We want beer
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ironically, pot was legal at the time
‘Last Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacine, 1933’ (thanks Matt!)
Wiki: “This Thylacine died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. This Thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 62 seconds of black-and-white footage showing it pacing backwards and forwards in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933 by naturalist David Fleay.”
Also: “Although there had been a conservation movement pressing for the Thylacine’s protection since 1901, driven in part by the increasing difficulty in obtaining specimens for overseas collections, political difficulties prevented any form of protection coming into force until 1936. Official protection of the species by the Tasmanian government was introduced on 10 July 1936, 59 days before the last known specimen died in captivity.”
Man, fuck Australia’s history. We fucked so many things up. Is that all history is? A cataloguing of humanitie’s fuckups?
You up there in the future, you can look back and feel that we should have known exactly what was happening. While you scramble around in your own clouds of dust, yearning for some less perilous niche where you can escape the crushing impact of your own history, remember that it was like that here too. And everywhere. Always.
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1945 Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to his family from a repatriation camp, in which he informs them of his capture and survival
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I’m probably the only person in the world who looked at this and felt sad at the mistreatment of poor Laika… But still, a dog in space? That’s pretty badass. I can imagine her looking out the window and barking at the Earth like it was someone walking another dog past her house.
She could even HOWL AT THE MOON?
Rasputin No 2 by jrowel20 on Etsy
Rasputin is one of those historical figures that I love… Probably because the story is too bizarre not to love.
(Gawker) http://gawker.com/5369364/william-safires-finest-speechSafire’s “Stranded on the moon” speech
A look at a parallel universe where Armstrong & Aldrin couldn’t escape the Moon.
This young Ukrainian girl tells an entire story by pushing around sand on a table. She uses nothing but sand and her hands to create these images.
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won the “Ukraine’s Got Talent” competition. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret the invasion and occupation of her country from 1941-1945.
Found here.
Pretty fucking amazing, and that’s without being a Ukrainian or having a particularly good knowledge of exactly what happened during the invasion, so it’s no wonder that the people in the crowd are so moved.
Richard Drew, ‘The Falling Man’ 9:41:15 AM, 9/11/2001
“In the picture, he departs from this earth like an arrow.”
Also: the douchebaggiest photo on 9/11
Unknown high-resolution aerial photo survey of still-smoking World Trade Center “pile”, 2001.
The city smelled of burning electrical wires for weeks, and when the fighter jet patrols rattled our windows at night when we woke up we couldn’t help but know we were breathing in the people whose families had posted flyers searching for them on every bus stop.
20x24 Polaroid portraits of famous photographers and their favorite shots, by Tim Mantoani. Solid idea, brilliantly executed.
This is the AFTER, I’ve already posted the BEFORE.
