Gif set for my final show with the band February 2019
Credit: @thrashunderpressure for the Gifs
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happy Thursday the 20th
blakegdiamond
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
the-mighty-tor
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
Someone should update this for the next six years.
jaybit
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And yet there are those who doubt him and question how he gets around the entire world in one night…
santa’s creed
forestsexual
this has been on queue since january 2nd and it was worth every minute
I’m queuing this on December 26th I’m ready for this
You better watch out
livanarose
You better watch out
thequestionablyhuman
You better watch out
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It’s winter, Santa is the master of parka-our.
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happy Thursday the 20th
blakegdiamond
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
the-mighty-tor
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
October 2016
April 2017
July 2017
September 2018
December 2018
June 2019
February 2020
August 2020
You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
Someone should update this for the next six years.
jaybit
Some more dates for you guys. May 2021 January 2022 October 2022 April 2023 July 2023 June 2024 February 2025 March 2025 November 2025
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maximum-marrs
Ok. I’m asking this seriously. Public schools aren’t businesses. They don’t turn a profit. They aren’t running in the red. How is opening schools back up supposed to jump start the economy?
maximum-marrs
Oh I see. It’s so parents can return to work allowing the government to skip out on another round of stimulus money.
Hmm. Don’t like that much.
George Francis Atkinson - Botany for High Schools (1910):
Fig. 51. A. cross section of the stem of an oak tree thirty-seven years old, showing the annual rings. rm, the medullary rays; m, the pith (medulla). B, cross section of the stem of a palm tree, showing the scattered bundles.
beercheesecasserole
banana tree: *slurred* hold my cocktail
Banana “tree”:
It’s in Musaceae, in the order Zingiberales, which also includes Zingiberaceae, Strelitziaceae, Heliconaceae, Cannaceae, and Marantaceae. Which makes the banana distantly related to ginger, as mentioned above, and also to the bird of paradise flower, Heliconia, canna lilies, and arrowroots.
As for palm “trees”:
That is so weird, look at that! Anyway, they’re definitely NOT in the same family as grass. Palms are in the family Arecaceae, which is in the order Arecales. Grasses are Poaceae in the order Poales. Palms are, however, a good example of how delightfully strange plants can be.
And banana trees will only produce one bunch of bananas if you don't chop off the top half according to that new Zac Efron documentary on Netflix
what the police do is horrible but im pretty sure the geneva convention only applies during war? like its worse because of that, since theyre using over the top tactics to deal with unarmed citizens, but its still not breaking the geneva convention. maybe infringing on some human rights but what else is new for the US. also theyve broken the conventions on several other occasions so even if it was a war it wouldnt stop them.
when i was little i thought martha’s vineyard was a literal vineyard owned by martha stewart
a former classmate of mine wrote one of those “what i did over the summer” essays in m*ddle sch**l about spending the summer in martha’s vineyard and the whole time she read her essay to the class i remember thinking “she...let you in? you stayed in her vineyard for the whole summer? with the grapes??”
I also believed this and was always confused when my Nana said she wanted to take us on vacation there. Never went. Can't confirm anything
Rich people truly live in a different dimension
Yes! They do! I’ve been trying to get that point to stick and people just don’t follow. The president thinks insurance costs $12 a year.
My old boss’s sister didn’t think we should be paid enough to afford smart phones because (her words) “You peasants work for us, peasants don’t deserve enough money for those things.”
I was once invited to a dinner event. Turns out there was a raffle. I mentioned that if I had known I’d have stopped at the bank for some cash. Nothing was said, but the “You don’t carry a minimum $200 everywhere?” was felt in the body language of everyone within 50 feet. Old boss would get KFC every day. He was hospitalized and had to have bits of intestine removed. First day back he was eating KFC because “Well the doctor fixed everything, so why not?”
If old boss didn’t take home a million dollars in a month the company was “Having a bad time of things.” That’s not sales, or total gain, that’s his paycheck. He owned the building so the company he owned that operated inside the building paid him $33,000 a month, and that didn’t count towards his paycheck. Monthly, his company would pay him rent greater than what he was paying me yearly, and it was so little to him that he didn’t count it as income.
To a rich person, something punishable by a fine is just a thing you have to pay for permission to do. You want to go to the movies? Sure that’s $8 a person. You want to park in the fire zone? Sure, that’s $750 for parking. No big deal.
Rich people live in such a different place than everyone else.
I am not out here to be nice and forgive goyim for the antisemitic shit that they’re doing and don’t even feel bad for. I know that there are those among my people who are better and kinder than I am and willing to extend that sort of forgiveness but I’m not one of them. We have been run out of land after land after land and the injustice sings in my blood. If you’re a minority, please remember that you don’t owe your opressors your forgiveness. You seserve justice as you are, flawed and imperfect and holding your grudges like your ancestors held the murdered bodies of your people. You are allowed to be angry and you don’t owe anyone second chances. Kindness and forgiveness are wonderful things, but they are earned, not owed. You are the only one who decides if the wrongs of someone’s past are outweighed by the efforts they are making now to improve. You don’t have to forgive former racists, or former nazis, or former sexists. It’s great that they’re trying to be better, but that doesn’t neutralize the wrongs that they’ve done and you don’t have to accept them.
