ThePrettiestOne

Les tableaux de Vincent Van Gogh traversent les époques et émerveillent toujours autant. Les utilisateurs de Reddit se regroupant sous le nom de melonshade, ont transféré les toiles sur photoshop et les ont retravaillées en y ajoutant du flou pour renforcer certains détails ou encore donner l’impression qu’elles avait été saisies avec un objectif disposant de l’effet « tilt shift ».

female bloggers: I hate that thing where men deny our experiences like they are authorities on our lives.
male commenters: That doesn't happen.

“Let me make this plain. For most black women in America (although not all), if we allow our hair to simply grow out of our heads in its natural state, most people will assume that we are making a social and political statement. If we allowed our hair to simply grow out of our heads, many of us would be barred or fired from our jobs. If we allowed our children’s hair to grow similarly, many of our children would be dismissed from their schools. It is 2016. Sit with that for a moment. Most non-black folks fail to grapple with the profound implications of living in a society that institutionally requires an entire group to intervene so utterly in its own bodily reality and sanctions so heavily those who refuse to conform.”

- Melissa Harris-Perry, in her excellent critique of ELLE’s August cover (via femfreq)

owlturdcomix:

This is how we work.

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when you cant sleep because you feel like you messed up with someone even though they swear you didnt

As seen on Gavin Newsom’s Instagram page

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rita-repulza:

suuuuuuun66:

weary4u:

it’s so deeply fucked how fat people, especially fat women, are always shamed for getting winded or otherwise tired by physical activity. like, yeah, it’s impossible to build cardio when you’re constantly afraid someone is watching and gonna judge the shit out of you whenever you are visibly exhausted, so you always stop before you hit anywhere near your threshold and put a ton of your energy into self-monitoring for the benefit of spectators instead of focusing on your workout. so many things are forced on groups of people who are then laughed at for what happened to them. everyone should be allowed to move around the world without fear of being openly mocked and it’s crazy that this isn’t the case

this is why i’m scared to go to a gym or go walk around the neighborhood, ppl have made fun of me before and i hate it. it’s weird too cuz if they hate fat people so much, why are they mocking us for getting exercise??? assholes.

this whole thing puts the “i’m concerned for their health” bs to rest because when they do work out,they make fun of them mercilessly. it’s just about abusing them. that’s all it is.

Time to check the box of hot dogs or corn dogs before your next cookout: if it comes from the brand Bar-S, you’ll have to get some new wieners from the store and either bring the Bar-S ones back to the store where they were purchased, or call the company for a refund. The hot dogs may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a nasty foodborne pathogen.

Listeria can cause fatal complications, and is especially dangerous for pregnant women, young children, and people with compromised immune symptoms. There haven’t been any reported illnesses from these hot dogs, but the company reported the posible contamination and recall to the USDA itself.

They were recently packaged, coming out of the Bar-S plant just about a week ago. However, they were on the market, and shoppers could have purchased them and even stuffed them in the freezer to use for later use.

Here are the affected products:

1-pound packages of bun-length franks, with a use by date of 10/11/2016.

12-ounce packages of classic franks, with a use by date of 10/10/2016.</li

Packages of 8 corn dogs, Signature Pick 5 brand, with a use by date of 4/6/2017

Packages of 16 corn dogs, Bar-S brand, with a use by date of 4/6/2017

If you have any questions about the recall or the products that you have, contact the company at
888-965-6134.

Bar-S Foods Company Recalls Chicken and Pork Hot Dog and Corn Dog Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination [USDA]

Milo Yiannopoulos, aka Nero aka some real basic garbage in human form, got the boot from Twitter last night as a result of encouraging his racist and/or sexist and/or alt-right pals to go after actress Leslie Jones, who starred in the new Ghostbusters, aka the film sexist manboys wailed was ruining their childhood. Jones was subjected to more than a day of appalling abuse, Yannopoulos chortled about it like the troll he is and cheered his minions on, and Twitter finally decided he was a liability and permanently dumped his ass.

So, some thoughts on this:

1. Yiannopoulos and his party pals are now mewling about this being some horrible violation of free speech, so let’s recall that a) Twitter is not the US or any other government and b) is a private entity and c) essentially reserves the right to boot anyone from their service for whatever reason, so, really, waaaaaaaah, and also, no. Yiannopoulos still has a platform for his nonsense on Breitbart, aka where journalism goes to drill holes in its temple and then cover itself in its own poop, so anyone who wants him can go there (Please go there. Please stay there). He hasn’t been censored; he’s just been told to take a hike.

