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[cronenburger]

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[adventuressclubamericas]

POV: Bert & Cec discover that you haven't registered yet, and time is running out!

Register now at www.missfishercon.com or at the link in our bio.

[folklorespring]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/10/two-killed-in-rare-street-demonstration-over-womens-rights-in-afghanistan

[questcequecestqueca]

She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.

Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.

Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.

The record label will never put her name on the album.

Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.

The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.

Carol could do it on the first try.

She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.

But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.

That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.

She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.

Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.

She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.

The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.

For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.

Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.

And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.

But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.

Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.

And the world didn’t know her name.

[clevermanka]

She was admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 but refused, fuck yeah, Carol. Her official website is incredible.

[bethanyactually]

From the homepage of Carol’s website:

I’m always deeply devoted since the 1970s to the cause of studio musicians being recognized for the talent and full scope of their depth in helping to create the 1960s-70s hit records and movie/TV show soundtracks.

The Denny Tedesco-Hal Blaine "wrecking" film-doc doesn't tell the real story as he said it would, it's skewered, re-edited. We were never known as the Hal Blaine-invented 1990 self-promo "wrecking crew" term - like Leon Russell, Al Kooper others say, that's pure baloney. The 50-60 of us (out of 400+ hard-working recording musicians) were sometimes called the CLIQUE and most were successful jazz musicians with fine reputations before ever doing studio work.

Kent Hartman obtained my interview under fraud pretenses. His phony "wrecking" book re-invents history, please don't buy it. See my Autobiography! Thank you, Carol K.

I support the Howard Roberts Tribute Documentary which has many of our Studio Musicians in it.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for

[werewolf-transgenderism]

there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows

[werewolf-transgenderism]

GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ

[markscherz]

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[nonbinaryjudean]

"it's antizionism, not antisemitism" "it's criticism of Israel, not antisemitism" "we're against people who support Israel, not jews"

and yet, it looks like this:

jewish kids getting bullied at school

people rewriting jewish history and saying that jews should have "learned our lesson" from the genocide that killed over 40% of us

world famous and filthy rich director spike lee wearing a full "free palestine" get up to the NBA all-star game to intimidate the only israeli, only jewish NBA all-star, Deni Avdija

protestors heckling and harassing soviet-born american jewish musician Regina Spektor during her concerts

calls for israeli jewish actress Gal Gadot to be booted from the film industry & for every film she's in to be boycotted for her nationality

Lani Mekeel, a jewish and lakota indigenous rights activist getting physically assaulted by students protesting for "free palestine" and "against colonialism"

Josh Shapiro, a jewish governor, having his house set on fire in an arson attack on passover

calls for Jewish student organizations to be removed from universities

websites dedicated to listing the name and address of every Jewish organization in the state of Massachusetts, including a high school and people's homes

calls to boycott jewish businesses

jewish-owned businesses being robbed, vandalized, review-bombed

colleges holding talks and seminars given by people who invoke medieval european blood libel antisemitic talking points

nobel prizes awarded to people who have openly celebrated the deaths of jews

Paul Kessler, an elderly Jewish man, being murdered at a protest by a "free palestine" protestor who only got manslaughter charges despite bashing his head with a megaphone

15 people including a 10 year old girl, holocaust survivors, and refugees from the war in ukraine being murdered at a hanukkah celebration

synagogues being set on fire in countries where jews have already been nearly all removed

synagogues being set on fire in the countries you think jews should go back to

businesses having signs that say "no jews allowed" or "no zionists allowed" with zionist used as a dogwhistle

car ramming attacks at jewish institutions

internet famous people like Hasan Piker laughing at attempted attacks on jews, pogroms, and rape testimonies, as well as interviewing and platforming members of terror organizations on stream for thousands of people with nothing more than a slap on the wrist

tearing down and vandalizing posters of kidnapped and murdered jewish children

firebombing elders at a peaceful protest

mass shootings at synagogues all over the world

billionaires doing nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration

a jewish middle school aged girl being gang raped by her classmates because she is jewish

