ThePrettiestOne

thingsamylikes:

becausebirds:

Where are they?

The red-whispered bulbul is one of the Birds of my Childhood and I can confirm these are birds who give precisely zero fucks.

Source

diggingdacey:

majestic-peanut:

fettyhurts:

myproximitytopower:

🐸☕️

Oh 👏 my 👏 God 👏

Now this some good tea

suricattus:

fozmeadows:

concept: a TV show with a dark, tragic, fucked-up beginning that steadily gets happier and lighter and more hopeful as the seasons go on, the narrative arc premised on healing and growth instead of a “gritty” downspiral, the challenges faced in each season finale leaving the characters in a progressively better place. nobody queer dies, and the worst things we ever see after season 1 all happen in flashbacks to events preceding the now. 

So… Leverage?

Leverage.

micdotcom:

Representation matters.

by Pie Comic

potato-facts:

nunyabizni:

khoshekhs:

margotkim:

khoshekhs:

i just googled “fat potato cat” and this isn’t exactly what i was looking for, but i am not disappointed

what were you possibly looking for if not this

well i was thinking the cat would be a bit fatter than the potato

@potato-facts

Fact: potatoes are very cat friendly

autumnflame:

Flame of the Lioness

Priscilla Kim

www.priscilla-kim.com

My entry for the first week of Month of Love, “Heroes.” Of course I had to do a piece for the first hero I remember loving, Alanna of Trebond, Olau and Pirate’s Swoop from Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet, who almost certainly (alongside Aerin from the Hero & the Crown) instigated my lifelong love of kick-ass warrior women. 

I’d been meaning to do some pieces for the series once I had some free time anyway, so this was a good excuse!

Also, check out the majestic piece Elizabeth Alba also did of Alanna! :D Great minds.

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

drst:

refinery29:

Viola Davis Doesn’t Care If You Don’t Think She’s Likable

Viola Davis took home the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series at Saturday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Gifs: TBS

WATCH THE FULL ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

Why are unlikeable male characters awesome (Breaking Bad dude, etc.) but unlikeable female characters are something that has to be attacked?

val730:

Here’s the video of Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar doing “Freedom”. I mean, holy shit.

http://www.bet.com/video/betawards/2016/performances/beyonce-kendrick-lamar-freedom.html

This is making the rounds on Facebook at the moment (in response to another meme)…

istudypirates:

chipsncookies:

craftycreeper:

oneboredjeu:

The Radioactive Fox

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons vs. The Fox by Ylvis.

Based on the above post.

Download here.

this is my favorite mashup ever

Big blue eyes
Pointy nose
It’s a revolution I suppose
Tiny paws
To fit right in

I lost it right there.

But really….why.

(via bwaxse)

“This fabulous banner at Dublin Pride made it onto the RTE TV news :)”

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supersealmcgarrett:

I wonder if they have a leverage support group in prison for the people the crew has sent to jail. A bunch of old CEOS yelling at each other.
“ THEY WHERE CONSULTANTS ”

“ NO! THEY WERE WEDDING PLANNERS”

In that case, I look at the consequences of each outcome, and I vote against the one that I believe is worse.

In that case, I look at Clinton as slightly regressive but mostly status quo, and I look at Trump as an absolute catastrophe at every level. 

In this hypothetical case, I would vote for Clinton, because I want the swing state to NOT go to Trump. 

Non-hypothetically: while I’m not enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton as president, I know that my real choice will be between her and Trump. In that case, I not only want Trump to lose, I want him to lose in an historic, humiliating, record-breaking landslide, and I want him to take as much of the Republican party down with him as possible.

geardrops:

a-little-melancholy:

chaz-gelf:

sixmilliondeadinternets:

Gandhi has been historically the most aggressive character in Civilization due to an original bug in the first game that caused him to go all-out once he reaches democracy. They just kept the thing going ever since.

To further explain this bug, because I was chatting with mothmonarch about Civilization and other strategy games last night and I never got around to explaining this fully, but I love this story:

Gandhi’s AI in the original game had its aggression set to the absolute minimum (0 on a scale of 0 to 10, I believe, I may have this wrong but the basic idea I’m about to explain is accurate, as far as I can tell). Adopting democracy lowers an AI civ’s aggression by 2 points, so when someone who is fully peaceful loses two points of aggression, they should still be nice and polite, right?

Except this is an old DOS game, and so computer math is in place. What actually happened was that Gandhi’s aggression level ticked backwards two steps, from 0 to 255. On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.

And that’s the story as I recall it, but again I may have gotten some details wrong, so feel free to correct me! After that, as the original poster said, the devs loved the bug so much that they just kept it in as a running joke!

“On a scale of 0 to 10, Gandhi is now 255 points of pure nuclear rage.”

I about pissed myself laughing at this.

Yes, this is a “computer math” thing. Specifically this is a “signed v unsigned” thing. Specifically-specifically this is a problem called underflow. (There is also overflow.)

