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[peoplegettingreallymadatghosts]

“But they forget”

[xylophonetangerine]

[ichibankasuga]

somrethig really scary happened to hte gif

[catgirl-kaiju]

the lake monstrrs got him

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[gavamont]

At this point, I’m just going to start stealing haunted objects so that ghosts can leave some cold spots I can cool down in.

[kindlynurturingwizard]

And then this autumn, you'll humanely exorcise them, right? That's just ethical magical AC at that point.

[gavamont]

Like, how bad is it if I just store them in the root cellar and break them back out next summer?

Haunted objects don’t just grow on trees, ya know.

[gavamont-clone-1]

People die all the time, man. You just gotta be patient

[gavamont]

Ugh, fine. They will be released by September 21st at the latest.

[kindlynurturingwizard]

It's not about the date, it's the spirit of the thing (no pun intended). You could keep them later if you're still getting hot enough days. Just release them when they're not needed anymore for the season.

[gavamont]

No, I’ve gotta give myself a deadline, otherwise I’ll start making excuses. Is it “useful” to keep them around to spook acquaintances I’m annoyed with? Is it “useful” to keep them around to chill my iced coffee?

I know I’m going to make up bad reasons to keep the ghosts around.

[kindlynurturingwizard]

I respect the philosophy.

[concoctionboy]

Oh, if ghosts keep things cool, maybe I should wander into the haunted forest and let myself be lightly possessed by some ghosts?

I mean, yeah, there's a chance they might revel in the ability to affect the physical realm and choose to make the possession permanent and render me little more than a subjugated husk they can do with as they will, but it wouldn't be the first time that happened, and frankly with this heat that's a risk I may be willing to take.

[gavamont]

A reasonable exchange for heat relief. Plus, you’re in the driver seat your whole life, why not take a break?

[politijohn]

Source

Slavery…

[theconcealedweapon]

"Slavery was so long ago. Get over it."

Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

If you support ICE, you would have supported slavery, because ICE is slavery.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

[teatray-inthesky]

[gaymosexuqueer]

forever reblog

[romanimp]

ALWAYS REBLOG.

[spookyram]

[mattsunsthighs]

final image made it all worth it

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

straight up it should be illegal for a physical storefront not to accept physical currency, or for restaurants not to provide physical menus

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I'm assuming the above is a normie opinion (as it should be) so i do wanna go a tiny step further and explicitly state any laundromat that requires digital payment should be burned to the fucking ground

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if a business cooerces its customers to download an app, i should legally be allowed to set both the business and its board of directors on fire

[cuprohastes]

The assumption that every single business, or service, is owed your personal data, and should be able to track you and mercilessly spam you and monetise the ability to sell off your contact details and so on it’s absolutely deranged.

I have flashlights that are borderline unusable because, while the hardware is fine, the company that made them (hello OLight!) demands that you install and login to the storefront before you can access the configuration software.

But they don’t actively maintain the software or provide any of the new utilities that they promise. They are mostly using it as a way to turn off functional hardware to try and force you to upgrade.

We are living in a society where you can pay for something and the manufacturer can turn it off because they’ve decided that you’ve owned it too long .

I’ve just had to warn my family not to buy electronic door locks because the chances are, if they are Internet connected they will be disabled once the company that owns them has decided that they’re not making enough money charging you a monthly fee to open your own front door.

This is part of an ongoing trend to turn money into something that is no longer usable by everybody .

The eventual aim is to be able to pay people company scrip: If you lose your job, or badmouth the company, or disagree with the dictator, they severely curtail what you are allowed to buy, and from who.

And at that point, you have to pick sides – do you want to be able to have drinking water from Coca-Cola, or Pepsi, and whose package allows you to buy Doritos, and use your smart oven to cook food? Because it won’t turn on unless you use the app to scan the appropriate barcode from the company who now owns your ability to eat drink, heat your home, and wear clothes from brands that they approve.

And if you think that Bezos wouldn’t do that or run his own ghetto where employees have to use Amazon brands and be paid in Amazon money… You haven’t been paying attention to what he’s been building lately.

[ingridverse]

Read "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow, from his book Radicalized

[ingridverse]

Found a link to the story: Unauthorized Bread

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ghostdaartist]

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

[whatacartouchebag]

[bigdafty]

Sound very much on.

[depsidase]

[prole-log]

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

me making conversation at family events

[hungwy]

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

[nutropes]

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

[emilyofjane]

[cannucks-addiction]

And that love lived on Theo's wife, Johanna, who was the one who pushed for the preservation of Vincent's paintings. Johanna who made sure that her husband's beloved brother would not be forgotten. Johanna who fought tooth and nail so that Theo and Vincent would never be forgotten. Johanna who carried the family legacy, who made sure that the works of Vincent would be kept in her possession. And then Vincent Willem, named for a uncle so loved, carried this legacy and founded the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

The van Gogh family history is deeply interwoven with love. It was the love of a brother that gave a young man the courage to paint and the resources to do so. It was the love of a woman for her husband and her husband's beloved brother that made that story known. And it was the love of a nephew, who was so deeply loved even if for such a short time, that made it possible for the world to know Vincent van Gogh.

[zaziecurie]

I already feel emotional over some Vincent's paintings due to his and Theo's story, but learning about the meaning behind Almond Blossoms...

Yeah... I actually shed a tear reading Vincent's letter about his newborn nephew...

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[gayluigi]

[anomalocaris-in-da-clurb]

Women are like diamonds since they are composed primarily of carbon.

[theswisscheeserag]

“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement

“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point

[charaznablescanontoyota]

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening