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The Gloaming, Dawid Planeta
spooky dog to go with morning coffee. Going to go DM a SCARY SESSION TODAY >:D
[discovered]
[immediately mocked by scientists]
me as a discoveryHow can you not include the video?
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i love this so much i dont know where to start
- the comedy itself
- the commentary on ‘what is art’
- further on what is art: the viewers are interpreting this as art, but the intention of the “artist” was not actually art, so is it art or not? who gets to decide, the viewers or the creator?
- the act of placing the glasses and watching the response (and the response itself being that the viewers treated the glasses as art) as performance art
like is this a critique of postmodernism? does the critique betray itself since (one could argue) the viewers interpreting the glasses as art makes them art? or is that so ridiculous that it doesn’t matter? i could go onThe intention of the “artist” was not actually art, but… their intention was to create a specific image for public display in order to evoke a reaction from an audience, and then to create an image of that in order to evoke a different reaction from a second audience.
I think they accidentally arted. Twice.
I hate everything about this post
This stuff is why my art appreciation class was so deliciously easy. I just bullshitted my way through all the assignments with random drivel about “what is really art” and got an A.
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The NFL has made it official that they will now recognize same sex couples on their kiss cam so that everybody can celebrate love
The NFL showcased its first same-sex couple in a kiss cam last year. And in an ad for Love Has No Labels, a campaign created in partnership with the Ad Council and R/GA, it announced its efforts to zoom in on a greater variety of people.
Gifs: Ad Council
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direct action
Seizing the means of production
A true revolutionary
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This sketch is based on what Bill Bartlett said of the Dover Demon that he saw on April 21st, 1977. But the smaller image in the corner is the drawing Bartlett did himself. The description he wrote beside the picture can sort of be made out to “Skin texture of a shark. Skin color the color of some of the people in the sunday comics. Size about the size of a monkey, eyes glowed orange color.”
He signed the image and made sure to write: ‘‘I Bill Bartlett swear on a stack of Bible’s that I saw this creature.”
Imagine being a human in an alien crew in space and leaving with bright blue or pink hair and the color fades and everybody on board wonders WHY you are losing your colors??? Is it the lack of greens? Are you sad? Angry? They just don’t know??
“HUMAN BIOLOGY IS BAFFLING”
These are the kinds of pure posts I come to this place for.
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When you open your camera app to take a picture of something and it opens on the front camera
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Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (March 16th 2017 edition)
- Trump released proposals for his first federal budget plan which proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - which serves as a key source of revenue for PBS and NPR. (source)
- The proposed budget plan will also be largely targeting the Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department. Here’s an outline of some of the biggest winners and losers in the budget. If you’d like to see what’s possibly getting cut or getting less funding check out this very extensive list. Or you can read the full budget: America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again.
- It’s been revealed that a Russian state-owned television network paid former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn $45,386 to fly to Moscow and speak at an anniversary celebration. He also received payments, of $11,250 each, by two other Russian companies. All of this news appears to violate Pentagon rules that subject retired military officers to the “emoluments clause” in the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting them from accepting any “consulting fees, gifts, travel expenses, honoraria or salary” from a foreign government. (source + scans of the check payments to Flynn)
- According to a recent survey, top business leaders and CEOs are experiencing the highest amount of economic optimism since 2009. This is thanks to the Trump administration slashing regulations and overhauling tax codes. How nice for them. (source)
- The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the administration’s plans to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood will be bad for the economy. Without Planned Parenthood, Medicaid spending would increase in the first year by $21 million and $77 million by 2026. (source)
- Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to relax fuel mileage rules. This will likely set up a problem with California and states that follow California’s emissions rules, rather than the the EPA’s. However, automaker executives expressed their excitement over Trump reconsidering these mileage requirements. (source)
