Punch Clock Horrors

Next time you find an artist you want to commission, look and see if they have any Black or brown people in their portfolio, and as you search, maybe fruitlessly, all the faces begin to look exactly alike and it starts to feel like you’re looking at someone’s incredibly well executed dollmaker.

People who can draw a wider range of features than just “generic white fantasy girl #9” are stronger artists and more worthy of your cash. (Unless the same face Pixar thing is what you’re going for, then by all means, proceed with mediocrity.) And I don’t mean “draws the same face and gives it dark skin and curly hair” I’m talking big noses, wide noses, flat noses. Monolids and thick lips and textured hair and PEOPLE WHO’S UNDERTONE IS NOT PINK FOR GOD’S SAKE WOULD YOU STOP MAKING PEOPLE PINK?

To sort of shoot that strawman argument of “well, if I can’t have that, then what else is there? You never provided me that!”, I’m going to speak up with a better suggestion for folks who sincerely want to improve: Unsplash is right there. They have a whole section dedicated to people photos, submitted by their userbase for free use: (x)

Here are some fun ones, just from a quick skim right now:

I don’t want people to never make an addition to my posts, it’s just way too often people blunder along without any care for the core subject - which is racism, not a simple criticism of technique. This shows an understanding of the underlying issue and then says to other white people “hey look you can stop being racist AND not be racist at the same time!”

If you ever find bald-faced hornets building a nest on your property, here are some things to consider before you get rid of them (assuming you don’t have a fatal bee allergy or anything) :

They’re great pollinators as well as key predators, highly beneficial to the environment all around.

They’re known for being very relaxed and easy to get along with, as long as you give the nest even a few feet of personal space.

They aren’t generally curious about you or your food and drinks like smaller yellowjackets are and tend to mind their own business.

The Brighton tailor whose identity became his business            

Zack MacLeod Pinsent dresses as a Regency gentleman every day, saying that the clothing is a “huge confidence builder”.

He ceremoniously burned his last pair of jeans when he was 14-years-old and hasn’t looked back since.

His passion for historical outfits has led him to take up a career in tailoring, making clothes in period styles at his workshop in Brighton, East Sussex.

He now has clients overseas and has recently returned from a business trip to New York.

Video journalists: Adam Paylor and Ben Moore

Here’s a link:

https://4ocean.com/pages/octopus 

There’s different colors representing different sea creatures ❤️🌊 

Look at the cure rates compared to mortality rates in universal health care countries and compare them to ours, then talk shit.

But then I got sicker.  And it turned out I had cancer.

Burkitt’s lymphoma, stage 4a. It had spread into my brain and spinal column. 90% cure rate, but I needed nine months of chemo - and not the outpatient chemo, nope, talking multiple week stays per round of the magrath protocol.  Drugs were about 10k an IV bag.  I was unemployed.  And there were complications.

Thankfully I live in a country with universal healthcare.   And it didn’t cost me a goddamn cent to save my life.  I’m now officially past the five year mark to move me from “remission” to “Cured”.

I’ve lived in a universal healthcare country my entire life. And I’ve seen the US system in action.  Your system is fucked. Straight up fucked. You’ve got fucking Dickensian shit going on there, people dying on streets from preventable causes or ending up broke for breaking a hip.   Your health insurance companies have you by the balls and people like you are begging them to squeeze harder.  What the actual fuck is wrong with you? 

“But but but TAXESSSSSSSSS”