And we are nearly here… on Flickr.
And we are nearly here…
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Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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Melissa Harris-Perry Narrowly Escapes An Attack During Iowa Caucuses
Melissa Harris-Perry Narrowly Escapes An Attack During Iowa Caucuses
Melissa Harris-Perry has a rather harrowing tale to tell about a terrible experience at the Iowa caucuses. Rather than paraphrasing it, I’ll let her words speak for themselves.
Monday night I was sitting in a hotel lobby in downtown Des Moines with my back to a wall of windows, my eyes fixed on the TV, my attention wholly focused on early caucus results. I didn’t notice until he was standing right next to me, much closer than is ordinary or comfortable. When he started he speaking it was like he was picking up in the middle of sentence, finishing a conversation we had begun earlier, but I couldn’t remember ever meeting him.
“…So what is it that you teach?”
“I am a professor of political science.”
“My wife is a professor of communications.”
“Does she teach here in Iowa?”
“What I want to know is how you got credentialed to be on MSNBC.”
I am not sure if it is how he spat the word credentialed, or if it is how he took another half step toward me, or if it is how he didn’t respond to my question, but the hairs on my arm stood on end. I ignored it. Told myself everything was ok.
“Well. It is not exactly a credential…” I began.
“But why you? Why would they pick you?”
Now I know something is wrong. Now his voice is angry. Now a few other people have stopped talking and started staring. Now he is so close I can feel his breath. Before I can answer his unanswerable question of why they picked me, he begins to tell me why he has picked me.
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handstandsonthecatastrophecurve:
How do Flat Earthers explain time zones? This isn’t a rhetorical question I want to see their diagrams.
Flat Earthers oughtta call themselves Tiny Sunners because I think that might be the bigger thing going on here.
how the heck does antarctica work here
This diagram is woefully incomplete without Great A’tuin and the Elephants.
0/5 would not conspiracy
Yeah see thing is even that doesn’t make even superficial sense because light just goes out for a while and stops? 0/5 would not worldbuild again either.
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step 1: go to google maps
step 2: search “south australia”
step 3: zoom in once
step 4: drag the little yellow street view dude to maralinga
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Media: I have made an article about science.
Scientists: You’ve ruined a perfectly good research finding is what you’ve done. Look at it. It’s got alarmism. -
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Rainy Day Records had this excellent gramophone album in their freebies bin… Not really helpful in testing the new record deck, but damn cool all the same.
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A very nice chap just gifted me a little bit of home… on Flickr.
A very nice chap just gifted me a little bit of home…
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You have to admit, it looks damn cool for a decade old car. on Flickr.
You have to admit, it looks damn cool for a decade old car.
Honestly, even a decade ago, we were already pretty much living in the future
It has enclosed rear wheels and everything :)
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You have to admit, it looks damn cool for a decade old car. on Flickr.
You have to admit, it looks damn cool for a decade old car.