Pocky1000

Just stuff

[zegalba]

Telephone booth surrounded by snow in Hokkaido, Japan (2021)

[word-for-today]

You might have thought card sharks and loan sharks were named after the predatory fish, but apparently there’s a decent chance it’s the other way around from an old Dutch word meaning “person that takes unfair advantage of other people”. Before that they were known in English as a haye or dogfish, which means sometime in the ~1400s enough English sailors started saying “don’t get in the water, it’s infested with those jerks”

[brokenstick]

she ate

[tamamita]

Great job, Musk

[celebgames]

Here’s a photo of the band evanescence playing donkey konga in 2004.

[acoolguy]

so that was the secret to their beautiful music…

[honeyedsunlight]

And they’re not alone

[whitepeopletwitter]

[everyfreakingusernameitryistaken]

Tony Hawk’s Twitter is a gold mine honestly

[everyfreakingusernameitryistaken]

[rosslynpaladin]

We Stan this San Diego Man

[sugawara--san]

this

[dooflizard]

C o m e d yy

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

Some recent gems:

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

And of course there’s

[theseaissilent]

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

#where is race war tony hawk tweet thats my fav (via @laughingfish​)

I gotchu, bro:

[trilllizardstrikesback]

[abysmallylost23]

i’m wheezgJmf stoP

[assassinregrets]

[shitpostinguniverse]

[merryweathercomics]

Can I get uhhh…

[bat-demon]

this is all true btw yall

[yugiohz]

the next met theme should be anime convention

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

Believe It!

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

i had more thoughts

[level5goosewarning]

sorry if you’re finding out like this

[destructions-daughter]

to all the people who may be coming back here from twitter in light of elon’s purchase:

[logicallyblind]

hi i’m seeing no one talk about this cover??? this is HAUNTING, it’s dedicated it to everyone who’s died from the coronavirus so far especially healthcare staff i just,,,

[elodieunderglass]

Hozier singing trad song “The Parting Glass”

[elodieunderglass]

Other celebrities: (goopily drip upon, of all things, “imagine”)

Us: (call for the guillotine)

Hozier: (a bittersweet lad, sings an ancient song to the departed)

Us: play this over silent, crisply shot black and white footage of the empty streets and silent landmarks. cut with shots of our drowning hospitals. An acceptable future documentary of 2020 that we will allow.

[alien-bagels]

My audio processing isnt working in the brain. Can someone PLEASE tell me what the crud he’s saying because all i can make out are sounds not words

[lanerose23]

Saw your post while skimming through the reblog and did not see an answer, so for accessibility!  Hozier is singing the following:

Of all the money that e’er I had / I spend it in good company

And of all the harm that e’er I done / Alas it was to none but me

For all I’ve done for want of wit / to memory now I can’t recall

So fill to me the parting glass / good night and joy be with you all.

Of all the comrades that e’er I had / they’re sorry for my going away

And of all the sweethearts that e’er I had / they’d wish me one more day to stay

But as it falls unto my lot / that I must go and you must not

I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call / good night and joy be with you all.

[tall--noodle]

when i first read the lyrics to this a year or so ago, i always thought it was a sad song (contrary to what google says about it being a pub song), and hearing this solemn and heartfelt rendition by hozier always makes me tear up

[watches-and-windchimes]

Google’s technically right, it is a pub song, but not in the sense you’re thinking. This is what I call an “end of the night” song - these tend to be somber, nostalgic, and contain references to a final drink/toast eg “the parting glass” usually either in memory of death, or in the knowledge of death to come. Others include Auld Lang Syne and Health to the Company. They’re “let’s drink to old times because we might not all meet here again” songs.

[blog-o-randomness]

Percy finally got to be a true anime protagonist. Got the Naruto run and the weird fish eye zoom like he deserves.

[the-future-is-in-our-hands-deac]

[omghotmemes]

Solidarity against kellogs

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

Boss made a dollar

I made a dime,

That was a poem

From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand

And gives us a cent

While he’s got employees 

Who can’t pay the rent.

So when boss makes a million

And the workers make jack

Then that’s when we riot

And take our lives back.

#WorkingClassSolidarity

[etakeh]

Friendly reminder that Kellogg and John Deere workers are currently striking. 

[etakeh]

Bonus Kellogg content:

December 7, 2021 12:00 PM PST Last Updated 8 hours ago United States

Kellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract

[saint-batrick]

welp.

[shadowmasterthirteen]

The John deere workers succeeded! Their strike ended Nov 18th ish.

John Deere Workers End Month-Long Strike After Approving To New Contract Offering 10% Raise

Under the new contract, workers will receive an immediate 10% raise and an $8,500 one-time bonus.

Shoutout to Kelloggs workers for rejecting a two tiered contract that would leave their younger colleagues behind. Mad solidarity.

Here’s how you can support them:

https://www.thestand.org/2021/11/heres-how-you-can-support-kelloggs-strikers/

[miss-galaxy-turtle]

MILES IS HONING HIS ART JUST LIKE HE'S HONING BEING SPIDEY NO ONE TOUCH ME 😭😭😭