Geekness (With a Little Reality)

A lot of geeky things, so many fandoms, hot guys, OTPs, humor, and a bit of reality.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m a red-blooded corn-fed AMERICAN MAN and if I wanna get my tits chopped off that’s my god-given right as a tax payer.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why should the government tell me what my gender is? Back in my day we earned our own genders uphill in a blizzard both ways.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Well I think this post has started reaching people that don’t get the joke. It was nice knowing you all.

[akiwuff]

No but this is hilarious and reminds me of a galaxy-brained shirt I saw the other day

Walk into the nearest Hobby Lobby wearing this and watch people begin to disintegrate

[what-even-is-thiss]

I want that to become my 4th of July shirt. I want to wear that shirt to the family barbecue so bad.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Guess who’s $25 poorer and prepared for July 4th already

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[weaver-z]

Whenever I meet an ex-Christian I can always tell whether they were Catholic or Evangelical because Catholics are all “Ohhh I have a ~complicated~ relationship with religion, I listen to ~Hozier~” and ex-Evangelicals/Fundamentalists would like. Burn down their former church with no hesitation and a smile on their face

[spokenitalics]

this is a personal attack

[mooonbride]

Cops murdered a black girl in Toronto this week too but Canadians are too up their own asses about how we’re “Not the racist ones! That’s only America! We’re the nice ones :)” to acknowledge it or do anything about it

[mooonbride]

Cops in Canada are just as racist and evil please Canada wake the fuck up

[honeybite]

Her name was Regis Korchinski-Paquet, she was a 29 year old Afro-Indigenous woman. She was pushed off of her own balcony by the Toronto police and fell to her death. They are reporting it as a suicide.

Say her name. Do not let them cover this up.

If you are able, you can donate to her family’s legal and memorial fund here.

And here is a google doc with contact information for the local representatives with a template email/phone script.

[battlefem-deactivated20170404]

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

[itsoldjohn]

that last one is literally a LOOK

[cassiocantdrink]

yes!

but lets not forget sergei prokudin-gorskiy, who developed a similar process in 1902, published in 1903 and then toured russia to take hundreds of color photographs:

AND the guy developed color slide processing as well. as a person fairly familiar with modern b/w processing at home, but never EVER stepping into color (negatives or slides) territory, i’d say, BAMF to the highest degree. 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[matthewgodgubler]

Gus being completely done with Shawn with wii music in the background

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

[lyctorgideon]

I’ll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment it’s linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase “Aisha was like” allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume they’re quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

the addition of “XYZ was like” lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!

[corvidaedream]

With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said. 

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations. 

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Of course, James is probably like, “I already fucking said that.” But eh, I tried adding on.

[axonsandsynapses]

#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[orchid-bud]

[cyelatm]

[nativenews]

[padanatural]

i miss superwholock

[radicalgraff]

Radical Queer posters seen around Brisbane, courtesy of rad queer crew ‘No Pride In Police’

[a4thdurham]

Image description: Six posters on various buildings. Every poster says “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” in small text, has rainbow and trans flag backgrounds, and has one or two other slogans in big loud capitals.  The various slogans are:

No pride in detention Close the camps Queers for refugee rights Queer liberation means a world without prisons No pride in police The KKKops are not our friends Racism is a queer issue No pride in genocide - treaty now Queers against colonialism Cops don’t make us safe

[mysharona1987]