Reminder That Capitalism Is The Death Of Art

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Taylor: Betty is about James, who is a teenage boy, and that’s the end, nothing else. Jack:

Taylor: *rants passionately about very specific feelings august has* but um anyway august is made up Jack:

Taylor: MTR is about someone who was family to you, who knew you so deeply and knew how to hurt you, you know like a…. friend Jack: 

Taylor: william bowery is um…. well it’s joe Jack: 

Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

Middle East Eye

Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes

Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horr

Young gorillas seen dismantling poachers' traps for the first time

Days after a poacher’s trap killed a young mountain gorilla in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, researchers have spotted something remarkable: two four-year old gorillas working together to dismantle similar snares in the area.

Some conservationists were approaching a poacher’s gorilla trap to destroy it when an actual gorilla stopped them and warned them off while two other gorillas came by and took the trap apart. They had to have thought the humans were going to get caught in it

Also they know what these traps are and are fighting back themselves

So, let me get this straight… since mid July, we’ve gotten:

Karlie in Paris with the caption “it’s always golden hour in Paris” (with red, golden and black & white in the photo set)

Taylor Nation posting a playlist that included “Daylight live in Paris” while Karlie was still in Paris

Karlie’s Klossette game pop-up lasting 13 days..

Taylor performing Love Story live on stage 13 days before Karlie’s birthday

Karlie’s Klossette game included moments of sunflowers and daisies together

Karlie’s character with double braids in her hair

Taylor wearing a dress covered in daisies… with double braids in her hair

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If I’ve missed any, please feel free to add on!

Could someone please direct me towards “the 1975” page

I legit have no idea what I’m doing on tumblr and want to be their fan

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to whatever teenager needs to hear this:

statistically your generation is having less underage sex & drinking less & doing fewer drugs & generally making better choices than your parents’ generation

the shit you see on tv is just a bunch of middle-aged tv producers (who should know better) sexualizing you & projecting onto your age group. 

do your best not to internalize it as normal, and absolutely call them on their bullshit. 

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ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

Yo, be cool and spend a day’s worth of Timmy dollars on my girl

Don’t see this and walk away, you can spare some 🤗 just a little goes far for our friends south of the equator. And c’man - how endlessly entertained are we by their posts. Support the art, it’s all we got...

Ask and you shall receive

Give and you shall get

The reality we create for ourselves is based off the frequencies we send out.

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Hi, i'm coming back here for a very important reason I hope people understand and respect. I feel ashamed for talking about these things here but I wasn't so desperate and in need I wouldn't even mention it.

As most of you know, I live in Venezuela, a country that has been in crisis for a long time. And for the last 5 years, nothing has been easy. Almost 4 years ago, my family and I had to say goodbye to my father who moved out of the country to help us survive this mess, and it all has been in 'control'. But ever since the world has stopped everything for a very important reason (and you should stay home), my father hasn't been working so he can't send money or even pay his own bills, he is eating only twice a day so he can have food for more days. It's all been insane and I have kept my problems shut and pray everyday to get through this.

We only don't have my fathers financial help, we also have other problems here in my town, specifically in my community and street, we don't have water. And we have to pay someone who can bring water to our place and it's very expensive. Every thing is coming all together and it's very suffocating and stressing. I hate seeing my mom so tired desperate, it makes my heart ache.

Due to this pandemic alert, we can't go out and work, or try to make money cause nobody is actually working here. In this moment of need, I just need someone to tell me it's going to be okay, I know there are a lot of people who are in my position and honestly I pray everyday for everyone in this world, so that we can be safe, healthy and find ways to make it possible.

@taylorswift I know there are many many people doing this and you might not see this but I'm glad this can be a place where I can open my heart and try to calm myself. @taylornation

Thank you Taylor for helping other swifties, for doing your job by staying home and doing things for our beautiful people. You deserve heaven and all that's good in this world. I love you more than words. You are my star.

Just making some observations regarding the WB on the CD liners, and a sample of kk’s writing. I think parallels can be drawn between the letters - obviously you could argue either side. Personally, I notice similarities in the Bs (both look like “13”s to me) and the strokes of the w and v certainly compare IMO. I think this person has at least similar penmanship anyway to kk. So I’m calling out Karlie as William Bowery 😃 she went out west during the pandemic, and helped our girl create the folklore story and narrative and perspectives and aesthetics 😊😊😊

This isn’t and has never been about abortion. It is about women’s rights. 

And the ugly truth? They never wanted us to have them.