[themaninthegreenshirt]

The Musician Searching for Forgotten Pianos Inside Derelict Wonders 

Debussy said music is all about “the silence between the notes.” But for Romain Thiery, it’s about making sure that silence doesn’t grow too loud. Since 2009, the pianist and photographer has been spotlighting the world’s grandest pianos in their final hour, in equally stunning and crumbling abodes, to give them one last ghostly encore…  "Often they’ll be swimming in dust, resisting greenhouse vines, or standing alone in a ballroom. He advises zeroing in on lavish old estates as one of the more surefire ways to find an abandoned Baby Grand.“ 

[catsbeaversandducks]

What religion is this? I’m interested.

Photos by Life with Baldrick and Melchett

[realpestilence]

Raise your paws in the air like you just don’t care

[jadeseldomwishes]

Honestly, all these assholes on here saying shit about the MSD kids who are fighting for gun control are ignorant as hell.

-One of the public forum topics this year was on gun control. Some of those kids debated that resolution and when you do PF on a topic, you absorb so much text and material that most adults never bother to read. They know more than you.

-Some of them ARE old enough to vote and the rest will be 18 very soon, so stop saying they can’t vote.

-They are NOT being exploited to push an agenda. They are fighting for gun control themselves because they witnessed their classmates and teachers die. They are fighting because this shouldn’t be happening anywhere, especially not in schools.

Just because we (students) are young, doesn’t mean you know more than us. Being older doesn’t mean you’re smarter. Adults have allowed this to happen so we need to clean up after you. You assholes don’t know shit and care more about guns than our lives.

[triggerwarned]

You gotta be a real waste of human garbage to climb over the still-warm dead bodies of your peers for the chance to be famous. In 2018, the age of instant and fleeting internet fame, kids grow up to be celebrity shooting victims.

These kids are attention whores, not advocates.

They think “being at the end of an AR-15” lends them credibility? I’ve had a shot gun pulled on me by my own father. Gun control didn’t stop him and it didn’t stop Columbine or Maryland and it won’t stop the next shooter. I carry because I don’t want to be a victim, that’s my #neveragain.

[realpestilence]

They’re famous whether they want to be or not. They’re at least trying to use that fame for something good. Gun control does work, it’s been proven statistically; and also proven that fatalities rise when gun control is relaxed. No, it doesn’t stop all violence-no one claims it will. But stopping what we can is important. Assault weapons are for war, not for casual carrying on the street.

[emmagonzalezismymom]

Walk up, not out will never work

There is a lot of racial disparity in the way that this is covered. If this happened in a place of a lower socio-economic status or a place like a black community, no matter how well those people spoke, I don’t think the media would cover it the same. We have to use our white privilege now to make sure that all of the voices — all of the people that have died as a result of this and haven’t been covered the same can now be heard. It’s sad, but it’s true.

David Hogg, on using his white privilege to offset the racial disparity in the way gun violence is covered by the media
(via odinsblog)

[realpestilence]

Mr Shaw was fortunate enough to catch the shooter while he was reloading, which is a good reason to limit the magazine capacity on these guns, or the gun had jammed, per his own comments. He was burned by the hot barrel, but thankfully it wasn’t worse. James Shaw Jr is a hero, without question, because he was willing to take that risk. That doesn’t mean fearing to charge into the fire of an assault weapon is blameworthy. No one should have to outside of actual war, is the point. What is wrong with some of you?

[giographixnola]

rekt racist

[realpestilence]

No one thinks that poc are too stupid or lazy to get i.d. They are often unable to afford the different forms or fees, and that’s deliberate on the part of the government agencies. DMV offices have been closed & hours changed to make it inconvenient for people to travel to obtain i.d.-that’s aimed at the working poor who can’t get time off easily, or who don’t have cars.Many states require hard to obtain or multiple i.d.s to get copies of your birth certificate, or fees; & you might not be able to obtain the long form, in many cases. It’s called VOTER SUPPRESSION, & it targets the poor in general & poc in particular, given our institutional racism.

[young-activist]

“You didn’t know this kid!”

“Those talking about how we should not have ostracized him, you didn’t know this kid! Okay! We did!”

The moment I heard Emma González say those words, I felt shock hit me. I immediately understood the gravity of the statement because I’ve said that statement.

“You didn’t know this kid.”

In middle school, there was this kid no one talked to. Everyone avoided him, mainly because he creeped everyone out. I don’t mean creep out in he would pick his nose, I mean this kid would carve the names of people he hated into his skin. He would get a blade, cut the names of people he hated into his skin.

These weren’t even the names of people who bullied him. In fact, no one bullied him because they were scared of him.

He scared people. He scared me. I tried talking to him but he would always say something racist so I just stopped. He had a really bad temper and the look in his eyes worried everyone.

Us middle schoolers didn’t know what to do, we were all thirteen years old. So we did what any kid would do, we told the principal. The kid was taken out of our school and got the help he needed.

Many adults criticized us for “ostracizing him.” We should’ve been nicer to him.

Imagine sitting with a person who had your name scarred into your skin.

“You didn’t know this kid.”

My freshman year there were these two girls in my choir class who always kept to themselves, only talking to each other. The other choir kids tried talking to them and having them join their groups, despite sensing weird vibes, but these two girls didn’t care.

At lunch, they only sat with each other. My friend at the time, who was a junior, advised me it was best to keep my distance. She told me they were obsessed with school shooters and had fantasies about the Columbine shooters. How did this girl know? She used to be friends with them.

Then the girls just disappeared.

Later, I found out the two girls were arrested for terroristic threats because they had a hit list for my school. Names of people they were going to shoot and kill.

“You didn’t know this kid.”

Two boys were arrested this year, my junior year of high school, for terroristic threats after threatening to shoot up my school on social media.

You don’t know these kids.

No one knows a school shooter better than their fellow classmates. We know how these kids talk. We know how these kids walk. We know how these kids treat other people. We know how these kids see us. We go to school with these kids for years and years. We know how these kids.

You don’t know these kids.

Saying “walk up not out” is dangerous. By saying this you are ignoring our worries and fears. You are forgetting that we see the warning signs. You forget that we’ve reported these kids for years.

You are forgetting that we know these kids.

You are forgetting that you don’t know these kids.

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((Disclaimer: I am in no way condoning bullying or harassment, this is simply my view of “walk up not out”))

[realpestilence]

This is an important insight. There is a vast difference between bullying someone and avoiding them because they exhibit dangerous behavior that frightens you.