Mattias 🦔

I do art, but also other things. Swedish, trans, gay, autistic, chronically ill. Very tired. He/him. Formerly VorpalDoesArt

[Mattias 🦔 @Troll_Thoughts_]

✨CATS🎶✨

#cats #catsthemusical #catsmusical #animation #callipeg

[Nooshin Samimi نوشین صمیمی @nsamimi9]

As a woman who grew up in Iran, I understand why many Iranian women react so vehemently and viscerally to this gesture of solidarity. Encounters with the morality police were (and probably still are) an all-consuming part of women’s everyday lives in Iran. I completely understand their experience of the hijab as an instrument of state coercion and gendered restriction.

But as an anthropologist of the United States, I also understand the danger of importing that experience into Western contexts uncritically; without reckoning with what the same sign signifies in a different context. In the West, the hijab often indexes membership in marginalized Muslim minorities. Therefore, uncritical, universal anti-hijab critiques can easily reinforce Islamophobic and racist discourses.

The problem is not that Iranian women’s experience of the hijab is false. It is that the hijab’s meaning is neither portable nor universal: its social and political meaning changes with context.

As for this particular gesture of solidarity, these French women are correctly recognizing that the policing of women’s bodies takes different forms. Forcing a woman to wear the hijab and forcing her to remove it are different expressions of the same underlying claim: that others may decide what she can or cannot do with her body. A woman’s attire is hers to choose and so are all her other decisions concerning her bodily autonomy.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

i had the pleasure of reading the narnia series as an adult and cs lewis' care for the child audience comes through so clearly in his writing voice. i think it's clear that he wanted an adult to read the narnia books out loud to a child, so the child gets the double dose of the adult's care and lewis's care. it's beautiful. lewis wanted the child to feel wonder and yearning for narnia so that as an adult they can feel wonder and yearning for the good, the point is the child's moral and spiritual development

children's-books-that-are-therapy-for-the-author are the exact opposite of this, the child and their development has not been centered, the intended experience is instead to regress the author to a child, and nobody has a vision of what adult maturity should look like or consist of or be built from

[Daily Moomin Aesthetic Bot @DailyMoominbot]

"Gollum and Bilbo" illustrated by Tove Jansson.

Did you know that Tove Jansson's illustrations inspired Tolkien to provide more detailed descriptions of Gollum's appearance?

[Ⓐ🌲Robynette🌲Ⓥ @tinybird420]

Okay but actually don't though. Because it can spread to non data center areas and can be very hard to get rid of. Find a very aggressive and hard to kill plant native to your area and plant those near the data centers instead.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

At first, I thought each square represented one child killed in Gaza.

But each square actually represents TEN children.

[Corazon Mexica @MiCorazonMexica]

La Serenata.

A young man leans from his balcony as his lover arrives below with a mariachi band, the night filled with music and longing. I painted this as part of an ongoing exploration of queer love within Mexican visual tradition.

My family is from Cocula, a small town in Mexico where mariachi was born, so this image carries something personal for me — a meeting place between memory, desire, and cultural inheritance.

Prints of this piece are currently available. I painted it with watercolor on paper.

https://t.co/f56nK7zh1F

[Commander Cody @CodyFandom_]

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Tx is in danger!!! Please help spread the word.

They want to install a 2600 ACRE data center there that will destroy the natural resources.

[Redclaw🐉👑 The Call to Adventure 10/14! @RedclawDraws]

Glen Rose Texas is the Dinosaur Capitol of Texas and they want to destroy the Valley by putting in a data center.
YOU. DON’T. HATE. AI. ENOUGH.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

CPUs are getting worse.

We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.

Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

[MOHAMMED𓂆 @Mo7mmd30]

On this day a year ago, Leo fell from a high place and broke his leg.
I didn’t know what to do, and there was no veterinarian in my city.
I had to go to another city so he could receive treatment.
The doctor told me then that Leo needed surgery,
but there were no capabilities to perform it in Gaza because Israel had closed the crossings.

Days passed and Leo was limping,
but after two months, without any surgery,
I saw him walking again without a limp.
That was literally one of the happiest moments of my life.

Then time passed,
and fate willed that Leo die of hunger,
also because Israel prevented food from entering Gaza.

Israel does not only kill humans;
it kills animals too—
in these slow and cruel ways.

[marah khalad @mar80549]

If you like my new painting, please leave a dot
or donate to my campaign to help me and my family in these harsh conditions🙏🏼😢

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[marah khalad @mar80549]

This is my new painting. If you like it, leave a dot

[Hei Wa Wa @yaqobhyndes]

A lot of 18th century portraits are slop but occasionally you come across a gem like this. The patron paid good money to paint his daughter bothering him with a barbie

[marah khalad @mar80549]

My emotions created this artwork; if you like it, leave a dot

https://t.co/0xbkOlCsy8

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

I was right there in 1971. The whole area was rubble of Palestinian houses that had been demolished after the families living in them were thrown out so Jews could have more room to pray at the Wall.
I didn't really know what I was seeing. Now I understand clearly.
There is no "holiness" in a house built on stolen land.
אין קדושה בארץ כבושה.

[ENG. SALAH IN GAZA @S6xx_a]

I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.

If you see this, leave even a dot

[Yousef in Gaza 🇵🇸 @yousefQasem1998]

I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.

If you see this, leave even a dot