Naudline Pierre (Haitian-American, b. 1989, Leomister, MA, USA, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - A Steady Closeness, 2018, Paintings: Oil, Enamel on Canvas
In the dark times, will there also be memes?
Yes, there will be memes. About the dark times.
And the lyrics so you can sing along and teach it to your friends:
We're told that after the war
The Nazis vanished without a trace
But batallions of facists
Still dream of a master race
The history books they tell
But they all came out of the woodwork
They say the prisoner at Spandau
Whilst Hess remained imprisoned
And the facists; they were beat
So the promise of an Aryan world
So why did they all come out of the woodwork
The world is riddled with maggots
The maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of all
The bosses and bureaucrats
They're taking over the boardrooms
And they're fat and full of pride
And they all came out of the woodwork
So if you meet with these historians
I'll tell you what to say
They're out there burning houses down
And we'll never rest again...
From Paul Robeson’s 1956 testimony before HUAC:
Mr. ROBESON: In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being. Where I did not feel the pressure of color as I feel [it] in this Committee today.
Mr. SCHERER: Why do you not stay in Russia?
Mr. ROBESON: Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here, and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear? I am for peace with the Soviet Union, and I am for peace with China, and I am not for peace or friendship with the Fascist Franco, and I am not for peace with Fascist Nazi Germans. I am for peace with decent people.
Mr. SCHERER: You are here because you are promoting the Communist cause.
Mr. ROBESON: I am here because I am opposing the neo-Fascist cause which I see arising in these committees. You are like the Alien [and] Sedition Act, and Jefferson could be sitting here, and Frederick Douglass could be sitting here, and Eugene Debs could be here.
"well I personally think there should be a balance between the two, you can't get bogged down in "unimportant" details, worldbuilding is important but it depends on the story you w-"*GUNSHOTS*
The really terrifying part of this that has actually increased since I looked at it yesterday is how nearly 500 people out of over 800 have their location listed as “unknown.” Like, where are they now? Unknown. Unknown. They’re just gone. They could be in prison in another country now. Nobody knows. It’s a fucking mystery
Yeah there's a small chance that her grandfather was Finnish or Polish but otherwise...
In the dark times, will there also be memes?
Yes, there will be memes. About the dark times.
“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks—the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world—and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.”
Literally every single Neuroscience guy I listen to on audiobooks and podcasts: Multitasking is a lie. You are not more efficient. You're just rapidly switching between tasks and doing all of them slower but your brain is tricking itself into thinking it's more efficient because you get a little dopamine reward when you activate the 'change task' neurons. And you're burning up way more glucose in the process, leaving you more tired with less done. STOP MULTITASKING. JUST DO ONE THING. PLEASE IT'S ONLY WORSENING YOUR ATTENTION SPAN. WE'RE BEGGING YOU, PLEA--
My ADHD: Don't listen to them, babydoll. You are sooooooo efficient and attractive. Whoop. You got an email. Whoop you got a text. Whoop you got a blog ask. WOW look at all the tabs open on this window. Do you even remember what they're all for? Better look through them and close the ones you're not using because you're soooo sexy and efficient. Whoop, email again.
OP you left out the best one
Fucking... A man named OLIVER DARKSHIRE warns you to not go in the bog, and you're going to go in the bog? You deserve whatever the fuck happens to you in the bog.
Man's got a name like he found Locksey's arrow and helped dig the grave, you should listen to him.
