fuckyeahtattoos:

First half of my aquatic leg sleeve.

Dearbeatricee.tumblr.com

fuckyeahtattoos:

My octopus- done at Deeds of the Flesh in Thornton, Colorado by Jerry. He is an incredibly talented artist and was able to create exactly what I wanted for my first tattoo.

Photo credit goes to Drew Lundquist, check out his amazing work here!

effyeahpetrats:

Can I has treat?

(You can have all the treats! Submitted by kugo.tumblr.com)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! when they eat!

fuckyeahtattoos:

Atlantic sea nettle jellyfish, done beautifully by Chelsea at Amulet Tattoos in St. Petersburg, FL. She is an absolutely amazing artist.

wearethe99percent:

- If you work hard, you should be paid hard. 

- If you believe the USA is GREAT, you shouldn’t be “proud” of disproportionate struggling just to survive. 

- We have created more wealth through capitalism than any other developed country.

- That wealth, created by OUR WORK, has ALREADY BEEN REDISTRIBUTED upwards towards 1% of the people. YOUR money has ALREADY been taken FROM you.

- We used to be able to have a great standard of living on ONE income. They’ve eroded that away. Now we’re “proud” to work multiple jobs because it means we’re not “lazy”. Were your grandparents lazy?

- You should not be grateful to your boss for your paycheck. Your boss should be grateful to you for his/hers. 

- We’ve lowered our own quality of life standards because the 1% has successfully conditioned us that our own “laziness” keeps us struggling. It is the WORKING class which hold down 2+ jobs and barely make it. That is the opposite of lazy.

- Slavery (or “lowered labor costs”) is a result of unchecked capitalism. Except our chains are now invisible, in the form of DEBT, which we are encouraged to incur at every step of our lives, from our education (as an “investment”) to shopping (as a “patriotic duty”.)

- Check the stats: WE WORK HARDER and LONGER than any other population in any other developed country with the WORST benefits and have among the WORST standard of living and most income inequality, because we’ve bought the narrative that having it any other way is SOCIALISM.

- In the entire history of capitalism, it has only ever been 1% who have controlled the vast majority of wealth. The greatest trick they’ve ever pulled is convincing us that we can one day be a part of it too. Except that it’s never happened. Not even in the “great” country of “opportunity”, America.

- If YOU don’t like living in a society where yes, even stupid, lazy, ugly, fat, poor, non-white, non-christian people get healthcare, help when they’re down, protection against predatory capitalism, then YOU leave America and leave it for the 99% to FIX.

- As for me? Healthy, unemployed, no health insurance, worked since I was 15, have a graduate degree from an excellent university in Washington, DC, virtually no credit card debt, $95k debt for school, my immigrant parents are retired, my brother’s in law school. And I’m sure we’ll be fine as long as no one gets sick or has an accident. I have plenty of family living in Europe. Don’t tell me they prefer our system or that they’re “lazier” than we are. They just value life in a way we’re told not to. 

- I am a proud (and lucky) 99%er. And so is everyone I know. 

- You deserve better. We all deserve better. 

To the 1%: Winter may slow these protests, but Spring will soon come.  You didn’t think you would last forever, did you? 

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

wearethe99percent:

I don’t know you.

I can’t speak for you.

I can’t know how you personally identify.

But I do know that I just counted photos of

1028 people I perceived as white, and

123 people I perceived as not white

on wearethe99percent.tumblr.com (as of 4:00 10/12/2011)

By these numbers, 89% of the pictures telling personal stories that included photographs were of white individuals or groups of only white people. Based on 2010 Census, 64% of the US is white (non-Hispanic).

So who’s dominating this discourse? Are we really the 99%?

Know your enemies, but know your privilege too. Think about race. Think about class.

I am one part of the 99 percent, and I want to be very conscious of the rest.

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My (sloppy) method: I clicked through all 84 pages of tumblr making tally marks for people I thought were white, and people I thought were not white. I kept record of the amounts of submissions without photographs or indicators of race, but then I lost count. My numbers are likely off some, because I didn’t double check them. Regardless of this exercise’s precise accuracy, the visual absence of people of color in many of the Occupy _____s is stark. My judgements of “white” and “not white” should not be taken as an insinuation that I am the expert in determining race, or that I am obsessed with racializing everyone I see. It should, however, be recognized as a reflexive response that has been ingrained in us to immediately asses people by attributing to them race, gender, and other identity classifiers. This tally test was a result of me wanting to test my visceral perception of the “99 percent’s” visual representations.

god i could give this person a big fat wet sloppy kiss for this shit

I was deployed to Iraq 4x

5 of my friends are dead
1 of my friends is missing his arm
1 of my friends killed himself
I’ve been blown up 2x by roadside bombs
Hearing fireworks makes me nervous
I don’t sleep at night

All so bankers and war profiteers could get richer

I am the 99%
www.occupywallst.org

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

[TOP: NON HISTORY MAJOR IN 200 LEVEL CLASS COMPLAINS ABOUT AMOUNT OF READING

BOTTOM: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE]

Lo, weep for the history majors, for we shall deplete forests with our printing habits.