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On Thursday, Wilson Robertson walked out of a Escambia County Board of County Commissioners meeting in Florida. The Christian Commissioner told a reporter with ABC3-WEAR News:

I’m just not going to have a pagan or satanic minister pray for me.

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HAVE YOU HEARD THE SOUNDLESS CALL

do you know the unspoken frequency

I have, and I am on Ello.

I AM AN ELLOHEAD.

Or an ELLOPOLAN or an ELLOFACE or an ELLO-DOER or whatever they’re called.

do you ello, bro

What is Ello, you ask?

ELLO IS THE WAY.

Ello is the path.

Ello is the DARK SPHERE — it is EYELESS and MAD.

AND YET, IT SMILES UPON YOU.

Believe in Ello.

Give it your viscera.

Ello is a social network.

It is as if Tumblr and Twitter and Facebook had a sterile European baby and that baby is possibly a sociopath and it doesn’t know how to walk or do much of anything except growup like, preternaturally fast and then as an adult it totally fucks an Ikea Billy Bookcase and shits out 10,000 business cards by an insane Norwegian typographer.

It is elegant and minimalist.

It is so minimalist it isn’t even minimalist, it’s just minmist or mmst.

Ello is like if I broke a typewriter over your head, and you were forced to communicate with everyone using only the shattered keys stuck in your soft uncooked hot dog flesh.

You are not its product.

You are its food.

It hungers.

Ello has no likes or +1s or retweets or reblogs or shares or any of those grim human distractions. Ello has only the terminator grace of a status update and the comment window. If you want to interact with an update and show your support you have to actually comment, like a human being, but like a human being who is also really sympathetic to robots, or is maybe just a replicant from Blade Runner or something.

Ello has FRIENDS and it has NOISE and it has nothing else.

You’re either my friend, you’re either noise, or you’re instead one of the foul ingredients that comprises the black abyssal gravy of total obscurity.

Everything is public. You cannot hide in Ellospace.

With its dead eyes, the smiling void will know you.

It has no circles or lists.

It has no analytics or hangouts.

(It does have emojis and animated GIFs, so, y’know.)

It has almost nothing at all.

It has no cares in this world.

It has no love.

It has no mercy.

Ello has Ello.

AND SOON ELLO WILL HAVE YOU.

…ahem.

So, yeah, I’m on this weird new social network and it’s probably not a social network but is instead some kind of toxic hallucinogen that we’re all sharing — mumbling in the darkness of our tenement apartments in the year 2043, gnawing on Ello-Bricks and descending into the stark, elegant, buggy beta of a psychotropic mindshare ‘network.’ Regardless, I’m there, and it’s interesting if only because it’s not the other social networks and because sometimes the value in a thing is just that it’s not the other things. (That value cannot last, mind you.) Right now, I like Ello because it’s low pressure and I don’t even know who’s paying attention, so I’m mostly just fucking around, posting photos and also excerpts from unpublished work.

It’s invite-only, and I’ve no invites left,but some of you may, and feel free to use the comment section here to bounce invites around if so desired.

spazzkid:

Rina Takeda [x]

SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN

ladysaviours:

joseph fink is not even in the vicinity of fucking around on twitter today

ekksu:

#for only 60 dollars u too can become a sexually alluring vegetable

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These teens could potentially pass on their genetically modified material to the next generation. So even if no other humans are legally able to be created this way in the future, we’ve already introduced biologically modified genetic material into the population.

The sculpture, sound, and mixed media installations are staged in four locations throughout the space: the New Industries Building; a group of cells in A Block; the Hospital; and the Dining Hall. Ai’s work inside creates a dialogue about how we define liberty, justice and individual rights.

dogweeds:

a tribute

Oldest depiction of female form shows that modern archaeologists are pornsick misogynists : Reclusive Leftist:

cannelledusoleil:

female-only:

plansfornigel:

Female figurine from the Hohle Fels cave near Stuttgart, about 35,000 years old. Interpreted as a pornographic pin-up.

“The Earliest Pornography” says Science Now, describing the 35,000 year old ivory figurine that’s been dug up in a cave near Stuttgart. The tiny statuette is of a female with exaggerated breasts and vulva. According to Paul Mellars, one of the archaeologist twits who commented on the find for Nature, this makes the figurine “pornographic.” Nature is even titling its article, “Prehistoric Pin Up.” It’s the Venus of Willendorf double standard all over again. Ancient figures of naked pregnant women are interpreted by smirking male archaeologists as pornography, while equally sexualized images of men are assumed to depict gods or shamans. Or even hunters or warriors. Funny, huh?

Consider: phallic images from the Paleolithic are at least 28,000 years old. Neolithic cultures all over the world seemed to have a thing for sculptures with enormous erect phalluses. Ancient civilizations were awash in images of male genitalia, from the Indian lingam to the Egyptian benben to the Greek herm. The Romans even painted phalluses on their doors and wore phallic charms around their necks.

