I don’t care what anyone says, this was the best moment on TV ever.
this is the greatest thing i’ve ever seen
Omfg I have scrolled passed this so many time and thought “what, this doesn’t look so great what is everyone talking about?” But oh man it is. It is everything that I live for.
Walter White dies at the end of Breaking Bad.
Now, you might think this a spoiler. If you haven’t seen the show and have somehow avoided all discussion of its series finale up until this point, technically, it is. But look at all of the things I haven’t told you about Walter’s death. I haven’t told you if he’s done in by a friend, foe, or the cancer he was diagnosed with in the pilot. I haven’t told you if he dies on his own terms, or because he was bested by someone or something. I haven’t mentioned the fates of any of the other characters, like Jesse Pinkman, Hank Schrader, or Walt’s wife, Skyler. I haven’t talked about the way the sequence is constructed, shot, and edited. And that’s to say nothing of the fact that Breaking Bad tells ...
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firehosevia Lori
hi Russian Sledges
"Take out your guns and shoot them!" – James Savoy (Titus Welliver)
firehosethis is a quality broken post
hodad@gamerbros @bostonbros
firehosemeanwhile, in Portland
Tumbr -
A dear friend, writer, and Oregon black scholar, Walidah Imarisha, has had her work lifted without her consent and used to crowdsource and fund a documentary called Whitelandia. Whitelandia is supposed to be a movie about Oregon’s exceptionally racist history. Unfortunately the white film makers have built their entire work off the backs of black scholars and generations worth of black historians but have done little of their own research.
Walidah had this to say about Tracy MacDonald and Matt Zudrow, but I’m just going to quote a snippet:
And more than just using a clip of my program without permission, the producers stated several times, in our one face-to-face meeting as well as in various emails, that my timeline, my research and my analytical framework I put forward in my public scholarship form the spine of their film. Again, without my input or even knowledge. This situation, where my work as a Black female scholar has been used by two white filmmakers without conversation, credit, compensation or control reeks of intellectual colonialism.
She continues:
My other concern is that this film raised a significant amount of money on a kickstarter using the faces, voices and stories of people who were not asked, and did not agree to it. I did not agree to be part of this project, and certainly not a part of a kickstarter campaign. It seems the majority of their money came from small donations, funded by everyday people who believe this is a vital topic that needs to be explored and shown on a larger level. People who thought they were funding a film rooted in and deeply connected to communities of color in Oregon, which unfortunately is not the case.
Here’s is Whitelandia’s facebook page.
And here are the producer’s public contact info (I did not dig for this, this was openly available). Please write them and let them know that what they’re doing is hurtful to Oregon’s community of color, and that we are deeply saddened to see them profit off black bodies while simultaneously not allowing them credit or profit from the work they create. Although their intentions may be good, this does not absolve them from their profoundly racist behavior. Please write to:
Tracy MacDonald (tmacdonald@uncolafilms.com) (503-490-4054)
Matt Zudrow (mzodrow@uncolafilms.com) (503-890-8132)
They’re trying to delete and block black and other poc commenters on their facebook page now.
firehosetumblr suddenly discovers Richard Dawkins is a racist sexist dickhead
NO WAY NO FUCKIN WAY
your white atheist faves aint shit whodda thunk?
Nothing says rational argument like attacking a strawman and ignoring decades of research and studies on human behavior!
Evangelical atheism: who needs evidence based reality when you can just pretend
knowing a bit of biologybeing a white man makes you an expert on everything? …
*stares*
You know how you hear stories of dogs keeping their owners alive for weeks after having a stroke or running for miles to get help if their owners are hurt in the wild, I accidentally knocked my wheelchair away while sitting on the couch and had to slide across the floor on a cushion before climbing back in, Rico not only didn’t help but howled at me while i was doing it because i wasn’t paying attention to him.
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t laugh at this f ucking picture
Dice shaming.
DICE SHAMING. Can this please be the next viral meme? Cause it’s hilarious.
ELP
OH MY GOD DICE SHAMING I LOVE IT!
YES GOOD.
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here is my sketch for what will be the greatest screenprint ever printed. happy pride everybody.
Yep. Will be checking this out, too.
Press stuffs below:
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SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA FIGHT..LIKE A GIRL!
Action Lab Entertainment’s newest miniseries battle royal set to debut.
PITTSBURGH, PA- Action Lab Entertainment is all about great stories and great female characters. Now the company that brought you PRINCELESS and MOLLY DANGER continues that tradition with the launch of FIGHT LIKE A GIRL!
Created by writer David Pinckney, FIGHT LIKE A GIRL stars Amarosa, a normal girl who is desperately trying to find a way to cure her terminally ill brother. To save him, she must earn the right to make a single wish. To do so she must face the Pantheon of Gods and go through a series of nine trials within the Wishing Well, a source of unimaginable power. If Amarosa survives, her wish will be set in stone. If she fails, her soul will be damned for all eternity. She’ll have to get past her insecurities in order learn more about herself than she ever imagined. Will she succeed? Find out in this fantastic four issue miniseries.
