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Such a sweet, heartfelt message from Tom Brady following the Patriots' Super Bowl win. Cause Brady you're a firework... and you let your colors show.

vintagegal:

Model wearing a gray Dior suit outside the Louvre Metro station, Paris. Photographed by Mark Shaw, 1957 for LIFE magazine (via)

After a blizzard dumped two feet of snow on his city this week, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh vowed to crack down on anyone who left the sidewalks in front of their homes and businesses buried in snow. He wasn't kidding. On Thursday, officials tagged Kerry with a $50 fine at 9:45 a.m. for failing to clear the snow from the side of his Beacon Hill mansion. Kerry was in Saudi Arabia attending the funeral of King Abdullah with President Obama.

Goodell knows that, on a very fundamental level, we watch football to be spared reality. There is no more automatic response to a sportswriter discussing politics or social issues than the cry, "Stick to sports." Fans have been his willing accomplices in denying the traumas and injustices underlying the games, because we embrace the game primarily for escapism and for the illusion that we can witness morality plays and talent competitions tested in a nowhere place of complete fairness and equilibrium. He mostly would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for meddling facts generated not by social agitators and outside commentators, but by the normative functions of the NFL. Everything that so dearly threatens to crack the sealed environment of Goodell World is something created by Goodell World itself. In a micro sense, you can point to the insane privilege of fame that likely spared Ben Roethlisberger from reckoning with the fact that he is human garbage – apart from a six-game suspension subsequently reduced to four. You can point to tolerated law enforcement partnerships with teams like the 49ers and Steelers, who have their own "fixers." You can point to the privilege that lets Colts owner Jim Irsay get pulled over drunk and on Vicodin and get ordered to stay off Twitter while Marshawn Lynch gets fined for not talking pretty to the NFL promotional wing. Or Jimmy Haslam keeping his team despite being a massive fraudster, while one of his wide receivers gets suspended again and again for smoking weed. Or Dan Snyder trivializing a genocide. Or Jerry Richardson extorting his city at great profit. But all that's predictable. Protecting franchise-defining players and keeping the grunts in line while keeping labor costs low and owner revenue high is just good business in a league that unironically and ubiquitously refers to its competition as the on-field product.

innistradical:

pianodream:

manticoreimaginary:

Laetitia Casta, Cannes Film Festival (May 26, 2013)

wow holy fuck

solarmetronome

treesofarden yooooOOOOOO

bikiniarmorbattledamage:

fullmetalbertholdt:

good character design but the armor has boob cups

I relate strongly with this.

~Ozzie

more on boobplate

“Disability insurance is wasted on people with anxiety and back pain. If you look like me and you hop out of your truck, you shouldn’t be getting a disability check.”

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Rand Paul (R-KY) pushing the GOP lie that disabled people, including those with invisible disabilities, do not deserve Social Security Disability benefits 

Two weeks into taking control of congress, and Republicans are already planning draconian cuts to the social safety net, including 19 percent of disability payouts, or taking about $200 per month away from the average SSDI beneficiary

The Republican war on poverty is a war on the poor and the disabled

Full Huffington Post article here

(via odinsblog)

Fuck Rand Paul so much

(via thisisableism)

satedghost:

respectable-sapphire:

The Artist Is Present, 2010

jordoge

literallyabear

dont-go-alone-take-levi:

notyourtypicalhumanbeing:

show that special someone that you care a skele-ton

Rebloging because of that comment ^

thraksy:

eerieimpulse:

videohall:

News Anchor in my area loses it over a Fat Cat that likes to swim.

same tho

i love how she keeps going

“Where’s the truffle?” he asks the dog in a soft sing-song voice. The lab is named Leroy. Leroy keeps his nose close to the ground. He’s on the scent of a truffle. He digs gently with one paw. Lyon pulls a small Oregon white truffle from the spot where Leroy started to dig. It looks like a tiny, misshaped potato. “Great aroma! Oh, that’s a good one Leroy,” Lyon says.

prostheticknowledge:

The Queen Of Code

Short film on computer programming pioneer badass Grace Hopper who, among many things, worked on the first computer, invented the first languages that used words rather than symbols, and even had a pirate flag in her office in the Pentagon. She even had a clock that told the time backwards, keeping her on her toes, hating complacency - video embedded below:

You probably don’t know the name Grace Hopper, but you should.
As a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, Hopper worked on the first computer, the Harvard Mark 1. And she headed the team that created the first compiler, which led to the creation of COBOL, a programming language that by the year 2000 accounted for 70 percent of all actively used code. Passing away in 1992, she left behind an inimitable legacy as a brilliant programmer and pioneering woman in male-dominated fields.

I can’t embed the video but you can watch it here - definately worth the fifteen minutes of your time.

politicalsexmaskitten:

polanese:

videohall:

Hybrid wolfdog is very protective of the new kitten.

omg

"nope, nope that’s too far. time to come back now"

saucieshares

A 3-year-old boy shot and wounded his father and pregnant mother with a 9 mm handgun that he pulled out of the woman's purse while searching for an iPad, police in New Mexico said on Sunday. Both parents needed hospital treatment for non-life threatening injuries after the bullet went through his father's buttocks and into his mother's shoulder, Albuquerque Police Department Officer Simon Drobik said.

iguanamouth:

catharsis (alternate letters)

stunningpicture:

PETA was in town the other day, protesting the abuse of animals and handing out stickers. I gave one to my cat.

You don't need a road map to see the hypocrisy at work here. Goodell and the NFL expect Marshawn Lynch to sit for three different interviews during Super Bowl week alone, yet Goodell makes himself available for only one lone news conference on Friday afternoon, the point at which Super Bowl Week fatigue has set in.

At the end of a dynasty-crushing night, Lynch was gone, off into the night, disappearing from the locker room before many of his teammates had even peeled off their cleats. Lynch threw on a sweat suit, joined a small crew of friends and promptly left the building, pushing a couple of camera lenses out of his face and heading clear of the scene of defeat. All the while, he laughed and joked, responding to every comment from his pals with a cackle while, as ever, the enigmatic running back ignored media questions.

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You are at the end of a PFS scenario. In order to win, you must move through a doorway and activate a McGuffin in your possession in the room on the other side. There are a bunch of ogres standing in the doorway, trying to stop you, and time is running out.

Your party consists of a low-level, ranged-weapon fighter with really good stats; a handful of moderately-optimized, mid-level rogues; and a super-optimized, high-level barbarian with Dodge, Mobility, Greater Bull Rush, and a special boon that increases his CMB against ogres.

Instead of handing the McGuffin to the super-optimized barbarian so he can bull rush through the ogres, your party tells the barbarian to stand guard one room over. The fighter throws the McGuffin through the crowded doorway and the rogues attempt to grab it before any of the ogres do.

The rogues predictably fail to get past the ogres to claim the McGuffin. The party attempts a few ineffectual attacks against the ogres that now own their McGuffin, time runs out, and no experience points are awarded to the party. The barbarian is still standing guard one room over.

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- Eric Morton, explaining the end of the Superbowl in Pathfinder terms
(via oznogon)