customers to prove they are vaccinated or test negative for COVID for entry. As reported by Taylor Bisacky,

So, this is only the latest example of businesses making policy decisions — or instituting public good — that you might reasonably expect governments to undertake. In our situation in the U.S. today, governments are either split by partisan animosity so great that the public good is pushed aside for political purposes, or are simply unwilling to act on the authority that the Supreme Court has ruled on, time and again.

In fact, elected officials seem blind to their own authority, claiming that individuals have the right to refuse to be vaccinated. The Supreme Court does not agree. And neither does the SF Bar Owners Alliance.

Let’s hope that more bars, restaurants, movie theaters, pharmacies, stores, beauty salons, health clubs, and, yes, Starbucks, demand that would-be patrons vaxx up or stay home. Companies can also require employees to get vaccinated to enter the office.

If we wait for the States to take action, it could be too late to save the anti-vaxxers and vax-hesitant from themselves, and too late for the unvaccinated school-age kids to be afforded the protections that we should be providing them.

reposted from Work Futures.

#coronavirus #public toilets #public policy

[lauralot89]

Halloween Recommendations

Because if I’m not feeling the holiday cheer at the moment, somebody should be!

Happy Halloween Suggestions

Because horror and comedy hit all the same beats.

Happy Halloween Movies:

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Hocus Pocus

Halloweentown

Coraline

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Paranorman

Teen Wolf

The Addams Family

Casper

Zombieland

Shaun of the Dead

The Cabin in the Woods

The Halloween Tree

Tower of Terror

Evil Dead II

An American Werewolf in London

Gremlins

Young Frankenstein

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Happy Halloween Music:

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix), Andrew Gold

Monster Mash,  Bobby Pickett

Thriller, Michael Jackson

Ghost of John, folk song

Time Warp, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

This is Halloween, The Nightmare Before Christmas

Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon

Witchy Woman, The Eagles

Somebody’s Watching Me, Rockwell

Happy Halloween Short Films:

The Bad Cookie, Daywalt Horror

Splendorman, Neil Cicierega

The Laundromat, Fewdio Horror

Meat, Daywalt Horror

Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins), Saturday Night Live

Happy Halloween Picture Books:

The Hallo-Weiner, Dav Pilkey

Too Many Pumpkins, Linda Arms White

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, Linda Williams

Asiago, Adam McHeffey

A Dark, Dark Tale, Ruth Brown

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Alvin Schwartz

The Teacher from the Black Lagoon, Mike Thaler

Halloween Horror Suggestions

For when you never ever want to sleep again!

Halloween Horror Movies:

The Exorcist

The Mothman Prophecies

Get Out

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Thing (1982)

It Follows

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Halloween

Audition

Trick ‘r Treat

Jacob’s Ladder

Lake Mungo

Shutter (2004)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Carrie (1976)

A Tale of Two Sisters

The Shining

A Stir of Echoes

El Orfanto

Event Horizon

Let the Right One In

Noroi: The Curse

Pontypool

American Psycho

Insidious

Home Movie

Grave Encounters

Black Swan

The Conjuring

Halloween Horror Music:

Hamburger Lady, Throbbing Gristle

Breathing Water, Inhale

Her Mouth is Filled with Honey, Swans

Atmospheres, Ligeti

My First Lover, Gillian Welch

Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield

Sleep, Stabbing Westward

Black Angels, George Crumb

Heigh Ho, Tom Waits

Halloween Horror Short Stories:

The October Game, Ray Bradbury

The Jaunt, Stephen King

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Skeleton, Ray Bradbury

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

1408, Stephen King

The Jar, Ray Bradbury

The Nothing Equation, Tom Godwin

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

Guts, Chuck Palahniuk

It’s a GOOD Life, Jerome Bixby

The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain

Halloween Horror Short Films:

The Whistler, Open Light Pictures

Mockingbird, Daywalt Horror

Don’t Move, Bloody Cuts Films

Click, Dust

The Rat King, TheLittleFears

Mama, Guillermo del Toro

Lights Out, Elvalar

Bedfellows, Daywalt Horror

Carol, TheLittleFears

#horror #Halloween #long post

[namgix]

911; han brothers

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