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What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness. 😄
Awesome. That literally just made me happy. ☺
This is awesome.
mine doesn’t have legs
Can we talk about how this was my favorite thing to learn about in cellular genetic mechanisms
Ok. Who else thought of the animated broomsticks from Disney's Fantasia? 😉
I wish people could just say how they feel like ‘Hey I really don’t like when you do that to me’ or ‘Hey I’m in love with you’ or ‘Hi I really miss you and I think about you all the time’ without sounding desperate. Why can’t everyone be painfully honest and just save people the trouble.
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All very well but a lot of people just aren't brave enough to say 'I love you'. Especially if the previous scars are too deep to heal.
Eighteen hours later.
Hate gets its running shoes on.
Should we be surprised
This is terrifying
Britain does have an issue with racism but please note not everyone who voted leave is a racist. Don't get caught up in the equal unreasonable fear mongering from some parts of the remain camp. I left because my Grandfather fought the kind of extreme right wing neo-nazism that is on the rise in the Ukraine and the right wing parties gaining power across Europe from France to Poland. I believe in five years the EU will be a hotbed of racism shown by the awful way Germany has led dealings with Turkey on the repatriation of Syrian refugees. The last straw for me, however, was the EU cowardly abstaining from UN resolution A/C.3/69/L.56/Rev.1 Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. A resolution, incidentally, that, shockingly, the United States and Canada but, unsurprisingly the Ukraine flatly voted against. Britain does have a racism problem but Britain is not racist. It is one of the most cosmopolitan, international countries in the world of its size. In comparison the UK has no counties flatly refusing to take refugees in the same way many US states have actually tried to legislate against resettling the persecuted thus proving America's inbuilt extreme racist views of people, especially where the Middle East is concerned. Many people voted leave because they were sick of command and control from a monster of a superstate that, although started as a means to better unite trade after WW2, grew to an empire and stiffled freewill and right to self determination. The kind of freedoms America enjoys everyday. In Britain, for every one person who expresses hate for you, ten more will stand up for you. There is nothing to be afraid of. So please don't take these memes as indicative of the whole country. Just as some American govenors have been on TV saying whole parts of London are no go areas and are patrolled by Sharia police, a lot of the scare stories are just not true. Most British people will put their own personal safety at risk to protect your rights. That's what we do. We don't stand by. That's why this small island stood up to Germany in the Second World War. To fight for the rights of other races to live free from fear.
Eighteen hours later.
Hate gets its running shoes on.
Should we be surprised
This is terrifying
I want to put peoples’ minds at rest. Britain does have a racism issue but please note, not everyone who voted to leave the EU is a racist. That is wrong and shows a real lack of understanding of the issues. The only way to vote in this event was to look at how the issues affected you personally and many people did. It was unlike most other elections in our history.
I left for specific reasons. I left because my Grandfather fought the kind of worrying extreme right wing ideologies that are rising in the Ukraine, along with the horrific crimes against humanity that are being committed while the EU turns a blind eye in return for adding another country to its ‘collective powerbase’. I also left because of the many extreme right wing parties that are gaining power across Europe from France to Poland. I believe in five years the EU will be a hotbed of right wing behaviour that has already started with Germany’s dealings with Turkey on the ‘repatriation’ of Syrian refugees in return for EU money and a fast track to membership, and the many EU countries that are throwing up fences and walls in the same way Donald Trump wants to build a wall against Mexico. It’s already happened in Hungary and other countries in the Balkans – look it up. How do I know all this? I don’t listen to hearsay. I don’t stick to just one news channel. I read them all: BBC, CNN, RT, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Associated Press. The world is digital. The world is global. It’s now easier than ever to sift the truth from the propaganda.
The last straw for me, however, was when the EU cowardly abstained from voting to accept UN Resolution A/C.3/69/L.56/Rev.1 Combatting Nazism, neo-nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Shockingly, the United States and Canada, but unsurprisingly, Ukraine, all voted against this resolution thus admitting they would not help combat these ideologies. A number of other US/EU allies also abstained. You can see the voting form on the UN website here: http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/69/docs/voting_sheets/L56.Rev1.pdf
However, I want to assure people that, although Britain has a racism problem, Britain is not racist. It’s one of the most cosmopolitan and international countries in the world for its size and the majority of its people are welcoming and friendly. You won’t find any counties in the UK refusing to house refugees in the same way that many US states actually attempted to legislate against resettling refugees, believing most of them to be terrorists. In fact, a lot of British people will actually stand up for you in the street and put their own personal safety at risk to defend your rights to live free from fear and harassment. It’s what we do. It’s the ‘British way’ and is why we went to war with Germany when a country a thousand miles away was invaded.
