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By Ubertee
Freddie Mercury!

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tastefullyoffensive:

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"Feminazi" is a real timesaver, because someone saying that just freed you from listening to them ever again. It’s such a specific strawman that it has its own name. But the term "feminazi" is far too evocative and powerful a phrase for this phantom. I suggest the term "boogeywoman," reducing the concept to the appropriate level of maturity and power.

Those who fear the boogeywoman claim feminism is a crusade of man-hating assholes, instead of a struggle against a patriarchal system that damages men as well as women. But don’t worry, there’s a useful quick check to find out if someone’s an asshole, and it works on both sides: Ask them how they feel about transgender people. That’ll identify who truly cares about equality and who’s just being an asshole real quick.

Even if a woman is mean to you, boohoo. You can’t dismiss an entire concept because one supporter is an asshole. If “one of them was a jerk” was reason enough to censor entire concepts, men would have become extinct long ago, along with every political and sociological concept ever conceived. I’ve met dickhead professors of quantum mechanics, but that doesn’t mean my computer stops working.

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- 8 Things Some Asshole Says in Every Debate About Sexism.

“Listen, kids: If a strange man ever offers to fly you to his private dungeon and make you sign a fuck-contract (AKA, exactly what happened in Fifty Shades), DO NOT GO WITH HIM. You will end up in a series of trash bags. Large, organized dungeons are a much safer place to experiment with your sexuality than some guy’s apartment closet.”

- 7 Strange Realities of BDSM ‘50 Shades of Grey’ Leaves Out

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tastefullyoffensive:

This kid is going places. (photo via arvzg)

archiemcphee:

Winter is a busy time for the Department of Awesome Natural Phenomena. This automotive ice formation formed on the front of a Jeep Cherokee parked in the visitor’s lot at the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, North Carolina. When the jeep pulled out of its spot this awesome ice grille remained attached to the wheel stop.

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På slutet av 80-talet, när jag gick i högstadiet, så ansågs jag och mina kompisar konstiga för att vi var intresserade av datorer. Även om vi inte var mobbade per se, så tycks det under 70 och 80-talet inte vara ovanligt att datorintresse sågs som en anledning att just mobba någon. Det är viktigt att poängtera att egenskaper hos offret aldrig är den egentliga orsaken till mobbning, och att mobbare alltid hittar något att hänga upp sina trakasserier på, men jag tycker ändå att ett svepskäl kan säga något om sin samtid. På 80-talet var “intresse för ny teknik” något så konstigt att det kunde användas som en ursäkt för att spöa upp någon på en skolgård.

Idag, när nya gadgets blivit en religion, ter det sig som fullständigt bisarrt. Jag har svårt att tänka mig att kidsen i dag blir mobbade för att de håller sig ajour med nya appar och Iphone-versioner, och jag har inte heller fått intrycket av att äldre generationer trakasserade klasskamrater som, typ, gillade motorer och bilar.

Då uppstår frågan varför datorer ansågs så suspekt under ett par decennier i 1900-talets senare hälft. I ett samhälle som både tidigare och senare välkomnat nya uppfinningar med öppna armar, varför var det annorlunda i det här fallet?

Trots flera slappa googlingar kan jag inte hitta något nom förklarar det här, och jag tvingas därför att försöka tänka ut något själv. Jag ser två olika spår: Datornördarna bestod av den typ av personer som alltid lidit hög risk för att mobbas (introverta, osportiga, plugghästar etc), eller att populärkulturen hade redan slagit fast att datorer var töntigt (lex Revenge of the nerds).

Några andra skäl har jag svårt att se, men skriv gärna en kommentar du har någon annan teori.

Slutligen undrar jag vad som är det vanligaste svepskälet för mobbning idag, och vad det säger om tiden vi lever i nu. Jag gissar att alla gamla evergreens fortfarande används – fet, ful, konstig, klen, etc – men finns det någonting som barn mobbas för idag som inte förekommit tidigare?

digg:

Hee hee go get that snow little guy

more panda playtime

somewhatharmless:

I wasn’t aware I didn’t expect this

Nobody expects the… oh, hang on. Wrong TV show.

Zack Snyder released the first image of Aquaman via Twitter, and, well. We wouldn't mess with him.

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tastefullyoffensive:

"So I dressed my cat up as different Oscar-nominated movies…" - Books of Adam

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vortisaurus:

my dad just walked in, asked me “what do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?” and left

There’s a very interesting piece in Nature today about how science is making it more clear than ever that the binary nature of the sexes isn’t actually binary at all — that there are a lot of gradiations in biological sexual development, brought on not only via chromosomal differentation (the old “XX” and “XY” thing) but a host of other processes. This is how people with XY chromosomes can (rarely) get pregnant and give birth, and how a man who fathered four children can be discovered to have a womb. Biology: It’s wacky.

I don’t imagine this report will make essentialists (“There’s men and there’s women and that’s it!”) particularly happy, but then it’s not actually the job of science to reinforce people’s comfort zones — or bigotries, to be less polite about it. But I look forward to the mental two-step some of these folks will take to try to cram this information into their understanding of the world, rather than to expand their understanding of the world based on this information. That should be interesting, and a little bit sad.

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kanyewesticle:

Look at all those ducks there are at least ten

Well, you’re not wrong.

Those ducks have certainly got themselves in a row.

By Nasken
Death Note. 4 colors on a black t-shirt. :)

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Toshiba har hoppat på Project Ara-tåget och visat upp kameramoduler som kan användas tillsammans med Spiral 2-prototypen. Tillverkaren kommer tillverka en främre 2MP-kamera men även kameramoduler med 5MP och 13MP för bakstycket.

Project Ara är Googles plattform för modulära och uppgraderingsbara mobiler. Användare kan bygga sin egen telefon genom att fritt välja och byta komponenter. Flera av dessa moduler kan sättas i enheten utan att den först behöver stängas av.

Internetjätten kommer lansera en prototyptelefon i Puerto Rico senare i år.

Inlägget Toshiba visar kameramoduler för Project Ara dök först upp på Swedroid.

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edwardspoonhands:

In 2008, I went to a campaign rally for Barack Obama. I saw him talk, it was great. I came home and the next day I got very sick. Then I made a video in which I sang a brief song that went:

Barack Obama gave me a disease
He shook my hand right after he sneezed
and now I’ve got a fever of a hundred and three
Barack Obama

Now, I didn’t actually shake his hand, and he didn’t actually sneeze, but I figured I did get the illness at the rally because there were thousands of people breathing on me and that was bound to happen.

But, in fact, that is not what had happened. 

I got much sicker the day after I made that video. I had a full body rash and my blood pressure had dropped to 80/30 and I couldn’t stand up without passing out. I had to go to the emergency room and get an IV of fluids and steroids because I was having a systemic allergic reaction to a new medication I was taking. 

The medication, sulfasalazine, is not usually prescribed for ulcerative colitis because of the frequency of these dangerous allergic reactions. But because my medication was so expensive, and sulfasalazine is so much cheaper, my doctor had elected for me to try it out and see if it worked for me. 

Obviously, it did not, so I had to go back on the $400 per month stuff, which I am still on. But I would not have had to take that other medication, nor would I have ended up in the hospital with a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction if we had had the Affordable Care Act, because I wouldn’t have had to choose a potentially dangerous medication just because it was cheaper. The $400 stuff is now actually cheaper for me than the sulfasalazine was.

So, basically, I owe the president an apology.

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By Ubertee
Make Tea Not War

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