Blank Looks and Note Books

The Birth of a Pearl, 1903.  Dir. F.S. Armitage.

The fresco of the Villa of the Mysteries, in Pompeii, is a masterpiece.

July 22, 2026 - People around the USA are taking down Flock AI surveillance cameras. [video]

big and small cities all over the US (and one so far in Canada!) are holding events like education sessions, marches, and public lobbying meetings with the local governments and police departments that decide whether to spend taxpayer money on warrantless surveillance. maybe my city and yours can join the nearly 100 places that have already rejected or ended contracts for mass privacy violation cameras.

"foreign organisations" are the least of americans' worries, keep your dumbass xenophobic paranoia off my posts.

Though perhaps the problem most socially close to me is controlling parents (who happen to work for a certain search provider) sending police to break into my house to harass their adult child for choosing to go no contact. (Though in that case, all parties already knew where the adult was living, but filing a missing person report and more to weaponise bureaucracy was a step too far; she would totally pay to track his license plate number/activities if he ever escapes her control far enough to own a car/carry insurance.)

There's no need to invoke the specter of scary other countries spying on you. Your local PD is your enemy, your own government is your enemy, not China or whatever other scary country you may have in mind.

Please share this and organise like our lives depend on it.

This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.

It really feels like the entire world has turned into an inescapable panopticon. I look back on the pre-computer days and they almost seem like a time of ridiculous freedom, where you could just skip town and start a new life whenever you wanted". End of ID.]

op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands

Kill all yanks

This is a much better shot than the auction catalog so I'm sharing it here because you can see a lot more of the paint texture, and that's pretty cool

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco

i can’t stop thinking about this button i found a few months ago online

it's by the artist Zach Ozma, and it's really important to me that you know where to buy it (if you want one), and also that the same design is on sweatshirts and t-shirts now too!

Mugshot of a teenage girl arrested for protesting segregation, Mississippi, 1961.

Mark Rothko Untitled (Grays in yellow), 1960 Oil on watercolor paper mounted on linen 1960 23 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. (60 x 47.3 cm) Verso in black ink: Mark Rothko 1960 Private Collection. © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko