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20 Jan 03:39

fuckyeahbrutalism: Laboratoires Merck-Sharp et Dohme, Kirkland,...

WSJ Blues

Appropriate image for what I wanted to share. You know how Ms. Huggington has shared @ProBirdRights the men's rights activist parody? I just stumbled upon one I thought you might be interested: @realRealDukat, a Gul Dukat parody, "President-elect of the United Federation of Planets."



fuckyeahbrutalism:

Laboratoires Merck-Sharp et Dohme, Kirkland, Quebec, Canada, 1960s

(Désautels Architecte)

01 Jan 09:41

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WSJ Blues

Happy New Year from the Eastern timezone. Someone shared this my corner of Twitter a few days ago, and I thought now is a good time to share it. Said Ripley to the Android Bishop. http://artfcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/tumblr_oibd43iNma1qanrw2o1_500.gif



05 Dec 22:39

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WSJ Blues

I saw this one live on Twitter. Sad, but true. George Takei has been throwing some real truth bombs lately.

Complete non-sequitur: Billy West does Donald Trump quotes as Zapp Brannigan, a four part series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs38jr7ool8

I'm totally going to imagine Kiff groaning next to the DT every time I hear him say... well pretty much anything.



02 Dec 21:20

textsfromsuperheroes: Texts From Superheroes Facebook | Twitter...

WSJ Blues

Funny story. Ok sad story that had a happy-ish ending. There's a cookie truck that often parks like a quarter block from my office, that had a tip jar with paper in it that read "Mexican wall fund."

A friend at another nearby organization complained, but they refused to take it down. They sent it to me and a few others, we theorized about what to do and started by complaining on twitter. Management immediately said they'd address the issue.

So smallest of small victories, but at least it's *something*.



textsfromsuperheroes:

Texts From Superheroes

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon

29 Nov 21:15

sashayed: sashayed: sashayed: me in a dark forest hammering on the door of Nate Silver’s...

WSJ Blues

The interesting thing to me is that Nate is who made me take Trump seriously.

sashayed:

sashayed:

sashayed:

me in a dark forest hammering on the door of Nate Silver’s chicken-legged witch hut: WHERE ARE THE RESULTS

Nate Silver, through a chink in the door: patience, traveler! even the East Coast polls are not yet closed. shall i whisper to thee of the congressional races

me, hurling stones at him: DAMN THY TRIVIAL CHATTER, TINY WARLOCK!!!!!!! COME OUT AND TELL ME WHO FUCKING WINS

I feel real sorry for Nate Silver this election cycle.

13 Nov 19:30

seeyouintherapy: whatsalisl: makeyourdeduction: marykatewiles:...

WSJ Blues

Going down to Florida soon to do similar work, need people willing to be poll watchers, especially with legal backgrounds.



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adamscottblog:

Adam Scott canvassing for Hillary Clinton in Ohio
9/25/16

😍

I CAN’T BELIEVE BEN WYATT IS MANAGING HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN

DONalD drUMpF’S NevER hAD A rEal jOB iN hIS liFe

DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE THE KNOPE 2012 BUTTON THAT CARDBOARD HILLARY IS WEARING

09 Nov 23:03

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30 Oct 17:40

archiemcphee: Pokémon + Hamburgers = Pokéburgers, Gotta eat ‘em...

WSJ Blues

Andy Zaltzman is bringing his Satirist for Hire tour to the United States this fall, starting in DC on 9/24. Anyone interested in flying to DC?







archiemcphee:

Pokémon + Hamburgers = Pokéburgers, Gotta eat ‘em all!

These cute, yet mouthwaterming Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Charmader burgers were created by Down N’ Out for a special pop-up event in Sydney, Australia. Each burger is flavored with ingredients inspired by their namesake monster and comes with a “Pokéburg” card that describes it.

The first batch sold out within an hour of opening on on the first day. But if you’re nearby you’ll still have a chance to catch a Pokéburger of your own. They’re on the menu the September 3, 2016.

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[via That’s Nerdalicious!]

How is this not an international chain that I can go to immediately and buy some?!?

14 Oct 19:24

Are Women People With Rights Independent of Their Relationships With Men? Views Differ

by Scott Lemieux
WSJ Blues

Ms. Huggington and I have had this discussion in the wake of the incident last week. I think it's an important one.

