Cary

alexficswriter:

The Astronomy one killed me! LOL

Pizza in a Jar

muffinsandmatriarchy:

m00nqueer:

ok this is “earring magic ken” who was introduced in 1992 (and discontinued shortly thereafter)

basically mattel had done a survey and discovered that girls didn’t think ken was “cool” enough

SO someone had the bright idea to research coolness by sending people to raves which, at the time, were mostly hosted & attended by gay men. so they went to these raves and took notes on what the fashions were and finally landed on this outfit, mesh shirt & all 

this doll became the best selling ken doll in history, mostly because gay men bought it in droves. (many of them said his necklace was supposed to be a cockring) but mattel and a number of parents weren’t very amused and discontinued the doll 

OH MY GOD YOU’RE LEAVING OUT THE BEST PART

SO

MAGIC EARRING KEN. This bitch gay as HELL. supposedly the aforementioned rings on him are for “magic earrings” and clip on charms. These charms are advertised as totally COMPLETELY heterosexual, not gay at ALL, see there’s a Barbie that also has Magic Earring Action with clip on charms! Ken wears them to match, because he’s STRAIGHT

Here’s the issue: THERE IS NO MATCHING BARBIE. Magic Earring Ken is out here straight up wearing cock rings on his jacket with a thinly devised advertising ploy to make it SEEM not-gay. But it’s DEFINITELY GAY.
(And if you’re thinking, why cock rings? Well way back in 1992 gay culture was HUGE on wearing cock rings, it was the in-style. Everyone who was gay wore one, even women; you sewed them to your leather jacket, and the placement indicated some of your sexual preference. In case you were wondering, Ken is a Bottom.)

AND IT GETS BETTER. Magic Earring Ken was on the shelves for six weeks before they pulled him. In that short amount of time? Magic Earring Ken became the BEST SELLING Barbie Doll Mattel has EVER SOLD.
LET THAT SINK IN. SIX WEEKS. And now every time these wheezy old hetero windbag execs go to look at their sales board, they’re forever haunted by Magic Earring Ken at the top of their charts.

Gay as hell, Cock Ring Bottom Ken, the Best Selling Mattel Doll.
Pride.

I usually think “lol Ken is gay” tropes are boring but this brought new life to it

teratomarty:

my-feminism:

In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are miniscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. Holland also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.

I endorse evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based activism.

greek-god-of-hair:

erwin-with-hairpins:

rainfelt:

cardozzza:

notyourexrotic:

(source)

Whoa, I didn’t realize that it was so deliberate, I honestly thought it was unconscious

Scary, scary.

Gonna add on to this:
From the other side of the bar, I see this crap all the time. Seriously. I work at a high-density bar, and let me tell you, I have anywhere from 10-20 guys every night come up and tell me to, “serve her a stronger drink, I’m trying to get lucky tonight, know what I mean?” usually accompanied with a wink and a gesture at a girl who, in my experience, is going to go from mildly buzzed to definitively hammered if I keep serving her. Now, I like to think I’m a responsible bartender, so I usually tell guys like that to piss off, and, if I can, try to tell the girl’s more sober friends that they need to keep an eye on her.
But everyone- just so you know, most of the time, when someone you don’t know is buying you a drink, they’re NOT doing it out of a sense of cordiality, they’re buying you a drink for the sole purpose of making you let your guard down. So:

Tips for getting drinks-

1. ALWAYS GO TO THE BAR TO GET YOUR OWN DRINK, DO NOT LET STRANGERS CARRY YOUR DRINKS. This is an opportune time for dropping something into your cocktail, and you’re none the wiser.

2.IF YOU ORDER SOMETHING NON-ALCOHOLIC, I promise you, the bartender doesn’t give two shits that you’re not drinking cocktails with your friends, and often, totally understands that you don’t want to let your guard down around strangers. Usually, you can just tell the bartender that you’d like something light, and that’s a big clue to us that you’re uncomfortable with whomever you’re standing next to. Again, we see this all the time.

3. If you’re in a position to where you feel uncomfortable not ordering alcohol:

Here’s a list of light liquors, and mixers that won’t get you drunk, and will still look like an actual cocktail:

X-rated + sprite = easy to drink, sweet, and 12% alcoholic content. Not strong at all, usually runs $6-$8, depending on your state.

Amaretto + sour= sweet, not strong, 26%.

Peach Schnapps+ ginger ale= tastes like mellow butterscotch, 24%.

