Randomness Simulator

I'm known as Mayo by most of my friends. On this blog you'll find stuff about equality, Leverage, Welcome to Night Vale, Doctor Who, Disney, Sir Terry Pratchett's novels, Harry Potter, Pokemon, anime, life, love, buildings, photography, pretty things, shiny things, words, art... Speaking of which, I can kinda draw and sorta write. Respect for people and their privacy, including celebrities, is important to me. I am a (sometimes reluctant) gleek. RIP Cory Monteith. You are an inspiration. You are loved. I now come with a glee side blog at klainegoesmyheart.tumblr.com! Fairly Klaine-centric, if you're into that. I should also probably mention somewhere that I'm Chinese-Australian. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this hodgepodge of a tumblr!

[foodffs]

CRANBERRY BRIE BITES

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!

[rubyetc]

eat yer heart out Julie Andrews

[steviemcfly]

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

[elementalsight]

I wish I had this post two hours ago. 

[problematicselfie-deactivated20]

A living wage should enable a middle class lifestyle, not just basic necessities. It should enable necessities, leisure, and savings, or else we’re also saying that there are people who deserve to devote the entirety of their productivity to surviving another week of labor in order to do more labor with no possibility of enrichment or advancement.

[quasi-normalcy]

What’s even the point of passive voice in scientific writing? “Oh it makes it more objective.” What so the samples prepared themselves, did they?

[dorkaelskunkworks]

The samples were prepared.

For anything.

[poyzn]

That is so cute you might just vomit a rainbow.

[witchqueenofthemoon]

My heart my heart

[itscolossal]

Pouring a Thermos of Hot Tea at -40°C Near the Arctic Circle / Photo by Michael Davies

[cybergata]

[snarksonomy]

@lives-this-life

[itsalburton]

@kelpup

[thingsfittingperfectly]

This truck driver’s arrangement is neat.

[ilovepeppers-deactivated2019122]

[hannasus]

Leverage Tribute 2014

Two years ago today the very last episode of Leverage, “The Long Goodbye Job” aired. In honor of that sad/wonderful/bittersweet day, here is one last Leverage fan vid. Merry Christmas to all my fellow grifters, hitters, hackers, thieves, and masterminds! May the new year bring you happiness and joy.

[andyouweremine]

#this show was a miracle (absentlyabbie)

[allisonargentsavestheday]

secondbestpolicy

[secondbestpolicy]

allisonargentsavestheday, way to make me start my morning in tears, Nata.

#HOW UNNECESSARY#WHAT DID I EVER DO TO YOU#no but seriously#I’ve watched this so many times and every time there’s something new that gets to me#(this time it’s ‘it makes us us’ lining up with their little nods from across the subway in the rundown job jfc just leave me here to die)#it’s amazing#I love so much everything this chooses to be#it’s so rare for videos to include voiceovers that don’t sound weird or out of place but every second of this is#brilliant#and my favorite ever Nate line - ‘so change the world’ - is included!!#and my second favorite ever Nate line about them being his only family#and then it cuts to each of them smiling like the little shits they are#omg I can’t handle this I have to make breakfast#GOODBYE WORLD I AM GONE

[hannasus]

Reblogging for the tags. Because when you make fanworks you never really know if they’re going to resonate with people. And reading something like this is just so lovely there aren’t even words to describe how happy it makes me feel. So thank you. This makes every second of the hours and hours of effort I spent agonizing over this video worth it.

[glitter-pear]

three years now.

[meowjorie]

my Christmas gift to you guys is the best Cards Against Humanity combination ever

[fenrir-kin]

GET. OUT.

[hassansan]

Life Is Strange (12/?)

[theartofanimation]

Todor Hristov  -  http://draken4o.deviantart.com  -  https://www.facebook.com/todor.hristov.50  -  https://www.youtube.com/user/draken4o/videos  -  http://drawcrowd.com/drakennp00f6

[iguanamouth]

you should give us an inside look of a woodpecker's mind while it's going to town on a tree. like, is it ok?

[nkim-illustrates]

Jar of Star Light.

[mlpiceking]

Disney Problems solved in one frame

SOURCE

[buzzfeeduk]

15 Incredibly Bitchy Texts Your Period Would Send You