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bruntalism

kesha - joyride (official video)

cannibalchicken

#just found out this classic only has 16 likes on twitter

chirasul

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

chirasul

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

fishmech

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

chirasul

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

#WHATTTTTTTTT #and tje fuckong chcimen soup guys again.....

iskwekan

I love indigenous place names in north america so much because, unlike most european place names that are named after some asshole who claimed it, or like, something in Christendom, our place names are meant to help people easily identify them with major landmarks and water features (most people would be arriving via lake or river). but then you look at the name of a place and it’s like “this is where I saw a lot of wolverines” or “the curved lake at the end of the bend up north” and it’s like. fuck yeah it sure is. and then you look at settler place names and you’re supposed to know the difference between two different St. Johns that are both in the maritimes and it’s like come the Fuck On man

#screaks.#the cities are like all named after the Europeans too but then everywhere smaller I've lived has been the indigenous names ..

unpeeled-human

cosmo, wanda, i want you to spawn a piece of radioactive plutonium in that person's stomach

unpeeled-human

cosmo. wanda. enough with the semantics

asyathefoileater

objectum scott the woz moodboard

sealiens

HC that battat is a costume designer outside of the mike shenanigans <3

sealiens

HC that battat is a costume designer outside of the mike shenanigans <3

sealiens

decamarks

↑ Oogogogoyooyogogogogggogogoyoogggoooo.

thinkingabout-girls

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad

b0nkcreat

new art fight rule

you arent allowed to imagine the drawing in your mind because it’s stealing

b0nkcreat

itshype

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

#mid december baby -_-

chaumas-deactivated20240115

tumblr is so in denial about how much it loves lolcow milking. it’s kind of hard for me to talk about this because 1.) it feels douchey to bring it up and 2.) i have some frayed nerve endings on the subject but like. i’ve had lolcow threads about me on kiwifarms. i read all of them. it’s all the same shit and often the same users (there are more queer leftists on kiwifarms then you can imagine). there is criticism, deserved and undeserved… and then there is lolcow milking.

i don’t think schadenfreude is an inherently evil emotion. i love a good crab rave. but i think experiencing schadenfreude is a kind of internal check engine light signifying that it’s time to pop the hood and reflect on why that’s the reaction your having. i know that sounds patronizing but schadenfreude is truly one of the most judgement-clouding emotions you can have and it’s just. well. the most ashamed i’ve ever been about my own words or actions has been when they’ve been driven by schadenfreude. i don’t even say that out of some kind of pretense of nobility but because it’s really obvious to other people when that’s what’s inspiring you, and it’s really, really unappealing.