Melon liquor (Midori, in most bars) + soda water = not overly sweet, 21%

Coffee liquor (Kahlua) +soda = not super sweet, 20%.

Hope this helps someone out!

Backing this up from years of bar tending.

moosefeels:

riza-hotguy:

octoberspirit:

schazam:

i-think-im-so-funny:

This is so true it’s not even funny.

winryapplepie kittenarmor

no one believes that middle america is super weird until they see pics and it cracks me up every time.

Its name is Stygobromus hayi, the Hay's Spring amphipod. It is spineless. It lacks vision. It is an opportunistic feeder, consuming whatever resources are available -- perhaps including the remains of its own kind. That is where its similarities to some of Washington, D.C.'s more notorious megafauna end. Researchers report on a way to survey it without threatening its existence, as other studies had done.

supremeoutcast:

I strongly disagree with anyone who says Maleficent isn’t the best Disney villain. No singing, no dancing, no long expositions about her plans, no tolerance for bumbling comedy sidekicks (she electrocutes a whole room full of minions when she finds out they’ve fucked up and spent the last few years searching for a baby), just outright malicious intent.

I mean let’s take a look at her motivations compared to other popular Disney villains:

SCAR - Wanted to become King. 

URSULA - Wanted to rule the seas.

WICKED QUEEN - Wanted to rule as the most beautiful woman in the land.

JAFAR - Wanted to rule in the Sultan’s place and/or obtain ultimate power.

Maleficient, by contrast, didn’t want any of that. She didn’t want more power. She didn’t want fame. She didn’t want to rule. She just wanted to raise hell. This is the woman who decided that every newborn child in the kingdom should die and that the land should be covered in darkness for one reason - SHE WASN’T INVITED TO A MOTHERFUCKING PARTY.

That’s right, the evil bitch basically condemned an entire kingdom to die at her hands because she didn’t get invited to a christening.

This is not a woman with a motivation. She cannot be reasoned with. Her actions cannot be rationalized. She is evil for the fun of being evil, not because she wants something.

THAT, my friends, is the ultimate villain. One who knows they’re evil and LOVES it. 

lettuce-wizard:

weavemama:

It’s ironic because they don’t look at US as real people. 

Yeah well I hope they choke on their pizza and their dogs find better homes

osunism:

reverseracism:

Dear White People: Start changing “Critics” to Racist Ass Whites. If a Black man sits on a Throne, Why do you find it offensive? I’ll tell you…Because you know damn well you’re afraid of seeing Black people (Especially a Black man) with Power. But you White folks had no Problem with this Bullshit right?

Here’s MCU’s white fave sitting on the throne in full regalia with honor guard.

The only reason they hate the Black Panther is because it’s a Black man in a position of power who answers to no white man.

tastefullyoffensive:

“What kind of sorcery is this?” [full video]

catsbeaversandducks:

Benny The Surrogate Cat Dad

Benny (Benedict Cumbercat) gets the most joy when his human mom brings home rescued kittens, so he can help look after them and show them the same love that he received when he was rescued. Whenever Ellen brings home an orphan baby (or a box of babies), Benny anticipates their arrival and is filled with excitement. He becomes their dedicated surrogate dad, and his fatherly instinct kicks in the moment he sees a kitten.

Photos by Ellen - Full Story on Love Meow

constellation-funk:

careydraws:

Written in the Bones. New comic, written by Christopher M. Jones & illustrated by Carey Pietsch.

I’m hoping to have printed copies of this at MOCCA, ABPCC, and TCAF this spring, and SPX in the fall! More info to come.

Me and Carey worked really hard on this comic; if you got something from it I’d love for you to reblog it, and maybe even buy a copy from Carey when she’s in town or even if she’s not. Thanks so much for reading. 

unimpressedcats:

Dungarees are so in right now

gifsboom:

Corgi Fails At Hopping Over Fence

The Conservative attempts at morality are laughable.

So you know, the History of Punk Rock in 200 tracks: An 11-hour playlist takes you from 1965 to 2016.

bitchiel:

justaddtommy:

i think we’re out of ink

have you tried turning it on and off again

tooloose-lautrec:

oswinstark:

esperian:

joi-in-the-tardis:

My favorite thing from the internet today.

this gem needs to be documented too

teeny-weenie-ducklings:

joey-wheeler-official:

pettyartist:

rookstheravens:

sigma-enigma:

mygenderissushi:

There’s something about Studio Ghibli’s Water physics that I love

While it is a liquid, it tends to behave more gelatinously

It’s so beautiful while almost being awkward *bloop*

Gravity? Surface tension? No? Well, just let me hug her!!

