We Are The Reckless

Income inequality can be seen from space

youngbadmanbrown:

Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality. After writing that article, I was curious, could I actuallyseeincome inequality from space? It turned out to be easier than I expected.

Below are satellite images from Google Earth that show two neighborhoods from a selection of cities around the world. In case it isn’t obvious, the first image is the less well-off neighborhood, the second the wealthier one.

Rio de Janeiro

Rochinha

Zona Sul

Oakland

West Oakland

Piedmont

Houston

Fourth Ward

River Oaks

Chicago

Woodlawn

Hyde Park

Beijing

Fengtai

Chaoyang

Boston metro area, Massachusetts

Ball Square, Somerville

West Cambridge

Motherfuck Wall Street, we need to be occupying some god damn shrubbery. Burn down a rich person’s trees.

(via kingcakes)

By fall, I will have spent nine years buying comics on a weekly basis. What could I buy with all that money, I wonder.

Of the several random issues I spent my allowance on that first fateful Wednesday, I’ve pretty much forgotten all of them. Except! Captain Marvel #15, Crazy Like A Fox Part 1. A terrible time to start reading, in theory, what with this arc being the culmination of over a year of stories (not to mention the 30 plus issues of the previous volume). Buuuuuuuut I fell so instantly in love with it that I hunted down the rest of the issues.

I’m currently rereading the series and when I got back up to the fifteenth issue I just had this weird moment of, “You, you fucking bastard. You’re the reason I dived into comics and never looked back.” 

sexincomics:

“Well, the fingering has to be just right.”

sexincomics:

In space, no one can hear your writhing climax.

“Death, thunder god, is akin to lovemaking. It gets better every time.”

Confrontations I want to see in the movies. 

Sometimes I call the current (buried but recovering maybe?) WWE Tag Team Division the “The Coloured Division” because that’s where 99% of the PoC’s in the company end up.

(Maybe Hunico/Camacho is a stretch, they tend to job in singles competition and Camacho is mostly Hunico’s valet, but when they do fight as a tag team they’re more than the sum of their parts enough that I list them together optimistically).

Make no mistake, I loves me some CM Punk, John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, etc. I just look back fondly on when the biggest name in wrestling was half black, half Samoan, all Electrifying.

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sexincomics:

“In God’s name, move your head!!”

Pity that I destroyed mine.