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isagrimorie:

kyraneko:

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sir-hathaway:

salon:

Google could launch an effort to keep trolls and bad information at bay, with a program that would rank websites according to veracity, and sort results according to those rankings. Currently, the search engine ranks pages according to popularity, which means that pages containing unsubstantiated celebrity gossip or conspiracy theories, for example, show up very high.

Climate change deniers are freaking out about this.

Fox News is also freaking out about this.

DO IT GOOGLE

DO IT

FUCKING DO IT

DO IT 

This feels like the moment when Han Solo comes roaring back in the Millennium Falcon and knock’s Darth Vader out of commission to give Luke a clear run at the Death Star exhaust port. “Yeahoo!”

DO IT, FULFILL YOUR CORPORATE MISSION AND ‘DON’T BE EVIL’

honeystopthecar:

beardyboywonder:

every gamer’s reaction upon finding a blood-covered room: well that’s not good

I am pretty sure that is not exclusive just to gamers.

euphrasiefauchelevent:

pkmndaisuki:

princeloki:

so id like to tell you something, like, in the context of cryptid sightings

specifically, id like to tell you some things about cattle

• they dont look like they move fast, but, in fact, they do. they move very fast, and theyre capable of doing so quietly
  
• if a cow is black and has white spots, or if it is white and has black spots, both the white and black bits come together in the approximate shape of a cow
• but in the dark, you cant see the black parts, and the white parts do NOT, form the approximate shape of a cow

what im saying is that i have at certain times been walking in the fields on a night with low visibility and i have, at certain times, seen an indistinct white shape zoom past me, and i am at least 95% sure it was a cow. and that if you see a white shape zoom past you in a field at night, it is also probably at least 95% of a cow

@queerpyracy

my name is cow
and wen its nite
and yu in fere
a cryptid site
be not afraide -
in mothmans sted
its only me

in serch of bred

stephendann:

honeystopthecar:

beardyboywonder:

every gamer’s reaction upon finding a blood-covered room: well that’s not good

I am pretty sure that is not exclusive just to gamers.

Lately, I’m starting to suspect a lot of people would be “Well, yes, it’s a blood covered room, but we really need to hear both sides of the story”

Watch this raven do what many of us secretly wish we could do when we get a parking ticket – shred it to pieces. This happened in Yellowknife, Northwest Canada, where ravens like to hang out in the parking lots just hanging out on cars and hoping for some snacks. The dramatic scene was filmed by Annemieke Mulders, a local raven enthusiast.

“I watched the little monster take the ticket from under the windshield wiper and shred it, and eat some of it

out-there-on-the-maroon:

whitmerule:

irisbleufic:

idapea:

simplemindset:

neil-gaiman I don’t even have a tapedeck?

@irisbleufic !

… w o w.

omg

#IS THIS WHAT PRATCHETT’S GHOST IS DOING #hanging around in the clacks#and pulling pranks like this

slayediest:

slayediest:

The Badlands National Park Twitter has been tweeting in open defiance of the administration’s gag order today, though most of them have been deleted.

This one is extra special. I’m sure it won’t last.

Aaaannnd!  They’re still going.

eronthebender:

sw-or-gtfo:

pervocracy:

He wasn’t as flagrantly bad as Trump, but let’s not completely rehabilitate George W. Bush into a nice old man who likes to paint and can’t handle his raincoat, okay?

-signed, someone over thirty

dubya looks cutesy-pie now, but plz know he was the trump prequel, an utter buffoon and public embarrassment who lost the popular vote and stoked the ugliest brand of patriotism to bring us to a war with no purpose but personal and crony profit. he was a trump test run and worked magnificently

plz also know he is test running how we are expected to treat trump in retirement, as a delightful buffoon who wasn’t responsible

he is absolutely a buffoon

but he also created a war of no purpose (thus opening the way for future presidents to declare war personally, needing no congressional approval or oversight)

make fun of him because he is evil and deserves mockery, not because he’s just an adorbs old man who seems cutely befuddled

And don’t forget how he let a shit ton of Black people die or lose everything when Hurricane Katrina happened

radchimera:

littlelimpstiff14u2:

Serpent d'Océan - Huang Yong Ping

A gigantic aluminum serpent was completed in 2012 by artist Huang Yong Ping. It lays along the shore of the Loire River near Nantes, France. It is nearly 425 feet and mirrors the curves of the Saint Nazaire bridge nearby.

