OK, but listen! The Lion King, but with ELEPHANTS instead! Right?
For the past couple of years, mediocre drone videos of dramatic landscapes have littered the internet. Like, we get it, drone pilots. Your camera flies and stuff looks pretty from the sky and the whole conceit is pretty trite at this point. And then I saw these four minutes of magic, filmed in South Africa.
I've seen this girl inside of a lot of grown women. I'm lucky, in a way. I've never had the option to be anyone but myself, and I realized that really young. So I just walked away from anyone who had different ideas about who I was supposed to be.
“The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.”
- bell hooks, all about love: new visions (via huiyan)
I know we’re always talking about how Pacific Rim embraces the ridiculousness of the human race because “just build a giant robot to punch them in the face” is probably the most full-on human bullshit response we could have thought of to an invasion of giant aliens, but can we pause and also consider that the aliens are basically doing the same thing
like they wanted to invade us and their first thought about how to do so was “let’s genetically engineer giant fucking monsters that will crawl out of the depths of the ocean and trample cities”
Pacific Rim is just the story of two species that on a scale from 1 to 10 respond to every problem with a 17
i’m starting to hate the frequency of pinterest as a google result more than i hate pinterest itself. listen, google, googly-mate, pinterest isn’t a fuckign source. I want the sites those pictures came from because those are the ones with information such as dates, which is the entire point of the thing I am googling.
Damn right. How the hell am I supposed to find tutorials on how to do wire work or bead weaving when the first howevermany pages of Google results are some idiot’s cluster of Pinterest collections of those tutorials?
SOMEONE ELSE HATES PINTEREST AS MUCH AS I DO
not only does it fuck with sourcing images, but you can’t even SEE the images unless you have a ~pinterest account~ which I have zero interest in acquiring; it does this so completely adorable coy little thing where it shows you half the page and then when you scroll down it goes *complicated tiresome flower emoji face* JOIN PINTEREST 2 SEE MORE! *complicated tiresome flower emoji face* and my systolic reading spikes.
and google lists individual pinterest pages as separate results, so if a picture is popular, there can be HUNDREDS of pinterest listings before you find anything you could possibly trace back to a source.
listen, all my art bros who are mad about people not sourcing art, i dig that, i agree that sourcing is important, but maybe stop saying reverse image search is easy or ‘30 seconds’ or whatever. sometimes it’s just straight up impossible because fucking pinterest ruins everything.
SUPER EASY WAY TO AVOID PINTEREST: type your query and then -pinterest
7 of the first 12 results are from pinterest
zero items from pinterest not a single one I’m free
Oh thank fuck
Not to mention that most of the images on pintrest are really small which is frustrating when tutorial pages are like 5000 px tall
there’s a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D
homer, the dm: okay achilles, agamemnon has just taken away your war prize, what do you want to do achilles’ player: i roll to have a diplomatic conversation with agamemnon achilles’ player: *rolls a 1* homer: you throw the staff of speaking at agamemnon’s face and storm off to sulk with your boyfriend
Homer, the DM: Your beautiful Patroclus is dead. What do you do? Achilles’ player: I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: You can’t fight everyone. How would you even– Achilles’ player: *rolls a 20* I fight everyone. Homer, the DM: *sighs* Fine. You cut a path through the Trojan army, enemy dead strewn in your wake. Achilles’ player: How many? Homer, the DM: …lots. Enough to clog the friggin’ river with bodies. Achilles’ player: I fight the river. Homer, the DM: You. can. not. fight. the. river. Achilles’ player: *reaches for dice*
sophie is a hit. man, sophie sure thinks fast. i finally understand what he sees in you.
[caption: ten gifs from leverage. (1) nate says, “she’s directing now. she found her calling. (2) chaos says, “there’s no way I’m gonna try to outcon sophie devereaux. and I hate to break it to you, stark, but she was the one everyone was always scared of.” (3) sterling says, “i’ve seen sophie devereaux play a dozen people. drunk.” (4) sophie says, “they’re gonna put my face on the new 20 royal note. name a girl school after me.” (5) sophie says, “the military are breaking ground on fort devereaux.” (6) someone says, “she’s kinda scary.” nate replies, “you have no idea.” (7) nate says, “i don’t need an hour. i’ve got a sophie.” (8) hardison says, “we kinda liked the way sophie ran the last [con].” (9) hardison says, “we trust you to make sure we’re all okay.” (10) nate says, “sophie devereaux is the finest actress you’ve ever seen… when she’s breaking the law.” ]
Here we have a wonderful example of how Donald Trump's mind works. Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings has spoken with Donald Trump on "several occasions" and has always had a consistent message for der Pumpkinfuhrer.
“During my meeting with the president and on several occasions since then, I have said repeatedly that he could be a great president if … if … he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”
Cummings, being a savvy political mind himself, is appealing here to Trump's own vanity. Why, you could be great! It will require changing your entire personality, you big dumb oaf, but it could happen!
