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Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY

*Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup – 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.)

After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

WHAT
Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

I see some of y’all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

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The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon. 

I had no idea who he was, thank you.

This is one example of the Mandela Effect phenomena, where an iconic moment is reenacted with a hippy woman so many times that people think that’s the story and thus another gay man is written out of history. Thanks for the photo.

I had no idea. Wow.

This photo was taken by Bernie Boston, a black/native man who willingly stood up to a chapter of the KKK and earned their respect among other things

I get the subject is important, but please dont erase Bernie. I knew him personally and he deserves to be remembered and by only remembering the subject, a white man, you erase a black man.

@vaspider could you reblog this version too, please? I am deeply upset by Bernie’s erasure from his own work.

Reblogging for credit to the photographer, and so I can look up his work on desktop later.

*facepalm*

People remember a woman in the photo because there WAS a woman, in ANOTHER
(and also iconic)

photo from the same event.

It’s called
The Ultimate Confrontation: The Flower and the Bayonet

and it was taken by Marc Riboud.

Whereas the first one

is called
Flower Power

and it was taken by Bernie Boston.

“Which one people remember” depends on which people we’re talking about, exactly. In the history of photography, they are both considered LEGENDARY. For a broader audience, Riboud’s photograph with the woman (her name was 
Jan Rose Kasmir,

and she was 17 years old at the time) is generally more known, for the following mundane and boring reasons:

1. Visually, it’s a lot more striking and memorable. It’s got a narrow depth of field, intense bokeh and soft focus. The composition juxtaposes very clearly the two sides of the conflict, each covering a third of the image, with another third in the middle as “no man’s land”. You know the Rule of Thirds, yes? It’s just more pleasing to the eye. Put all that together, and it doesn’t just record what happened, it paints a picture. If it weren’t 100% real and candid, you’d accuse Riboud of being too fucking obvious and heavy-handed with the symbolism. But it was 100% real.
2. Riboud was a prominent member of Magnum Photos, an agency which at the time had SUPERB talent, was very well (and internationally) connected, and therefore got a lot of (absolutely deserved) press.

Personally, I prefer Boston’s photo, exactly because it’s more raw and less… symbolic. But that’s subjective, and among other things it depends on our exposure and experience. If you’d asked me when I was a teenager, I’d probably fawn over Riboud’s take.

tl, dr; There’s no conspiracy here, and no Mandela effect. There are just two different photos.