I fucking hate James Tissot’s paintings because in ALL OF THEM there is ALWAYS someone staring right at you, but it’s not always immediately visible. You just feel watched by this mf. Sometimes the little shit is right there at the centre, but others the bastard is just gazing from the distance, it is CREEPY, my guys

STOP STARING AT ME, THIS IS DISCONCERTING AS FUCK

I think this is hilarious. We’ve been caught.

Digital studies of kitchen photos by Nigel Shafran and M.Simma on Flickr 

Police brutality in Belarus.

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More than 7000 people have been detained. They started to release them slowly and all the prisoners talk about how they were tortured, beaten, bones and spines broken, they couldn’t get any food for days and so on. People don’t receive any medical treatment there and are dying in the hospitals after they are released from detainment. And of course, the government denies everything.

PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD THE INFO IT’S OUR ONLY HOPE

You can find more info here: 1 , 2, 3

It’s in russian, so feel free to attach any good articles in english on reblogs. The world must know about it.

I’m reblogging it again because some people think that everything is good now, but it’s not and I can’t be silent about it. Yeah, today was a very calm day with huge peaceful protests, flowers, smiles. But it doesn’t change the fact that people were detained and tortured. 

Families and friends of these people still don’t know where they are and are they alive or not.

YOU CAN SUPPORT US BY DONATING HERE OR JUST SHARE THE INFO. TALK ABOUT IT. READ ABOUT IT.

@one-time-i-dreamt @cookie-sheet-toboggan

This has better pacing and comedic timing than most Hollywood movies

ljgkysetxdcfnvftjsthfgghkdfghj LMAOOO

The wolf is so done with the fox’s bs 😂

Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware.  Clearly this fox is operating on the Kitten OS.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

I LOVE THAT THEY KEEP PICKING UP MORE OMG

Man, The Spiderverse movie looks rough as hell.

can you imagine being at this con dressed as spiderman and this caravan passes by and you’re like “…I gotta go” and leave your friends in the dust

The first part triggers the sleeper cells the second part turns on rage mode for them

im Not Kidding i am going to Commit A Homicide

We as a species are each and every day becoming more creative in the ways with which we destroy eachothers lives.

@thenymreaper

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

The spiritual successor to Miette

Might I also add

May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit

Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children

I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from “i can has”. Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they’re talking about.

My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang

Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.

My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang

Me: ksst!

My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she’s been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!

Me: ok

My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang

Can haz snackytreat

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A fun game for quarantine

So with everybody trapped inside and looking for reasons not to strangle their loved ones in their sleep, I thought I’d share a game my gf and I made up. All you need to play is a way of generating a random number between 1 and 100. This generator will do it. We play Call of Cthulhu, so we have percentile dice lying around the house.

We call the game “Spectrum.” This is a game that is best played with someone you know really, really well. 

You only need 2 players: the clue-giver, and the guesser.

The guesser names a spectrum: meaning, any 2 things that could be mapped onto a range. For example:

- Sexy to unsexy

- Round to pointy

- Underrated to overrated

- Sandwich to not a sandwich

- Guilty pleasure to respectable source of fun

- normal thing to say to someone at the office to weird thing to say to someone at the office

And so on. For this example, let’s say the spectrum is polite to rude.

The clue-giver then rolls 1-100, and hides the result from the guesser. Let’s say they roll a 66. The clue-giver now needs to think of an example of something that is exactly 66% of the way into the Polite to Rude spectrum.

They then give that example to the guesser. Let’s say they decide their clue would be: “Going to a friend’s dinner party and bringing a nice dessert, serving the dessert on your friend’s dish, then taking the dish home with the leftover dessert and never returning the dish.”

It is now the guesser’s job to guess what number they rolled.

My gf and I have known each other for ten years, so we can regularly guess within 3 of the number! In the example above, she picked that clue for 66% on a polite-to-rude spectrum, and I got it exactly right. 

we’ve had a lot of fun with this game, so if you try it and have fun with it, let us know!

my favorite was when aria rolled on the spectrum of unsexy to sexy, and proceeded to describe a french werewolf priest wracked with abject guilt over his desires who has turned to god in a last-ditch attempt to restrain himself from monstrosity and pseudo-cannibalism. 

I guessed 99%. the answer was 100%.

so that’s it, that’s the absolute pinnacle of sexy for us as a couple. I am at peace.

kanye west: i’m running for president

all of us who have already gotten used to 2020’s fuckery:

Reminder for Americans: DO NOT vote for him whatever you do. Doesn’t matter if you’re serious or want to do it as a joke.

Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented that rock and roll sound 

You know what’s sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. It’s said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.

I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, who’s another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll — I’m pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.

Love Sister Rosetta Tharpe! #BlackGirlMagic

A few of her performances:

Also I heard she was bisexual…

Happy Black History Month! 

She was a BEAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

my favorite because shes shredding and says “lets do that again” and then shreds harder

B R U T A L

WHO HAS THIS KIND OF TIME IM GONNA SCREAM YALL

My fave Inktobers from 2018!

The Mayans had mastered water pressure and had fountains and toilets as early as 750 AD. Aztecs had running water and sewage.

The Victorians In the mid-1800s were dying of cholera because they just dumped their raw shit in the river Thames. They wouldn’t shower for months at a time because they were afraid of the polluted water.

Incans had created aquaducts in the slopes of the vast Andes mountains to reach the emperor, cities and farmers who used agricultural terraces.

Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans were far more advanced than the savage Europeans.

My history Professor snapped on a class of 200 - 300 students at once because they kept writing in their assignments that Natives to North and South America were less advanced and less civilized than Europeans. She didn’t even bother to say how racist it was past one comment, she then literally listed all the things they said in their assignments and debunked them. In sum, Europeans came to the Americas because their civilizations were dirty, underdeveloped, starved, plagued, impoverished, and war-torn. So, the whole foundation of the idea of the supremacy of Europeans/white ppl and their countries and culture was all fabricated to justify their greed and the reality THEY needed resources, refuge, and knowledge to support themselves and their willingness to commit genocide, instigate conflict, and enslave to do so.

Europe legit spent most of human history as a backwater of civilization, and the only way they got “ahead” at all was through genocide, slavery, and biological warfare

Lap it up.

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

yep.

I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.

You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).

A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.

A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.

VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)

So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.

So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.

Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.

I have never heard anyone explain it so clearly before. And I LIVED it.

So that’s why my older cousins don’t experience this…

This explains why I’ll sometimes start up a brand new game and discover it was released twelve years ago.