Huang Yong Ping (Chinese: 黄永砯; born 1954) is a French contemporary artist and one of the most famous Chinese Avant-garde artists. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provocative artist of the Chinese art scene in the 1980s.^[1]

Huang was one of the first artists to consider that art was a strategy.^[1] He was a self-taught student educating himself under three well-known men. Joseph Beuys well known German artist and art theorist, John Cage an American music theorist and philosopher, and Marcel Duchamp a French artist that’s associated with Dadaist and Surrealist. He then graduated in 1982 from CAFA in Hangzhoue. In 1986 he formed Xiamen Dada. Huang Yong Ping has four periods associated with himself, anti-artistic affectation (fan jiaoshi zhuyi), anti-self-expression (fan ziwo biaoxian he xingshi zhuyi), anti-art (fan yishu), and anti-history (fanyishushi). In 1989 at the age of 35 Huang Yong Ping went to Paris for the Magiciens de la terre exhibit. He then ended up immigrating to France and living there ever since. Many of his pieces today are on a large scale, making them not auction-compatible.

Huang Yong Ping represented France at the 1999 Venice Biennale.

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There is. And it’s one of my favorite badges because there were days it was really hard me for me to earn. But I did it and so did you!

actuallyclintbarton:

animate-mush:

jdkaplonski:

shoren18:

damnselfly:

quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.

I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.

Needed this today.

People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.

Actually in some cases this isn’t true - sometimes people (people like me with Borderline for example) DO go from 0 to 60.

But the thing is that it’s never JUST about whatever we’re freaking out about. It’s “we can’t connect to wifi so we can’t chat with our friend and we remember anytime someone has basically dropped us bc we ‘weren’t around enough’ and we’re now panicking because what if our friend thinks we don’t care because we’re not online and leaves us”

Or it’s “I lost my hat, I lose everything, I’m a failure of a human being and a disappointment to everyone I love”

Or it’s “people are talking too loud, are they angry? Oh god they’re talking about stupid people, loud enough for me to hear, THEY MUST BE TALKING ABOUT ME.”

Or any number of other things that, because of the way our minds work, are never JUST about the little thing, but can also be hugely illogical and come out of nowhere.

HOWEVER

The advice given still applies. We are emotional, you don’t know the whole story, and even if the “whole story” IS irrational that doesn’t mean that we don’t know that and that telling us it’s nothing will do anything but make it worse.

Even if it IS a little thing. Even if it IS something that doesn’t seem worth being upset about. Even if we DO go from 0 to 60. We deserve respect and treating us like our emotions are stupid or invalid is not respectful.

stand-up-comic-gifs:

He’s just mad because he can’t acquire all the apple juice that I’m acquiring. (x)

I spent about 36 seconds of the Women’s March over the weekend thinking about Karl Lagerfeld’s weak attempt at staging a feminist fashion march on his Spring 2015 runway, and wondered if he was watching, participating, or gave a fuck. And so, despite the dazzling handiwork in his couture show for Spring 2017, which…

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robertreich:

TRUMP’S INFRASTRUCTURE SCAM

Our country is in dire need of massive investments in infrastructure, but what Donald Trump is proposing is nothing more than a huge tax giveaway for the rich.

1. It’s a giant public subsidy to developers and investors. Rather than taxing the wealthy and then using the money to fix our dangerously outdated roads, bridges, airports, water systems, Trump wants to give rich developers and Wall Street investors tax credits to encourage them to do it That means that for every dollar they put into a project, they’d actually pay only 18 cents and we would contribute the other 82 cents through our tax dollars.