So please don’t fall into the trap of believing too many of these memes (Which abounded during the campaigning stage) and spreading them whilst saying Britain is an awful place. It’s not. Just as nobody should believe those American governors stating incorrect facts about London having Police no go areas as they were patrolled by Sharia Police. Those governors were liars. No such areas exist anywhere in the UK. We just left the EU, which started out as a simple agreement to improve trade after WW2 but grew into a command and control monster of a super state that lives for power at the expense of many of its constituent countries, because our country was losing its identity in that super state. Many people in the UK wanted the same freedom to trade with the rest of the world and the same freewill and self-determination that countries such as America enjoys. We wanted freedom form the crippling austerity measures that the EU demanded we adopt which led to mass redundancies, unacceptable working conditions, massive debts for students and some of the most controversial taxes and benefit cuts in history which have been linked, by Coroner courts in some instances, to deaths of citizens. All if this has nothing to do with race or religion. Under these conditions all British citizens suffered collectively and this is when those small racist elements used this state of affairs to stoke the flames, just as those same racist elements have used those same fears and concerns throughout EU countries to get far right parties into power. I don’t want to be a part of a racist super state so I voted to leave.
So in short, yes, we do have racists in the same way as America, Canada, France, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Australia, China, Russia and Japan and any other number of global countries have racists, but we don’t tolerate that. We fight against it; we prosecute for hate crimes. We tolerate friends whether they are from Britain or any other country and we will always help. Please don’t give into fearmongering. Look at the facts. If you have never been to Britain, read up on our history. As with all countries there are the dark times, I won’t disguise that fact, but we always try to do what’s right with friends.
This is why we need to stop, catch our breaths and look to the future in unity, to build trade with everyone, to show we are not isolationists (As that would be the death of Britain) but are opening up globally and fairly to everyone.
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I feel like one thing the “queer is a slur” crowd overlooks...
…is that the word gay has been used so overwhelmingly as a pejorative, as a slur, that most children in the U.S. in the past several decades likely grew up learning “gay” as a word for bad, strange, or wrong before they fully understand that there are “gay” people, and that it’s not just a word with negative connotations.
Kids grow up hearing “That’s so gay!” said with such vehemence relating to topics that those same kids aren’t remotely educated about, and they just internalize that it’s bad. This is how you get elementary schoolers saying, “Mr. Hopkins gave us homework, he’s so gay,” and the same elementary schoolers grow up to be high schoolers and adults who say, “What? I don’t mean gay like gay people, I mean gay like stupid or bad.”
And some of them aren’t overt homophobes in any other way… but dang, you teach little kids that a word that describes a class of people means “bad” and “wrong” before they know those people exist, and that’s bound to shape the way they think about things, isn’t it?
And in contrast you get queer kids who start to put 2+2 together about what “gay” really means a little bit faster than the kids around them because they’re desperate for some information, some hints of meaning… but they’re also hearing the same lessons as everybody else, that gay=bad, gay=wrong, gay=undesirable, gay=something no one ones and no one should be, gay is the worst thing you can be.
In the small town I lived in and the school I went to, nobody ever hit me and called me queer. No one ever shouted “queer” from a moving car while I was walking home. No one ever threatened or inflicted violence on me with the word “queer” on their lips.
Gay, though? Yes. And variations on the f-slur, but gay itself was enough of an invective, enough of a pejorative, to the people flinging it.
“Gay” was the slur that cishet people threw at me as a form of violence, often in corollary with physical violence. “Queer” is a word that I learned online, from members of my community. My experience of the former word is as an attack, while the other was as a sanctuary and respite from that attack.
Now, I’m not a gay man, but a bisexual trans woman. I was still sorting that out at the time, but I doubt it would have made a difference to many of my tormenters if I’d been able to explain it properly.
So when “gay” is used as the happy-go-lucky umbrella for what I would personally call the queer community, gay with even its positive connotations strongly coded as male, I’m not just being misgendered/swept under a default label of male along with a lot of other women and non-binary folks, I’m being forced to accept a label that I never sought, one that is definitely used as a pejorative and a slur, and a slur that was specifically used as a weapon against me.
Both “gay” and “queer” have the same problematic histories and problematic presents. They have both been subject to reclamation efforts. To me, the difference is how those efforts are organized.
“Gay” is an attempt to normalize, to assimilate, to take the elements of our community that are most palatable to the heteronormative homogeneous hegemony and emphasize them, making those elements even more palatable and altering or hiding the other elements of the community.
“Gay” is like trying to get into an exclusive school that you fear is likely to reject you for prejudiced reasons, so you keep your nose clean, make sure you take all the right extracurriculars, polish your cover letter and personal essay, and try to make the right contacts with influential people on the inside… and if you have to hide some of your past activities, break ties with friends who are less presentable, and de-emphasize your family to make sure the admissions office doesn’t get the wrong idea about what you’d bring to their institution, well, it’ll be worth it, because that’s what you have to do get a, you know, fair shake.
