Drunk History just did a really amazing episode on the Stonewall Riots.
Besides everything, two great things about this episode: 1) The narrator is Crissle West, the woman who narrated the Harriet Tubman episode; and 2) Comedy Central actually cast transgender actors for transgender roles.
The Weasleys are amazing. Fred and George threw snowballs at Voldemort’s face. Ginny tried to flush his soul down a toilet. Molly Weasley is the most badass individual to ever exist. And don’t even get me started on Ron, the boy who—at the age of 13—stood up to a serial killer to save his friend. Fuck me up, I love the weasleys
Let’s not forget that Charlie was an actual DRAGON TAMER, that Bill was a CURSE BREAKER, Arthur Weasley was hated by the entire ministry of magic because he didn’t discriminate against muggles, and Percy did something that most grown people cannot do—acknowledged his mistakes and apologized.
Thomas: Okay, we have a lot of work to do. Focus: Right. Productivity: Right. Thomas: And we’re going to do it. Productivity: No playing games. Focus: Games? Thomas: No. Focus: Games are fun! Thomas: Stop! Productivity: I’m gonna go. Thomas: No! Focus: Here’s a game! Thomas, playing game: NOOOO-
donald trump and his camp do not want you to vote. they want you to get discouraged, they want you to step away, they want you to say all politicians are the same. because then he wins.
he knows he can’t win fair, so he’s trying to suppress the vote. fight back. see through it. do not let them use dirty tricks to win
The approach of Halloween is the perfect time to check out some of the latest awesome optical illusions created by Japanese art student Hikaru Cho, aka Chooo-San (previously featured here). Chooo-San uses nothing but acrylic paint to transform herself and others into impossibly altered people, including cyborgs, animal/human hybrids, human dolls, and people who look like dreams come to life, with flowers faces or bodies disintegrating into a swam of butterflies.
Chooo-San’s analog creations are a response to the overuse of technology in artwork. “I guess I was a little sick of everyone making pictures with their computers,” she told Daily Mail, “and wanted to see how far I can go without those technologies such as Photoshop.”
Follow Chooo-San right here on Tumblr at @hikaruchoofficial to check out more of her outstanding artwork.
OK, working under the assumption that anything Trump accuses somebody else of doing is something that he is DEFINITELY doing, yes, yes they should take drug tests.
At a packed rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday morning, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump again denied the slew of sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged against him this past week. But then he changed the subject to one of his favorite talking points: Hillary Clinton's stamina. This time, though, Trump took it further, implying that Clinton took performance-enhancing drugs before the presidential debates. He proposed that they each should be drug-tested prior to the debate this Wednesday.
"I think she is actually getting pumped up," he said. "She's getting pumped up for Wednesday night." Trump then added, "We're like athletes, right? Look, I beat 17 senators, governors, all these people....Athletes, they make them take a drug test. I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate. Why don't we do that?"
It may be a pointless question, but what evidence did Trump produce that Clinton is pulling a Lance Armstrong? He claimed that at the start of the last debate she was "was all pumped up" but by the end "she could barely reach her car." By the way, Trump has yet to make good on his promise to produce his full medical records.
Here’s a comforting thought. When you arrive home and open the front door or enter your bedroom, the spiders can hear you.
It has long been known that spiders can hear sounds via leg hairs that bend in response to vibrations arriving through the air or through solid objects such as floors or walls. But until now, we thought they could only hear airborne vibrations a few centimetres or “spider lengths” away at most.
It now seems that this same approach actually lets them hear sounds up to 5 metres away.
Gil Menda at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleagues were studying a type of jumping spider,Phidippus audax, that they assumed relied almost completely on sight and vibrations they can feel through other objects, such as leaves or floorboards.
But microelectrodes implanted in the spiders’ brains showed that neurons responded to sounds such as chairs scraping and people clapping even when the noises were made 3 to 5 metres away.
“We were very surprised,” says Menda. “Our studies extended the range of auditory sensitivity to more than 3 metres – over 350 body lengths – for our spiders.”
The team established that the spiders freeze when exposed to low-frequency sounds of about 80 to 400 hertz that resemble a low hum, or buzz. They discovered that this overlaps with the wingbeat frequency of predatory insects such as parasitoid wasps and flies, concluding that the hearing abilities they found in jumping spiders have evolved to help them avoid predators.
This makes it even LESS plausible that they would crawl in your mouth while you are sleeping, or bite you for any reason. You are a mountain that creates wind and thunder, they only want to avoid you.
The funny thing about the historical usage of the term “adventurer” is how it gravitates to extremes. You look at any given “adventurer”, and I guarantee you, either they’re a murderous grave robber with delusions of grandeur, or else they just wanted to look at birds and it sort of got out of hand. No middle ground whatsoever.
Man's been putting up with this racist nonsense for 8 goddamned years. Let's all send our love and hope that he makes this last little bit without ending up gibbering and howling.
Neat stuff, worth the click through, if you do, scroll down for the comics.
When your campaign isn’t going quite how you planned, it’s always important to remember that fighting is never the only way out. Comics creator Jasmine Walls penned an excellent script about a friendly Dungeons & Dragons game gone arwy, and Amy Phillips illustrated an excellent cast of characters. Read and enjoy!
There are three more pages that lead to the best possible “Happily Ever After.” Head on over to Walls’s blog for the rest of the tale!
