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geekyjessica: adriofthedead: snoozlebee: allisonkilkenny: Chr...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:16:34 -0500

adriofthedead:

snoozlebee:

allisonkilkenny:

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.

Fox "News" Claims that Algebra Classes Are a Conspiracy of Liberal Indoctrination

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:46:53 -0600

Fox "News" Claims that Algebra Classes Are a Conspiracy of Liberal Indoctrination:

nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:

cognitivedissonance:

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.

Carol Danvers' Lucky Hat (Pattern)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:55:55 -0600

kellysue:

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…

lovelyravager: peetaslongbun: Oh hey look, a 12 year-old just...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:38:03 -0600

lovelyravager:

peetaslongbun:

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.

amandapalmer: after a twitter-conversation tonight, i posted a...

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:53:07 -0600

amandapalmer:

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.

writeswrongs: Hi, just your local Mayan here reminding you the world isn’t ending tomorrow. Also,...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:21:08 -0600

writeswrongs:

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.

Hey, everyone collectively cursing the Mayans today: there is an entire culture of still living,...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:19:50 -0600

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.

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:28:02 -0600

Fucking On the Floor and Breaking Things.: ALRIGHT, TUMBLR. HERE WE GO AGAIN. IF YOU DON’T LIKE LARGE CROWDS,...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:27:28 -0600

Fucking On the Floor and Breaking Things.: ALRIGHT, TUMBLR. HERE WE GO AGAIN. IF YOU DON’T LIKE LARGE CROWDS,...:

fatalismulier:

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….

“Gee, the lowering of flags to half-staff and prayers I sent to honor the last victims...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:07:55 -0600

“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

Rand Paul doesn't know what his state's biggest industry is.

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:55:44 -0600

jecarter4:

December 5, 2012 - During a radio interview with WMAL, Senator Rand Paul made several disparaging remarks about Ashley Judd. One of these remarks revealed something I think is more important than the Senator’s anti-Judd views: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) doesn’t know what Kentucky’s biggest industry is.

He says:

She hates our biggest industry, which is coal, so I say, good luck bringing the ‘I hate coal’ message to Kentucky.

Coal is not Kentucky’s biggest industry. It’s not even in the top 10.

Shouldn’t a Senator be embarrassed to make a mistake like this? And shouldn’t someone besides me be reporting it?

Data from BEA.gov

"I am a lifelong, proud Democrat. But, even though I have a lot of friends who are Republicans, I’m..."

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:49:23 -0600

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I am a lifelong, proud Democrat. But, even though I have a lot of friends who are Republicans, I’m glad I’m not a member of today’s Republican Party. Because today’s Republican Party is just too damned mean.

Just look what they did to Bob Dole yesterday. Over the years, Dole’s one of the Republicans I’ve admired the most and grown close to. He’s an American war hero. He’s a true patriot. He was an outstanding senator from Kansas. He was a very fair and effective majority leader of the Senate. He’s a wonderful, warm, funny human being. But what his fellow Republicans did to him yesterday is shameful.

As one who triumphed over his own war injuries, Bob Dole has long championed the rights of the disabled. Yesterday, fresh out of Walter Reed Hospital, he came to the Senate in his wheelchair to seek the support of his fellow Republicans for the United Nations Disabilities Treaty — which would not make any changes to American law, but merely encourage other nations to grant disabled persons the same opportunities they enjoy here in the United States.

One by one, his Republican colleagues walked up to shake his hand — and then stabbed him in the back. Only eight Republicans joined all Senate Democrats in voting for the treaty, even though it’s already been endorsed by 155 other nations. Opponents argued that endorsing the treaty would undermine national security, thereby branding Sen. Dole as some kind of traitor or terrorist.

In the fiscal cliff negotiations, by refusing to raise tax rates on the top 2 percent, Republicans already proved they don’t care about the middle class. Yesterday, by embarrassing and repudiating Bob Dole, today’s Republicans proved they don’t care about the disabled, either.

