Anneliese Seubert @ Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall/Wint 1998

X has quietly replaced Iran’s official flag with the pre-1979 Shah-era flag, removing the Islamic Republic’s emblem that bears the "Allahu Akbar" inscription and the word "Allah" at its center.

The change comes amid ongoing protests in Iran involving riots and separatist-linked violence described by authorities as pro-Zionist and US-affiliated, giving the symbol change clear political weight, which also positions the platform as an active curator of political messaging and an enabler of the riots.

Hey get your filthy leftist hands off my country’s revolution. You lot already proved you don’t give a shit about Iranian lives so fuck off!

We will keep fighting until every last one of your beloved child-killing mullahs is gone

گمشو‌ بدبخت چپول هرچی بدبختی میکشیم از شما لاشخوراس

پاینده باد ایران

job market is crazy

There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time

Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

Queer joy detected!

No one more metal than historical Balkan women

I don't see it mentioned in the article but sicanje became especially significant during the Ottoman rule (15th-19th centuries) particularly for Catholic women in (today's) Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dalmatian hinterland. The practice served to make women 'less attractive' to Ottoman beys, thereby protecting them from kidnapping and rape, while simultaneously symbolizing their religious identity and resistance. Christian women in the region at the time faced the threat of abduction and forced conversion. It is told they also practiced scarification (secenje/sicanje) for the same reason at the time. So yeah, it symbolizes protection but it started with the intention to protect women from rape, harassment and abuse, and these tattoos are possibly still viewed with disdain by non-Christian communities in the region.

They tattooed children as young as six for this same reason (girls and boys)

They tattooed children

as young as six for this same

reason (girls and boys)

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

i love it when "liminal space" pictures are described as "strangely familiar" because they do not ever invoke nostalgia in me. on account of me not being american. this is what eastern european liminal spaces look like

may i add

if i had a dick i would love to have a disappointing orgasm in the shower while thinking of something or someone that i felt i should not be thinking about & then stand under the water with my forehead against a wall watching the proof of my guilt & shame go down the drain

The insight I get into the female mind thanks to this website is amazing.

not a female 👍

pause everybody take notes. real trans ally

I love the amount of hatred the 2021 car is drawn with. because I agree

Puggification of the modern car

you people are just fucking dying to call people faggots wokely. masculinity is not about absolute power; the kind of subordination and discipline that fascist men love in militaries is entirely compatible with masculinity and is not in fact a form of effeminacy. discipline to the nation and killing and dying for the nation is masculinism; the strict hierarchies that exist in militaries, police forces, etc exist to affirm the masculinity of the men involved, even those at the lowest levels, particularly given that these structures allow men to enact (racist, sexist, etc) violence on behalf of the nation, no matter how many superiors the men in question have.

I DONT WANT TO PASS EXAMS AND WRITE ESSAYS AAA*remembers i actually do like my field of study and i'm lucky to be able to study what i like* I Simply Wish I Had More Control Over The Timescale Of The Examination Process.

the american educatoin system sucks so bad i didnt even know there were numbers past 8 until i was 23 years olf i mean old

Lmao 😂

“Surely the kitten doesn’t really say ‘meep.’”

“…”

“I stand corrected.”

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

... the worst bit is I know several people this could be, especially given the 'in Australia' clarification

If you know them then there's a chance I might know some of them and that thought will keep me up at night.

This wasn’t the guy who we all know who used to spray his jeans with Mortein and then light himself on fire, was it?

He used to sit at the back of the bus, cup his hand, spray deodorant into it, then open it and light it on fire with a lighter in one fell swoop to try and impress girls.

He had to stop because the bus company begged our school to tell him to stop bc of legal liability. His hands never actually got damaged after doing it for about a year.

I reached out to my old friend in question here, because I've been thinking about him all day.

I do not know what "the amulet" is. I have no idea what "the amulet" is referring to.

I instantly remembered when he said that.

While we were all at the local park doing legal things that teenagers would do back in the late 2000s, my friend here found a rock at our old smoke spot that was unusually smooth and flat. He liked it so much that he took it to the woodwork classrooms at school, drilled a hole in it, and hung it on a necklace.

When we asked why he weanwearing this dinky-ass pebble on his neck, he claimed it prevented him from ever getting food-related illnesses: wouldn't get food poisoning, couldn't over-eat, was able to ingest anything (prior to him finding The Amulet, a few of us used to play a game called "Devil's Piss" where we would take turns shoving random food bits into a bottle of coke, and the first person to take a sip would get two dollars from the other players).

When we all asked him for the proof that this rock is magical—because nobody believed him, obviously—he said to meet him behind the History block at lunch, where he said he would drink two litres (or half a gallon) of milk in one go and not puke.

We met him there, and about ten of us all watched him down a whole bottle of strawberry milk in two or three breaths.

He didn't puke.

He jumped up and down and punched his stomach to prove it.

He still didn't puke.

I'm so glad I'm alive.

Art by Leksø Tiger