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The “I am a husband and/or father of daughters and therefore actually find the sexual assault of women disturbing” formulation is in itself sexist, and was frequently deployed when Republicans were so outraged they had to hastily re-word their ongoing support for Donald Trump. It’s not only Republicans who talk this way, of course, but it’s definitely not a case where Both Sides Do It equally:

There has been a lot of advice from Washington in the last week about how to treat women:

They should “be championed and revered” (Speaker Paul Ryan); they need “protecting” from “abusive, disparaging treatment” (Senator Michael Crapo); they “deserve to be treated with respect” (Senator Orrin Hatch.)

The language that politicians used to chastise Donald J. Trump for the way he talked about groping women in a video uncovered last week said a lot about their own attitudes toward women.

Many described them in terms of their relationships to men — wives and daughters. Some described women as in need of protection, and others as deserving of respect. In many cases, according to a linguistic analysis of statements by senators, the reactions broke along party lines.

Of the 73 senators who publicly reacted to the video, Republicans were much more likely to refer to their wives, mothers or daughters, and to women’s need for protection. Democrats were more likely to expand their remarks to other groups besides women. The two parties were about equally likely to describe the effect on women as demeaning or some similar language.

The analysis came from Textio, which makes software that companies use to analyze job postings and other documents for bias. At the request of The New York Times, Textio analyzed the language of every public statement made by a senator on Twitter or elsewhere in response to the video in the 72 hours after it was released.

Republicans were much more likely to make a statement: Only five of the 54 Republican senators did not. Nine of them — but no Democrats — phrased their comments in terms of their familial relationships with women.

“I used to think that sexually assaulting women was a riot, like Billy Bush, but then I married one and I dunno, it seems wrong.”

I guess it’s time to revisit this Mallory Ortberg classic:

Listen, as a father of daughters, I’m really against this kind of behavior, this kind of treatment of women. The kind where they get hurt or they can’t vote or we don’t give any money to them. You know the kind I’m talking about. The kind I don’t want my daughters to experience, and then I just sort of extrapolate out from there.

It didn’t always used to be this way. I used to only have sons. Things sure were different then. How merrily I used to drive down country lanes in my old Ford, periodically dodging off-road to mow down female pedestrians (you must remember I had no daughters then). Was what I did wrong? How was I to know? I had no daughters to think of.

Before I had daughters — Stimothy and Atalanta are truly the apples of my eye — I would follow women into voting booths and knock their hands away from the lever whenever they tried to engage in the democratic process. Who knew having daughters would change all that? Not I.

Personally, now that I have daughters, I don’t think anyone should do bad things to women, especially the ones who are my daughters. I think we should treat every woman in the world like she was my daughter, except for my wife and my mother, who I will treat slightly differently.

Did you know that when you have daughters, it’s like making a woman you have to care about out of parts of your own body? Well, it’s true. Now that I have daughters (two of them, to the best of my knowledge), I’ve got all sorts of new ideas about how to treat women. Now that I’ve got daughters, it’s time for the whole world to make some changes.

I’m not proud to admit this, but before I had daughters, I sometimes used to harvest women for their organs to build Liver Pyramids in my backyard. I just didn’t see a problem with it. I sure do now, though. What if someone killed my daughters just to make a pyramid, or even a ziggurat, out of women’s internal organs in their backyard? I sure wouldn’t like that at all. They’re my daughters!

 

 

 

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13 Oct 15:55

Tragedy to Farce to Whatever Comes After Farce

by Robert Farley
WSJ Blues

Jesus.

By the way, this is the same Wiz-kid Harry Enten, who's notes looking for a girl friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVw6djRhzk

Damn.

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13 Oct 04:02

The Left Is Borrowing Hillary Hate From the Republican National Convention — With Dangerous Consequences

WSJ Blues

538's model has Clinton down to a 52% chance of winning, with their "now cast" (if the election were held today) gives Trump a 10 point lead.

