Polite Machine Gun

I just… I don’t know how to respond to this with anything other than an infuriated fucking howl, honestly? I’ve checked this and @essayofthoughts has checked this and there’s confirmation that Tumblr is actively banning archival efforts so it looks like this is not a bug.

If you were planning on archiving anything from this website, you’re too late. It is all going to fucking burn. Not only is Tumblr committed to destroying the platform, they are committed to absolutely fucking anyone who is trying to conserve any part of it.

Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.

to this

Just after a year

The movies may belong to the studio but there are tons of people working there. All that Sony from the top really does is approve which projects they are going to fund.

We’re judging a whole animation and distribution center on something not everyone works on. It’s not improvement it’s just two entirely different teams working on different stories.

Americans:

NAFTA is just one example of that shift in policy, his tax policy is another.

Clinton and the New Democrats (now called Blue Dogs or Problem Solvers) shifting of Party resulted in helping hasten the deterioration of labor and unions in this country right when they needed a Left (or even centrist) party to help them.

Ultimately, it became a decision to swap labor unions in favor of wealthier Wall Street backers.

Clintonism is “moderate” conservatism (designed to woo white conservative southerners).

Not the kind of conservatism that boisterously yells the n-word, but the kind that quietly uses racial dog whistles (like super-predators) to sell mass incarceration.

Not the kind of conservatism that yells, “end welfare,” but the kind that uses “pragmatism” and “triangulation.” And then agrees with Republicans to “end welfare as we know it” while actually kicking hundreds of thousands of needy families off the welfare roles and calling it progress, like Bill Clinton did in the 90s. (please see how Welfare “reform” failed Lillie Harden)

Conservative Democrats mistakenly believe that the country is more conservative than it really is.

Centrism, Clintonism, neoliberalism, or “moderate” conservatism, or whatever you want to call it — it’s just a soft selling of conservatism with a smiley face; the iron fist of conservatism covered with a soft looking velvet glove.

Clintonism is gradual, incremental, almost imperceptible concessions to conservatism. Acquiescence, sold under the guise of “moderation” and “compromise.”

Hi everybody.

@vgstims sent me this crying statue gif this morning and it hit me hard. I suddenly realized that I was in grief, dealing with the death of Tumblr as I knew it for over 4 years.

I never realized just how powerful an online community can be and to see it die is very tough to experience.

I just thought I’d share this with my followers, which believe it or not, is a little short of 50,000 on Tumblr, at 49,516.

The goal of my blog, as a fighter, was to bring the fight gym to Tumblr, to make it as real as possible for my followers, to have them experience virtually what a fight gym would feel like and what Manliness means.

I hope that I did that for all of of you!

As I said previously, I’ll continue to post until Tumblr takes me down, fight to the end!

Always seek Manliness!

more Jaina from Heroes of the Stom x) 

cosplay made by me 

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.  

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom: 

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese). Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).