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@m-madeleine

~Lev ~lazy writer, angry crier & certified bi disaster. ~they/them | 18+
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Reblogged thestartrekunicorndog
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Bureaucratics is a project consisting of a book (ISBN 978-1-59005-232-7, now sold out) and a traveling exhibition that has so far been shown in museums and galleries in some twenty countries on five continents. The book and the exhibition contain 50 photographs and are the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. Bureaucratics is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen. In each country, I visited up to hundreds of offices of members of the executive in different services and at different levels. The visits were unannounced and the accompanying writer, Will Tinnemans, by interviewing kept the employees from tidying up or clearing the office. That way, the photos show what a local citizen would be confronted with when entering.
The photography has a conceptual, typological approach reminding of August Sander’s ‘Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts’ (‘People of the Twentieth Century’). Each subject is posed behind his or her desk. The photos all have a square format (fitting the subject), are shot from the same height (that of the client), with the desk – its front or side photographed parallel to the horizontal edges of the frame – serving as a bulwark protecting the representative of rule and regulation against the individual citizen, the warm-blooded exception. They are full of telling details that sometimes reveal the way the state proclaims its power or the bureaucrat’s rank and function, sometimes of a more private character and are accompanied by information such as name, age, function and salary. Though there is a high degree of humour and absurdity in these photos, they also show compassion with the inhabitants of the state’s paper labyrinth.
#Oh that's so fun#Zeroed in on the Russian one of course#Man that office looks like ass#But also that characteristic shape of the window bars.....and the fortochka.....and I recognize the tea brand.... 🥲#But I love all of these#The teenage intern(?) in the French one haha#And something so heartwarming about this#The bureaucrat is almost everywhere#Even if the location looks different from what I'm used to and they're sitting on the floor or outside#Gotta put down numbers and document stuff and check up on those rules#And like this does also show the mundanity of state violence#There's been tragedy in those rooms#And the bureaucrat well they have to move on#Maybe they feel bad about it maybe they don't#Yeah#Very interesting project#I should see if I can find more pictures (edit: they're all on the linked website with more info! Check it out)#Photography#Photo journalism#Of sorts
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Reblogged inoffizielles-deutschland
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nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov
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So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

#Chthonion the slim/lotr writer whose longfic I'm considering bingereading for the fifth time???#Unexpected but thank you mx chthonion#And thank you Mr Eclipse#NGL previously I just thought this was harmlessly funny#It's a weird map anyway#The Irish border doesn't connect#Also while trying to figure out if the Soviet borders were correct I learned that Mongolia has never been Soviet just a satellite state#Which feels like an embarrassing thing not to have known#Nasa#Space stuff#Sun eclipse#Geography
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Reblogged thestartrekunicorndog
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From a 1983 issue of my library’s staff newsletter comes this poll with some questionable questions.

Also, I did not Google “milk machine” while I was at work. I wasn’t born yesterday!

Also by the time I started in 2013, you could no longer smoke in the indoor part of the Staff Lounge, but you could still smoke outside in the “cage” attached to the Staff Lounge.

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#Oh my God#Reminds me of my last job at an academic library that was founded ca the 50s#The downstairs depot had non smoking signs on the door on both sides (DUH????????)#One of the colleagues told us that when she started 20 ish years ago it was still normal to smoke up in the offices#Milk machine is a whole nother level of cursed tho#Polls
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Tagged by @teddy-after-all and the stars aligned for me to actually fill it out for once. Mea culpa wrt all the ones I've missed

Last Song: Never Be The Same Again by Mel C feat Lisa Lopes. Chill beat with a friends to lovers narrative plus massive ladygay vibes, recommended

Last Movie/TV Show: Deep Space Nine. My beloved wife! Wrt movie, dude I genuinely do not remember, unless the DS9 pilot counts. I am bad at sitting down for movies on my own and I haven't watched one with anyone else in a looong time, especially now that I have sensory troubles with movie theaters :(

Favorite Color: Ehhhh I most like colors based on context and combination really? Like pink orange red is an elite color palette. Orange is a good highlight color for interior decorating. For clothing I like blue and black (yes yes not a color). And generally lots of colors are cool. Like dusty rose, sage green etc etc. Honestly white (yes yes not a color) and all adjacent shades are sort of elite from an art perspective to me. I have a little all white sculpture and I love watching how the shadows change on it

Currently Watching: Deep Space Nine, very slowly. Making my way through a Garashir episode rec list (made by fwiend @birbdeath :3), at the same time just went back to catch up on season 1 episode for episode with my roommate

Currently Reading: A Stitch in Time by Andy Robinson. Also Big Girl Small Town by Michelle Gallen. Also a Rus-language queer sex ed book.

Current Game: Crossplay, the NYT take on scrabble. I only really remember to make a move when the app threatens to end the game but I am trying to persevere, Maureen my randomly assigned scrabble friend deserves it. Also occasionally remember to do an Anthropeum round

Current Obsession: Rocky/Grace fanworks, no I still haven't seen the movie (: No real reason at first, but now I am mildly worried it'd eclipse my DS9 feels and like, I'm not done with that! Also still DS9 but I'm not in a snorting fic like crack phase atm

Currently Working On: OH BROTHER. Making my way through DS9. Job applications. Dusted off some old fic WIPs a while ago but applications and interviews keep getting in the way

Coffee or Tea: Tea

Last Thing I ate: Celery sticks, crunch crunch

Last Place I Went: Oh, something fun actually. Jewish community group for Havdalah

Last Internet Search: local weather, it changeable and rainy

God the unmedicated ADHD is radiating from this one lmao. I'm titrating down on my SNRI and it's not going great lol.

Tagging anyone who sees this and feels like it!

#Askbox meme#Sort of#Tagged in#Teddy-After-all#About me
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Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space

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Don't forget to play it loud as fuck

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please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.

This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.

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It took them two tries to ban it?

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#PLEASE listen to this#I lost it when the trumpets came in#Apparently this genre is called psychobilly and yeah that sounds accurate#Actually tho this guy is iconic Bowie found him super interesting and actually named Ziggy Stardust after him!#On music
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Reblogged boasamishipper
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The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

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Or…

GIF by whattimeisitanyway
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a few more artists i love:

here’s a playlist with a good mix of the above genres + some alt & indie from Black artists

#Omg thank you#I listen to a lot of rap hip hop dancehall disco and also some black pop artists#but I know significantly fewer alt/indie/rock/etc black artists and I'd love to change that#Good list#On music#Black artists