victusinveritasMaking Black Tuesday of 1929 just look like Tuesday. GIF by tampire#trump tariffs#trump regime#stock market crash#christofascists#all part of his master plan to just be balls out insane#and evil and somehow profit personally from all of this79 notes
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victusinveritasRebloggedlesbianshepardFollowthe funniest hp lovecraft story is the one where some guy’s family offended an evil wizard who then cursed his entire family saying that all the men would die before they hit like 30. the protagonist is going crazy trying to find a spell to break the curse and then the big reveal was that the wizard was literally just breaking into their house and killing them himself. firstborn-of-akatoshThis is missing my favorite detail, namely that the evil wizard is named ‘Charles Le Sorcerer’.normal-horoscopesCHUCK WIZARDS CURSE OF SHOOT YOU IN THE FACEnuwisha-laughs-lastmy partner is asleep next to me I can’t be laughing like this#text#hp lovecraft#chuck wizard#wizardblr#bibbity boppity blam bitch#the alchemist230,182 notes
victusinveritasRebloggedxkat-holstaurFollowthe-critter-beastyes this is just like the h(ealth) p(oints) lovecraft story featuring chuck wizard and his curse of shoot you in the face (yes this is an exetremely blatant reference to something)#wizardblr#chuck wizard#hp lovecraft44,598 notes
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victusinveritasReblogged victusinveritasancientartFollowcommons.wikimedia.orgDetail of the ancient Mayan ruins in Copán, Honduras.Photo taken by JurriaanHSource: commons.wikimedia.org#mayan#antiquity#copan#ruins#holy ground#lost cities#archaeological site#archaeology
victusinveritasRebloggedkittypavlFollowvictusinveritasGrozny, I think.#chechnya#ruins#cities#russian imperialism#chechen wars
victusinveritasRebloggedvictusinveritasFollowpreview.redd.itBelgian flying ace, Fernand Jacquet with his uniquely decorated Farman 40 plane, 1916. Amazingly, he lived until 1947 (a lot of WWI pilots had a life expectancy measured in weeks once they took to the air). When the Germans once again invaded Belgium, at the start of World War II, Jacquet returned to his nation's service. He was an active member of the Belgian Resistance until his imprisonment in the Huy Fortress in 1942; where he was held until war's endvictusinveritasHere's a picture of Fernand (left) in a pimp coat that probably kept him pretty warm in the skies.#wwi#belgium#nose art#air war#wwi air combat#dudes rock#images that go hard#skulls#wwii resistance#antifascist#fernand jacquet#pimp coat
victusinveritas#fuck trump#scotland#i wish i could move to scotland#trump regime#fascist cunt#fucking moronic president trump#president smallhands von childrapist
victusinveritasA collection of images from some AI generator (boo, hiss) mocking Trump's idiotic tariffs on islands full of penguins or polar bears and seeds, depending on the islands. As far as I know, no real artist has tackled this particular administration fuckup yet. #penguin tariffs#trump tariffs#christofascists#murica#ai image#hands off penguins
victusinveritas#trump regime#trump recession#christofascists#trump tariffs#us politics#murica#fuck musk#fuck trump
victusinveritasImagine using "oops!" in announcing your murder of a group of people. Like you're in a fucking cartoon. #trump regime#christofascists#drone warfare#houthis#hands off yemen#fuck trump#war crimes
victusinveritasOf course it's in Kentucky...On the other hand, I might have to hop down there, because something like that does seem like my kind of weirdness. #ventriloquist dummy#dummies#the horrors#on the other hand i might have to go
victusinveritasReblogged spectrexviiiiatheosticFollow#alan turing#queer history#tech history#cryptanalysis#wwii
victusinveritasReblogged iratusmaguswilwheatonFollow“At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can’t absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We’ve done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely. Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That’s not a luxury upcharge; it’s survival math. Some people ask, “Why not manufacture in the U.S.?” I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn’t meaningfully exist here yet. I’ve gotten quotes. I’ve talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren’t. […] We want to be transparent with our community. This is real: Prices are going up. We’re still determining how much and where. If you’re frustrated, you’re not alone. We are too. And if you want to help, write to your elected officials. Ask them how these new policies help American creators and small businesses. Because right now, it feels like they don’t. We’ll keep making games. But we’ll be honest when the road gets harder, because we know you care about where your games come from – and about the people who make them.”