2. We’d be turning over public roads and bridges to private corporations who will charge us expensive tolls and earn big profits. These tolls will be set high in order to satisfy the profit margins demanded by elite Wall Street investors. So—essentially—we pay twice – once when we subsidize the developers and investors with our tax dollars, and then secondly when we pay the tolls and user fees that also go into their pockets.

3. We get the wrong kind of infrastructure. Projects that will be most attractive to Wall Street investors are those whose tolls and fees bring in the biggest bucks – giant mega-projects like major new throughways and new bridges. Not the thousands of smaller bridges, airports, pipes, and water treatment facilities most in need of repair. Not the needs of rural communities and smaller cities and towns too small to generate the tolls and other user fees equity investors want. Not clean energy.

To really make America great again we need more and better infrastructure that’s for the public – not for big developers and investors. And the only way we get that is if corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.

lightshadowverisimilitude:

copperbadge:

acebycircle:

He just sits his ass down on all those buttons that could or could not be firing lasers into space

If we can’t invent a touchscreen that recognizes an ass-dial by the 24th century, we really have no business being in space at all.

So true.

Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director, the South Carolina representative Mick Mulvaney, had to testify in a Senate hearing that Donald Trump’s inaugural crowd was smaller than Barack Obama’s.

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Gryffindor online description: brave, noble, chivalrous, a little arrogant and reckless at times, but an all around hero

Gryffindor actual description: "TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?" *sees spider and screams*

Ravenclaw online description: witty, intelligent, tends to be eccentric, very smart and pretty nerdy,

Ravenclaw actual description: hasn't left the house in six days, is down to one square of toilet paper but doesn't notice because they're so deep into the Internet

Slytherin online description: cunning, clever, resourceful, can be ruthless and tends to be a villain on the worst days, but loyal to those they love

Slytherin actual description: gets hit in the head with a dodgeball in p.e. because they were busy thinking of ways to overthrow the government

Hufflepuff online description: kind, sweet, tends to be soft spoken, can be a pushover, loyal, hardworking, overly nice sometimes

Hufflepuff actual description: smiles a lot thinks about food 24/7 until someone disses their friend, then all hell breaks loose

lookdifferentmtv:

do you see this? this right here is a masterful take down. I think I’m going to watch Tiq Milan politely yet firmly shut that (rude) question down all day, so that one day I too will learn to rise above and not be petty.

duonysus:

musicalluna:

jabberwockypie:

 #ok you cannot claim a rando on your taxes #so gus has absolutely filed for civil union #and then upgraded to marriage  #no input whatsoever from shawn #just a lot of paperwork and gus Doing His Thing #you know how he sweettalks bureaucratic people #he’s at a fucking courthouse being like BIG SMILE no my husband is not here men amirite #and somehow the judge is like OH YOU GO ON THEN #and he’s officially married #and shawn WHO NEVER FILES TAXES ANYWAY #is now covered #shawn wonders why he’s on gus’s insurance when he breaks his wrist #shawn wonders why that time gus has his appendix out that the hospital staff just lets him wander in #shawn wonders why he got that toaster in the mail with the CONGRATULATIONS!!!! card #you know what is actually probably true tho #the reason it took these two their whole fucking lives to realize they were ACTUALLY in love #is that probably deep down they think the other is way out of their league #like they assume it as some kind of bedrock truth #the sky is blue and he is out of my league #but then shawn for whatever reason puts two and two together #and figures out theyre married #and only THEN can they bone    (tags via @ifeelbetterer )

oh my god this is the best headcanon I have read with my own two eyes

@bisexualdinahlance

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priestessamy:

bogleech:

Poorer people buy “lots of junk food” you say?

You mean foods with…

• Typically very low prices?
  
• Strong, comforting flavors?
• No precious time or energy required to prepare?
• Long-ass shelf lives?
• Fats and oils that fill you up quicker and longer?

