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haidaspicciare: Eddie Murphy, “Coming to America” (John...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:12:00 -0700

haidaspicciare:

Eddie Murphy, “Coming to America” (John Landis, 1988).

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Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:24:57 -0700

pureslime: the-memeblades-chosen-one: sirfrogsworth: #protectm...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:55:43 -0700

pureslime:

the-memeblades-chosen-one:

sirfrogsworth:

#protectmarvinatallcosts

Kristen Arnett

LET 👏MARVIN 👏SMELL 👏THE 👏COFFEE👏

Swimp reincarnated

scifiction: Ralph McQuarrie

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:55:05 -0700

scifiction:

Ralph McQuarrie

hypnotoad4: We must learn from what we did right, to re-create....

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:54:19 -0700

hypnotoad4:

We must learn from what we did right, to re-create. And we must learn from what we did wrong, to prevent in the future.

For everyone that doesn’t know the story, here it is:

Hippie community

The mainstream media’s coverage of hippie life in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson labeled the district “Hashbury” in The New York Times Magazine, and the activities in the area were reported almost daily.^[20] The Haight-Ashbury district was sought out by hippies to constitute a community based upon counterculture ideals, drugs, and music. This neighborhood offered a concentrated gathering spot for hippies to create a social experiment that would soon spread throughout the nation.^[21]

The first ever head shop, Ron and Jay Thelin’s Psychedelic Shop, opened on Haight Street on January 3, 1966, offering hippies a spot to purchase marijuana and LSD, which was essential to hippie life in Haight-Ashbury.^[22] Along with businesses like the coffee shop The Blue Unicorn, the Psychedelic Shop quickly became one of the unofficial community centers for the growing numbers of people migrating to the neighborhood in 1966-67.^[23]

Another well-known neighborhood presence was the Diggers, a local “community anarchist” group known for its street theater, formed in the mid to late 1960s. The Diggers believed in a free society and the good in human nature. To express their belief, they established a free store, gave out free meals daily, and built a free medical clinic, which was the first of its kind, all of which relied on volunteers and donations.^[25] The Diggers were strongly opposed to a capitalistic society; they felt that by eliminating the need for money, people would be free to examine their own personal values, which would provoke people to change the way they lived to better suit their character, and thus lead a happier life.^[26]

During the 1967 Summer of Love, psychedelic rock music was entering the mainstream, receiving more and more commercial radio airplay. The Monterey Pop Festival in June further cemented the status of psychedelic music as a part of mainstream culture and elevated local Haight bands such as the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jefferson Airplane to national stardom. A July 7, 1967, Time magazine cover story on “The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture,” an August CBS News television report on “The Hippie Temptation”^[27] and other major media interest in the hippie subculture exposed the Haight-Ashbury district to enormous national attention and popularized the counterculture movement across the country and around the world.

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eevee-m-tree: windiskywalker: Hot Take: you are not being “hateful” for celebrating the death of a...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:12:50 -0700

eevee-m-tree:

windiskywalker:

Hot Take: you are not being “hateful” for celebrating the death of a well-known violent domestic abuser and homophobic fuckbag who happens to be a celebrity. You are celebrating justice enacted to those who would dare harm another human being out of their own selfish entitlement.

Hot take: if you celebrate someone being assassinated instead of going to jail for their crimes than you’re akin to those who celebrate murderous police

sciencefictionworld: Art by Karl...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:00:19 -0700

sciencefictionworld:

Art by Karl Fitzgerald.
https://www.karlfitzgeraldart.com/

sciencefictionworld: Art by Karl...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 03:00:11 -0700

sciencefictionworld:

Art by Karl Fitzgerald.
https://www.karlfitzgeraldart.com/

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Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:59:28 -0700

sciencefictionworld: Just finished reading “Rendezvous with...

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:57:30 -0700

sciencefictionworld:

Just finished reading “Rendezvous with Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke. It’s full of wonderful descriptions of this mysterious spacecraft. As with all of my favorite novels, it filled me with a sense of wonder, longing to see this vision of such grandeur.

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Mon, 18 Jun 2018 02:57:10 -0700

mapsnews: Save 10-15% on rare, psychedelic memorabilia while...

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:39:21 -0700

mapsnews:

Save 10-15% on rare, psychedelic memorabilia while supplies last! Support psychedelic science during the MAPS Summer Sale. maps.org/memorabiliasale

desertbeagle: legend has it he is still there to this day

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:54:22 -0700

desertbeagle:

legend has it he is still there to this day

endless-comix: Giuseppe Camuncoli

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:25:37 -0700

endless-comix:

Giuseppe Camuncoli

The EPA Will No Longer Evaluate the Health Risks of Asbestos Because Trump Believes it's 100-Percent Safe

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:47:12 -0700

The EPA Will No Longer Evaluate the Health Risks of Asbestos Because Trump Believes it's 100-Percent Safe:

dr-archeville:

cryoverkiltmilk:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

iron-sunrise:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

folly-of-alexandria:

dr-archeville:

The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer evaluate asbestos in homes and businesses as a danger or health risk, as Newsweek reports. Scott Pruitt announced the decision last Friday under President Trump, who believes asbestos is “100 percent safe, once applied.”

