this is what love is for

to be out of place

[bransonreese]

[notcaycepollard]

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

[serpentking456]

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.

[bransonreese]

Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.

[severepaperhideout-deactivated2]

But buddy.

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.

((Here m8 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basics ))

[bransonreese]

Buddy. It’s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you don’t know how to read?

[rudolph-the-rednosed-reinqueer]

There👏🏼 are👏🏼 different👏🏼 types👏🏼 of👏🏼 sharks👏🏼

[bransonreese]

and 👏 they’re 👏 all 👏 smooth👏

[moved-to-applecider-junkie-deac]

from one way, they are; the other way, not so much

[bransonreese]

You’re half right. From one way they are smooth, but from the other way they’re also smooth.

[slytherho-deactivated20171229]

I get that some people are upset that the media seems to be focusing only on the three dudes stabbed while defending the two girls from racism but

1. A hero story always gets huge coverage. It’s guaranteed to sell papers and get clicks.

2. The girls are underage and only one has given a press statement and released her name.

3. (AND MOST IMPORTANT) These two girls were literally targeted for their skin color and for one girl’s religion by a white supremacist who wished to do them harm. Why would they, and their families, want to put themselves out there, their names and faces, to be targeted again because that white supremacist isn’t the only one in Portland?

But the media SHOULD be providing information on any fundraisers for both the girls and the men stabbed. Everyone was affected. The girls most certainly need therapy after witnessing what they saw and the families of the dead men need help with funeral costs and the one surviving man can’t pay hospital bills with newspaper clippings.

[slytherho-deactivated20171229]

And here are the fundraisers:

https://www.launchgood.com/project/muslims_united_for_portland_heroes#/

https://www.gofundme.com/tri-met-hero-recovery

https://www.youcaring.com/survivorsofthemaxattack-833557

The first is for families of the victims.

The second is for Micah Fletcher, the surviving man.

The third is specifically for the two underage girls who were victimized.

All of these people need help.

[wernerhertzaftig]

Meet the 22-year-old woman running for mayor of Detroit

Myya D. Jones has overcome a great number of obstacles in her 22 years of life. She helped raise her five siblings after her mother,...

Yes yes yes 

[ar-mah]

[exeuntnoctis-deactivated2025103]

I have no words for this.. Phenomenal

[bugsroseee]

Tag your porn

[bariatricbeast615]

Wow, holy shit. I was mesmerized.

[blackhipsteraesthetic]

i was so angry when this cut out at the endddd!!

[note-a-bear]

I would love to learn how to play using something like this

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Piano Hero

[thebeautifulcatholicfaith]

How many syllables does the word "Gloria"  have? CATHOLICS: 18

[teamtylerandkorey]

[sunshinetoday]

badassbettyrizzo:

BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW BILL CLINTON MOUTHES “THAT’S MY GIRL” CAN WE FUCKING TALK ABOUT THAT. 

[timgy]

Listen, I voted for her, but in my heart I don’t know that I’ve had many moments of truly liking or admiring her. But this moment? This poise? This complete self-control (in a situation where sexist men would expect her to be falling apart)? I have never been prouder or more admiring of someone. I agree, Bill. That’s our girl.

[inquisitorhotpants]

I love this so, so much.

[man-thing]

[hannibalism]

I love Sports Illustrated

[kateordie]

I laughed Out Loud

[gloriaj]

attn:@broadcast /@drydenlane

[corgnelius]

Dunno if you guys know this about Stumphrey, but he’s Jewish. (He was born wearing a yarmulke, see the brown dot on his head?) Anyways, turning 13 is a pretty big deal in his culture, but since he’s a doge & they go by increments of 7 yrs, we’re making today, his 2nd birthday (aka 14 yrs) his…. Bark Mitzvah. Happy Bark Mitzvah my lil stumpy mentsh!! #OyVeyMomDontMakeAFuss!!

[gloriaj]

drydenlane 😘❤️

[gloriaj]

[gloriaj]

[npr]

[kateoplis]

'Morning, love.

[derpghost]

[brokenheels-brokenheart]

Puppies in bow ties are just perfect

[gloriaj]

Attn: drydenlane

[larilassiral]

[johndarnielle]

How do you start and end albums? Sometimes I get the sense that you start things with the perfect ending song - "Tallahassee" for Tallahassee is a big one. Similarly I hear songs you place last as really strong starters that confuse (and elate) me as ending songs: "Transcendental Youth" I'm still turning over. Maybe I'm getting confused with how cleverly you build the-end-of-all-things-to-come into what you do, but: do you have a framework for starting / ending albums? musical, lyrical flow?

It depends entirely on the album, there’s no overarching strategy. I do try to save some of the best stuff for side two so that I can complain when nobody notices, because I am a child. (It’s perfectly natural that the first four or five songs are what people hear best & tend to respond to/write about.) Otherwise the question is: “These songs, the ones that seem to go together of the ones we recorded: what’s the best order for them?” I usually try to resist the sort of market-research solutions that the industry favors (“lead off with all the big hits, consign the slow songs to the back half”) ; I’m proud that “No Children” is the 7th song on Tallahassee. At the same time, if a person starts listening to an album by an unfamiliar artist, the album has four songs max to gain that listener’s trust: most listeners aren’t going to listen to something they’re not sure about three or four times to see what they think. “Start strong, end strong, try to tell an engrossing story along the way” is as close to an governing method as I have. 

In the case of “Tallahassee” it seemed like a scene-setting song: it introduced the principal characters, established that there’s been a movement from the other side of the country to here, and took one last look in the rear view at the thing they once had that’s now in collapse. Last look through more than one door as Joan Didion would have it. Water under the bridge and dynamite it behind you. 

[gloriaj]

I love this man, love his band, and love this answer. 

[jcrew]

The first cashmere sweater I owned was dusty sugar pink, and I wore it so a boy I liked would want to put his arms around me. I imagined us at the pub, his hand resting with ownership on my soft shoulder. I was 15 and had yet to understand boys or see “ownership” as a rather...

[gloriaj]

From the official JCrew blog, this piece on cashmere sweaters is better than it has any right to be.