One of the greatest hits as far as Christmas gift-giving was a gizmo called an Echo Dot I gave my nephew. It was a hit despite the obligatory annoying learning curve that comes when any Southerner tries to talk to an artificial intelligence device (“Alexer, G-darnit, stop giving me the temperature in Celsius, I […]
“Yes, all lives matter, but we’re focused on the Black ones right now, ok? Because it is very apparent that our judicial system doesn’t know that. Plus, if you can’t see why we’re exclaiming #blacklivesmatter you are part of the problem.”
Gold Derby Q&A: Chelsea Peretti (2014) | Is there a character that you feel like you didn’t get to do as much with as you would have liked to this season?
The tributes to Carrie Fisher keep coming, but we may have found our favorite yet. Gary the Dog retweeted this great fantastic action figure created by @Kimmature, which doesn’t just make a point of honoring Fisher’s career as a writer, but also finds some room for her beloved Gary.
french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you
italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house
American recipes: Use Pillsbury™ crescent rolls and Oscar Meyer™ sausages with your Dairy Maid Dairy™ cheese for a fun NFL Super Bowl LI™ treat!
On the other hand, Big Bird is a BIRD, so he probably thinks that anything that doesn't involve voimiting into your kid's mouth is a bit queasy-making.
This was 1976. Big Bird understood and was wholly accepting and empathetic toward Buffy breastfeeding in public, and Big Bird is meant to be the equivalent of a preschool aged child, but every single day on social media, adults exclaim disgust toward breastfeeding in public and misogyny at the parents who do so. People, you’re less evolved than
Big Bird was 38 years ago. Grow the hell up.
holy shit. I had NO idea Sesame Street covered this topic.
And Buffy was Native American. And she breastfed. In front of muppets and children. No one died.
@ thatsnarkydragon : oh, man, I have now giffed thesescenessomanytimes, and I still want to cry about it. To add something new, here’s my painstakingly done transcription of the audio commentary for these scenes:
John Rogers: Now, this was interesting. We had a long talk in the writers’ room what this scene was gonna be. Because it is “why hasn’t –” because, let’s face it. Aldis, you’re a good looking man. You’re a very good looking man. Aldis Hodge: Thank you. JR: And, Beth, good looking woman. Why has that relationship not progressed farther, you know? And we wanted to not just do the hackneyed “because she was abused as a child,” because, you know, and so we really wanted to work on “why?” And it’s because she doesn’t feel worthy of the friends she’s made and the family she has. AH: Gotcha. JR: And a lot of this year is her feeling good enough about herself and feeling like she’s a good enough person to be with. AH: You know, John, Sexual Chocolate gets a lot of mail about that, you know what I’m saying? It’s true, and I gotta figure out how to explain it. JR: I know. I know. Boss of Sexual Chocolate also gets a lot of mail about that. AH: Just saying. JR: But look at this woman, look at this woman! AH: That’s ridiculous. JR: I mean, she’s melting down here. And, by the way, when we’re shooting this? Crew is crying, people behind the set are crying, I mean, she’s just devastating here. Dean Devlin: She nails this. AH: Yeah. DD: It’s also this whole thing about she wants to do the right thing and trying to understand what the right thing is. JR: That’s what’s great about Parker and what we so lucked into establishing this character first year and that Beth has done a great job of. Most shows have someone who’s just trying to do the right thing, we actually have a character who’s not sure what that is yet. And so it allows us an extra step of that character building. I mean, you know, that’s why we have to go so slow. We don’t want to fastplay this. These are real people in our heads. AH: Now, what was the motivation between, I mean, as far as putting Parker and Eliot together in that particular situation? JR: Because, I’ll tell you exactly why, because this is the year Parker starts to figure out that she’s actually a “better person” – quote, unquote – than she thinks she is. And this is the scene, right here. Eliot, because of the events of last year, has come to peace with who he is. And this is the thing, Eliot isn’t trying to redeem himself. A lot of people think Eliot, “oh, he’s doing good things to redeem himself,” Eliot knows he’s going to hell. But he can do some good along the way. And he can help his friends. And that’s his role this year, is a man who is very secure in who he is and who he isn’t in the world. Beth’s previous scene is amazing. This is some great acting, Christian is killing it here. Because what he has to do is he has to reach across this gulf, and, by the way, it only happened because of the way Christian and Beth have played this over the years. Eliot and Parker have a very specific relationship, it’s not brother/sister, it’s not boyfriend/girlfriend, but it is “I know the pain you’re carrying, because I carry a version of it.” And Eliot, at a lot of times, is the only one who can reach across to her, across that gulf, and in that moment, there’s no crying, it’s not showy, Christian acts the shit out of that moment. That is one of the keystone moments of the entire season right there.
