ruraljackdaw:

psilentasincjelli:

ruraljackdaw:

voyagesofabookworm:

thatwhoviansynesthete:

wearejohnlocked:

hungarian:

do british people have a special £ key on their keyboards

how do you hashtag ??????

hashtag is over by the enter key don’t you worry your lil butt

wait

what… what do American keyboards look like then?

oh

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Boy Scouts

danteshepherd:

There’s going to be some mocking of the Boy Scouts’ mere partial repeal of their policy on gay members — gay Scouts are now permitted, but not gay leaders.  This new policy may be impossible to pull off, as Scouts become adult leaders on their 18th birthday — that physical deadline that Scouts are taught to fear, as it represents the utmost roadblock on their road to Eagle. Will a troop really reject a Scout on their birthday after they have been members for years?

There’s going to be mocking of this partial repeal, even though there have been troops and councils that have openly rejected and defied the policy for years.  There are certainly bigots still involved — they’ll still exist in any society — but there are a number of openly gay Scouts and leaders who have worked with troops and at camps for years.  These are decades old facts that could be looked up — if anyone thought to.

There’s going to be mocking and continued blind confusion and bold statements questioning how even this partial repeal could have taken so long, ignoring the fact that the majority of funding for more than a decade has come from restrictive religious groups.  To ask the Scouts to reject these sources of funding is to ask them to kill off the entire organization — especially when everyone on the right side of history and the policy were only offering disdain and reprimands, not funding.

There’s going to be mocking of Scouts, by people who have never had any involvement in the Scouts, in regards to the half-hearted repeal.

I look forward to when this mocking converts back to the standard mocking of Scouts, by people who have never had any involvement in Scouts, because Scouting is uncool.

Because in the end, once full repeal is achieved, that’s where all this is headed, anyway.

Change takes time. A step in the right direction is a step in the right direction, even if multiple steps are eventually needed.

edwardspoonhands:

the-science-llama:

If Earth Had Rings

First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
— Click the photos for captions

DANGIT EARTH! WHY YOU NO HAVE RINGS!

bombsfall:

A quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men’s Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the “Red Pill”, because The Matrix is a good movie. Look any of these up if you have the stomach for it. These are extreme examples, but watered-down forms of these ideas are everywhere.

In lurking their blogs and youtube channels for a while, I’ve noticed that beyond the standard patriarchal chauvinism there is this deep fear of women - what they will do to me, how they will reject me, how they will use me, how they are changing society in a way that does not favor me, how they are making men into something I don’t like, how they are making themselves into something I don’t like, that they won’t give me what I want, and that they won’t give me what I think is rightfully mine. This goes beyond fear of feminism- this is fear of women at its purest. And that, to quote a puppet, leads to anger and hate. It’s sad.

I am a feminist. I think there’s enough ice cream to go around, but it does mean those of us with 3 scoops might have to give one or two up. Also, The Matrix is a fun movie but probably not anything you should be basing a philosophy on.

EDIT: I WROTE A LENGTHY POST ABOUT THIS HERE.

EDIT: DUE TO AN ALARMING NUMBER OF REQUESTS, THERE ARE NOW TSHIRTS. 25% GOES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

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amplifiedattire:

Robot(?) leggings by Balenciaga. [Source]

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colchrishadfield:

Hot smokestack exhaust streams in the harsh wind across a central Asian winter landscape.

What I find especially interesting is the darker line along the lines of steam. I can’t tell if it’s a shadow or melted snow.

(Source: mydollyaviana, via suchaninterestingworld)

edwardspoonhands:

tyleroakley:

Oops.

lolololol

I mean, I saw this story. He had just gotten done talking to several people in a row that were telling him how much they were thanking the lord when he interviewed this woman. So, in his defense, that particular faux pas is both easy to make and understandable.

However, yes. Lololololol.

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poco-loki:

thecorruptedquietone:

prongsmydeer:

Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable. 

#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are not even attracted to the doctor

so basically we want Donna back

Well, yes, but that was never disputed.

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