The Crack Fox, St. Louis MO
Strange New Twirls: A Burlesque Tribute to Star Trek
Performances by:
- Allura Fette
- Amber Adelaide
- Dizzy Tunt
- Rosemary Maybe (CHI)
- SAILEM (NOLA)
- Stella Cheeks (CHI)
Hosted by:
- Dizzy Tunt
- Marian Librarian
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The Crack Fox, St. Louis MO
Strange New Twirls: A Burlesque Tribute to Star Trek
How does anything get done on the set of Good Omens when David Tennant look like THAT
We keep him in a box until we're ready to shoot.
The Disappearing Act. support me with tips, kofi, commissions
This broke me-
Welcome back to stupid mega projects proposals this week we have:
why is connecticut getting fucked by this arrangement, i wanna be informed
Their train tracks are slow and their cities shitty
I don't know why this is fucking Connecticut over because yeah, that's a perfectly good train route that goes through several of the biggest cities and connects up along routes that aren't serviced well (or at all) right now.
Though allowing Uconn to breach containment and get to NYC and Boston for the weekend.... HAHAHAHAHA. jokes on you, other cities. Though maybe they'll light less things on fire if they can escape their enclosure to get enrichment.
It's not like the other train lines cease to exist so they can just feed to the high speed. The western side of the state is all serviced by Metro North (as I can actually hear the Metro-north horn right now where I'm typing). Hartford has a line feeding into it as a regional.
But if they would just like to guarantee peak traffic, go all the way out to the end of Long Island, come in at Old Saybrook, to New London, and go north to Uncasville, east to Mashantucket and then figure out how to get to Providence and Boston from there.
Why those? Uncasville and Mashantucket have the #2 and #3 largest casinos (by revenue) in the US there. There's buses there constantly and even more cars. Mashantucket has tried to get a train line to New London several times without success. That's the most economically viable route.
Long Island will hate every single second of it though. noooo, not a train line that I can't see! HOW DARE.
Illustration for Ukrainian folk tale “Wolf’s Song” by Yevgeny Rachyov, 1956
actually that's made me incredibly curious & I feel like I'm gonna know the answer
My fav version of poison ivys power origin story is a lá Thorns (medically tortured as a kid) and when she learns about a literal child following batman around she FREAKS OUT.
Ivy gets batman alone then serves him a total curveball: she wants to vaccinate Robin from most of her toxins. Bruce thinks it’s a trap until word on the street is that Scarecrow and joker had multiple poisons stolen. He confronts ivy and she admits to stealing them but it’s for the proposed vaccine for Robin.
The rules are that he’s not allowed any samples of the vaccine, and Robin stays with her for three hours for the vaccine to fully absorb into his system. Batman can stay with him, but only in the same room as she might need to use lab equipment.
So every Robin gets the very odd experience of having their biannual vaccine from Ms. Poison Ivy, where they are all on their best behavior and get biodegradable stickers while Bruce just very patiently sits next to them like >:| with one of those temperature guns aimed at their heads
Keeping the ball rolling, Harley also tries her best to be in town when its vaccine season so she can get her immunity shots with them (she and Ivy are freaks tho so she’s not immune to the love toxin). Whenever it’s hard for them to be around needles, she helps calm them and guides them through it.
Someone manages to snap photos of this whole ordeal and tries to frame it as “Batman’s working with a villain!! He’s actually bad!!” But very quickly PR King Bruce turns it into a media campaign about vaccinating your kids, because “even villains don’t want chicken pox” and every flu season there’s a photo series of all the batkids getting their shots, even other members of the Titans join in sometimes.
if i pay taxes can i ask the government to spend a good portion on public transport?
You can ask but unless you get 9,999 friends to also ask, it's unlikely they will listen
@amtrak-official follow up question, should i pay my taxes? so glad the irs does not have a tumblr
We still need to fund public works and trains but if you feel that the military industrial complex is getting too much of your money, I completely understand
It is coming up on town budget season in the US and this means, yes, you CAN very specifically annoy your local officials about the budget and how its spent!
