firehose

onlylolgifs:

Who wants milk?

negatronic:

Instagram has taught me that if something is pink and attached to a tree, people will tag it as “cherry blossoms.”

Anyway, these are flowering almond:

These are magnolia:

These are dogwood:

And these are balloons:

Please note that none of these are, in fact, cherry blossoms.

marxvx:

eyehategodzilla:

This was an issue in 1884, they won it. Im working 12 hours on monday.

we need the four-hour day. shortening the length of the working day is a much bigger threat to capitalism than raising the value of the wage. capitalists can compensate for a decrease in the rate of relative surplus value pretty easily, but if we decrease the rate of absolute surplus value we either destroy surplus value, or capitalism creates a post-scarcity society by developing the forces of production to the point where scarcity is totally artificial

venusaurphobia:

Being a Christian doesn’t mean you have to be anti-science. I do believe in The Big Bang Theory, I just don’t think it’s funny or deserves six seasons.

I did not know Realtree made sport coats. Not until former Jaguar Brad Meester showed me the way:

Now let's see a camo jacket that actually blends into the draft stage background, eh?

Back in March we posted about “The Expert,” a hilarious sketch comedy video in which a lone engineer in a business meeting must deal with idiotic questions from his colleagues. In the sketch, the engineer is asked to create the following nonsensical situation: seven red lines, all perpendicular, some with green ink, some with transparent ink, and one in the form of a kitten. Well, self-described expert D. Scott Williamson has solved the seemingly impossible problem using markers, paper, and tape.

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Artist Andrea Mastrovito creates delightful collage installations in which hundreds of nature illustrations populate an empty room in a dense paper diorama. He has created two versions of the installation: “The Island of Dr. Mastrovito” (2010) featuring illustrations from 1,100 cut books, and “The Island of Dr. Mastrovito II” (2012) featuring 1,200 cut books. The installations are a play on the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Doctor Moreau:

His starting points for this site-specific work are the two most common forms of home recreation—books and television. The title of his installation refers to H. G. Wells’ famous novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, in which the archetypal “mad” scientist experiments upon animals in order to give them human traits. In this “Island,” the artist substitutes himself for the doctor, trying to instill a new life into that which was once alive in a different way (books from paper, paper from wood, and wood from trees). Mastrovito imagines that the outside fauna take control of the abandoned house and become its proper inhabitants.

photos via Andrea Mastrovito

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officialunitedstates:

this is like a rich person tossing their money into a fire but not even using it to keep warm

psychoticviking:

"This next song goes out to all the black metal bands who haven’t killed me or my family yet"

Casual Friday is Casual Friday, doesn't matter if you're getting drafted by the Broncos on national TV:

That's you forever, Cody Latimer. The guy who got drafted in a cardigan then did duckface at the camera.

atane:

Obiageli Ezekwesili is letting Ramaa Mosley and Girl Rising know that she has seen their fraudulent #bringbackourgirls “emergency fundraiser” and is calling them out on their shit.

Obiageli Ezekwesili is one of the Nigerians behind #bringbackourgirls

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A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge's ruling that Oracle's Java API's were not protected by copyright.

The debacle started when Google copied certain elements—names, declaration, and header lines—of the Java APIs in Android, and Oracle sued. A judge largely sided with Google in 2012, saying that the code in question could not be copyrighted.

"Because we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection, we reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination with instructions to reinstate the jury’s infringement finding as to the 37 Java packages," the US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday.

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Comedian Larry Wilmore, perhaps best known as the Senior Black Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will officially take Stephen Colbert's slot on Comedy Central next year. The new show, titled The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, is set to premiere next January, a month after The Colbert Report wraps for good.

According to The New York Times, the idea for the show came from Stewart himself, in the wake of the Colbert's announced departure for Late Show. Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless said in an interview that The Minority Report will "provide an opportunity for the underrepresented voices out there." Wilmore will be joined by a panel of as-yet unannounced correspondents, who will join him in commenting on the...

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crossbowsandwalkers:

Is this Lucy Liu throwing a javelin in a dress and high heels

You say that as if this is something unusual

Here's one way to get public urinators to clean up their act: give them a dose of their own medicine via a firehose's devastating blast.

A group calling itself "The Clean Indian" has done just that using a roving tanker-truck equipped with water cannons. The yellow behemoth, emblazoned with crossed-out peeing stick figures and the warning "You Stop, We Stop," patrols city streets looking for men splashing on walls. Then, with a surprise attack from behind, the truck's camo-clad operators unleash powerful jets that send the miscreants running or flying to the (urine-soaked) pavement.

It's a nasty tactic, and you've got to feel a little sorry for the men who might not have an easy place to relieve themselves. Almost half of India's 1.2 billion people don't have a toilet in their home, and public bathrooms tend to be scarce and frequently filthy. Still, if it makes guys nervous enough that they'll move to a slightly less visible spot to pee, it can't be all bad.

Warning: Video contains pee.

William Blake, Moses erecting the Brazen Serpent, ca. 1800-03