— Daily Illuminator: Tariffs Are Driving Up Game Prices NowoldschoolfrpI saw their email today, from this company founded in 1980 in the period of explosive industry growth that is my main period of interest for this blog. Reblogging here since this is a straightforward explanation of why some of your favorite companies may raise prices dramatically, limit their output, or close up shop soon.convulsive-madnessi mean, the could also give their CEO’s a million dollars an hour instead of a billion, but okay, sure. Make us the one who have to pay for this.wearesorcereruniquecrash5Oh for fucks sake. Y'all really have to get a grasp on the difference between a million and a billion.Steve Jackson is not making a billion dollars. Hell I’d be surprised if he’s making a million.Steve Jackson Games is a pretty small operation all told. Most game companies are. This is a small business trying to survive.Get a sense of perspective. wearesorcererI believe convulsive-madness was using hyperbole on the numbers and simply asserting they (SKG, game companies, companies in general) could downsize profits and eat the tariff costs instead of passing them on to the rest of us because a CEO can afford to take a pay cut. (From what I found, SJG does not release its CEO pay, though it would be considerably less than a million if they’re making the reported gross income of $3.6 million, though that’s from only a cursory search.)Source: sjgames.com#gaming industry#steve jackson games
victusinveritas#us politics#trump regime#fascism#murica#usa usa usa#info dump#headlines#rebecca solnit#christofascists#fuck them all#trade war
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victusinveritasReblogged lizwuztherebedcorpseFollowreasons to love harrison ford1. hates donald trump
2. got his ear pierced at claires because why not
3. legit asks people to beat him up in action scenes EVEN NOW AS AN OLD MAN
4. is arguably one of the most iconic star wars characters yet couldnt give less of a crap abt star wars
5. the universe tried to kill him (or at least permanently incapacitate him) twice in 2015 and it only mildly inconvenienced him
6. flies helicopters in search and rescue missions
7. was in his 40s for the majority of the indiana jones series which is insane when you think about all the stunts involved
8. quote “the director yells cut and harrison cracks open a beer and then builds a fucking shed”
9. arguably sexy
10. points angrily and its super effectivefiyhi11. is just a really sweet person
12. no really my dad worked with him on firewall as the tech advisor and he was just a really swell guy
13. got my mom’s birth date from my dad and sent her flowers
14. he sent my mom flowers for her birthday
15. he didn’t even know her he just wanted to be sweetjames-asslowthis was a beautiful and necessary edition to this post thank you oh my godthecarrisonfilesAwwwwwwhere-are-your-source-citationsGIF by yourreactiongifsOriginally posted by yourreactiongifsmadloriWhen he was asked to be in Jimmy Kimmel’s “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck” video, in which he pulled up alongside them in a car and gave Jimmy a little wink and an air-kiss, when he showed up at the set he looked kind of put out. Kimmel was afraid he wasn’t down with what they were asking. But he just said, “I don’t know, this wardrobe…don’t you have anything mesh that I could wear?”losethehoursWhen he was filming “Witness” he rented a small farm from a friend of mine. At the end of the filming my friend went and checked out the property as usual. He noticed the barn door had been leveled so it no longer would swing open on it’s own. Went into the house and saw the closets had been redone, in the kitchen the cabinets had been replaced and all the drawers now opened really well. Turns out that there were thousands of dollars of work and materials put into fixing up everything at the place.My friend called Ford and asked him how much he was asking for the work. Ford told him doing that kind of thing helped him relax and stay sane when he was filming. Would not take a dime. Plus he paid for a new water heater and got the sewage system cleaned out.And he paid rent to live there the entire time.an-gremlinLocal Carpenter Stumbles Into Stardom, Worries This May Interfere With His CarpentryvictusinveritasMy aunt ended up at his secret wedding to Callista Flockhart and said he was amazingly nice to everyone at the ceremony, including the staff of the governor of New Mexico at the time (Bill Richardson, the celebrant). He later gave that same aunt, a professional chef, a ride to Sundance in his helicopter. #harrison ford#good people in hollywood
victusinveritasReblogged bouncinghedgehog-deactivated202democracyundergroundFollowMost of the Major Criminal Gangs started in U.S. Prisons#mexico#president claudia sheinbaum#trump regime
victusinveritasReblogged professional-egg-layerbogleechFollowYou have to choose a new animal to exist on earth right now but it HAS to be both as aggressive and dangerous to humans as a hippopotamus.bogleechTree krakens have been in the lead but concussiadillos are catching up, it's anyone's race#freshwater landsharks
victusinveritasReblogged rainbowcoloredpalmtreesgorpsFollowThis website is so so so good#comment section#tumblr#It's definitely not#that's it's own paraphilia and not neurodiversity just a kink
victusinveritasReblogged science-fiction-is-realmrsterlingeverythingFollowAt least we have jacking offmrsterlingeverythingNoooooo fuck god noo#the horrors#trump regime#nothing is sacred
