It’s so gross and hypocritical to frame food waste as a personal failing. Like, people are dying of hunger because someone forgot some leftovers at the back of their fridge and ended up throwing them away. Major chain grocery stores throw away millions of pounds of food because it’s “too much work” to donate it, and then poison it and destroy it when they throw it away to punish dumpster diving.
Waste is not a personal failing. It’s engineered by corporations, and they profit off of obscuring that.
i feel like wonder woman could get away with throwing batman over her shoulder to carry him away exactly once, just because she would have the element of surprise. batman prepares for everything but there are limits. if you were batman would you ever in a million years expect a woman who is two inches shorter than you in one-inch heels to just pick you up and leave like she’s carrying a bag of sand to build a wall. like you are the victim of a cartoon caveman from the fifties. i postulate that you would not. maybe in her arms like a lumberjack’s bride, but a fireman’s carry? while he is not only conscious, but entirely capable of moving under his own power? this is the one scenario that batman never prepared for and he suffers the consequences. she could never get away with it again and so she doesn’t even try but from that moment on the possibility is always in the back of his mind. he is on alert. he wants her to try again so he can prove it won’t work this time. she never gives him the satisfaction. he can never explain to anyone how he is suffering. no one will understand. he stands on a rooftop in the rain and broods.
I like how, no matter what part of the Harry Potter universe gets changed, no matter what your opinion on the Weasleys and Dumbledore and James Potter, there’s no way to get around the fact that Neville Longbottom is fundamentally 100% A Good Egg
Imgur-er rabbihimself has some advice for sprucing up the old resume that will give you the edge in a Cleric-driven marketplace. Just be careful not to refer to work experience as XP, that will be a tip-off during the interview.
you know sometimes it shocks me too but google really is free and it’s right there in your hands
I love that this post is both a really wide-eyed appreciation for the amazing time we live in and a really sarcastic passive-aggressive way to tell people to just fucking google shit
100% agree. thank you for sharing. I think I was sort of taught that hardships are a part of life; that you need to struggle to get by. but eventually the amount of pressure you’re under (and not by your own doing, and that you alone can’t escape from) gets to a point where all the protective things your brain is doing get pushed into overdrive and break, and you realize, “holy shit I’m literally just a husk doing the bare minimum to stay alive.” hard knocks do teach us to be strong, but getting to the point where you’re hospitalized for vitamin deficiency? that’s not hard knocks. that’s the result of earning an unlivable minimum wage combined with a system of people shucking off your problems by insisting you just have to save more (of what money?) and you just have to work harder at the job that pays you the same amount no matter how much you work and doesn’t have a sufficient raise even if you make it long enough to be promoted. there’s a myth, I think, where people who’ve never experienced prolonged, absolute poverty think that you’re ACTUALLY just not doing something right and you can pull yourself up. and that type of poverty does exist! but it’s above a glass ceiling of absolute poverty – the kind that keeps you trapped, that you can’t get out of on your own – and under that glass ceiling is where a lot of us live.
I hope your situation has improved and that the people around you understand the amount of strain you’re under and where they’d criticize, instead they empathize.
For most us, newspapers are for reading. But for Chie Hitotsuyama, newspapers serve a whole different purpose. Because as you can see below, the Japanese artist doesn’t use them to catch up on the sport and gossip. She turns them into incredibly realistic animal sculptures instead.
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She makes them by densely rolling, twisting, and binding pieces of wet newspaper. The process is done entirely by hand and she even uses the colored print to enhance the contours and gradations of her subjects. From red-faced Japanese macaques to languishing lizards and even a giant dozing rhinoceros, Chie creates the most stunning sculptures from something that most of us simply throw in the trash. It’s a brilliant way of turning bad news into something more positive.
DO YOU KNOW how hard it is tryin not to ruin a conversation when you have adhd?? like you can be smack-dab in the middle of a serious conversation and ur brain is like ‘damn my mother is a chronic snacker’ and you gotta physically restrain urself from sharing that thought mid-conversation, or changing the subject cuz it would be hella inappropriate
Interview: Be honest... did you steal a Tribble once the shoot wrapped?
Nichelle Nichols: I didn't wait until the end. I got mine the first day!
Walter Koenig: I didn't steal a Tribble. I did, however, have several of them burned in what can only be described as a heretical cult ceremony.
Meet the Lichen Katydid, an insect that has such impressive camouflage skills that it can hide in plain sight when walking on a lichen (a plant-like composite organism of an alga and a fungus). The bug’s body matches the wisps of the lichen so damn well that you’re not even sure which part belongs to which.
As if 2016 weren’t hot enough, the earth’s temperature is sure to rise after President Obama’s scorching burn of Donald Trump’s wild conspiracies theories and increasing whining that the election is rigged. From President Obama’s remarks during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden this afternoon:
“He starts whining before it's even over? When things are going badly and you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.”
His comment was in response to a question about Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that this election is rigged, seemingly to preemptively create a narrative about why he’s going to lose so badly on Election Day. He also smacked down the idea of voter fraud, saying that is not something anyone who has seriously studied the topic would ever say.
Video and a partial transcript of President Obama’s remarks are below.
british romanticism: i went into the woods and i found a beautiful woman, but she wasn’t really a woman, she was my Muse and the woods is my mind
american romanticism: i went into the woods and found the devil and he gave me a clock, but the clock was actually the industrial revolution and it fucking killed me
Hey everyone! With halloween just around the corner I just want to remind you that Hellhound adoption is not just a life long commitment, but after-lifelong commitment as well. Know your breeds!!
SOMEBODY GET ME A DEMONIC BERNARD.
Because seriously, Cujo? Was a Good Dog. The Good Dog to end all other Good Dogs. Even as the rabies was taking away everything he’d ever been or ever would be, he had the strength to go “No. I will be a Bad Dog, and I will not come when I am called, and I will not hurt my Boy.” It was the rabies that did the bad things. Cujo was so good.
A dog that good, on fire, with wings, and an unbreakable connection to the realms of eternal night where the Corn grows tall and the jack-o-lanterns ask their secret riddles of the unwary? Sign. Me. Up.