You’re gonna shame people for eating what they can get the most mileage out of with the same money you say they aren’t managing intelligently enough??

Motherfuckers out there want you to eat nothing but rice and chicken for the rest of your life.  Fuck that.  Survive however you need.

fiftythreecrimes:

Pay attention to people who empathize with a Nazi getting punched and say things like “violence is never the answer” but stay silent on police brutality and disparage BLM.

In brief, matter-of-fact statements, the White House's press secretary just confirmed that Donald Trump, and therefore the White House, "believes" millions of illegal votes were cast against him in the last election.

There are no such studies or evidence. It's fictitious. But not only did Spicer go along with it, he went further, attempting to defend it: One of the delusional follow-up assertions was that, according to Spicer, "14%" of votes cast in the 2008 elections "were illegal,” which is a lunatic claim scraped from the dregs of lunatic websites. He also said, in response to an incredulous reporter query, that further investigation of this massive, nationwide corruption of our elections “isn’t a priority” of the current administration. The White House is officially asserting that our federal elections are corrupted on a grand and national scale, based on nothing—and requiring no further action.

This is insane. This is beyond fake news promulgated from cheap, one-off eastern European websites, this is delusion being spouted from the White House podium as the official executive branch stance. This isn't just lying about crowd size in an inauguration, now the White House position is that our entire national election system is suspect because Donald Trump didn't get as many votes as he, as new leader, thought he deserved.

This is propaganda. It's overt, and being apparently done either as pretext towards restricting voting rights or merely because the mental incapacities of the current leader require his staff to declare more pleasing realities in order to placate him.

Donald Trump is mentally ill, and Sean Spicer is covering for him by lying to all of America. This is lunacy. Forget asking questions, the reporters in the room should be summoning doctors and mental health experts.

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enjoloras:

As a transgender man who is going to be having a baby, I am so glad that by technicality my child will be able to fulfil the prophecy and defeat Macbeth.

To be on the safe side, get a C-section?  Macbeth really needs defeating.

Ironically I do have to have a C-section due to a hip problem I have. So it’s double accurate.

I like how this post implies that Macbeth is still out there, most likely terrorizing people, and no one has been able to stop him

fyeahffa:

important: it scans to Turkey in the Straw

http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/228912.html?thread=1271563312#cmt1271563312

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spooky-spaghetties:

gallusrostromegalus:

So this is a Chistmas story my mom told me while I was home recently and i thought y’all might enjoy.

So, one Christmas back in the 60′s, my great-grandmother was reminiscing about Christmas in England, and how they used to have pheasant for Christmas, but Ohio sucks and they’d never get to do something like that.

Well Shit!  goes my grandfather,  them woods are full of pheasants, I’ll get you one.  So grandpa and a dubiously related man named “uncle popeye” went out with shotguns to get great-grandma a pheasant for Christmas dinner.

They’re gone for a LONG time.  according to mom, they were basically expecting grandpa and Popeye to be gone for a few hours and come back with a store-bought chicken and apologies.

Instead, they come back eight hours later, covered in mud and freezing cold from the Cleveland winter, but Surprise!  they have a Pheasant.  Great-grandma gives them a lecture about staying out so long and worrying her, but agrees to dress the bird so they can all have a traditional English Roast Pheasant.   Grandpa and Popeye retire to the living room to drink beer and talk about what great woodsmen they are when Great-grandma screams from the kitchen.

“TOM!!”  She bellows and literally every male in the house jumps because literally every man has been named “Tom” for three generations at that point. 
“THERE’S NO BULLET HOLE IN THIS BIRD.”

They both look massively sheepish and eventually admit that they hadn’t had much luck finding pheasants in the woods and were about to go to the store to get her a chicken when they… backed over the pheasant.

“Then what were you idiots doing in the woods for eight hours?”

“We weren’t out there for THAT long-” Popeye starts before grandpa decks him.   
Grandma and Great-grandma have to menace them with wooden spoons to get the truth out, but eventually they take thier oversize hiking boots off to reveal bandages.

