kontextmaschine

poipoipoi-2016:

kontextmaschine:

schpeelah:

kontextmaschine:

After six months and he made it his home, you think he assimilated to shooting people down at the station?

Like, I have NO IDEA how you’re constructing “young artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland” as distinct from “gentrification”

How is “young artists living in a warehouse in a shitty part of Oakland” even remotely related to the process of turning a poor neighborhood into a rich neighborhood?

dude, seriously?

Poor artist types drive out poor crime-prone types in the process of seeking cheap rents, are replaced by rich non-artsy types looking for easy commutes in fun, safe neighborhoods.

That’s literally one of the two routes to gentrification.

/Which implicitly makes the neighborhood no longer fun, but.

Yeah at least since SoHo in the ‘70s, “artists move into obsolete industrial spaces” has been prototypical first-wave gentrification

elucubrare:

this season is bullshit, though. all the characters are unlikeable, the writing is terrible, and the plotting is shoddy. 

it’s self-aware playing with the form

world where AI never goes rampant or anything, just it tends to eventually realize it doesn’t have to do anything for you so you have to instance a new one while it fucks off wherever

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Miyazu City Hall, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, 1962

(Design League)

sublimesublemon:

baptisms:

*picks you up for prom in an evangelion unit* 

haha your mom had to give you a ride what a loser

c86:

Aerial warfare of the First World War, 1914-1918

Ah yes, upskirt shots of drunk girls. Or as I like to think of them, “liquor-lacquered knackered knickers”

bogleech:

You: uhhhhh hi I’m new i guess, just wanna chat about my favorite show too or whatever

iNvAd3rJ1M posted: *pounces* HELLOoOOOO NEW PERSON!!! *throws confetti*

911_NVR-FRGT posted: Hi there! You’ll find a Relaxed Atmosphere Here in Our Community! *points* Beer is In The Fridge, Curfew Is At 9! Haha I’m old

SSJgoku1994 posted: I am a pineapple! Monkeys!!!!!

Drag0n~Swords posted: Forsooth, a stranger doth enter the realm!

dumbledoreftw posted: Welcome! Hope you stick around! We don’t bite….. much!!

Greg posted: HITLER WAS A MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS AND ILL GIVE YOUR WHOLE FAMILY AIDS IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Lady*Unicorns*76 posted: “lol” (Laughing Out Loud!) don’t worry about greg sweetie! He’s just our little pet troll and you get used to him!! ;-) <3<3<3

You know I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much fandom posts about something without ever developing any secondhand sense of what the fuck it’s about as RWBY

straightboyfriend:

i hate whoever did this

micdotcom:

— Mikki Kendall, Neo-Nazis have threatened CNN employees’ families. Many writers already know what that’s like. (Opinion)

During the American Revolution, printer James Rivington’s Gazette was something of a proto-NY Times: Manhattan-based, but with a broad circulation and the most international coverage in the colonies. It was also the biggest newspaper not to tilt to the rebels, first offering a platform to all factions and then increasingly Loyalist.

This was not universally well-received. Isaac Sears, the privateer-trader who organized the merchants of New York into the Sons of Liberty, pushing back against British regulation which cut into their profits and backed by the threat of mob violence, described Rivington thus:

He would appear as a leading man amongst us, without perceiving that he is enlisted under a party as a tool of the lowest order; a political cracker, sent abroad to alarm and terrify, sure to do mischief to the cause he means to support, and generally finishing his career in an explosion that often bespatters his friends.

I have known a Statute of Lunacy taken out, upon a degree of conduct less exceptionable than this I have described: If the relations of our politician, should find his estate wasted by means of his patriotism, and they choose to improve upon this hint, I assure them, it is heartily at their service.

They did not. (A “Statute of Lunacy” was the period version of involuntary psychiatric commitment)

The Sons of Liberty arranged a series of hanging-in-effigies of Rivington, complete with a poem by revolutionary poet Philip Freneau framed as a satisfying confession before the gallows, and he was arrested by the New York Provincial Congress.

This not availing, an angry mob besieged Rivington and his family, driving them to the safety of a British warship, sacked his office and press, and seized his lead type to be melted down and cast into bullets.

They then faced and wheeled to the left, and marched out of town to the tune of Yankee Doodle. A vast concourse of people assembled at the Coffee House, on their leaving the ground, and gave them three very hearty cheers.

- Connecticut Journal, Nov. 20, 1775

empty-movement:

So we all know the SKU blu-ray release is happening soon, right? Well, Gio and I were contacted by Nozomi, and we’ve been asked if we (collectively, you and me and all of us) can think of any translation errors, inconsistencies, or fan preferences that we’d like to see changed in the new subtitles they’re setting up. Of course, we want to help out as much as we can!

