[thefloatingopera-blog]

Did I ever tell you how much I love broccoli? 

[bunnymichael]

#bunnymichael

[thefloatingopera-blog]

This has been an incredible, wonderful, excruciatingly hard weekend. I took a staycation to spend three straight days with people from Oakland I really, really miss and I’m glad I did it and also that I live here now. I also learned it’s hard to let go of people you love, or have loved, or have some sort of feelings for that the English language lacks words to express. I hope to be strong enough in twelve months to race next year. I hope to be strong enough in twelve months to have some other things figured out, too. 

[mmatangi]

I was with Diplo and he basically just like shat on every good thing that was happening to me, and I just didn’t enjoy it because if I was on a cover of a magazine he’ll be like, “What do you want to do, like be on the dentist waiting room table? Like, is that what a magazine is for? It’s corny. Like, don’t do magazines.”[…]When I got signed by Interscope, he literally smashed my hotel room and broke all the furniture because he was so angry I got picked up by a major label and it was the corniest thing in the world that could possibly happen. And then Missy Elliott called me for the first time in 2005 to work with me on her record, and I’m sure we had a massive fight about that — the fact that I was talking to anyone who was, like, popular. I wish I enjoyed it because I had this person on my shoulder the whole time saying, “It’s shit, it’s shit, it’s shit. You shouldn’t be on the charts. You shouldn’t be in the magazines and you should not be going to interviews. You should not be doing collaborations with famous people. You should be an underground artist.”

M.I.A on Diplo (via mmatangi)

FFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKK DIPLO

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wowowow what a horrible abusive asshole

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What a piece of shit

[mccallspatternbehavior-blog]

McCall's Pattern Behavior

Carol how hungover are you

You forgot to wear a skirt

And you’re dragging around a bag of trash

[thefloatingopera-blog]

New favorite tumblr

[twoheadedshark]

[turnabout]

This movie is so good.

[thefloatingopera-blog]

And I think Scout Niblett is the soundtrack to this scene, as if it couldn't be any better. 

[citymaus]

Kelli Samuelson @2014 Barcelona Red Hook Crit.

via fggt. 

[thefloatingopera-blog]

Will always reblog Kelli

[micdotcom]

12 famous women who totally owned sexist, racist and transphobic interview questions

More and more women are rolling their eyes at pesky reporters who overlook their accomplishments in favor of their appearance — and it’s about time. Here are a few examples of ladies giving the best answers to the worst questions.

Mindy Kaling, Cate Blanchett, Scarlett Johansson and more

[smartgirlsattheparty]

#AskHerMore

[thefloatingopera-blog]

Rashida Jones is the best one. 

[thefloatingopera-blog]

How To Date Your Bandmate

Andy LaPlant has rarely been more grateful to play music with his wife than in 2010, when he almost died on tour in France...

I had the privilege to speak to four adorable NYC couples who are in bands together. The writeup is the longest piece I've ever published and I'm pretty proud of it. Happy Valentine's Day from a single person who believes in love thanks to the fine folks in this feature. 

[gowns]

a conservative and a liberal walk into a bar. the conservative orders a shot, and the liberal scoffs and says “typical.” the conservative says “what?” and the liberal says “u ordered a shot…because u love guns.” the conservative says “yeah i do love my guns. but i think that the cause of violence in america is the culture of violence, as evident in violent movies and video games.” the liberal cannot stop laughing at this. “yeah right, loser,” he says. “the cause of violence in america is guns, and that’s that. you can pry my entertainment off my cold dead body.” they both laugh and toast to this. the bartender looks at the camera and says, “the funny thing is that the conservative is more in the right on this one, but he is still only looking at a symptom of living in a hellworld dominated by a capitalist white supremacist patriarchy. the really funny thing is that they both contribute to it with their selfish ideologies.” the bartender sees a duck trying to walk into the bar out of the corner of his eye and yells “i’m not serving you anymore, you keep putting drinks on your bill”

[photosobscura]

[wilwheaton]

