Category: General

nineprotons:

xenon-xi:

ihatecispeoplebecause:

mooseley:

I fucking love how tumblr has been using high flicker rate gifs on the login screen. Have you not heard of epilepsy?

not to mention that once in a while i go to a blog, and either the url is changed, they deleted, or i just typed it wrong, and it’s literally always a p high flicker rate gif:/

For anyone with sensitive eyes or epilepsy, if you’ve downloaded AdBlock, you can get rid of these GIFs.

Go to ‘options’, it should open up in another window. You can then go to ‘customise’ tab, and select ‘manually edit your filters’.

If you then paste tumblr.com###fullscreen_post_bg, the GIFs should no longer show up (in the very least, they shouldn’t show up when you go to an unclaimed URL).

Reblogging for any followers who have issues with this.

rambleonamazon:

seattlish:

The anti-trans bathroom and locker room initiative being headed up by a campaign called Just Want Privacy is offically beginning the long slog of collecting signatures to qualify for the ballot. 

After challenging their ballot language numerous times, JWP was dealt a blow in the courts when the ballot title and language handed down (with no appeals left) was, well, accurate: 

Because that’s what this initiative would do—it would override the existing protections for trans folks under the state’s nondiscrimination language by requiring that they use not the restroom which best fits their identity, but rather, which fits their sex at birth.

This, of course, represents a basic misunderstanding/ignorance about trans individuals—not to mention in direct contradiction with, you know, medical science—but that’s sure not stopping these alleged humans from creating marketing materials like this:

LOLLLLLL  I CAN’T EVEN TELL YOU ALL THE WAYS THIS IS AWFUL.

Anyway, despite only having about two months and change to gather close to 300k signatures (GOOD LUCK), a feat which will likely take literal millions of dollars (which they are not exactly raking in, even with the help of all these bigots!) and may still not end with a spot on the November ballot.

As we have warned about before, this is 100% not actually about the safety of women and children (it, for example, would not have done anything to thwart this recent incident of bathroom grossness at SeaTac airport!). It will protect no women. What it will do is make trans and non binary folks in our community less safe, and will essentially legalize transphobia by business owners, patrons, and schools.

It’s a bad initiative. Don’t sign it. To help, we’ve updated out What to Sign guide:

Do you live in Washington? Are you going to any festivals or street fairs this summer? Print out this handy guide so you know which signature gatherers are worth you time and which you can ignore!

tinierpurplefishes:

rudescience:

crazy-ideas:

Putin should declare a slightly larger marine sanctuary than Obama, sparking a environmentalist “arms race” that ends with a clean, unpolluted Earth.

The Warm War.

Things are too warm as it is. We need a

Cool War

philsandifer:

lornacrowley:

ok quick question is the phrase “going to chipotle with aristotle” funnier if you mispronounce chipotle, or aristotle

I think you’ve got to get both wrong, either by switching them or having both rhyme with “total.”

tinierpurplefishes:

nickey79:

passionjuicespot:

thespacegoat:

zacksplosion:

gimmegrimmy:

thecityofpawnee:

nerdmodeactivated:

tea-in-the-tardis:

bakuraryou:

OK SO IN ENGLAND THIS IS WHAT A RUBBER IS

AND SOMEONE ON MY DASH JUST MENTIONED PUTTING A ‘RUBBER’ ON YOUR PENIS AND

I GOT REALLY REALLY CONFUSED

THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A RUBBER IN AUSTRALIA TOO. WE FEEL YOUR PAIN.

SAME WITH NEW ZEALAND.

We don’t have those in America because we don’t make mistakes.

THAT WAS ONE TIME

HE WAS ELECTED TWICE.

Loooooool

LMAO! the Bush gif tho

That mistake needed the American kind of rubber to correct.

solarbird:

bethylated-spirits:

oak23:

newwavenova:

tiffanarchy:

lady–liberty:

steviemcfly:

comedownstairsandsayhello:

lord-kitschener:

sidneyia:

asgardreid:

jean-luc-gohard:

catsallthewaydown:

lizdexia:

jean-luc-gohard:

• Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.
• The phrase “hidey hole.”
• Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”
• The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.
• “…now watch this drive.”
• Mission Accomplished.
• “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.
• The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

And then we went to war.

“Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” – George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union

Okay, that’s the best one.

Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week

was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole.

Yeah, it was spider-hole

I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the “Axis of Evil” as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn’t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.

And then there was:

We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like, “That’s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,” and yet they did.

THE LAST ONE’S REAL?

Yeah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System

Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.

Also, “Free Speech Zones” looked something like this:

It was literally a cage.

I genuinely forget that people, even within my own age group, has forgotten the Bush era since they were teenagers and below the voting age at the time, and so forgot how fucking horrifying it was.

two words:

FREEDOM FRIES

and it never, ever, once, went below yellow alert, and it went up right before any important vote or election.

And there were so many parodies.

It was fucking terrible.