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Telephone booth surrounded by snow in Hokkaido, Japan (2021)

You might have thought card sharks and loan sharks were named after the predatory fish, but apparently there’s a decent chance it’s the other way around from an old Dutch word meaning “person that takes unfair advantage of other people”. Before that they were known in English as a haye or dogfish, which means sometime in the ~1400s enough English sailors started saying “don’t get in the water, it’s infested with those jerks”

she ate

Great job, Musk

Here’s a photo of the band evanescence playing donkey konga in 2004.

And they’re not alone

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Some recent gems:

Can I get uhhh…

sorry if you’re finding out like this

hi i’m seeing no one talk about this cover??? this is HAUNTING, it’s dedicated it to everyone who’s died from the coronavirus so far especially healthcare staff i just,,,

Us: play this over silent, crisply shot black and white footage of the empty streets and silent landmarks. cut with shots of our drowning hospitals. An acceptable future documentary of 2020 that we will allow.

I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call / good night and joy be with you all.

Solidarity against kellogs

#WorkingClassSolidarity

Kellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract

https://www.thestand.org/2021/11/heres-how-you-can-support-kelloggs-strikers/