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THE BUZZARDS OF GREEN HILL GROW FAT ON ROADKILL

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Dis empowered, the scattering flock/ Dances in a fever at the castle rock/ Dust-devil cypress and ripening fruit/ Ascending quick into the author's bathroom/ Fawn, Jo and Tootsie are out on a wire/ Lettuce-toothed junkies all full of desire/ Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude/ And there's nothing I can do/ Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude/ And there's nothing I can do/ And there's nothing I can say to you/ I've got a lot of work to do/ I guess I'll leave it up to you/ Uninvited, we'll stay if we want/ Searching through your closets for your grandfather's gun/ We will swim in your kidney, kidney-shaped pool/ Scratching at the bottom for another clue, yeah/ Fawn, Jo and Tootsie are out on a wire/ Lettuce-toothed junkies all full of desire/ Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude/ And there's nothing I can do/ Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude/ And there's nothing I can do/ And there's nothing I can say to you/ (Meanwhile, Rick James takes her nude)/ And there's nothing I can do/ And there's nothing I can say to you/ I've got a lot of work to do/ I guess I'll leave it up to you/ (it/its | born three thousand years ago)
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jdragsky

warhammer 40k loves to call itself a satire of fascism and then depicts a universe in which all of the great fascistic anxieties and beliefs of its imperium (the enemy is everywhere, it is both weak and strong, we are eternal, any violence we commit is justified, our leader is our genetic superior, degeneracy will lead to the collapse of our society) are all objectively true, completely blunting any satirical edge it could have, but giving it just enough plausible deniability that games workshop can market to anyone of any ideology

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imsobadatnicknames2
Anonymous asked:

What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

imsobadatnicknames2 answered:

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

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imsobadatnicknames2

So yeah bit of a fucked up name for a clothing store ngl

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imsobadatnicknames2

These companies still exist btw. Standard Fruit is now the Dole Food Company, United Fruit and Cuyamel merged and eventually were renamed to Chiquita Brands International, and the Guatemala coup is barely scratching the surface of the fucked up shit they did over here.

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imsobadatnicknames2

In 2007 Chiquita admitted to financing far-right paramilitary groups in my country as recently as 1997.

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sirfrogsworth

Remember this joke?

Well, I am going to do something similar only with photography. This is a photo someone took for an Amazon review of their Clinique products.

Honestly, it is not a terrible photo. They did some staging. They have an interesting background. All of the labels are legible. It is properly exposed. This would be a perfectly acceptable product photo for an Etsy page.

I've been taking these advanced photography courses in preparation for whenever I am able to create a new studio in the house. And my teacher is a photography badass. I just watched a 6 hour class on how to recreate a professional Clinique ad. And at first glance it looks deceptively simple. It's just some skin care products being splashed with a little water.

Which is why I wanted you to see an average person for reference.

This is what Karl Taylor came up with.

And I don't think I've learned so much about photography in one tutorial before.

Product photography is just loads and loads of problem solving. You have to light the chrome caps with a gradient. Which requires giant diffusion scrims.

Those big white panels are literally only there for the two chrome caps.

You need a pure white background, but you can't let light spill all over the studio, so you put up giant black light blockers.

And you have to add another light just for the orange bottle on the right.

Oh, and if you want the bottles to glow, well, you have to hide a silver reflector behind them.

But you still want the edges of the bottles to be darker so they have some contrast. So you add some black tape to the sides.

And in order for the reflective labels to have bold black lettering, you have to reflect black cards into them.

Ack! Karl's beautiful bald head is showing up in the chrome caps! He must put on the naughty blanket.

And once you get every aspect of every bottle perfectly lit, you finally get to yeet some water at it all.

I don't love product photography because I have a weird obsession to help greedy corporations make their wares look more beautiful. I love it because it is a complicated and challenging new puzzle every time. Every product is a different shape and requires a different technique to make it look its best.

I don't know if I will be able to live up to Karl's standards.

This is about the level I was at in 2017 before I quit photography.

I have so much more knowledge in my brain now. I'm really hoping I can surpass that.

#yessss
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californiasplit

When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"