Please tell me that y'all won't go back to tiktok once Trump gets whatever nefarious concessions he wants from the company and "saves" it. Like, you all NEED to stay gone. Stay on Xiaohongshu or move to other platforms or create a new one or whatever, but don't go back to whatever Trump-appeasement monstrosity TikTok is about to become. Don't do it.

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Penny Auctions did indeed occur when farms were foreclosed on by the bank, and often did involve weapons to warn people against bidding higher, as well as to threaten the bank officers themselves.

From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, via enyclopedia.com: 'The penny auctions involved farmers bidding a few cents for a neighbor's farm to re-purchase it, and if a few cents (pennies) did not clear the bank debt, then the bank officers were physically threatened.'

From an NPR interview with historian Professor Hy Berman: 'When farms were foreclosed in those days, they were foreclosed by the bank, and the bank immediately established some kind of auction to sell off the assets. And the Farm Holiday Association organized farmers to come en masse to these auctions and to bid one cent, two cents, three cents, three bids as a legal auction. They took with them various weapons of persuasion - pitchforks, hunting rifles, knives - and were able to compel the success of the penny auction so much so that auctions were often stopped in mid-stream before they could go any further.'

The photo itself is somewhat harder to verify. The version above can be found at the library of congress here, with the title 'Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. In this way many farms sold for only a few cents until the Farm Debt Adjustment Committee came into being'. It is credited as being taken or published in May 1936 by Acme Newspictures, but does not make any reference to Michigan as seen above.

I did want to note that despite the title, the Farm Debt Adjustment Committee actually started in 1933, three years prior to the date given for the photograph.

I did also find an alternative copy of the photo as a stock photo here. This site claims the photo was taken in February 1933, and the image is clearer. Notably, there is a name on the barn in this version - 1916, L.B. Schaller Farm. I would trust the Libary of Congress over this site, and suspect AI may have been used to clean up the image, but I am including it for completeness.

If anyone finds any other details on the photo, please let me know!

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Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

gays see something with "vampire" in it and hit reblog

the song made me giggle a lil as a trans guy

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

I'm of two minds about the Off remaster not using the original soundtrack.

On the one hand, "by the way, you'd be responsible for clearing all of your own samples" is a hell of a thing to drop on an independent composer, and I totally understand why Coldwood would balk at that.

On the other hand, the original Off soundtrack very conspicuously uses an unlicensed and largely unaltered recording of Judy Garland singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", and one can see where a publisher with as large a target on their backs as Fangamer might be thinking "okay, what else in here is going to get our asses sued by Jeff Bezos if this guy isn't forthcoming about the sources of his samples?"

the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they're pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they'd butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.

where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall

Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they've done:

Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.

They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.

It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