animentality:

moringmark:

jellolegos:

Learning :)

angeryducc:

skinlike:

i’d play in the creek now as an adult. i’d sit in the stream and collect rocks for a while

somethingusefulfromflorida:

You wanna know what really fucking bugs me? The only Secretary of the Treasury whose name I know is Steve Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s corrupt little toady. I know this because every single dollar bill has the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury on it, and while most signatures are illegible caligraphic scrawls, Steve printed his name in block letters like a child. Nine out of ten bills I get as change have his name on them, clear as day, so I am consistently reminded of the nazi regime that destroyed us. I don’t know George W. Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury, I don’t know Barrack Obama’s, I don’t know Joe Biden’s, but I know trump’s, and I can’t even ignore it when I see it.

These bills will circulate for decades. People are going to collect them in the future. Someone is going to frame one and hang it on their wall as the first dollar they ever earned. It makes me so irrationally angry I could spit.

STeVen T: MNUChin with random capitalization as if he had to sound it out one letter at a time, fuckin ay…

lemke6669:

spiderleggedhorse:

filmnoirsbian:

filmnoirsbian:

Still upset that the can’t have shit in Cincinnati meme got berenstain bearsd into Detroit as someone who lived in Cincinnati it deserves that recognition you really can’t have shit there not even your own meme

Justice for the unfortunate souls still living in Cincinasty 💔

literally even stole the post. come on

I think it bears mentioning that changing it to detroit is pretty blatantly just turning it into a racist “joke”, too.

whitepeopletwitter:

midiatamente:

watch me dance 🪩💖

notallmensheviks:

beggars-opera:

One very important note on the immense value of the Internet Archive that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

It crawls major newspapers like the New York Times multiple times per day.

For anything other than one of those scrolling updates breaking news pages, you can access it from the Archive usually within an hour or two of it being published. No paywall. You want international news? You got it. Opinion? That too. Recipes? It’s all here. Page not yet archived? There’s a button for that and now you got it.

There are various paywall-evading extensions and tricks out there, but they don’t always work. This does.

Go forth and read the newspaper.

nateconnolly:

nateconnolly:

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

A Timeline of Humanity:

greelin:

“why are you wearing a cloak at the bowling alley” it’s my bowling cloak you fucking casual

fyrmayj:

catchymemes:

dichromaticdyke:

vergess:

jactingjoices:

jactingjoices:

we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You’re correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.

ETA; Yes, the links are US American; no your country is not immune to propaganda. Be POLITE in asking, and I will help you find the data for your own country as well.

not to be that guy, but i do have an MA in literature and i’m currently halfway through my MLIS—i’ve been studying this kind of stuff a lot. i highly recommend you try to familiarize themselves with the six frameworks of information literacy (also available in chinese, french, german, italian, persian, portuguese, spanish, and swedish).

this document is pretty short, but the tl;dr of it is that all information (and to that extent, all art) is subjective and ongoing and ever-evolving and requires conversation. it’s not a perfect document (kinda patronizing at points tbh), but it’s a great start for understanding healthy and literate ways to engage with information in nuanced ways.

while this post was primarily about art and this document is primarily about information, i still want to people to see this because art and information work in tandem—art imitating life and all that. i’m sure i don’t need to give examples of art having a tangible effect on our world, and i especially don’t need to give examples of the reverse.

i point this out because those with low media literacy are those more likely to not critically engage with art, and those information literacy are those more likely to fall for fake news. it’s the same problem just focused in different areas. it’s seeing something presented to you and taking it purely at face value without any sort of critical thought or investigation.