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lu-alhati-deactivated20180207

So ellen degeneres is being sued by a Black woman for making fun of her name and turning into a running joke. :)

“A Georgia woman is suing Ellen DeGeneres after mispronouncing her name to make a breast joke during her daytime talk show.

Titi Pierce, 35, name is pronounced “Tee Tee … as grammar dictates”, she said in the lawsuit. But DeGeneres called her “titty Pierce”, reading one of the real estate agent’s adverts during a segment called “What’s Wong With These Ads…. and These Signs?”

“In all of her 35 years of life, no one has ever referred to Ms Pierce as “titty” until the Defendant did so on February 22, 2016 on national television,” the lawsuit reads, adding that it led to “immediate ridicule” from the audience.

The lawsuit pointed out that producers did not blur out Ms Pierce’s personal cell phone number in the segment. She said she received “ridiculing and harassing” calls while attending an out-of-state family funeral.

Ms Pierce filed the lawsuit against Warner Bros Entertainment, Inc, the parent company of the The Ellen Show.

Titi is a name that comes from Nigeria, meaning “flower”, according to the lawsuit.

Ms Pierce is seeking damages from Warner Bros, and demands they never show the segment again.”

eternal-dannation

glad to see ellen’s golden formula for comedy “mock ethnic names” is finally coming to bite her in the ass

eugeniedanglars

honestly my dream is to not be famous myself, but to be married to a famous person purely so i could go to events full of other famous people and pretend i’ve never heard of any of them. i would love to watch the look on leonardo di caprio’s face as i ask him what he does for a living and, when he incredulously tells me he’s an actor, take a sip of my drink and ask, “and how’s that working out for you?”

harrystylesdildo-deactivated201

Volunteering at a soup kitchen is one of the least productive things you can do to change the world. Art can inspire people and motivate them. Food is important, yes, but you aren’t changing that person’s life.

heut-ist-mein-tag

whoever wrote this post has definitely never been hungry

nostalgiaultra-deactivated20210

I remember one christmas we were short on money so my brother just drew us some pictures of mashed potato it was poppin!!! We ate the pencils too!!!

edballsdamnedforeternity1972-de

thank u harrystylesdildo 🥺

edrec

if one more nonamerican calls americans unclean or stupid or some shit for dying of rona when our government is actively trying to murder the most vulnerable of our population by using them as expendable cogs in their minimumwage fueled capitalistic machine im going to turn into one of those bugs bunny w gun memes

flippyspoon

the notes on this are wild. “just stay home no matter what the government or your job says.”

ok i’ll just tell that to the millions of people about to be evicted.

rozunderpressure

*Brazilian Solidarity*

sonic06apologist

Wtf are cummies

they like those people we fought durin the cold war

roboco-san

what really gets me about ace-attorney-sexy-clown.gif is the suspender snap. that has to hurt. why is she doing that

good-ol-ben-kenobi

OK...... WHAT?

roboco-san

de-sterren-nacht

oh! those arent her real tits, theyre balloons! theres a gif of her tits popping when you catch her in a lie

roboco-san

holy shit

hawwwlucha

isn't she a murderer in that case she's in?

smutav

never-forget-viva-la-pluto

Every time I learn something new about ace attorney the less I think I can guess what it’s about

roboco-san

would you beleieve me if I told you it's a satire of Japan's unfair and corrupt justice system which targets the court system's presumption of guilt by forcing the player to prove their client's innocence in the face of overwhelming and often manufactured evidence to the contrary

darksteel-relic

Akward Zombie often barely exaggerates how a game's mechanics work, so I'd believe it.

roboco-san

yeah no this scene happens almost verbatim

theonlycabbage

that's just how courts in America work

roboco-san

while you're not wrong, the game is specifically about Japanese courts which have a legal presumption of guilt and a 98% conviction rate. a police officer's accusation of a crime is effectively a conviction

websurfingspider

Yep, this. And they were going to leave it at that but then there were some changes in the Japanese system and the developers were like “OH BOY *rolls up sleeves*” and wrote the second game to address the changes, and it just kind of kept going. Also the American localization of the games has some different details and is largely considered a separate canon from the original Japanese version (so it actually is super relevant to America in English, but uhhh hamburgers are not ramen, and a lot of other more important things are not equivalent).

lady-byleth

Ace Attorney was probably what kickstarted the trend of calling the corrupt justice system out on its bullshit, making way for games like Persona 5 that delves really deep into this too