”

- BILL PRESS, writing for The Hill, “Senate Republicans Publicly Repudiate Bob Dole.”

The GOP is ~~fast becoming~~ The Party Of No Fucking Shame.

(via inothernews)

jessicavalenti: Mean Feminists With Shoes and Poor Emasculated...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:54:08 -0600

jessicavalenti:

Mean Feminists With Shoes and Poor Emasculated Dudes: A Fox News Stock Image Repository

Smart people have already commented on the hilarity that is Fox News declaring there’s a “war on men.” In the spirit of Sad White Babies with Mean Feminist Mommies, here’s my contribution: making it easier for Fox to find appropriate accompanying images for their stirring articles on gender relations.

"Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to..."

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:20:21 -0600

“

Let me tell you some things.

I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world.

First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren’t. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child. Resources? Honey, we try. There aren’t enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can’t hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it?

Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don’t come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who’s going to pay for that?

End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I’ve seen little girls who’ve barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening? I’ve seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no fucking reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn’t happen either?

You say there’s lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I’ve seen the kids they don’t want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count?

And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.)

In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, because the child was born!

Aphids give birth, girl. It’s no miracle. You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don’t have a flea’s comprehension of injustice. You are not doing shit for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours. Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage?

“Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.

”

- In reply to a ‘pro-life’ blogger: STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life… (via grrrltalk)

pynapel: aboutmaleprivilege: Male privilege is the...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:44:18 -0500

pynapel:

aboutmaleprivilege:

Male privilege is the sexualization of Breast Cancer awareness.

THIS

it reminds me of what Randall Munroe said:

“The frustrating thing about the “Save the Boobies” campaign and similar things (like the “Booberday” meme going around G+) is that they get it exactly backward. Often, the point of breast cancer treatment is to destroy some or all of the boobies in order to save the woman.

Saying that we should work to cure this disease because it threatens breasts is really upsetting. For starters, it suggests that women are worth saving because they’re attached to breasts, rather than the other way around. But worse, it tells any woman who’s had a mastectomy to try to save her life that she’s lost the thing that made people care about her survival. What a punch in the stomach.”

All of the above.

aboutmaleprivilege: male privilege is “i have a boyfriend” being the only response that might...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:41:40 -0500

aboutmaleprivilege:

male privilege is “i have a boyfriend” being the only response that might actually stop a guy from coming onto you, because he respects another man more than he respects your actual opinion/lack of interest.

The Maternity Leave Myth

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:16:51 -0500

The Maternity Leave Myth:

stfuconservatives:

Hey, American uterus owners: want to be completely put off by the idea of ever procreating? Then read this expose in the NY Post about how many women have gotten screwed by our country’s Stone Age maternity leave policies.

In Canada, you get 50 weeks of paid maternity leave. In England, you get 20 weeks paid. In Mexico, 12 paid. As a matter of fact, 178 countries around the world mandate paid leave for creating a totally new human. In America? Twelve weeks, unpaid, and only if you’ve worked for the company for at least a year, and only if your company has more than 50 employees. And they *technically* have to give you your job back, but as this article proves, your employer can probably find a way around that.

So hey, pro-lifers: where are your voices on this? Where are your rallies and signs to support new moms, instead of expecting ones? Where is there a single pro-life legislator fighting to make it easier to have a baby and keep your job? Where are the “family values” politicians when it comes to actually having a child and raising it?

kevinbolk: With the GOP & Democratic National Conventions...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:44:41 -0500

kevinbolk:

With the GOP & Democratic National Conventions going on, I’ve been encountering a lot of these lately…and not even a master ball can contain them.

"But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:41:27 -0500

“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith.”

- ~from 1984 by George Orwell.

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party…and it has two right wings:..."

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:17:07 -0500

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party…and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently… and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

- ~Gore Vidal

October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
May he rest in peace.