Slippery Pete

"What are you laughing about, Jolly Green Jizzface??"

[trytogethappy]

the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel

colorized by me

[tigerleggies-deactivated2019121]

Never forget 🏳️‍🌈😔

[toddreu-deactivated20191220]

OP you did a beautiful job colourising these shots

[prismatic-bell]

Notice how OP says “colorized?”

I want to remind you this was the eighties. THE EIGHTIES. Color cameras existed. Color VIDEO CAMERAS existed.

Someone put these in black and white to make them seem long ago and far away.

OP is returning them to their proper place in history: ONLY TWO GENERATIONS AGO.

[zeldahime]

that’s not fair to gideon mendel, the photographer who took those photos in 1993. he took them in black-and-white even though color cameras were available, yes, but not to “make them seem long ago and far away”. he was photographing in black-and-white so they would be taken seriously.

mendel is still documenting and lifting up the voices of people who live with hiv/aids in the project “through positive eyes”. 

if mendel hadn’t taken these photographs, we wouldn’t have a record of these  patients and the ends of their lives at all. it was extremely unusual for aids wards to let photographers in, and the patients took a risk in letting mendel photograph them and their loved ones. 

rest in peace, andré, steven, and john.

[altonin-deactivated20180325]

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

[funereal-disease]

This post is the distilled essence of everything I believe in.

[abigaillazaar]

Dark greetings of the night to all the members of the Vampiric Council, from all the continents, gathered here together on… Staten Island. O-On Staten Island.

[citisoleil]

Law & Order: Polar Expedition Unit

[mickeys-gonnagetrealbitchy]

𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘩 / “𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯” / 4.04

[killbilled]

RESERVOIR DOGS (1992)  //  JENNIFER’S BODY (2009)

[stevienick]

# grown siblings fighting over tamagotchis

[justusducks]

A show where you can tell the creator has actual siblings

[durbikins]

Catholic Twitter making better posts than I ever could

[radicalgraff]

“40% of people who work here beat their spouse. Google that shit”

Graffiti seen on the wall surrounding the Seattle Police West Precinct

[omghotmemes]

How irresponsible of you Jupiter

[the-dragon-of-rainbows]

This is even funnier when you consider that Jupiter is the Roman name for Zeus, who canonically…is a whore and had that many children both full and demi divine

[neko-mancy]

THE MOONS ARE NAMED AFTER ZEUS’S LOVERS AND AFFAIRS

[aria-sky-dragon-deactivated2023]

Don’t forget that the Juno probe is named after Jupiter’s wife. NASA deadass sent his wife to check on his side chicks

[sizvideos]

[tunte]

Why

[loremerchant]

This is demonstrating why you absolutely do not pour water on a grease fire.

[tha-spaso-koupes]

holy shit

[justalifelongphase]

Okaaaay. If any of you actually have a grease fire in the kitchen put the lid on the pan. It will suffocate the flames. Don’t pour water on it, and don’t freak out. Cook safely!

[gician]

Or throw flour on it to smother it.

[birdpapi-deactivated20171121]

/quick safety announcement

[nijuukoo]

NO, DO NOT USE FLOUR, DO NOT USE FLOUR TO SMOTHER A FIRE.

YOU HAVE TO USE BAKING SODA.

Throwing flour into a fire can cause it to combust and make the fire worse because FLOUR/SUGAR IS FLAMMABLE. One cup of flour into a grease fire can have the explosive force of dynamite.

The reason you use baking soda is that it releases carbon dioxide when heated, and CO2 is a fire suppressant.

[kiokushitakaa]

REBLOGGING FOR LAST COMMENT TO SAVE LIVES

[nellipusen]

can we talk about how this is from a tv-show called “do not try this at home” where they tested all sort of stuff you’re not supposed to do, but they only got four episodes because after this experiment they burned the house they were filming in to the ground.

[kropotkindersurprise]

September 21, 2020 - Ron Cobb, best known for being the production designer for several major films, has died at 83 years of age. Cobb brought to life several cantina creatures for Star Wars (1977) and came up with weaponry and sets for Conan the Barbarian (1982), the exterior and interior of the Nostromo ship in Alien (1978) and the earth colony complex in Aliens (1986), and the DeLorean time machine in Back to the Future (1985).

More interestingly, to me at least, is that in the 1960s and 70s he was a great radical political cartoonist, and sadly, many cartoons of those days are still just as relevant today. A small selection:

Rest in Peace, Ron Cobb. Find more of his cartoons here: http://roncobb.net/cartoons.html

[vpiuke-deactivated20240227]

Michaelá is a 24 y/o Black woman who was physically assaulted at a nail salon in Michigan and was afterwards threatened online by the same workers who shared her personal information and created a false story for others to attack her. Police did nothing and even denied her to press charges against her attackers. This is her GoFundMe.

More information can be found on her original IG post. She has also made other posts updating her situation as time passes. Below are pictures of the place of the attack and some of the online threats she's been getting.

[vpiuke-deactivated20240227]

$771/$5000

[vpiuke-deactivated20240227]

$846/$5000

[gemini--witch-deactivated202411]

$3,198/$5000! Let’s get her there, people!

[vpiuke-deactivated20240227]

this post has been getting a lot of attention but as from 2 september we're still at $3,238/$5000. if you can't donate, please keep reblogging this! but please don't like it, since people who might be able to help can get discouraged by the notes, thinking this petition must've probably met it's goal. we're still not there!

[oneheadtoanother]

[pseudomantis]

[takeiteasyjoan]

fiddling (:

[whitepeopletwitter]

[muyintedezante]

[bussy-pop]

Twink // Otter // Bear solidarity

[notlostonanadventure]

This is exactly what the 90s would have been like with today’s internet