Everything in computers is represented by bits, ones and zeroes. So let’s say the aggression level is represented by eight bits, as in the example given above. 00000001 is Aggresion Level 1. 00000010 is Aggression Level 2. 00000011 is Aggression Level 3. And so on.

So if we wanted to take Aggression Level 1 (00000001) and subtract two from it (00000010) what does that look like?

Well, due to how we need to represent negative numbers in computerland, using One’s Complement for example, 00000010 is now 11111101. (Just flip all the 1s to 0s and all the 0s to 1s.) One’s Complement is a simple inversion on a number to show it’s negative. So now it’s 00000001 + 11111101. This results in 11111110, which is the One’s Complement of -1.

Which is great if this number is stored as “signed.” Storing a number as signed tells the computer that hey, 11111110 should be considered -1. So if you do math with this, it’s -1.

But if it’s unsigned. Oh, if it’s unsigned. Then suddenly -1 is actually 254. Because it’s just bits, you see? You have to tell the computer what to do with the bits. And if you tell the computer “these bits are unsigned” then the computer will trust you and quickly ruin your life.

Thank you for letting me use my degrees on tumblr dot com.

the-moonlight-witch:

Dumbing of Age + tumblr: Part 6

fozmeadows:

micdotcom:

Watch: Everyone needs to see Jesse Williams’ BET Awards acceptance speech.

holy shit

tianamulan:

zootopia + examples of discrimination and prejudice

meeko-mar:

can we all appreciate that Judy found one of her most powerful allies through honest positivity and socialization with another girl

queen0fheaven:

avelera:

sunspotpony:

prettyinpixiedust:

So one day a dwarf is talking to a human and finally realizes that when humans say woman, they generally mean “person who is theoretically capable of childbirth” because for whatever reason, humans assign social expectations based genital differences. (What a fucked up culture, the dwarf thinks.) But hey, better communication! So the next time the dwarf introduces theirself, they say, oh, by the way, I am what you call a “woman.”

And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume

so the dwarf goes back home, enraged

and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”

and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth

and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous

and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”

but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are

because their best negotiator, one of their sacred cave people, got snubbed the instant she said she was capable of childbirth - and a mortal insult like that can never be forgiven

Because Pi’s tags are great:

#yes good #personal headcanon: dwarves have fundamentally misunderstood human pronoun usage #and gender roles #they are very perplexed by it #eventually they went ‘fuck it apparently ‘he’ is the correct word’ #‘it’s their language and they keep using it for us’ #so then you have this situation where dwarves are cognizant of the words ‘mother’ and ‘wife’ #but not the usual use of ‘she’ secondary headcanon specific to Tolkien dwarves #dwarves that choose to bear children are held in high regard #because they are making new dwarves it is the ultimate craft #that’s what mahal did you made a new person #it is very impressive #everyone is impressed

Just as an additional thought, we hear that women dwarves generally stay within the mountain and are a protected, guarded subset of the dwarves. There’s not many of them, so there’s an implication that women dwarves are too precious to be allowed out.

But what if this too is a mistranslation? What if the dwarves were talking to the Men and when asked “where are all your women?” they hit a wall. They whisper amongst themselves, and eventually come back with a question, “What’s a woman?” The Men are incredulous.

“Why, the members of your race that bear children, of course!“

More dwarven whispering.

They reach the conclusion that Men mean dwarves who are currently pregnant. Well! Of course those dwarves are currently safe within the mountain, well cared for and generally loathe to travel until the child is born. The Men take this to mean that all dwarven women are discouraged from traveling, and that their primary purpose is childbearing. Dwarves find this a satisfactory outcome, especially with the way Men treat their women, and so even when the misunderstanding becomes clear to them they never correct it.

I’m in love with this.

songofkeys:

I had never thought to put it in these words before, but I’m just going to sit here and blink slowly while I process how Willis just summed up at least half my moral qualms with Christianity in a single comment.

i like to think of myself as a mirror universe c.s. lewis

jonahryan:

I hate that social media has commodified performative grief and outrage to the point that every fucking person thinks that every tragedy that happens needs to be addressed by them, personally. I hate that there’s an expectation that everyone make some grand statement and that if you don’t do it, you must be heartless or hate the victims. We’re not all celebrities or politicians. Not every voice needs to be heard at all times. The world probably doesn’t NEED anyone’s take if it doesn’t contain new information. Processing things silently isn’t bad and it doesn’t make anyone a bad person and I honestly much prefer it to a lot of the self-serving bullshit you see when something awful happens in the world.

I fall into that trap. Most people do. It’s shit and it produces a lot of shit sentiment. “WHY AREN’T PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS?!” is my least favorite sentence in the world right now. Most people, when it comes to tragedy, have nothing to say. Most uninvolved people, in these circumstances, should say less.