MARIO, YOUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER AQUARIUM?!?!
Reddittor jennyleighb posted video and these photos of her roomate’s 55 gallon aquarium that’s been customized with a LEGO Super Mario Bros. level. Here’s a link to more photos showing the progession of the build.
WHAT.
(via wilwheaton)
Here is the thing, okay? Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes women acquire free drinks at bars?” is like walking into graduate school during Philosophy finals and saying, “Have you considered that the color blue that I see may not be the color blue that you see?”
Imagine you are the guy who just walked into that Philosophy class and laid that shit down. Imagine the class full of students who have worked very hard and committed themselves and sacrificed to be here, students who have spent several years of their lives learning about this subject. Imagine now their feelings when you go to the head of the classroom with a smirk on your face and demand the professor give you an A for effort. Imagine now that they think you are a douchebag asshole, because they do, and because you are. You are a douchebag asshole because you are obviously so self-centered, arrogant, and completely ignorant of the world around you, that you thought you could walk into a high-level course with no background and no work and say something profoundly simplistic and totally unrelated and also everybody should congratulate you for having done this thing, so brave, so provocative.
[….]
You are not asking us a real question. You are simply illustrating, for all to see, your own ignorance. You are saying, “I have not considered the implications of the question I have just asked. I have not taken the time nor effort nor commitment to sit down and ask myself this question. Instead, I have come into your philosophy classroom/office/feminist blog and shat out my question with a smirk, because I believe that my two seconds of thought are worth more than your long-term analysis, because I believe I am worth more.”
(via disabledbyculture)
Besides the hype, besides the technical fuckups of NASDAQ, besides the overvaluation and offering too many shares during their IPO, I think the reason Facebook’s stock is failing as much as it is right now is that people have come to realize that Everybody’s Favorite Social Network is just too obnoxious, intrusive, and data-scrapingly assholish in the way it treats everyone from its most ardent users to, sadly, people on third-party platforms like, I dunno, TUMBLR, that perhaps want nothing at all to do with the privacy black hole that is Mark Zuckerberg’s dickishness incarnate but wake up and log on to find THIS UTTER BULLSHIT.
I go on Tumblr to be on Tumblr, Tumblr. Please leave the shitty Facebook tactics to Facebook.
Cosigned.
‘Ridiculously Photogenic Gerbil’ Embraced by Internet
Despite running a rigorous obstacle course, Winston the gerbil hadn’t even broken a sweat when he was photographed by a friend, mid-scamper.
“He looked fantastic,” said Mary Wells, who snapped the pic. “Very poised indeed.”
It didn’t take long for the Internet to get a hold of the image, and Winston quickly became known as the “Ridiculously Photogenic Gerbil” — a riff on the “Ridiculously Photogenic Guy” meme that took the web by storm in April.
Good Morning America has already booked the British rodent/heartthrob for tomorrow’s show.
Submitted by Victoria Le Geyt.
omg. so much better than ridiculously photogenic guy.
The Nullified Knight: http://thatdeafchick.tumblr.com/tagged/crappery-on-toast
Thank you to the lovely brydget for pointing me towards this.
Nullifiedknight this is what I have been trying to say.
Look, I get that. I understand why someone would post that, and what they’re getting at, but I honestly don’t see it that way. I don’t see how…
I do not have the energy or the eloquence this morning. I will get back to this.
Or maybe Brydget can help me? (Brydget you know so much more than me about this and I am so tired and not eloquent, any two cents?)
The only thing I can say is that this persons anger and push back against hearing people comes from a very real place. They may be super angry about it, and that may upset you or turn you off to their argument, but I kind of think their anger is legitimate. Instead of finding other ways to communicate with her son she just gets him a hearing aid.
I understand that her anger comes from a real place, and it is legitimate. I agree that there can be other ways, ones easier for the HOH person than sticking something in their head, but again, that’s an entirely different argument. What I have a problem with is that people seem to think Marvel did something wrong. The only thing they’ve done is make an honest effort to help a mother who asked for their help. The hearing aid was the mother’s choice, not Marvel’s. All I’m saying is that the writers should not be condemned for making a comic whose aim was to teach people that there’s no shame in wearing a hearing device. They weren’t saying the hearing aid was the only way. The fact that there are other forms of communication the mother did not look into wasn’t the issue being addressed, and Marvel had nothing to do with that. Marvel did do something good, and I think it’s only fair that be recognized.
