the whole idea of “we should collectively push our queer headcanons until people just assume they’re canon” thing seems great but is ultimately counterproductive because it runs the risk of keeping people from being aware of the serious hetero- and cissexism of the source material. the idea that marvel would ever make a character like steve rogers canonically bisexual is laughable. it isn’t even remotely implied other than the usual dude-friends-are-really-really-close-could-there-be-subtext stuff. bi steve was entirely created by us, the fans. bi steve is my steve, but it’s not canon or intended by the creators in any way. the exact same goes for bi peggy, and any queer tony headcanons.
there has never been a queer character in any of the mcu films. kevin feige said there might be one - within the next ten years or so.
on television, the only queer characters that have appeared have been victoria hand and isabelle hartley, who 1. you only know are lesbians if you’ve read the comics and 2. were both swiftly killed off
the mcu is not representing us. queer headcanons are awesome and important, but they are coming from us, not marvel, and they are rarely something casual viewers are aware of or take seriously. we shouldn’t give marvel the credit for work that fans are doing to make superheroes more inclusive of queer stories and identities.
I witnessed this first-hand at the Dane County Regional Airport (Madison, WI) earlier this year. Those soap dispensers flat out ignored the Black woman who was in there at the same time.
Yeah, I had to show the lighter underside of my hands in order to get a couple of sinks to work.
This is real, people.
Oh my gosh it isn’t just me
Wtf
This is fucking horrible
Cameras also were not made for black and brown bodies.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Especially iPhone cameras. Why am I Tika Sumpter brown but look Meagan Good caramel?
YO i swear when i turn on the front camera it makes me look lighter than what i am. I thought i was buggin.
Oh please don’t start crying about racist technology
Ok…I’m unfollowing you ^^^
Congrats doesn’t change the fact that computer parts made from rocks aren’t racist
It does make the people that made the computer parts while neglecting to test I’d they would work on brown skin racist
technology does not exist in a vacuum. it reflects the norms of the culture it is created in.
“Universal Fingers” is an impressive finger tutting dance video by StatusSilver featuring finger and face tutter CTUT. In the video, CTUT manipulates his fingers in amazing and complex ways to a remix of the song “Dom Dom Dom” by Dropkillers.
“I’m sorry to offend fifty percent of the population but it has to be said that when it comes to writing Science Fiction, it still remains a purely male domain.”
Or, alternately, you can fill your sink half full with water, put the items you want to seal in Ziploc type bags, submerge the bag in the sink, squeeze out any air bubbles and seal while still under water. Works a treat, and it only costs what you pay for Ziploc type bags.
Vacuum sealers make it possible to keep your food in airtight packages, extending its freezer storage lifetime . This DIY vacuum sealer tool will work with Ziploc-style bags and is pretty cheap to build.
“He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve.” It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.”
- Isaac Asimov on Robert A. Heinlein and libertarian ethics (via bibliophile20)
Made "shipping a thing." So, is the writer too young to remember Moonlighting, do you think?
Mulder and Scully on The X-Files are the couple who literally made “shipping” a thing, and they finally got together after years of romantic tension. But now, the new X-Files revival, airing next year, is going to break them up again. We’ve known for a while that this was happening—but yesterday, Chris Carter gave his “explanation” for this development. And it is bullshit.
The whole “you have to earn a living” rhetoric is really toxic. Have we considered that maybe, in 2015, basic needs like housing, food, and medicine don’t really need to be “earned” but should, in any reasonably industrialized country, be guaranteed?
You shouldn’t rely on someone to give you everything you have or own. No fuck that, work and earn what you have. It makes having it Alot More satisfying when you knkw you earned it
Except that not everyone is PHYSICALLY capable of producing profitable labor. The disabled still deserve to live.
Not once in there did it say anything about a disabled person. Obviously people who are disabled get money from the government because they are incapable of working and they need an income to survive but this is talking about perfect healthy people who are just lazy and want to just have things handed to them.
No, I wrote this post. This post is about EVERYONE. Including disabled people. Including people who can not find employment because they are uneducated. Including people with high living expenses because of dependents, or medical expenses, or food deserts. EVERYONE.