Not even seeming to make skin or cloth wet

It looks so satisfyingly bouncy

Tell me what you guys think and what’s your fav movie thing about Ghibli

I remember hearing/seeing a post where Ghibli’s water always -looks- like how water -feels-.

Like when you’re crying it just feels like

And when it’s raining it’s like

Like Ghibli has that perfect look of water where yeah, it’s not exactly -realistic- but they capture the perfect feeling.

I love this and now I need to find a collection of gifs oh Ghibli hair. I love when it does the poof thing. None of this is realistic, but it is wonderfully emotive. Emotions usually feel more talk than physics anyways.

Ghibli movies tend to exude an almost dreamlike feeling or a feeling like nostalgia– like, the general mood of the films feel like summer in the country when the sun is shining and it’s quiet and there’s a breeze going, or the smell of fresh cookies from the oven or the way a freshly-laundered quilt feels when it’s wrapped around you by someone you love.

They just FEEL good.  Even the sad movies still give off that same feeling.  It’s almost tangible, but still feels like a fond memory.

It’s really hard to describe kfjhsfjk.

studio ghibli has a weird way of having both very little and alot of movement at the same time

I’m not alone. Dude every movie does this to me.

bogleech:

cluckamok:

bogleech:

scorpio-slytherin:

zooophagous:

matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll:

reggiemess:

reggiemess:

People who ‘love nature’ but violently hate their native coyotes, spiders, snakes, and scavengers are fake.

Here’s the thing about the post. You don’t have to love or even like every animal. You can dislike things! Humane, intelligent pest control is fine and necessary.  This isn’t the issue and never has been.

It’s violent, blind hatred and hypocrisy that’s the problem. People who gush over foxes and owls and hawks but want coyotes and snakes dead in the next breath. People who will rescue prey from predators because predation is mean. People who find it appropriate to leave sadistic comments on pictures of spiders or snakes someone is appreciating or owns. People who insist on labeling species as ‘good’ or ‘evil’.  This is the sort of behavior that bothers me.

People who only appreciate nature when it’s aesthetically pleasing to them and want to destroy the parts they find ugly and unpleasant don’t truly understand or love it. They love an ideal that isn’t actually representative of reality.

Ok, but what good are wasps? I’m really curious.

Wasps are one of the single most important insect predators. They control not only other insects but also spiders, as well as acting as pollinators for certain plants (such as fig trees, which famously cannot fruit without a wasp inside them) there are hundreds of different types of wasp, the vast majority of them harmless to or fearful of humans.

Mosquitoes, on the other hand, serve literally no purpose and could vanish with little ecological impact.

Ugh SO MANY people have added this same claim to this post.

People WANT it to be true, so it makes for great clickbaity sensationalism, but there really aren’t any scientifically sound findings that mosquitoes are “ useless,” only one bad claim that went viral back in 2010.

For one thing, they too are pollinators of many crepuscular and nocturnal flowers. For another, they make up a bulk of the diet of countless other species and NO other insect can produce so, so many individuals from such meager, even polluted conditions.

If it exists, it has a role. Nothing in nature exists independent of the world around it. So even if something is here to just spread disease or be a minor part of some really obscure branch of the food web or to pollinate one specific plant - it has a role. So everyone can stop trying to come up with cheeky examples of things they personally dislike to see if they can have a “gotcha!” moment over on people who are actually educated on biology/ecology. Seriously this post has been floating around my dash all week filled with “Yeah but what about x shitty bug???” I don’t know Sharon how about you hop on Wikipedia for literally one minute and find out?

People especially love to name “parasites” in these conversations, because everyone hears that the definition of a parasite is in itself something “of no benefit to its host.”

….But there’s a bigger picture. A predator doesn’t “benefit” its prey, either, but we know its existence is necessary to prevent overpopulation, and the same is actually even more true of parasites. In fact, parasites are pretty much running the whole predator/prey balance.

Ever wonder how so many little fish get caught and eaten by sea birds? Even with the whole vastness of the ocean to hide in?  There’s tasty plankton near the surface, true, but fish have had eons of evolution to notice when a sky-monster is swooping down to stab it with a beak that only reaches a microfaction into the ocean.

