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You’ve heard of woolly mammoths, but what about woolly tapirs? 🤔Also known as the mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque), this species can be found in the cloud forests of South America’s Andes Mountains. Adults can weigh up to 400 lbs (182 kg), and their thick fur coats help insulate them from the cold temperatures of their habitat. Unfortunately, this endangered species is threatened by human activity including hunting and deforestation. 

I do often re-draw all the greatures in my sketchbook to remind myself of them and recall all my babies, and recently found myself doing Just That for dirt and his other forms!

BUT

it would be a mistake to think that this represents the natural behavior of chickens.

it would be a mistake to think that the social displacement harms we do to each other as marginalized people under a great deal of stress, under capitalism, represents the natural behavior of people.

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

filippo tommasso marinetti wrote both the fascist manifesto and created this type of art:

i'd call this art quite experimental. it was also deeply fascist. as in like, literally.

yet on the other hand... you had... russian futurists who were anti-fascist!

art is a symptom of its times but is ineffective in combating fucking anything. its valuable to analyze it to see how the society reflects in it; its also used as a part of propaganda, art is incredible and very important... but it wont be combating shit!

There is no such thing as "the ideologically pure art style that will tell people I'm a good person if I enjoy it more than others" which I suspect is what this person is trying to get at. Marble statue profile picture assholes on Twitter don't make representative art or heavily ornamented architecture morally inferior

The moon’s not white! It’s concrete-gray! It only looks so shiny when compared to the void of space!

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.