Conservatives: “Quit demanding better pay. You voluntarily chose to work for them. If you feel like you’re being paid too little, you can just quit. No one threatened you with death if you didn’t work for them, especially not me just five seconds ago.”
every single negative stereotype about women was dreamt up by men who were projecting. fight me about it.
“women can’t drive”
It is so well known that women are better and safer drivers than men that OUR CAR INSURANCE RATES ARE LOWER. Women get into fewer accidents, get fewer DUIs, and receive fewer speeding tickets than men.
“women never shut up”
Several scientific studies have shown that not only do men talk more than women, they also think that women have been talking for much longer than they actually have. Men interrupt and talk over women, dominate conversations, and still think women talk too much.
“women are shallow”
Lol next
“my wife is my ball and chain lmao”
Multiple studies have shown that marriage between men and women: Increases male lifespan, decreases female lifespan Decreases male depression rates, increases female depression rates Decreases male stress levels, increases female stress levels Increases male health and happiness, decreases female health and happiness Increases a man’s chance of getting a raise or promotion, decreases a woman’s chances of getting a raise or promotion
“women are too emotional”
Men love to say this about women after hurting them, in order to shift the blame and dismiss their feelings in one go. In reality, women are taught to hold our tongues and control ourselves quite literally from birth. We’re taught to put men’s needs and wants ahead of our own emotions regardless of the personal cost. Men are taught to do more or less whatever the fuck they want to women. Men take their emotions out on women while women are expected to shove theirs down.
I could go on and on but I don’t really think I need to.
Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th
No guys you don’t understand.
The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
That’s not sad, that’s awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
This is humanity
Happy Birthday, Curiousity.
is mars outside the jurisdiction of music copyright law, or did they have to pay a few thousand dollars
Reblogging again with further thoughts because this GIFset is a beautiful illustration of how to do it right.
Lucy Lawless makes her stance very clear. There’s no need to dig for context clues to see that she’s committed to her LGBT fans. She nips the homophobes right in the bud by flat-out refusing to let them use her words to ridicule and alienate LGBT people.
This is an area where a lot of would-be celebrity allies fall short. They think that not using slurs or actively discriminating against LGBT people means that their words and actions can’t contribute to creating an environment that empowers and emboldens the homophobes within their fanbase.
Tepid statements like “love is love” or “no h8″ or “I support LGBT people” don’t do much to counteract notions about how gross, dangerous or ridiculous LGBT people are. There needs to be a clear, strong, consistent statement about one’s stance toward LGBT fans. Otherwise, it’s just giving homophobes more ammo.
If a guy ever spreads a rumor that he slept with you, don’t deny it. One, because there will always be people who think it’s true, and two, because that dumbass boy just handed you the power to say anything you want about what he’s like in bed, and people will believe it. Say he bleats like a sheep when he orgasms. Say he put on pearl earrings and asked you to call him Daisy. Say he couldn’t get it up until he watched an old Billy Mays infomercial. The power is yours.
Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it’s because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.
Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
Seems like the sort of thing that should, I don’t know, lead off every newscast and be on the front page of every paper in the country or something like that. I’m just spitballing here.
So he's gone from wanting to be impeached to wanting to be assassinated?
You would think that maybe the Trump Organization would be willing to maybe give a bit of a price break to the team of top agents tasked with keeping Donald Trump and his family safe. You would be wrong.
The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions. [...]
[I]n early July, the post was relocated to a trailer on the sidewalk, more than 50 floors below, a distance that some security experts worry could hamper the agency that protects the president’s home and family.
According to the Washington Post, one of the sticking points was ... the price. So at least for now, the Secret Service will be protecting Donald Trump and his golden ceilings and golden toilets from the less luxurious confines of "a trailer on the sidewalk."
The good news is that of all the properties Donald Trump has regularly visited since the inauguration, his New York tower hasn't been a favored destination. Even when Melania was still living there, Donald himself spent his weekends either at Mar-a-Lago or one of his other properties—so this isn't likely to affect the personal security of the First Family much, if at all.
Now, I am no Fabulously Wealthy Super-Important Guy, but I would think that if there were any group of people on this planet I would maybe want to give a special coupon discount to, when it came time to draft up leases for a bit of office space, it would be the agency dedicated to Keeping Me Personally From Being Attacked By Terrorists. I suppose that is what separates the rich from mere plebeians like us. You aren't truly a player in capitalism unless you're squeezing even your own protection team for a few extra bucks.
Late Night Snark: "Only the Very Best People" Edition
"Sean Spicer’s out, Reince Priebus is out, Trumpcare is dead, and Kim Jong Un has a missile that can reach New York. And, weirdly, I don’t feel tired from all the winning yet."
---Jimmy Kimmel
"People are still talking about Anthony Scaramucci---he lasted just ten days, making him the shortest-serving White House communications director ever. But don’t feel bad---publishers have offered him a lot of money to write a tell-all pamphlet about the experience."
---Jimmy Fallon
"White House officials yesterday said they hope to have a bill on tax reform sent to President Trump before December. December? That’s 12 Scaramuccis from now."
---Seth Meyers
“Six months in office. 40 days at golf clubs. Zero pieces of major legislation.”
"Rick Perry, the first energy secretary to put the word "science" in finger quotes, recently had a 22-minute phone call with the Ukrainian prime minister. [But] Secretary Perry wasn't talking to the prime minister at all. He got called by Vovan and Lexus, better known as 'the Jerky Boys' of Russia, who [tried to] convince him that pig shit would make a great sustainable energy source. Sounds crazy to you and me, but you have to remember that for almost a year Rick Perry ran a presidential campaign made entirely out of horseshit."