OK, the only man who can reasonably be allowed to have bangs is Karl Urban.
Remember the heady days (GET IT?) of 2009, when man bangs last allegedly swept (GET IT?) the nation? Well buckle up, because the BANGS ARE BACK IN TOWN, BABY. (I could have said “hair to stay,” but I think that would have been a little much and frankly, a lie.)
apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails. Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.
the firste meyme
And my favorite one here
I’m not saying humanity defeated an invasion of snail aliens in the Middle Ages but hold on wait that’s EXACTLY what I’m saying
snail aliens, or snaliens,
probably it was just funny so people kept doing it. which is basically what a meme is
the explanation I’ve heard is that most of the monks who did these illustrations would have kept small gardens where they grew all their own food and this was their way of venting about snails ruining their gardens
ok thats even funnier
This is hands down one of my favourite posts on Tumblr.
“Fuckin snails, I’m gonna draw me some God damn knights killing the shit out of these shell slime fucks. Teach them to fucking ruin my herbs. Assholes.”
this isn’t a shitpost. in skyrim’s dragon language there are pairs of distinct words such as: ‘nid’ (no/none), ‘mid’ (loyal/loyalty), ‘mu’ (we) vs ‘nu’ (now), and ‘aan’ (an) vs ‘aam’ (to serve). this indicates that dragons are able to distinguish between the sounds ‘m’ and ‘n’.
the only difference between ‘m’ and ‘n’ is that the latter is formed with the tongue, while the former is produced with the lips
therefore, dragons have lips
This is some solid linguistic field work and I look forward to the followup post.
I am not sure what to do with this information, but I too await any follow-on research
i knew exactly what i wanted to do with this information
i love liminal spaces its like a location that’s dissociating and i feel like if i go there while also dissociating i’ll just ascend to the astral plane
HEY i did it i went to a scruby walmart at like 10pm while dissociating and i felt like i was a cryptid in like ghost walmart or something and it was the weirdest thing i’ve ever done
careless whisper was playing on a loop. there were 3 other people. none of the checkouts were open so you had to use self checkout. i didn’t see a single worker there. multiple lights were flickering.
Here’s the big question though: Are you the same person who went in?
i dont
i dont know
Well, there’s only one way to find out. Go back again, and see if you meet yourself in the bathroom mirror.
self care is fighting your good doppelganger in a walmart bathroom at midnight
In this adorable comic by Lynol, a cat – unsurprisingly – behaves badly towards a friendly doggo.
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Nothing new you may say, given that kitties are known for their unfriendly and arrogant ways. However, as the cartoonist shows, felines have feelings too, and they have a softer side that shows up whenever they realize they’ve gone a bit too far.
Oh, and they do appreciate someone loving being around, albeit in their own unique, not-so-obvious, way.
We couldn’t find any more information about the author of these comics, so if you happen to know anything, please let us know in the comments below.
Yesterday's Senate hearings on the extensive Russian efforts to get Donald Trump elected U.S. president produced a lot of good sound bites, and much-needed pushback against the right-wing propaganda machine's bizarre efforts to legitimize WikiLeaks at the expense of the entirety of U.S. intelligence networks. But I kept thinking those hearings ignored the big question: why?
Why did Putin work so hard to get Trump elected? Never before has the Russian despot been so deeply interested in electing a particular American presidential candidate. Putin's loathing of Hillary Clintion is well-documented, and he certainly wants to undermine President Obama and the international coalition that has imposed damaging sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, but it's clearly something more. Putin doesn't just want to defeat Clinton and Obama, he wants Trump, specifically, as president. Why?
Hard right former NSA staffer and now national security columnist John Schindler offers one obvious clue:
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Old #NSA friend tells me that the term used by Kremlin higher-ups to describe Trump is severely unflattering, much worse than "our bitch".
After all, the single change to the Republican platform insisted upon by the Trump team was a reversal of the party's hard stance against Russian interference in Ukraine.
