It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

I love that inserting cats into crafting videos crosses cultures.

This is why I don't mind paying $$$ for my small-batch, handmade paints.

V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Extortion

English added by me :)

Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manager of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.

Obviously people tag this with fictional characters who match this dynamic, but I have to say I am OBSESSED with everyone who is like “this is me for real in actual life. I would die for you, assistant manager brenda.”

"stop talking about harrow fingering the chussy" listen i don't love it either but you gotta understand there is PRECEDENT

like of COURSE harrow is going to finger the chussy. it comes free with your lesbian jesus resurrection narrative

ok i didn't think it was gonna be THAT on the nose. he really literally put his finger in there

This video is a perfect demonstration of just how badly elderly people need to be introduced to video games. Like it should be a thing in facilities and assisted living, it's like a no brainer, and could enrich these people's live SO MUCH!!!

me: “okay, who stole all my 5 tons of dragon cum?

my car:

Your what

okay, this post sent me INSANE. Not because of the cursed nonsense its saying, although that was pretty funny, but because of that image. I have seen it before, floating around the supposedly humorous corners of the internet, always captioned with something or rather.

But where did it come from? What was it?

So begins the bizarre rabbit hole that was finding the actual source for this fucking picture.

This image has been used in memes and gags since about 2011, but its source seemed to link back to a series of 2009 articles on Erwin Wurm’s Fat Cars series of sculptures.

Erwin Wurm is an austrian artist and sculptor who made a series of life sized “fat” cars from 2001 to 2005, along with a whole lot of other sculptures including a pickle, a van bent in half, a ute parked half up a wall, a truck who’s tray is bent up onto the wall, and a fat house. Check out his art gallery site, it’s pretty cool:

There’s just one problem. This particular image is NOT one of his sculptures.

The internet insisted that it was. But it wasn’t. Apart from appearing to be a photo-manipulation rather than a sculpture, it also didn’t fit the art style of the rest of his series. My search continued.

I was following dead link after dead link through the wayback machine, but everything led back to 2009 articles on Erwin Wurm’s sculptures, but the images themselves were from even older blogspot posts with no attribution.

I kept digging.

Pinterest, of all things, was to be my saviour.

The same image, again, but this time, something was different. You could see more of the driveway, more of the hedge, the image itself zoomed out. The meme image was a cropped version!

There was a caption: “Think about what it consumes before buying”, and a url too small to read. The pinterest post itself linked, again, to an article on Erwin Wurm.

I would not let this be a dead end, I had come too far. I opened up the page source on pinterest and grabbed the image url, and let google image search run a reverse image search on this new, uncropped image.

At last, like an angel rising from the ashes of a thousand ancient links to Erwin Wurm, was my saviour. The beginning. The source:

An ad campaign on energy efficiency by the Belgian Government from 2007.

It is part of a series of four ads, including a washing machine:

a fridge:

and a radiator:

Don’t ask me why it thinks that radiator is another washing machine. I assume its a translator error.

Thank you for following me on this insane journey. The name Erwin Wurm will haunt my dreams.

idgaf what cutesy shit tumblr tries to pull for April Fools, this is still the same website where the multimillionaire CEO stalked a trans woman across multiple platforms because she bruised his fragile ego, where a moderator took bribes to delete accounts, where moderation disproportionately targets black, transfem, and pro-Palestinian bloggers, where literal hardcore heterosexual pornography can be both posted without consequence and actively advertised to users while trans women posting transition timelines get hit with the banhammer, where outright hate speech goes unpunished but an obvious shitpost results in the associated account's termination, and where its leadership advertises it as the queerest site on the internet while doing all of the above. No amount of silly goofy gimmicks will change that.

Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

@kittybroker

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

what drugs were they on when they made this

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

idk why this is making me so emotional???

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

WALLOWING !!

The importance of boycotting

Keep this in mind for all boycotting. From doing it for Palestine to DR Congo to whoever else needs our support.