Chris Person fixed TIME’s new magazine cover. Now it’s accurate. (TIME version #1, Person edit #2)
Update: And here’s another stellar contribution from @direlog
EXCELLENT
From @EARNEST_CYBORG9
Oh, look! Tumblr fixed it for us. Thanks!
Oh, and fuck you, Time magazine.
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May102013
January112013
Fox "News" Claims that Algebra Classes Are a Conspiracy of Liberal Indoctrination
nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:
They’re trolling us now, right? RIGHT?
“But even worse is the way some textbooks are pushing the liberal agenda,” Fox News host [Eric Bolling] explained, pointing to an algebra worksheet that Scholastic says gives students “[i]nsight into the distributive property as it applies to multiplication.”
“Distribute the wealth!” Bolling exclaimed, reading the worksheet. “Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out.” Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle explained that the algebra worksheet had put her on “high alert” for the liberal agenda in her 6-year-old son’s curriculum.
DISTRIBUTING THE WEALTH? Oh, it’s just a math lesson though… taught by leftist indoctrination centers!
For the record, here’s the worksheet. So if it were apples and a first grade class, would it then be teaching them to rely on handouts for food like FOOD STAMPS OMG instead of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
Here’s a Fox News math lesson:
Teacher: “If I have three apples, and I give Jimmy one apple, how many do I have left?”
Eric Bolling: “Why doesn’t Jimmy have his own apples? Why can’t he be responsible for himself?”
Kimberly Guilfoyle: “YEAH! He should bring his own!”
Teacher: “It’s just an example, folks. He uh, didn’t have one because his parents were out. Now let’s continue with —”
Dana Perino: “— Why don’t they have apples? Because they spent all their welfare on DRUGS and now JIMMMY expects a HANDOUT?!”
Teacher: ”*sigh* Class dismissed…”
Greg Gutfield: “Oh, now you’re starting a leftist ‘class war’ and saying we shouldn’t have class? MARXIST!”Yep, that’s exactly how it would go.
Can’t wait for Faux News to find out that the word “algebra” is Arabic in origin.
January102013
Carol Danvers’ Lucky Hat (Pattern)
So here it is, Carol Corps! The present I promised:
Ta DAAA!
Wait, what? Where are you going???
Here, lemme ‘splain:
That right there is Carol Danvers’ lucky hat, as knit for her by Grandma Rose in Captain Marvel Issue 9, which I know you are all going to have in your hot little hands come Wednesday the 16th.
Here is the panel description for the hat’s first appearance:
Carol walking toward camera about to turn a corner, Grandma Rose eating on the park bench behind her. Carol is now wearing a ridiculous knit hat. Something really bright and absurd, maybe with knit flowers all over it like one of those crazy old fashioned bathing caps.
If such a thing is possible, the cat is smiling.
CHEWIE
Merf.
CAROL DANVERS
Shut up.
What I got you is the knitting pattern. I commissioned my friend, the annoyingly talented and resourceful knitwear designer Nikol Lohr, to produce a pattern based on Filipe Andrade’s drawing and Jordie Bellaire’s colors. I paid her in real money for the right to give you this pattern for free, so that, if you choose, you may produce one of these beauties for yourself (or, cajole one of your knitting friends to do it for you).
Happy New Year, Carol Corps!! I love you.
Download the pattern here and disseminate at will.
Here’s Nikol modeling it. Isn’t she cute?
This makes me kind of want to learn to knit…
January92013
Oh hey look, a 12 year-old just grasped the main concepts of The Hunger Games more accurately than most media networks.
I’m really sick of how people scoff when someone brings up The Hunger Games. They take it as “teen romance” and nothing more.
First off, the “romance” is actually an allegory.
Katniss represents the common man, Peeta is peace, Gale is war. It’s the tug between an everyday person and their desire for revenge versus a moral compass that seeks peace in times of war. It’s kind of like the ID and the Superego where the ID is that impulse to avenge those you’ve lost and destroy those that have hurt you (Gale in his extreme form) and the Superego which is the conscience that wishes to do the right thing (Peeta).
Romance aside, Katniss fights first and foremost for her family, specifically her sister Primrose, the only person she is sure she loves.
The story is about choices, survival, family and revolution. It is not a romance story and those who claim it is are fools who are just going along with other fools that love to compare the story to Twilight, which is in fact a story about romance.
It’s fine if you don’t like The Hunger Games but if your reason is because you think it’s a teen romance I automatically lose respect for because that tells me you are being ignorant. The same goes for people who claim to be on team peeta or team gale because it’s not about choosing a boy and if that’s what you think I suggest you rewatch the movie/reread the novels.
The story itself is a warning about the future from the gluttony of the Capital, to the stolen innocence to the tributes, to the echo of slavery in district 11.
There’s so much one can take from the novels, it’s such a shame that so many don’t understand it at all.
(Source: brookeeverdeen, via geekyjessica)
January52013
after a twitter-conversation tonight, i posted a new blog.
“on internet hatred: please inquire within.”
you can find it at http://bit.ly/blog010513 - but i’d also like for you to comment. please give it a read, and share it wherever you like to share.
love.
December212012
Hi, just your local Mayan here reminding you the world isn’t ending tomorrow.
Also, that Mayans still exist.
And finally, that we have a language that is still spoken, and written, and that our science and other studies have developed with time and we’re not some stone age group of savages carving shit into rocks for all eternity just so some iztacchuatl will find it and tell us white jesus is gonna end the world when our calender stops working for her.
gringos impitzoyos.
(via fatalismulier)
9AM
Hey, everyone collectively cursing the Mayans today: there is an entire culture of still living, breathing, self-identified Mayans who are super pissed that you’re denigrating them based on your own misunderstanding of an ancient calendar! A calendar that, if you cared to do any research at all you would know, has cycled four times before. Welcome to the Fifth Age! Which I thought was supposed to be an Age of Enlightenment so thanks for proving that false assholes.
December172012
(Source: fuckyeahreligionpigeon, via cultivatingthedevilsorchard)
6PM
Fucking On the Floor and Breaking Things.: ALRIGHT, TUMBLR. HERE WE GO AGAIN. IF YOU DON’T LIKE LARGE CROWDS,...
ALRIGHT, TUMBLR. HERE WE GO AGAIN.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE LARGE CROWDS, PREFER TO STAY INSIDE, AND DON’T TALK TO PEOPLE, CONGRATULATIONS. YOU ARE ASOCIAL. A-SOCIAL. WITHOUT SOCIETY.
IF YOU ARE A MURDERER AND WANT TO DISMANTLE GENERAL SOCIETY AT ITS CORE USING VIOLENT METHODS, YOU ARE ANTISOCIAL….
December142012
“Gee, the lowering of flags to half-staff and prayers I sent to honor the last victims don’t seem to have stopped this from happening again; maybe this time I should actually do something about it?” -said no US politician, ever.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein
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