Menace To Society

dude i recently got a fulltime job and how the fuck do you post so much and so well while being employed. how is is this possible

said this on bluesky but:

Recently the USA stated that in the UN that it will not lift sanctions against Cuba because Cuba continues to (somehow) prove itself to be an anti-democratic society that bases itself on political repression (???), and in response the Cuban UN Twitter account went HARD

I love how this list talks about “voter registration” in CUBA. Keep in mind their most recent president: Miguel Diez-Canal was the only candiate on the ballot AND was chosen because he was a man who would continue the castro legacy after the fact. Here’s an article that outlines this

Hey did you know Cuba does free HRT for all trans Cuban citizens? Or that in the 1980s Castro himself took responsibility of correcting the crimes of the revolution towards the LGBT+ community? Or that Cuba has been leading the fight against HIV/AIDS in Latin America? Or that Cuba allows MSM to donate blood? When has the United States ever?

whilst Cuban elections don’t work the same way as in capitalist countries, I’ll leave this here which explains the process so people can decide for themselves if it’s really undemocratic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cuba 

Mammal in a Sunday Dress explores the uneasy relationship between femininity, civilisation, and the animal body. At first glance, the figure appears modest and withdrawn. Her posture is composed, her gaze seemingly lowered towards her bare feet, recalling the conventions of nineteenth-century portraiture where women were often depicted as passive objects of observation. Yet as the viewer moves closer, the illusion collapses. Her eyes are not lowered at all. She is looking directly back. The delayed eye contact transforms the encounter. The viewer approaches believing they are safely observing a woman; instead, they realise they have been observed themselves. The work refuses the traditional power dynamic of portraiture, denying the comfort of anonymous spectatorship. Looking becomes a reciprocal act. For Cox, the painting considers humanity's persistent desire to separate itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. The title quietly undermines this distinction. A "mammal" is not another creature—it is us. The Sunday dress, rich with cultural associations of femininity, morality, and respectability, becomes an attempt to distinguish ourselves from nature. Yet clothing cannot alter biology. Beneath lace and ritual remains the same vulnerable animal body. The work also reflects on the historical relationship between women and nature. Across art, religion, and philosophy, women have repeatedly been positioned as closer to instinct, emotion, reproduction, and the body itself, while men have been aligned with reason, culture, and civilisation. Mammal in a Sunday Dress does not reject this comparison. Instead, it questions why proximity to nature has so often been treated as something lesser. Chiaroscuro isolates the figure within darkness, allowing the luminous dress to symbolise the performance of civilisation while the bare feet quietly return the body to the earth. Neither is presented as more truthful than the other. The painting exists in the tension between performance and instinct, refinement and biology. Mammal in a Sunday Dress ultimately asks a simple but unsettling question: if every layer of culture were stripped away, what would remain? Not a king. Not a saint. Not a gentleman or a lady. Only another mammal, looking back.