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This comic was originally created for Everyday Feminism here.
I have yet to meet a woman in a relationship with another woman who hasn’t encountered a guy suggesting a threesome. Hey dude, what’s up with taking the one of the only possible configurations of sex and intimacy that doesn’t involve you as a demographic, and then just mentally shoving yourself in the middle of it?
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people who tell me i shouldn’t drink lava: the media
people who lie: the media
conclusion: i am going to drink lava
I am a geologist with no association to the media and I would not recommend drinking lava
Get a load of Big Geology trying to oppress the voice of the people. Teach the controversy. Drink the lava.
Es difícil elegir cual puede ser el mejor, especialmente si no podemos darnos el placer de probar todos y cada uno de ellos.
Lo que si podemos adelantar ya es cual es el perrito caliente más friki del planeta.
Como no podía ser de otra forma, ese galardón recae en Japón y su pulpito caliente.
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"This sounds different for some reason." (more…)
You hopefully recall the case of Tamir Rice, the sixth-grader killed by a Cleveland police officer last November even though the 911 caller who reported that the boy had a gun told the dispatcher it was "probably fake." This is the case where the police pulled up right next to the kid, hopped out and shot him within two seconds of stopping, and then knocked down and handcuffed his 14-year-old sister when she tried to run to him. All captured in the first two minutes of this surveillance-camera video.
This doesn't make it worse, I guess, because how could it? But it's awful.
Shaun King originally posted the document below on May 20, saying it had been recently obtained from the Cleveland PD. It appears to be an incident report completed on November 29, a week after the shooting (the 5/20 date in the top right is presumably when it was printed). Some reports describe this as a charging document, but it seems unlikely that anyone would actually have considered charging Tamir Rice with anything, if only because he had been dead for a week. This is probably just a bureaucrat filling out a form, but it is still a chilling if no longer very surprising look at how police view incidents like these.
Here are the takeaways:
The caption in this KGMH report oversells the story a bit, but then so does my headline.
The Aspen Times reported on May 19 that a man who was accused of violating a protective order brought a stuffed owl along with him and suggested that it was going to act as his defense attorney. Referring to the owl as "Solomon," presumably to suggest wisdom, Charles Abbott claimed that it had no fewer than three law degrees and was more responsive than a public defender was likely to be.
"He's a very sensitive guy," Abbott told the judge, "[and] has law degrees from Yale, Harvard, and Stanford." He must be sensitive, if he's willing to work for this guy despite presumably being at least half a million dollars in debt now. It's also frankly a little surprising that somebody smart enough to graduate from Yale, Harvard, and Stanford law schools wouldn't also realize that he only needed one law degree. But then he is a stuffed animal.
Despite his impressive credentials, the judge just ignored him.
The report says that Abbott is subject to a protective order intended to keep him away from his former roommate, and that he was arrested last weekend on suspicion of violating said order by going over to pick up some belongings. The roommate was out of town at the time, but the judge said that the order precluded Abbott from going to the house anyway, at least without a deputy present.
Solomon, meanwhile, just sat there like a potted plant and said nothing even when his client started to stray off-topic. Abbott claimed that his roommate had actually shown up in court wearing one of his shirts ("the blue one," as he described it, which suggests to me that he only has two shirts), and then demanded that the Aspen Times reporter leave the courtroom because he—or maybe the Times?—engages in "yellow journalism." Colorful, but not really helpful.
They are innumerable, immortal and enormous. Let's turn them into beachfront villages!
Sure, you're boycotting Nestle for draining California's drought-stricken aquifers for bottled water, but why stop there?
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I want a movie about a guy who runs for president and wins but then suddenly realizes that he doesn’t want to be president, so he just starts doing ridiculous things all the time trying to get impeached, but it NEVER WORKS because they always miraculously end up being the right thing to do. Like, he declares war on Canada? Next day it turns out that Canada had secret plans to nuke Washington. he bans Doritos? Turns out theyr’e the number one cause of cancer and natural disasters. He sends his vice president to jail? Turns out the VP was a terrorist in disguise. He has 100% approval rating, most popular president ever.
I’ve decided that I want him to be played by Jeff Goldblum.
America's trains suck on purpose: "Ride a fast train to Washington today and you’ll start thinking about national health insurance tomorrow."