Fight Like A Girl features art by Soo Lee (Liquid City, Dim Sum Warriors) and is scheduled for a November 2014 Release.
Am soooooo looking forward to this, can’t wait to get our shipment in store
People may not like Gothitelle but can we just talk about this
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Icelandic girl Harriet Cardew was denied a passport by her home country, and it's all because of her English name.
Cardew's father, Tristan, was born in the UK and moved to Iceland 14 years ago.
Read the restIt's been a fantastic, strange, weird, wonderful, thrilling sixteen days, hasn't it? There've been 136 goals scored in that span, with moments of individual brilliance from Lionel Messi, and that header from Robin van Persie. But we've also seen glorious goals from the likes of Tim Cahill, Gervinho, Xherdan Shaqiri, James Rodríguez, and the always industrious Own Goal. We've reveled in Colombia's choreographed goal celebrations, over-analyzed the way players fold their arms, wondered whether Puma kits shrink in the rain, and realized Greece can actually attack (for 30 minutes, at least). It really has been a World Cup to savor.
Yet for all the fun, there's no denying that this World Cup has offered up a few twists that aren't just strange, but are damn near universally depressing.
We've seen it before. Player takes a knock to the head. Player is out cold. Player wobbles to the sideline. Player is allowed to resume play.
It's even more disheartening to see it happen on soccer's biggest stage. With Uruguay up 1-0 against England, Álvaro Pereira attempted to slide into a challenge on Raheem Sterling, only to collide with the Englishman's knee. The defender lay prone on the field for over a minute, before insisting to Uruguay's coaching staff that he was fit to return to action. He played on for the remaining 30 minutes of the match.
Returning to play after a gruesome injury is almost like a badge of honor, a way of showcasing true masculinity. But in the case of head injuries, it's not just stupid, but actively dangerous. Playing on with a head injury can result in lasting neurological damage, which doesn't just affect a player's future in the sport, but likely his future in all of life.
While this incident may galvanize FIFA into action - FIFPro, the players union, is already calling for the organization to examine its approach to head injuries - it's depressing to realize that, while disappearing shaving foam and goalline technology were both able to find their way into this world cup, there's yet to be a serious discussion on how to properly handle a serious head injury.
Unfortunately, Mario Balotelli is all too familiar with racist abuse - he encounters it nearly every time he steps on a field in Italy. But in the wake of the azzurri World Cup exit, that abuse only grew. Disgruntled Italy supporters lashed out, including one individual who recorded an instagram video saying that Balotelli wasn't "really" Italian, and telling him to "go away."
There's no denying the 23-year-old did not have the best of World Cups. He scored Italy's winner against England, but went on to play poorly against Costa Rica, and, after receiving a yellow card, came off at halftime against Uruguay. Teammates Gigi Buffon and Daniele De Rossi went on to criticize the striker indirectly, commenting on how young players hadn't given their all, and that the team need real men, not "characters."
It is perfectly legitimate to criticize a player for his actions on the pitch. The tragedy occurs when the player is singled out based on a characteristic he cannot control, such as the color of his skin. Balotelli was born in Italy - to Ghanaian immigrants - and raised in Italy. He made the choice to secure his Italian passport, and he made the choice to play for the azzurri. While performance at this tournament is certainly open for discussion, the color of his skin should not be.
That's something that FIFA have yet to make entirely clear, despite all their bluster about ridding the game of racism.
Article 3 of the FIFA statute reads:
Discrimination of any kind against a Country, private person or group of people on account of race, skin colour, ethnic, national or social origin, gender, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion, wealth, birth or any other status, sexual orientation or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion.
Thus far, FIFA has declined to take action over Germany fans wearing blackface during the match against Ghana. They haven't removed banners with anti-semetic or Neo-nazi symbols. But what provides the least encouragement regarding FIFA's stance on anti-discrimination is their decision that the Mexico fans' chant of "¡puto!", a gay slur, "is not considered insulting in this specific context."
Some allege that ¡puto!, in this context, simply means "cowardly," and chanting it as the opposing 'keeper takes a goal kick is simply part of a time-honored tradition. Yet the chant is used to question the opposition's manhood, making it a homophobic slur. The Mexican government department charged with eliminating discrimination condemns the use of the word, saying it "reflects homophobia, sexism and misogyny that still is prevalent in our society."
In these instances, it's not the dominant group - ie, straight males - that get to determine whether a chant is offensive. FIFA got this one wrong, and with Mexico making it to the next round, we'll all be treated to another chorus of gay slurs, so wonderfully amplified by the microphones.
