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26 | my name is thomas i make music and cry c'est la vie

[🇵🇸🔻Lesbian Lenin🔻🇵🇸 @xstaffsuck]

The idea of an unknown army/insurgency of sleeper communists that will just spontaneously take to the street & shoot the nearest LEO at the first sign of revolution is a fascinating concept that may need to be explored more seriously

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A frog the size of your fingernail lives at this waterfall, inside a single species of plant. It is born in one, mates in one, raises its tadpoles in one, and dies in one. The whole species is found in this small corner of Guyana and nowhere else on Earth.

The plant is a giant bromeliad. It belongs to the same family as the pineapple, with long stiff leaves that spiral out from the center and trap rainwater between them in small pools. Those pools are the frog's entire world. Males defend one plant as their home territory. They carry tadpoles on their backs from pool to pool. The females lay extra eggs that never hatch, so the tadpoles have something to eat. The entire species lives in a patch of forest under 8 square miles.

The waterfall makes all of this possible. Water drops 741 feet in a single fall, more than four times the height of Niagara. Every four seconds, enough water goes over the edge to fill an Olympic swimming pool. No other single-drop waterfall on Earth carries that much water.

When the water hits the bottom of the cliff, the impact throws up a permanent cloud of mist. The wind pushes the mist back up over the cliff edge. Up top, the mist soaks the rocks and the trees, building a narrow strip of cool, wet, foggy forest in the middle of a hot, lowland jungle. Nothing else for hundreds of miles has this same environment.

Almost half of the plant species that grow only in this part of northern South America are found inside this one national park. Swifts (small, fast birds) nest in a hidden rock shelf right behind the curtain of falling water. The falls have been a wall to fish for so long that the fish living above the cliff are trapped up there. With nowhere to go, they evolved into species that exist nowhere else. Researchers sampled 28 fish species above the falls. 4 of them live only there, and 6 more may not yet have a name.

Kaieteur sits on a giant slab of ancient rock called the Guiana Shield. It is about 1.7 billion years old, and it is completely separate from the Amazon basin. The river feeding the waterfall (the Potaro) flows east into another river called the Essequibo, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean without ever touching the Amazon. That separation, plus the Shield's age, is the whole reason this frog and these fish and this little patch of cloud forest could evolve here in the first place.

A British surveyor named Charles Barrington Brown was the first European to lay eyes on the falls in 1870. The local Patamona people had known about them for centuries. Take the waterfall away, and most of what lives within a mile of it, the frog included, would have nowhere left on Earth to go.

[Yassin 105 FM @Midnight_Dasher]

The Spriggan series that was released on Netflix captures the leftist themes of the manga perfectly. One episode is just like “scientists who make weapons for the military are hypocrites who deserve to die.”

[✧˖ @colditioner]

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies is a reminder that time is the only currency we can’t earn back. Truly one of the most soul-stirring films of this decade.

[senhorita death grips 🇵🇸 @MsDeathGrips]

"How should we judge whether a youth is a revolutionary? How can we tell? There can only be one criterion, namely, whether or not he is willing to integrate himself with the broad masses of workers and peasants and does so in practice."

MC Ride, 2009

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

in 1968, a 15-year old in canada released a proto-shoegaze psychedelic acid folk song. it’s one of the earliest “dream pop” songs. the album was a commercial failure, falling into obscurity & lost for decades (still hardly known). it sounds like a radiohead song, but from the 60s

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Ramen master eating instructions is the most iconic eating scene in cinematic history

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Do you understand the irony of what just happened..

the FBI spent two years investigating Hillary Clinton for using a personal email for government work.. it dominated every news cycle.. it decided an election.. "lock her up.."

the man they put in charge of the FBI.. just got his personal email hacked by Iran..

the DOJ confirmed it.. Iran-linked group "Handala" breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and got his data..

think about the timing..

America has fired 850 Tomahawk missiles at Iran this month.. spent billions.. and Iran didn't fire back with a missile..

they walked through the front door of the FBI..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud.. the FBI Director was using a personal email in the first place.. the same thing the FBI called a national security threat when Hillary did it..

the agency that decides what's a crime.. doesn't follow its own rules..

The rules only apply until you're the one making them.

[Jösef 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ilovemilkcakes]

What are these editors smoking

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

Kazuhito Yamashita forgetting he's human for one minute straight.

[J∅kër Kîng 👑 @j0ker937]

These two men had a whole conversation without ever saying a word.

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

Fuck it. Alice In Chains - Unplugged. Full concert.

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

“Just a thought... more of a shot in the dark, but uh... We wouldn't happen to be invading Iran today, would we?”

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

As an American living in 2026, these Ad Council commercials about freedom from 2002 feel like found footage in a horror game.

[🌲✈GFFan🇨🇦💫 @forever_gf618]

That wasn't the only thing he left there, lol.

[Christopher @molochofficial]

The greatest cinematic depiction of Christmas Melancholy has to be All That Heaven Allows (1955)

[Christopher @molochofficial]

All truly great Christmas media recognizes the inherent melancholy of the holiday season

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

A bison drinking water with a resounding sound, its eyes sparkling

[CSPAN @cspan]

Justice Sotomayor: "You mean to suggest that the fact that one major donor to the current president, the most major donor to the president, got a very lucrative job immediately upon election from the new administration, does not give the appearance of quid pro quo?"