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Watch: George Takei sends a message in Spanish about how we can defeat Trump
George is doing such important work right now. I’m so grateful he’s speaking out.
I seriously wish my Japanese grandmother who was interned in World War II and my Mexican grandmother who came to the United States for the first time as an illegal immigrant—who, I’m utterly baffled and ashamed to say, ARE BOTH VOTING FOR TRUMP—would watch this video…
…but they won’t.
Fake? No
Explanation: Shared as “an ice-cold whisky dispenser, sometimes found in offices. (1950s)”, this photo was taken at a vending machine exhibition. There is no evidence it was “found in offices”, as PicPedant points out.
Original photo
When: February 15, 1960
Where: London, United Kingdom
Source: Ron Case / Getty Images[Debunked by @PicPedant on Twitter]
Roughwood Rosie, named after our dear friend @roreilly23 who is even more day-brightening than this bean, which she rogued from another bean variety, finding its dry seed beautiful. Turns out it is beautiful through and through. Now I can’t track down which bean variety it emerged from! I wanted to post right away though. #roughwoodrosie #roughwoodseedcollection #phaseolusvulgaris (at Devon, Pennsylvania)
today at work i let someone into a dressing room and they said “thanks” and half of me tried to say “you’re welcome” and the other half tried to say “no problem” and i ended up saying “your problem”
this post had me in tears
I was hoping the notes would be full of similar stories, but they’re not, so I’ll add my story for anyone else looking for more laughs:
I had to go to a library to pay a fee and I was practicing in the car between “I have to pay a fine” and “I have to pay a fee” and I walked in and firmly stated “I have to pee” and slapped a five dollar bill on the counter (the fee was like ten cents), and walked out. This was like three years ago and I still haven’t been back,
My friend was driving and we were almost past our turnoff so I tried to say “quick” and “fast” at the same time and I ended up screaming “QUACK” which ended up with him judging me very hard and missing the turn
Recently someone in class asked me how I was doing and I started off saying I was good but switched to I’m okay in the middle and ended up saying “I’m gay.”
Which, while kind of accurate, was not what I meant to announce to my classmate.
This Halloween I was handing out candy and a child said “trick or treat” and I smiled gave them their candy and apparently my mouth betrayed me and I said “Merry Christmas” and proceeded to sit down and look up to the sky for answers while their mother laughed at me :)))))
I was switching between “Bye Deanna” and “Goodbye” and I ended up saying “Go Die”
Sometimes I try to say “I fucking love you” but it comes out in the wrong order and then everyone’s uncomfortable.
When I first started my coffee shop job, I was still getting used to greeting customers as they came in the door. A man walked in, and in the jumble of trying to say, “How are you doing?” and “What’s up?” I ended up demanding “What are you doing here?!”
something really cool happened once at the office and i started to say “i’m so amazed” but halfway through my mind changed to “that’s really amazing” and i just ended up saying “i’m really so amazing”
one time i was out in the woods in the spring when the birds were just beginning to come out again and i went to say “i’m so pumped for the birds” and “i’m so hyped for the birds” and instead i said “i’m so humped for birds”
Once I was walking to school and there was a guy walking his dog and the dog came to me and started sniffing me and I was in such a good mood and when I passed by his owner I wanted to say like “hello” or “good morning” or “cute dog” or something like that and I ended up looking up at him, smiling real big, and saying “thank you”.
I was at the convenience store and I was going to buy a drink, but i dropped my keys and the drink when I got to the register so I got caught between “my drink!” and “my keys” and ended up screaming “MY KINK.”
I walked up to this register,in a target. When the cashier finished checking me out she said have a good day, and i wanted to say “You have a good day” and “You too” so it came out “You have a good do do”
I FUCKIN H HIT MY HEAD ON A CHAIR FROM LAUGHING TOO HARD AT THIS FUCKING POS T
There’s so many new stories on this since the last time I saw it and fuck I am laughing so hard I think I’m annoying my roommate
These are too damn good to pass up reading!
Trans Actress Michelle Hendley on Trans Rom-Com Boy Meets Girl
Craving more trans actors playing trans roles? Meet Michelle Hendley, whose debut as charming small-town trans girl Ricky has viewers and critics wanting more.
Boy Meets Girl is a sex-positive love story that crosses all gender lines, director Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell, Never Again, Mind the Gap) tells The Advocate. In a time when most movies dealing with trans-themed plots are casting cisgender (nontrans) actors, Schaeffer has intentionally cast an unknown trans woman for the leading role. The Advocate caught up with him and lead actress Michelle Hendley to learn more.
The Advocate: I watched Boy Meets Girl this week and I have to say, “Wow that was incredibly real.”
Michelle Hendley: I’m so glad the film rang true for you! It was of the utmost importance to the Boy Meets Girl crew to create a story that felt authentic to the trans experience.
Previous to your acting career, you had a YouTube channel where you shared your transition details. Do you feel that helped you prepare to be in front of a camera as an actress?
