ladythatsmyskull:

webbut:

kineticpenguin:

trilllizard420:

headlesssamurai:

ninja-weapons:

This gif is outrageous

 ■ The so-called “blood explosion” which punctuates the conclusion of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie Sanjuro remains one of the most memorable and influential special effects in film history.
Production designer Yoshiro Muraki would later recall this scene was filmed in a single take. No such effect had ever been attempted before, as movies of the time rarely showed violence with graphic detail. Filled with uncertainty, Muraki worried the blood spray he’d rigged up wouldn’t impress Kurosawa, so he added an extra 30 pounds of pressure to the fluid pump. At the moment the pump was activated, the additional pressure caused the compressor hose attached to actor Tatsuya Nakadai to blow a coupling which created a slight, unintentional delay before the fake blood began to spray, and caused a much larger gush of fluid than planned. It sprayed so powerfully Nakadai claimed it almost lifted him off the ground. His heart sinking, as he believed the delay and over-pressure had ruined the effect, Muraki nervously glanced at director Akira Kurosawa, but Kurosawa only nodded in approval.

“oh god i fucked this up”

“yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO”

And to think this is so iconic that “two dudes clash, there’s a beat, then one dies incredibly violently” is just a must-have for action in anime

Its crazy to think that this iconic visual that has been so ubiquitous in pop culture for so long despite that the source material barely being known by people all came from actors staying in character thru an FX malfunction.

There are worse legacies.

papasmoke:

poobahpanda:

papasmoke:

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb took a brave stand against Big Government today by cutting the regulations that stopped corporations from putting rat shit, sawdust, and rotten fruit into their shitty frozen pies.

this is about getting rid of nitpicky regulations that said you have to have a certain amount of fruit and no artificial sweeteners. these regulations only applied to frozen cherry pie products, not other kinds of pies or cherry pies that arent frozen. its not like the FDA suddenly turns a blind eye if Sara Lee is filling your cherry pies with rat poop and sawdust.

These regulations were specifically created by the FDA because corporations were filling their frozen cherry pies with rotten shitty fruit that made people sick. The regulation, which also required companies to ensure that their food actually looked like what was on the fucking packaging, was part of a broader regulatory push in the 70′s to stop food companies from (yes literally) letting mouse shit and insect parts contaminate their food. Every building that stores or processes food has a pest problem and corporations will let that shit fester if they’re allowed just so they can save money. The removal of this regulation would put companies on an honor system where the FDA accepts in good faith that companies will not cut corners at every opportunity.

Just like the creation of these regulations was part of a broader push to try to modestly increase the quality of daily human life in this shit-hole country, the removal of them is part of a broader long-term push by the ruling class to maximize profit and shield themselves from being held responsible for (yes literally) filling your food with rotten fruit, rat shit, and sawdust.

Sara Lee’s not gonna fuck you.

blacksabbathica:

Black Sabbath receiving a gold disc at Royal Albert Hall, London 1971

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Oh it already is

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Wrong reporting: “The police deployed teargas to disperse the crowd.”

Right reporting: “The police attacked the crowd with proscribed CBRN ordnance.”

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habbadax:

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quasi-normalcy:

millennial-review:

Reaping the harvest of 4 decades of privatization and corporate welfare

Worth noting that war is the only thing we appear to be preparing for while also being a thing that we’ve spent the past half-century demonstrating we utterly suck shit at

I mean, yeah

If you’re actually good at waging war, you might risk ending the conflict too early!

How the hell are you supposed to support a military industrial complex that way?

^ that part

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quasi-normalcy:

millennial-review:

Reaping the harvest of 4 decades of privatization and corporate welfare

Worth noting that war is the only thing we appear to be preparing for while also being a thing that we’ve spent the past half-century demonstrating we utterly suck shit at

wickedcoolshoes:

mioxenoblade:

kenk334:

ruisa-faa:

battleclaw63:

mioxenoblade:

mioxenoblade:

mioxenoblade:

mioxenoblade:

WE POPPIN THE BIGGEST BOTTLES TONIGHT

HAPPY RUSH LIMBOG OR HOWEVER YOU SPELL HIS STUPID NAME IS DEAD DAY!

What yall bringing to the Rush Limbo is dead party? I was thinking I’d bring the John McCain is Burning in Hell Chili!

CLAIMS TO BE PROLIFE

DIES ANYWAYS

You people are sick someone just died, show a little humility for God sakes

Rush Limbaugh used to have a segment where he read people who died of AIDS during the height of HIV/AIDS epidemic in the USA, where he’d play bells and music celebrating their deaths. LGBT+ people doing the same is just desserts for his years of public celebration of our death. It’s only a pity that he can’t die over and over until he’s died the same amount of times as the AIDS patients he mocked.

You are all assholes. Celebrating the death of an individual. Poor taste.

hater-of-terfs:

plaidaemander:

socalledunitedstates:

vodcar:

vodcar:

vodcar:

when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet

been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol

like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol

i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!

GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)

Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!

Small antennae, like for connecting across the neighborhood, can literally be built out of trash

And a larger, more accurate one can be built pretty cheap too

(You can also reuse an old satellite TV dish, or really anything else that’s roughly parabolic)

There are LoRa meshnets in places like New York, India, and all over Europe: Spain (pictured below), Greece, Austria, Germany, etc

As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc

What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing

You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!

there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases

I’ve had a couple people ask about how to join/organize something like this, which is great! The best list of active projects I know of is here, though you should also do a search online if you don’t see one in your area in case they missed it. For those without a nearby group, put a pin here and try contacting nearby pins as well - you can use the instructions on buildyourowninter.net as well as the DCPT’s resources as linked above to get set up!

Please reblog this version so others can get involved!