Mostly lemon based

Day: August 11, 2015

  • Lessig&

    lessig:

    So I’ve launched the exploratory committee for a run to be a “referendum president.” I’d serve only as long as it took to pass fundamental reform — the Citizen Equality Act of 2017 — and then I’d resign. Here’s the video explaining the launch (5:55m) and the video explaining the idea (2:51m). 

    Trying to get the team to press a new meme to the site. To support me is always to support me & someone else. So, e.g., 

    #Lessig&Hillary or #Lessig&Bernie or #Lessig&Warren

    Can you help me convince them by using them? 

    You know, Lessig/Warren or Lessig/Bernie I would totally vote for. If I could vote in the US. I’d even vote Lessig/Hillary – because frankly any Dem is better than the entire republican field.

  • Kludge of the Year

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    I’m not sure if I’m proud of, or fear my ingenuity.

    Still, it enabled some progress on the deck. I was nearly very sad, because it quite upset the LiIon battery from my Makita drill, but after it’d chilled out (literally, I put it on the big block of concrete that is our fireplace) it charged okay.

    Thankfully, my drill doesn’t have the ‘digital’ batteries with the intelligent controller (apparently, once you’ve hurt them they don’t recover).

    I had a good go at the deck though, put lots of trim-type bits on it and worked out how I’m going to clad some more of it. Unfortunately, I’m going to need more pallets. It’s an endless pallet consuming device.

    I also deadheaded the roses, did a teeny bit of weeding, did the foodshop, sold my valve amp, and listed a whole bunch of stuff on gumtree.

    Oh, and finished the second season of Halt and Catch Fire. Brilliant.

    Colour me pleased with myself.

  • lotrlocked:

    validcriticism:

    divinedorothy:

    sim0nbaz:

    foxsan:

    shuttersmiley:

    sourcedumal:

    jackthebard:

    Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
    There are only fake geek boys.
    Science fiction was invented by a woman.

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    Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

    Isaac Asimov.

    yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

    If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole – oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

    Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

    even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

    PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

    And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

    *files under always must reblog when seen*

  • The first time I called the CDC, I said that I wanted to talk to someone about possibly designing a zombie virus. …So every time I came up with a new iteration of Kellis-Amberlee, I would call back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t … don’t do that.” At that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

    Seanan McGuire / Mira Grant (via

    mmastertheone

    )

    (chuckle) Persistence in research pays off.

    (via dduane)

    #somewhere there is a CDC employee #who is both all out of fucks to give #and experiencing a mild level of perpetual background anxiety about maybe being complicit in the future zombie apocalypse #like I’m just imagining this one specific person fielding all of seanan’s phonecalls #maybe two a day over a period of weeks #and progressing from bemused politeness #to genuine amusement #to steadily escalating panic #’what if she’s not really a writer?’ #’what if I’m actually helping a supervillain??’ #’oh god I’m not paid enough for this’ #’I LIKE VIRUSES NOT THE GENERAL PUBLIC’ #’PLEASE TAKE ME OFF PHONE DUTY OH GOD’ #lowering their head gently into their cupped hands with the phone braced between ear and shoulder #’ma’am-’ #’ma’am we really don’t recommend-’ #’ma’am, no, that wouldn’t-’ #’ma’am please I really think-’ #’don’t… don’t do that-’ #and then she just STOPS CALLING #and after three days of radio silence this person starts discreetly checking the news for x-files-style stories about zombies #getting shit from their colleagues for their sudden fascination with trashy newspapers and trying to play it off #’HAHA YOU GUYS YOU’RE SO FUNNY’ #’YEAH ZOMBIE RACCOONS, IT’S TOTALLY HILARIOUS’ #’WHO WOULD EVEN DO THAT AM I RIGHT?’ #’IT’S NOT LIKE THEY’VE GOT US ON THEIR SIDE’ #’HAHA’ #’HAHAHAHAHA’  #*nervously wipes sweat from forehead*   

    (via fozmeadows)

  • 2sober4dis:

    minnielikes:

    galesofnovember:

    liketheghost:

    so is it a thing in (american) english to use “texas” as a word for like, something that’s out of control or chaotic, or as like, “crazy”? like “that party last weekend was totally texas!”

    because that is a thing people say in norwegian and i just think it’s important for americans to know that?

    this is the best thing I’ve ever heard

    i’m sorry wHAT

    this is the texas-est shit i’ve ever heard

  • solarbird:

    everysinglewordspoken:

    Obama: “Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”

    This trailer: “… if you’re a cis white dude.”

    Goddamn this movie.

    This movie can go get fucked.

  • If anyone doubted my intent

    Tonight, someone’s coming to look at buying my valve amp and my Goldring Lenco GL-68 Transcription turntable.

    This is getting serious now.

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    Don’t go to paint stores that use imported machines to shake up the paint. Foreign agitators are not to be trusted

  • Well, that was an inaccurate button push.

    Oh oh. That's a little bit of a scary button that I just pressed.

    Notification of applicant readyness? I’m not ready. I’m blinkin’ terrified. Excited, yes. Thrilled at the future opening up. But also scared witless.

    I can’t imagine how my mum felt travelling 1000s of miles to go from her small tropical island to come to the UK back in the 1960s. And here I am getting collywobbles thinking about upping sticks to move to a country where they speak the same language, use the same alphabet… Such a wuss.

    But in terms of readyness, yes, the paperwork is ready. I’m not though. There’s stuff to sell and stuff to do. So I best get on with it.

  • Oh oh. That’s a little bit of a scary button that I just pressed. on Flickr.

    Oh oh. That’s a little bit of a scary button that I just pressed.