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(Jewish) pride month day 15 (im sorry): Simeon Solomon

Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) was a Jewish-British painter & prose poet associated with the pre-Raphaelites. Jewish culture and queer love are major themes in his work. Many of his paintings depict scenes from the Torah or of Jewish life. His older brother, Abraham, and sister, Rebecca, were both also artists and he began learning to paint from Abraham. Their mother was also an artist. Solomon studied at the Royal Academy, where his art was exhibited. Solomon was arrested and jailed on multiple occasions for engaging in sexual relationships with men. This would unfortunately have a large impact on his career and contributed to his alcoholism.

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Category:Paintings by Simeon Solomon - Wikimedia Commons

Painting above: Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, watercolor, 1864

Isaac and Rebekah, watercolor, 1863

Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego, watercolor, 1963

Ruth and Boaz, 1862

Offering the First Fruits of the Harvest, watercolor, 1864

Carrying the Scrolls of Law, 1867

Love Dreaming by the Sea, watercolor, 1871

A Hebrew Girl, 1874

Allegorical Self Portrait, 1873

Man in a Turban holding Lulav and Etrog, 1886

A Youth Relating Tales to Ladies, 1870

A prelude by Bach, 1868

King Solomon, 1872-4

King Solomon sitting in Judgement, watercolor, 1881

David, no date

The Lemon Seller

Pastoral Lovers, 1869

If you were studying the human age from the vantage point of a distant posthuman future, you'd still be liable to find:

Artificially shaped bits of glass, terracotta, marble, gold, inox steel, etc. If exposed, these are going to be worn by erosion fairly quickly, but if buried soon enough they will endure pretty much forever. of course, this doesn't mean they're going to be excavated before the bit of crust that contains them is destroyed by tectonic events. Various plastics may survive, although they are close enough to organic matter that I expect eventually bacteria will evolve to eat it.

We're leaving behind a truly bizarre amount of skeletons, thanks to our habit to bury or embalm dead bodies. I'm not sure how much longer the burial itself will be recognizable -- perhaps we'll look just like the boom of Lystrosaurus just after the Permian Extinction. Cattle and chicken bones will also probably abund, and future paleontologists might wonder why these animals increased in size but shrunk their brains and horns/spurs. (Especially since the most abundant skeletons have massive braincases and dainty little jaws.)

Our epoch will be marked in the geological record by a thin layer full of all sorts of weird stuff -- jumbles of rare metals, exotic organic molecules. nuclear fission products -- that future chemists might still be able to recognize, even if any solid object is destroyed. The layer is global, like the iridium deposit left by the Chicxulub impact, so much of it should survive even if erosion and subduction destroy most of it.

It should also be possible to notice atmospheric carbon dioxide fuckery by checking leaf anatomy in plant fossils, composition of layers in ice sheets (if they have existed continuously!), and fossils of calcium carbonate-producing organisms such as bivalves and foraminifera, but it might not be obvious that it was an artificial event and not e.g. a supervolcanic eruption.

I see this rarely addressed in this sort of discussion, but we are absolutely wreaking havoc on biogeography. Paleontologists will see rabbits and camels suddenly appear in Australia, pigs and chicken in America, land mammals in New Zealand, and so on -- and that's not mentioning crop plants! The mysterious appearance of monkeys in South America 30 million years ago can be explained by rafting across a much narrower Atlantic, but this would be far too much all at once.

A couple relevant links:

Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al., 2011): properties of the geological layer of our times

louder for the people in the back. this normalization and support of hamas is unforgivable.

every supposedly progressive person and institution that has engaged in this so much Gazan blood on their hands

and if you subscribe to the "horrible people don't deserve to see their rapists face justice/do deserve to be raped" take, then there will be people out there who think those things about you.

That's the thing about human rights: every human deserves them. Every single one. You do not have to earn them by having the "correct" opinions or doing the "right" things. Every single human deserves them, no matter fucking what, simply because they are human.

#this also includes israeli women on oct 7th

#whom plenty of people have condemned as being horrible just by virtue of where they live

#'me too unless you're a jew' hard at work there