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Right now we have an X-Men franchise that has sidelined Kitty Pryde, completely mishandled Storm, Emma Frost and Rogue, robbed Jean Grey of any agency, and has yet to properly introduce Psylocke, Jubilee and Polaris.

The latest film does feature a number of non-white characters, but every single one of them (Storm, Blink, Sunspot, Warpath, Bishop) is relegated to outside guard duty while all of the white characters (Xavier, Magneto, Kitty, Wolverine) handle the important, emotion-heavy, world-saving work.

There’s even been a surprisingly anti-international slant towards one of the most international teams in comics as Colossus, Banshee, Quicksilver and Storm all lost their cultural identities in the transition from page to screen.

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According to Japanese folklore, the Kappa is a monstrous creature that inhabits lakes and rivers. Occasionally, though, the demon will leave its watery lair and challenge humans to single combat. If so, one of them lost: the alleged mummified remains of a Kappa, shot to death in the year 1818, will soon be exhibited.

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Watching Michael Fassbender And James McAvoy do impressions of their future selves in the X-Men movies right in front of the magnificent actors who play said future selves, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, is WONDERFUL.

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A recent series of posts on Twitter reveal 80s punk rock singer Exene Cervenka believes the Santa Barbara shooting was a hoax.

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Metallica’s self-titled 1991 album—commonly known as The Black Album—has just surpassed 16 million U.S. sales according to SoundScan, making it both the first album to cross that threshold and, accordingly, the biggest selling album since SoundScan started counting, also in 1991. For reference, there are 313 million people in the United States, which means that approximately one in every 20 has purchased a copy of Metallica at some point. (When adjusted for demographics like males with mullets, age 14-24, the number rises perilously close to one in one.) The album has also notably spent a whopping 307 non-consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200, including 20 weeks this year alone. (You don’t need to shift as many units nowadays to chart, but still, it’s an impressive number.) But Metallica shouldn’t rest on its laurels and piles of money and impressive art collections yet: Shania ...

Joe Murphy shares this great Garden Support and Water Stake combo:

A garden stake which support the plant and also helps get water down to the roots. Print, place in the ground, and twist tie plant to stake.

Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

Dovetailed Launches 3D Food Printer That Uses Spherification to Create … Edible Fruit! From Cambridge-news.co.uk:

Cambridge design company Dovetailed is today launching its 3D fruit printer, creating ‘fruit’ you can eat.

The company, which is working with Microsoft in Cambridge, says it takes just seconds to print an apple or a pear, or any other type of fruit.

The printer uses a molecular-gastronomy technique called spherification. It combines individual liquid droplets with different flavours into a fruit shape.

It is aimed at chefs, foodies and anyone interested in making creative dining experiences. No specialist knowledge of cuisine or molecular-gastronomy is required, and, the fruit produced is all organic.

…Vaiva Kalnikaitė, creative director and founder of Dovetailed, said: “We have been thinking of making this for a while. It’s such an exciting time for us as an innovation lab. Our 3D fruit printer will open up new possibilities not only to professional chefs but also to our home kitchens – allowing us to enhance and expand our dining experiences. We have re-invented the concept of fresh fruit on demand.” …

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! We also offer the LulzBot TAZ – Open source 3D Printer and the Printrbot Simple Metal 3D Printer in our store. If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

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LUPITA NYONG’O IS LITERALLY GOD INCARNATE ON THIS EARTH AND THIS GIFSET IS PROOF

She is one of us!

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Oprah: The big question I have for you is this: Where did your confidence come from? I’ve never seen anybody who exudes more confidence than you, and I don’t mean false, modest bravado, but from the inside out, you’ve got the stuff.

Maya: There are so many gifts, so many blessings, so many sources that I can’t say any one thing—unless that one thing is love. By love I don’t mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don’t even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God. To make it. To imagine golden roads. That condition that allowed the “dumb” to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it’s so much larger than anything I can conceive. It may be the element that keeps the stars in the firmament. And that love, and its many ways of coming into my life, has given me a great deal of confidence about life.

Oprah: So when you walk into a room and heads turn, it’s not just confidence in yourself that we see?

Maya: Oh, no. That’s why, though I was never pretty, I did command something—because of my reliance on life. 

Oprah: When we see you, we’re seeing all of your history. 

Maya: That’s right—all of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I’m bringing everything I ever knew [and all the stories I’ve read]—everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody’s racism or sexism or ageism. I will not. So I will take the Scandinavian story of the little princess, I will take the story of Heidi in the Alpine mountains, I will take the story of O-Lan in Pearl S. Buck’s book The Good Earth, I will take them all. I take them, and I know them, and I am them. So when I walk into a room, people know that somebody has come in—they just don’t know it’s 2,000 people!

