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Some of my favorite posts on r/BenignExperience from the past week

Thanks to the tumblr post that made me aware of this subreddit. It makes me smile.

Part two, part three, part four

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A powwow, anywhere

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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Even anteaters have fun...

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y o u a r e n o t a l o n e .

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(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

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All the gold for Laika.

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When you still have leftover math from pi day and then it's Purim

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GUYS.

POTATO SALAD.

AND MASHED POTATOS.

REBLOG IF YOU LOVE POTATO SALAD AND/OR MASHED POTATOS

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so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that I’ll keep going with you

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Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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everyone please look at this cat my brother found in the philippines - he's got 2(two) noses!

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Sundanese gossamerwing, Euphaea variegata, Euphaeidae

Found in Indonesia

Photo 1 by marcel-silvius, 2-3 by twokak, and 4 by michael_kr

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soooo today i learned that back in the early 90s, coca cola tried making this thing called “ok soda” as a marketing stunt to beat out pepsi since they had way more of a hold on the “younger/rebellious” generation at the time, and their way of doing that was naming it “ok soda” so that they could copyright the word “ok”, the most popular word in the world, and at the same time brand it as an…ironic soda??? like the whole thing with it was that they tried to brand ok soda as a counterculture soda but instead of making it about typical 90s RADICAL EXTREME!!! fodder the theme of it was uh. unsettling capitalist brutalist dystopia. instead of being bright and colorful the color scheme was only stark whites, grays and reds and the cans looked like this. bold shapes and labels stating ominous, robotic things with a figure always staring dead into you on the front, no coca cola branding on it at all.

sometimes there would be “prize cans” of this stuff where instead of having soda inside it there would be hats. and they didn’t sell this option in boxes by the way they just put prize cans in random vending machines. and put like 25 cents in it so hey. you could get an actual soda that isn’t just hats. maybe.

did i mention that this soda also had a fucking MANIFESTO??? because yeah it sure had that printed on some cans and it goes as follows

and there’s these things called “coincidences”, which… yeah it doesn’t make it sound any less ominous

and you might be wondering how the soda itself tastes like does it taste good? ok? well apparently it was just a regular “citric” tasting soda but somehow they fucked it up so bad that it was compared to “carbonated tree sap”, and instead of trying to make the drink taste better they included that it tasted like shit, INTO THE ADVERTISING SCHEME ITSELF. they would literally advertise that it tasted like ass as a part of the ironic marketing, no i am not kidding.

but if you thought that’s where it ended there’s one more curveball and without any exaggeration, you will not expect what i am about to tell you.

take a look at this guy.

this guy is the “face” of ok soda, as in he was printed on the most cans and technically served as a mascot of sorts for the entire thing. his face was a major part of the branding, and this design for the cans was one of if not the most common.

okay. cool. no issue there right?

take a guess on who this guy is based off of.

the artist’s coworker? a generic guy? the artist himself? a relative? some random reference model they hired?

CHARLES MANSON. YES, THIS IS REAL. MEANING FOR A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME, CHARLES MANSON’S FACE WAS USED AS A MEANS TO SELL COCA COLA.

the lead artist himself has even come forward to say this is the case. and now you may be asking wait. how’d he do this? how’d he possibly get away with this, years after the crimes had been committed?

well according to him, it was simple. apparently none of the contracts he signed said anything against putting a mass murderer on the can. so. there’s THAT.

unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, ok soda never really caught on since *surprise surprise!* teens really don’t want to buy soda that looks like a brutalist art museum, and it never had a wide release so it was only a thing for like two years between 1993 and 1995. but from what i’ve heard there’s still people who are giving this soda a small modern following, collecting all the cans and merchandise and even coming up with stand in recipes for the soda formula itself.

so yeah! that was ok soda.

what the fuck

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"Do vegans think we get cows to lactate by getting them pregnant and then killing the calf"

Yes? That is quite literally how we get cows to lactate. Cows (like most to all mammals?) don't lactate without being pregnant. The majority of calves are killed after at latest 1-1.5 years.

I get that dunking on vegans fun but like that IS in fact how the milk industry works.

I mean? No??? The demand for veal is NOT high enough to necessitate that, and while it DOES happen (I am opposed, if you were wondering- while I’m not against ALL meat, consuming immature animals feels wasteful) we would… run out of dairy cows, if we didn’t raise their offspring

Like. They HAVE the genetics we want. Where else would we get more dairy cows and bulls that can pass on dairy cow genes?? We NEED to keep some of the calves around, at the very least for their genetic diversity.

Don’t get me wrong- the modern meat industry IS horrific- but we don’t need to lie about stuff to get that point across?

I’m against Veal, but only about 15% of dairy calves are marked for that. Certainly not the 100% wholesale slaughter implied by that image.

We CAN get meat and dairy and wool and eggs humanely. It’s not impossible. And that should make you ANGRIER, because the product itself isn’t evil, it’s how we’re getting it on a mass scale.

I don’t buy meat except on special occasions, when I KNOW every bit of it will be eaten. I don’t THROW OUT meat, out of respect for the animal. And I buy from small farms where I can, because small local farmers can genuinely care for their animals and treat them well.

Animal products CAN BE DONE PROPERLY. And the reality in which they aren’t doesn’t need to be fictionalized to be identified as a problem.

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Every time you eat cheese we fire a calf into the sun

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discard EVERYTHING I have said about bugs. They are just misinterpreted :(.

Here are some of my favorite bugs!!