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[nocked-deactivated20181125]

“I love you.” “What if I got a bowl cut”

[quadballconsent]

Here's to the people who...

… Ask “can I kiss you?” or lean in halfway and then wait for you to close the gap.

… Tap the item of clothing and check to see if you’re okay removing it.

… Respect your boundaries *without* pointing out how “nice” and “patient” they’re being and how very hard they’re struggling to be okay with it.

… Surprise you with kisses *only after* you’ve told them how much you enjoy getting surprise kisses from them.

… Remember where you don’t like to be touched.

… Appreciate your body as it is and when it changes.

… Communicate before, during, and after intimacy.

Here’s to the people who make consent a natural part of relationships, as it should be.

[theinturnetexplorer]

The Magnus Effect - When a small amount of spin is added to a dropped object, the object moves forward

[aslfan]

50 States of America - 2nd Edition | ASL - American Sign Language

(Those of you that live in these different states may use a different sign. These are the most common signs for each state.)

[circumcisions-deactivated201401]

what men think women love to be called:

babe

baby

sweetie

honey

sexy

what women ACTUALLY like to be called:

lamp shade

broken chair

Samuel L Jackson

dirty dish rag

Mr.Clean

[gavelenvy]

why is it more likely Sanders was the zodiac killer?

Preliminary Wikipedia-level research tells us that the Zodiac Killer’s period of activity is confirmed to have extended from 1968-1969, but speculation places the first murders as early as 1963. Excluding that 1963 murder (which occurred while Sanders was still enrolled in college in Chicago) every Zodiac murder fits on a timeline that does not preclude Sanders as a suspect. 

However, we can still account for that unconfirmed 1963 murder when we consider that Sanders was actively traveling at the time - he participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, but his whereabouts were unaccounted for on June 4, 1963 when Robert Domingos and Laura Edwards were murdered (presumably by the Zodiac Killer) in Gaviota, California. The University of Chicago does not have record of Sanders participating in any summer enrollment at that time, and summer break was well underway - Sanders had ample opportunity to travel to Gaviota and commit the crime.

Following his graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, there is a period of time in which it is difficult to track Sanders’ movements throughout the country. Vermont news source ‘The VT Digger’ even notes specifically that 

“One period of his life, the years from 1964 to 1971, however, has been left unexplained.”

It wasn’t until the mid-to-late 70s that Sanders became recognizable as the politician we know now. In the intervening years, verbal record puts him at some point on a kibbutz ‘somewhere in Israel’, though a reporter with Forward has been unable to uncover exactly which kibbutz - and when questioned, his campaign did not provide clarification.

Property records place him back in the United States at some point in 1964, but those are far from definitive proof of location. He was in the United States between 1966 and 1971, the Zodiac Killer’s speculated period of activity after the initial (suspected) activity in 1963.

What years are unaccounted for in Sanders’ publicly available history? Of course, 1964-1971 - after which he aligned himself with the Liberty Union Party and made a number of attempts at public office. Why the sudden foray into the public sphere?

It seems simple enough: Sanders is the Zodiac Killer, and he knew he was close to being caught. Where better to retreat to than Vermont? How better to establish his alibi than as an anti-war public figure? Even so, he continued to taunt the police well into the early 1970s, finally going silent in 1974 as he made his first bid for a Senate seat and succumbed to the pressure of greater public scrutiny.

Why is it more likely that Sanders was the zodiac killer? The timeline makes sense. The opportunity was there. The motive? Who can say.

Is it really so impossible?

Oh, and as to why it’s more likely that Bernie Sanders was the Zodiac Killer as opposed to Ted Cruz, keeping in mind our 1963-1974 timeline during which the perpetrator would have had to possess significant physical strength (Sanders was a basketball star in high school) and reasonable mental acuity…

I’m not saying that I don’t think Cruz is responsible for some vast multi-level murder conspiracy, but it’s far more likely that Sanders is responsible for this one.

[urbsinpalude]

While there is a general consensus that at least one of the people currently running for President is, in fact, the infamous Zodiac Killer, there is some debate about exactly which individual conducted those heinous crimes. Despite the impressive levels of circumstantial evidence that implicate Bernie Sanders, however, the bulk of the evidence suggests the real killer was actually Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

First, it’s necessary to prove that Ted Cruz had the physical and mental capabilities to perform these heinous murders. This is, admittedly, an obstacle, as his official birth certificate lists Cruz’s birth as being after all murders generally attributed to the Zodiac Killer, and it would be rather challenging for Cruz to conduct murders if he was not yet born.

