Prof. Stoke @professor_stoke@mastodon.cloud

Elbow bump or weenus wiggle

I take pictures of old things for a living

It’s almost always fascinating to see these objects and imagine what they meant to the people who used them

but the other day I took a photo of a heap of copper bracelets. I asked the curator why they were in a pile. Why we weren’t photographing them individually

That pile of bracelets was the cost for a European to purchase an enslaved person in Luanda in the early 1600’s

That was a hard thing to see

On the darkest possible night, under the clearest possible atmospheric conditions, the countless stars you can see in the night sky are only 0.000001% of the total number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

#NoFoolin

*experiences anything* hmm..... what if i made that

My brain is flowering again, yaaaaaaay!

(It's a type of succulent called lithops)

In order to convey the seriousness of the situation,

the emergency broadcast signal will be replaced by that bear saying “help me” from Annihilation

US folks: Instacart's workers are planning a strike on Monday. Don't cross the picket line.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agmvd/instacarts-gig-workers-are-planning-a-massive-nationwide-strike

Me, a scorpion, cracking stupid jokes to a frog and making us both feel painfully awkward: "it's in my nature."

Rent strikes work! Watch out, fat-cat landlords!

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RT @kittynouveau@twitter.activitypub.actor
this is so sexy https://t.co/ndQX4Ixdea
https://twitter.com/kittynouveau/status/1242903288644800512

If anyone tries to tell you rent forgiveness or rent strike is extreme or radical in these times just show them this:

U.S. Retailers Plan to Stop Paying Rent to Offset Virus Closures

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/u-s-retailers-plan-to-stop-paying-rent-to-offset-virus-closures