ThePrettiestOne

daggerpen:

Comic book questions I will never have again:

“Really? There was evidence that an explosion on Krypton was imminent and everyone just denied it?”

“Really? People elected Lex Luthor as president?”

survivingtheworldcomic:

Lesson #3010 - Matter

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scullytho:

adventuresinchemistry:

The earth’s water supply is a closed system, so all our fresh water was dinosaur urine at one point. So you may have been forged in the heart of a star but you were filtered through the kidney of a dinosaur, which I for one, find beautiful

and here we have the difference between biologists and physicists

trans-fred-luo:

white people are mad Mark Hamill said called Trump’s cabinet “a who’s who of despicable people”, vowing to never watch Star Wars again and all of that noise but like… Did you really think the man who played Luke Skywalker was going to be ok with a fascist government I’m just wondering

The Democrats won a mandate to oppose Donald Trump’s extremist agenda. With Hillary Clinton’s historic popular vote lead quickly approaching 2.25 million, Trump has no mandate at all:

Trump's ratings lag behind those of other presidents-elect in large part because Democrats' views of him are much worse than the opposition party's supporters' ratings have been in the past. Whereas 10% of Democrats view Trump favorably, 25% of Republicans had a positive opinion of Clinton, 31% of Democrats had a positive opinion of Bush and 35% of Republicans viewed Obama favorably.

Trump's favorable rating among independents, 39%, is also significantly worse than those of his predecessors. It is 15 points lower than Clinton's rating among independents and 31 points worse than Obama's.

And Trump's 82% favorability among his party's supporters also is lower than that for prior presidents-elect, which range from 88% for Clinton to 95% for Obama.

The nation tends to rally behind presidents-elect, and even after the deeply divisive 2000 Rehnquist Court Florida debacle, George W. Bush by now had a net 23-point favorability rating. Trump’s numbers have improved, but likely mostly as a function of his voters wanting to feel good about their votes. Even so, his favorability rating remains below his popular vote percentage, and a net favorability of -13 is unheard of for a president-elect.

Despite President-elect Barack Obama’s soaring favorability ratings following his election, Republicans fought him every step of the way. Donald Trump is historically unpopular, and all who oppose him can take heart in knowing they are in the majority—and Democrats in Congress must represent that majority by fighting Trump’s extremist agenda.

Study: Depression Up Among Teenage Girls Able To Perceive Any Part Of World Around Them

WALTHAM, MA—Calling it nothing short of a mental health crisis for the group, a study published Monday in The New England Journal Of Medicine found that depression was up sharply among teenage girls able to perceive any part of the world around them. “Our research has shown a significant increase in anxiety and depression among 13- to 19-year-old girls who are capable of taking in stimuli from their surroundings and processing them into an understanding of the outside world,” said study author Natalie Ogilvy, adding that an ability to observe day-to-day existence, comprehend media, or register any of their own personal experiences were among some of the strongest predictors of emotional difficulties for teenage girls­. “In addition, we noticed even more pronounced depressive symptoms among female adolescents who not only can perceive their environment, but who also have the capacity to retain memories of what they have witnessed. Teenage girls who are able to imagine themselves even seconds into their future circumstances were the most vulnerable of them all.” While depression peaked among teenage girls able to perceive the world around them, the researchers also found that it manifested itself in early childhood or even infancy, particularly among newborn girls able to open their eyes.

borderlinenarwhal:

stimtime:

You aren’t faking unless you decided to fake it. If you’re worried you might be faking, you aren’t.

👏🏻 THIS. 👏🏻 IS. 👏🏻 SO. 👏🏻 FUCKING. 👏🏻 IMPORTANT. 👏🏻

undergravity:

airoe:

why is broccoli seen as this universally hated vegetable. broccoli is delicious

bc suburban families all over the world literally just steam/microwave their vegetables and serve them plain to their kids. No wonder kids hate vegetables. They’re taught that veggies are supposed to taste bad. but imagine: veggies with spices. Veggies in curry. veggies that are broiled, soaked, sautéed. aghhhh veggies are so good

hazellazer:

          Sam Wilson + @probirdrights tweets [insp]

gentlemanbones:

nineprotons:

nitewrighter:

You know that whole trope where like, the protagonists get teleported up into the aliens’ spaceship or base or whatever and the alien appears to them only it doesn’t appear as it really looks like but rather, since it doesn’t want to scare the protagonists, it takes the form of something we find familiar and pleasing and is like, “I look like your dad or whatever–is this form okay?” Like I think about that trope a lot and I think like, what if the alien couldn’t pick out a form via telepathy and only had earth media to try and decide what form would scare its human guests least and be accepted almost immediately and honestly the more I think about it the more options for what form that might be are just really fun to me.

“I have chosen the form of your earth playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda–do not be afraid. I come in peace.”

“Greetings. I am Glofnorbo of the cloud you call the ‘Pegasus Nebula.’ I have scanned your earth media from afar and empirically decided that you would find the form of the one known as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson most pleasing. I have come to confer with your leaders.” 

“Do not be panic. I come in peace. I have assumed the form of your insectoid demigoddess ‘Hatsune Miku’ so that we may communicate peacefully without my true form horrifying you.” 

“It was decided that I would assume the form of your ‘Mister Rogers’ in order to best welcome your world to the galactic neighborhood without frightening your kind.”

“…So did your colleague take on the form of Jack Black for that reason too?”

“No, that is the actual Jack Black. We do not know how to make him leave.”

onion-souls:

OH
So this guy’s purpose in life is to hang out in a Pokémon Center on Poni Island and tutor one move that only one Pokémon can learn, a Legendary postgame Pokémon from a Hoenn one/four generations ago. And that Pokémon naturally knows that move anyway.