- In West Virginia there is a proposal that may harm miners, their protections, and their jobs. It aims to eliminate enforcement of mining regulations, which union officials say sets back miners’ safety by decades. The proposal would prevent state regulators from writing policies, strip them of the ability to issue citations and fines, and demote safety inspections to offering “safety compliance assistance.” It would also lower number of times a mine inspector is required to examine facilities from four times a year to once annually. (source)
- Trump is going to ask Congress for $4 billion to start building the border wall. The Office of Management and Budget said that Trump is asking for $1.5 billion for the wall in a broader request for supplemental funds for fiscal 2017 and $2.6 billion in his fiscal 2018 budget proposal. (source)
- The Trump administration is planning to repeal a rule setting standards for hydraulic fracturing on federal land. This was obviously slammed by environmental groups, but it’s just another addition to the list of environmental rules this administration has been repealing. (source)
- The Senate confirmed former Sen. Dan Coats to serve as President Trump’s director of national intelligence. The vote was 85-12 and he’s been on of the few whose nomination has been drama-free. (source)
- Defense Secretary James Mattis has withdrawn his pick for undersecretary for policy, Anne Patterson. Republicans opposed Patterson because she served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 2011 to 2013. Mattis’s first choice for deputy secretary, Michèle Flournoy, also withdrew from consideration. (source)
- White House aide Sebastian Gorka is denying that he has any ties to a Nazi-allied Hungarian nationalist group. He admitted that he wore medals associated with Vitézi Rend but it was not evidence that he’s antisemitic or a part of the group. Two members of the white nationalist group are saying otherwise and told the news that he’s a known member. Note Gorka also signed his Ph.D dissertation in as “Sebestyén L. v. Gorka” - “L. v.” being initials representing members of Vitézi Rend. (source)
- White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney defended Trump’s budget cuts to school programs aimed at feeding low-income children because they aren’t “helping kids do better at school.” (source)
- Federal and state prosecutors announced they would not bring criminal charges against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio or his aides in connection with two simultaneous investigations into his fundraising practices. The charges had to do with the de Blasio administration giving favors to donors who contributed either to his campaign or to a non profit organization set up to promote his political agenda. (source)
- Frank Wuco, a senior national security official in the White House has said he believes Muslims are dedicated to establishing Sharia law in Western countries. He believes they (on a large scale) want to “subjugate and humiliate” non-Muslims. Wuco serves as Trump’s senior White House adviser for the Department of Homeland Security. (source)
- Sen. Jim Inhofe spoke out in favor of White House’s proposal to slash 31 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget. He believes that the EPA is “brainwashing our kids,” and “propaganda.” (source)
- Trump admitted on Fox News that he knows his health care bill will hurt a lot of the people who voted for him. “The counties who voted for you will do far worse under your plan,” said Tucker Carlson. “Oh, I know,” responded Trump. Carlson also suggested that the bill seems like it benefits the wealthy and goes against his campaign promises. Trump responded that “A lot of things are inconsistent, but these are going to be negotiated. We’ll see what happens in the Senate.” (source)
- In the same interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump may have revealed classified information. “In his effort to once again blame Obama, the President appears to have discussed something that, if true and accurate, would otherwise be considered classified information,” explained Rep. Adam Schiff. (source)
- The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said they saw no evidence to support Trump’s claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. (source)
- And now your daily reminder that: Flint, Michigan still doesn’t have clean water. Standing Rock still needs your support. The American infrastructure report card still averages poorly with the rating of a “D+”
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Americans please explain why your schools are so wild
The poop one killed me
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Funding for public broadcasting, the arts, humanities, museums, and even Meals on Wheels would be eliminated under President Donald Trump’s budget proposal released Thursday.
“Consistent with the president’s approach to move the nation toward fiscal responsibility, the budget eliminates and reduces hundreds of programs and focuses funding to redefine the proper role of the federal government,” the proposal reads.
Funding for 19 independent agencies—including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities—would be eliminated completely.
If Congress were to support the plan, roughly $450 million in annual government funding would be withdrawn from the CPB, which partially funds NPR and PBS, the original home of Sesame Street and PBS Newshour. (In 2015, Sesame Workshop signed a partnership with HBO to produce five seasons of Sesame Street, but the episodes still air nine months later for free on PBS.) The CPB also supports almost 1,500 local public television and radio stations across the US.
CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement Wednesday that her organization believes the proposal would spell “the collapse of the public media system itself and the end of this essential national service.”
“The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions – all for Americans in both rural and urban communities,” she said.
Paula Kerger, the head of PBS, said her station enjoyed strong support among Republican and Democratic voters.
“The cost of public broadcasting is small, only $1.35 per citizen per year, and the benefits are tangible: increasing school readiness for kids 2-8, support for teachers and homeschoolers, lifelong learning, public safety communications, and civil discourse,” she said in a statement.
On Wednesday, prior to the budget blueprint being unveiled, NPR announced its ratings were at an all-time high, with Nielsen Audio ratings showing a total of 37.5 million weekly listeners tuned in during the fall of 2016.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat of Oregon and founder of the Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus, said the proposed cuts would “decimate” the access to public broadcasting for people in rural and small communities.
“Eliminating this cost-effective investment is not smart economically nor is it good policy, and there will be a serious negative impact for millions of families,” he said in a statement.
Through his budget proposal, Trump has also become the first president to call for ending the NEA and the NEH, according to the New York Times.
The two bodies were established under legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson to promote an “advanced civilization.”
“Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens,” read the original 1965 Act. “It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.”
NEA Chairman Jane Chu said Trump’s budget request is “a first step in a very long budget process,” and vowed to continue to advocate for the arts.
“We are disappointed because we see our funding actively making a difference with individuals of all ages in thousands of communities, large, small, urban and rural, and in every Congressional District in the nation,” she said in a statement.
During the 2016 financial year, the NEA recommended awarding 2,400 grants across almost 16,000 US communities. The group’s entire operating budget of $147.9 million represents just 0.004% of the total federal budget, according to the NEA.
NEH chairman William D. Adams also said he was “greatly saddened” by Trump’s budget proposal.
Since 1965, the NEH, which provides funding to authors and scholars, has handed out more than $5.3 billion in over 63,000 grants to fund films, museum exhibits, and books.
The director and president of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas P. Campbell and Daniel H. Weiss, said the proposal to eliminate the funding of the NEA, the NEH, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services was “shortsighted and does a terrible disservice to the American people.”
“For more than 50 years, these programs have provided, at modest cost, essential support to arts organizations throughout the country—many times sustaining the arts in areas where people do not have access to major institutions like the Metropolitan Museum,” the pair said.
The arts and humanities were not the only areas threatened with funding cuts or withdrawals under the budget blueprint.
The Community Development Block Grant, part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, would also be eliminated under the budget proposal.
Among other things, the $3 billion program partly funds Meals on Wheels, which brings food to the elderly and handicapped.
Meals on Wheels President and CEO Ellie Hollander said “cuts of any kind to these highly successful and leveraged programs would be a devastating blow to our ability to provide much-needed care for millions of vulnerable seniors in America, which in turn saves billions of dollars in reduced healthcare expenses.”
The Trump proposal said the Community Development Block Grant is “not well-targeted to the poorest populations and has not demonstrated results.”
Also threatened is the Legal Services Corporation, which provides civil legal aid for low-income Americans, including the working poor, the elderly, and veterans.
Linda Klein, president of the American Bar Association, said she was “outraged” at the proposal.
“Without this assistance, court house doors will slam in the faces of millions of Americans, denying them equal access to justice,” she said.
Here’s the full list of independent agencies identified for funding elimination in the budget proposal:
- The African Development Foundation
- The Appalachian Regional Commission
- The Chemical Safety Board
- The Corporation for National and Community Service
- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- The Delta Regional Authority
- The Denali Commission
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services
- The Inter-American Foundation
- The US Trade and Development Agency
- The Legal Services Corporation
- The National Endowment for the Arts
- The National Endowment for the Humanities
- The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
- The Northern Border Regional Commission
- The Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- The United States Institute of Peace
- The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.