Train Station Pigeons, Big City Dreams

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[carudamon119]

[dragoncuspid]

why he do dat

[peekachiu-deactivated20210214]

he checking if too hot

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Kat Swenski

[carbysorangeshirt]

i don’t think anyone fully understands how iconic of a film the princess diaries truly is. everything in that film is iconic. the apartment/firehouse. the scooters as a method of transportation. “get off the grass” in 4 languages. “please don’t crush my soy nuts.” the mustang. the weird neighbor who writes poetry. the m&ms on the keyboard and the pizza. “it’s a wango?” lily’s otter backpack. the whole paolo makeover sequence. every foot pop. stop me i could go on forever the princess diaries is so iconic it’s on the same level of iconography as star wars (1977)

[dubcliq]

#WAIT UP #NOT YOU I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU

[positive-mh-recovery]

[did-you-know]

In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. Source

[redbloodedamerica]

This is what “equality” looks like in that liberal fairy tale land of Finland.  They punish you proportionately to how successful you are.  Sounds really “fair.”

[tsukishima-tadashi]

Except… it is fair? Because it’s proportionate. I don’t get what’s difficult about that. An impoverished person paying $400 dollar fine isn’t the same as a millionaire paying the same amount. For the poor person, $400 dollars could mean starving. Would you really claim it would have the same consequence for a rich man? Would it even be noticeable to him, while the absence of food in their stomach would be glaring to a poorer man? Would it be fair for a man to starve for the same crime as a man that would be having a three course meal?

By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.

Also, it’s important to make sure that even the rich would pause at the cost of a fine. They need to fear the law just as a poor man does. 

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Oh no… rich people facing fines that might actually make them consider not doing illegal things because the punishments might actually hurt them… how unfair… -V

[lewmzi]

Finnish person here. Our speeding ticket system owns and only people who bitch about them are people who wanna break the laws - the loudest whiners are the rich people who think they can just pay their way out of trouble and that’s why we have laws like that.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

400 dollar ticket.

Person making 10 dollars an hour: “Fuck, I better slow down”

Millionaire driving a Jaguar: “LOL 400 DOLLARS, FUCK THAT, NYOOM”

Compared to a proportional ticket.

Person making 10 dollars an hour and must pay 400 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”

Millionaire who must pay 100,000 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”

[futureevilscientist]

Like wtf. Some people have been so brainwashed by capitalism and worship of the rich that they literally can’t tell the difference between fairness and unfairness anymore.

It IS fair. The fact that it flies in the status quo so much should make you think about that status quo.

[mysticplatypus-deactivated20180]

This is not only more fair but, more effective. Reminds me of wealthy celebrities (J-Lo, Tom Selleck) breaking water laws during the worst drought in California ever because they could care less about the hundred dollar fines.

[obviousplant]

Who’s in??

[wayoftheweekendwarrior-deactiva]

Years ago, I ended some weekend nights after the sunrise. Years later, I begin some weekend days before sunrise. Back then I wanted to maximize the excitement of the night. Now, I want to maximize my time during the day. But, the sunrise remains the same….

[fuks]

[ewanmrozny]

I saw this and immediately thought “shit, I bet this is so satisfying to watch with the sound on”, and I was so fucking right

[nubbsgalore]

finland’s lapland is home to over twenty thousand reindeer, but with thousands killed every year due to vehicle collisions in the dark, herders now cover the animals’ antlers with a harmless fluorescent paint that glows in the light of oncoming cars, but is otherwise invisible. both female and male reindeer in lapland grow antlers, which they shed in the spring, so a new coating is reapplied in the fall. 

and as mentioned in this post, reindeer eyes have a mirrored surface behind the retina - the tapetum lucidum - which allows the animal to take in more light in the near perpetual darkness of a lapland winter, and which reflects back a light that makes the eyes already appear to shine. 

[charminglyantiquated]

the old gods

[flashpointt]

@quinncy

[preludeinz]

@wonderarium plz.

[dalishpariah]

we opened at 11 this morning. i watched an old man literally pry the fucking sliding doors open at 10:43 and stand there just staring into the empty store and my coworker & i were like sir. for the love of fuck

[mintzy]

I worked in a restaurant for while and a woman climbed past an A board sign, ignored the sign on a the door saying the opening times and trotted on in. When told we were not open she asked why the door was unlocked. My manager explained that it has to be unlocked when people are in the building to comply with fire regulations. Which lead to my favourite exchange with a customer: Woman: But there are no people in here. Manager: Madam. The staff count as people. Woman: That’s ridiculous. *Storms out*

[enrique262]

The disastrous Australian Emu War.

[shadowmaat]

Someone turned it into a comic. YES.

[dat-soldier]

never forget the emu war

[corvus-onca-sapien-deactivated2]

@sin-cordura

[alv529]

My favourite part of this entire post is the final pic listing the human casualties and losses in the Emu war as “10 000 rounds of ammo.” and “Dignity.”

[reptisketch-deactivated20171107]

[vesica-urentis]

thanks Obama

reblog between now and jan 20th 2017 to thank Obama

(expired reblogs still count)

[fullpraxisnow]

[stele3]

fullpraxisnow:

With Trump’s election and the threat of fascism, Twitter user Raphael Bob-Waksberg reminds us of Martin Niemöller’s words after WWIII:

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

[trapcard]

I’m going to rewrite the harry potter series and it’s going to be called Hermione Granger and The Glorious Glock where she gets a gun and shoots voldemort through the skull and then everyone is free to continue their education in peace. It’ll be 3.5 pages long. 

[aerosorceress]

they’re in Great Britain where in the world is an 11-year-old black girl going to get a gun

[trapcard]

the store

[sebto360]

Britain isn’t America. You can’t just walk into a random supermarket and buy a ton of guns. In fact, a gun is several hundred pounds each due to you needing to have a separate license for each one. Then you also need to have it where no one could accidentally find it and if anyone apart from you knows where the gun is, you lose your license and gun. I think it has to be locked up in a position no one will ever find it in.

Pretty much, an eleven year old kid is not gonna get a gun in Britain.

[trapcard]

she goes to a wizard school with a three headed dog in the broom closet.

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

i feel like some ppl r havin trouble understandin the concept so i illustrated it

(my headcanon is that she is promoted to new dumbledore and she is twice as gayer than the last one)

[trapcard]

I’M GONNA SHIT MY SELF???

[tinypi]

i’ll be honest i’m not even sure half of these are vines but here we go

[thegirlsajezebel]

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.

Anthony Bourdain  (via 69honeybeez1)