However, there is a simple explanation: his birth certificate is inaccurate. There has already been significant controversy regarding Canadian documents related to Cruz and his family. Though Cruz’s campaign has consistently claimed that his mother was only a citizen of the United States, recent documents have revealed that both his parents were on a list of eligible voters in Calgary at the time of his birth. The Cruz backstory is fascinating and, at some points, defies belief. It is not much of a stretch to say that the year listed on his birth certificate is also a forgery. Modern software tools can provide the level of forensic analysis that was absent in 1970, to reveal Cruz’s age. Some suggest that Cruz is actually much older than documents state.

Assuming that Cruz is actually 64, he would have been 18 at the time of the murders, giving him the physical and mental ability to have carried them out. Notably, this alternative timeline would also place him as being a freshman in college at the time. Cruz was well-known for his college debate career — yet could murder have been one of his other extracurriculars?

Let’s review the facts of Ted Cruz’s college life. With the demanding schedule of Princeton’s parliamentary debate league, he would have had plenty of weekends and other days with legitimate alibis, as well as breaks and other time off from school, and with his father a noted oilman, he would have had plenty of money to finance trips to California. Cruz likely selected the San Francisco Bay area for its size and distance, a place where a young college student could easily blend in but one far enough away from Princeton that he would never be suspected. This freedom of anonymity allowed Ted to hint at his own name in his taunting letters to local press and police, repeatedly misspelling “cruise” as “cruse”, using a symbol combining a stylized TED (pictured below)

and even inserting his own name into his cryptograms.

Diving deeper into his college days, one adjective that stands out is “creepy.” Four independent witnesses volunteered that adjective for Cruz, describing his habit of lurking outside the women’s bathroom in a paisley bathrobe. Others described him as “intense,” “abrasive,” and a “crank.” His former college roommate has been one of his most strident critics:

Now, just because someone’s creepy doesn’t mean they’re the infamous Zodiac Killer. But 99 percent is a level that’s not just a normal level of creepy - that’s murdered-several-people-in-northern-California-in-the-late-1960s creepy. Ted Cruz’s lust for power has been long-running and well-documented, and the idea that there is something wrong with Ted Cruz’s soul is one that continues to pop up on the campaign trail today.

Now, none of this is definitive proof that Ted Cruz committed a string of murders in Northern California and sent taunting letters to the local press bragging about his exploits. But it does establish that he had the means and opportunity to commit these crimes, and while his motive may be lost to history, the testimony of those close to him at the time suggest that he was morally capable of carrying out such heinous acts. Though this case remains unsolved, it is clear that Ted Cruz should remain the primary suspect.

[gavelenvy]

It would seem that once again, Sam has forced me to stand in defense of Ted Cruz.

While it’s clear on offset that the majority of the conclusions tying Cruz to Zodiac are patently false, I’ll pretend for a moment that facial recognition software is a viable tool for determining the authenticity of legal documents. Even if Ted Cruz was 64 today, having been born in 1952, he could not be the Zodiac Killer.

There are two reasons why: because he didn’t commit those crimes, and because Bernie Sanders did.

Here’s how we know that Ted Cruz is not the Zodiac Killer.

Even if we accept the claim that Cruz is as old as @thefaultinouroranges believes he is, that version of events doesn’t take the suspected Zodiac killing of Domingos and Edwards in 1963 into account. While the Sanders timeline places Bernie squarely at the scene of the crime, even if Cruz wasn’t little more than a twinkle in his mother’s eye in 1963, he could not have been committing those crimes. Why?

@thefaultinouroranges would have us believe that ‘he was roughly college aged when some of the murders took place’ as a theory ties up every loose end. However, if Cruz is 64 today, when Domingos and Edwards were killed, he was twelve.

That’s a picture of Ted Cruz in high school - at least two years older than he was at the time of the 1963 murders, even under the most generous timeline possible. Time, for contrast, dates this picture in the late 1980s.

Could this man, as a twelve year old, physically overpower and murder a man and a woman in their late teens? The answer is ‘no’. The timeline we’re being presented with simply doesn’t make sense.

Further, even if we abide by the assumption that Ted Cruz is about seventeen years older than he claims to be, certain papers don’t lie - among them, a U.S. passport issued for the first time in 1986. In 1974, at a time by which Cruz would have needed to have spent an excessive amount of time in the United States in order to commit anywhere from five to nine murders, both Cruz’s mother and father appeared on a list of Calgary’s registered voters.