a jewish woman kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man who did it to "avenge palestine"

a nanny poisoning the children and family she was hired to take care of because they were jewish

jewish students being barred from campus by "encampments"

jewish students being told they can "hide in the closet" when protestors attempted to hunt them down inside the university

israeli olympic athletes getting booed (despite this not happening for any other country) and having their places broken into and robbed

medical professionals openly stating their desire to kill jewish or israeli patients and still holding their jobs

young people making tons of tik tok videos saying hitler and osama bin laden were "right about the jews"

a jewish family's house being shot at because they had decorated for hanukkah

a yeshiva student being brutally assaulted by 8 other people and ending up hospitalized

a rabbi being attacked in new york

young jewish actors like Noah Schnapp having their lives threatened and receiving the most vile death threats for just existing

a young couple being murdered at an event in DC because they are jewish

jewish people being threatened, stabbed, robbed, harassed on public transportation

a jewish man stabbed by a man who yelled things like "fuck the jews" in NYC

people gathering en masse to scream "gas the jews" or "fuck the jews" or "there is only one solution" at protests

celebrities who have more instagram followers than there are jewish people in the world sharing antisemitic content on their pages

a family i grew up with having to move because their house was attacked with antisemitic graffiti

so i just wanna ask again. when does this stop being "pro palestine" or "criticism of israel" and start to become antisemitism? this is a rhetorical question. your movement was rotten from the start.

this is just a list of SOME, not NEARLY all of the antisemitic incidents that have happened since October 7th, 2023.

none of you really cared about this. you wanted an excuse to be violent towards jews, to push us back into the ghettos like you did a hundred years ago. you say we should go back to where we came from, and when we do, you call us colonizers. you say we should learn to be comfortable where we are now, and then you make it as unsafe and hostile as possible for us.

when will you finally give us permission to be upset about the constant, systemic way you try to destroy us?

when are we finally allowed to be angry?

im done asking. im fucking angry

[nonbinaryjudean]

if you saw this post and decided to tag it with “not all jews support the israeli government” or “antizionism isn’t ALWAYS antisemitism” or anything along those lines you are who this post is about.

this is a list of antisemitic incidents that have happened outside of israel since october 7th. none of these incidents have done ANYTHING but cause death destruction and ghettoization for jewish people.

a jew should not have to be a good person in order to be treated like a human.

a jew should not have to agree with your political views to not be deserving of death.

do you actually fucking hear yourselves?

i’m so sick of hearing about how antizionism isn’t inherently antisemitism when i cannot think of a single example to prove that point. any example is either 1. definitely antisemitic like denying history or 2. not even antizionism. you know that being able to criticize your country’s government is a basic right in democratic societies right?

there is no fucking reason you should see a post listing incidents of random jews being assaulted or murdered and feel the need to say “jewish people are not the israeli government” or “not all jews like genocide”. do you see how offensive that is like holy shit

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[laerugo]

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

[mortimermcmirestinks]

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

[rue-nightly]

A 2025 update

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Magnus Hirschfeld!

Hirschfeld was born 14 May in 1868 into a German Jewish family. A pioneering sexologist, he advocated for the acceptance of queer identities, including the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in Germany. He founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin – the world’s first sexology research centre – which developed some of the first modern gender-affirming surgeries.

In 1933, the Nazi party forced the closure of the Institute, and destroyed much of Hirschfeld’s work. Nonetheless, his research remains an important influence on queer liberation and studies of sexuality.

[mendelsohnben]

suggested by @glamorouspixels

[dionysiaproductions]

[madgirlautumn]

This is so obviously correct I can’t even think what the other answer would be.

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[fission-mailure]

A thing making the rounds on Twitter right now is someone going 'Nobody really knows why World War I happened,' with some people agreeing with them and some people trying very badly to put forward their ideas of how it started in a one-sentence summary.

But like, we totally do know why WW1 happened. We know in excruciating detail, it's just that it can't be neatly summarised in a few sentences.

