So I had a cinematic daydream featuring extraterrestrial invaders that look exactly like Feather Stars, except for being 3 meters tall, and massing 200 kilos...
They move through our atmosphere as lightly and fluidly as the underwater creatures move through their element and they're fond of combat sports.
It's a good thing that they hate fascists as much as we do.
Of course, not meeting the eye was the whole point of the starfish pasties and the strategically placed clamshells. With juvenile fantasies such as mermaids there was only so far you could take suggestiveness. Anybody else her ever watch Disillusioned all the way through? In one of the final series Princess Bean has a torrid affair with a mermaid, as a subplot.
Pretty fond of the Disillusioned series, some of those 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 movies are pretty good too.
Maybe it is already in the thread but I see that the NY Times is reporting this morning that two women have been arrested and have appeared in court for biting the fingers of two ICE agents. I sure as hell hope those women have had their rabies and tetanus vaccinations.
Jesus, fuck, Holocaust Museum. Lost the thread, indeed. A supreme court justice literally wrote that you can be treated differently in this country based on your skin color and accent. No yellow star needed. "First they came for ..." And I'm someone who was very carefully scrutinized by my conservative, of German descent, Catholic, Kansas in-laws because of my very Jewish surname. Verily, this is the age of meshuggeneh.
"... this [movie] helps bring into focus that nothing has really changed about white conservatives since the Civil War, and how true that viral tweet is about how we got where we are today by failing to properly punish the Confederacy."
𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 "𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 (𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗲) to white people everywhere*. It's a grueling read in places, which meant I had to stop and think and cry a few times, even though some of the stories were very familiar to me, but it's an important book, and I think hasn't received the credit it deserves.
Short synopsis: she posits that because there really was no reckoning after the civil war and decades (centuries) of holding people in bondage, of working them to death, of delivering unspeakable attrocities on them, a whole lotta white people carry both generational trauma and generational bigotry forward with them, always suppressing the trauma by delivering more bigotry and hate. Mary Trump has studied generational trauma, and brings that epertise to the table in speaking to both the attrocities and the potential for change.
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* I say, "to white people everywhere" because I think that is her audience: she's trying to wake white people up, or for those of us not in total denial, bring some insight into what we know. I am really unclear what it would be like to read this book as a Black person, or a person of color. On the other hand, I kind of think it should be mandatory (not literally mandatory) (but maybe?) reading for us wypipo.
Leviathan is an interesting figure. I wonder how it is that Both Nordic (Jormungandr) and Hebrew culture (Leviathan) have a world-eating sea serpent as part of their mythologies.
I'm thinking of trying some of this "mindful meditation" bullshit. Think positive thoughts. Relax. Smile and breathe deeply. Today is one less day of Donald Trump's future.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/fluidly-fleeing-feather-star
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/ea5c3438-c8c0-472c-892e-4e4d07235b89?utm_source=share
[Ethel Merman voice] "There's NO business like SHOW business there's NO business I KNOW!"
" everything the traffic will allow"
Exactly what I thought!
Would also accept “OOOOOOOOOOOOOK-lahoma, there’s no wind down here beneath the waves!”
I'll grant you evolution
Can produce some oddball twists
But how the hell does anything
Adapt to look like this?
It all must work to benefit
Or they would be extinct
Oh, help me Mr. Darwin
I find it hard to think.
What do you DRINK?
How do you do it? I look for your poems on the daily. Thanks for making me smile
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
Ooh
"How you likin' coconuts now, b*tch?!"
I confused!
Looks like the top of a coconut tree to me. More like zombie coconut treetop.
I don't really know what that is, but RUN AWAY!
Is that Bovino hightailing it into retirement?
Without something to stand on?
He's just tailing it...
Feather stars ain't fash-y!
Those colors say "don't mess with me" and I'm keeping my distance!
I'd never considered how much fun it would be to go for a stroll on my 10-20 feathery arm/legs – stylish form and function, and replaceable too!
So I had a cinematic daydream featuring extraterrestrial invaders that look exactly like Feather Stars, except for being 3 meters tall, and massing 200 kilos...
They move through our atmosphere as lightly and fluidly as the underwater creatures move through their element and they're fond of combat sports.
It's a good thing that they hate fascists as much as we do.
I'll just leave this here.
https://img.ifunny.co/images/660bec0a91efac1f753d10ab56f260e7a49bde5fd6721dbedb5bd47f98885227_1.jpg
More to mermaids than reaches the eye...
