Tag: wtf

selchieproductions:

This Christmas, viewers in the UK will be able to watch a two hour long excerpt from the beautifully filmed slow TV show “Reindeer Migration 24/7”.

What both the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, as well as the BBC fail to mention, however, is that a majority of the reindeer that we get to follow will be forcibly slaughtered by the Norwegian state come New Year’s Eve. Not because they pose a threat to anyone, but because of a colonial law meant to strip the Saami of their right to self-governance, which has been imposed on territories that have never officially been ceded to the government of Norway (or any other colonial state currently occupying Sápmi, for that matter).

Despite the fact that the faith of Jovsset Ánte’s herd has been brought to the attention of the UN, the Norwegian government has decided to ignore the future outcome of these discussions, and they will instead go ahead with a decision that will, in short, strip a young Saami of his internationally recognised indigenous, human rights, which in turn will have a negative impact not only on his personal economy, but his mental health as well.

In short; Whilst this film of Jovsset Ánte’s herd is being used to promote tourism to Norway abroad, his entire future, livelihood and culture is at stake because of Norway’s still ongoing, brutal colonisation of Sápmi.

arcadiamancer:

bowelflies:

grubwizard:

clarabosswald:

zubenpics:

madmaudlingoes:

unexplained-events:

The photo above is the closest humanity has ever come to creating Medusa. If you were to look at this, you would die instantly. 

The image is of a reactor core lava formation in the basement of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. It’s called the Elephant’s Foot and weighs hundreds of tons, but is only a couple meters across.

Oh, and regarding the Medusa thing, this picture was taken through a mirror around the corner of the hallway. Because the wheeled camera they sent up to take pictures of it was destroyed by the radiation. The Elephant’s Foot is almost as if it is a living creature.

Friendly reminder that this blob of core material was so hot and dense, it melted/burned through three floors of the building before coming to rest in the lowest basement.

And there’s now a unique species of black mold that feeds off the gamma radiation it produces.

Is no one else seriously freaked out by that mold? No? Just me, then?

wiki article about the mold

LOVE that mold!

okay but

image

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhy was someone shooting it with a kalashnikov

you see ivan

tumblr artist PSA?

jezmm:

It looks like tumblr now automatically converts png files to jpg – if you have a fairly “clean”/simple digital art style that gets wrecked by jpg artifacts, you’ll want to put transparency somewhere in the image – tumblr will leave pngs with transparency alone (a single pixel border of transparency around the image works and is pretty non-intrusive).

Incidentally twitter has done this for a while, the same method of fixing it works there.

queensabriel:

remo-ny:

This is a cake.

This was made by Zhou Yi, a famous Chinese cake artist (nicknamed “Sugar King”) whose team just won several medals at the largest cake competition in the world.

This exquisite cake, called “Lady in the Palace,” depicts Empress Wu Zeitan and (understandably) took home the top prize at the competition. 

jheselbraum:

siobhanblank:

siobhanblank:

been watching livestreams of US news channels lately and

1) they have a LOT of commercial breaks

2) i didn’t realize that ads for medicine were actually like this

ppl keep reblogging this and asking “well what are the medicine ads like in your country” and like…there aren’t any? It’s literally illegal to advertise prescription medicine here?

All of America: God I wish that were me