But an extremely over-simplified version of it is:

-- The aftermath of the Industrial Revolution and the collapse of mercantilism as an economic doctrine ushered in an era of free trade between European nations.

-- This exacerbated rivalries between the major powers of Europe (along with the US and Japan), as they now competed to each establish themselves as the main economic powerhouse by pursuing policies of efficiently mass manufacturing products which could then be sold cheaply to undercut local markets. Britain was initially a clear frontrunner in this, but over time Germany and the US began to erode British hegemony.

-- This economic race required previously incomprehensible amounts of resources and manpower, prompting a new wave of imperialism in which multiple countries (chief among them Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, the US, and Japan) embarked on massive and brutal imperialist projects in Africa and Asia, ramping up tensions as each nation tried to carve out more land for itself.

-- This necessitated to some extent alliances between European powers to form blocs. This web of alliances was fairly complex, but the key points are that Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy were in a three-way alliance; Russia, France, and Britain in a three-way alliance; Germany in an alliance with the Ottoman Empire; the Ottoman Empire in an alliance with Serbia and Bulgaria, and Serbia and Bulgaria in an alliance with Russia.

-- Overlapping with this, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the German Empire would destabilise political relations in Europe. In the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War, a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire motivated in part by Russia's desire to reclaim territories lost in the Crimean War, Bosnia and Herzegovina would be placed under the administration of Austria-Hungary, while remaining nominally an Ottoman territory.

-- As the Ottoman Empire declined further, however, and began to fracture, Austria-Hungary would officially annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, see earlier point about imperialism and the desire for more resources, manpower, and markets. This would end up, for obvious reasons, causing considerable tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina.

-- Overlapping with this was the rising popularity of Yugoslavism, the idea of a South Slavic Federation, a union of South Slavic countries, or a singular state of Yugoslavia, which would ostensibly counter the expansionist agendas of Germany and Austria-Hungry. The Serbian government was an active supporter of this political ideology, as a common feature of it was the idea that Serbia would act as the 'leader' of this new country.

-- The joint pressures of Yugoslavism and tensions arising from Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina would eventually culminate in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a group of Bosnian Serbs who were members of a student revolutionary group. They were backed in this by the Black Hand, a secret society formed by Serbian army officers, and by Serbian military intelligence.

-- Austria-Hungary sought to respond to this with a military strike against Serbia to both demonstrate its strength and to try and dampen support for Yugoslavism. Except Russia was allied with Serbia, so Austria-Hungary sought support from Germany, who agreed on the condition that Austria-Hungary moved quickly before Russia could pull any of its allies in.

-- Austria-Hungary did not move quickly, being unwilling to attack without full mobilisation of its armies. In the intervening time, France and Russia reaffirmed their alliance and pledged to support Serbia.

-- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

-- Russia responds, in part because it views this as German pretext for increasing its military capability and reach. Germany is worried over a potential war, but military leaders within Germany urged it to attack Russia and France under the pretext of coming to the aid of its ally, but actually as part of a 'preventative war' plan meant to reduce Russia's military capabilities before the Russian Great Military Program -- oh yeah that's a thing that was happening too -- made it so that Germany could never risk mobilising its military without Russian reprisal.

-- Germany declares war on France, Russia, and Belgium. Britain, allied with France and Russia but more importantly fearing that a German conquest of France could endanger Britain, declares war on Germany.

-- World War I happens.

So, like, that's pretty long and complex, and that's after I've left out almost everything that's not directly relevant. You can't sum it up in a pithy sentence. But we do know exactly why World War I happened.

[thestuckylibrary]

#world war 1#important#the rampant nationalism that caused the first world war was never really resolved and was instead just swept under the rug#and that in turn led to the rise of fascism and the second world war 20-25 years later#for as much as people talk about wwii... you understand the sequel better when you understand part 1 via @sick-sad-little-world

[colubrina]

[nevereverbird]

[my-flying-sister]

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

[the-dandy-liar]

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.