I agree that it’s an issue that does eventually need to be addressed, though.
Marvel could’ve done it better.
Instead of creating a superhero that is like “look my hearing aid is my super power” they could’ve taken time and been like “Oh, wow, we haven’t represented a hard of hearing/deaf superhero in our comics! I wonder if there is a way we could do this better. Maybe we should ask some hard of hearing/deaf people for their input.”
There is no shame in wearing a device, but this “Blue Ear” dude was not made for the kid. It was made for the mom who couldn’t figure out any better way to communicate with her son. It was done in slap dash pity for this poor disabled kid and his mother who couldn’t get him to wear his hearing aid on his own.
They originally sent him drawings of him and Hawkeye, both with hearing aids and him as Haweye’s sidekick. It should’ve stopped there. If they wanted to make a “deaf superhero” they should’ve put a little more time into it.
It’s like if someone was like “Oh hey my son/daughter is gay why aren’t there any gay superheroes?” And they went “Oh here have a dude in a tutu with wings who has magic gay powers! That’s representation right!” (not that being gay and HOH/deaf have anything do with each other it just accurately represents the ridiculousness of what they did)
Edit:
I am done for now. I have nothing else to say at the moment and I am tired. This doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere so I am done.
So, I wanted to address this because slayerpotternoblereynolds asked me too. There’ve been a lot of excellent critiques of this issue going around, so I won’t spend too long on them, because many people have said it better than I have!
So, the HUGE problem I have with this is NOT with Marvel. And what nullifiedknight was saying is true, the battle for Deaf and HOH representation is a big one. I don’t think this is a separate battle, but a part of that one. But the problem I have is with people’s reactions. Hearing people are tearing up over this, talking about how awesome it is, and glorifying it to this sickening extent without thinking about the issues it represents or the ways that they make those issues worse. There are reblogs and reblogs (in the deaf tag on tumblr, no less, when I’ve heard very little people who regularly post in that tag think that this is cool at all) where people are being over the top emotional to think of that little boy who will wear his hearing aid now. Instead of, for a second, thinking of how people who hate their hearing aids have to wear them anyways because people won’t take a second to speak up, speak clearly, or look at someone when they’re talking.
I don’t know if I articulated this very well. Basically, it’s bad representation of an awesome community. It’s not necessarily a bad idea for a minor super hero, though it’d be nice if they went in depth, got some Deaf authors, talked about the benefits to being Deaf/Hard of Hearing. It’s a representation that allows people who have no idea of certain issues to feel better about themselves because they posted this story or thought about those poor people who can’t hear good for a moment. It’s slacktivism, similar to posting your bra color or a picture of a cartoon animal on facebook to raise awareness for breast cancer or child abuse, which does literally nothing to help those who suffer.
to see how many people are so mean in the Avengers fandom.
You have:
- People being sexist and assuming the girls are only there to look at the male characters and are completely disinterested in the story. This is rude. I am sure some women enjoy the movies primarily for their eye candy, but how is this any different than men who do the same? It is also rude to assume that women cannot/do not enjoy the super hero stories.
- People who are mean to fans who haven’t read the comic books. There are some people who haven’t read he comics, and it is more than acceptable for them to be fans of the Avengers after only seeing the movies. And furthermore, it is more than acceptable if they have no desire to ever read the comics. Some people don’t like comic books! And that is ok! And it does not make them lesser fans.
That’s mostly what I have seen lately and it makes me SAAAAAAAAAAAD
This! Though I would like to ad a few things.
1. It’s also mean/annoying/etc to assume that women who see superhero movies for the eye candy go to see the male eye candy. Ummmmm I see superhero movies for many reasons, but a HUGE one is there are always smokin’ hot women! And I really could be less interested in the dudes. Even though I’m into dudes as well as ladies in real life, I just really don’t care about male eye candy and never really have.