EVERYONE should be guaranteed the bare minimum of what you need to live. EVERYONE. Because NO ONE should die because they are poor.
No one will die because they’re poor though. In the U.S. we have welfare.
Your medical system is among the worst in all of the developed world, where people are left to die because they cannot afford to pay for medical care.
Poverty is also a leading factor in criminal activity, when impoverished people are driven to find alternate means to feed themselves and their families, which contributes to violent crime, which contributes to prison overpopulation.
You country is infamous for treating its poor absolutely horrifically.Your welfare system is sub-standard, new, and barely functional for the demands placed upon it.
And yet the USA still manages to spend more money on its military than the next twelve countries combined.
The United States of America: The land of the disability benefits that can’t even cover rent. There is no program called “welfare”. There is a confusing patchwork of programs that are all terrible.
Seriously, Social Security disability barely covers living expenses, is highly restrictive, and requires you to earn work credits before you can access it. If you were disabled before you could rack up Social Security points, the best you can get is SSI, which is even more restrictive, doesn’t let you save money (there is a $2,000 asset cap, first set in the 80′s and never adjusted for inflation), and can’t even cover half of rent.
If you have too much under SSI, you have to “spend down” to the asset cap. You have to stay poor or else become completely without income. This is what’s called a poverty trap.
And you better believe this shitty system kills people for being poor.
And that’s not even going into how it works in the uk, where several THOUSANDs of disabled people have died in just the last months alone. they either starved to death, or they killed themselves because they couldn’t see any other option after being kicked off their disability benefits because they were deemed “fit for work” despite really really not being so.
So take your fucking “no one will die because they’re poor” and STUFF IT.
I’ve heard the theory that Kirk’s logs just get circulated round headquarters for lulz before being dumped in the circular file as obvious fabrications by someone bored with a frontier posting.
“Hey, have you seen this one? He says he fought Apollo.”
“What, the old earth probe?”
“Try the old earth GOD!”
“Hilarious! Classic Kirk! That’s better than the time when he was transported to an evil dimenison.”
The reason why in The Naked Now it was Riker who remembered that the previous polywater infection had happened is that he’s the sort of person who would read The Hilarious Adventures of Captain Kirk for fun.
I especially like this idea because of the implication that all the other captains in Starfleet are reporting perfectly ordinary experiences like visiting a space station, dropping off supplies at a colony, bit of a stand-off with some Klingons in disputed space but got out of it unscathed - and then there’s Kirk all, “sorry guys we’ve been off course this week because my first officer seriously needed to get laid (LIKE YOU HAVE NO IDEA MY NECK STILL HURTS)” and “let me tell you about the Chicago Gangster planet” and “WHIPPED AND THROWN IN JAIL BY SPACE NAZIS.”
I actually really like the above explanation
I thought this was already canon
It would be pretty hard to believe a field report where evil doubles had pointy mustaches and such. I can’t really blame them.
That fact that anyone working with food in America doesn’t have guaranteed paid sick days is a health hazard to the public.
no but for real, the CDC has said the leading cause of foodborne illness is the lack of sick days for people who work in the food industry and that it costs billions a year to the economy.
“There have been attempts to paint Bernie Sanders as the Democratic Party’s Donald Trump. But the truth is that Sanders is more like the anti-Trump.
Where Trump has never held elected office, Sanders is one of the longest-serving members of Congress; where Trump calls himself a Republican but seems to loathe his party, Sanders calls himself an independent socialist but acts like a loyal Democrat; where Trump delights in attacking his fellow candidates, Sanders refuses to go negative; where Trump heightens the contrasts between him and his critics, Sanders has been unveiling new policies to quell doubts from Black Lives Matter activists; where Trump is limiting the Republican Party’s ability to reach beyond its base and win minority voters, Sanders is trying to expand the Democratic Party’s base among the white working class and evangelicals; where Trump is a billionaire attempting to take over American politics, Sanders is a congressman of unusually modest means trying to stop billionaires from taking over American politics.”
