can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”

here’s a quote from a New York Times article abt it

also bonus quote from that article

“quick question about the punching, judge perlman: how about murder instead”

everybody says that “the government” enlisted these mobsters to beat up nazis, but like. no. no that didn’t happen? judge nathan perlman illegally called up a man who could have him shot dead at a minute to say “hey. i’ve scoured the fucking law books tryna find a way to get these fucking nazis out of here, but my legal means have unfortunately run out. so-” and meyer fucking lansky was like “ah say no more boss lemme call a buncha friends and we’ll get this sorted out real quick don’t even bother paying me.“

can you imagine that phone call. like genuinely. how am i supposed to continue living my normal life knowing this happened. people who loooove talking about punching nazis, taKE FUCKING NOTES

this is my favorite Meyer Lansky story.

my second favorite Meyer Lansky story is about the time, many years later, that he was at a meeting of mafia heads and one of them started bragging about how his son was following him into the family business.

Meyer Lansky said “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”

the cost of living should be 0$ why does it cost money to be alive fuck this fuck you

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

I was raised agnostic and tend to remain ambiguous on theological matters.

-but my house has a porch on the second story that affords me a terrific view of my neighborhood and the Colorado Front Range and I was partaking of some peace before the 4th Of July Finger-Loss Festivities begin, and I have had a

I just watched my neighbor try to unload an actual wooden pallet that had to have been forklifted into the back of his insecurity pickup worth of fireworks.

Except that he does not have a forklift in his garage.

He does have so much sports memorabilia and cardboard boxes of unsold MLM Merchandise and patriotically themed camping gear and posters of women in bikinis and flags of suspect political organizations in his garage that there is only BARELY enough space for the fireworks and certainly none for his truck.

So he had to unload the individual boxes of recreational explosives from the back of his truck and stack them in the minimal space he had cleared by hand. This is a tedious and time-consuming process as this neighbor has purchased a wide variety of recreational and locally illegal explosives instead of many of just a few types, so the individual boxes are rather small.

He begins, and this is crucial to what happens next, by cutting apart the industrial-grade saran wrap his explosives dealer had so carefully wrapped his merchandise in, and discarded it unsecured on his lawn.

Where Outdoor Conditions sometimes happen.

(image description: a tweet with the following text:

A child is polite: wow! such a good kid

A child is polite (China): the Chinese are taught from a young age that any individuality will be punished.

A child is polite (Japan): This can be explained by the Shinto concept of ゲイのセクシ, a word untranslateable into English,

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For the record, 1. "ゲイのセクシ" (gei no sekushi) is Google Translate screwing up "gay sex" apparently (and the author of the tweet was very sleep-deprived when they made this)

and 2. that was in response to this:

(Image description: a tweet by Wirelessly__ with the text "thing I keep seeing" and two other images: one, a frowning face next to the word "thing" and a cheerful smiling face with a heart next to the text "thing, japan"; the other, the previous face smiling at the word "thing", and the frowning face with "thing, china")

As a Japanese person I want to call out the additional level of fucked up this becomes when you understand anything about Japans colonial history in China.

I reject this idea of Japanese superiority outright. China’s history and culture is one of the oldest and most important on the planet and it’s people are worth more than your derision.

Objectively the funniest thing to come out of twitter’s sinking ship

The best part is that person did donate $8 to Partners in Health, and so I didn’t delete the tweet.

Happy 15th birthday Mr Marbles

That’s like 2 billion in human years.

We love you ♥️

My gender is Homosexula

And they’re all Vlad

i bet daniel craig and rachel weisz are engaged in forms of full time kink we can't even comprehend. like if he leaves even one speck of crust on her tea sandwiches she puts him in a christening gown and hunts him on their estate

Savage farmer

Just to put this in perspective, the school was making high school students pay the equivalent of $40/month for parking.

why the fuck does kimberly get less coffee

get rid of jeffrey and keep his mug

This is the perfect visual metaphor for heterosexuality.

dont gays have a power bottom thing? not everything is an attack against women. its supposed to be the moon and the sun. a super old ancient metaphor for men and women since forever. is it an equal metaphor? no i suppose not, since without the sun the moon doesnt shine. its old fashioned which doesnt agree with modern notions of equality necessarily but its a sweet old fashioned thought. the sun shines for the moon and makes its beauty known to the whole world. the sun doesnt hide the moon or demand anything from the moon, it just glorifies everything about it.which is how a man should be in a relationship: a sun to brighten the moon. 

dont gays have a powerbottom thing?

I can’t believe this post only has 108k notes when he is probably the most referenced straight nonsense yet

I had legit forgotten the origins of ‘don’t gays have a powerbottom thing?’ This is like living history

all of tumblr: we fucking hate bots

also tumblr:

Hey, I LOVE bots when they’re just here to play with us. COMMERCIAL bots suck.

Hey, I LOVE bots when

they’re just here to play with us.

COMMERCIAL bots suck.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

the man

i seriously used to watch this video every couple of days and try to debunk it but this dude is literally revolver ocelot in the flesh

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

It would never occur to me to use Chatgpt for a school project, even if it had been a thing back in my day. HOWEVER, for job applications? I sure as fuck would!

It should be noted, that in Denmark, if you don't have a job and are either on government support or unemployment insurance, you have to write two applications a week in order to get your money. Doesn't matter if there is no job in your field, you still have to apply. And considering many companies use bots to filter out applications, I feel like you are entitled to do the same.

Remember fellas, AI is a tool that needs to be used properly in the same way that you wouldn't use a dishwasher to wash your clothes.

a new day

THE PROPOSAL (2009) dir. Anne Fletcher

i must not afternoon nap. afternoon nap is the mind-killer. afternoon nap is the little death that brings total obliteration. i will face my afternoon sleepy tired and permit it to pass over and through me. and when it has gone i will turn the inner eye to see its path. where the afternoon sleepy tired has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain