macdemarcos:

vinyl tape on stairs- jim lambie 

kingcheddarxvii:

dogs aren’t too complicated but they think they are comics

One of the (many) things I like about Taylor Swift is that if you listen to her albums straight through you notice that a *lot* of verses are the verse of another song as seen from the other side

dtownsteez:

tehawesome:

I’ll keep doing weather.com clickbait headline rewrites until it no longer brings me joy.

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marvelousreality:

In 1913, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Franz Ferdinand, and Franz Joseph were all living within about 2 square miles of each other in a small section of Vienna. To think Stalin and Hitler may very well have passed each other in the street a quarter of a century before the outbreak of the second world war.

BBC Article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21859771

20th century mitteleuropa coffeeshop AU

alright the plural of anecdote isn’t data but the plural of datum isn’t truth

So the major belligerents of World War II were three states that could claim continuity with the Roman Empire - the Germans by way of the “First Reich” of the Holy Roman Empire, the Italians by way of the Papal States, the Russians as the “Third Rome” by way of the Byzantines; two states, America and England, that styled themselves as the “New Rome”; and Japan, who was like “no, no, we’re just an empire consisting of all the coasts in range of this narrow, mountainous landform”.

sttngfashion:

Someone made a montage of Star Trek ladies to that insane Sarah Brightman Song. h/t The Toast.

taylorswifthecreator:

when the administration of a government changes do you think a ceremony will be invented for the handing over of the official government twitters and instagrams

Some species in the genus Eunicie reproduce by epitoky. For much of the year, these worms look like any other burrow-dwelling polychaete, but as the breeding season approaches, the worm undergoes a remarkable transformation as new, specialized segments begin to grow from its rear end until the worm can be clearly divided into two halves. The front half, the atoke, is asexual. The new rear half, responsible for breeding, is known as the epitoke.

Each of the epitoke segments is packed with eggs and sperm and features a single eyespot on its surface. The beginning of the last lunar quarter is the cue for these animals to breed, and the epitokes break free from the atokes and float to the surface. The eye spots sense when the epitoke reaches the surface and the segments from millions of worms burst, releasing their eggs and sperm into the water.

Was drifting in and out of sleep this morning, and remembered a lot of weird dreams. In one of them I was going from pizza place to pizza place, proselytizing for Kemalism. That wasn’t the weirdest one, that’s just the one it’s easiest to explain.

magnicifent:

the internet is beautiful 

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-best-of-enchanted-forest/Content?oid=1517266

A 1/3-sarcastic, 1/3-loving, 1/3-self-loving tribute to a local institution that anywhere else would have been supplanted by a polished corporate version, but is instead loved for its hand-crafted, three-quarters-assed, vaguely Germanic and sinister character, as rendered by semiprofessional creatives who constantly digress into adolescent self-hating humblebragging about how they’re habitual intoxicants who consider their interactions with other people, the young included, primarily in terms of sex.

This might be the most Portland thing I’ve ever read.

Keep in mind that other candidates for “best Portland-area amusement park” include the Air & Space Museum/waterpark with CIA ties, and for “most Portland thing I’ve ever read” include Fight Club’s vision of overthrowing emasculating bourgeois last man society through the redemptive violence of insurrectionary primitivist service-class masculinity.

I’ve been in Oregon going on three years and I’m still regularly stunned that this is a place that exists in reality and not some 1988 fantasy novel where USENET founds its own country.

grapesoda333grapesoda22:

It’s called people skills or being manipulative depending on context

intertnet:

my boyfriend sent me this at 4 in the morning 

hm. okay.