Even ignoring the inconsistencies between @thefaultinouroranges‘s account and literally any sort of record kept, by Princeton, by Calgary, or by any U.S. source whatsoever, the Canadian Citizenship Act of 1947 precludes the sort of duel citizenship that could have made the necessary border-hopping easier for Cruz - housing records place him definitively in Calgary when he needed to be in Gaviota, California, and either a bundle of protein in his mother’s ovaries or twelve years old and too small to pick up a handgun without falling over.

Is Ted Cruz the Zodiac Killer?

No.

Bernie Sanders is.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence as to his guilt, beyond the entire (thus far uncontested) set of assertions I detailed initially, is his association with the Liberty Union Party. Previously, it’s been difficult to tie Sanders to anything further west than Chicago. However

The Liberty Union Party ran on values parallel to those of the Peace and Freedom Party in California, and both the LUP and PFP were part of the People’s Party. In the years leading up to 1972, the Zodiac killer remained active - if only in the form of taunting letters to the police. How better to get those letters from Vermont to California than on business - through the Liberty Union party?

The most damning evidence, however, comes from that acronym - LUP.

It’s clear that something symbolic is motivating the actions of the Zodiac. Something in which Zodiac fervently believes. But wait - look at that symbol again.

Now, @thefaultinouroranges can see Ted Cruz’s name in anything from Zodiac cyphers to pizza crust if he wants, but facts are facts.

What makes more sense - twelve year old Ted Cruz getting upset over too few people wearing his monogrammed buttons, or Bernie Sanders, an increasingly disillusioned man in his thirties, trying to call out the establishment for their failure to heed minority voices like that of the LUP?

Was the LUP involved? The evidence is inconclusive.

But Sanders’ involvement is readily apparent and impossible to ignore. Whether or not he acted alone, Bernie Sanders is and was the Zodiac Killer.

Ted Cruz is not, was not, and ever will be.

[trumpetsbyjasonderulo-deactivat]

@adumbscotts what do you have to say about this?

[kirstengillibrand]

did i really just read a zodiac killer think piece?? 👀

[flaminganakin-deactivated201812]

the US presidential election keeps getting wilder and wilder

[justthinkingaboutcatsagain]

isn’t it funny how gay men are defined by their attraction to men, and lesbians are defined by their lack of attraction to men? isn’t it funny how literally everything revolves around men? and by funny I mean misogynistic

[caughtthefox]

15 facts about people with concealed anxiety

1. They don’t hide their anxiety, they hide their symptoms. To have concealed anxiety isn’t to deny having it – only to do everything in your power to ensure other people don’t see you struggle.

2. They have the most anxiety about having anxiety. Because they are not comfortable letting people see them in the throes of an irrational panic, the most anxiety-inducing idea is… whether or not they’ll have anxiety at any given moment in time.

3. They come across as a paradoxical mix of outgoing but introverted, very social but rarely out. It is not that they are anti-social, just that they can only take being around others incrementally (which is mostly normal). Yet, on the surface, this may come across as confusing.

4. They make situations worse by trying to suppress their feelings about them. They are extremely uncomfortable with other people seeing them in pain, and they don’t want to feel pitied or as though they are compromising anyone’s time. Yet, they make things worse for themselves by suppressing, as it actually funnels a ton of energy into making the problem larger and more present than it already was.

5. They are often hyper-aware and highly intuitive. Anxiousness is an evolutionary function that essentially keeps us alive by making us aware of our surroundings and other people’s motives. It’s only uncomfortable when we don’t know how to manage it effectively – the positive side is that it makes you hyper-conscious of what’s going on around you.

6. Their deepest triggers are usually social situations. It’s not that they feel anxious in an airplane, it’s that they feel anxious in an airplane and are stuck around 50 other people. It’s not that they will fail a test, but that they will fail a test and everyone in school will find out and think they are incompetent and their parents will be disappointed. It’s not that they will lose love, but that they will lose love and nobody will ever love them again.

7. It is not always just a “panicked feeling” they have to hide. It can also be a tendency to worry, catastrophizing, etc. The battle is often (always?) between competing thoughts in their minds.

8. They are deep thinkers, and great problem-solvers. One of the benefits of anxiety is that it leads you to considering every worst case scenario, and then subsequently, how to handle or respond to each.

9. They are almost always “self-regulating” their thoughts. They’re talking themselves in, out, around, up or down from something or another very often, and increasingly so in public places.

10. They don’t trust easily, but they will convince you that they do. They want to make the people around them feel loved and accepted as it eases their anxiety in a way.

11. They tend to desire control in other areas of their lives. They’re over-workers or are manically particular about how they dress or can’t really seem to let go of relationships if it wasn’t their idea to end them.

