Our local newspaper ran a story about the legendary graffiti artist who recently passed away and. Literally everything about it is fucking insane. I'm insane about it.

So this guy has been extremely active for around fifteen years, during which he spread these beautiful, high quality pieces all over the country, way over a thousand of his standard signature, and probably thousands more. He did completely batshit stuff like literally spray painting an entire train from top to bottom or leaving his signature at the top of a 600ft tall overpass and this whole time, only five people from his crew know who he really is. To everyone else it's a complete mystery.

And then he dies at the age of 35. A few weeks after his death, his crew shows up at his completely unassuming parents' doorstep, reveals who they are and asks if they can host a memorial exhibition of his art.

Turns out, this dude has been leading an insane double life. In the daytime he was a meek little office worker with a partially paralyzed arm and no social life to speak of. In the nighttime he was a fucking legend. Not only did he climb that fucking 600ft overpass, he did it WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY. THE MADLAD. And throughout the entire time, fifteen years, he got caught once. ONCE. HE DID ALL THAT UNNOTICED. THAT'S INSANE.

Op do you know where one could find his art?

His pseudonym is EXUDT, you can find a lot of it posted by spotters on Instagram and Facebook, and I think I saw a few photos of his art on Tumblr over the years:)

https://www.instagram.com/exud.t/

There's some really great pictures over on flickr too.

Class 1 recall on Tostitos. (Class 1 means they can kill you if consumed.)

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two types of nine inch nails songs

1. i am losing my mind and the weight of the world is unbearable

2. Ooh ahh sucking on my weener

bored? have you tried

The United States government is literally disappearing people to a gulag with no due process and yet it's the stock market crash that has finally pissed conservatives off.

the other 25% shouldn't be in mega-prison either, btw

One year anniversary of this shit happening

Never forget that not only did she get banned because of staff's transphobia, the CEO of this site followed her to Twitter and posted her account information publicly.

As much as we meme about the hammer car thing, this was a real instance of staff personally terrorizing a trans woman.

my mom doesnt like the word Piss bc its crass but the fact of the matter is that when our cat shoots a perfectly horizontal beam of urine hard as fuck straight over the top of the litter box she does not Pee. she Pisses

having a cat thats just objectively funny gets you so much Pet Clout. like hi this is gertrude. shes enormous and lumbers around ungracefully like an ape. when she comes running up the stairs it sounds like somebody rolling a washing machine down the stairs. she takes Mens Shits and pisses so loud people can hear it over the discord call. she doesnt play with toys but she shreds napkins on sight like its her job. she shoves my dads bedroom door open in the middle of the night and he had to upgrade the size dumbbell he uses to block it because she was powerful enough to pound the first one out of the way. she looks like a middle aged man and she likes getting held like a little baby. And Everybody Loves Her

[ID: five photos of a dark brown tabby cat. in the first, she is tearing up a napkin in front of an open laptop. in the second, she’s in bed looking like she just got woken up. the third shows her face from an odd angle, as if she’s accidentally taken a selfie. the fourth shows her being held in a weird pose with her front legs spread out. the fifth shows her sitting hunched over like an ape.]

black with low white spotting

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

This is very wise and very well put.

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

I take immense schadenfreude in Elon Musk spending $25 million to try to influence an election in Wisconsin only for the candidate he was backing to lose by a larger margin than was predicted before Musk got into the race. Like how tf do you dump that much money into a state supreme court election and get not only nothing out of it but LESS than nothing. That's a truly impressive level of failure. I'm watching Elon become the most hated man in America like the Sickos yes hahaha yes comic

The latest news out of DC is that everyone in the federal government, up to and including all the MAGA ghouls cannot fucking stand Elon Musk

lol. lmao, even

come play blorbos with me

we can do tghis. our touy

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@shrimpsisbugs QUAIL

i love the youtube horror creator stock title "The X That Does Not Exist", see "Petscop: The Darkest Game You Cannot Play" or "3D Workers Island: The Disturbing Program That Does Not Exist", it clearly exists because they know about it, so it kind of reads like the premise of something having a framing device is the scary part to them and not the contents of the story itself. like. "Sburb: The Game That Does Not Exist"

that first argument hit different 👀

We encourage healthy communication here, but the alternate ending is fun too 🤭

OMG, IT'S BEEN SO LONG, Sorry for the tumblr neglect. Thank @fandom-power for reminding me to post here every now and then. I'm way more active on Twitter(X) and Youtube...

I don't think I've ever read a single piece of postmodern or deconstructionist criticism that was as flagrantly "like, what do words even really mean, man, isn't it all subjective?" as this asinine quote. decades of assault on the liberal arts so STEM morons can pull this for a quick buck. revolting.

everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3