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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 7
The Works of Man
A Human Work

Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting really transformed my understanding of him, also thanks to your Hyperallergic podcast episode with her!

👇🏽 great example of how the NYT continues to — has never stopped — engaging in platforming anti-Black, genocidal rhetoric and how it is so normalized that it is not discussed in those terms (not a criticism of Victor, just noting the way our cultural vocabulary shifts for discussions anti-Blackness)

Could I get the pdf for this article please? Absolutely fascinated by this work!

One day someone will write a book about the NYT’s century long legacy of promoting genocidal messaging, from selling slave catcher ads to making Hitler seem chill to “he was no angel” to attacks on trans people

Feature, not bug, often honed on Black people as well as queer people.

Here's why you'll never pry me away from my nonbinary siblings, and it's nothing to do with being a squshy softy who doesn't want to reckon with hard truths, it's this:

Empirically, nonbinary people exist.

I'm old enough to remember that George W. Bush is the reason DHS and ICE and several of the secret warrant structures exist, that Obama did not fulfill his mandate of pulling back on abuses of executive power/murdering people in the Middle East, and to know there is a straight line from then to now

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened.

And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Where did UW Bothell’s crows go? It’s a ‘murder’ mystery Vast rivers of crows once poured onto the University of Washington Bothell campus to sleep every night. In recent years, they've moved on.

If you've read my book, Nature Obscura, you'll find this really fascinating. The Bothell crow roost I wrote about, has moved to the east side of Lake Washington after years in Bothell. It's not all that surprising though.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.

It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.

www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.

FREE LEQAA

Me drinking out of a mug labeled "buying left at londons music on bandcamp friday juice" with the caption "yummy yummy this stuff is really good i wonder what it is"

leftatlondon.bandcamp.com

A psychographic display showing Asuka's deteriorating mental state

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 22
Staying Human
Don't Be

Britt is merely a token and a toady.

The administration will never give women like her real power, but they want us to think they will, because it makes them seem less dangerous and misogynistic than they actually are.

And women like Britt accept this bargain for the perks of proximity to power.

The 'conversion therapy' practiced on LGBTQ+ kids was adapted to force autistic kids to 'act normal'.

I rarely see the connection between the two made explicit.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! 🧪🐡👩🏿‍🔬 #histsci She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the 🧵

A brick red background with the following words and a ufw eagle on the bottom. Tell your Washington legislator to vote "Yes" on SB 6045 "If Washington state farm workers were to win organizing rights we would be able to organize and be protected from unfair firings. We can organize and have seniority protections. A labor law in Washington would help farm workers like me who have worked in the fields for over 40 years to feed people around this country have a dignified retirement." "Carlos", Windmill mushroom worker fired after asking for a sick day.

SB6045, a bill to allow farm worker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...

"Artist’s impression of John Edmonstone teaching Darwin to preserve birds." A Black man appears to work on a piece of cardboard that will become a preserved bird's wing. He wears a workman's apron, and Darwin, young and also wearing an apron, stands nearby with a tool in one hand a dead bird in the other. CREDIT: State Darwin Museum

In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.

John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.

This is … I don’t know the word. Murderous?

This is phantasmagorical. An experience. Watch it.

Pride Flag Removed From Stonewall Monument at Trump’s Directive The move comes a year after the National Park Service scrubbed mentions of queer and trans people from its website, prompting protests at the NYC landmark.

The US government removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument’s official flagpole. Unbelievable 🏳️‍🌈

It's more than 762,000 people from the dismemberment of USAID alone.

There should be Congressional hearings over this

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important.

A thread 🧵

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Should Democrats Moderate on Trans & LGBTQ Issues? YouTube video by Julia Serano

...that's it for this thread! just a reminder, the piece has also been turned into a video essay, so share this link with friends who prefer watching over reading : ) youtu.be/a9VhnoxRj1o
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Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland? Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."