I've got my own special brand of awkward :P

Shit I'm watching: SPN, OUAT, AOS, Arrow, Flash, Castle, Originals, Haven, Grimm, Forever ... Shit I love: Chuck! Psych! Superheros! All things food related (baking/cooking) ... Shit I do: hockey, engineering, general awkwardness

[rageofthenerd]

I tried to make jack-o-lanterns for Command, Science, and Engineering, but one of them was a little….accident prone.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

I don’t care if Hillary Clinton is corrupt. I don’t care if she lies, if she cheats, if she eats bowls of newborn chipmunks for breakfast.

She is literally the only thing standing in the way of a fascist dictator becoming President of the United States with a Republican majority congress that guarantees he can do anything he wants and nothing will be able to stop him.

I was and still am a Bernie supporter, and I hate a lot of things about Clinton, but none of that matters anymore. If Trump is elected, people are going to die. Women are going to die when Roe v Wade is overturned and Planned Parenthood is defunded. LGBTQ people are going to die when conversion therapy is further legalized and more bathroom bills are passed. POC are going to die as Trump rounds up Mexican immigrants, gives more power to the police, and fuels the fires of Islamaphobia. Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs. And that’s just in this country. That’s not even taking account the all-too-likely outcomes of Trump starting new wars in the Middle East and having control of nuclear bombs that he’s said he ‘would not rule out’ using.

This is no longer even about ‘the lesser of two evils’. This is not ‘scare tactics’. This is literally life and death. Don’t fuck around and tell me you’re voting third-party or not voting at all, because you don’t have that luxury. 

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

I am delighted that this post has gotten as many notes as it has, but as Election Day grows closer I would like to flush it out with some additional information and facts, particularly for those people who are still considering voting third party and those who still consider Clinton “just as bad” as Trump.

Why you shouldn’t vote for Jill Stein

Why you shouldn’t vote for Gary Johnson

Why you shouldn’t vote third party AT ALL: x, x, x, x (hint, it’s because the electoral college presently makes it impossible for third party to win)

Worried about Clinton’s scandals? John Oliver breaks it down.

Concerned that Hillary Clinton defended a child rapist? She tried to get out of it, but she had no choice.

Comparison of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ views. They voted the same 93% of the time. 

A comprehensive review of Donald Trump’s corruption

Donald Trump is being sued for raping a 13 year old girl in 1994, and there is merit to the case.

Oxford Economics predicts that Trump’s policies would remove $1 trillion from the US economy, while the Peterson Institute projects that a Trump presidency could cost nearly 5 million US jobs.

Donald Trump repeatedly asked why the US couldn’t use nuclear weapons

Donald Trump’s cruel streak

37 of the most offensive things Trump ever said

Donald Trump unveils plan to make abortion illegal again

Feds investigating Trump advisor’s meeting with Russian officials seeking to influence U.S. election (Trump called Putin a better leader than Obama.)

Trump’s campaign paid his businesses $8.2 million

Trump flies in a plane with gold-plated bathroom fixtures and pays for it with tax dollars

Trump’s financial plan would increase the debt by $5.3 trillion above current levels, Clinton’s by $200 billion 

Trump wants to eliminate food safety regulations

Trump was sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination against black people

Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York

Trump’s slimy, shameless approach to philanthropy

Trump paid an IRS penalty for making a $25k donation to the campaign of the woman in charge of investigating his Trump University fraud case, an investigation she dropped after the donation

The official Republican platform includes banning abortion, overturning marriage equality, no background checks for purchasing guns, declaring coal “clean energy”, religion used as a guide for legislation, a border wall, and pornography declared a “public menace”.

Politifact says that Hillary has made ‘false’ statements 11% of the time and ‘pants on fire’ statements 2%, compared to Trump’s 37% and 17%.

Bernie supporter? Bernie says that now is not the time for a protest vote. Bernie tells you why you should vote for Hillary Clinton. Bernie says that Trump must not become president.

Please do not waste your vote. You can complain about Hillary Clinton as much as you want, but complain about her while you vote for her.

[gifbro]

[tastefullyoffensive]

When mom’s not around. [video]

[horce-divorce]

this is the best headline i’ve ever seen in my life, i was just gonna post it w/o comment bc i thought it couldnt possibly get better, but it did 

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Science

[somalfoy-deactivated20170731]

the avengers’ fighting styles ; insp  

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Accurate

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Never drink and tumble. I think I hit some buttons, but idk. Words happened on my phone, but they were too small to read. Who knows... Also, swipe rules. This English is fantastic!