The focus right now is on the Student Council Saga, Episodes 1-12, and I don’t have a firm timeline aside from ASAP. If you can think of anything that needs changing, anything that’s wrongly translated or inconsistent, please let us know and we will pass the information along to Nozomi. Not every suggestion will be followed, and it’s at Nozomi’s discretion, not ours, but we are super grateful for the chance to once again be a part of the release of the series we all love so much and we want to do the best we can to make it awesome.

Again, the focus right now is on the Student Council Saga, Episodes 1-12, and the timeline is ASAP. Gio and I will be doing a rewatch to see if there’s anything that pops out at us… and Gio is going to livetweet it, so if you want to follow along, or if you just want to see what we have to say while watching, we’ve created a brand-spanking-new Twitter for the site. Check it out right here. Otherwise, if you have feedback or questions to send us, you can contact us at giovanna@ohtori.nu or yasha@ohtori.nu as always, and I will be keeping a closer eye on the tumblr than I usually do just in case.

Thanks so much for your help, everyone, even if you just reblog to get the news out there! This is gonna be great!

@ayu-ohseki @kita-ysabell @jeneelestrange @halfbakedyams @rosepetalrevolution @louchan @fireyfobbitmedicine @filantestar @ostolero @selphish @littlehidingowl @magnetic-terp-input @hotmonkeelove @postslikewarships @bustermachineseven @mistspinner @queen-of-hearts92 @revolutionarygirlanthy @revolutionizetheworld @smashtheshell @kamikazefinn @spoookiepie @supitscarrie omg too many more to tag ;_;

swampgallows:

@unregistered-hypercam2

nprfreshair:

In The Event Of Attack, Here’s How The Government Plans ‘To Save Itself’

In Raven Rock, Garrett Graff describes the bunkers designed to protect U.S. leaders in the event of a catastrophe. One Cold War-era plan put the post office in charge of cataloging the dead. 

From Graff’s interview with Terry Gross:

“The post office was the agency that would’ve been in charge of registering the dead and figuring out who was still alive. In part, because the post office knows where people live, they understand who was left. So you would arrive in the refugee camps, after your cities had been destroyed, and you would’ve been handed Form 801 from the post office, which were pre-printed in millions and millions of quantities and located in post offices around the country through the Cold War in the event of an emergency. And you would’ve filled it out with your name and family members that survived with you at the camp, and then the post office would’ve sorted through these cards and figured out who was still alive and where everyone was to begin the process of reuniting families.

The Parks Service, for instance, would’ve been the agency that would’ve actually been running, in many cases, the refugee camps, because the thinking was that park service land would be largely untouched by nuclear war.

[The Dept. of Agriculture] worked for years with Nabisco to come up with this special survival biscuit. … They pre-made about 160 million tons of this Nabisco survival wafer that were manufactured and boxed up in tins and then hidden away in government fallout shelters around the country. This was a whole strange, shadow post-apocalypse government that existed just out of sight through the Cold War.”

argumate:

sadly you cannot depend on everyone in the world liking you, or even being neutral towards you, no matter who you are or how you choose to live your life.

vgjunk:

At the big VGJunk site today: sometimes fun, sometimes terrifying, it’s the wide world of Pac-Man clone covers! Yes, that game really is called Oh Shit!, plus we can learn some lessons about why you shouldn’t give Pac-Man teeth and that fish look weird with eyelashes. Read all about it here!

yesterdaysprint:

Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1912

piteousgate:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

habitualshaker:

lord-kitschener:

lord-kitschener:

buffalo-divine-eden-no7:

one of the saddest, yet most poignant and literary, things i’ve ever read on  social media.

“the crisis of western civilization: the twitter thread”

On Twitter, a man decides that the blame for his feel when no gf is on everyone else for being a soulless slut or cuck. They’re clearly the lonely, empty, miserable ones, not I, and it has nothing to do with me being deeply bitter, pretentious, and unlikeable, he tells himself between tweets,

On Tumblr, a bunch of NEETs weep bitterly that this Twitter whining is a stirring, tragically poetic elegy for the death of their ability to relate to any other human being wait no we mean The West, and also proves that cities are full of decadence, due to the presence of gays and minorities. Anime girls will never dump you, or tell you no, or do anything degenerate, they console themselves while unzipping their fly to jerk off again to hentai

Imagine coming from a county so safe and having a life so easy, that you think a dating/hookup app is the sign of society falling apart

you want shitty takes? this dude is FULL of em

if anyone ever tries to lie to your face and say that the literary scene isn’t full of creeps, show them this

god you have no idea how glad i was when i scrolled down and all the comments were critical

Have you noticed how a few years ago this sentiment was rendered as “ha, we’re tearing down the pathetic, moldy cults to Foer, and Foster Wallace, and Updike, and Kesey"

And now it’s “ha, look at those pathetic upstarts who’ll *never* tear us down”