Full offense but every nazi who continues to draw breath is a personal offense to me, my people, and our long history of suffering and opression.
i just learned about felt sauna hats, they’re so ugly i love them
@alexafaie Sauna hats are, indeed, hats to wear whilst in sauna. Warm air rises up, which means that in sauna the head is the first body part to get really hot. This is unfortunate, since heads don’t take hear too well, and people like to sit in sauna for long amounts of time. A sauna hat is thick and thus… insulates? I think that is the word? So it will keep your head cooler for longer. It’s also good if you want to take a break from sauna to go to an avanto (a hole in the ice over a body of water), where it will keep the head warm.
Anyone is free to connect me, I don’t have the best understanding of sauna hats since my family doesn’t actually use them.
i am so fond of Finland
Korean saunas you wear a towel rolled up so you look like Princess Leia
i fucking love that korea very sensibly decided “ah yes, we’ll use a bath towel”. and finland was like U KNOW WHAT
i mean i’m guessing the felt is an important insulation material but surely there were other design options
Alli know is I see that second to last hat and all I can think about is
I freaking love sauna hats! Many of them aren’t really used for the sauna anymore, lol but they sure are pretty!
Police "unions" are not unions
Periodically, some dimbulb will pop up and say, “Hey, you love unions but you hate police brutality - so how about police unions, huh? Ever think of that? Huh? Huh?”
Yeah, I know. Thing is, police unions aren’t “unions” in the traditional sense.
To understand the different, try William Finnegan’s incredible, long New Yorker piece, “How Police Unions Fight Reform,” a masterful history and analysis.
Police unions got off to a rocky start. Policing was an ugly and dangerous job in the 19th century (it’s not dangerous now, it’s not even in the top ten most dangerous careers), but the labor movement wasn’t interested in helping cops.
And with good reason! As cops transitioned from being “slave patrols,” hunting Black people who’d escaped bondage, they found a new role in brutalizing and murdering striking workers.
The first US deaths of unionists was in 1850, when NYC cops clubbed striking tailors to death. Despite the role of cops in striker deaths (in 1937, Chicago PD opened fire on striking steelworkers and families, murdering 10), the AFL started chartering police unions after WWI.
But the solidarity went one way: by the 1960s, the NY Police Benevolent Society promised politicians they would never “strike or affiliate with any other union.”
Front-line workers’ unions like teachers and nurses strike to improve conditions for the people they care for; police unions’ main cause is reducing oversight and accountability, waging a decades-long war on civilian oversight boards.
There is an explicit racist agenda in resisting oversight: cops do not want Black people, or politicians who answer to Black people, having a say in police procedure. When NYC Mayor Dinkins - the city’s first Black mayor - proposed civilian oversight, the response was UGLY.
They ran ads showing a white woman emerging from the subway, looking terrified, warning against civilian review: “Her life…your life…may depend on it.”
In 92, cops protested Dinkins’ plan with a 10,000 person rally in which cops brandished firearms, consumed alcohol, and waved racist signs with slogans like “Dump the washroom attendant.” Others depicted Dinkins as a minstrel, engaged in lewd sex acts.
A drunk, off-duty cop stopped Black councilwoman Una Clarke from crossing Broadway during the rally: “This n_____ says she’s a member of the City Council,” he told his partner.
On of the rally’s highlights? Rudy Giuliani, screaming obscene chants through a bullhorn. He ran for mayor the next year.
In most regards (public interest, solidarity), police unions are not real unions, but there’s one area in which they excel: getting sweet deals for their members. NYPD cops retire after 20 years on $74.5k/year pensions.
As terrible and corrupt as the NYPD are, they’re far from the most racist and brutal police forces. That’s saying something, because BOY is the NYPD racist and brutal:
Compare ‘em with St Louis, where cops murder at 14 times the rate of NYPD; or Chicago, where the racial disparity in police murders is 27.4:1 black:white (in NYC it’s 7.8:1).
Police unions hate the public. Their overall message is that the public are hostile and must be controlled.
As Kirk Burkhalter - multigenerational cop turned NYU law prof - says: “imagine a nurses’ union that hated patients, that went on TV and talked about how much trouble the patients give them.”
American cops are among the worst-trained, most undisciplined in the world. Cops in the US can start work after 11 weeks training (mostly in “firearms and survival”).
In some Western European countries, cops compete for entry into highly selective police academies where they study for 3+ years under top professors.
US cops’ training is both inadequate and inappropriate. Again, policing just isn’t that dangerous. Roofing is more dangerous! Only 5% of patrol callouts involve any form of violent crime.
Real unions focus on solidarity, and while cop unions will protest anti-union bills that threaten them, when they are carved out of anti-union bills (like Wisconsin’s bill that targeted sanitation, education and nursing), it’s crickets.
The main focus of police unions is omerta: as the 1931 Wickersham Commission reported: “It is an unwritten law in police departments that police officers must never testify against their brother officers.”
As Rhode Island College sociologist Ben Brucato wrote: “These organizations function as lobbies to both resist accountability legislation and shield implicated officers.”
Fixing policing is a long road, but it must start. We can begin by getting the AFL-CIO to sever all ties with police “unions.”