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[dancedwithwindowsdown]

some of vickyt’s snapchat story!

[dancedwithwindowsdown]

sisky biz talking about pranking midtown in this month's altpress!

[mattelektras]

ah, yes. brave nat doesn’t get nervous.

[barkout]

[shordibynature]

Holy shit this was a prediction not a fucking poll

[alwaysbewoke]

It’s calling “priming” and the media does it, lawyers do it, judges, cops and more.

They know overwhelmingly the world but especially white people are racist down deep against Blacks and if you give them anything stereotypically negative about Black people, their inner programming will do the rest.

There’s a ton of studies on it. Google it and stay woke.

[kingrudegyalchina]

BOOST

[blaindersonkummel]

[geyezik]

seriously every line of this movie is gold

[lynngvnn]

Played a fun gig with the mystical and magical @iamhalsey this evening. You dun real good gurl 👊

[prokopetz]

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

[veteratorianvillainy]

#friendly reminder that I once put my statistics degree to good use and did some calculations about ship ratios#and yes considering the gender ratios of characters#the prevalence of gay ships is completely predictable (via sarahtonin42)

[persephoneshadow-deactivated202]

I feel this is something that does often get overlooked in slash shipping, especially in articles that try to ‘explain’ the phenomena. No matter the show, movie or book, people are going to ship. When everyone is a dude and the well written relationships are all dudes, of course we’re gonna go for romance among the dudes because we have no other options.

[prokopetz]

Totally.

A lot of analyses propose that the overwhelming predominance of male/male ships over female/female and female/male ships in fandom reflects an unhealthy fetishisation of male homosexuality and a deep-seated self-hatred on the part of women in fandom. While it’s true that many fandoms certainly have issues gender-wise, that sort of analysis willfully overlooks a rather more obvious culprit.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we have a hypothetical media franchise with twelve recurring speaking roles, nine of which are male and three of which are female.

(Note that this is actually a bit better than average representaton-wise - female representation in popular media franchises is typicaly well below the 25% contemplated here.)

Assuming that any character can be shipped with any other without regard for age, gender, social position or prior relationship - and for simplicity excluding cloning, time travel and other “selfcest”-enabling scenarios - this yields the following (non-polyamorous) possibilities:

Possible F/F ships: 3 Possible F/M ships: 27 Possible M/M ships: 36

TOTAL POSSIBLE SHIPS: 66

Thus, assuming - again, for the sake of simplicity - that every possible ship is about equally likely to appeal to any given fan, we’d reasonably expect about (36/66) = 55% of all shipping-related media to feature M/M pairings. No particular prejudice in favour of male characters and/or against female characters is necessary for us to get there.

The point is this: before we can conclude that representation in shipping is being skewed by fan prejudice, we have to ask how skewed it would be even in the absence of any particular prejudice on the part of the fans. Or, to put it another way, we have to ask ourselves: are we criticising women in fandom - and let’s be honest here, this type of criticism is almost exclusively directed at women - for creating a representation problem, or are we merely criticising them for failing to correct an existing one?

[observethewalrus]

YES YES YES HOLY SHIT YES FUCKING THANK YOU!

[paramedicschool]

Heat exhaustion or Heat stroke?

[uptownpunks]

hey u know what’s very punk rock??? using correct pronouns

[memecucker]

Adobe® is working really hard to make sure that the word “Photoshop”® doesnt become a genericized trademark

[nottdead]

do u remember when tumblr had two separate sides…hipster and fandom…and now it just one big conglomerate of aesthetics, cartoons, and shitposting

[curtus-patronus-deactivated2016]

For those of you who downloaded the new Xkit, they just updated with an extension called Editable Reblogs, which restores the ability to cut posts!!

Pass this around so people know !

[popokki]

BLESS.

[pata-nahii-deactivated20260125]

Pakistan-born, Komal Ahmad, develops phone app to feed almost 600,000 homeless people in San Francisco.

While she was walking near campus one fall day, a homeless man approached her, asking for money to buy food because he was hungry. Instead of giving him cash, Komal invited the man to lunch. As they ate, he told her his story. He was a soldier recently returned from Iraq and had a bad turn of luck. “He’d already gone on two deployments and now he’s come back, he’s 26 and on the side of the road begging for food,” Komal said. “It just blew my mind.”

It bothered her so she decided to do something about it. Within a few months, Komal set up a program at UC Berkeley that allowed the school’s dining halls to donate excess food to local homeless shelters. That program then expanded to 140 college campuses across the US in about three years.

Komal, now 25 years old and CEO of a nonprofit service called Feeding Forward, is looking to expand even more into what she calls on-demand food recovery. Through a website and mobile app, Feeding Forward matches businesses that have surplus food with nearby homeless shelters.

When companies or event planners have surplus food, they tap the Feeding Forward app and provide details of their donation. A driver is dispatched to quickly pick up the leftovers and deliver them to food banks. 

“These are huge cities that have absurd amounts of food thrown away every day,” Komal said. “We are trying to make the Bay Area a case study to say ‘Hey, if it works here, it can work anywhere.’ 

[endlessendeavor]

there are just so many awesome guitarists in the world how am i able to choose one?

[thephoenixforgotmeforcenturies]

True, but there are a lot of young, new talent guitarists. I know the struggle of picking a favourite.

Maybe, the real struggle is finding a favourite bassist. Knowing bassists, they are weird, crazy and unpredictable. Perhaps it’s too hard to decide on a bassist when so few people pay attention to the crazy dudes with 4-strings.

[jncoes]

[1e3no]

[new-age-conservative-deactivate]

Never thought I’d see an Akhenaten joke…

[khealywu]

STOP TRYING TO MAKE THE SUN DISK HAPPEN!!