dostoyevsky-official:

“Putin sincerely believes in the nonsense he hears on [Russian] television and he wants to win big,” said a person briefed on the talks.

[…] Putin said peace efforts were at a “dead end” and was infuriated after Ukraine sank the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, according to two of the people. “There was hope for a deal. Putin was going back and forth. He needs to find a way to come out of this a winner,” one of the people said.

After the Moskva sank, “Putin was against signing anything. [ . . . ] after the Moskva he doesn’t look like a winner, because it was humiliating,” the person added. Ukrainian and western officials had always doubted his commitment to peace talks, suspecting it was a way of buying time for Moscow’s offensive.

[…] Putin told [Charles] Michel in a call on Friday that the talks had run aground because Ukraine “put up a wall” and said it “was not the right time” to meet Zelensky, according to a person briefed on that conversation.

Negotiators interpreted that as meaning Russia believes it can capture more territory, rather than being an indication that the talks need more time to find areas of agreement.

Putin is avoiding the meeting with Zelensky “with all his might,” a person involved in the peace talks said. “He wants everything to be decided before their personal meeting,”

[…] Ukraine is confident it can push Russian troops back further after defeating Putin’s initial plan to rapidly seize the country, but officials are increasingly worried that Moscow could resort to tactical nuclear weapons if it suffers further setbacks, two of the people said.

 In a meeting with Michel in Kyiv on Wednesday, Zelensky said Ukrainian public opinion did not support continuing the peace talks, adding that he was conscious that fighting Putin was more popular than making concessions, according to a person briefed on their conversation.

gothhabiba:

gothhabiba:

I’m sure there’s a lot of trite unimaginative self-styled “feminist” art that uses imagery of uteri and vulvae &c. in trite, unimaginative, & transphobic / transmisogynist ways. but to say that all art involving any such imagery is Automatically trite, unimaginative, and even transphobic seems like… idk. kind of unimaginative to me. I’m sorry to be weighing in on this debate years after its heyday but that’s my way

someone on a post I lost track of said something along the lines of “the ability to give birth is what women have been universally lauded for across cultures and time periods—that’s what makes women valuable to men, is their ability to make more men. so it’s playing into patriarchy to make art celebrating your fertility”

which is an oversimplification of the case that only gets more egregious the more time I spend thinking about it. I think that perhaps what they’re trying to criticise is the ~mystical divine healing feminine energy~ school of feminism, which, yes, is a crock of essentialist shit however much you can see where the desire to celebrate traditionally maligned “feminine” traits is coming from.

but to say that women are universally lauded for the ability to give birth….?!?!?!?! first of all even women whose pregnancies are “desirable” to the state (women who are bourgeois, white, living in the west, abled, &c.) are subject to amounts of reproductive and medical coercion and abuse that to me are just unfathomable. the general ignorance around pregnancy and the ways in which it changes or can change one’s body is profound, because these things are hushed up socially and not taught by our education systems. because pregnancy is reified as something that “women’s bodies” are for and “women’s bodies,” even when they are “desirable” in every other way, even when they are serving their “purpose” in the eyes of heteropatriarchy and empire, are disgusting, shameful, unspeakable-of, just bodies in that no one cares, medically & socially speaking, about women’s experiences or pain.

the thing about patriarchy is that it’s a loose grouping of a variety of different systems that operate according to different logics and can always incorporate internal inconsistency, because what’s important is not that the epistemologies produced by patriarchy are “correct” or even that they make internal logical sense, but rather what those epistemologies are used to do (namely, to constrain women’s choices in ways that benefit the state, men, &c.). it is very often the case that women are maligned, professionally or socially penalised, physically harmed, &c. for doing things that they are socially and professionally coerced into doing. and so it’s utterly absurd to act as though women (which women? more on this later) being expected to give birth, being celebrated for giving birth, must perforce mean that they are not derided, penalised, and abused because of that same fertility.

and then as soon as you leave the ideal situation of a heterosexually married abled middle-class white woman with a wanted pregnancy whose child is not prospected to be disabled, things get a lot more dire in the “pressured to abort your fetus or sterilised without your consent” sort of way. the image of the undesirably hyper-fertile Black or immigrant woman, the brown immigrant woman who has “anchor babies” to finagle citizenship for herself or for them—surely these are stereotypes no adult person in the US or Europe could be ignorant of? and yet this person insists that women across cultures are lauded for their fertility! and thus it is “patriarchal” to produce art that has any reference to one’s own reproductive system as a cisgender woman. where are we, Toto, because it surely can’t be Kansas

mosticonicposts:

joyceanfartboner:

twofingerswhiskey:

joyceanfartboner:

joyceanfartboner:

imagine how sweet it would be if like fuckin cnn or somethin cut to england and like people were devouring the royal family live on camera

even the baby one i dont give a fuck

are you seriously advocating for eating a toddler or am i fuckin illiterate 

actually when i made this post it was a baby

certified iconic post

byojaku:

what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta

they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don’t ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don’t know and frankly it confuses me too.

1. EUROPEAN FILMS (sometimes includes west asian films?)
2. JAPANESE FILMS
3. CLASSIC FILMS (aka american and British films)
4. “MISC FILMS” (aka films from everywhere that isn’t the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)

this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta

depsidase:

funnytwittertweets:

kaalbela:

Stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tifanny

autumn-imara:

“Children don’t need to earn their humanity. Children aren’t humans in training, they are humans right now. They’re not waiting to live their life, this is part of their life in this moment. Society treats children as though they’re preparing for a time where they’re allowed respect – and not before then. Until that time it’s acceptable to treat them as sub-human under the guise of parenting and education. For many, parenting is synonymous with punishment and learning is synonymous with schooling which are both so far off the mark. This all comes down to childism and it is so deeply sewn into the fabric our society. So much so that talking about it creates such cognitive dissonance that I know I’ll get defensive, even angry comments sharing these thoughts. People who genuinely respectfully parent and speak up for the injustices towards kids are so often ridiculed. Like I’ve said in the past, I don’t want to be viewed as a ‘good parent’ by a society that thinks so little of children.”

— How Many Well Intentioned People Dehumanise Children | Racheous