The Left Is Borrowing Hillary Hate From the Republican National Convention — With Dangerous Consequences:

This isn’t issues-based dismay over Hillary Clinton, and if it once were, it has transformed into something far more grotesque and dangerous. The merging of left-leaning political antagonism toward Hillary with the distortions of the right has left us here, with progressives — people who care deeply about our planet, about health care, about immigration, about minimum wage and police brutality and voting rights and reproductive rights and the future of the Supreme Court — heaping outsized condemnation not at the fascistic ogre who rose in Cleveland last week, but at the only person who realistically stands between him and his stewardship of this country. A vocal portion of the left is now aping the fantasy constructions of the right wing, showing themselves more focused on Hillary’s personal destruction than on any of the crucial issues at stake in November. Welcome to the Democratic National Convention.

27 Sep 20:55

The 2016 Presidential Race and the Failed Art of Balance

by Lisa Wade, PhD
WSJ Blues

I've been recommending podcasts for a while, but one of my favorite moments in the quasi-humorous political podcast "Keepin' it 1600" was them calling Sean Hannity last night. He listened to them introduce themselves, but unfortunately hung up after they asked the inevitable question: what does he know that he isn't sharing about Donald Trump and Iraq?

It's not like he has had a platform to spew conspiratorial nonsense this entire time.

Modern journalism is reliant on the idea of objectivity. Even when truth is elusive, if journalists write a balanced story, they can be said to have done a good job.

But what if a story doesn’t have two sides? Sometimes journalists continue to write as if they do, as they did in regards to human caused climate change for a decade. Other times they do so wholly disingenuously, counterposing authoritative voices against ones they know carry no weight with their audience, as they did and still do with coverage of female genital cutting. At still other times, they abandon objectivity altogether, counting on a national consensus so strong that no one could possibly accuse them of being biased, as many did after 9/11.

I think this is the source of some of the discomfort with the media coverage of this election.

What does a journalist do when the editorial board of the Washington Post calls one candidate a “unique threat to American democracy”; the New York Timescalls him a “poisonous messenger” appealing to “people’s worst instincts”; the Houston Chronicle’s calls him “dangerous to the nation and the world,” a man that should “make every American shudder”; and the far-right National Review’s calls him a “menace”? What does a journalist do when conservative newspapers like the Dallas Morning News call him “horrify[ing]” and endorse a Democrat for president for the first time in almost 100 years? Is this still the right time to be objective? Is this a 9/11 moment?

I suspect that journalists themselves do not know what to do, and so we are seeing all of the strategies playing out. Some are trying hard to hew to the traditional version of balance, but covering asymmetrical candidates symmetrically makes for some odd outcomes, hence accusations of false equivalence and misinforming the public. Some are counting on a consensus, at least on some issues, assuming that things like constitutional rights and anti-bigotry are widespread enough values that they can criticize Trump on these issues without seeming partisan, but it doesn’t always work. Still others are aiming down the middle, offering an imbalanced balance, as when journalists reference the support of David Duke and other white supremacists as their own kind of dog-whistle politics.

Meanwhile, readers each have our own ideas about whether this election deserves “balanced” coverage and what that might look like. And so do, of course, the thousands of pundits, none of whom are accountable to journalistic norms, and the millions of us on social media, sharing our own points of view.

It’s no wonder the election is giving us vertigo. It is itself out of balance, making it impossible for the country to agree on what objectivity looks like. Even the journalists, who are better at it than anyone, are failing. The election has revealed what is always true: that objectivity is a precarious performance, more an art than a science, and one that gains validity only in relation to the socially constructed realities in which we live.

It’s just that our socially constructed reality is suddenly in shambles. Post-truth politics doesn’t give us a leg to stand on, none of us can get a foothold anymore. Internet-era economic realities have replaced the news anchor with free-floating infotainment. Political polarization has ripped the country apart and the edifices we’ve clung to for stability—like the Republican Party—are suddenly themselves on shaky ground. The rise of Trump has made all of this dizzyingly clear.

We’re hanging on for dear life. I fear that journalists can do little to help us now.

Lisa Wade, PhD is a professor at Occidental College. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture, and a textbook about gender. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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08 Sep 14:52

actuallykylekallgren:pathesis:cheeseburger-and-vine:misdiagnosed-...

WSJ Blues

Wow.





















