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happy mothers day to all eldest daughters

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Dolce & Gabbana  FW14 Cathedral Gothic Coat

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Hibiscus!

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lotus root

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“The machinery of control has rendered our very existence illegal. We’ve endured the criminalization and crucifixion of our bodies, our sex, our unruly genders. Raids, witch-hunts, burnings at the stake. We’ve occupied the space of deviants, of whores, of perverts, and abominations. This culture has rendered us criminal, and of course, in turn, we’ve committed our lives to crime. In the criminalization of our pleasures, we’ve found the pleasure to be had in crime! In being outlawed for who we are, we’ve discovered that we are indeed fucking outlaws! Many blame queers for the decline of this society — we take pride in this. Some believe that we intend to shred-to-bits this civilization and it’s moral fabric — they couldn’t be more accurate. We’re often described as depraved, decadent and revolting — but oh, they ain’t seen nothing yet.”

— Total Destroy, 2009

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CWB1DKsBrNT/?utm_medium=copy_link

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Margaret Atwood, from “He shifts from east to west”, Power Politics

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CY1xC1MLgzn/?utm_medium=copy_link

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“Everyone should know one simple statistic: the Washington, D.C., memorial to the American war dead is 150 yards long; if a similar monument were built with the same density of names of the Vietnamese who died in it, [it] would be nine miles long.”

- Photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths

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“If you marched in recent Black Lives Matter protests in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Minneapolis or New York, there’s a chance the mobile analytics company Mobilewalla gleaned demographic data from your cellphone use. Last week, Mobilewalla released a report detailing the race, age and gender breakdowns of individuals who participated in protests in those cities during the weekend of May 29th. What is especially disturbing is that protestors likely had no idea that the tech company was using location data harvested from their devices. 

Mobilewalla “observed” a total of 16,902 devices (1,866 in Atlanta, 4,527 in Los Angeles, 2,357 in Minneapolis and 8,152 in New York). As BuzzFeed News explains, Mobilewalla buys data from sources like advertisers, data brokers and ISPs. It uses AI to predict a person’s demographics (race, age, gender, zip code, etc.) based on location data, device IDs and browser histories. The company then sells that info to clients so they can “better understand their target customer.”

Datta said the data is anonymized and aggregated and does not include personally identifiable information at the individual level, ie no names, phone numbers, emails, etc. He added that the data is not used by law or immigration enforcement.

“We do not know who the protestors are, we are just able to derive their demographics,” Datta said.

But the incident is a reminder that data brokers have access to massive amounts of data from unassuming individuals. There’s a chance that data could be used by law enforcement or be leaked – as we’ve seen happen in past data breaches.”

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fuck everything i want the preindustrial revolution biphasic sleep schedule back

#YES this is it #I found it #I’ve been looking for this theory about human’s natural sleep cycles and how they happen over two periods

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When Cutting Class Is a Matter of Life and Death

https://cwc.im/Walkouts2022

The wave of student walkouts looming around the US is the front line of the fight against a future in which human life is held cheap and we take mass casualties for granted.

Solidarity to the students. 🏴

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Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.