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This is tragic.
USA! USA! USA!
Capitalism isn’t the problem, the American rich are.
-Joe
This is amazing
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Damn Nature U Epic of the Day: A 30,000-strong colony of European honey bees attempts to ward off an invading force of 30 Japanese giant hornets, to no avail. (Watch the original here.)
YouTube Comment of Note: “This is like the movie 300, except I wanted the honeybees to win.”
[biotv]
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh. they ate the babies.
Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.
To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.
The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.
Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.
The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.
I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.
For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:
Haunting and beautiful at the same time. It’s like a world that only exists in fantasies.
Okay, I’ve seen this crop up on my dash a million times and it’s really tripping me out because the last photo looks weirdly similar to this screenshot of an architecture video about a guy in Hong Kong
Of course, it’s not the same, it’s just WEIRDING ME OUT.
It’s those unique windows in sort of the middle of the shot
Been meaning to reblog this.
cesaret | mahuika | lucy-in-the-soup-with-croutons
Basically the shortest, yet most accurate, commentary on the differences between ads geared towards men and women I’ve ever seen.
AND YOUR CHILDREN’S CLOTHES ARE FILTHY
god, so accurate.
I always have time for Mitchell and Webb.
“Shave and get drunk because you’re already perfect”
pretty much
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eating watermelon laughing at your pathetic existence
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Tyree Callahan is a Washington-based artist who replaced the ink pads of a typewriter with coloured paint pads and the letter keys with colour markers. I love that the idea connects language and art.
Found via Bored Panda.
yum. i mean yes i would like to hit it over and over again.
