When 25-year-old Cary McCook told his friends that he got run over by a deer they thought it was a joke. It was April Fools’ Day, after all, and who gets bulldozed by a deer?
“…the cute garments help dogs suffering from “black dog syndrome” in multiple ways. In addition to drawing attention to the otherwise overlooked pups, the swaddling effect of the sweaters helps anxious dogs to relax. This gives the dogs confidence and allows them to be on their best behavior for potential adopters. Moreover—and most obviously—the comfy coats keep the dogs snuggly warm in their kennels.”
Head over to My Modern Met to learn more about this outstanding project.
The best line in Lilo and Stitch is, “No! Don’t touch that! It’s from my blue period!”
Like not only is Lilo familiar with goddamn Picasso despite being maybe 8, but she’s made enough serious art of her own that she can divide it into similar periods.
Lilo is a goddamn prodigy. She is an eccentric genius on par with Tesla or Van Gogh.
Like those pictures she took were both dismissals of beauty standards (she mostly photographed fat people who were not conventionally attractive and she referred to them in awe as beautiful) and subversions of the dehumanization tourists subjected her to as a native Hawaiian (she photographed tourists like they were simply part of the landscape, just as they did to her).
“She had this beautiful red hair, this beautiful skin, these beautiful green eyes, and she was looking up at me, holding, you know, for an autograph. And I said ‘Well, you’re the prettiest little thing I ever saw. So what is your name?’ And she said, ‘Jolene.’ And I said ‘Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I’m going to write a song about that.’”
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Dolly Parton on the fan that inspired “Jolene.” (via windwake)
Okay but like can you even imagine? You get an autograph from your fav musician and they write a song about how beautiful you are? This sounds like the plot of a fanfiction written by a 12 year old.
As much as I wanted to avoid yet another Spider-Man, a) this group actually looks like it could be a class of high schoolers in Forest Hills, Queens. And b) is Mary Jane is reading Of Human Bondage??
It’s important to note that Steve Rogers doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to especially now that he’s 100 years old and a national treasure, and therefore he CHOSE to stand in a set of a locker room to encourage people to gym well, what do you think he needed the money? Sam and Nat can tease him at their own peril, he will just troll them with health conscientiousness and make some cagey old man reference to his USO tour.
lbr Steve Rogers did it for Michelle Obama
I think we all need some happy nostalgia fic where Michelle Obama and Steve Rogers and Beyonce did some dance fitness shit with inner city kids.
OH MY GOD
That’s definitely the uniform Coulson made for him in 2012, so he definitely did this sometime in between Avengers and CATWS. Which means Nat was absolutely gigglesnorting to herself. And that there’s no way this wasn’t for Michelle Obama.
Which also means that Steve’s probably met Beyoncé, so…yes. Fic, please.
YOU KNOW STEVE WOULD BE SECRETLY IN LOVE WITH MICHELLE OBAMA and by secretly I mean literally everyone would know he thought she was the Literal Best and he’d keep saying stuff like “we called them victory gardens!!!” And “I don’t understand why people are such assholes about her biceps, I bet she could throw a punch just as good as Peggy did” and then go faraway and dreamy
The boyfriend and I once lost a game literally in 2 moves. The next week, we won in, I think, less than 10.
You sort of have to think a few moves ahead. Plan to go for one particular objective and work toward it, but try to leave yourself an opening to deal with the inevitable outbreak threat that will materialize without warning.
But you’re going to lose more than you win, because that’s why Pandemic is so much fun.
“A refugee costs average $14K to bring in and resettle in the US. Tomahawk missile costs upwards of $1M. The Friday attack would have sheltered 3,650 refugees. Let that sink in.”
by Ellie Shechet on The Slot, shared by Joanna Rothkopf to Jezebel
On this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took a look at gerrymandering, “one of the few remaining types of science in which the Republican party currently believes.”