12. They have all-or-nothing personalities, which is what creates the anxiety. Despite being so extreme, they are highly indecisive. They try to “figure out” whether or not something is right before they actually try to do it.

13. They assume they are disliked. While this is often stressful, it often keeps them humble and grounded at the same time.

14. They are very driven (they care about the outcome of things). They are in equal proportions as in control of their lives as they feel out of control of their lives – this is because they so frequently try to compensate for fear of the unknown.

15. They are very smart, but doubt it. A high intelligence is linked to increased anxiety (and being doubtful of one’s mental capacity are linked to both).

http://neverignore.info/15-things-you-need-to-know-about-people-who-have-concealed-anxiety/

[eggsac]

holy shit this is me.

[newmoonflower]

Oh boy.   I should just hand this to my therapist.   

[duke-von-shnozz-deactivated2021]

You could just replace every instance of “they are” with “Tim is” in this post and it would still be incredibly accurate.

[dennys]

hey theater kids, are you tired of doing the same old vocal warm ups?

“how now brown cow?“ stop asking. that cow is the same as it’s always been. try these instead!

It’s unlawful to offer an awful waffle when you’re all full.

My ex expected exceptional eggs.

I can’t complain about the pancake campaign.

Banana bandanas are banned from Anna’s cabana.

We caught the cocky coffee coughing.

[digg]

this tip tho!!!!!!!!

[rikkipoynter]

I need to try this for trips I only bring a carry-on to.

[write-vs-right]

My daughter will ask me for another cookie after she already had three that day. And I will start to say “No, too much sugar, too much fat.” But I’ll catch myself and remember my own mother saying “No, you cannot have those chips. No, your birthday cake is for the other kids - not for you.” And I will remember back to school shopping in too small, dimly lit dressing rooms; trying on dresses that showed my baby fat thighs and shorts that all the other girls were wearing and my mother saying, “No, wear something longer, don’t show your shoulders, suck your stomach in.” Don’t exist, don’t be seen, you take up too much space. And I will catch myself before I say, “No” to my own daughter, as I imagine her at 10 years old sucking her stomach in pinching her skin, missing out on ice cream cones. I will imagine my daughter at 13 memorizing the calories in a single grape, skipping meals saying she already ate. And I will imagine my daughter at 15 wanting to disappear, I will imagine seeing her – a reflection of me – slowly wasting away. And I will catch myself before I say, “No” And instead say, “Yes baby girl, another cookie won’t hurt.” And I will let her know she is allowed to take up space she is allowed to grow out of her jeans, she is allowed to eat when she is hungry. I will let her know she is loved I will teach her how to love herself. And I will always say yes, to dessert.

Why my daughter won’t use “fat“ as a curse word  (via antiproanorexia)

[choochofcolor]

me when i’m arguing with someone: look my memory is shit but looking at these vague statistics buried in my brain i can promise you you are wrong

[bluebeetle]

Freshmen Me: i dont get why older students hate us freshmen so much its so dumb ugh 

Senior Me: who the fuck let all these fucking gremlins into this school

[kenzialexandra]

person: hey what should we name this flower

second, much creepier person: baby's breath

[kenzialexandra]

*hears noises at night*: well this is it this is the end for me I had a good life

*gets shampoo in my eyes*: I guess I'm blind now how am I ever going to see my first born child

*heart is beating fast*: I think I am having a heart attack is this what cardiac arrest is

*a cop walks by*: here I go about to get arrested I probably murdered someone

*taking a test*: don't take your eyes off of this paper you will get caught cheating and get kicked out of school and amount to nothing

*gets a sunburn*: great now I have skin cancer how will I tell my parents

*tripping over something*: I guess my leg will have to be amputated why did this happen to me

*period is late*: shit i'm pregnant i'm the next virgin mary

[danielle-writes]

Some advice for when you’re writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:

kill someone

ask this question: “What could go wrong?” and write exactly how it goes wrong

switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone

stop writing whatever scene you’re struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write

write the ending

write a sex scene

use a scene prompt

use sentence starters

read someone else’s writing

Never delete. Never read what you’ve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.

[bookcharactersthough]

This is the literal best writing advice I have ever read. Period.

[anexperimentallife]

Special note: “Kill someone” means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.

[sscreamss]

just because you don’t look like somebody who you think is attractive doesn’t mean you aren’t attractive. flowers are pretty but so are christmas lights and they look nothing alike

[hershey]

I don’t think anyone could’ve said it in a better way

[palewansickly]

I reblog these things in the hope that someday I will grow to believe them.