For nearly as long as the antifeminist culture war known as Gamergate has raged across the internet, a microcosm of the battle has taken place on Wikipedia. Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia’s highest court made a major decision in favor of the former.   […]   If the phrase “Wikipedia’s highest court” surprises you, you’re probably not alone. Theoretically, the free encyclopedia is a purely democratic operation—anyone can edit Wikipedia, after all—but there is a byzantine and largely unseen hierarchy that governs disputes among editors, culminating in a Supreme Court-style panel called the Arbitration Committee. The committee’s latest decision: to punish a group of five editors who fought to maintain a Gamergate page that presented the “controversy” largely as an assault on women—that is, who fought to present Gamergate as it actually is.   Mark Bernstein, a blogger and Wikipedia editor, notes that the so-called “Five Horsemen” were not only barred from contributing to Gamergate articles, but from any articles relating to “gender or sexuality, broadly constructed.” By contrast, the only pro-Gamergate users punished by the committee, Bernstein writes, were “disposable accounts created specifically for the purpose of being sanctioned.”   The episode punches a neat a whole in the idea that Wikipedia is a neutral and democratic platform. The Wikipedian community is something like 90 percent male, and if Bernstein’s numbers are correct, its highest ruling body has a similar demographic makeup. That the world’s seventh-most popular website would look at Gamergate and decide that what’s needed is a silencing of feminist perspectives is depressing, but it’s hardly surprising.

Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate. (via flange5)

cool

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:(

[stereogum]

Taylor Swift & HAIM’s Hawaiin vacation.

[marathonpacks-deactivated201612]

starring Bill Murray as the hyperreal implosion of image and reality, the complete collapse of any distance between sign and referent

[prostheticknowledge]

Oil

Interactive sound installation by the prolific vtol algorithmically generates a twenty minute abstract electronic music album from the sounds created from crushing objects - video embedded below:

The main idea of this project is to present exhibition visitors with the chance to destroy any object that might happen to be on their person, in order to transform it into a unique sound composition. The installation consists of five hydraulic presses, capable of crushing practically any object (a mobile telephone, pair of glasses, headphones or whatever). In the process of destruction, a special microphone records the sounds made as the object undergoes deformation, and in just a few minutes, a computer algorithm transforms them into a 20 minutes album. The project is intended to provoke visitors into spontaneously ridding themselves of material consumer objects for the sake of creating their own individual work of art via deprivation, divestment and destruction. Sound has been taken as the chief medium here with good reason, since sound art is perhaps the least material and most abstract of all genres in art. The technological aesthetic involved constitutes an ironic attempt to make the process of art production into a technological process, but the result, unlike that of mass production, demonstrates a contrary phenomenon – this is a work involving programming and code in the context of generative art, with the potential to broaden the range of instruments at art’s disposal. At the end of the process, the sound production is automatically recorded onto an audio CD and handed over to the participant, completing the process of exchange.

More Here

[thefloatingopera-blog]

Whoa so cool

[profeminist]

Zoë Quinn Has Launched A Network to Help Fight GamerGate Harassment & Other Online Abuse

Billed as “by survivors, for survivors,” Zoe Quinn and Alex Lifschitz have launched the Crash Override Network, which is also billed as an “online anti-harassment task force.”

Here’s the rundown from the site itself:

Who we are:

Crash Override is a support network and assistance group for victims and targets of unique forms of online harassment, composed entirely of experienced survivors. Our network includes experts in information security, white hat hacking, PR, law enforcement, legal, threat monitoring, and counseling. Most, if not all, of our agents are former clients. Prior to formal launch, our trial runs had great success in helping victims lock down their information, prevent SWATing attempts, and feel like they were back in control of their online life.

What we do:

Our network works preventatively and reactively, warning targets and working with them during episodes of harassment to keep them safe and provide them with the means to reduce harm and rebuild, as well as disempower their harassers. We understand that every cast of online harassment is unique in terms of its targets, aggressors, and circumstances, and that no one plan of survival is suitable for everyone. We instead work with clients to tailor a unique plans [sic] of action, informed by our own experience and prior success in the field.

Read the full piece here

Crash Override Network web site

This is an amazing and crucial development. Especially now that the GG trolls have escalated their game to increasingly dangerous levels, doxxing and swatting feminists. (Link TW for stalking, threat, harassment, misogyny - it is a depressing read but this is what’s happening in 2015).

Feminists in tech have to do all we can to protect women and anyone targeted by these misogynists.  

[likeapairofbottlerockets]

!!!!

[thefloatingopera-blog]

Among other things, it's a testament to the quality and knowledge of this site that it hasn't fallen victim to what I'm sure are many attempts at a DDoS takedown. 

[itsamaysworld]

Lupita Nyong’o looking absolutely stunning for Dazed and Confused.

[thefloatingopera-blog]

Whoops I just did another vocalized hhhhgngngghhghhhh

[thesubversivesound]

I love how music takes you away to another place. For example, Coldplay is playing at this bar, so now I’m going to another bar.