Mr. Rogers was the best! I still know how wax crayons (melon coloured!) are made because of him. The Land of Make Believe was the shit, and my brother and I used to bet on which colour of cardigan he’d pull out every show. It was amazing!
I definitely got my love of “how are things made??” from segments on his show like the crayon one.
A Russian zoo is home to a unique animal - the liger. It is half-lioness, half-tiger. Mother Zita is pictured licking her one month old liliger cub
I DON’T GIVE A SHIT WHAT YOU CALL IT LOOK AT HER HAPPY LITTLE FACE IN THE LAST PICTURES SHE’S SO PROUD OF HER LIL CUB AND HER SPOTS AND SHE’S GOTTA BE TOUGH MOMMA WHEN THE BABY’S LOOKING BUT AS SOON AS THEY TURN AROUND, SHE’S LIKE,
“Look at it. I made a thing. I made a rly good thing.”
have you ever been to a meeting? nobody claps. nobody wants to be there. meetings are hell and clapping is the last thing you want to do.
but what if u knew clapping would make dickhead john from accounting spill his coffee on his stupid fucking tie
you know what i was wrong and you are right that would change everything this is revolutionary technology and i welcome it and its chances to fuck over eli from marketing hell fucking yea
I’m all for impeaching Trump - what happens if he’s replaced by Pence though? He’s arguably far worse in the long run (assuming we’re not plunged into nuclear war, etc. first).
Pence is not worse than Trump, and I will tell you why.
One, this is a choice of Chaotic Evil vs Lawful Evil. Lawful Evil we can deal with. Lawful Evil has its’ limits. Would Pence still be a shitty President with little to no consideration for the wellbeing of the people of this country? Yes he would. Is he likely to start a nuclear war? Fuuuuuck no.
Two, if we successfully impeach Trump, one of two things will happen. The first is that Pence becomes President and has to stare down a Congress that just completed the first successful impeachment of a sitting President in U.S. History. He will have to toe that fuckin’ line or else risk the same fate, however much it puckers his ass to do it. And Pence, despite his horrid policies, actually has political experience and understands how the government works. He knows you can’t just hand down executive orders and expect things to be carried, because he understands that the President is not the CEO of America. In short, he’s actually taken a goddamn Civics class.
The second is that, given the levels to which everything has already escalated, if/when Trump is impeached, it’s possible that members of his cabinet might be forced out with him. People are comparing what’s going on to Nixon’s Watergate scandal, but this is a bit of a misnomer. We are MILES beyond Watergate at this point. Nixon’s impeachment charges were obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. Trump has the first two, is well on his way to the third, and could collect a charge of high treason if the Russia investigation continues to go the way it’s been going thus far.
If Pence is found to be guilty of any of these same charges, he could be forced to resign as collateral damage, in which case Speaker of the House Paul Ryan would become President. Whatever happens, like I said before, the next person in that chair after Trump gets booted out of it will be under intense scrutiny from EVERYBODY. They won’t be able to put a hair out of line without getting utterly destroyed.
We need to stop thinking in perfections and absolutes as far as the presidency goes. That’s how Trump got elected in the first place. At this point, we are on damage control, and Trump needs to be ousted before he does something irreversible. After that’s dealt with, we’ll deal with what comes next. But we cannot drag our feet on calling for Trump’s impeachment simply because Pence is “almost as bad” or “might be worse in the long run.”
The long run isn’t going to matter if the country gets annihilated in the next four years or becomes the newest totalitarian fascist regime. We need to shut this down and we need to do it NOW.
This was the first thing he tweeted. The first thing. Not condolences for the attack. Not promises of aid or solidarity. 7 dead, 48 wounded, and his first thought is to use this to push his unconstitutional, human rights violating ban.
This is disgusting and shameful and if he has any shred of human decency he’ll make a proper statement for the victims of this attack.
He doesn’t. He does not have a single shred of human decency.
HE DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE SHRED OF HUMAN DECENCY.
The damage he causes simply by existing can not be overstated.
