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Hey do people still use this thing??

Is there anybody out there?

Vision will blind.

Severance ties.

Median am I.

True are all lies

demengineerz

Select Your Character

weloveshortvideos

mankind stands no chance

rspnsblprty-deactivated20180108

this is so fucking funny every goddamn time i see it FUCK

udyrbear

okay this is awesome xD

boarnoise

OH MY FUCKING GOD, THIS IS IT, THIS ONE IS THE BEST.

(I didn't pick the name)

Got some good music Georgie?

We’ll be playing at Yah Yah’s on Sunday after next. I’ll post a link to our SoundCloud as well, hopefully Sabier will be up soon

coelasquid

I’ve probably watched this seven times since last week. It’s like if Tina Belcher did a history essay on Japan and Gene produced it.

baked coding

#this looks so cool #design #development #html

seriousarpeggiation

Simplicity

mellowarpeggiation

My lunch time at work is time well spent

simsgonewrong

something happened to my child at his slumber party i really think i need an exorcism

seven-faders

prokopetz

I think my biggest “huh” moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical “geek” is just as hypermasculine as your typical “jock” when you look at it from the right angle.

As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in some sense, gender-nonconformant, insofar as we’re unwilling or unable to live up to certain physical ideals about what a man “should” be. Indeed, many of us take pride in how putatively unmanly we are.

Viewed from an historical perspective, however, the virtues of the ideal geek are essentially those of the ideal aristocrat: a cultured polymath with expertise in a vast array of subjects; rarefied or eccentric taste in food, clothing, music, etc.; identity politics that revolve around one’s hobbies or pastimes; open disdain for physical labour and those who perform it; a sense of natural entitlement to positions of authority (“you should be flipping my burgers!”); and so forth.

And the thing about that aristocratic ideal? It’s intensely masculine. It may seem more welcoming to women on the surface, but - as recent events will readily illustrate - this is a facade: we pretend to be egalitarian because it suits our refined self-image, but that affectation falls away in a heartbeat when challenged.

Basically, the whole “geeks versus jocks” thing that gets drilled into us by media and the educational system isn’t about degrees of masculinity at all. It’s just two different flavours of the same toxic bullshit: the ideal geek is the alpha-male-as-philosopher-king, as opposed to the ideal jock’s alpha-male-as-warrior-king. It’s still a big dick-measuring contest - we’re just using different rulers.