Ithyphallic figure from Lascaux, about 17,000 years old. Interpreted as a shaman.

But nobody ever interprets this ancient phallic imagery as pornography. Instead, it’s understood to indicate reverence for male sexual potency. No one, for example, has ever suggested that the Lascaux cave dude was a pin-up; he’s assumed to be a shaman. The ithyphallic figurines from the Neolithic — and there are many — are interpreted as gods. And everyone knows that the phalluses of ancient India and Egypt and Greece and Rome represented awesome divine powers of fertility and protection. Yet an ancient figurine of a nude woman — a life-giving woman, with her vulva ready to bring forth a new human being, and her milk-filled breasts ready to nourish that being — is interpreted as pornography. Just something for a man to whack off to. It’s not as if there’s no other context in which to interpret the figure. After all, the European Paleolithic is chock full of pregnant-looking female statuettes that are quite similar to this one. By the time we get to the Neolithic, the naked pregnant female is enthroned with lions at her feet, and it’s clear that people are worshipping some kind of female god.

Yet in the Science Now article, the archaeologist who found the figurine is talking about pornographic pin-ups: “I showed it to a male colleague, and his response was, ‘Nothing’s changed in 40,000 years.’” That sentence needs to be bronzed and hung up on a plaque somewhere, because you couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of the classic fallacy of reading the present into the past. The archaeologist assumes the artist who created the figurine was male; why? He assumes the motive was lust; why? Because that’s all he knows. To his mind, the image of a naked woman with big breasts and exposed vulva can only mean one thing: porn! Porn made by men, for men! And so he assumes, without questioning his assumptions, that the image must have meant the same thing 35,000 years ago. No other mental categories for “naked woman” are available to him. His mind is a closed box. This has been the central flaw of anthropology for as long there’s been anthropology. And even before: the English invaders of North America thought the Iroquois chiefs had concubines who accompanied them everywhere, because they had no other mental categories to account for well-dressed, important-looking women sitting in a council house. It’s the same fallacy that bedevils archaeologists who dig up male skeletons with fancy beads and conclude that the society was male dominant (because powerful people wear jewelry!), and at another site dig up female skeletons with fancy beads and conclude that this society, too, was male dominant (because women have to dress up as sex objects and trophy wives!). Male dominance is all they can imagine. And so no matter what they dig up, they interpret it to fit their mental model. It’s the fallacy that also drives evolutionary psychology, the central premise of which is that human beings in the African Pleistocene had exactly the same values, beliefs, prejudices, power struggles, goals, and needs as the middle-class white professors and students in a graduate psychology lab in modern-day Santa Barbara, California. And that these same factors are universal and unchanged and true for all time.

Hohle Fels phallus, about 28,000 years old. Interpreted as a symbolic object and …flint knapper. Yes.

That’s not science; it’s circular, self-serving propaganda. This little figurine from Hohle Fels, for example, is going to be used as “proof” that pornography is ancient and natural. I guarantee it. Having been interpreted by pornsick male archaeologists as pornography because that’s all they know, the statuette will now be trotted out by every ev psycho and male supremacist on the planet as “proof” that pornography is eternal, that male dominance is how it’s supposed to be, and that feminists are crazy so shut the fuck up. Look for it in Steven Pinker’s next book. ***

P.S. My own completely speculative guess on the figurine is that it might be connected to childbirth rituals. Notice the engraved marks and slashes; that’s a motif that continues for thousands of years on these little female figurines. No one knows what they mean, but they meant something. They’re not just random cut marks. Someone put a great deal of work into this sculpture. Given that childbirth was incredibly risky for Paleolithic women, they must have prayed their hearts out for help and protection in that time. I can imagine an elder female shaman or artist carving this potent little figure, and propping it up somewhere as a focus for those prayers.

On the other hand, it is possible that it has nothing to do with childbearing or sexual behavior at all. The breasts and vulva may simply indicate who the figure is: the female god. Think of how Christ is always depicted with a beard, which is a male sexual characteristic, even though Christ isn’t about male sexuality. The beard is just a marker. Or, given the figurine’s exaggerated breasts, it may have something to do with sustenance: milk, food, nourishment.

The notion that some dude carved this thing to whack off to — when he was surrounded by women who probably weren’t wearing much in the way of clothes anyway — is laughable.

#reclusiveleftist #women’s history #porn #white men are stupid

Good lord I am so glad I took ancient art from a female professor.

Flint knapper?? SERIOUSLY?

dammit-jim-im-a-blog:

skeletonmeme:

bandgeek1207:

So I was at my friends house and she opens her freezer and This WAS THERE. AND I WAS DYING AND SHE LOOKS AT ME AND GOES “ah yes, this is Henry, the freezer skull” and I can’t…

ay yo got any freezy pops in dis bitch

hes chillin

Usually when you're punting you want to avoid punting the ball directly into a teammate's ass:

Close quarters are no fun for punters, nor linemen's butts, apparently. BUTTPUNT got the Eagles a touchdown, but it got the Niners a warm place in our hearts.

