🎫 Robert Smith from The Cure tweeted about ticket prices and Ticketmaster's extra fees. He also tweeted about the verified fan process. 14/15 March 2023 x
Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.
Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.
It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.
Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.
He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.
I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.
I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.
He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.
"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.
My betrothed and I are heading off on our unofficial honeymoon this weekend. We’re driving my car, Hades, down to the redwoods.
So I’ve spent all morning getting Hades tidied up and running errands and my last stop was an oil change. So it was a huge bummer when they told me my coolant is boiling.
From a quick google it could just be a faulty thermometer which should be quick. My fingers are crossed that it’s nothing serious.
I've decided Mal and Vice need a floor-to-ceiling cat tree and I think I'm going to get inventive. And also literal, about the tree part; I'm going to find a good bole from a downed tree on my parents' property and use that as the base. Ideally it would have a few branches too, but we'll see what we get. They have a lot of maples and oaks, which would be ideal.
Other materials: a pair of 15-inch hammered copper bowls, which Malice tries to sleep in when she finds them empty (I don't use them for food, mostly table decor); a bunch of colored glass lanterns; sisal rope, which I will need more of; leftover long black feathers from Malice's wings; and a goatskin that I thrifted somewhere. I also have a buffalo hide (also thrifted for $35) but I would hate to cut it up just to use it to line cat beds. I wouldn't feel bad cutting the goatskin up.
I want to make something that isn't screamingly obvious as cat furniture. I don't know what exactly this will look like but I think I can figure something out that will be more sculptural and witchy. Maybe hanging some live plants on it would also be good...but then I might also have to attach grow lights, depending on where I put it.
If anyone has suggestions or ideas from doing this themselves, please do let me know.
if you guys haven’t followed redridingheart’s ko-fi, please do so i can squeal with more people about her (non-canon as of rn) designs of baby qiu and tamarack that made me want to fucking Explode-
"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]
okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.
The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?
Yeah, fucking absolutely.
But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.
You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.
Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]
There are options.
There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.