We should appreciate this series a lot more than we already do

alrightzuko

terrible-tentacle-theatre

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

bears-official

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

terrible-tentacle-theatre

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

thepioden

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

thepurplegeologist

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine.

laboradorescence

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

retrogamingblog

paniniwitharugula

yo what is up with the dude on the right’s vibe

bunjywunjy

incandescent

sugarsheeps

Thats george washington

thefreshprinceofsaiyans

I was in the middle of a mosh pit one time and looked over and saw a guy moshing while playing on his DS. I asked him what on earth he was doing, and he just casually responds “Playing Pokémon.”

staggot

honestly she is serving looks

rippingupthedisco

we seriously are not giving this enough attention like you just cannot take the Chanel Hysteria lipstick, the 100% authentic Tiffany & Co.™ pearl necklace WITH the matching set of earrings. got the 2016 Fall/Winter blood orange Yves Saint Laurent fitted evening gown. and the hair is laid. to. rest. finally you see that drink? thats most definitely a large and you know she got this all with her own munty h u n t y

nope

i think about this post almost everyday

kittyvisuals

Cat MEGA sneeze

crustydingus

Cat MEGA sneeze

amorphoussystem-deactivated2024

How much longer until the utopic Solarpunk future where Capitalism is dead and we all live in ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities? Asking for a friend.

plantyhamchuk

Until we make those ecologically sustainable high-tech forest cities ourselves. It’s going to take a lot of us to do it though, so best to spread the word (and gather native tree seeds).

samiholloway

And, like, get started now. Then our “weirdo houses” will be the only thing functioning when everything falls apart!

plantyhamchuk

The only reason why we don’t live in a solarpunk world right now is because no one has bothered to make it yet.

We’ll have to make it ourselves, and we’ll have to help each other make it. That’s why it is solarpunk.

Some resources to consider creating or joining or doing:

Repair cafes - create or join your local repair cafe! Repair stuff, learn how to repair stuff, teach others how to repair stuff.

Map of Makerspaces - make some things! learn how to make some things! teach others how to make some things!

Community Garden Map (note that this is US-only, and not a complete list) - join a local community garden

Support your local farmers / local economy (US only link)

Support or create a local Food Not Bombs chapter

Support or create a local Food Not Lawns chapter

Grow food in 5 gallon buckets

Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity (as a bonus you can learn extremely practical skills)

Volunteer via 350.org to help the environment / the planet / the place we live and depend on

Excellent-and-still-growing wiki from reddit’s awesome r/zerowaste community - great resource to learn how to live more lightly on the earth

Spread the word about solarpunk, especially to engineering students. Show them projects like Open Source Ecology - Global Village Construction Set and Bridges for Prosperity

Learn how to Patch a Hole, Mend a Seam, and Fix a Hem

Learn how to repair a hole in the sole of a shoe

Learn some basics on passive solar design - clever use of the sun can create extremely energy efficient homes and buildings. You can use these principles to save on energy bills, even if you’re renting.

Free USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015 revision - cut down on personal food waste! Learn how to safely preserve food. Very useful if you suddenly harvest / purchase for crazy cheap in season / dumpster dive a ton of perishable food.

Donate to One Acre Fund, which provides training and capital to farmers (making them more productive and pulling them out of poverty) in various east African countries

Donate to Bridges to Prosperity, which provides technical expertise, money, and volunteers, to help local people build and maintain their own footbridges in extremely isolated rural areas

joining r/solarpunk, and sharing links/ideas/art/music with the community. Also, upvoting stuff for greater visibility. There’s over 900 members!

anarchopuppy

Adding a few!

Replant scraps from your produce

Graft fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental trees in your area

Turn plastic waste into pretty much any plastic thing you need, in your garage, with machines built out of cheap and accessible parts

Make your own paper out of recycled paper or cardboard

Build a composter or a wormery

Harvest rainwater

Mod your toilet to flush gray water (used sink/shower water, or even that rainwater you’re harvesting)

Build a solar collector on the cheap

Build a wind turbine on the cheap

Build a hydroelectric water wheel on the cheap

Get internet access without going through cable companies using cheap, low-tech equipment

Make your own beer, cheese, soap, wine… really anything you can make rather than buy is a success!

And HELP YOUR NEIGHBORS! Don’t just build/grow/mod/repair your own stuff, help them do it too! Share it! Depend on each other! Work together and grow closer with your community!