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almost home

if i look back, i am lost

shark vs the universe
KIROKAZE
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
TVSTRANGERTHINGS

occasionally subtle
Monterey Bay Aquarium

@theartofmadeline

Kaledo Art

Andulka
Jules of Nature

Product Placement
trying on a metaphor

#extradirty
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lots of lances recently

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why have a phone if your gonna do all that???? just buy a damn flipphone
falcon n the winter soldier is like. violence is bad and unacceptable as a measure. but sometimes america does it and then actually it is acceptable as a measure. not other times though. yall heard of this thing called socialism? theyâre supremacist. exactly like the nazis. letâs run you through that again: working collectively with a group despite your differences is socialism, and socialists are exactly the same as nazis. hey hereâs a cool fight scene btw
what is like... the most on brand, stereotypical zodiac sign trait is true for you?

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Interview/ Sanjeev Sanyal, author and economist
âThe way we view the world is based out of a landlocked world. The result is that when we think of the world, we think of Pakistan and China as being our most important neighbours, which is a very terrestrial worldview. But if you take a maritime worldview, then our neighbours are Oman, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Kenya and even Australia. In this view, the world goes from being threatening, to-be-defended against, to one where there is a long history of interaction and exchanges.â
I re-read âNothingâs Quite As Sweetâ by dimpleforyourthoughts recently
okay maybe this is common knowledge but not to me
twitter source:Â https://twitter.com/Al_Naffy40/status/1361419318206947328
THEY REALLY FUCKING STOLE THE REAL GATE OF ISHTAR AND LOOTED IT ALL THE WAY TO BERLIN GERMANY? Truly no words for the level of theivery and evil. and Iraq now has a ~recreation~ while the real thing is in germany
source to back it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_GateÂ
litearlly no words this is so evil and vile
This ones in Germany but u got the right energy
Just gonna cover all our bases here
Essays
Hereâs a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; Iâve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love
Literature + Writing
Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag
The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul *
Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux *
A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi
How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik
Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone
Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman
Lost in Translation: What the First Line of âThe Strangerâ Should Be - Ryan Bloom
The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote *
The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita CatalĂŁo Guedes
Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman *
Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan *
Why I Write - George Orwell *
Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland *
Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)
Looking at War - Susan Sontag *
Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz
Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker
The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews
In Platoâs Cave - Susan Sontag *
On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger *
On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger *
Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri
Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -Â MaĂŤl Renouard
Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel
Cities
Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash
Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo *
Timurâs Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur
The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall *
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbaiâs iconic railway station - Srinath Perur
From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective - Â Andrew Harris
The Limits of âWhite Townâ in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay
The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel
Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan
A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp
The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne
The Nowhere City - Amos Elon *
The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour
Philosophy
The trolley problem problem - James Wilson
A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls *
Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer
The Discomfort Youâre Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato *
The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape
If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood
Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart
The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae *
The Science of âMuddling Throughâ - Charles Lindblom *
History
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan
The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore *
The Anti-Che - Jay Nordlinger
From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert *
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson *
All By Myself - Martha Bailey *
The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder
The sea/ocean
Rim of Life - Manu Pillai
Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history â above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery
âPiracyâ, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History) *
The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History) *
Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and âPirateâ States - Roxani Eleni Margariti
Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*
Assorted ones on India
A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *
Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash
Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee
Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu
The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar *
Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta
Our worldview is Delhi based *
Sports (youâll have to excuse the fact that itâs only cricket but what can i say, iâm indian)
âMassa Day Done:â Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman *
Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900â70 - Albert Grundlingh
When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger
Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha *
Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha
MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way *
Music
Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. AraĂşjo
Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder
The 1975 - âNotes On a Conditional Formâ review - Dan Stubbs *
Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield *
How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield
Concert for Bangladesh
From âHelp!â to âHelping out a Friendâ: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha ChristiansenÂ
Gender
Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane
The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin
Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu *
Womenâs Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe
Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman *
Womenâs health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack
Food
How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)
Colonialismâs effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee
Tracing Europeâs influence on Indiaâs culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu
Chicken Kiev: the worldâs most contested ready-meal *
From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad *
The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin *
How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream *
Pav from the Nau
A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes
Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)
Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)
Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)Â *
Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkienâs Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua
The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)Â *
Tolkienâs Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)Â *
Travel
The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism
Chronicles of a Writerâs 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan
On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose
On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas *
More random assorted ones
The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)Â *
In El Salvador - Joan Didion
Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell *
What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard *
The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith
Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia *
Credibility and Mystery - John Berger
happy reading :)
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broke: midsommar is a girl power movie
woke: midsommar is a horror movie about a manipulative cult
bespoke: midsommar is a litmus test to tell how easily you could be indoctrinated into a cult and if your first thought after watching it is that it was a girl power movie youâre very susceptible to cult tactics and you should be aware of that
Midsommar is one of my favorite films of all time 'cause when I heard about it I couldn't believe they used the premise of "weird dangerous group of people" for white folks, not only that, but northen european folks that usually are held as the pinacle of culture and civilization. That is a role that has been only ever given to black and indiginous people (as far as I know). Think about Robinson CrusoĂŠ, the King Kong, the whole ideia that's reforced over and over in horror genre of "black magic" or "voodoo" or "evil canibalism". I was so thrilled that finally the bad guys weren't already marginalized ethinicities. I even thought before watching the movie "how will they manage to make these white people, who are always seen as the standard, seem like the dangerous other". Then I watched it and thought "they did it! That's some creep ass cult shit right here". But then I saw the popular opinions and got so sad. Because I was wrong. To white people, other white people will never be evil or cruel or wrong. No matter how dehumane their acts are, they will always be the good guys in each other's eyes. If the exact same story had been in a indiginous tribe you bet everyone would be saying "poor Dani, surrounded by savages" but as they're all blue eyed blonde cultists in the middle of european fields that becomes some "girl power cottagecore dream". And that's white feminism in its prime.
what a great day to remember that we should not colonize mars, the whole concept is anthropocentric, imperialist, unrealistic and just weird, and the idea of establishing the same capitalistic systems that have turned out to be our downfall on another planet instead of solving problems on earth is so incredibly short-sighted and power fantasy driven that it makes me want to eat glass. the exploration of outer space should always be expressively and only for the benefit of all humankind, not to fill the pockets of some billionaires with a god complex. fuck elon musk all my homies hate elon musk
How many of these movies have you seen that people said âyou havenât seen [blank] yet??â to me about
anyone else remember being a child and seeing the very neat handwriting of other little girls and somehow knowing that you were a different genre of person than they were
literally noâŚi remember seeing bad handwriting & thinking âoh these other kids must be orphans or somethingâ
fascinating to hear from the other genre, thanks for your contribution
I hate how in the Cruella trailer sheâs all âpeople try to hold me down⌠I am womanâŚ. hear me roarâŚâŚâ as though people are opposing her for misogynistic reasons and not because her primary motivation is SKINNING PUPPIES?Â

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DONâT LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: âOh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?â Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.
They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It donât matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesnât matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.
THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.
Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they donât have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.
DONâT LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
They did the same to brisket. You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply. And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month. And it was tasty. I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.
It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes âooh, that looks tasty!â.
But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket. Rich people started showing up at places that werenât just Rib Crib to get their barbeque. And the price of brisket went up. A lot.
I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now. And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when youâre talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes. Itâs become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.
Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became âtrendyâ. Guess why youâre now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls? Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.
Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently? You guessed it. Rich people are taking our food and now weâre scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.
Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon. For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a âluxury foodâ until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a âpoverty foodâ or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.
Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.
LMAO. Wait.
Anyone elseâs eye twitchin?
Food gentrification is a long standing practice and itâs some of the most evil shit I can think of. Itâs why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. Itâs a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.
You guys talked way too loudly about feral evil mad ladies and Disney fucking heard you and now we've got Emma Stone in a bad wig saying dumb shit like "I am woman hear me roar" without a hint of irony. Are you all happy now?