Parasitic worms make the difference. Parasitic worms are the #1 reason a fish gets caught by an albatross, all day every day, because the worms evolved to get from a fish to a bird to complete their life cycle and slow the fish’s reaction time or outright alter its behavior. One common variety actually causes fish to stop and “flip over” every so often, which allows birds to spot their lighter underbellies instantly.

Take the worms away and the birds plummet. When the birds plummet the fish skyrocket, but then the plankton and everything else they eat suffers and there’s a whole chain reaction of population shifts all the way down.

Luckily? ….When a population of animals become too densely overcrowded, you can often leave it to parasites once again, as well as viruses and bacterial or fungal infections - sometimes several in cahoots - to start spreading like wildfire and cull a species back down to stable levels or eliminate it entirely before it expends every possible resource. Parasites and disease are nature’s true ultimate regulators and safeguards against innumerable disasters.

(The constant threat of this scenario, by the way, is likely why sexual reproduction evolved. Animals that simply multiplied and multiplied all by themselves were selected against because they too easily used up their resources and all died from some contagion or another. )

Now maybe some people are thinking “if the circle of life thing goes this deep and is really this precarious haven’t we fucked it up 100% irreversibly almost everywhere?”

yes

bogleech:

“I respect [insect/spider/thing] outdoors but IN MY HOME IT DESERVES DEATH” is one of the most common responses I see in regard to treating tiny creatures with respect and it’s just really sad people fall back on that so eagerly to excuse what’s still completely senseless destruction.

A bedbug or a tick or something else that wants your blood, sure, that makes sense, but a spider wandering into your house is still minding its own business hunting flies and crickets. It doesn’t know this big cave “belongs” to an animal that arbitrarily hates it for being there, and no, spiders do not just climb into your bed and bite you in your sleep.

The vast majority of flies, moths, beetles and anything else that small that ends up in your house actively *does not want* to be in such a place because it’s doomed to starve or dehydrate. Others are just trying to come in from the cold, and even if it’s your food they’re after, they don’t know that it’s “your” food. They especially don’t know that it upsets you for something 1/1000th your size to take a bite of that food; most other big animals don’t care, so they have no reason to be cautious of it.

People talk like it’s some kind of delinquency to be punished or something. It feels kinda more like reaching for a justification to enjoy a tiny moment of socially acceptable sadism.

Do what you really have to do to protect yourself from a deadly allergy or something but don’t be an asshole to something just because it made a wrong turn it can’t even comprehend.

Look at this face:

The Digital Dada Archive.

necessary-sass:

dalekpoetry:

quin-the-infinite-fandoms:

silversora:

glitterweave:

chronicallylate:

HOW TO MAKE A CUTE DRESS OUT OF SHORTS

put shorts on

put legs in one leg hole

pull up and on to shoulder

instant fashion

And here we have glitterweave sporting a beautiful Sunset Yellow 

NEVER forget to accessorize 

well one of us is going to have to change

Guys

I really think

I’m winning this. 

(Yoga pants do the trick)

Ladies…..please….

Send this to all the straight boys

sseureki:

hasan minhaj: it is insanity to think that 1.5 billion muslims want to destroy the earth

starwarsgraphictee:

OH IT’S A DOG

How the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service came to publish a muskrat meat cookbook:

The Escanaba Daily Press - Mar 22, 1949

The recipes include Wine-fried Muskrat, Muskrat a la Terrapin, Maryland Shredded Muskrat, Muskrat Salad, Muskrat Pie, Pickled Muskrat, and Stewed Muskrat Liver. However, it doesn't include Cream of Muskrat Casserole, a delicacy that we posted about back in 2013.

You can read or download the full booklet at archive.org.

A muskrat - via wikipedia

An anonymous reader writes: Do you use tabs or spaces for code indentation? This is a bit of a "holy war" among software developers; one that's been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it was particularly important. But today we're releasing the raw data behind the Stack Overflow 2017 Developer Survey, and some analysis suggests this choice matters more than I expected. There were 28,657 survey respondents who provided an answer to tabs versus spaces and who considered themselves a professional developer (as opposed to a student or former programmer). Within this group, 40.7% use tabs and 41.8% use spaces (with 17.5% using both). Of them, 12,426 also provided their salary. Analyzing the data leads us to an interesting conclusion. Coders who use spaces for indentation make more money than ones who use tabs, even if they have the same amount of experience. Indeed, the median developer who uses spaces had a salary of $59,140, while the median tabs developer had a salary of $43,750.

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