According to the Abestos Nation Campaign, asbestos kills 12,000 to 15,000 Americans every year. Fifty-five countries have completely banned the use of asbestos in any case, including the United Kingdom, South Africa, Japan and so on, in spite of which the EPA decided it was no longer necessary to evaluate the health risks of this chemical. The EPA will continue to evaluate and require approval for any new introduction or use of asbestos in the environment, but let the already-present chemical remain in schools, houses and public buildings. This decision comes shortly after the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act. These amendments made it mandatory for the EPA to do safety reviews of dangerous chemicals, such as asbestos, and create public notices of the safety information for those chemicals. The amendments also allowed the EPA to ban the use of asbestos in particular cases.

The EPA’s decision didn’t draw any backlash from the current administration because it aligns with Trump’s opinions on asbestos — Trump wrote about the chemical in his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback. He wrote, “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented.”

However, the decision is facing extreme backlash from organizations such as the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization. The President of the organization Linda Reinstein stated, “The end result will be a seriously inadequate risk evaluation that fails to address major contributors to the heavy and growing toll of asbestos mortality and disease in the United States.” Reinstein sat down with the EPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention’s deputy assistant administrator Nancy Beck to discuss the decision. Reinstein was joined by the International Association of Fire Fighters and AFL-CIO representatives. The group was armed with over 100 studies proving the hazards of asbestos, even in low doses, and documentation showing that any exposure could cause disease. Other organizations also reached out attempting to stop the decision, such as the American Chemistry Council, but Beck didn’t back down and the decision remained unchanged.

Reinstein said of the situation:

If you don’t evaluate the dangerous legacy of asbestos you don’t know how much contamination still exists in the United States. We know it’s in our homes, schools, workplace and environment but the average American can’t identify and evaluate the risk. We have taken risk evaluation off the table.

A recent report released by Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts revealed that the government doesn’t have a record of how many schools contain asbestos. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., a ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, also spoke out against the decision, saying, “EPA’s refusal to address longstanding concerns around the use and disposal of asbestos is further proof that Administrator Pruitt will bend over backwards to help industry, but won’t lift a finger to protect public health.”

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GODDAMMIT

“Let’s Give Americans Lung Cancer Again”

jesus fucking christ

“We need MORE ASBESTOS!

MORE ASBESTOS!

MORE ASBESTOS!”

- Donald Trump, bravely championing the cause of giving people terminal illness with shitty construction materials that have been scientifically proven to be unsafe

The fact that the EPA are ignoring literal decades of findings that show asbestos IS NOT SAFE TO USE just because the president doesn’t believe in facts is another example of how truly fucked America is right now

Seems completely out of left field until I read that Russia produces over 50% of the world’s supply of asbestos

… what?

In 2015, 2 million tonnes of asbestos were mined worldwide. The Russian Federation was the largest producer with about 55% world share followed by China (20%), Brazil (15.6%), and Kazakhstan (10.8%).

[source: “Asbestos” (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program. January 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.]

… sonuva…

justiceleague: Exclusive first look at “Aquaman” in...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:43:22 -0700

justiceleague:

Exclusive first look at “Aquaman” in Entertainment Weekly

hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman: Teen Choice Nominations are...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:41:14 -0700

hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman:

Teen Choice Nominations are out.
Let us support Henry and Gal in their respective categories of Actor/Actress in Action role ! Please reblog to share and retweet by clicking on the links to support Superman and Wonder Woman.
Best Actress https://twitter.com/TeenChoiceFOX/status/1006950576381313024
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Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:19:10 -0700

This is exhausting.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:04:29 -0700

solarpunk-aesthetic:

Over the past few days, I’ve had a post about how humans are generous by nature get a reply that “the promise of utopia is exactly what justifies mass homicide.” I’ve had a post about how science can help improve the world get me told that people like me “don’t know shit about what they eat or where it comes from.”
Nasty comments and talk of atrocities? Why are people like this? Why do things like these even cross people’s minds? I’m starting to wonder whether I’m wrong about humanity after all.
I made this blog as a reason to be optimistic. But the commentary over the past few days has been really depressing, and that’s not what I’m here for.
I’m taking a break.

endless-comix: Jim Lee

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:03:57 -0700

endless-comix:

Jim Lee