2. Yiannopoulos and his party pals will also want to claim this is about him being conservative, and again, no. There’s nothing inherent in holding to a conservative philosophy that requires one, in their interactions with others online, to be a raging shithole, or to encourage others to be the same. Millions of conservatives use Twitter every day without being raging shitholes. Conversely, there’s nothing about a liberal philosophy that means you can’t be a raging shithole; I just the other day muted a liberal turd over there because I didn’t want to be bothered with his smug dickery any further. Being an asshole is orthogonal to political philosophy. Yiannopoulos’ public persona is centered on being an asshole in order to serve a market of assholes. That’s pretty obvious.

3. When Yiannopoulos was booted off of Twitter, some folks wrenched their hands and said “But that’s what he wants! It’ll just serve his narrative of persecution!” Well, one, no, it’s not what he wanted. This is a fellow who, when given an opportunity to ask a question in the White House press room, querulously whined about losing his “verified” checkmark on Twitter. Being booted from the service is not an actual win for him. Two, of course he’ll spin it like a win anyway, because as with other dipshits of his sort, everything must always be spun as, not only a victory, but as a victory that is unfolding exactly to plan. Yiannopoulos could trip down a flight of stairs mouth first and he’d crawl himself up a wall at the landing, turn to you with a mouth full of broken teeth and try to convince you that he meant to do that. If you know that about him (and other dipshits like him), it becomes easy to ignore the “that’s what he wants” aspect and do what you need to do.

4. “But he’s gay!” Yes, Yiannopoulos is gay. He’s also an asshole who points other assholes at people to harass and terrorize them. He got booted off Twitter for the latter; the former doesn’t excuse it. Being an asshole is orthogonal to sexuality as well as political philosophy.

5. It’s good that Twitter punted Yiannopoulos, but let’s not pretend that it doesn’t look like Twitter did some celebrity calculus there. Yiannopoulos and pals had a nice long run pointing themselves at all other manner of people they didn’t like, for whatever reason, and essentially Twitter didn’t say “boo” about it. But then they harass a movie star with movie star friends, many of whom are Twitter users with large numbers of followers, and whose complaints about Twitter and the harassment of their friend get play in major news outlets, and Twitter finally boots the ringleader of that shitty little circus.

So the math there at least appears pretty obvious from the outside. You can punch down on Twitter and get away with it, but don’t punch up, and punch up enough to make Twitter look bad, or you’ll get in trouble (after more than a day). Is this actually the way it works? I’m not at Twitter so I can’t say. I can say I do know enough women of all sorts who have gotten all manner of shit by creeps on Twitter, but who weren’t in a movie and had movie star friends or got press play for their harassment. And they basically had to suck it up. So, yeah, from the outside it looks like Twitter made their decision on this based on optics rather than the general well-being of their users.

6. Which is a recurring theme with Twitter (and other social media services, but also, of Twitter): Not much gets done until the service looks bad, and then what gets done is cosmetic rather than useful. Don’t get me wrong, Twitter punting Yiannopoulos is a good thing; he deserved it and has done for a while. But Yiannopoulos didn’t get to the point where he needed the boot all by himself. He happily exploited the weaknesses of Twitter — weaknesses Twitter could have dealt with years ago — to become one of the service’s leading shitlords. And getting rid of the shitlord doesn’t mean the shitty little minions he gathered to himself still aren’t on the service and happy to continue their shitty ways. Which is fine if they keep to themselves; less so when they’re shitty to others, as they are likely to be.

Twitter can do more to make it easier for users to route around awful people and to get them off the service if they won’t let themselves be routed around. Twitter’s been promising for years that they’re going to make better strides in this department — and is promising more in the coming weeks — and yet here we are in 2016 and still it takes someone with a number two box office film to her name and all her famous friends to get the service to do something it should have done long ago. Yiannopoulos is giant turd of human, to be sure. But Twitter did its part in letting him get that way. Maybe they should do more to avoid let turd buildup happen from here on out.

They say they’re going to do it. Prove it, Twitter.

robertkazinsky:

me

jillianholtsmann:

I just hate [the female comedian] label. You already know I’m a female. I hate getting even introduced like that. “Y'all ready for a female?” Oh, you ready for a unicorn? Like, it’s like, you know, I’m not a different species. It’s man and woman. You have seen me before.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

liberalsarecool:

Bernie has established himself. He will continue to fight for his policies. Voting Democratic is the only real option.

THIS

It doesn’t matter if you’re dissapointed or upset that Bernie Sanders isn’t the democrat nominee…if you want to see ANY of his policies have a chance of happening you still need to vote democrat in this election and vote for Hillary Clinton because you can sure as hell bet that if Trump gets in we’re not going to see ANY of Bernie’s policies happen

jackscarab:

heee

katmcgovern:

krisseycrystal:

cumberblunt:

FUCKING UNMUTE THIS

Owl: [in a small, cute, gravelly voice] Drugs.

Sunny: No, we’re…we’re okay.

Owl: [same voice] Drugs?

Sunny: This is awkward. No thank you.

Owl: [higher pitch] Drugs?????

Sunny: Who invited–who invited–?

literally my favorite vine of all time

riotprl:

downtheaxon:

[this year plays in the background]

i love jd

postsfromthemrs:

tiredting:

PLEASE

2016 is a gift and a curse.

A video posted by AYRTON AND FRIENDS (@ayrtonmexicofan) on May 15, 2016 at 12:51am PDT

tomfordvelvetorchid:

Omg

omg them giant floppy pawwwws

bob-belcher:

#LoveForLeslieJ

thedragonchilde:

dr-archeville:

profeminist:

#GamerGate - the tl;dr version.

Appropriate gif is (oh so very) appropriate.

It gets better.

One of the guys tries to get out of it with “But I didn’t even say anything!”

Her response?

“You laughed.”

Think on that.

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Melania Trump’s stunning plagiarism at the Republican National Convention should by all rights be fatal to her husband’s campaign for president, not merely because she plagiarized but because of who she plagiarized from. Melania, who claimed beforehand that she wrote her speech "with as little help as possible," stole from none other than Michelle Obama, whose family has been the target of the right’s most bitter hatred and ridicule for a decade now.

Donald Trump has argued again and again that Barack Obama is an incompetent danger who is trying to drive the country aground, yet it’s the words of Obama’s own wife that the Trump family has seen fit to appropriate as its own. Those two things are impossible to square. If the Obamas are so odious and hazardous, how could their values be worth adopting? Or to reverse the equation, since the Obamas’ values are so evidently worthy of adoption, as Melania demonstrated through her theft, then the case against the Obamas falls apart.

The particular passage that Melania chose to lift makes her transgression all the more devastating. Michelle Obama spoke eloquently about working hard and treating others with respect and dignity. “Your word is your bond," she said—and so, in an extraordinary irony, did Melania repeat after her. If you copy without attribution a passage about hard work, dignity, and your word being your bond, then you lack all dignity yourself.

Donald Trump did not speak these words himself, but he cannot disavow them. He personally introduced Melania on stage before she spoke, and the very purpose of her address was to promote an image that her husband wants to see promoted. Indeed, in a statement, Trump’s campaign stood behind Melania’s speech and refused to acknowledge any plagiarism.

So how can Trump go forward now, after admitting that the Obamas’ values are his values? He cannot—he simply has no argument left to make.

allerasphinx:

if you want a perfect illustration of intersectionality, pay attention to how leslie jones is being treated in comparison to her white costars

she’s fielding the sexism and misogyny being directed at all of the women in ghostbusters, as well as virulent anti black racism

she’s getting twice as much hate simply because she’s a black woman

i’m waiting for people to get as fired up about this as they do when misogynists attack the white women in the cast

tikkunolamorgtfo:

I don’t get people who try counter the BLM movement with the “look, I’m not racist, I have black friends” line.

If you have black friends then

WHY 👏🏻 AREN’T 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏽 FUCKING 👏🏾 WORRIED 👏🏿 ABOUT 👏🏿 YOUR 👏🏾 FRIENDS 👏🏽

I live in fear for my black friends.

I worry that my black Jewish friends will be stopped by the cops guarding our synagogues because they don’t “look Jewish” enough

I worry that two of my friends who are both black men in interracial marriages with biracial sons will be suspected of kidnapping their own children because their little boys have fairer complexions

I worry that my friends in STEM will be stopped by campus police on suspicion of breaking into the labs in which they are PhD students and lab managers

I worry that my friend who is an AD for various films and TV shows will get pulled over when she’s on a location shoot somewhere rural and get assaulted

I worry that the black librarians I work with won’t make it home if they run an evening program or work a late shift on the desk one night

Like, forget political ideology for a minute. If you aren’t worried about your black friends being victimized by police brutality then YOU ARE A BAD FUCKING FRIEND.

New comic!

It’s ok to have different approaches to the media we love. But being shitty about it doesn’t honour your favourite entertainment. Let it breathe!

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mandatoryrollercoaster:

What is the deal with wizards?

jamesrbarnes:

I gave him Black Widow’s legs because I thought it’d be funny but 

???????

???????????????????????

itsonlyfourlatters:

Cat rejection is worse than human rejection.