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Debbie Goard is an incredibly talented cake artist who creates very life-like sweet, edible sculptures--many of which are a little gross, or a touch macabre. Read the rest
And the Bible calls them fools.
Sometimes the barmaid just has to get things off her chest.
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The eye-popping stat comes from Philip J Cook's 2007 booze-economics book Paying the Tab.
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This creepy iPhone case forces you to interact with Siri. This case covers the smartphone’s screen, revealing only the home button. That way, Siri leaves you no choice but to interact with her. It’s on sale for $90. (Source)
1. Why
NOPE
They left out the worst image.
don’t forget to have Siri call you a pathetic creature of meat and bone

Alan Moore (via class-snuggle)
Most Alan Moore quotations make me think he’s sort of insane, but this one is gold. Few things weird me out about fictional characters more than when people idolize the ones who were clearly created as terrible human beings.
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Amazing.
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not just video games, the military is well known for letting just about any entertainment industry use technical advisers or even expensive equipment for cheap (sometimes even free) if they agree to portraying the US military in an only positive way.
heck a post apocalyptic film called the day after was almost barred from using any military images because the film makers didn’t want to definitively state that America didn’t launch the first bomb.
In a cryptic message that is not at all the straight-shooting David Lynch we are used to, the director and his Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost simultaneously tweeted clues that—like Agent Dale Cooper—fans should recall their hazy dreams of seeing more of the show.
Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee
— David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 3, 2014
Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style. #damngoodcoffee
— Mark Frost (@mfrost11) October 3, 2014
And so, it is happening again: Speculation is already reaching a fevered pitch as to whether this is Lynch and Frost’s way of announcing the long-rumored, usually just wishful news of a Twin Peaks continuation. It’s a hope that fans have clung to more fervently than ever of late—all primarily on the back of Laura Palmer declaring, “I’ll ...
Luke.stirlingWhen you allow for the fact that it's not only gender privilege that gets entrenched in popular media, you can see that popular culture is totally loaded down with stories of the "chosen one" specially chosen by some force or another (whether it be destiny, lineage, or whatever) to change the world.
David Brin did a great analysis of this kind of thing 15 years ago when The Phantom Menace came out. http://www.davidbrin.com/starwars1.html
Not only is it rare for women, minorities, or non cis-gendered, cis-sexual individuals to be in these superhuman roles, but it's even rarer to find people becoming great through sheer hard work rather than chosen-ness. That's why I will always esteem those rare few stories that buck this trend, such as the Parable of the Sower, where the protagonist is actually handicapped and yet changes the world around her through bravery and hard work. Or The Diamond Age, where the central message is undeniably that education is the most powerful force for individual empowerment (even if it has some problems with the racial disparity between Nell and her army which could be validly criticised).







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Yeah, I might have watched a movie and gotten kind of mad.
This is seriously a trope I’d love to never see again though.
the lego movie
the matrix
pacific rim
now that I’ve learned I can’t unsee it
The more I think about it, I am not so sure I want a Black Widow movie any more.
Luke.stirlingYou could caption this tweet as a slide in an economics lecture "What is hyperbolic discounting?"

Demonstrators intrude on St Louis Symphony Orchestra concert with a little musical interruption.
It looks like some in the audience are aghast at the invasion, but quite a few applauded.

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