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fuckyeahcomicsbaby:

Villians Beware! Bat-Cow is on the Case

what in the fucking

PLEASE BE CANON

absolutely canon

god bless Grant Morrison and Dan Didio for this gift

wh

@reddle

i love bat-cow so much i just

I had to convince my coworker, who works in a comic shop, that Bat-cow was a real thing that was actually published by DC, and not a parody.

@ghoullette

“Batman Is Popular Because He’s The Realistic, Gritty Superhero”

02 Sep 14:36

politico: Latinos for Trump founder warns of ‘taco trucks on...

WSJ Blues

Funny, I was looking for an image to post the same arrive, although I was going to comment "delicious!"

And while the taco truck bit is getting all the attention, the lead up to it is even more offensive in my opinion.



politico:

Latinos for Trump founder warns of ‘taco trucks on every corner’

By ZACH MONTELLARO

A founder of the Latinos for Trump group on Thursday warned that without Donald Trump in the White House, there would be “taco trucks on every corner” in America.

“My culture is a very dominant culture,” the Mexican-born Marco Gutierrez said on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes.” “It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.”

Joy Reid, who was guest-hosting Hayes’ show, cut him off, saying, “I don’t even know what that means, and I’m afraid to ask,” before going to New York State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, a Dominican, for a reaction.

“I’m offended,” Espaillat said.

Gutierrez defended himself, saying, “We have a lot of good things that we’re bringing to the United States, but we also have problems.”

Read more here

I mean, aside from the obvious implications for available street parking, why would that be a bad thing?

31 Aug 01:29

uncalar: Cartoon: Pooh & Piglet at Tanagra. With thanks to...



uncalar:

Cartoon: Pooh & Piglet at Tanagra. With thanks to Michael G. Munz @TheWriteMunz for tweet inspiration.

30 Aug 18:14

How Donald Trump almost missed the ballot in Minnesota (and what that says about his campaign)

How Donald Trump almost missed the ballot in Minnesota (and what that says about his campaign):

That’s insane. How bad of a campaign organization do you have to have to nearly miss a deadline like that?

29 Aug 23:46

space-wallpapers: Along the Cygnus Wall (desktop/laptop)Click...

WSJ Blues

I'm surprised we haven't talked about Proxima Centaur beta, or Dragonfly 44. Both are pretty cool scientific discoveries this week.



space-wallpapers:

Along the Cygnus Wall (desktop/laptop)

Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

29 Aug 17:50

tastefullyoffensive: Let’s get Duke in the White House. (via...

WSJ Blues

Ms. Huggington saw this online, and I thought I would share:
http://i.imgur.com/OS1UQub.jpg



tastefullyoffensive:

Let’s get Duke in the White House. (via  zucchini_bird)

I don’t think Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 accounts for dog years…

26 Aug 21:11

artornap: 1955 USN Naval Artist Fred Freeman A Real Flying...

WSJ Blues

That looks like a Hiller Flying Platform:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee

They've got one at the Air and Space Museum (annex) Udvar-Hazy; I've read the plaque but it's been a while. They described it as a sky elevator for snipers. But as you'd expect, it was highly unstable (would flip over) because of insufficient ballast, and a top-heavy human.

I don't think the lower directional fan was ever used; the machine itself was ever used. According to wikipedia, only six were ever made.

26 Aug 19:14

Household Tips

WSJ Blues

I've been keeping this one unread because it makes me laugh every time.

To make your shoes feel more comfortable, smell better, and last longer, try taking them off before you shower.
25 Aug 11:05

theonion: Report: Some Dumb Fuck Out There Probably Wants His...



theonion:

Report: Some Dumb Fuck Out There Probably Wants His City To Host Olympics Now

Noting that the two-week spectacle had likely stirred up a newfound passion and enthusiasm for the Games, reports confirmed Monday that some dumb fuck out there probably wants his city to host the Olympics now. “There’s an overwhelming likelihood that there’s a dipshit somewhere who, after watching the Rio Games, thinks hosting the Olympics would be a great way to show off everything great about whatever fucking city he lives in,” one report read in part, which also noted that in addition to believing the Olympics would generate some buzz about his hometown, the total shit-for-brains must think the Games would also provide a much-needed boost to the local economy. 

25 Aug 10:52

cinnamoonlatte: The Sheperd’s Journal made by me Lady...

