rosespeonies

white bisexual socialist, cinemaphile, book lover, wannabe art patron//paypal.me/wildrosespeoni… /// please consider me: she/her/they

[rosespeonies @adeleadoll]

Do NOT DM me money requests. You will be ignored and blocked. If you need help, all mutual aid requests must be done via the public timeline.

[🍉🐝'maude'⁷ @sunnysoulmates]

people are really anti-piracying so hard we're bending right back around to the good ol' days when only the wealthy were literate and had access to books and education i guess 🤠

[alexa @alexadoingstuff]

You could literally land a plane by yourself after your instructor jumps to his death mid flight and they’d still use a picture of a man

[#DND🦅 @Dnd0xx]

@taydesire unarchived the jack /dog photo booth but the wedding pics are still buried. pick a struggle queen either y’all are back or this is the most chaotic damage control i’ve ever seen

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

The Atlantic’s new cover story on the decline of reading features a Harvard student who complained that he had to read a book written in "Old English."

Now, you might be thinking that he was assigned Beowulf or The Canterbury Tales.

Nope.

This student was assigned A Clockwork Orange—and used ChatGPT to “translate” it.

A Clockwork Orange was written in 1962 (not 1692, which is still modern English, by the way). This student’s grandparents were alive in the 60s. Is he also using a translation bot to speak to them?

Yes, I had an easier time than most people with the novel's Nadsat slang because I speak Russian, but you catch on very quickly if you turn on more than two brain cells—and the entire point is to compel you to inhabit Alex’s deranged mind, which is cool!

For the first time in my life, I feel bad for Alex from A Clockwork Orange for being so misunderstood.

[Red Kibet @TheRedKibet]

They pulling bodies out of the freezer one by one

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

A few months ago, my neighbors cut down a perfectly healthy, mature tree. The birds that used to fill it with life still seem lost. Now another neighbor is cutting down another healthy tree, and it’s honestly heartbreaking. I hate sharing a planet with people who see living things as disposable.

[katharine hepburn archive @heparchive]

The Philadelphia Story (1940) & The African Queen (1951)

[Syd 𓅃 @auroralchorus]

What gets me is that Vitamin K isn't even a vaccine, conservatives are so reflexively anti-science that they're now rejecting all injections out of blind contrarianism, because "needles are sinister and scary, how dare you stick needles in my baby"

[Aurora @CitizenScreen]

A lovely photo showing Vivian Leigh visiting Lauren Bacall backstage at the Royale Theatre during Bacall’s run in “Cactus Flower.” (circa 1967)

[milk - חלב @milkcritter]

when i found noodles owners to see if they had been missing their cat i found outside they told me they put her out because she “wasn’t cute anymore” hello??

[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

March 25, 1911.Frances Perkins watched 146 women jump from ninth-floor windows. The Triangle Factory doors were locked-owners wanted to prevent "theft." The women had two choices: burn or jump. The sound of
bodies hiing pavement repeated over and over. She stood there and made a promise: never again. Twelve years later, she became first woman in a presidential Cabinet. She built the laws that gave you weekends, overtime pay, Social Security. Every protection you have at work exists because one woman watched people die and spent
54 years making sure it never happened again. Remember her: Frances Perkins.

[Jess in the Wild @Jess_inthewild]

“Geese are evil” brother they laid eggs and now have a family to protect ALL while having no real way to fully escape because they explosively molt in the summer so literally they cannot flight they can only fight!!!!

[The English Oak Project @TheKentAcorn]

There have been 65 Kings & Queens of all England since Aethelstan became the 1st recognised monarch in the year 927 (let the arguments begin 🤴)

This tree hasn’t just witnessed all of them, it was born up to 2,000 years BEFORE Aethelstan

The Linton Yew, Herefordshire

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

WTF is going on in Illinois?!

Cahokia is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico.

Its Interpretive Center closed in March 2022 for a “one year or more” renovation. The public was told roughly $5 million.

Four years later, the museum is still not fully open. Reporting says the cost is now around $12 million. The roof alone was about $1.4 million. The mechanical/electrical work ate millions more. The HVAC apparently “just wasn’t working.”

This is public stewardship failure at one of the most important archaeological sites on Earth.

This is one of the places that permanently destroys the myth that North America was an empty wilderness.

Illinois had one job: preserve and interpret one of the most significant Indigenous cities ever built.

Cahokia should be treated like a crown jewel of human history.

Instead Illinois managed its museum like a busted storage room behind a county office. This isn’t over.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Terminally ill Carpathian monk leaves behind archive documenting Israeli crimes against children in Gaza
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An unlikely resistance effort has emerged from a monastery in the Transylvanian Carpathian Mountains, where a terminally ill Christian monk spent his final months documenting atrocities committed against children in Gaza.

The monk, whose identity remains withheld at his request, operated a Telegram channel titled Children of Gaza that meticulously cataloged daily violence. Working alongside a woman named Sally, he compiled thousands of instances of abuse, channeling the data to the @xIsraelExposedx Archive to ensure the evidence reached a broader audience.

The monk sought to dedicate his remaining time to opposing what he viewed as the gravest crimes against children in the modern era. While he did not live to witness the public impact of his efforts or the subsequent launch of the archive’s new platform, his work now serves as a definitive record of the genocide. Archive staff confirmed that he passed away due to his illness without knowing that his silent labor had gained significant international attention.

The activists behind the archive say that in honor of his contributions they released images of the remote monastery where the project was headquartered. The publication of this archive follows a period of verification by the team, which began investigating the source months ago after discovering the channel. Those behind the project expressed their gratitude for the monk’s dedication and his commitment to exposing the genocide in Gaza.

[mayor of tingeting @seibarosario]

if you're in the US, first sale doctrine explicitly states that you can resell or give away a book you have legally obtained (aka bought) if you want. it's how libraries and secondhand bookstores function. that last statement in the picture is not legally enforceable.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

I say I hate Israel, and then I read something like this, and I realize I don’t hate them nearly enough. These people are sick beyond words.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Harmful Bacteria cannot survive in water below 20C.

These 'data centers' are pumping out water at 45C.

It's the perfect temperature for growing huge amounts of deadly bacteria.

[sunny @cuntpetal]

oh she has other things to worry about

[Jess @jessskally]

No because didn't her album just drop this week and Olivia already got #1? This isn't a case of her dropping 10 versions months or weeks later out of the blue like Taylor does. Notice how Olivia isn't dropping other versions to try and get the #1 either?