ThePrettiestOne

cultural-antifascism:

If you’re wondering why the Neurodivergent communities spend so much time critiquing the media about how they handle mass-shootings (by blaming neurodivergent people instead of, I don’t know, the political ideology they said that motivated them), then you’re probably unaware that when they do this, violence against Neurodivergent people go up AND the amount of people stopping it goes down.

The media’s words–and your words–mean something very real to us.

leupagus:

gingerhaze:

i’d watch an entire series about bodybuilders in a tiny town

guys I

Fragile masculinity, the adorable edition

“If Hillary Clinton is elected president, she’ll have a number of promises to keep to LGBT voters, thanks to a lengthy agenda of protections she pledged to push for in a major speech this weekend.

Speaking to the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, the Democratic presidential front-runner foresaw a seismic shift in the way LGBT people are treated not only in the U.S. but also around the world.

It’s worth noting that Clinton’s aggressively pro-LGBT plans are a contrast to the tepidly tolerant version of Clinton portrayed in a harsh email that recently caused backlash for her campaign. Among the emails released from her time leading the State Department is Clinton castigating employees for wanting to accommodate same-sex parents on passport forms by changing nomenclature to “Parent One” and “Parent Two” instead of “Mother” and “Father.”

But judging by Clinton’s Saturday speech before HRC volunteers — where she was warmly welcomed and cracked a joke about being proud to share her initials with the nation’s largest LGBT lobbying group — a new Clinton White House could make historic gains.

Here, in the order she listed them, are the promises Clinton made about her potential administration’s pro-LGBT agenda, followed by the context she gave when making the promises. Clinton started off broad, pledging that as president, she would ….”

See the list here

johnskylar:

medschoolapplicant:

Physics majors throw a lot of shade considering they’re still not sure where 95% of the universe is hidden.

sandandglass:

The Nightly Show, October 6, 2015

Added to that, the population of Alabama is 4.8 million. That will be over 1 million people per DMV in 2016. 

fullygrownadultbabytealeaf:

I LOVE HER

markwatneyy:

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ode to The Martian (x)

erynlou:

I want to wear a sticker on my forehead that reads “EVERYTHING IS EXTREMELY OVERWHELMING PLEASE CUT ME SOME SLACK”

The official autism slogan, heh.

lowbidinal:

i realized tonight just how protestant a thing it was to nail 95 grievances to the door of a cathedral. like to this day there is no more singularly protestant thing to do than leave a passive aggressive note on someone’s door after allowing an issue to fester for decades. 

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

baronessbamf:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

ohgodhesloose:

missharleenfquinzel:

missharleenfquinzel:

missharleenfquinzel:

I imagine insurance companies in Gotham can’t cover destruction from all villains, so they have plans called things like “Pick 4″. And you pick 4 villains to be covered in your policy. Kinda like putting your chips on certain squares in roulette. And of course there are plans like “Pick 5″ for more money.

And much like roulette, it becomes a bet on which villains are gonna fuck shit up that year. “Honey, remind me to call up the insurance company and take The Riddler off our policy. He’s been pretty quiet and Halloween’s coming up so I’d like to put Scarecrow back on there.”

“What do you mean this isn’t covered!? My policy covers Joker, Riddler, Scarecrow, and Two Face! And Two Face robbed my bank so you have to pay for this!”
“Sir, if you recall, you took Two Face off your policy to replace it with protection against The Arkham Knight.”
“….Oh yeah. What a weird week that was.”

People pretty much ALWAYS get covered against Joker because…come on duh. One particular year Penguin was abnormally active and screwed everyone over because NO ONE put him on their policies. 

Insurance companies used to lump Joker and Harley together because Harley was pretty much just an extension of Joker but after she started breaking away from him they had to discontinue that deal. (Aka the REAL reason people are pissed she’s not with Joker anymore. It’s all about insurance policies.)

This is brilliant.

“I had Ventriloquist insurance damn it”

“No, you had insurance against the Arnold Wesker Ventriloquist, it was the Peyton Riley Ventriloquist who shot up your club and killed a bunch of people

If you’d taken out SCARFACE insurance like we suggested…”

“Hey I had Poison Ivy insurance!”

“Well technically Sir, while it was one of her trees that fell on your car the storm that tossed it across Burnley was caused by the Weather Wizard”

“OH FUCK OFF HE DOESN’T WASN’T EVEN LISTED AS AN OPTION HE’S STAR CITY YOU JERKWADS.”

“I’m sorry sir but your Mr Freeze insurance only covered the pre-Flashpoint version of him

I’m afraid he was retconned away and the current version is different enough to be considered a seperate entity and so doesn’t fall under the terms of your policy”

“This is outrageous, let me talk to your manager”

“I’m afraid that the manager wasn’t a straight white man created in the seventies and so the last crisis retconned her away as well, we’re really not sure how to deal with this situation”

sourcedumal:

micdotcom:

But wait, it gets better. Later in the interview, Minaj calls out the Times writer for asking a question that was basically a sexist put down.

Get an Nicki! Get em!

Q: The founding fathers were white, and many owned black slaves. The cast of “Hamilton” is mostly nonwhite. Can you tell me about your thinking as you wrote and cast the show?