Yes! It seems silly to think that a bunch of YouTube videos would help prepare me for my film debut, but it definitely cut my nerves in front of the camera a bit.
Boy Meets Girl is your first feature film. How did you get involved in the project?
Eric [Schaefer, the director] found me via YouTube and told me about his project. At first I thought he was just some dude on the Internet with creepy intentions, but after checking out his [page on] Internet Movie Database and Skyping with him I realized he was a real deal director. I was very excited to be a part of the movie.
How does your life compare to the life of main character Ricky? Are they similar?
There are quite a few parallels between Ricky and I. For one thing, we are both young trans women. We also come from loving and supportive communities and families, and live pretty “normal” lives. We work 9-5 jobs, cry about boys, and probably spend too much time trying on clothes and looking at ourselves in the mirror. However, Ricky carries a dark past that has made her a little more edgy / salty than myself.
To what level of transphobia have you experienced in your life as compared to what your character experienced?
While I have yet to experience any physical violence because of my trans identity, I was teased and bullied in my formative years. Kids can be mean, and I think everyone faces some discrimination/ bullying growing up. I was just targeted for being very feminine. Nowadays I don’t really deal with petty teasing but there are individuals who simply refuse to accept me (or any trans person) for who/what I am. I do not give these sorts of people much mind though, to be honest. I don’t have time for all that negativity.“
Read the full interview here
i know i dont like to make it political here very often, but i found this tweet very accurate
Earthen cabin in Småland, Sweden.
Known as “backstugas,” these cabins were common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s. The structures were often built by on the border between two properties, generally on land that could not be farmed. It was not uncommon for the inhabitants to work for the landowners.
This particular cabin, which features three stone walls and one wooden wall, was built in the early 1800s by “Little Jon.”
Contributed by Christoffer Castor.
Everybody knows Hillary’s a liar. Everybody knows Hillary’s corrupt. Everybody knows Hillary’s a criminal. Everybody hates Hillary, and no one enthusiastically supports her; her voters are just afraid of Trump.
I’ve heard these things stated over and over throughout the primaries, without any sources to back them up. Who needs sources? We all know Hillary Clinton’s the worst, don’t we? She wouldn’t have decades of scandals and all these hearings and investigations if she weren’t. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Well, except the smoke about Whitewater, because that seven year investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons.
And it turns out that six official investigations into Vince Foster’s suicide found nothing to suggest the Clintons had a hand in his death. In fact, there’s no evidence pinning them to any of the dozens of deaths they’re said to have caused.
There’s always Benghazi, though. Sure, the eighth investigation ended the way the first seven did, with no evidence of wrongdoing, but maybe another investigation will find the truth!
Okay, but what about her email server and the way she compromised national security and tried to cover it up? FBI director James Comey even overstepped his authority when speaking about the investigation’s findings in order to publicly condemn her! Except he also said that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”, and later clarified before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that there was no evidence Clinton’s server had been hacked, that Clinton did not lie, and that she did not break the law.
Well, she still voted for the Iraq War when she was senator! Which she freely admits was a mistake. She and other senators believed that the Congressional Resolution they were voting for would authorize the president to use force only after “diplomatic or other peaceful means” had been exhausted. She even said during the Senate debate on the resolution that attacking then and there could “set a precedent that could come back to haunt us.”
Still, she won’t release the transcripts of those speeches she was paid for! How dare she not give up her intellectual property created while she was a private citizen, never mind that one of the speeches is already freely available for viewing online. Why can’t she be like Trump and Sanders and just refuse to release her tax returns instead?
But she’s a liar! There’s a video of her lying for thirteen straight minutes! True, it’s manipulatively edited and mostly just showing how her views, like anyone else’s, have evolved over time, and Politifact ranks her as the most honest candidate, and the former executive editor of The New York Times called her “fundamentally honest and trustworthy,” but well, everybody knows she’s a liar!
All right, so she’s never been convicted of any crime, and all the investigations into her alleged scandals keep coming up with nothing, and she won the Democratic primaries after consistently polling ahead of Sanders, but that’s only proof of her corruption. She’s rigged the system so that she can get away with anything! She just somehow hasn’t rigged it well enough to keep all this stuff out of the press.
Because that’s definitely more rational than concluding that, just maybe, she’s an imperfect but well-qualified candidate with a bad reputation formed by decades of smears and conspiracy theories.
At first glace, Pando Forest in Utah, United States looks like a regular forest of aspen trees; in fact, they are regular – except for the fact that they’re all genetically identical to one another.
Though it looks like a forest, the whole thing is actually a single organism. Every tree — or stem, technically — is genetically identical, and the whole forest is linked by a single root system. Pando’s aspens reproduce asexually by sprouting new stems from the root structure.With over 40,000 stems and a weight of 13 million pounds, the Pando clonal colony is the heaviest known organism in the world. It’s also among the oldest living things on the planet — the root system is an estimated 80,000 years old.
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