2. I have always felt like comic book elitists really need to address their classism. I mean, comic books are expensive, and you have to buy a lot of them! They’re also generally not available in libraries, though that’s changing in some places. I would love to read comic books, but I’ve never been able to afford it, and am not really sure how to go about it cheaply. Renting movies, however, with the advent of red box and netflix, is really cheap, and it was when I was a kid growing up with a poor family as there was a 99 cent rental place. Therefore, most of my nerdiness has revolved around books (library) and movies that I’ve seen on the small screen. As an adult, I go to the movies sometimes, but that’s still usually a fun experience that I only have to pay for once, as opposed to an ongoing series where I’ll want to keep buying them!
Anyways, people should stop being mean, and address their privilege and assumptions when they make mean comments. :D
No, Florida Is Not About To Foment A Zombie Apocalypse
Motherfuckers act like Florida just got weird. No, Florida’s been this weird, and Florida isn’t the only weird place, and Florida’s weirdness still doesn’t approach the level of weird needed for a zombie apocalypse. Let’s try giving a little context to this list of links.
A follow-up in the Miami Herald reveals that the case is still a mystery, but also contains these paragraphs:
While there have been no links between the two cases, the unknown is keeping Broward officials on its toes. There have been other cases of unexplained rashes in U.S. schools in the past few years, but the timing of these two incidents raises questions.
“I’ve been here for 12 years and I don’t recall anything like this happening — two incidents in such a short time period,’’ said Broward School District spokeswoman Marsy Smith.
5/19: No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport
Air samples came back inconclusive.
5/21: Police: Man bites woman in Westchester
This is from Illinois, not Florida.
5/23: I-285 reopens after hazmat incident
This is from Georgia, not Florida; the link in the original post is to the same link as the 5/25 link.
5/23: Man Bites Cousin’s Nose Off
This is from California, not Florida.
5/24: Second Broward school reports mystery rash
Original South Florida Sun-Sentinel story provides a lot more context, also mentions more national cases of inexplicable rashes.
“Kids Exposed To Pesticide On Bus” could probably be “Idiot Bus Driver Uses Pesticide To Clean Up Vomit.”
Witnesses said, the household pesticide Malathion, was used by the bus driver to clean up an area on the school bus where a student had previously been sick.5/25: ‘Disoriented’ passenger subdued on flight in Miami
Probably defeats the point to acknowledge that it was a Canadian man on a flight from Jamaica to Miami, right?
5/26: Naked Man Allegedly Eating Victim’s Face Shot And Killed By Miami Police
This is obviously the doozy, but the Herald has a follow-up that suggests that the victim was homeless and that the naked man may have been suffering from cocaine psychosis. Do you think there isn’t cocaine or homelessness outside Florida?
5/26: Florida Doctor Spits Blood at Highway Patrolmen After DUI Arrest
Zachary Bird is indeed a licensed doctor … whose car had unidentified pills, an unidentified liquid, and $14,000 in it, and who had $40,000 on him. And while spitting blood in someone’s face isn’t exactly normal behavior for someone who has no drug problem and is not inebriated, it happened in Ohio on May 17 and in Pennsylvania on May 19 … with an HIV-positive spitter.
Never mind that this post comes from a “Rick Santorum-themed comedy blog,” which, no, or that other dipshits are taking the recent spate of things as evidence of a zombie outbreak: Fatal stupidity is endemic to Florida alone, right, and we should worry about it most in terms of a zombie outbreak and not the continued disenfranchisement of Florida voters.
Meanwhile, journalism dies everywhere.
andy hutchins, voice of reason.
that said, the only reason I will still admit I am from florida is arizona.
(it’s still fun to joke about zombies)
This doesn’t really convince me the apocalypse isn’t happening… When it comes, it will be tricky to spot at first!
(Source: replicatroutheart)
Ben: You’re wearing snow pants
this is me this morning. except i went drunk ocean swimming, i didn’t try to go sledding. wayyy too much alcohol was consumed by me (and danny.)
(Source: takingcolintoglasgow)
remember about prince char and how he once sat down to write his dream girl a letter about his flaws
“I TRUST YOU TO FIND THE GOOD IN ME, BUT THE BAD I MUST BE SURE YOU DON’T OVERLOOK.” —prince char
but hahaha spoiler alert, turns out he’s an actually flawless human being
perfect post is perfect.
