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[artsyneurotic]

The Bioware Lonely Hearts Club 5/? Giving their love, in their own ways

Kaidan | Carth | Alistair

[brainstatic]

Reminder that Obamacare open enrollment starts today and has been shortened to a 6 week period because the president is an animal.

[cracktheglasses]

This was posted November 1, 2017. Also remember that signup will be down on Sundays to further sabotage the process.

[note-a-bear]

The site should only be down for 12hrs on Sundays. If it’s down for longer, call your healthcare exchange

[ha-pax]

[mistomaxo]

the juice is loose

[toloveviceforitself]

…what the shit did I just watch

[wiseguynephile]

the really comprehensive befuckening of a house

[toloveviceforitself]

…ask a stupid question, I guess

[wiseguynephile]

wait look i found the real answer:

“This is from a Norwegian television show called “Ikke Gjør Dette Hjemme” (Don’t Try This At Home). It’s basically Mythbusters with a sprinkle of Jackass on top. Every season is filmed at abandoned homes scheduled for demolition, where the two hosts seek to answer the burning questions most people have.”

[tflatte]

…but what question led to THIS?

[lyrangalia]

The question seems to be “what happens if you mixed elephant toothpaste, gasoline, and fire together in a staircase”, which, I don’t know why you would ask that very specific question but maybe it’s a burning question in Norway.

[optimysticals]

huh. That’s a hell of a thing.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to get mad nerdy but I just discovered tabletopaudio.com and I’m fuckin losing it

this person (people?) goes about making 10 minute long loopable ambient noise tracks for every imaginable setting (docks, taverns, forests, airships, spaceships, office buildings, sewers, EVERYTHING) and has over a hundred tracks to offer, and on top of that if none of them suit you there’s a huge feature called soundpad where you can mix and match from their set of hundreds of individual sound effects and music clips to make your own ambient background track

holy shit dudes

[cheaphalloweencostume]

I did a little further reading on his about and the guy running this is just a dad with two kids who like playing tabletops with him and he had the composition and musical training to start making soundtracks for his games then decided to spread that to the world for absolutely free, he even welcomes you to use his tracks in your works (podcasts, videos etc) and is open to being hired for custom tracks

I love him

[fastphoridae]

holy shit

[strawbebbynya]

@officialagentmaine

[radondoran]

Visit Original Link

[prospit-dreemurr]

MOTHER OF GOD

[t-temmy]

ARE YOU FUCKIN

[enoshiitma-deactivated20141017]

OH GOD ITS BACK

[thesylverlining]

DEAR GOD THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POSTS IN EXISTENCE.

YOU THINK JUST THE NOISE IS FUNNY AND FITS WITH THE GIF REALLY WELL

BUT THEN

THEN

THE LYRICS START

seriously i have almost crashed my car into a telephone pole, becuase I suddenly thought of this post and started laughing uncontrollably

[redbloodedamerica]

[postirony]

Step 1: Look at the Price.

[marinarascova]

Step 2: Look in the Trash

[long-ago-1234567890]

because there can be a store like this full of food and people on the same block starving because they don’t have enough pieces of paper to trade for it.

[regularlesbian]

because the people who planted, maintained, harvested, and inspected all that produce are compensated barely enough to sustain themselves

[regularlesbian]

because in order to drive down the prices of bananas, the us government and american fruit corporations destroyed the democratically elected leftist governments of numerous central american countries, placing murderous despots at the head of these “banana republics”.

because the scars of these crimes against humanity still haunt millions to this day.

[luciferandphilosophy]

I work in a grocery store. We are considered one of the better chains for produce quality, and out of the stores of this kind in the local area, we actually have good produce sparing procedures. Despite all of that, we waste 40% (FOURTY) of all the produce we receive. I throw out my own body weight daily in produce. I am not exaggerating or joking. This is capitalism.

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

best redbloodedamerica post turn around

[fantasticfelicityfox]

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

[fuck-yeah-classic-monsters]

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

[mllemusketeer]

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

[theblamegabe-deactivated2019102]

@mortalityplays

[protom-lad]

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

[bloodcountessabendroth-deactiva]

Nobody ever talks about Dracula’s pet bee.

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

the armadillos I get, but I still don’t understand the solitary bee

why did it have a coffin?

did Dracula just love his pet be that much?

[wahbegan]

It’s not a bee it’s a Jerusalem Cricket, included for basically the same reason as the armadillo

[roguetelemetry]

excellent pre-halloween content

[protom-lad]

While that is a cool and good clarification, my question stands

Why did Dracula have a single solitary cricket with his own tiny-built coffin.

[hellwolf99]

Because he could.

[hashtagloveloses]

this is it. this is the purest photo in existence. reblog for 100 years of good luck

[sj0]

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

[hersheyhipster]

Couldn’t risk it.

[justjengie]

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

[pinayputa]

THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

[thighhighsanti]

Aye i kinda need this rn so yeah.

[rydenarmani]

a velvety skeleton friend here to bring you financial luck this october 🔮✨

[sandflake]

I dearly wish that people would view their bodies as they view flowers…

Veins everywhere?

gorgeous~

Skin patches? Birthmarks?

hella rad~

Scars? Stretch marks?

beautiful~

Freckles? Moles? Acne scars?

heckie yeah~

Large? Curvy?

lovely~

Small? Thin?

charming~

Missing a few pieces?

handsome as ever~

Feel like you just look weird?

you’re fantastic looking~

[mymindcontinuestobecomeabstract]

THIS is the best post ever. 

[herokind-archive]

THIS.

[itsmealis]

today is fanfiction writer’s appreciation day, and I thought about what I wanted to do for today, but I decided that the best thing I could is this.

here’s for the writers that didn’t receive any asks today

here’s for the writers that didn’t make any appreciation list

here’s for the writers that weren’t mentioned anywhere

here’s for the writers that aren’t popular

here’s for the writers whose fics are never rec’ed

here’s for the writers whose fics have a low kudo/commenting rate

here’s for the writers that don’t get reblogs/likes

here’s for the writers that abandon their work half way because they think it sucks (spoiler: it does not)

here’s for the writers that were bashed for whatever they wrote

here’s for the writers that feel like giving up 

here’s for the writers that feel anxious when they post a fic

here’s for the writers that struggle to write

here’s for the writers that never publish anything

here’s for all writers. No matter who they are, what fandom, what ship: you guys are amazing and you make fandom a better place. 

Keep writing.

[uppityfemale]

I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.

If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.

[kittykat8311]

this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it

[intheicyairofnight]

Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.

If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.

For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service. 

The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage. 

[glittercontusion]

Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class

[zero-suit-sami]

|| Xena Warrior Princess I haven’t posted in quite some time but I am so proud of this project that I figured I’d post it here as well. Thank you for all the support ! Facebook : /SamiBessCosplay Instagram & Twitter : @zerosuitsami

[i-hate-vegans-deactivated201910]

If you publicly and unreservedly condemn the actions of Nazis in Charlottesville and elsewhere, including everything from quiet hate speech to vehicular terrorism, can you please reblog this post.

I think a few friends, a few followers, every Jew who happens across this post and my own heart could do with knowing that there are more of you out there than there are of them

[st-pam]

[witchywonton]

Please work :)

[sdascension]

@upperstories

[mindblowingfactz]

In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

[wildwomanofthewoods-archive-blog]

One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

[fieldbears]

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

[maudnewton]

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

[shrineart]

This is an ally. This is a hell of an ally.

[tomorroejones-deactivated202209]

Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.

She did good work.

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.

“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“ 

–http://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959

If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link

https://www.gofundme.com/RuthCokerBurks