You can guess, however, how Donald Trump interpreted this. See if you can spot the exact moment in Cummings' statement above where Donald Trump's mind switched from I am interested in this man to I am no longer interested in this man.
TRUMP: Elijah Cummings [a Democratic representative from Maryland] was in my office and he said, “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country.”
The man has the mind of a child. I don't mean that as an insult, but as observation: The man has the mind of a child. Whether it be a raging personality disorder or an attention span that can be measured in syllables, if it's not praise of Donald Trump, he simply doesn't hear it.
by Hamilton Nolan on Fusion, shared by Kate Dries to Jezebel
Not so long ago, Nick Denton used to boast that Gawker Media was the last true beachhead of “independent media” in America. How quickly things change. Does “independent media” even mean anything, any more? Did it ever?
How awesome does this sound though. You get infinite money and once a week you get to take a child to a candy store or toys or us or somewhere they love and buy them as much they want this would be fun given the kid wasn’t a brat.
There is no downside to this at all
This is the best, because it says A CHILD, not your child, so I could pick one of the really poor kids on the streets and go “Your life is going to change right now”, and I could buy everything their family might need, along with a house, a food supply, toys, clothes, and everything they never had the chance to have before. And the best thing is that I could do this with lots of children, and not just one. I could give a lot of children in need a full week of Christmas basically and maybe give them a chance to have a different life. That would be great.
Bless u ^ humanity still exists.
Plus depending on how you define “child”, you could be helping high students who struggling with application fines and even pay for college tuition, room and board, or books
Since 2013, Russia has enforced “internet extremism” laws that forbid the dissemination of online content that the government finds offensive. Newly added to that list is an image that depicts Vladimir Putin as, in the words of the Washington Post, “a potentially gay clown.” As such, the above image is now illegal in Russia to share the above photo. It’s not illegal here, though.
This registry of “extremist materials” features the photo at number 4071, and the Post describes it thusly: “a picture of a Putin-like person ’with eyes and lips made up,’ captioned with an implicit anti-gay slur, implying ’the supposed nonstandard sexual orientation of the president of the Russian Federation.’”
Here it is again, should you need a reminder:
Do not distribute it in Russia.
CNN reports that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said of the photo: “You know how such things might hurt somebody’s feelings, but ...
Yet another heartwarming story that shows just how fucked up everything is.
A McDonald’s worker who had to walk 20 miles to and from work every day now has a new bike, after a customer learned he had no other means of transportation.
His bike had broken down, reports WTVR.com, but not showing up for work was not an option.
“This was the first store that would hire me, so I figured I had to put in the effort,” he told the station. “I was raised if you get a job, you’ve made a commitment, you’ve got to honor it, so if it just means me having to get up early or travel a long way, it’s what I’ve got to do.”
A customer who heard about his dedication to the job says she knew she had to help him somehow, so she posted his story on social media. Minutes later, a friend of hers noticed the post and was so inspired, she bought the worker a brand new bike.
“This is somebody that’s chosen to continue to move forward, when it would have been real easy for him to give up, and not many people do that,” the woman told the news station.
The worker says he was “completely surprised,” and that he loves his new bike.
“I never expected this in a million years,” he said.
By my count, there are now four grounds to impeach Donald Trump.
The fifth appears to be on its way.
First, in taking the oath of office, a president promises to
“faithfully execute the laws & the constitution.” That’s Article II Section
2.
But Trump is unfaithfully executing his duties as president by
accusing his predecessor, president Obama, of undertaking an illegal and
impeachable act, with absolutely no evidence to support the accusation.
Second, Article I Section 9 of the Constitution forbids
government officials from taking things of value from foreign governments. But
Trump is making big money off his Trump International Hotel by steering foreign
diplomatic delegations to it, and will make a bundle off China’s recent
decision to grant his trademark applications for the Trump brand – decisions
Chinese authorities arrived at directly because of decisions Trump has made as
president.
Third: The 1st Amendment to the Constitution bars any law
“respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.” But Trump’s ban on travel into the United States from 6 muslim
countries – which he initiated, advocated for, and oversees – violates that
provision.
Fourth: The 1st Amendment also bars “abridging the freedom of
the press.” But Trump’s labeling the press “the enemy of the people,” and
choosing who he invites to news conferences based on whether they’ve given him
favorable coverage, violates this provision.
A fifth possible ground if the evidence is there: Article II
Section 3 of the Constitution defines “treason against the United States” as
“adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
Evidence is mounting that Trump and his aides colluded with
Russian operatives to win the 2016 presidential election.
Presidents can be impeached for what the Constitution calls
“high crimes and misdemeanors.” The question is no longer whether there are
grounds to impeach Trump. The practical question is whether there’s the
political will.
As long as Republicans remain in the majority in the House,
where a bill of impeachment originates, it’s unlikely. Another reason why it’s
critically important to flip the House in 2018.
