David Lynch With His First Painting, 1963.

Chinese artist Shou Xin creates the most wonderful cats with just a few pencil lines

momentarily logging back in to promote my silly little roman character study. do give it a read if that’s the sort of thing you’re into! pls do check tags and tws though, because it contains some potentially triggering topics

i’m gonna be free and i’m gonna be fine……..but maybe not tonight

Look, the only way out of this is to build a movement capable of stopping our politicians from funding genocide (through strikes, direct action, etc). This is currently possible. But here’s the important thing: it will not remain possible if trump is elected. the dude has openly said that he will “root out the communists, marxists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country”. He’s talked about killing his political enemies. It’s not so much a question of choosing between evils as it is ‘do we want to give ourselves some more time to change things, or are we going to lay down and let the fascists take over because the current leader of our imperialist nation is imperialist’. The only ppl who have a leg to stand on in refusing to vote Biden are the ones who’ve gone to jail for conscientious objection, or self-immolated on the capitol steps. The rest of us have an obligation to keep extending the window of hope. A full-on fascist United States is not something the world can recover from

in which "lesser evil" is code for "evil that is less relevant to me" or "evil that is easier for me to ignore"

What makes Poor Things so ultimately triumphant for me is the way that Bella Baxter is, despite it all, her own creation. She came into the world in an experiment that violated the autonomy of both Victoria before her and Bella herself, but she steps beyond the parameters of the experiment and into the world, to learn from it. The intentions of men may be to possess her or use her or take joy in despoiling her vulnerability, but their intentions do not determine her experiences. She decides. She explores. She looks at a world full of sorrow that could render her helpless and chooses instead to do what she can about it and then sleep easy at night. She listens to the call of her curiosity before all else, her happiness second, her compassion third. The family that she makes for herself in the end is unconventional, but it's ultimately hers and allows her to flourish as a doctor with an experimental nature and a heart of patinaed silver.

And I don't think it could be that particular kind of triumphant if the movie wasn't so fucked up.

mitski & succession go together like bread n butter

kieran culkin the man that you are

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

This window cat seat comes with a legend to identify the current occupant.