Leslie Ann O’Dell creates stunning photographs paired with hand painted embellishments. The otherworldly subjects are shrouded in layers of natural elements, adding a grounded tone to the ghostly figures.
Looks like the “systsem” failed that guy.
People, please, make sure your inker has at least a tenth grade handle on spelling. Do it for yourself.
And so you don’t have to hear us laugh at you.
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No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo 
On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the men and women were detained while immigration authorities sorted out their fates.
(Source: azspot)
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Sales of MDMA, the 90s club drug known as Ecstasy, are reaching new highs thanks to another 90s throwback — Asian organized crime syndicates.
Seizures of MDMA tablets rose from 10.2 million in 2006 to 15.1 million in 2010, including a peak of 18.3 million in 2008, according to the most recent National Drug Threat Assessment published by the Department of Justice. Along the U.S.-Canada border, the smuggling route favored by Asian criminal organizations, seizures doubled from 1.9 million tablets in 2006 to 3.9 million in 2010.
Agents have seized tablets pressed into shapes depicting the “Simpsons” cartoon characters, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and even President Obama, Payne said, adding that “some of these pills look like legitimate children’s vitamins.”
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Alien Brain Hemorrhage Shooter
Feel like adding a little X-Files to your drinky? Pour some Peach Schnapps into a shot glass, layer some Baileys on top, then dribble a little Aftershock Red, Blue, and Orange in the middle. The result is a Dali-esque drink that resembles an extraterrestrial dying while having an MRI scan. Before you die, your brain releases tons and tons of endorphins that make you feel a range of emotions. Tragically delicious.
(via: cocktail.uk / reddit)
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"The (Internet) giant has stopped this craziness—here and now. But the challenge is for the giant to recognize the need to stop this craziness generally. We need a system that is not so easily captured by crony capitalists. We need a government that is not so easily bought. And if only the giant could be brought to demand this too, in the few moments we have before it falls back to sleep, then this war—this “copyright war,” this war that Jack Valenti used to call his own “terrorist war,” where apparently the “terrorists” are our children—will have been worth every bit of the battle. I admit, today this hope seems like a pretty far-fetched dream. But I can assure you that a decade ago, the idea that millions would have rallied to stop Hollywood from pushing an “anti-piracy” bill through Congress was also little more than a dream. A dream that hundreds of activists have now made real."
— Lawrence Lessig (via azspot)
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no cab would take him. not even…
sorry guys, the requests for this are totally buried in my askbox
maybe i’ll see them again SOMEDAY
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Haves.
Funny. I didn’t even make that from a year long combat deployment to Afghanistan.
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“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
― Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift
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Fantasmagories and Unportrait by Vanessa Dakinsky
Vanessa’s art features slightly askew realities parallel to our own, in which people seem to flicker and fray at their edges, wearing headware just as vibrant as the surreal world they reside in.
(via: mymodernmet)
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Every year 60 to 80 tons of space junk hurtles back to Earth, most of it annihilated by intense temperatures. But this past year a number of high-profile launch failures scattered big, bad space scrap around the world.
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