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The Verge obtained the 2011 agreement between the label and the music streaming service, which launched later that year. "Sony Music came out the winner," reports Micah Singleton
Kenton Lee worked with shoe R&D firm Proof of Concept to develop a kids' sandal that adjusts over five sizes and is built to last for at least five years. He tested the prototypes at schools in Kenya and the nonprofit he founded to distribute them, Because International, recently ordered 5,000 pairs. Read the rest
- It doesn’t matter how many books you read.
- It doesn’t matter how many books others read.
- Don’t worry too much about your reading goal.
- Don’t judge others on their preferences.
- Nobody likes book snobs.
- Don’t worry about how many books you own.
- Don’t force yourself to read books.
- You can put a book down if you aren’t enjoying it.
- Life’s too short to read books you don’t like.
- You are allowed to reread books as many times as you want.
- Ebooks are books and they’re great.
- Audio books are books and they’re great.
- Physical books are great too.
- You are still valid. You are still a reader. It literally doesn’t matter how or what you read.
- Don’t worry about what everyone else is reading.
- Don’t worry about other opinions.
- Read what you want.
Over there on the right is a classic example of garbled science: the claim that vegetables can be grown ‘without chemicals,’ as if the vegetables themselves weren’t little lumps of chemicals already.
But I have another one to add to the list of bad ideas, and this one comes from a press release from the American Thoracic Society.
Electronic cigarette flavorings alter lung function at the cellular level.
Oh, really? Could we wait until we discover something that affects organs at the acellular level before making it out to be news?
And just to make it worse, Wired repeats the same strange phrasing for this story.
It’s just annoying. Of course these processes are going to have effects “at the cellular level”. We’re made of cells. It’s all cells and molecules all the way through.
The paper itself is clear and specific, so this is just an oddity of the press release. The paper’s title is “Select E-Cigarette Flavors Alter Calcium Signaling, Cell Viability and Proliferation in Lung Epithelia” — when the experiment is to expose cells in culture to doses of the chemicals found in e-cigarettes, it’s pretty much a given that you’re going to be assessing cellular effects. And it is totally unsurprising that those chemicals would affect calcium signaling (it’s been my experience that just about everything modifies calcium signaling), or that some of them would have deleterious effects on survival or proliferation.
I’m kind of disgusted, actually, that this vaping crap is so popular — you’ve given up bathing your respiratory epithelia in the fumes from burning plants, for bathing the same epithelia in miscellaneous solvents and dissolved chemicals, and you’re surprised that at least some of them are unhealthy for you?
In fact, the one surprise to me in this paper is that they tested 13 different flavorings used in e-cigarettes, and 10 of them had no measurable effect on cells in culture. Unflavored vapors, with just nicotine and the carrier solution, had no effect either. That’s just weird — bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells express nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, so this would be saying that hitting those receptors with their ligand does nothing at all to the cells. I’m dubious.
As for the ones that did have a detectable effect…if you’re inhaling something called “Banana Pudding (Southern Style)”, you’ve got concerns.
I saw these clever Zackees LED Turn Signal Gloves for cycling last week at Silicon Valley Fashion Week. While LED streetwear is a bit too "cyber" for my taste, these gloves seem like they could be a lifesaver. Read the rest
Seventeen of the twenty-one names on the list of advisers to the Bush campaign-in-waiting worked in his brother’s administration and a majority of those were in one way or another associated with the war in Iraq or its aftermath.
Three names stand out in particular: Paul Wolfowitz, John Hannah and Stephen Hadley, all of whom were intimately involved in promoting the war, and in deceiving not just the American people but the entire world. Wolfowitz and Hannah had their fingers all over the document that formed the basis for Secretary Powell’s speech to the UN in February 2003. Hadley, as President Bush’s Deputy National Security Adviser offered his resignation to then-President Bush after discovering three documents in his files from the CIA telling the White House not to include the claim of yellowcake from Niger in the case for war. These were but two of the many lies promulgated by the cabal that brought such disgrace to the Bush administration and to the country.
Boy hugs chicken is back! This time the boy has a haircut and the chicken doubts if she has the right boy. [watch video]
*MIC DROPS ALL THE WAY TO HELL*
Well….
If you saw the rest of this, she also insinuated that Michelle Obama can’t read
Burrrrn
So you know how UKIP said that all the floods in the UK currently are because of gay marriage
well someone’s gone and made a twitter account called @UkipWeather and let me tell you this is pure gold
and my personal favourite
