Madeline Kahn - History of the World, Part I (1981)

This was the last of the bathrooms I drew. I feel this one isn’t as “cool” as the other ones but it holds a special place in my heart because it has my dogs and my mom’s dog in it <3 . Also, I definitely wanna continue this series. Thinkin about a vaporwave/scifi bathroom or maybe even a body horror bathroom. Someone suggested a konpeito bathroom and I haven’t been able to get that out of my head! Maybe next year 😏

Over the last 24-48 hours, TikTok has gone gloves off and basically said, "alrighty, you think we're a propaganda machine? Then we're going to be a fucking propaganda machine. Specifically, we're going to undo YOUR propaganda."

Dozens of Chinese manufacturers are getting pushed to the FYP right now and spilling all SORTS of tea about luxury brands and how much they actually cost and the factory conditions and how you too can just get stuff directly and even with the tariffs it'll still be cheaper than buying it here in the US.

Now, is this still propaganda from China, with things probably being glossed over and sweetened up? Of course. But it's still utterly fascinating to watch this unfold. The whole TikTok fight this year has been. Papers need to be written about this shit from cultural perspectives, sociological perspectives, economic perspectives, political perspectives, political perspectives, all the perspectives because we are in the middle of a literal digital war between two global super powers and the main battlefield is a social media app. It's wild.

hit it, Neil!

"In a gesture of goodwill and neighborliness, Indian officials transferred 88 ambulances to Sri Lanka counterparts back in 2016.

Now, ten years on, this gift has turned out to be a lifesaving one for 1.5 million Sri Lankans who have ridden and received urgent care in the back of those ambulances and the ones added to the fleet in the following years.

At the time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over the ambulances and Sri Lanka was able to launch the nation’s first national emergency service—equivalent to our 911 or Britain’s 999.

“Today, the fleet size of ambulances has grown to 322. It is used to provide free emergency transportation services to the whole country day and night,” Sri Lankan Minister of Health and Media Nalinda Jayatissa told Modi in a communication last Saturday.

Jayatissa said that national statistics report that 2.44 million people have received care in these ambulances for things like cardiac arrest, stroke, and road accidents. 65% of these were in the “golden hour” where medical care within a few minutes can make the difference between life and death immediately.

“That is nearly 1.5 million lives saved up to now due to your generosity, and continues to save lives in Sri Lanka,” Jayatissa said.

Sri Lanka ranks well above other South Asian countries in the Human Development Index with an index score of 0.750, and out of 142 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum, Sri Lanka cracked the top-third in terms of health industry. That was in 2011, before the ambulance donations arrived.

More modern estimates keep Sri Lanka ahead of other South Asian economies for health industry development, and the island has eradicated several infectious diseases ahead of established targets. Its life expectancy of 75.5 years at birth is 10% higher than the world average, and the country is ranked number 5 on the World Giving Index which ranks charitable behavior and gestures among the population."

-via Good News Network

a couple years ago the eric carle museum of picture book art had an exhibit on diane & leo dillon who are responsible for so many iconic illustrations. i went back twice just to see the collection again. this is a sliver of their work— it’s hard to find high res images.

#I honestly never thought of the second half before!#it really is torture for people who spent their lives dedicated to change#and how would you be happy with all the people you helped getting screwed over anyway?#the good place spoilers#the good place

They came up with the perfect reward for selfish people that is horrible torment for selfless people and said "let's give this reward to only the most selfless people"

I mean we are assuming Michael's neighborhood is based on a real neighborhood. It could be the real neighborhoods are way more varied and fulfilling. We have no idea how long they were there but they never got (spoilers) like the real ones they eventually meet

No we're not. Real neighbourhoods have nothing to do with it; the point is that the heaven presented in season 1 isn't heartwarming but incredibly depressing.

And when we do see the real Good Place, we quickly learn that yeah. It sucks. What makes a nice holiday doesn't make a nice eternity and the non-humans who put the place together can't figure out why. Michael's is worse, of course, since he added elements specifically to torture specific people, but the very fundamentals are flawed. (That's what the whole show is about, after all.) We don't see anybody rebelling in an attempt to save the people they love and care about from hell but that's probably because the people we see have been there for fucking ever and are resigned to the situation; hundreds of years of failing to find a way to breach the walls in a place like that would make anyone give up.

not a disagreement but a personal anecdote: i have yet to find a way to quickly and succinctly explain to christians that if heaven and hell were literally real it's bonkers that the people in heaven aren't trying to rescue and rehabilitate the victims of hell. you're telling me the greatest heroes and saints of history just go sit on a cloud forever? the most selfless and noble diplomats and peacemakers get confirmation that most people ever born are going to burn forever? and they praise the god that decided this?

it seems to me that if heaven and hell were real, the sorting algorithm would have to be 'people who are fine with that kind of god (good)' and 'rebels (bad)'. a heaven only for collaborators sounds like a really fucked up bribe, to me.

but a lot of people don't seem to have ever thought about this and don't like it when you ask them these questions.

Historically accurate reconstructions of chinese hanfu, restored from archaeological artifacts (Jinhua Museum collection金华博物馆, cr 中国古代装束复原小组)

White & Red Dragon by Romain MAZEVET

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the scene where odysseus kills the suitors is very dramatic and all but like. he’s got no clothes on????

i arrive on ithaca

bow: strung

disguise: off

dick: out

This feels like a safe space to share that I really hate it in movies when they’re, like, crossing this wretched fuckoff gorge by a rope bridge and some jagoff cuts the bridge like - I do NOT want to even think about how much work and material and handcraft that was!! And then people had to install it as well!! Imagine how many commutes you’re fucking up! Stop destroying rope bridges assholes

Oh joyous day! Happy 19th anniversary of neil banging out the tunes and happy 16th anniversary of homestuck

I appreciate this Fandom

Girl, Help ADVANCE is trying to say Albo is woke I'm pissing

Will never adjust to serious political parties using language that used to be the exclusive domain of hentai addicted 4chan trolls