workingclasshistory:

On this day, 1 August 1834, slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved people owned by Britons were “freed”. However the government compensated the former owners, at taxpayers’ expense, for the loss of their “property”: paying them £20 million at the time. This sum constituted 40% of the total government budget that year, and was the largest ever state bailout until the 2009 bank bailout. Formerly enslaved people were also forced to work unpaid for 45 hours every week for their former masters for four years. Often this is referred to as the date the British Empire abolished slavery, but in fact the institution continued in other colonies for many years.
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atomic-chronoscaph:

Octaman (1971)

atomic-chronoscaph:

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

theblogosfear:

daughters of darkness / les lèvres rouges, 1971, harry kümel 

ozu-teapot:

Opera | Dario Argento | 1987

Cristina Marsillach, Carola Stagnaro

burzums:

The Evil Dead (1981)

archiemcphee:

Today we learned that conches, the sea-dwelling mollusks who live inside those big, beautiful conch seashells in warm tropical waters, peer out at the world with cartoonish eyes on tiny eyestalks. They see you. They see everything. And what’s more, they can regenerate their peepers should they happen to lose one or both of them.

“One 1976 paper dug into the specific behind these animals’ alien eyestalks. Sitting at the tips of long stalks, they contain retinas with both sensory cells and colored pigment cells. But the story gets weirder because obviously, it gets weirder. After amputating the conchs’ eyes, a fully-formed replacement took its place 14 days later. Humans, we really are losing this evolutionary game.”

But wait, that’s hardly the only surprising set of eyes under the sea. Scallops have eyes too, LOTS of them:

Conch photos by Redditor buterbetterbater and via @shingworks.

[via /r/pics and Gizmodo]

astoundingbeyondbelief:

The Raven (1963), dir. Roger Corman

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 14 September 1867, volume one of Karl Marx’s Magnum Opus, ‘Das Kapital’ first appeared in Germany. Subsequently published in all the world’s major languages and studied widely by workers it was often referred to as “The Bible of the working class”. While lengthy, it is definitely worth a read at some point as it is still unsurpassed as an analysis and critique of capitalism.
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