yippee day50, cracking open a bottle for this one
anyway if you want some actually enlightening narrative-driven accounts on the subject to supplement whatever hagiographic nonsense chris nolan shits out in july, i cannot recommend Keiji Nakazawa’s seminal manga Barefoot Gen enough. it’s largely an autobiographical account of his experiences as an a-bomb survivor and it’s absolutely harrowing. doubly important considering that it is as critical of imperial japan as it is of the american occupation forces. Nakazawa’s father was an anti-war activist who was routinely targeted by the imperial government and he extensively discusses colonialism and war slavery in korea and china and the evils of emperor worship in the manga
it’s been described as the “Maus of the pacific theater” which is not at all inaccurate considering that the present-day ultranationalist right in Japan regularly tries to ban it in schools for its anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-nationalist themes.
huge CWs for gore/violence, sexual assault, nationalist racism, a whole lot more so tread carefully but it really is an essential read for anyone interested in atomic history
So, while we're all trying to fight one of the other terrible "think of the children" bills trying to ram its way through Congress, KOSA, we should also be talking about The EARN IT Act.
Long story short, it's basically yet another surveilance bill using a "protect the children" bill, as a hideous meat-suit, putting restrictions on sites that'll make them even more vicious towards NSFW content, creating a climate where using a VPN might be a crime, and they'll be creating a federal committee to decide how best to spy on us!
Long story long, well, the Linktree is right here.
Beyond the stuff in the Linktree, I urge you to directly contact your congresspeoples and tell them to kill this bill, especially if they're on the Judiciary Committee, which is currently marking up this bill.
The members of the committee are:
- Dick Durbin, Illinois, Chairman
- Dianne Feinstein, California
- Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
- Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
- Chris Coons, Delaware
- Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
- Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
- Cory Booker, New Jersey
- Alex Padilla, California
- Jon Ossoff, Georgia
- Peter Welch, Vermont
- Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Ranking Member (Ugh)
- Chuck Grassley, Iowa
- John Cornyn, Texas
- Mike Lee, Utah
- Ted Cruz, Texas (Double-ugh)
- Josh Hawley, Missouri
- Tom Cotton, Arkansas
- John Kennedy, Louisiana
- Thom Tillis, North Carolina
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee(she cosponsored the bill, so probably not)
So yeah, do what you can, even if it's just boosting this terrible, terrible danger we need to thwart.
And, I will add, as with my previous KOSA poster, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license.
Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, edit it to be about the other bad internet bills they’re pushing, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods’ sake get the word out!
...And yes, for the record I was thinking of the Judas Priest song when I came up with the tagline for this one.
This is pure art.
For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled “Defend the Sacred” by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.
Her name was Marissa Blacklance. #Dakota38 rider, & front line water protector at Standing Rock. She was killed by a drunk driver in January of 2018. Her mother is using this tragedy to make changes benefitting our community with the Yellow Scarf tribute.
anyone got a link to that tumblr post that fetishized england thats like "I wanna go to england, i wanna ride a lift and eat tea and crumpets" etc
possibly posted by a sherlock or hp fan
you guys reblog this every wednesday every wednesday i wake up and wonder what day it is and i see bigweld in my tumblr notifications and im like ah its wednesday again bigweld wednesday just like last wednesday its wednesday its bigweld wednesday
guess how i found out today is wednesday





























