Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
“Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?”
tina is the best
ok, so I think I’m gonna have to give this show a try now.
(Source: cheerupmistermars)
Kid wakes up to “Breed” by Nirvana, totally nails the air drums
Yes, I do think his generation will have the world in capable hands.
battle max ace: that “your kickstarter sucks” tumblr is seriously boring and crappy. i...
that “your kickstarter sucks” tumblr is seriously boring and crappy. i dislike bronies and people who say epic win as much as the next person but using autism as a pejorative is a real butthead uncool thing to do. besides that most of the posts are just shitting on all these kickstarters which…
Ow, my mouth. Ow, my tooth. Ow, my wallet.
So, even as a member of the charity care for UMDNJ. I still have to pay
* $55 for an initial dentist appointment and cleaning
* $25 for a followup and schedule
* $75 for the actual tooth extraction
* approx $30 for a generic Ketoprofen for post-having a tooth yanked out of my mouth pain
and the cost have to be paid before the service is rendered.
Well, hell.
F : C → C: timaeustestified: Even if i wrote up a massive and eloquently-typed...
Even if i wrote up a massive and eloquently-typed and perfectly well-articulated post about my experiences with ableism, and why it definitely exists, and even if i brought up painful memories by trying to describe the times i was raped and assaulted as a direct result of…
Don’t adjust your sound as this video has none, but wow, does it have a picture! This is a deepstaria enigmatica, a deep-sea jellyfish that was caught by a remotely operated underwater camera about 5000 feet (1500 m) down. Wikipedia places them “in Antarctic and near-Antarctic seas” and puts their size at “approx. 60 cm” (or almost 2 feet) wide. Impressive, nature. Impressive.
via io9.
Rarity whining…in French.
Bronycurious, look at this.
BAMF of the Day: Colombian downhill mountain biker Marcelo Gutierrez is back, this time taking us on a Red Bull Downhill time trial that descends some 2,000 meters and includes more than 1,000 terrifying stone steps. Miraculously, his only hiccup is finishing second to Sovak Filip Polc.
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Photograph by Zia Hiltey. Featured in the Ultramantis Black interview in The Atomic Elbow #1. Buy it here.
Janet Mock Launches #GirlsLikeUs Campaign to Empower Trans Women of Color
But Mock does not accept society’s rejection of trans women, emphatically stating in the same post that “I will never depart from my core belief that CeCe and Paige and thousands of other girls like us matter.” Her message, in her blog post and in her speech, is that the lives of girls like herself have inherent value that cannot be taken away, whether girls like her are harassed, imprisoned, or killed.
In her speech, Mock says that she would never have expected, one year ago, that she’d be speaking in front of a crowd about her life as a trans woman. But by speaking her experience and living visibly as a trans woman, Mock challenges concepts of womanhood and makes a space in society for herself and girls like her.
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What an amazing woman, and fantastic campaign.
Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)
He’s not the first chef to do this — I wrote about Karl Wilder doing the same experiment last year. But yeah. Food stamps are not a luxury item that our nation’s poor people are using to buy steaks and bottles of champagne. Though food stamps are designed to be supplemental, for many, they’re the only source of food.
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
