i sit on the floor next to my overfilled fabric trunk, pulling out different patterned fabrics. my dog latke does not know why i am the floor but she is excited. every so often i offer out to her a swatch, which she sniffs before snorting emphatically. i nod in agreement and set it to the side.
The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.
I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.
I fucking love him
i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it
He also jabs racists in the eye!
I love the justice grandpa of fists
I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.
He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.
Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!
He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!
Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.
He said fuck the police!
He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.
He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.
He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.
You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!
And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.
I have a new role model
😍
“justice grandpa of fists”
It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.
Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited
Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.
we need him more than ever…
sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content:
He’s a hero, our Everett.
Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)
Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)
Its of proper education for always reblog the good deeds of Everett.
I can’t believe it cavitates so hard it ignites like that; does meat do that? Also check out the swirls that come off the rifling marks in the bullet.
That gel must rebound with a ton of pressure to ignite like that.
hehe…it farded
It’s an effect called “sonoluminescence”. It can occur when any bubble of gas collapses down to a very tiny volume in a very short period of time, and it was first observed during early sonar experiments. The sound waves were intense enough to cause tiny bubbles to emit light.
Interestingly, we don’t know what actually creates the light: suggestions include chemical ignition, bremsstrahlung radiation, nonclassical squeezed light, and even quantum tunneling.
“air bubbles explode into lightning sometimes and we don’t know why”
I think in this case its just dieseling, the air compresses so fast it heats up so hot that it ignites some of the gelatin as a fuel source, and gives a small explosion. The reason I think this is thtat you see a puff of black smoke. Sonoluminescence doesnt do that.
FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX! IT IS USELESS NOW!!!
THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE. You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!
Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!
The IRS website is EXCELLENT. They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!
FUCK TURBOTAX!
LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!
Friendly reminder as well that if you’re making less than $66,000 a year, you don’t need to pay to file your taxes and also all tax-paying softwares (eg rhymes with FurboFax) have a free filing option hidden in their websites.
IF THIS MAKES YOU MAD: In 2024 the IRS is testing a new direct tax filing tool that is basically a government-made and -owned TurboTax for people in 13 states
This is a HUGE deal, made possible by funding from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. TurboTax et al are SUPER mad and trying to stop it, which is how you know it’s a great idea :)
This is a huge step towards the end goal of being able to log on, see how much the IRS thinks you owe, and then just confirm or deny - so if you’re eligible, please give it a shot!
Participating states are: Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming.
The tool will be mobile-friendly and available in Spanish, and the IRS is hiring dedicated customer support to help people via live chat or phone if you need help!!
It’s going to be a limited pilot with a phased rollout, so won’t be immediately available to everyone in those states, but will slowly open up so that they can make sure everything works. They’ve pulled this together on an INSANELY fast timeline, so please give them a round of applause :)
One flag: because of various security rules that the IRS can’t do anything about, the tool will say that you have to verify your identity through facial recognition. YOU CAN OPT OUT OF THIS so please don’t let it stop you.
The Biden admin is working to update these rules (with a huge focus on equity) but unfortunately that takes a while - and in the meantime, the IRS is legally obligated to be super super careful about who gets access to your data! (One of many reasons they’re a better bet than TurboTax)