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When Kevin and I were in New Orleans a month or so ago, we were out birding and encountered this killdeer in a parking lot. It immediately set about convincing Kevin that its wing was broken. Really broken. SO BROKEN YOU GUYS.
Killdeer are, of course, justly famous for this trick. They do it to lure predators away from the nest. Kevin ambled after the bird with a camera and I watched them do a slow motion chase scene across the parking lot.
Eventually, having taken about a million photos, Kevin stopped. But the killdeer did not. There were four of us, but Kevin, rescuer of kittens, was clearly the menace. It was practically charging him waving its “broken” wing.
Kevin: No, I’m done, it’s okay.
Killdeer: MY WING IS SUPER BROKEN
Kevin: I have no interest in your nest.
Killdeer: THIS WING, RIGHT HERE? I BROKE IT IN THE WAR. TWO WARS. SEVEN WARS. SO MANY WARS.
Kevin: I’m starting to feel weird about this, bird.
Killdeer: AAUGH LOOK NOW MY OTHER WING IS BROKEN TOO
Kevin: …
Killdeer: I WILL RUN A LITTLE WAY AND FALL OVER WAVING MY BROKEN WINGS THE PAIN THE PAIN
Kevin: I’m not going to chase you.
Killdeer: YOU HAVE TO CHASE ME MY WINGS ARE BROKEN ALSO I BELIEVE MY LEGS ARE GOING
Kevin: This is just sad.
Killdeer: I BELIEVE I AM ALSO ON FIRE
Kevin: You’re still going.
Killdeer: THERE IS NO PAIN LIKE THIS PAIN PLEASE STEP A LITTLE FARTHER THIS WAY I AM SURELY ABOUT TO BE CAUGHT AT ANY MOMENT
Kevin: Fine, if it’ll make you happy.
(Kevin ambles after Killdeer)
Killdeer: JUST A LITTLE FARTHER…A LITTLE BIT FARTHER AND SURELY I WILL STOP RUNNING AWAY DID I MENTION THAT MY WINGS ARE SUPER-BROKEN?!
(Kevin, camera in hand, stumbles onto a group of King Rail chicks in the ditch)
Rail Chicks: AAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHMONSTER
Kildeer: AHAHA DEVOUR THEM, MY ENEMY, WHILE I FLEE BACK TO MY CHILDREN ON MY MAGICALLY HEALED WINGS
a man: hm. see I wouldn’t have phrased it exactly like that. I might have said “hello” or perhaps “salutations.” but the way you said it is cute though.
You are aware this is just as sexist as the things people say about women, correct?
a woman: you ever notice men speak to women like we are beneath them and constantly police our language and appearance?
a man: hm. i know you, poor thing, are blissfully unaware of the difficulty that text posts put us (men, or “males,” depending on the colloquial) through. let me explain in the follow paragraph how we can effectively ignore institutionalized and global sexism because this post personally called me, a man, out for my degrading behavior. see, this sort of witty and harmless observation is sexist,
please do not raise old gods, new gods, borrowed gods, or blue gods
It’s your wedding day honey you raise whatever the hell you want.
It’s bad form to sacrifice your wedding guests to the Old Ones, and conversely to invite the Old Ones to your wedding just so your friends can kill them.
Besides, I’m not sure that “battle dress” makes for a great dress code on an invitation - not everyone can afford formal fighting gear!
Remember, kids, just because you’re locked in a predestined war from before time began is no excuse to be rude about it.
hey i’ve thought of a new way to explain the difference between math research and science research are u ready
math research: Why does pizza get hot in an oven? Well, let’s first prove ovens exist. Then we can try to prove ovens get hot. Wait, have we even proved that pizza exists? Have we proved that pizza can get hot? Have we proved that heat exists? Have we proved that I exist? That you exist?
science research: Why does pizza get hot in an oven? *sticks hand into burning oven* ahhHHHHHHHHHH WHAT’S HAPPENING
