On the privileges of being attractive https://www.allure.com/story/pretty-privilege

Perhaps understanding that people who do great things may not always be great themselves, or as great as we want to imagine them to be, but that does not take away the things that they did were great, and we can still celebrate these things

We can still celebrate that Gandhi brokered India's independence, that Churchill was pivotal in ending WW2 and saved lives in the West, Vonnegut spread a humanist lesson drawn from those wars

Take a look at birthday Pope's loooooooooooooooooong pizza https://mastodon.social/media/qy03B35EMkEqJqtzYg0

Jackie Chan peacefully passed by a store in Koreatown, NYC today at age 63.

I stole this https://twitter.com/kingrocketz/status/941804814027120641 https://mastodon.social/media/BirT5866ZyV9pNRMExg

Choose your fighter https://mastodon.social/media/Xjk7lDHp0QWPoKphO6Y https://mastodon.social/media/Dmhaiz106OTppovxJZ4

gamering gamong is the best https://mastodon.social/media/I0ruZIpd9fq8kHdT5Q8

TIL there is a British poet who is so bad that he deserves the Rifftrax/MST3K treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall

Who is John Alt

This is what the fediverse deserves https://mastodon.social/media/mTKtN9wi5zr_rBlMqGA

Pretty amazingly accurate Super Mario Bros music and sfx cover on an ancient chinese instrument called a sheng! I imagine this is a modern sheng so it may not originally make sounds at the perfect pitch for that https://youtu.be/_z5MA4HifD4

@clacke duterte is the 16th and yeah things could be better

@clacke I'm from the Philippines! Look up People Power

@clacke the people power revolutions are not very radical. The coalition that intersected the left, religious, multiple sectors, some politicians, has very little in common, and very specific aims

@clacke I was in a revolution; helped kicked out two of our presidents actually

oh yeah the meme https://mastodon.social/media/R0GhBfoFmLe1laKHmJg

I still see a lot of intellectual types do it and, I feel like pointing out, the connections these ideas had at the grassroots level, they were there in the 60s and 70s, they faded out in the 80s. Not to discount all revolution, but, you know, for most of us, it's more pragmatic to affect things on the ground. Take care of ourselves and others

I don't think reading old books about radical political theories is that much useful anymore TBH