Miranda: This was a constant conversation between me and Tommy. Our goal was: This is a story about America then, told by America now, and we want to eliminate any distance — our story should look the way our country looks. Then we found the best people to embody these parts. I think it’s a very powerful statement without having to be a statement. 
Odom Jr.: In the first two minutes of this show, Lin steps forward and introduces himself as Alexander Hamilton, and Chris steps forward and says he’s George Washington, and you never question it again. When I think about what it would mean to me as a 13, 14-year-old kid, to get this album or see this show — it can make me very emotional. And I so look forward to the day I get to see an Asian-American Burr. 
Miranda: That’ll be the note that goes with the school productions: If this show ends up looking like the actual founding fathers, you messed up.

“That’ll be the note that goes with the school productions: If this show ends up looking like the actual founding fathers, you messed up.”

star-anise:

Disabled rights slogan I just saw:  “To boldly go where everyone has been before”

tomsassgard:

ryan reynolds is a gift

martinekenblog:

Eye Ring is more than just a ring.

Designed a few years ago by Korean designer Jeong Yong, it is the concept of a scanner reader for blind people. The idea was to allow people to read non-Braille books and to avoid the costs of a normal desktop scanner.

More on blind.tech

… is this practical? Isn’t it motion across the letters that makes braille readable?

autisticproblems:

ibemily:

Don’t self-diagnosis
Just don’t.
You can assume.
Don’t confirm without the confirmation of a medical professional.

The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network and basically every major autism organization that actually helps autistic people disagree with you, because opposition to autistic self-diagnosis blocks not-yet-diagnosed autistic people from community support.

for further information read this: http://autisticproblems.tumblr.com/post/128572843512

and this: http://autisticproblems.tumblr.com/post/95974797977

this too: http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/post/66162211987/i-am-self-diagnosed-with-aspergers-and-wondered

and this: http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/post/89986388881/asd-paper-diagnosis-vs-self-diagnosis-pros-and

- metapianycist

Assembling the list of the most essential science fiction and fantasy books is a huge undertaking, but Amazon has tackled it. And their list is not bad. Good mix of old and new, and enough different types of book to please almost anybody.

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hijabiswag:

friendship game strong

The Batband is a bone conduction wireless headset designed by Studio Banana Things. The device works by emitting sound through the bones in the head with transducers rather than speakers. Its sleek design features controls on the sides including a touch slider for adjusting volume and skipping tracks.

Studio Banana Things has already well surpassed their crowdfunding goal with a Kickstarter campaign, and are offering backers the chance to get an early discount on the Batband.

images via Batband

via Designboom

spacesorbet:

people keep saying “go big or go home” as if going home doesn’t sound like the best idea ever?? hell yeah i wanna go home, and i’m gonna take a nap when i get there

jaanfe:

professorsparklepants:

nineteencallme:

dolorimeter:

woody allen, the irredeemable creep whose obvious misogyny was misinterpreted as creative genius by the college-boy mentality. 

#gosh i wonder why sylvia plath’s poetry is important to young women when we’re bombarded with so much misogynistic literature written by ~the greats~ of the 20th century #if you want to talk about highly romanticized and overrated writers we can talk about bukowski hemingway kerouac ginsberg and so on #who were not only basic writers but were also vile people irl #i don’t understand how people can idolize pedophiles and wife beaters and then mock people who like plath? ~fionaapples

Oh wow yes, let’s talk about how Plath’s struggle with motherhood and desire for bodily autonomy aren’t relatable to a college-age teenage girl. Let’s talk about how teenage girls are twice as likely to develop depression as their male counterparts. Let’s talk about how countless other men have had their deaths romanticized beyond belief without any question, but the second women grasp onto someone they’re shot down as silly and overly invested.

The communal dragging I love it

stem-cell:

nortonism:

The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…

“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

rbookbakes:

chibi-masshuu:

She’s so beautiful.

This is how you approach someone with a compliment

Kesha is a high profile example of what happens when a woman accuses a man of wrongdoings in the workplace: she is iced, forced out angrily and without regret, from her very career… because she has the gall to accuse a man of doing something wrong.

Can you imagine having your entire career tied up into being forced to work with an abuser? For many people, this actually is a reality. The choices become: stay quiet and endure the unspeakable horror of putting up with someone’s abuse, or say something and be iced out of a career that you don’t want to leave.

antivanqrow:

#can we take a moment to discuss natasha’s willingness to lay down her life at a moment’s notice#the fandom LOVEs to go on and on about steve’s depression and self-hatred#but GOD natasha’s is so deep and consuming and you can see how unworthy she feels to even just exist in this world#she doesn’t see herself as a hero - that there’s no worth to her after all she’s done#dying for a cause is the best she could ever do#GIVE ME ALL THE REDEMPTION-SEEKING GUILT-RIDDEN WOMEN WHO WOULD LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR OTHERS IN A HEARTBEAT

New research shows: Black people actually know what is going on in their lives, were more right than the racist assholes who questioned them.

igglooaustralia:

Nicki Minaj Covers New York Time’s Magazine. When asked, here’s what She had to say about the Miley Cyrus Situation