I think everyone's desire to not piss anyone off is killing what is so attractive about personalities in the first place

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Lena Horne singing "Ain't It the Truth" in a deleted scene from "Cabin in the Sky", 1943 😍🫧😍🫧😍

This scene was cut because according to Lena the "image of a black woman in a bubble bath was feared to be too risqué at the time"

I’m LOCKED IN

a lot of people could stand to start viewing the nakba and the holocaust as a continuum rather than as competitive binaries

Genya and Henryk Kowalski's recollections of their 1948 arrival in Israel after surviving Nazi death camps, by Alon Confino in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history ed. Bashair Bashair and Amos Goldberg

April 14th 1912: Titanic hits an iceberg

On this day in 1912, at 11.40pm, the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg. The Titanic was the largest and most opulent passenger liner the world had ever seen, attracting notable dignitaries to its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. The vessel was built in Belfast for White Star Line, with the intention of trumping the company’s rivals at Cunard. The Titanic was lauded as an ‘unsinkable’ ship, but subsequent examinations have suggested some fatal flaws in the ship’s design, in addition to a lack of lifeboats, which only could accommodate half the passengers. Just four days after setting sail, on April 14th at around 11.40pm, the Titanic hit an iceberg. The collision caused a massive gash in the ship’s hull, dooming the vessel to sink. As the ship filled with water and slowly sank, its over two thousand passengers rushed to lifeboats. The panicked evacuation was haphazard, with lifeboats lowered despite not being at full capacity. The ship’s final hours saw a number of particularly touching stories, including the elderly Straus couple who stayed in their cabin to die together, the violin players continuing to perform as the ship sank, and Benjamin Guggenheim changing into his formal dress and declaring “We are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.”  The Titanic finally sank at around 2.20am, leaving thousands to die of hypothermia in the freezing ocean. Over 1,500 people died in the tragedy, with around 700 survivors rescued by the Cunard’s Carpathia. The demise of the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic shocked the world, and the tragic fate of a symbol of early twentieth-century optimism continues to captivate people’s imagination.

Kodak store window displays from the 1940s.

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

I see that, and raise you my local aquarium's advertising.

Vancouver Aquarium has similar ads!

They also have some SERIOUSLY inventive ones:

(High and Low Tide ^)

the only type of advertising that should exist: "ooooohhhh you want to come look at the animal"

^

This man is getting pet a whole lot lately

@creatures-in-posts

you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.

motherfuckers will be like "i don't even like tea" have you fucking tried keats and co?

because what you MEAN is that you don't like fucking celestial seasonings or tazo like no shit you don't THEY SUCK.

Call me when you've drunk some real tea.

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

Thank you Marcus Aurelius

the country boys are wearing athleisure. the suburban boys are wearing cowboy shit. The city boys are wearing pristine carhartt. And me ? That’s right. Buck ass naked

Just a reminder that it is not your vet’s job to report if your pet got into recreational drugs. We aren’t snitches, we have no obligation to report drug use. We do, however, want to save your pet so please be honest with us about what your pet got into. It could literally be life and death for them.

i initially read this as a cat picking up a cocaine habit on the street and not being a narc about it before i realised you meant pets accidentally ingesting their owners drugs

Midnight Pals: The Divine Flesh

Drew Huff: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the divine flesh Huff: ok so imagine that there's this lovecraftian abomination cosmic horror elder god Huff: but she's also a total thot

Huff: this woman has a Lovecraftian god in her body Huff: and the god is all Huff: (honey i'm soooo hornyyyy) Huff: (girl c'monnnn) Huff: (baby i wanna party) Huff: (sweetie c'mon) Huff: (sugar) Huff: (hun bunny dearie luv pet) Huff: (champ pal buddy sprout boss)

Huff: imagine if you were stuck with a Lovecraftian god trapped in your body Lovecraft: [sweats] i-in your body?! Mary Shelley: hmm i dunno Shelley: i think i could handle it Poe: oh of course you think you can handle it Shelley: yeah no i could handle it

Lovecraft: mary you can't handle that! Lovecraft: having a Lovecraftian god possess your body would be a terrifying experience! Lovecraft: so terrifying as t Shelley: so terrifying as to make you go mad? Lovecraft: Lovecraft: i wasn't going to say that

Shelley: oh no? Lovecraft: no i was going to say Lovecraft: i was going to say something else Poe: oh come on howard don't sulk Poe: now look what you've done mary

Huff: well what if you and the Lovecraftian elder god really hated each other Shelley: why would we hate each other Huff: idk Huff: maybe you just don't vibe

Huff: well, one reason might be Huff: what if you and the Lovecraftian god in your body both love the SAME man? King: the same man? King: oof awkward!

Huff: that's right, the woman and the Lovecraftian god are both in love with the same guy! Sonia Greene: oh yeah i hate when that happens Lovecraft: what? Greene: nothing

hey man what if i cried

@water7-ebooks

Eddie Izzard, Force Majeure, 2013