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"Get in there, ewe!"

lets get sorted with ma- wait. where is mama

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I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It's a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It's got it all!

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

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Don't get me started on these fucking guys. I work for a conservation charity, and people like this really boil my piss.

how busy are you guys that you can't spend a few days sorting beetles?

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Our neighbors are getting a new driveway poured today. The guys pouring it have been listening to music all morning, which is unremarkable by itself except for the fact that the constant stream of Mexican rock music just got interrupted by the Muppet theme song followed by Paul McCartney's "We All Stand Together."

Which I like to think would make anyone say, "What?" out loud before getting up to look over the fence. Only to find one of the guys showed up with his kid, and now the old guy in charge of the music is playing what I can only define as 'Eighties Kids Music' while the little kid runs in circles in the shade.

I don't know who is having a better time. The kid or the old guy picking the tracks 😂

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For anyone unaware, the Boston Molasses Disaster was an industrial accident that killed almost three times as many people as the so called "Boston Massacre".

But the Boston Massacre was an inciting incident for the US revolution, whereas the Molasses Disaster is a tale of corporate negligence killing people. You can draw your own conclusions about which one gets the most attention.

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

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Even though I know it's a skirt from the design, a kilt with a leather jacket is a strong look that I enjoy breaking out now and again.

More eddie munson for you freaks

Another one (dj khaled voice)

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This fish has the same facial expression I had when my notifications started exploding and I didn't understand why.

I have a bad habit of reading posts before I check who's reblogged them. I also follow a couple of really good gimmick blogs. This often results in me getting taken on the wildest of rides as some truly batshit post appears on my dash, and I just read with abandon until, increasingly confused as to why I'm seeing this, I get 12 replies deep and finally see @hellsitegenetics identifying an unhinged conversation as a stick insect or something.

I truly love this place and don't know why I took a break.

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This is not the new bullshit, this is the old bullshit. It's literally a 2013 episode of Black Mirror. Charlie Brooker saw this coming over a decade ago!

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There's also some choice phrases in a PSA from, of all places, the promotion of Deadpool (2016).

there are so many words to use in place of “penis” in regards to smut. there’s dick. or shaft. we got cock. member. organ. length. hell, even manhood! all are acceptable replacements.

but what do we have for the testicles? nuts? no thank you. ballsac or, lord forbid, just sac? i’d literally rather be tarred and feathered. using their government name and just calling them testicles? take me out back and gimme the ol’ yeller treatment.

how has the english language evolved so much yet we have no acceptable word for testicles in a sexy context? how can we claim we’ve advanced as a society when the best word for describing when two characters are fucking nasty and the noble and mighty testes are swaying about is balls?

BALLS

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I'm not particularly tech-headed, but I'm tempted to put in the effort for this. I'd be curious to know how it handles paid for streaming services that have decided to start showing adverts if I don't pay them even more than I already do...

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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I would absolutely fess up at this point, because if they're not cool with it, you can just blackmail them over their incredibly lax HR and safeguarding.

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Did he actually figure it out though?

Steven Moffat recycling someone else's material he likely saw on the internet before playfully admitting he has practically no original ideas as a critique of AI doing that very thing is simultaneously peak irony and peak Moffat.

I’m just going to leave this here

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Ok, but why isn't there a Harlem Globetrotters of ice hockey? Just a team of figure skaters clowning on another team.

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