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Why I'm single

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Pokemon Go is my second childhood

[asgardreid-deactivated20180407]

The only thing that’d be more potentially embarrassing than my internet history would be my calculator history, a chronicle of all the painfully simple math I couldn’t manage to do in my head.

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Is 6+7 definitely 13? oh thank god.

[glassrunner]

“You have no idea what loss is.”

[gish]

How is Canada different to the United States?

Metric System. Poutine. Hockey. Need i say more?

[doubleyoupie-blog]

This is literally my life right now! Poutine for dinner every fucking night. Holy fuck it’s delicious! Also, my car counts in miles, but the signs are in kilometers! Fuck math man!

Also, my life is always hockey, so that hasn’t changed much...

[doubleyoupie-blog]

WWOOF | Volunteer help exchange on organic farms in 100+ countries | Official global hub | Federation of WWOOF Organisations (FoWO)

To anyone who has no direction in their life, who doesn’t know what the fuck they want to do, but wants to gain some solid life experience, and travel, but has no fucking money. CHECK THIS MOTHERFUCKER OUT!

No like seriously, I’m doing this right now, I am in Canada (from the US), and all I’ve paid while WWOOFing is the price of gas to get my ass up here. And the people are fucking fantastic! Not only the hosts, but also the people who are also working on the farms. Everyone’s stories are so cool! And though I still don’t have a certain direction my life is going in, I can say that I feel so much freer, and am so much happier with my life just the way it is, even if I don’t fit societal norms for success. 

You work on farms to earn your keep - aka your room and board. I wish that car insurance and health insurance didn’t exist and that I could do this forever, but, such is life. And for everyone wondering, it is straight up worldwide, and a wonderful way to explore a new country, or even just a new state/province/territory/whatever within your own neighborhood. Or if you’re like me and going to be homeless for a month when you get back to your home state, and don’t have a job at that time (because I’m going to be searching for one), might as well work on a farm for room and board in the interim!

Anyway, shameless plug for this fan-FUCKING-tastic program that I didn’t even know about until my friend asked me on a whim if I might want to join her, and on a whim, I jumped the fuck out my comfort zone and decided to just fuck society and live on a farm in the middle of nowhere Canada.

FUCKING DO IT! GO WWOOF SNITCHEZZZ! 

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via GainesOnBrains)

[whatshouldbetchescallme]

When your boss tries to give you something to do 5 minutes before you were about to head out on a Friday

[doubleyoupie-blog]

Literally the fucking worst!

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via GusFringus)

[randomactsorg]

National Teacher Day! 

Sometimes called teacher appreciation week, falls on May 3. 

It is a day that encourages people to recognize teachers and the amazing amount of work they do each year for their students. 

Most teachers work well beyond the school day, often sacrificing family time for the sake of their students. They also spend their own money to buy supplies for their classroom. 

Thank teachers, cause they’re awesome!

[relenafanel]

I know I absolutely promised no April Fools stuff, but the Library and Archives of Canada announced their major acquisition of the declassified journals and military records of Canadian supersoldier James “Logan” Howlett and I think it’s the best thing I’ve seen all week.

April 1, 2016 – Gatineau, Quebec – Library and Archives Canada (LAC)

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) acquires the declassified journals and military records of Canadian supersoldier James “Logan” Howlett.

Logan was born in 1882 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, to wealthy landowner Elizabeth Howlett and her grounds-keeper Thomas Logan.

Logan’s journals provide valuable insight into his early life in Canada, including work as a miner in a British Columbia stone quarry, a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and a homesteader in the Canadian Rockies. His military career spanned multiple conflicts, making his personnel records an unprecedented study in Canadian military history. Logan was gravely wounded in action many times, and gained a reputation as a gritty survivor.

Quick Facts

WWI: Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces (Devil’s Brigade). Fought at Ypres in 1915. Wounded by a sword through the chest.

WWII: Returned to the Devil’s Brigade in the Second World War, as an allied spy and paratrooper for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the Normandy landings on D-Day.

Cold War: based in Ottawa and Calgary, worked for both CSIS and the CIA.

Logan later changed his operative name to ‘Wolverine’, and worked with various NGOs.

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