NE 24th & Glisan

monetizeyourcat:

redpilledbymoldbug:

i’ve literally never even heard anyone ever say “trans girls are prettier than cis girls”. no one has ever said that

i remember reading a really unpleasant screed precipitated on the idea that andrej pejic was the ideal of the fashion industry which more or less blamed amab trans people who succeed under transmisogyny for misogyny in general

4chan says that all the time, though playing Schrödinger’s Authenticity is kind of 4chan’s thing

bushwasright:

like this post if you wish the kowloon walled city was still around and that you lived there

draculinaaa:

New Order / Bizarre Love Triangle

thenewinquiry:

Ben Shahn Voting Booths (1950)

By DAVID A. BANKS

The point of online voting systems is not to highlight the best content but to build and maintain hegemony

There is this strange notion, mainly in the United States, that votes are the atomic unit of democracy, giving it structure and tangibility. The civic work of picking candidates to vote for, registering people to vote, talking about whose votes matter the most and are hardest to get is supposed to culminate in an exuberant climax of polls and balloon drops. Voting is so deeply embedded in the collective conceptualization of democratic governance that one could mistake the mere opportunity to vote as sufficient proof that democracy is happening. But to reduce democracy to dutiful voting is to pull energy away from direct action and defer responsibility to civil servants invested in the status quo that protects their job. Voting, and not clicking, is the original slacktivism.

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They were called “Chautauquas”

persephon-y:

full text of flier here

context

There’s a strong second-mover advantage in these things; this is what the arditi will make their name dealing with

waytoomuchportland:

www.carolynmain.com

I knew a pimp, once in LA. He had a ridiculous fake name, wore his hair oil-slick, pinstripe suits and platform shoes, drove an old Rolls-Royce. He was a talent agent for the adult industry, which meant he found girls at skeezy parties, fed them drugs, and convinced them to have sex for money.

He was white though, so it took me years to make the connection.

nietzscheisdead:

this question is incredible 

“the college experience” was always “the ruling class experience”

kontextmaschine:

“the college experience” was always “the ruling class experience”

there’s some British college where - okay someone look this up for me I’m drunk - okay colleges were under canon and not civil law so the students had civil immunity

this was forever ago

And they would create mischief in the town, and the townies eventually got fed up and laid siege to the college, bows & arrows, 3 or 5 dead

Then the knights and oh fuck and for centuries every year on the occasion the mayor & town leaders had to crawl through town to the college gates and apologize

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

“the college experience” was always “the ruling class experience”

there’s some British college where - okay someone look this up for me I’m drunk - okay colleges were under canon and not civil law so the students had civil immunity

this was forever…

Colleges chartered as nonprofits are exempted from local taxation so they give “donations in lieu” of taxation at will, until the uppity townies cross them.

fuckyeahmodernflapper:

40s interesting ad…