Black Panthers studying Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong. The Panthers initially raised funds by selling copies of the Little Red Book on campuses and roadsides. The book was required reading for all Panthers.
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in chinese we dont say “i love you” we say “亂倫是最好的” which means “our love has no comparison.” i think it’s beautiful
What if someone tattooed this on themselves because of this post
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Good bad taste is celebrating something without thinking you’re better than it… Bad bad taste is condescending, making fun of others.John Waters (via glassandashes)
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Numbers stations are mysterious shortwave radio channels of indiscernible origin that exist in countries all across the world and have been reported since World War 1. They are identifiable by the unusual contents of their broadcasts: seemingly random sequences of numbers, words, letters, tunes, and Morse code, usually spoken by artificially generated voices of women and children.
The most common theory regarding the purpose of these bizarre stations is that they’re used by governments the world over to secretly transmit encrypted commands and messages to spies. That said, even though numbers stations have been discovered all over the globe and in any number of different languages, no government has ever officially acknowledged their existence. While the espionage theory is a logical one, with no official confirmation of their purpose the jury is still out.
One particularly odd station, UVB-76, has existed since the late 1970s and has broadcast a simple, repetitive buzzing tone 24 hours a day ever since. On very rare occasions, however, listeners have reported a Russian voice interrupting the buzz to read out sequences of numbers and words, always in a consistent format — this happened once in 1997, once in 2002, once in 2006, 56 times in 2010, and 14 in 2011. As with all numbers stations, its true purpose is and will probably remain unknown, but the increase in frequency of whatever it’s doing is certainly odd.
You can listen to well over 100 recordings of numbers stations for free on archive.org but be forewarned that they’re all kind of, well, eerie. They feel like something you shouldn’t be listening to, which stands to reason since apparently you’re not supposed to know they exist.
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“Police Buddha” 「南無警察大菩薩」
Propaganda Poster, Japanese Colonial Period, Taiwan.
日治時代 台灣
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She [Leonora Carrington] was educated by governesses, tutors, and convent schools. A series of expulsions from school for rebellious behavior and a habit of writing backward in mirror script served to fuel her implacable adolescent loathing of Church and family. A family friend recalls that at age fourteen, introduced to the local priest, she scandalized the assembled company by pulling up her dress (she was wearing nothing underneath) and demanding, “Well, what do you think of that?Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (via howtotalktogirlsdialectically)