Check your town website. Look for "Board of Finance" find the budget meeting that's open to the public. Show up and speak about what the hell the priorities are. "Hello I am a resident and think we should allocate more budget money to public transit infrastructure and less to the cops."
The smaller the town, the more outside the effect actually showing up has. Bring your friends. I'm in a town of about 20K and around 100 people show up for that budget meeting. Some I'm 1% of the meeting. If I bring several friends with me... that can end up being 4% of the meeting.
You probably aren't the only people there interested in the topic, but it may not be the main reason they came. Get up, say your piece, often you get follow up commenters who were there for entirely different reasons to throw in at end of their comment of "yeah also support what X said. We need bus benches"
Town budget meetings are the deeply UNglamorous bits of politics, but you can absolutely be loud and direct at them about what your local government should spend money on.
That also guides them on what to apply to the state and Fed for grants for. and demands for grants for those area tells them what the priorities are, even if you can't have much direct sway on the us senate itself.
Throw MOST of your effort in the local, let it multiply up instead of trying to yell directly at the fed as your first course of action.
Because I’m curious-
Reblog so this breaks containment and reaches people near the equator
Hilda by Duane Bryers
More Hilda!!
in this family we love and support Hilda.
Yes! Hilda!
What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.
I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day
I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy
My favorite thing is how Hilda is always doing something and having a BLAST! She’s not posing coyly for anyone, she’s having her own adventures and it’s not about the viewer at all
Always reblog Hilda!
HILDA MY LOVE
bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”
I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:
death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.
you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.
this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.
People on this site will put together polls like "The Banach-Tarski Paradox versus Camembert Cheese", then act like the results prove that they're surrounded by idiots.
I feel like this is ultimately a question of theory vs practice. The Banach-Tarski paradox is an astonishing discovery of pure mathematics, but cannot be empirically proven by the manipulation of physical objects. Camembert cheese has been conclusively proven to exist, and the methods of its synthesis have been refined over time. Yet, the quality of Camembert is subjective and variable from wheel to wheel. The truth value of the Banach-Tarski paradox is fixed and absolute, but it can never cast a shadow on the wall of Plato's cave. This illustrates the grander picture: that which exists can never truly be perfect; that which is perfect can never truly exist. The pain and longing generated by this contradiction is what drives us ever around the great wheel of Samsara until we are released from being.
That said, my money's on Camembert. I like cheese more than math.
I have bad cheese news for people.
Blue cheeses may be under threat, but the situation is much worse for Camembert, which is already on the verge of extinction. The world over, this other symbol of French gastronomy is inoculated exclusively with one single strain of Penicillium camemberti, a white mutant that was selected for Brie cheeses in 1898 and Camemberts in 1902. The problem is that ever since then the strain has been replicated by vegetative propagation only. Until the 1950s, Camemberts still had grey, green or in some cases orange-tinged moulds on their surface. But the industry was not fond of these colours, considering them unappealing, and staked everything on the albino strain of P. camemberti, which is completely white and moreover has a silky texture. This is how Camembert acquired its now-characteristic pure white rind. Year after year, generation after generation, the albino strain of P. camemberti, which was already incapable of sexual reproduction, lost its ability to produce asexual spores. As a result it is now very difficult for the entire industry to obtain enough P. camemberti spores to inoculate their production of the famous Norman cheese.
I suspect that it may be a common Asexual experience but when I imagine something as "sexy", I imagine something that makes your heart beat fast, that gives you goosebumps, that captures all your focus and puts a hitch in your breath and an odd tingle on the back of your neck, that is exciting and enjoyable to think about.
By extension, things that I believe are "sexy" include:
Walking into a Home Hardware Building Supply is better than a strip club to me, is what I mean
This isn't about wanting to bone down somewhere but I'll accept those answers too
I was torn between the art supplies and the fabric but there's something special about touching the fanciest paint brushes
alright alright I know no one likes reblogging polls, but please at least like the darn thing so the algorithm might send it to for you pages