Fuck me, I’m getting a new job. I’ll be standing in a Dunkin Donuts on Staten Island tutoring Spanish. But only if you’re early 19th Venezuelan military leader Simón Bolívar.

We’ve all had to throw away leftovers or cuts of meat and cheese that spent a little too much time in the fridge or freezer, but vacuum sealing your foods can keep them safe from freezer burn pretty much indefinitely, and dramatically extend their shelf life everywhere else.

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wetwareproblem:

27teacups:

cadaverish:

bonkai-diaries:

So according to computer scientists, the election results might have been hacked in 3 important swing states. x x 

“The scientists, among them J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the Clinton campaign they believe there is a questionable trend of Clinton performing worse in counties that relied on electronic voting machines compared to paper ballots and optical scanners”

are you SHITTING ME

Jill Stein is doing something tangibly useful for once by funding a recount in these states that you can contribute to here.

Donations have slowed down hugely, so I figured this needs to come back.

In answer to something I’ve seen floating around: Yes, the goal has gone up twice. No, this isn’t shady at all.

They set goals based on the estimated cost of a recount in each state in turn. I first saw this page when the target was 2.5 mil, and even then it clearly explained that, with fees, attorney costs, recount watchers, etc factored in, the total bill for all three states was expected to be 6-7 million. They set the goals so that if theyfailed they could still do something. Now they’re on track to do everything.

If we can get them the rest of the way there.

brakken:

Uh oh.

Santa Steps Out is a masterpiece of New Weird.  It’s a full-on Jacobian tragedy, written with incredible care and precision.

I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone, nor can I give trigger warnings, because there are so many of them that I would get bored and wander off to watch television midway through the paragraph.  This book is filthy, bizarre, utterly unnecessary, and also beautifully written and completely sincere.

I assure you that the weird places your mind has gone are not as weird as the reality of the book.

roysyesterdayjam:

pyrocortex:

dongstomper:

lolrider:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

This just in heterosexual culture still unappealing and weird 

women are harpies that are stealing my Man Strength in order to make themselves stronger.  I saw one woman who had done this five times, and could now bench-press more than me in the gym.  Terrifying.

when a man loves a man they have infinite strength, but when a woman loves a woman they have no weaknesses. chose wisely…

The Unstoppable Gay meets the Immovable Lesbian.

When a bi meets a bi they complete the infinity gauntlet and take over the galaxy.

catbong:

*petting my cat* please cure my depression
cat: *prrbhbphr*
me: thanks

“In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.”

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fullpraxisnow:

With Trump’s election and the threat of fascism, Twitter user Raphael Bob-Waksberg reminds us of Martin Niemöller’s words after WWIII:

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

#SlytherinSunday special RAVENCLAW edition! More special editions coming up before Christmas, I wonder what they’ll be…🤔

“You seemed lonely, so I’m going to come over and Sit with you and Talk to you and Stare Into Your Eyes because being allistic meant I Must”

holyholtzmannbatman:

this is probably my favorite thing i have ever seen, ever, and i have been alive for many years

lord-kitschener:

I’m from ~the heartland~, and I assure you that Trump voters knew damn fucking well what they were doing. We’re not a bunch of dumb hayseeds who are innocent of what we do because we’re too fucking stupid and backwards to know how an election works, and therefore anybody who criticizes us is just a soulless cosmopolitan elitist. People have smartphones, there are newspapers that aren’t just yellow journalism rags, and more than that there are good people who were smart enough to see what’s going to happen, amd who have been fighting for what’s right all along. If there’s one attitude that really strikes me as clueless elitism, it’s the idea that everyone there must be coddled from being called on bigotry because we’re all too hopelessly primitive and stupid to know any better

bellaxiao:

Nice to see this kind of stuff. Especially in a red state.

Land: Okay, there’s like 4 basic shapes and everything is pretty much that.
Water: I MADE A MONSTER FROM FEATHERS AND MOTOR NEURONS pic.twitter.com/krUC5hFof7

— Gabriel Morton (@gabrielenguard) November 26, 2016

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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 27, 2016

Mike Pence's legal team argued Monday in an Indiana appellate court that the governor's emails should be secret from the public in a case involving his decision to hire outside counsel for a lawsuit blocking President Obama’s immigration actions.

During the campaign, Pence spent a lot of time stumping about releasing Hillary Clinton's emails and the need for transparency, but his emails are apparently a different matter entirely. His attorneys said the white paper received by Pence and more than two dozen other Republicans about a legal challenge to Obama's deportation relief program was protected by attorney-client privilege. One judge on the three-judge panel expressed skepticism on that point, writes Fatima Hussein:

Chief Judge [Nancy] Vaidik took issue with the fact that individuals outside the attorney-client relationship saw the paper.

"A white paper is being sent, and it's not a legal paper, it's a white paper, which is a government position paper, all right, number one," Vaidik said. "That concerns me."

Another judge also rejected the notion that the courts didn't have jurisdiction over executive branch redactions, though the Indiana Supreme Court did rule that legislative redactions are nonjusticiable. 

"Isn't that the whole purpose of APRA, to see who is soliciting our governor?" Judge Edward Najam asked, referring to the state’s Access to Public Records Act.

As governor, Pence happened to veto House Enrolled Act 1022, which would have limited the transparency required of university police departments.

"Limiting access to police records in a situation where private university police departments perform a government function is a disservice to the public and an unnecessary barrier to transparency," Pence said.

Pence must be adjusting nicely to Donald Trump's No. 1 rule—that rules only apply to everyone else.