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Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

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i like to think theyre secret friends

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lets have a moment of appreciation for non-fandom independent wikis

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Unrestrained summer fun!

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Overhead and three-quarters profile drawings of a horseshoe crab with a yellow, orange, and red flame pattern on its head (cephalothorax) and a black abdomen and tail (telson)

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The same horseshoe crab leaving a trail of smoke and fire as it does doughnuts in the sand]

it came to me in a vision

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Reblog if, no matter the size of the role, you would agree to work with the Muppets if offered the chance to do so, no questions asked

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i havent stopped thinking about this tiktok and wanted it on my blog

[VD: A TikTok from @/soupygarbagejuice. It starts with a clip captioned "Biggest Croissant In Malaysia", of a waiter bringing out a large plate with a massive croissant on it out to a woman at a table. Voiceover says "Today I wanted to eat a Croissant–". A man stitches the video, greenscreened over the final frame. Transcript is as follows:

"A few months ago, this was the last TikTok I saw before falling asleep, and I didn't dream about croissants, I didn't dream about her. Every single dream that I had for a while took place in a reality where Billy Joel– one of Billy Joel's greatest hits was called 'The Biggest Croissant in Malaysia'. It just existed, it played on the radio, people would talk about it in the background, 'He played it at The Garden last night'! So at one point I woke up and did my best to recreate exactly what it sounded like in the dreams. [Singing over piano and drums] She ordered the biggest croissant in Malaysia! She ordered the biggest croissant in town, cause Daddy's not around anymore! He's in Singapore, he's in Singapore!"

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After settling Trump's bullshit 60 Minutes lawsuit so they could bribe him with a $16M "donation" and get his Republican-controlled FCC to approve their merger, CBS Paramount just cancelled The Late Show after Stephen Colbert called them out.

Here's what I wrote on their feedback form, feel free to use/modify:

I was disgusted to read about Paramount's transparently corrupt settlement of Donald Trump's utterly meritless SLAPP suit and the attendant $16 million "donation" (bribe) to his presidential library. But I'm possibility even more disgusted by the craven decision to cancel The Late Show in the aftermath of Stephen Colbert calling out that bribe—let alone to claim "it's a financial decision" while The Late Show is winning its time slot in the ratings.

As a Paramount stockholder and a fan of CBS programming, these blatant attempts to curry favor with the Trump administration in order to grease the wheels of the proposed Paramount-Skydance merger are a betrayal of every value the institution once stood for. I will be calling and writing to my senators and representative demanding a full investigation of this corrupt bargain. Shame on everyone who made these decisions, everyone who approved them, and everyone who knew about them and kept quiet until it was too late.

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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The perfect ot3 dynamic doesn't exi--

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Daddy Electric and Mother Nature, two cool and funky roller disco dancers. He wears a gold and white jumpsuit with big shoulder pads and a stars-and-lightning motif, golden goggles, and has white zigzag streaks in his hair and beard. She wears a sleeveless green jumpsuit with side cutouts that transitions to blue at the bell-bottoms and has green eyeshadow and lipstick, sun and moon earrings, and a variety of colorful flowers in her green-highlighted Afro.]

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

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The Drowned Halls

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speaking of peeing the bed it's been long enough that i can tell this story publicly. in high school i went to a party at some house with no adults, as you sometimes would, and at the end of the night like 10 people all clonked out together in the same bed. fully clothed, one of those teenage moments where you're like wow heehee how rule-breaking, because sure a lot of our parents wouldn't like us sleeping in a bed with a bunch of other teenagers and no adult supervision blah blah. fond memories. anyway.

i'm an extremely light sleeper, so i barely slept, and sometime around 6 am, i woke up to a girl totally panicking, very quietly, because she peed the bed in her sleep. and listen. this wasn't a group of mean kids by any measure. but there's no level of kindness or understanding in the world that will make peeing the bed when you're 17, surrounded by people you only sort of know, a gentle blow.

so i sat up and she was like "oh my god" and I signaled at her to be absolutely silent and I said I'd be right back. And I crawled over everyone and out of the bed like a stupid cat.

and the thing is, by senior year i wasn't getting bullied much anymore. i was generally pretty well liked by my peers, but, if this makes sense, people still didn't always expect very much from me. i was still figuring out how to mask (autistic) and i still often said or did something that made everyone remember i'm weird and they'd just be like "well. that's story for you. i guess." and for the most part i'd become pretty secure in that.

so what i'm saying is i had nothing to lose and this girl had everything to lose.

so i went downstairs and i made tomato soup. and by "made" i mean i put a whole can of tomato soup in a too-small mug and microwaved it until it was lukewarm so as to be convincingly "made" but not so hot to burn someone.

and then i walked back upstairs, and no longer like a cat, i clumsily "attempted" to crawl back into bed, loudly lost my balance, and spilled tomato soup all over the girl and her lap and several other people's laps and heads and the mattress.

everyone woke up confused and anguished and i was like, "oh my god, I'm so sorry. I just got really hungry and it's all i could find."

and everyone immediately accepted with absolutely no further questions that I would go downstairs, make tomato soup at 6 am,and bring it back to bed. everyone just begrudgingly climbed onto the floor and went back to sleep while I put the bedding right into the laundry.

i don't even know this girl's name. i only remembered this story recently because i'm in my hometown for a few months and recently a high school acquaintance said, "hey. do you remember spilling soup on everyone after prom? why did you do that?" and for a moment i genuinely did not and i stared at them completely dumbfounded while the memory loaded and then i started laughing too hard to answer for 2 minutes.

the best part is i can tell this story, and even if it reaches the people who were there, none of them will know which one of them peed the bed. thanks to tomato soup.

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Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica

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ii in his mask and trackies

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We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective

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A Kate Beaton classic for Ida B. Wells birthday.