OK, first, I have never actually felt the need to turn the internet in to Child Services before. Second, I'm a little disturbed that The Old Reader decided to follow this post with a post from Robert Reich called "The World According to Trump."
this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life
the meaning of life … is cuck… think of it logically guys. human existence goes on, our species continues to populate, and for what? so i can just not have sex with everyone? we’re all being cucked by each other. we are all cucking god. god made us and gave us life and now hes being cucked by 7 billion people at once. think about it.
Woah. I can’t believe I never realized this, but none of these are the “sexy female superhero pose” poster. Upper left-hand is the closest, but doesn’t show off her ass or boobs.
Most female superheroes get stuck in this pose where they show off their butt and cleavage instead of just looking badass. Wonder woman’s still forms to her body without being too sexy. And in her posters, she isn’t forced to pose sexy. She gets to pose like a male superhero.
I also read somewhere about how unusual (compared to most recent superhero movies) it is that in most of the posters for Wonder Woman, she is the only person in it
(this is actually the first time I’ve seen posters where she’s not solo)
Superhero movie posters are often very busy, with much of the supporting cast featured, especially if its the first film in that franchise (see: Iron Man, Spider Man Homecoming, Captain America the First Avenger, Thor)
But here, almost every poster is Diana, front and centre, carrying the entire image by herself
The whole conversation about letting girls be gross and ugly and monstrous and undesirable only applies to white women, and to a lesser extent, nonblack women of color.
Black women have never in the history of ever been allowed even be considered fully-realized human beings, let alone a standard of beauty to aspire to. If anything, due to white supremacy and antiblackness being a global thing, Black women are always placed as the absolute antithesis to the Eurocentric beauty standards everyone strives for. We’re the polar opposite.
And I don’t include nonblack WOC in the beauty discussion because they play into the hierarchy as well. East Asian, Indian, Latinx, etc. All of them get to be considered feminine as long as Black women exist to be held up against as some sort of antithesis to beauty. And the only way Black women are afforded any humanity and considered beautiful is if we look less Black to begin with and are lighter skinned. The closer we are to Eurocentric, the prettier we’re considered. There is literally a multibillion dollar industry that is destroying West and Central Africa right now dedicated to SKIN BLEACHING just so people can be afforded more leniency and privileges that lighter skinned or nearly-white people get within white supremacist patriarchal systems. There’s no widespread practice of women darkening their skin to be more desirable (tanning doesn’t count as that’s another discussion entirely), or texturizing their hair to make it more attractive. Or gaining weight to seem more desirable.
It’s especially bad if we’re dark skinned and don’t have the skinny minnie body type. And if we’re dark skinned, with less Eurocentric features, our beauty has to be more performative and exhausting. Our skin has to be absolutely flawless, our hair must be perfect–even if we have 4c hair–and our makeup must always be on or on point.
And this is just to be afforded the bare minimum of attraction and humanity. Like, it has been scientifically proven that statistically, Black women are considered the LEAST desirable women in! The! World!
So miss me with that “let girls be ugly and disgusting” talk because the world has already been telling Black women that we are just that since time immemorial.
Here’s the thing about being pro-choice, you don’t have to morally agree with abortion to be pro-choice. It is not called pro-abortion. Pro-choice simply means you understand that you can not make such an intimate decision for someone else and that they have full control of making their own decisions.
“My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.” - Richard Fisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1981)
Never forget that part of the reason this system was never implemented was that when he presented it to his colleagues, their response was IIRC “George, that’s terrible! If he has to take an innocent life, he may never press the button.”
but thats like the whole fucking point
The depressing part is that the people who vetoed this idea really didn’t grasp the irony of doing so in the slightest
Shrek makes infinitely more sense if you ascribe to the theory that everyone is a PC in an RPG, and Donkey’s player managed to avoid a boss battle by rolling a nat 20 to seduce the fucking dragon
“I want to be a half-ogre.”
“What? You can’t. They’ve seen your picture, and you’re a human.”
no offense but normalize aoc (angels of color). not every angel is gonna be that blonde haired blue eyed light skinned stereotype. poc can be pure and angelic too.
My Last Unicorn cosplay/costume I made for the Renaissance Faire. I absolutely loved the Last Unicorn growing up and be able to dress us as my own version of Amalthea for the Ren Faire was a dream.