---Chris Hardwicke, @Midnight
"Trump hired new White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly. … According to one source, ‘The kinds of people that Trump particularly likes are people with bucks, money, and braids, the military.’ Yes, he likes people with bucks and braids. So if Kelly doesn’t work out, congratulations to our next chief of staff, Sparkle the show pony."
---Stephen Colbert
C’mon down and splash in the kiddie pool. Mueller’s grand juries are facing off in water polo. Your west coast-friendly edition of Cheers and Jeers starts below the fold... [Swoosh!!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!!]
Donald Trump's on-the-fly policy making has become legendary, but what we don't always see is the behind-the-scenes damage it inflicts on the process of actually making policy. But the AP has new reporting that pulls back the curtain on just how harmful Trump's errant thumbs are to any sort of informed, measured attempt at formulating policy that might, say, serve our national interests.
Aides to President Donald Trump were in deep talks about how to defuse tensions between Qatar and other Arab nations when the door to the secure room at the White House burst open.
The urgent message: Trump had just tweeted about Qatar.
One adviser read the tweet aloud and with that, the policymakers in midconference call had no other choice but to rework their plans to reflect the president's tweeted assertion that Qatar, host to some 11,000 U.S. troops, was funding terrorism.
It was an accusation against a close U.S. ally that had never been voiced so publicly and with such indelicacy.
Trump's Qatari tweets, like his military trans ban tweets, weren't workshopped, no groundwork had been laid, nothing. The policy wasn't strategically thought out, the implementation wasn't considered, and there was no rollout plan. Trump just shot something into the ether and left his own national security team, his own diplomats, and Qatari officials to deal with the fallout.
Trump's tweeting, while consistently entertaining and bizarre, is a total menace to the welfare of this country. That phone should be confiscated and destroyed, for the sake of our national security.
It’s summer time and that means it’s the worst time to be a polar bear in the zoo. Heatwaves around the world are making life hard for captive polar bears, and zookeepers are struggling to keep the big beasts cool.
When I’m super turned-on I can say the filthiest fucking things without even thinking about it but otherwise irl I am so fucking shy I can’t even tell my husband I want to fuck
no seriously
like when he was just my boyfriend and he was visiting me from long-distance, I was like “damn he’s hot” but rather than say that I decided the best way to convey that I was dtf was to come up behind him and reach around and grab his dick
and like any sensible person he was like “why are you grabbing my dick”
and at that point I suddenly remember that I am a shy useless sack of shit and then I am torn because on the one hand I still want to fuck but on the other hand I kind of want to pretend I never thought this was a good idea
so my compromise is to just say “I’m not”
WITH MY HAND STILL ON HIS DICK
so again like any sensible person he’s like “okay well then who is grabbing my dick”
AND I PANICKED
AND SAID
“IT’S A GHOOOooooOOOOoooOOOST”
AND JIGGLED MY HAND LIKE I WAS WEARING A SHEET AND FLOATING THROUGH THE AIR
AND HE LEFT THE ROOM AND EIGHT YEARS LATER MARRIED ME FOR SOME FUCKING REASON
#HE STILL HAS NOT LET ME LIVE THIS DOWN #IF I GRAB HIS DICK HE SCREAMS THAT THE HOUSE IS HAUNTED
So, this past weekend, I took my 11-year-old daughter to SuperCon to meet her favorite actor (and favorite Doctor), Peter Capaldi.
She wore a little blue TARDIS-decorated dress and some Doctor Who pins, and she nearly cried with joy when Capaldi greeted her for the photo op. He was a consummate gentleman and such a sweet and enthusiastic person.
An hour or so after the wonderful photo op experience, she and I were sitting at a table in the food court area.
A burly, older man plopped down nearby. He looked at my little girl’s outfit, smiled, and said, “Do you even KNOW anything about Doctor Who?”
WTF, dude?
I was too stunned for a second to even respond, so he started right in with the ‘quizzing.’
“Who are the Doctor’s biggest enemies, and what planet does he come from?” this stranger asked.
Now I had moved past shocked and right into indignant/angry/protective mode.
“I don’t want her to be quizzed on something she loves, because I don’t want her thinking she has to prove ANYthing in order to be a fan,“ I told him.
Looking at my daughter, I said “You don’t owe strangers explanations or information, ok?“ She said OK and looked relieved.
Still he pressed on, patronizing grin and all: “Oh, I just want to be sure parents are raising their kids right.” Then he turned to my daughter again and asked “Who was the first Doctor, then?”
I cut him off right there. “No. I don’t want her quizzed. At all.”
Dude blinked in disbelief, sighed, and left about a minute later.
“Thanks,” my daughter said. “He was making me feel awkward.”
I held her hand and looked into her eyes. “Some men think they can have power over you by making you prove yourself. You never have to do it. They’re just insecure and pitiful, so they want to make you feel like it, too. It’s not only about fan stuff, and it’s not always just men, but be careful not to fall into that trap, ok?”
That crap isn’t harmless fun. It sets up a pattern of approval-seeking, self-justification, self-doubt, and fear of exclusion that is very dangerous for children (particularly girls).
Fuck that.
TL;DR: Do NOT come at me, my little girl, or anyone in my vicinity with your condescending, gatekeeping bullshit.
The next time, I won’t make the mistake of even TRYING to be polite.