A story that may have relevance for others, or then again, maybe not:
When I was in college, about ten or so years ago, I was a history major. I wanted to learn to dance, so I joined a swing dance club on campus. To my surprise, this club had about twice as many men as women (in high school, the last time I’d tried dancing, the ratio had gone the other way–lots of girls, and boys only that you could drag by their ears).
But apparently, there had been some kind of word spread specifically to the STEM guys that dance was a way that they could meet girls.
So anyway. I joined the swing dance club, and met a few guys. And at one point, when socializing with the guys outside of dance class, one of them asked me what my research was on. (I had already established that I was an honors history student doing a thesis, just as he had established that he was an honors… I’m not sure if he was CS or Math, but it was one of those.)
So I gave him the thumbnail sketch of my research. Now, to be clear, an honors senior thesis, while nothing like what a graduate student would do, was still fairly in-depth. I had to translate primary sources from the original late-Classical Latin. (My professor said, basically, that while there were plenty of translations of my source material, that I’d only be able to comfortably trust them if I had at least made a stab at a translation of my own. And he was right.) And there was so much secondary material, often contradictory, that I had been carefully sorting through.
But I was able to sift it into a three-sentence summary of my senior thesis work, you know, as one does.
So I gave him that summary, and then asked–since he was also an undergraduate senior doing an honors thesis–what his research was on.
“Oh,” he said, “you wouldn’t understand it.”
Reader, I went home in a frothing rage. Because I had thought we were playing one game–a game of ‘let’s talk about what we’re passionate about!’– and he had been playing another game, which was, one-upsmanship. I had done my best to give a basically understandable brief of my research–and he had used that against me. As if my research, my painstaking translation, my digging through archives and ILLs of esoteric works, my reading of ten thousand articles in Speculum (yes, the pre-eminent medievalist journal in North America is called Speculum, I’m sorry, it’s hilarious/sad but also true), and then my effort to sum it up for him, was nothing. Because his research into some kind of algorithm or other was just too complex for my tiny brain to conceive of. Because I just couldn’t possibly understand his work.
Now, the important note here is that the person I went home to was my senior year roommate. She was a graduate student–normally undergrads and graduate students couldn’t be roommates, but we’d been friends for years, and the tenured faculty-in-residence used his powers for good and permitted us to be roommates that year. Anyway. My senior year roommate was basically… in retrospect I think possibly an avatar of Athena. She was six feet tall, blonde, attractive in a muscular athletic way, a rock climber and racquetball player, sweet but sharp, extremely socially awkward, exceptionally kind even when it cost her to be kind, and an incredibly brilliant computer science major who spent most of her time working on extremely complicated mathematical algorithms. (Yes, I was a little in love with her, why do you ask? But she was as straight as a length of rope, and is now happily married, and so am I, so it worked out.)
(Still, yes, she is my mental image of Athena, to this day.)
Anyway, I came home in a frothing rage to my roommate, the Athena avatar. And I said, “He made me feel like such an idiot, that I could sum up my research to him but his research was just too smart for stupid little me.”
And she shut her book, and smiled at me, with her dark eyes and her high cheekbones and her bright hair, and said, “If he can’t explain his research to you, then he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.”
Now I hesitated, because I’d be in college long enough to have sort of bought into the ridiculous idea that if you couldn’t dazzle them with your brilliance, you should baffle them with your bullshit. But she said, “Look, I’ve been doing work on computer science algorithms that have significantly complicated mathematical underpinnings. What do I do?”
And I said, “Genetic algorithms–that is, self-optimizing algorithms–for prioritization, specifically for scheduling.”
“Right,” she said. “You couldn’t code them because you’re not a computer scientist or a mathematician. But you can understand what I do. If someone can’t explain it like that, it isn’t a problem with you as a person. It’s a problem with them. They either don’t understand it as well as they think they do–or they want to make you feel inferior. And neither is a positive thing.”
So. There.
If you are looking into something and have a question, and someone treats you like an idiot for not understanding right away… here is what I have to say: maybe it isn’t you who is the idiot.
Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned. To add insult to injury, Brock was then charged a hefty sum by the hospital.
