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NIKKI

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:17:37 -0700

NIKKI

I have Steam now, and y’all should find me so we can kill each other in TF2. My username is...

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:19:01 -0700

I have Steam now, and y’all should find me so we can kill each other in TF2. My username is Miss Andry.

powerhousekid: How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:34:27 -0700

powerhousekid:

How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

This is beautiful

shlabam: pleatedjeans: An 8-year-old’s homework. via I read...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:07:38 -0700

shlabam:

pleatedjeans:

An 8-year-old’s homework. via

I read it as “anis land”.

omg

Emoticon, Emoji, Text: Pt. 1, I Second That Emoticon

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:29:00 -0700

Emoticon, Emoji, Text: Pt. 1, I Second That Emoticon:

Part One of an emoji history.

“If you prefer the diction, style, typography, mode of distribution—or anything else—of a specific culture or sub-culture for the 20 or 200 years leading up to whatever linguistic development offends you, say so, but you’ll have to actually describe what it is about the language practices of that specific place and period you find preferable—if you want not to look like an a-historical dum-dum or ignorant cultural chauvinist.”

This is SO INTERESTING to me!

And Arya is the fucking best. How come no one talks about how cool Arya is? No, wait, don’t, I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:00 -0700

And Arya is the fucking best. How come no one talks about how cool Arya is? No, wait, don’t, I don’t want the spoilers.

varietas: Francesc Català Roca This cat looks like my cat, who...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:35:30 -0700

varietas:

Francesc Català Roca

This cat looks like my cat, who died today. I’m going to pretend it is him in whatever afterlife anyway, even though he had more of an affinity for sleeping in sunlit grass than perching on books.

God Brienne is so cool

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:17:59 -0700

God Brienne is so cool

A single company owns the exclusive patent on the BRCA 1 and 2 mutations—and jacks up the price for a $200 genetic test for breast cancer risk to $3,000, just because they can.

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:15:48 -0700

A single company owns the exclusive patent on the BRCA 1 and 2 mutations—and jacks up the price for a $200 genetic test for breast cancer risk to $3,000, just because they can.:

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intention exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

Ughhh why

"There’s no time for romance, we have shit to Avenge."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:32:00 -0700

“There’s no time for romance, we have shit to Avenge.”

- Scarlett Johansson,

on the lack of romantic subplot in The Avengers.

(via imwalkerbait)

spicefreakout: The Power Of Five [X]

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:31:59 -0700

spicefreakout:

The Power Of Five [X]

bpod-mrc: 17 May 2013 Stuck like Glue These glistening dew-like...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:26:08 -0700

bpod-mrc:

17 May 2013

Stuck like Glue

These glistening dew-like droplets are a death trap for insects, but could be a symbol of hope for surgery patients. The sundew (Drosera sp.) is an insectivorous plant that entices and then snares its prey with tentacles covered in gluey mucilage. Taking inspiration from nature, researchers believe this natural adhesive might have many medical uses. A complex network of carbohydrate-based nanofibres, sundew’s secretions are super-sticky and extremely stretchy. The most valuable property of this biomaterial is that animal cells can attach to and grow on it. If surgical implants, like hip replacements, were coated in sundew adhesive they might be more quickly integrated into the body, reducing rejection and improving recovery rates. It could even be used for wound dressings – promoting faster healing by encouraging cell growth. As the mucilage is so stretchy a little goes a long way, making it cost effective too.

Written by Sarah McLusky

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Pelagie Favi

Samantha Tracht

University of Tennessee, USA

shlabam: Never hang out with anyone who says “feminist” the same way Draco Malfoy says “mudblood”.

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:12:00 -0700

shlabam:

Never hang out with anyone who says “feminist” the same way Draco Malfoy says “mudblood”.

Hey, remember when I asked a close guy friend to stop flirting with me and we started fighting about...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:45:00 -0700

Hey, remember when I asked a close guy friend to stop flirting with me and we started fighting about what flirting was at all? He said he wasn’t flirting, and I finally changed my language to say, “Fine, maybe it’s not flirting, but your behavior (saying “AWWWW” when I express an opinion) is still demeaning and makes me uncomfortable.” I also told him that calling me adorable in front of my boss (this was before my boss got terrible) was Not Okay, so please would he stop and not do that anymore. He tried to excuse it by saying, “You’re inherently adorable,” and that, “If I lost all rational thought I would gun it for your body (if you were into it too), but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect you.” When I didn’t have any of that he got more angry and started telling me that I was in the wrong for making him mad.

That’s where we left it. I had tried to reconcile by saying that we obviously weren’t going to change each other’s minds and we should just drop the subject, because we were friends and had been for four years. He said he was still super insulted and livid and the fact that he was mad at all should “really tell [me] something.”

He’s recently been trying to extend the olive branch but seriously, fuck that guy.

"Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance,..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:31:21 -0700

“

Here’s a situation every woman is familiar with: some guy she knows, perhaps a casual acquaintance, perhaps just some dude at the bus stop, is obviously infatuated with her. He’s making conversation, he’s giving her the eye. She doesn’t like him. She doesn’t want to talk to him. She doesn’t want him near her. He is freaking her out. She could disobey the rules, and tell him to GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER, and continue screaming GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME every time he tries to step closer, or speak to her again. And then he will be all, “I was just talking to you! WTF!” and everybody else will be all, “Yeah, seriously, why’d you freak out at a guy just talking to you?” and refuse to offer the support she needs to be safe from dude. Or, the guy might become hostile, violent even. Ladies, you’ve seen that look, the “bitch can’t ignore me” look. It’s a source of constant confusion, as soon as you start budding breasts, that the man who just a moment ago told you how pretty you are is now calling you a stupid ugly whore, all because you didn’t get in his car.

You could follow the rules. You could flirt back a little, look meek, not talk, not move away. You might have to put up with a lot more talking, you might have to put up with him trying to ask you out to lunch every day, you might even have to go out to lunch with him. You might have to deal with him copping a feel. But he won’t turn violent on you, and neither will the spectators who have watched him browbeat you into a frightened and flirtatious corner.

So we learn the rules will protect us. We learn that, when we step out of line, somebody around us might very well turn crazy. Might hurt us. And we won’t be defended by onlookers, who think we’ve provoked the crazy somehow. So, having your ass grabbed at the bus stop, having to go out to dinner with a guy you fucking can’t stand, maybe even having to fuck him once or twice, it’s a small sacrifice to avoid being ostracized, insulted, verbally abused, and possibly physically assaulted.

It’s a rude fucking awakening when a woman gets raped, and follows the rules she has been taught her whole life — doesn’t refuse to talk, doesn’t refuse to flirt, doesn’t walk away ignoring him, doesn’t hit, doesn’t scream, doesn’t fight, doesn’t raise her voice, doesn’t deny she liked kissing — and finds out after that she is now to blame for the rape. She followed the rules. The rules that were supposed to keep the rape from happening. The rules that would keep her from being fair game for verbal and physical abuse. Breaking the rules is supposed to result in punishment, not following them. For every time she lowered her voice, let go of a boundary, didn’t move away, let her needs be conveniently misinterpreted, and was given positive reinforcement and a place in society, she is now being told that all that was wrong, this one time, and she should have known that, duh.

For anybody who has ever watched the gendered social interactions of women — watched a woman get browbeaten into accepting attention she doesn’t want, watched a woman get interrupted while speaking, watched a woman deny she is upset at being insulted in public, watched a woman get grabbed because of what she was wearing, watched a woman stop arguing — and said and done nothing, you never have the right to ever ask, “Why didn’t she fight back?”

She didn’t fight back because you told her not to. Ever. Ever. You told her that was okay, and necessary, and right.

You didn’t give her a caveat. You didn’t say, “Unless…” You said, “Good for you, shutting up and backing down 99% of the time. Too bad that 1% of the time makes you a fucking whore who deserved it.”

Nobody obtains the superpower to behave dramatically differently during a frightening confrontation. Women will behave the same way they have been taught to behave in all social, professional, and sexual interactions. And they will be pretty goddamned surprised to come out the other end and find out that means they can legally be raped at any time, by just about anybody.

”

- http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/another-post-about-rape-3/ (via seebster)

“The way men and women interact on a daily basis is the way they interact when rape occurs. The social dynamics we see at play between men and women are the same social dynamics that cause men to feel rape is okay, and women to feel they have no right to object. And if you accept those social interactions as normal and appropriate in your day to day life, there is absolutely no reason you should be shocked that rape occurs without screaming, without fighting, without bruising, without provocation, and without prosecution. Behavior exists on a continuum. Rape doesn’t inhabit its own little corner of the world, where everything is suddenly all different now. The behavior you accept today is the behavior that becomes rape tomorrow. And you very well might accept it then, too.”

Recurring Developments

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:35:00 -0700

Recurring Developments:

An interactive visualization of running jokes in Arrested Development.

Super good.

Photo

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:18:43 -0700

I mean seriously NO WONDER he’s insecure in the relationship.

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:31:10 -0700

I mean seriously NO WONDER he’s insecure in the relationship.

Amy Pond is so sarcastically detached, I kinda hate it. “Oh, Rory, you thought I died two...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:28 -0700

Amy Pond is so sarcastically detached, I kinda hate it. “Oh, Rory, you thought I died two seconds ago? Quit freaking out, I’m just keeping you on your toes!” Especially because she’s only this way to him.

paganlovefest: Baby Laugh A-Lot No. No no no no...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:15:24 -0700

paganlovefest:

Baby Laugh A-Lot

No. No no no no nonononnononononno.

No.

Is this the Joker’s doing?