“Queer” rejects that. Queer rejects homogeny, it does not demand that we sand down our rough edges or smooth out our contours. It does not seek to reshape ourselves or our community to fit ever-evolving standards designed to keep us out, but it challenges those standards.
If “gay” is trying to appeal to a bigoted admissions board by being smooth and shiny enough to slip in, “queer” is challenging the admissions board to accept or reject you on your own merits as you exist, and challenging the bigoted assumptions that underline the power structure as revealed by this. It’s bypassing the admissions board by creating your own infrastructure for sharing resources and information.
I have a suspicion that a certain percentage of the intra-community backlash against the word “queer” is not because the negative connotations of the word hurt us as listeners, but rather that the radical connotations of the word hurt the effort to make assimilate gayness into heteronormativity.
I.e., it is less, “Queer makes people think it’s okay to bash us.” and more “Queer makes people think we’re not like them.”
Most people end posts in defense of the label “queer” and the umbrella term “queer community” by saying “I won’t call queer if they’re not comfortable with it,” and most of them get told, “BUT THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING WHEN YOU SAY ‘QUEER COMMUNITY!”
I’ve never yet seen anybody talking about the gay community have to disclaim that they’re not using the word to people who view it as unreclaimed slur or who just plain find it too hurtful to have even given that discourse any thought.
I won’t call someone queer if they don’t think of themselves a queer. I will use queer as an umbrella term. If that’s not you, you can cheerfully include yourself out of it.
And heck, I’m doing you a solid. If you didn’t have a queer community to point to, you wouldn’t have anyone you could point to when you want to clarify that you’re not like those people.
If you’re bi/pan/aro/ace, anything other than black-or-white, capital G gay, you don’t have a word that doesn’t throw “sexual” right into the mix. And once you say “I’m bisexual, I’m pansexual, I’m asexual,” people seize on “sex” and think your sexuality is now public property and they’re allowed to fetishize at will or ask intrusive questions. Obviously this happens to gay men and lesbians, but they have “gay” and “lesbian” as descriptors without the “-sexual” in them. For those of us who don’t, I feel like queer can be a bit of a shield. If I say, “I’m queer,” instead of, “I’m bisexual,” I don’t get the waggled eyebrows and request to consider a threesome. In my experience, queer is somehow odd and confrontational enough that it turns off the “let’s ask sexy details” switch in straight peoples’ minds.
I relate to this second comment so so much. Especially around people older than me, I often feel really uncomfortable saying “bisexual” because it sounds.. well, sexual., My mom literally thinks that “bisexual” means “sleeps with everyone” and doesn’t like when I “use that language around the kids.” Keep in mind the “kids” are fourteen and fifteen. But words like “gay” and “queer” are way more safe to use, language wise. Not saying that isn’t a problem in and of itself but they are.
From the viewpoint of an older person (I’m 45) I do have difficulty with some words. @laynemorgan will have noticed I rarely use the word queer when I tweet (although I have started to use Q at the end of LGBT). The reason is when a new word is used the older people at that time sometimes can’t see anything other than the dictionary definition. One of my favourite shows growing up (and shown as repeats I should add) was the late 1970’s comedy ‘Soap’ and Billy Crystal played the gay son Jodie. One line I will always remember is when his Dad (who has difficulty understanding his son’s sexuality) says ‘I remember when gay meant happy!’ To me the comedy was in the fact that the Dad hadn’t moved with the times and couldn’t correlate the word with more than one meaning, as gay was commonplace when I was at school for the gay community. However, I now find myself in a similar position. I just cannot bring myself to call anyone or any community queer as I can’t correlate the word with anything but the definition of odd or not normal. To me, it would be an insult to call my LGBT friends queer as I love all of them and I always try not to hurt anyone’s feelings. I guess it depends on how you personally understand or view words that makes you more comfortable with some more than others. For example I am much happier talking about people being heterosexual, homosexual and bi-sexual as I see the sexuality part not as 'sexual’ - if that makes sense? With trans friends, I tend to use the use the term they feel most comfortable with. My overall point is, when a younger generation brings a new word into common use (and it isn’t just sexuality related, there are lots of new words and phrases in business for example) it takes older people longer to accommodate that change and whilst it can be frustrating for younger people, please bear with us and do keep educating us. We will get there in the end and we know you may well be in the same boat when you reach our age, so we understand your frustration! I hope this contributes positively to the discussion because I think it’s an interesting one.