The Saints thought they could try a little trickery to close out the game. It went as you might expect. OK, let's break this one down.

1) You have Drew Brees, one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL and yet you elect to have your punter try to throw the ball in a two score game.

2) You're down two scores. Everyone in the freakin' world knows you're going to try to fake this when there's five minutes left. Heck, the Cowboys knew it. They sat in coverage knowing you were going to try this Saints, and you still went for it.

3) The Cowboys had nine people in coverage. NINE. N-I-N-E. How exactly were these numbers going to work? A punter throwing into quintuple coverage is a good idea, we guess.

4) Why?

5) Seriously, why?

Tony Romo played some of his best football of the season, and despite a late comeback attempt by Drew Brees and the Saints, the Cowboys won at home, 38-17.

The last time the Dallas Cowboys and  New Orleans Saints met up, the Saints set a record for most first downs in a game. Not so this go-around -- Dallas manhandled New Orleans until deep in the fourth quarter, winning at home, 38-17.

Tony Romo had his best first half of the season, while Drew Brees was under constant pressure and Rob Ryan's beleaguered defense couldn't stop DeMarco Murray or Terrance Williams. That changed in the fourth quarter when the Saints forced Romo into poor throws, but New Orleans wasn't able to capitalize and never pulled closer than 14 points.

1.) The Cowboys have an offense!

Tony Romo at the half: 17-of-22 for 202 yards and two touchdowns.

Drew Brees at the half: 10-of-13 for 84 yards and an interception.

This game was by far one of the biggest surprises of week 4. The Cowboys absolutely destroyed a normally solid Saints defense. Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan had no answer for a rejuvenated Cowboys offense that was firing on every cylinder.

Romo was able to pass out of play action, Murray had his fourth straight game with 100-plus yards (with 149) and at least one touchdown (the last person to do that? Emmitt Smith in 1995), and wide receiver Terrance Williams had over 100 yards receiving and 2 touchdowns. And Romo? He finished 22-of-29 with 262 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions -- a passer rating of 137.4.

The Saints, on the other hand, were terrible in the first three quarters.

After serious deliberation, I think this is the Saints' worst game since losing 42-10 to the Colts in the 2007 opener.

— Tom Mantzouranis (@themantz) September 29, 2014

Until a late charge in the fourth quarter, the Saints offense just could not get anything going. Despite not getting sacked once, Brees was under constant pressure and found most of his receivers heavily blanketed. Jimmy Graham had only the fourth fumble of his entire career, the Saints attempted the weirdest fake punt in recent Sunday Night Football history, and the offensive game plan seemed, at best, confused.

2.) The Cowboys defense is still a work in progress

Despite having a 31-3 lead well into the third quarter, the Cowboys couldn't feel completely safe. After losing linebacker Bruce Carter to an injury on a big running play by running back Khiry Robinson, the Dallas defense had a much harder time defending Brees' passing, enabling him to move laterally and make big passes in space. Brees went to tight ends Graham and Josh Hill in the fourth quarter, both for touchdowns to make the score 31-17. Receiver Dez Bryant scored late in the fourth quarter to finally put the game out of reach.

3.) Seriously, what happened to the Saints defense?

After finishing last in defense in 2012, the Saints hired Rob Ryan His 2013 defense ranked fourth in total points, allowing just 19 points per game. But on Sunday, the Saints were absolutely powerless against Romo and the Cowboys' running game. Whether by short passes or on throws to the middle of the field, the Cowboys were able to pick up first down after first down. The Cowboys' front seven asserted itself at the line of scrimmage and the Saints had no answer to Murray.

 

“I didn’t plan to be the world’s first cyborg pop singer; it’s simply how things have turned out.”

Know what’s punk as fuck? Losing most of your leg to cancer and not only surviving, but turning your prosthetic into a working violin. Full article in FT Magazine.  By the way, this woman is 52 years old. Punk. As. Fuck.

safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix made a great play

Thousands of people have remained on the streets of Hong Kong for another day of pro-democracy protests, defying tear gas and ignoring appeals to leave. Overnight, riot police advanced on crowds who ignored official warnings that the demonstrations were illegal. Protesters are angry at Chinese government plans to vet candidates in Hong Kong's 2017 elections.

ithotyouknew:

birdgirlriri:

darvinasafo:

These are modern day lynchings

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/louisiana-police-officer-shoots-kills-14-year-old-honor-roll-student/

THAT WAS SOMEBODY’S FUCKING BABY. I’M ACTUALLY CRYING RIGHT NOW, THEY WERE PLAYING IN AN ABANDONED HOUSE BEING FUCKING KIDS AND NOW THIS LITTLE BOY IS DEAD.