Turns out they had only been in the woods for Two hours looking for pheasants before LITERALLY tripping over one, and they both reflexively aim at the ground and… Shoot each other in the foot.  They hadn’t backed over the Pheasant in the woods.  They’d backed over it in the Hospital parking lot.

And that’s the story of how my great-grandmother made a Roast Pheasant and the ladies of the house got to eat the whole thing while Grandpa and Popey had to watch.

“dubiously related man named uncle popeye” wasn’t even close to the wildest part oh my god! This is such a good story!!!!

So you prompted me to call my mother and ask how Popeye was related to them, and apparently he’s my great-grat-grandmother’s first-husband’s cousin’s son.

The First Husband is the whole reason my mother’s family came to america in the first place apparently.  in 1902, he decided he didn’t want to be father to 9 girls anymore, so he went out for a pint one night and fucked off to Chicago without actually divorcing GGG.  For a few years she thought he’d been killed and dumped in the Thames (these things happened in Liverpool in the 1900′s) and shortly re-married, and Second Husband fathered two more daughters with her, including my Great-Grandmother.

In 1908, First Husband wrote from Chicago for money.  This was a problem because despite fucking off to another continent, they were still married, and GGG was committing bigamy.  Despite pleading her case before the courts that Really, Y’all gave me his death certificate when he didn’t turn up after a month, they fined her an outrageous amount of money and only commuted her prison sentence because “her brood would place undue stain on the orphanage”.

Yes, really.

Second Husband, who was a halfway decent man that only beat her sometimes, suddenly dies of knife wound in a Pub fight, and GGG is left up shit creek with 10 girls and nobody willing to hire a bigamist maid. So GGG attempts to woo First Husband back to England.  She goes so far as to pay a photographer to take Nudes of her to remind him what he left.

That was an exciting Christmas, going through an old album and finding THOSE.

Despite GGG’s heartfelt efforts and godlike booty, First Husband remained in the US, enjoying his new life of running credit scams and bootlegging.

After another 4 years of this nonsense, GGG gets the money to ferry herself and her brood across the atlantic to America, where they weren’t so uptight about the sex lives of domestic workers and she could probably get a job.  The ALMOST come on the Titanic- we found the tickets next to the nudes- but at the last moment, Great-Aunt Liz catches the Measles, forcing everyone into quarantine and saving them from an icy death.  They instead come on the next boat, and have to pick up the survivors of the Lusitania.  Everyone gets lice and has to be shaved at Ellis Island.

Once in america, GGG finds out First Husband has died, For Realsies, please come identify his corpse and also he owes the state of Illinois like $500 in court fees so-

To which GGG goes “LOL, NO.” and moves to Cleveland with her Youngest daughter (my great-grandmother) and her new Russian husband, and takes over as manager of the local grocery store and leads a life of relative american-lower-middle-class comfort until her death in 1928 at age of 58.  

…So you understand our confusion that GG knew of Popeye’s existence at all.

This is the quality content I am on tumblr for! 😂👍🏻
Thank you for sharing this and bless you and your family! 💕

I just wanna know why GGG’s nude photos were just tossed in a family album along with all the other special pictures. Did they just stumble across them between a great-aunt’s baptism pic and another’s wedding photo?

They were in a plain brown envelope tucked in with the 1963 Christmas photos.

Right between the pictures of Grandma’s Dog Spooky wearing like seven christmas decorations (So named because she was totally black except for a white mark on her chest and a propensity for 4AM garbage disposal noises) and of Grandpa getting smashed on Great-Aunt Liz’s Rumballs, to be precise.

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This person needs to write a book about their family stories. It would sell like wild.

I want to hear more every time this post comes around XD

Art. Pure art is what this is.

gladwellmaxwell:

That’s not a president! That’s Count Olaf in disguise!

icecreamsandwichcomics:

Don’t think I won’t. 

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