Before Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”

“It’s The Hot Pink Cold War,” Clairmont wrote in her introduction. “It’s ‘Material Girl’ on the radio and ‘WarGames’ at the drive-in. It’s ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ interrupted by the emergency broadcast signal. We’re told to look sexy, dress fashionable, make money, and spend money, but be sure we’re just the right amount of terrified about the bomb. Get that Malibu dream home, keep working on that perfect body, sip cocktails by the pool in your little pink bikini and watching the stocks go up — but STAY VIGILANT! and for God’s sake vote Republican, because that dream home could melt into a pink plastic inferno at any given moment. Just don’t stop smiling as the blast liquefies your skin into bubbling ooze like a Barbie doll in a microwave - it’s bad for the economy.”

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“two tickets for oppenheimer please”

“two tickets for barbie please”

the barbenheimer double feature

This was my barbenheimer

Being a marine mammal would be fucking lit like imagine getting to swim all the time and you can hold your breath for like an hour or two. Wait ok I was googling things just now and did you guys know about Cuvier's beaked whale. It can dive for almost 4 hours at a time at depths of up to 3000 m/9800 ft and it looks like a fucking

Being a marine mammal would be fucking lit like imagine getting to swim all the time and you can hold your breath for like an hour or two. Wait ok I was googling things just now and did you guys know about Cuvier's beaked whale. It can dive for almost 4 hours at a time at depths of up to 3000 m/9800 ft and it looks like a fucking

There's also a beakless dolphin called tutumairekurai/hectors dolphin and it looks like just a doggy

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

And even machines need to rest all the time. Even unfeeling blobs of steel need maintenance, upkeep, and care. They need to be turned of every now and then to cool down.

Rest is sacred

heard chicago is going into the air tonight. whole city. ripped up off the ground in one big chunk. forever suspended over Lake Michigan. like Farum Azula. and Lori Lightfoot will finally ascend to the status of a lesser God.

truer words have never been spoken (x)

Me every time Trump mentions DeSantis

best tweet on earth. Sublime

I’m sorry but this is literally fucking hilarious

leftists on twitter are so mad at this guy for pointing out something that is fundamental to economic organization under modern imperialism lol. imperialist powers take over other nations economies, transform them to be primarily focused on key commodities for export and destroy the rest of their markets for other goods so they depend on selling these specific few commodities to the rest of the world. do you think that under a socialist government people in these countries would want to continue economies based on export of one thing or reorganize their economy to be more self sufficient and actually serve the people directly involved in it. everyone loves to point out stuff like the CIA’s involvement in the coup in guatemala but lose their shit if you point out the implications in their daily american life

Parents love to act like any trip to a slightly more populated area is the same as entering an active war zone.

"Why would you go to Minneapolis alone, it's so dangerous there!"

Mother I am not going to sit here and tremble like a hypoglycemic chihuahua in fear of Minneapolis of all things. I've had bowel movements that scared me more than Minneapolis.

This is also true if you move from a small town to a big city. "You'll get shot/robbed/killed/maimed/kidnapped!"

Turns out, people are just people. Lock your doors, be nice to your neighbors, have insurance.

If the WHOLE COUNTRY'S economy cannot work without the labor that UPS workers provide, than their labor is worth their demands and more.

No other conclusion can be rationally made from this information.

I was thinking recently about how "alt" subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything

ALT

Yes, this is it! This is exactly it!!