WSJ Blues

Neat. Also, Robert shared this on Facebook, so I thought I'd share it here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/bot-fantasy-map-generator/















cinnamoonlatte:

The Sheperd’s Journal

made by me Lady Ragdoll (not commissions)

i can find Atlantis now *_*

Fuck that’s cool.

20 Aug 03:47

buzzfeed: Illustration by @booksofadam, based on this tweet by...

WSJ Blues

Quality, and the perfect place to share this great reporting by the NYTimes on a behind the scenes look in the Trump campaign, from the staffer in fighting, to the irrational decisions of the nominee. Did you know his son in law, not the campaign manager, is in charge of campaign spending? Fascinating.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/us/politics/donald-trump-campaign-gop.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0&referer=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/15/trump-calls-ny-times-fiction-but-his-advisers-leaks-are-revealing.html



buzzfeed:

Illustration by @booksofadam, based on this tweet by say_shannon.

18 Aug 01:14

Amazing. Just plain amazing.

WSJ Blues

Have you listened to the latest 538 election's podcast? You could *hear* how red his face was at this.



Amazing. Just plain amazing.

17 Aug 20:49

allsadnshit: thebestoftumbling: Lesson for today… You can’t...

WSJ Blues

Parenting 101.



allsadnshit:

thebestoftumbling:

Lesson for today… You can’t stay mad with squeaky shoes…

OK THIS IS SO CUTE

14 Aug 10:58

fear-the-bunneh: Amygdala by DanPilla

WSJ Blues

Hacker posts personal info of House Democrats and staff.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/pelosi-warns-colleagues-of-harassing-calls-and-messages/2016/08/13/97535308-618e-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html

Working where I work, we occasionally get really nasty hate mail, the kind which has to go to the FBI for investigation. I've long feared this sort of thing happening, but figured it wouldn't happen until after the election. At least there weren't home addresses released... Yet.

13 Aug 05:15

metal-maniac-starship-mechanic: Star Quest by Guillaume...

WSJ Blues

So funny story, my boss has joked in the past that I should read my organization's Facebook posts. I've joked back that I don't use Facebook. Last I talked, it seemed a lot more like a formal request, so I've done what I can to only be exposed to the smallest window of Facebook possible. I set it up so I now get notifications sent to my phone when my organization, or any of you (and a couple others) post something. I learned two things: Robert is on Facebook *a lot*, and Carl doesn't have a Facebook. (Well three if you consider it separate that Robert posts lots of cute pictures of Elliot, who is awesomely adorable by the way).

Anywho, Robert and I both found this Facebook quiz remarkably difficult:

Who Said It, Donald Trump or Lord Voldemort?
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/21/who-said-it-donald-trump-voldemort

(I got 7/10).













metal-maniac-starship-mechanic:

Star Quest by Guillaume Singelin 

07 Aug 03:26

cybercircuitz: mirkokosmos: by Roberto Robert Follow for more...

WSJ Blues

Trump quotes spoken by Zapp Brannigan:
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/WCJxR

We need to get Billy West on this.



cybercircuitz:

mirkokosmos:

by Roberto Robert

Follow for more corporate approved content.

Remember, corporate “loves” you.

04 Aug 11:52

cybercircuitz: Follow for more corporate approved...

WSJ Blues

"It's worth asking again, is Trump trying to tank his campaign?"

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/04/its_worth_asking_again_is_donald_trump_trying_to_tank_his_campaign/?google_editors_picks=true

"In the last two weeks, Donald Trump has slandered the family of a dead soldier, committed treason by inviting Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email account, admitted he lied about receiving a letter from the NFL, saw an Air Force mother get booed at one of his rallies, claimed Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine even though they already have, refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan’s candidacy, falsely accused a fire marshal of limiting his crowd for political reasons, tossed a baby out of a rally, and called Hillary Clinton “the devil.”"

And that's leaving out his statements about the November election being rigged.



cybercircuitz:

Follow for more corporate approved content.

Remember, corporate “loves” you.

02 Aug 17:26

riot-company: A final response to the “Tell me why Trump is a...















riot-company:

A final response to the “Tell me why Trump is a fascist” by marisam7 on Reddit.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4teoxl/a_final_response_to_the_tell_me_why_trump_is_a/

I’m pretty sure no sane human needs more information to vote for someone else and prevent the next dictatorship.