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thisishellhere:

mydrunkkitchen sooo true 😂

Tourists visit Beast Jesus in Borja, Spain (photo by virmorcar/Instagram)

Anyone who still doubts that internet memes can have an impact on the real world should pay a visit to the small town of Borja, in northeastern Spain. Thousands of tourists have been doing just that ever since local amateur art restorer Cecilia Giménez blessed us with Beast Jesus. According to a new report in the New York Times, about 150,000 people have visited the town of 5,000 and made the trek to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mercy, the 16th-century chapel that houses the beloved fresco since it first came to international attention in 2012.

Tourists and Beast Jesus (photo by nataliagmarin/Instagram) (click to enlarge)

Many locals were initially unhappy about the attention Giménez had brought to the town, but they have since come around and made of her something akin to a new patron saint. “The impact of ‘Ecce Homo’ has been really great for businesses,” José M. Baya, owner of local eatery La Bóveda, told the Times. His business has been so successful he’s planning to open a second restaurant. “Sadly, everyone heads to look at a painting that, frankly, is ugly.”

Aesthetic judgments aside, Borja has embraced Giménez and her handiwork. She is the focus of a local holiday every year on August 25 to commemorate the day of her momentous restoration effort. She judges an “Ecce Homo” painting competition in which local children paint their own versions of the fresco. And an image of the work appears on the municipal lottery tickets. The increased visibility has also been a boon to the nearby Museum of Colegiata, which has seen its attendance increase tenfold to 70,000 visitors per year.

In spite of the trickle-down effects of “Ecce Homo” tourism, some locals still don’t get it. “I can’t explain the reaction,” Miguel Arilla, Borja’s mayor, told the Times. “I went to see ‘Ecce Homo’ myself, and still I don’t understand it.”

First, I knew I could trust him not to hurt me.

Then, I knew I could trust him to hurt me.

Who else is being Sinful?

paganlovefest:

Oleg Maidakov

soundssimpleright:

If you stopped using women’s sexuality as currency, half the economy would go bankrupt overnight.

asylum-art:

The Bees

Canadian artist Sarah Hatton links neonicotinoid pesticides present in crops to the worldwide decline of bee populations. To raise awareness on the issue, she started to create works of art from dead bees she’s collected. Hatton arranges the bees in patterns symbolically linked to monoculture crops destroying them—such as the Fibonacci spiral found in the seed pattern of the sunflower. This optical illusion represents the bees’ loss of ability to navigate due to neurotoxins.

skelepeach:

Retired police officer, Captain Ray Lewis, being arrested in New York City for protesting against police brutality.

"I will not idly stand by while law enforcement is administered only to the poor and the disenfranchised while the rich flaunt their immunity."  - Captain Ray Lewis

swiggity-switchface:

Posted in the student union

heathersketcheroos:

I wanted to paint something fluffy, so I finished my little bat! ♡ prints available on society6 @heathersketcheroos! #fluffy #bat

chaotic-awesome:

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fruitgod:

Glow x

blackhistoryalbum:

A young “Miss Maggie” Walker, the daughter of a former slave, who in 1903 became the first woman of any race to found and become president of an American bank. She also founded a newspaper and a department store called “Saint Luke’s Emporium.”

Courtesy of the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site

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that-beautiful-bitch:

rhydonmyhardon:

black—lamb:

basically ever since I tweeted the first tweet… I’ve had to combat the most ignorant white souls on this planet… All of them using the same excuses.. All of them making it about themselves rather than admitting the injustices..All of them calling me racist for speaking the truth… The sad thing is for once I can say people on tumblr understand more than twitter…

It’s saddening and disgusting that they still attempt to remain blind.. It’s exhausting and I’m sick of educating the hopeless..

ALL of the facts and proof but you still bypass it all to say “NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE” They care more about not looking racist than they do about the injustices that have occurred

Last I checked I never owned a slave, SO WHY DONT YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT WHITE PPL AND SLAVERY. How can you say “your not racist” but blame white ppl for your problems and tell me its my job to support your ass go fuck off

Lexe, you’re a gaping asshole. Just FYI. 

skulls-and-tea:

"14-year-old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news.  Still, he knew there were many good police officers in various communities, but had no way of figuring out which communities were highly rated and which were not.  

So, together with his two older sisters: Parkview High School senior Ima Christian, and Gwinnett School of Math, Science, and Technology sophomore, Asha Christian, they founded a mobile app development company– Pinetart Inc., under which they created a mobile app called Five-O.

Five-O, allows citizens to enter the details of every interaction with a police officer.  It also allows them to rate that officer in terms of courtesy and professionalism and provides the ability to enter a short description of what transpired.  These details are captured for every county in the United States. Citizen race and age information data is also captured.

Additionally, Five-O allows citizens to store the details of each encounter with law enforcement; this provides convenient access to critical information needed for legal action or commendation.”

Read more here. [x]

UPDATE:

The app is available to download for Android here: [x]

Sign up for the iPhone pre-launch updates list here: [x] 

Connect with and promote the app’s creators: Twitter | Facebook 

buttonlessgirl:

kindofrighteous:

trash-captain:

pariah7:

SOUTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL — MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Black Out and 4 1/2 hours of silence for Mike Brown

#you’re changing the world keep going

#im so damn proud of this generation man

I spoke with students from this school prior to the rally at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and they said that not only did their principal/administration know this was going to be happening, but they had the floors washed, too, knowing students would be sitting and laying down on it.

I love to see young people organizing, and I love when their efforts are supported by the adults in their life. 

brasspistol:

every time I see this it gets reblogged

nevver:

H.L. Mencken

elisemerand:

RETRO - Great animators & mirrors !

1- Irv Spence / 2- Woolie Reitherman / 3- Ollie Johnston / 4- Ken Harris / 5- Norm Ferguson / 6- Charles ‘Nick’ Nichols / 7- Fred Moore / 8- Carlo Vinci / 9- Ward Kimball l Via.

Some Little Things i Like : Tumblr l Facebook l Twitter

rabbitglitter:

Dear cis men regulating reproductive rights 

sixpenceee:

The Land of the Giants, Electrical pylons transformed into statues walking along the Icelandic landscape.

nicholasgurewitch:

New PBF: “One Time Thing”

dropboxofcuriosities:

Matthieu Bourel - Attraction II, 2013.

peabug:

meladoodle:

AMAZING

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

It’s actually about ethics in ‘bots, though, people.

Before the Affordable Care Act I could literally not get insurance. I have a chronic disease, ulcerative colitis, which causes me a lot of pain, about $300 in prescription drug bills per month, and will probably give me cancer.

The treatment for the cancer that I hope won’t kill me is a surgery that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and it will be followed by a lifetime of medical bills to help me live without a colon.

Do you want to know why I didn’t have health insurance? Because I was diagnosed in college…and when I graduated I had to get off the University’s plan and when I applied for new coverage I was denied. I was denied by every insurance company that operates in the state of Montana. Apparently this was my fault?

So now we have the Affordable Care Act. I pay full price for health insurance, and if I get in a car accident (which might happen) or get cancer (which probably will) I can avoid bankruptcy. I can continue running my business that employs 30 people and not dissolve all of the assets of the thing I have built in order to pay for the luxury of not dying.

And what is the price to you? To the average citizen? Oh, y’know, nothing. No increase in your taxes, and you’re more likely to see your insurance bill go down than you were before the ACA was passed. Fucking Horrible. I’m so sorry that the sustainability of our nation’s economy and the freedom of average citizens to not live in constant fear take precedence over your bullshit ideology.

_{what if hannibal told cheesy jokes instead of implying cannibalism?}