AWFULNESS + AWESOMENESS

Keeping a lookout for stuff on the internets that's awful, awesome or both.

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Meet The Artist Queering The Traditional Mexican Game of Lotería

Felix D'Eon hopes his project will help queer Latinx people feel more involved and reflected in their culture.

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Subway riders are sick of being lied to and jerked around.

L train shutdown: Transit advocates weigh in on plan to halt shutdown - Curbed NY

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(via In a Heartbeat - Animated Short Film - YouTube)

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(via Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth - YouTube)

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The Expert Generalist: Why the Future Belongs to Polymaths

Reality, redundancy, and learning rate.

Reality is redundant, and when you learn widely, that becomes clearer and clearer. The more you explore, the more you can exploit these redundancies.

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Malcolm Gladwell on School Shooters and Police Bias on The New Yorker Video

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(via Samuel Wilkinson set to debut new lighting brand at Milan design week)

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(via Sasha Velour performs "Cellophane" at Austin Drag Fest - YouTube)

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(via Picture a Leader. Is She a Woman? - The New York Times)

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(via Boys and Girls on Stereotypes - YouTube)

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These kids have had enough. They’ve had enough of empty expressions of sympathy in the wake of the sort of atrocities they’ve grown up with, like last week’s mass shooting that took 17 lives at a high school in Parkland, Fla. Enough of the ritualistic mouthing of thoughts and prayers for the victims. Enough of living in fear that they could be next in the cross hairs of a well-armed deranged killer, even with all the active shooter drills and lockdowns they’ve gone through. Enough of craven politicians who kneel before the National Rifle Association and its cynically fundamentalist approach to the Second Amendment.

Will America Choose Its Children Over Guns? - The New York Times

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(via What Martin Luther King Actually Thought About Car Commercials - YouTube)

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Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all pre-defined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN— and here is the essence of all I’ve said— you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.

Hunter S. Thompson's Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life

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(via Science by Guff (@science) • Instagram photos and videos)

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(via Why You Can Change The World - YouTube)

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Santa Is a Psychedelic Mushroom

It’s time to embrace the shamanistic side of Christmas.

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America’s chaotic, crazy, challenging, great, tumultuous, horrible, disappointing year //  Polls: A 2017 roundup of public opinions - Washington Post