Oprah: How do you remain connected to those who came before you?

Maya: I have the blessing of seeing our connection and the courage to admit what I see. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, “I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.” Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, “Yes, I deserve it.”

Oprah: I know you don’t believe in modesty.

Maya: I hate it. It makes me wary. Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. 

Oprah: So when you hear someone being modest….

Maya: I run like hell. The minute you say to a singer, “Would you sing?” and they say, “Oh, no. I can’t sing here,” I say, “Oops! I wonder, where is that train to Bangkok?” 

Oprah: Because?

Maya: Because that person is not reliable. She may not know it, but modesty speaks volumes about falseness.

(credit: Oprah magazine, December 2000)

Time Magazine has declared that society has reached a “transgender tipping point,” offering up a new feature that includes an extensive “Transgender 101″ article covering the gamut of issues affecting the trans community, a photo essay of transgender individuals, and a personal interview with Laverne Cox, the openly trans actress who stars in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black.

The cover story and its other components comprise what is perhaps the most positive and in-depth representation of transgender life experiences ever presented in mainstream print media. After recent incidents of transgender misrepresentation, such as Katie Couric’s insensitive interview with Cox and model Carmen Carrera, Piers Morgan’s two combative interviews with activist Janet Mock, and the Grantland story about “Dr. V’s Magical Putter,” the Time feature is a breath of fresh air. Here’s a look at the many important points Time’s Katy Steinmetz got right in the new cover story:

• The stories focus not on what it means to transition, but on what it’s like being transgender in a world that is not accepting and understanding of transgender people.
• Though it’s already the magazine’s style, the article boasts, “This article will use the names, nouns and pronouns preferred by individuals, in accordance with TIME’s style.”
• The main feature emphasizes the discrimination transgender people experience, including how they are “significantly more likely to be impoverished, unemployed, and suicidal than other Americans.”
• In a brief history of society’s understanding of trans identities, Steinmetz parses out the differences between the biology of sex, the culture of gender, and the differences between sexual orientation — “who you want to go to bed with” — and gender identity — “who you want to go to bed as.”
• Relaying the story of transgender homecoming queen Cassidy Lynn Campbell, Steinmetz highlights how transgender victories can still be shrouded in confusion and negative reactions.
• Steinmetz highlights many obstacles that remain to transgender equality: full inclusion in public schools and in athletics, inclusion in the military and at women’s colleges, changes to legal documentation, access to inclusive health care coverage, and blatant discrimination in employment, housing, and basic services — and the mental health consequences that follow.
• The photo essay profiles both trans men and trans women, highlighting the unique challenges each has faced in their different journeys.
• Steinmetz invites Cox to get personal about why people might respond defensively to understanding what it means to be transgender. She explained, “People need to be willing to let go of what they think they know about what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman… I think the reality is that most of us are insecure about our gender.”

Cox had previously placed fifth in a poll for Time’s “most influential people,” but didn’t make the top 100 list. This feature seems to be the magazine’s answer to excluding her at the time.

Time’s broad treatment of transgender issues could go quite far to raise awareness about who the members of this community are and what they’re experiencing in society. All that it took was inviting people to share their stories and presenting them in a way that respected their identities and experiences.

The post Why Time’s Profile Of Laverne Cox Is A Big Step Forward For Transgender Equality appeared first on ThinkProgress.

Peak is a minimalist design created by Belgium-based company Aecraft. Peak is unique in that the leather cover also serves as a small stand for the laptop, which pivots the screen and keyboard for added comfort, and improves the user’s overall posture. In addition, the stand increases airflow and allows the computer to breath, which prevents overheating.

The case snuggly fits the MacBook Air 13″ and MacBook Retina 13″, and features 100% imported natural South African Merino wool felt and premium Norwegian vegetable-tanned leather, which are then handmade in Belgium. The case features an easy snap-shut closure, with a lifted tab on the leather for easier accessibility.

The case is currently available in either a black vegetable-tanned leather, or a natural vegetable-tanned leather. A small emblem is stamped on the bottom right edge of the leather, while the rest of the case is kept as simple as possible.

Whether you're still struggling to get over the loss of Google Reader or you want to try out RSS subscriptions for the first time, you can set up Gmail as a makeshift feed reader in just a few minutes. We've outlined the steps you need to follow to turn your inbox into a news ticker below.

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Scott, put your goddamned hand down.