Of course, not meeting the eye was the whole point of the starfish pasties and the strategically placed clamshells. With juvenile fantasies such as mermaids there was only so far you could take suggestiveness. Anybody else her ever watch Disillusioned all the way through? In one of the final series Princess Bean has a torrid affair with a mermaid, as a subplot.
Pretty fond of the Disillusioned series, some of those 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 movies are pretty good too.
Purty little predator.
Looks like an underwater tarantula.
The Feather Star is a captivating creature, Zero G for me!
It's The Leviathan! Run! or Swim!
That pretty creature looks like it’s late for its appointment to sit on an Englishlady’s head at Ascot.
Fascinatoring!
Cannot cap your description. Too perfect! Thanks, you made me smile
Hear, Hear
They will always be "starfish" to me.
I think that was a Billy Joel song.
This
https://substack.com/@jvlast/note/c-205959421?r=3htwa&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Maybe it is already in the thread but I see that the NY Times is reporting this morning that two women have been arrested and have appeared in court for biting the fingers of two ICE agents. I sure as hell hope those women have had their rabies and tetanus vaccinations.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
Yeah it’s not right next door like say, Davos.
Jesus, fuck, Holocaust Museum. Lost the thread, indeed. A supreme court justice literally wrote that you can be treated differently in this country based on your skin color and accent. No yellow star needed. "First they came for ..." And I'm someone who was very carefully scrutinized by my conservative, of German descent, Catholic, Kansas in-laws because of my very Jewish surname. Verily, this is the age of meshuggeneh.
"... this [movie] helps bring into focus that nothing has really changed about white conservatives since the Civil War, and how true that viral tweet is about how we got where we are today by failing to properly punish the Confederacy."
𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 "𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 (𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗶𝗰𝗲) to white people everywhere*. It's a grueling read in places, which meant I had to stop and think and cry a few times, even though some of the stories were very familiar to me, but it's an important book, and I think hasn't received the credit it deserves.
Short synopsis: she posits that because there really was no reckoning after the civil war and decades (centuries) of holding people in bondage, of working them to death, of delivering unspeakable attrocities on them, a whole lotta white people carry both generational trauma and generational bigotry forward with them, always suppressing the trauma by delivering more bigotry and hate. Mary Trump has studied generational trauma, and brings that epertise to the table in speaking to both the attrocities and the potential for change.
____
* I say, "to white people everywhere" because I think that is her audience: she's trying to wake white people up, or for those of us not in total denial, bring some insight into what we know. I am really unclear what it would be like to read this book as a Black person, or a person of color. On the other hand, I kind of think it should be mandatory (not literally mandatory) (but maybe?) reading for us wypipo.
Linklater seems to only make cool movies. Austin Film Society is way underappreciated.
The ballroom is on long-term hold? Donors are backing out? It’s just SO hard to know what to think.
But how’s about making it a temporary rose garden, til the Oval Office has a real preznident again?
California? "That's just too far."
Davos? Not so much.
Top five new jobs for Greg Bovino
Toxic Waste Taste Tester
Securities Fraud Consultant
Unlicensed CRIMINAL Attorney
Deputy Border Collie
Funeral Clown
Interesting piece on DEi in corporate boardrooms. Under Trump white men are making a comeback
https://theconversation.com/white-men-held-less-than-half-the-board-seats-on-the-top-50-fortune-list-for-the-third-straight-year-but-their-numbers-are-rising-272996
Must watch til the end. Trust me.
https://bsky.app/profile/tom.medsky.social/post/3mdf22bpdz225
Awe man, I've not seen a good downfall meme in years.
The last line got a good *snork* from me.
Sadly all I can offer is an upvote in return.
Y'know, I'm perfectly fine with them meeting the same end.
Leviathan is an interesting figure. I wonder how it is that Both Nordic (Jormungandr) and Hebrew culture (Leviathan) have a world-eating sea serpent as part of their mythologies.
Figger it's just true, is my guess.
Oarfish.
I'm thinking of trying some of this "mindful meditation" bullshit. Think positive thoughts. Relax. Smile and breathe deeply. Today is one less day of Donald Trump's future.
GOP's next Presidential primary ticket: Arpaio/Bovino 2028
How much PAC money does the Lollipop Guild have?
Depends on whether you count the money raised by their Lullaby Leaves auxiliary.
I'm amazed every time I see that man's suits. They are so baggy. David Byrne should sue.