by Andrew Liszewski on Sploid, shared by Adam Clark Estes to io9
When it first came out, Teddy Ruxpin was an expensive toy. And yet, kids lucky enough to have one but curious how he worked wouldn’t dare incur the wrath of their parents by tearing Teddy open. The folks at YouTube’s What’s Inside?, however, happily sliced the toy open to see what makes Ruxpin tick.
Do you think Anakin’s starfighter in TPM was actually on autopilot or was R2-FIGHT ME-D2 just like “fuck this, I’m not missing the only battle I might ever be in LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO the kid won’t know the difference.”
I mean, really now, what’s more likely? This random starfighter in the Naboo Palace hangar just happens to be on autopilot headed straight for a space battle that it couldn’t know was going to happen or R2-D2, whose primary hobby is getting in fights with beings and droids bigger than him, decided to join the fight when it looked like he was going to get left behind? Oh, what’s that, there’s a kid in this starfighter too? That’s fine, it builds character, it’ll be good for him. TIME TO BLOW SHIT UP.
Sure, I'll take my glasses off. Of course, no one will recognize me, because I won't be able to see the camera, so you'll be getting a picture of the back of my head. But if it makes you feel safer, let's do this.
Some folks wear glasses so frequently that they look like a different person when they aren’t bespectacled, so it would seem to make sense that they should be wearing eyeglasses when getting their passport photos taken. Not so, says the State Department, which is reminding people that come Nov. 1, your specs are probably not welcome in new passport pics.
“This change will help eliminate glares and shadows that can lead to delays in processing visa and passport applications,” explains an announcement on the State Department website. “Applicants may wear glasses only in rare circumstances of documented medical necessity during urgent travel.”
According to this statement from earlier in the month, the State Department had to reject more than 200,000 passport applications last year because eyeglasses made it too difficult to identify the person in the photo.
The policy change doesn’t affect existing passports and visas, only applicants sending in photos for new and replacement documents.
OK, so, on the one hand, my mom and Reagan both died of Alzheimer's, so this past couple weeks run have been... really uncomfortable for me. On the other hand, I remember the original run on this comic, and I knew enough of what was going on at the time to acknowledge that there probably WAS something to what Trudeau was saying. Considering the fact that Reagan's diagnosis wasn't made (or released, anyay) until 1994, I'm not going to accuse Trudeau of insensitivity for writing this ark in the first place. I do question the decision to rerun this arc, though.
“Feeling guilty” is about bringing attention to yourself, making yourself the victim and distracting from the actual issue at hand.
Take ACTION. Talk to other white people. Read books and articles. Vote justly. Support PoC whenever possible. Amplify their voices instead of crashing in with your own. Be reflexive. Unlearn shit. Re-learn better shit.
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts … good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.”
When the news constantly bombards you with statements and claims that you can’t verify, fact checkers become extremely important. To that end, Google will now surface fact check stories in Google News results.
I mean, it is kind of funny, but as a writer I always assume I have one reader like me, the one sending an indignant text to a friend like THAT ISN’T EVEN HOW YOU FEED A PIGEON
people who complain about dinosaurs “not being scary anymore” because its been discovered they have feathers and are closely related to/ancestors of birds are so bizarre like
its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol
can you imagine a 13 foot chicken running at you with full intent to eat you??? thats fucking terrifying holy shit
peacocks are synonymous with vain, frivolous beauty and they will attack cars. they will attack you while you try to get to your car. they’re like six feet of useless feathers and they will destroy you. imagine if they were carnivorous and had functional spurs.
a t-rex could look like a gay disco ball and i guarantee that you would fucking book it if it had a problem with you
listen
listen
have you ever met a swan
if anything the birdier they get the scarier they are
Australia literally fought a war against giant birds AND FUCKING LOST
“Oh man, I can’t deal with birds ‘cause they’re dinosaurs and sometimes it’s like they get this glint in their eyes and they remember.”
“Have you ever interacted with a goose? ‘Cause those things are dicks.”
If chickens were still the size of a T-Rex we’d all be dead. No question.
Feathered creatures that give some serious lie to the idea that feathered dinosaurs ain’t scary:
This is a bearded vulture, or lammergeier. It’s four feet long and has a nine foot wingspan and it eats bones.
This is a shoebill stork. It dropped the duck without biting down shortly after the picture was taken, but if it had decided not to-
… it could have been the end of the road for that duck.
This is the last thing a fish sees before a macaroni penguin eats it.
This is a secretary bird in the act of demonstrating to Lord Voldemort that he came to the wrong neighborhood, ese.
This is a goose.
This is a vulture.
This is a cassowary on the attack.
Be glad I couldn’t find the actual gif of a pelican swallowing a fish, because it’s freakin’ Lovecraftian in its HEADS SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY factor. You’ll have to settle for the idea of a feathered dinosaur suddenly going GLORP and devouring its victims whole just like this lady here.
Steven Spielberg didn’t create these. These are the feet of an emu.
And this is what happens when a swan (this one is named Asboy; his father was Mr. Asbo, the first swan in the UK to get named after an anti-social behavior order in ‘honor’ of his tendency to attack boaters) decides it doesn’t like you. I should probably note that this one attacked a cow.
Respect the feathered dinosaur, yo.
Terrifying. The last two illustrate why you did not fuck around with the Children of Lir.