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the reason oppressed groups say “___ are awful” instead of “some ___ are awful” is because including the word “some” allows individuals of that group to detach themselves from the problem and shuck the blame off and say “well they arent really talking about me so i can ignore their opinions”, whereas stating that an entire group of oppressors is awful makes the individual think whether or not theyre included in the awfulness of that group and makes them consider their actions so thats why people say “men are awful” or “white people are awful” and if you take it personally you’re getting angry at the wrong people
But then doesn’t this make that oppressed group guilty of the same general bigotry as they are trying to stop? All a generalised comment like “All _____ are awful” does is hurt members of the group that may be very active in their support for a minority and make them feel their support and friendship is unwelcome and ridiculed. It can allienate allies that help your cause by leading by example. An important part of becoming less oppressed is to milestone how many people are coming round to your way of thinking and promoting changes in attitude within their own groups. Equality isn’t about ‘turning the tables’ and it isn’t about ‘getting your own back". It’s about everybody having the same respect they are willing to give others. If you always say “All ____ are awful” then you don’t change any attitudes. You just feed the identical attitude that “All (oppressed group) are awful and perpetuate the problem. I try to reach out and convince my peers they have rights, but it’s just thrown back in my face”. Despite the attitude of the poster who argues the above, I respect that circumstances may have prompted that and I hope things will eventually change for them and they can become more trusting of those trying to help. I will still fight for my friends in minority groups, however, using what privillage I may have to defend their rights and I’m grateful that they are grateful for my help and say “Things aren’t as bad as they used to be”.
Remember Martin Luther King: “In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” And most importantly “We cannot walk alone”.
I find it sad that people would rather still blame a whole group for the actions of a smaller number without accepting that there is change.
Clarke: “Is she really in there [the commander chip]?” Titus: “Of course she is” Please reblog if u like it. Do not steal, please :)
I love this. Gave me a well deserved laugh. 😄
So @korinspiration3 on twitter sent me these today.
And I’m just so happy I have no words. I was told that Alycia Debnam Carey was supposed to go inside because she was freezing in that dress, but she came back when she saw the art and signed it, then went back in. It was the last one she signed so she came back just for this even though she was being rushed inside. She loved it and said it was amazing!
From the bottom of my heart, Thank you Alycia and this wonderful fandom!
Nice one @papurrcat 😊
If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.
It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…
the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck
Has to be done. This is how memes are born!
My take on the current issues with character death. Just another view. Please respect. The CW Show ‘The 100’ has recently lost one of its most popular characters and it’s prompted a strong backlash from the fandom.
Chances are that there are very few women — if any — directing your favorite TV shows.
In the United States, women direct just 16% of episodes. The only data I could find for the UK is a little old, but in 2011 and 2012, only 13% of drama episodes were directed by women.
The under-representation of women directors isn’t an accident. In May, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked several government agencies to investigate major Hollywood studios and networks for blatant gender discrimination in their hiring practices. And now the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the American agency responsible for investigating employment discrimination, is reaching out to women directors to ask them to discuss the discrimination they’ve faced.
Their investigation is going to take time. But there are things we can do right now to hold our favorite television shows accountable.
Fandoms now have incredible access to and dialogues with the cast, crew, and creators of our favorite shows. We need to start demanding that more women be hired to direct the shows we love.
This problem isn’t limited to just one fandom, franchise, or network. If you don’t see one of your favorite TV shows listed above, look up how many women have been hired to direct for that show — then reblog this post and let us know.
Dr Who - First female British sci-fi producer and first ever female producer in the BBC - 1963. That's what you call a trailblazer. If it wasn't for Verity the world wouldn't have a great show that has aired for 50 years.
what is it about capybaras that attracts groups of small animals to them? Its not just mammals either its like birds and turtles and frogs too
look at this shit
They radiate peace
We all know that one popular guy who literally gets along with everyone!
There was a time when it was thought we wouldn’t need a plural to apocalypse. Then ‘Cult Television’ came along!
Celebrities
Week Ending February 8th, 2016
Adam Driver
Oscar Isaac +2
Kylie Jenner +2
Alycia Debnam-Carey +3
Aaron Tveit
Kendall Jenner −3
Ryan Reynolds
Chris Evans
Gigi Hadid −3
Tom Hiddleston +3
Jensen Ackles −1
Daisy Ridley −3
Vanessa Hudgens
Sebastian Stan
Gillian Anderson +1
Eliza Taylor
Dylan O'Brien −5
John Boyega
Misha Collins
Harrison Ford −1
The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded names weren’t on the list last week.
Fear the Walking Dead: The Salazars
Fear the Walking Dead: The Salazars
Introduction This third article is a look at the third family to become part of the larger groups of protagonists in AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. This family is the Salazars. A family with a dark secret consisting of Daniel, his wife Griselda and their daughter Ofelia. (more…)
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