What if you were dating a moth prince and living in his kingdom and he knew how out of place you felt so he made you dozens of silk dresses and blankets and gave you lots of fuzzy shawls and scarves so you wouldn’t stand out so much and always said you were so beautiful you were glowing and occasionally bump right into your face because it was a little joke and he would pretend you were a light bulb and give you tiny kisses
Half of me is like “what the fuck am I looking at” and the other half finds this inexplicably adorable and good.
@shirosucks
Okay, so, I saw this and did a little sketch.
@maritimesarcophagus this is totally the non grotesque version of your Insect Kings…
That 16 pages includes works cited in the footnotes sourcing every claim she makes about the current state of education in the US, DeVos’s background, and and progress made under the Obama administration. This is not just a letter excoriating a candidate for an opposing view; it’s also a letter that plainly lays out the responsibilities the Secretary of Education will have and the implications of those responsibilities. The footnotes offer links to press releases, newspaper article, and government documents as evidence for Senator Warren’s claims.
Esstentially, this is Senator Warren saying: I did my fucking homework and you can read it for yourself right here; what are you gonna do for our students?
i realised there was no gender neutral for “my sister from another mister” or “brother from another mother” and so I present to you all “my sib from another crib”
My brain keeps wanting to turn this into a VALUABLE LESSON. Like, "If a raccoon can learn to stop trying to wash cotton candy, YOU can learn to stop relying on ingroup and outgroup behavior bias and treat people equally."
This happened to me a few weeks ago at work and because i was at work I was not able to take the person by the shoulders and sternly intone THERE IS POWER IN NAMES AND YOU SHOULD NOT METE IT OUT SO CASUALLY but I though about it REALLLLLY hard and then mentally named them ‘Table’.
“it wouldn’t even have to be an evil sponge” is a vital part of my personal lexicon but i don’t think anyone knows what the fuck i’m talking about 99.99% of the time
Just in time for the absolute best holiday of the year, Tor.com presents a delightfully haunting witch duet from the artist Wendy Xu and author Alyssa Wong, sure to cast a spell on you!
In his final press conference, President Obama said he "could not be prouder" of the progress made toward LGBTQ equality during his presidency and added that the laws finally "caught up" to societal change.
"I think we made some useful contributions to it," he said, responding to a question from the Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson, "but the primary heros in this stage of our growth as a democracy and a society are all the individual activists and sons and daughters and couples who courageously said, This is who I am and I'm proud of it."
Here's a partial transcript with video below the fold.
I could not be prouder of the transformation that's taken place in our society just in the last decade. And I've said before, I think we made some useful contributions to it, but the primary heros in this stage of our growth as a democracy and a society are all the individual activists and sons and daughters and couples who courageously said, This is who I am and I'm proud of it. And that opened people's minds and opened their hearts. And eventually laws caught up, but I don't think any of that would have happened without the activism, in some cases loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal. And I think that what we did as an administration was to help to -- the society to -- to move in a better direction.
Yes, it’s true. Patrick Stewart is shit. The voice of the shit emoji, to be more specific, in the upcoming Emoji Movie. This casting tidbit was just one of many pieces of news Sony Pictures Animation released at an event today in Los Angeles.
This is actually literally correct. Polls show that a significant majority of people like the Affordable Health Care Act, but also that a significant majority of people disapprove of Obamacare.
Department of Education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos’s Senate confirmation hearing was Tuesday.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) described an experience contrasting proficiency to growth and used that to ask DeVos for her views on the debate. DeVos couldn’t answer the question. Read more
Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, said in an interview that DeVos is unqualified and has the wrong vision for the nation’s schools.
“I don’t think you will find one human being who could actually point to something who could say, ‘Because she did this, it really improved those traditional, neighborhood public schools,” Garcia said. “What you’re seeing here is a trainwreck waiting to happen.” Read more
Here’s the scenario: You’ve moved into a new home, and your significant other has given you $1,500 to buy appliances for the kitchen. Doing some research, you see that you could get a stove, a refrigerator, and a dishwasher for that amount of money if you shop smart. So you head out to go shopping, and you come back several hours later with a single countertop toaster oven.
The June Oven is a $1,500 “smart” oven, because someone involved in the decision had to be smart. It’s capable of detecting what sort of food you put in there and cooking it appropriately, showing you a live feed of what your food looks like while it’s cooking (and providing a time-lapse video), and giving your phone a notification when your food is done. Alternatively, you can buy a normal toaster oven for $25, look up cooking times online, pay attention to your food, and still have $1,475 left over for a gold-plated toilet. Then again, if having to press a hundred buttons to cook toast is good enough for Ashton Kutcher, who are we to judge?
If you only have $80 to spend on a toaster, and you coincidentally don’t have any time to check the weather report as you’re getting ready in the morning, then your incredibly specific need can be filled by the Toasteroid, which will burn the forecast into your bread. Simply set your particular burn design on your Toasteroid app, and watch as the results show up on your toast a few minutes later. If you’re like Reviewed.com and are wondering why you can’t check the weather on your phone as your toast cooks, Toasteroid has a response for you: Shut up.
Winter limits the amount of outdoor activities, but that doesn’t mean you can’t create new ones. Finnish writer and energy expert Janne Käpylehto created an entertaining ice carousel in Lohja, Finland and it went viral on the internet. Janne cut a circle on a frozen lake with a chainsaw and later used a solar-powered outboard motor to make it spin. He then hosted a get-together on the 40ft-wide carousel and everybody seem to be having loads of fun. Now Janne plans to create a spinning ice carousel in Helsinki, but four times bigger!
