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As of today, I am retiring my two Tumblr pages, this being the final post. Thank you all for your support and patience. If you're wondering why, I don't feel like talking about it, except for this quote from William Hartnell in the final episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth: "Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine." Goodnight, and good luck.
I’m in.
We need more men standing up for women’s rights, and this is a great way to get that going. Thanks Emma Watson!
Signed.
So i have this giant pencil right
I think we all know where this is going.
the amount of people saying that they were expecting me to shove it up my ass is alarming
I'm just surprised you're not using that awful, primary paper you get in first grade, that sub-newsprint stuff with hunks of wood in it. That's what I always think of when I see giant pencils.
I'm posting this image of a mouse attacking a snake that's eating another mouse to make a point about compassion and morality as it applies to religion, so consider this fair warning as I'm no doubt likely to ruffle some feathers. ⚠ In the interest of full disclosure, I am not an atheist. I grew up in a Catholic home and was even an altar server for many years. However, I do not identify as Catholic or Christian. I am what history calls a deist. If you don't know what that is, it's basically an agnostic with a massive optimism streak. To put it another way, "God's in his Heaven, all's right with the world." Anyway, a question religious people like to ask of atheists or even people like me is "Where do you get your morals from?" This question is simply an absurdity in every sense of the word. Christians didn't invent morality, and to insist that a strong religious upbringing is the best, if not only, way to shape one's moral compass is a detriment to the human spirit. Compassion is a survival instinct. Animals that care for their young and protect each other from predators tend to survive longer than the ones that eat their young and scatter at the first sign of trouble. Evolution favors this instinct, which is why it's with us today. It's hardly a chicken/egg paradigm given that all religious people really have done is draw a chicken on the eggshell with a marker, held it up, and said, "Ta-Dah!" then answer any criticism of it by hollowing out an ostrich egg and stuffing a full-grown chicken into it. Good night, and good luck.
People often ask if my cat's name is short for Holster. I tell them it's in honor of the composer and 99% of them look at me funny. Seriously, people, would it kill you to be a little bit more cultured?
I just want to be rich enough to leave $1000 tips on $10 restaurant bills.
Tipping has been in the news quite a bit it seems. There have been a few stories of restaurants forgoing tips and gratuity in favor of simply paying their employees proper wages. The owner of the establishment even stated that courtesy should not cost extra. To be fair, the whole idea of tips was that employees stood to earn more than minimum wage if they had big tables with equally big bills (unless LeBron James is your customer, in which case get ready for unpaid overtime AND no tip... Yes, that story is three years old, but you'd think he'd have made amends by now). Everyone probably knows at least one person who waits tables and absolutely rakes in the dough because they've lucked out and found that crowd of regular big tippers that turn every night into a party. I have no problem with tipping as a principle of dining out. What I do have a problem with is 1) they aren't paid above minimum wage apart from tips. 2) even if they don't receive a tip, they are still taxed for it. The IRS literally taxes you for tips based on a percentage of your sales, even if you did not physically receive that amount. In other words, I hate how it's mandated and regulated. The way I see it, restaurant workers should get paid minimum wage or higher, be taxed solely on their paychecks, and the tips should stand as nothing more than a private transaction between two people.
"There is no try, only sing!" -Groda See all the action in the new @sesamestreet parody "Star S'mo... -
Zenbrush with Autodesk Sketchbook. Frame and text in Pixlr Express (also used Pixlr on the sky photo to give it its color).
Self-promotion
Poplar Hawk Moth. It’s peculiar appearance is mainly due to it’s habit of resting with it’s hind wings held slightly forward by it’s fore wings. It’s colouring resembles a cluster of dead leaves from it’s main host tree, the Poplar.
It is? :D
People always tell me my cat has the most beautiful eyes
Before or after their souls leave their mortal coils and become instruments of its will?
I feel like somewhere in here is a comment about videogame journalism, but I can't decide if it says more about the journalists or the readers.
hello cats hello cats hello cats hello cats
Are they ripe yet? Are they ripe yet? Are they ripe yet?
Many years ago, my roommate's sister asked us to loan them some money. Given that her husband made at least twice as much as me, as well as not being one to lend money (brief tangent: I don't loan money, I give it, but only if I feel the person I'm giving to deserves it. Call that arbitrary if you want, I call it being careful with my investments--I hate borrowing money too), I asked them what it was for. The answer was cigarettes. Here's the thing. I don't care if you smoke. It's your body, stuff yourself stupid with whatever you like. However, it is a vice, and like any other vice, either you're in control of it, or it controls you. Moreover, for as little as I care that people smoke, I do have a question: When did two packs a day become "moderation"? Think about it. If I had to do anything else as often as a typical smoker has to light up, you'd say I had a problem. Years ago, I was on a train going cross country. Some time earlier, Amtrak decided to get rid of their smoking cars. On the one hand, I get why they'd do that. Space is at a premium, and more often than not, you'd have to pass through that smoking car to get somewhere else. Most people aren't going to care, but we all know someone with breathing problems who'd rather avoid secondhand smoke as much as possible. The trade-off is that now trains have to stop about every two to three hours to give people a smoke break. Basically, we traded one kind of pandering for another (At least the asthmatics have the excuse of not being able to turn off their asthma). Here's where this all got ridiculous. We had about four hours left in this leg of the trip before we hit the station, we were probably going to stop at least once along the way, and we still had people smoking in the bathroom. In other words, the railways had gone out of their way to accommodate as many people as possible, at the expense of speed and efficiency, and it still wasn't enough. Don't get me wrong, it's really unbearable that people can be shamed for their vices and creature comforts from a financial perspective (especially given how that kind of spending is how you help heal a broken economy), but it's not completely without merit to say that people need to exert self-control. Sure, that's hard for some people, but at the end of the day, while you may not be responsible for your circumstances, you are responsible for the actions you take in spite of them and to overcome them.
As I've said, I'm normally in the camp that says a private enterprise can do as it pleases when it comes to their dealings. That does not apply to monopolies, and it certainly doesn't apply to monopolies that try to get in Uncle Sam's pants. The notion that cable brought competition to television is bullshit. It always has been. Regional monopolies are still monopolies, especially when Comcast wants to squeeze money from Netflix because they happen to provide a service that's more convenient to me than a cable package (yet I'm still paying for my internet access through a cable provider, so Comcast doesn't know how to conduct its own business). Service providers need to be for content creators what glass is to light.
I’m Adam.
-And I’m Emily.
We make “funny videos” on the Internet.
-But soon, we might not be able to.
That’s because…
…net neutrality is in jeopardy. Net Neutrality is the principle that says ISPs can’t discriminate between different types of traffic.
That means that…
…whether you’re a bedroom music producer, a couple on an amateur porn site, or just someone with a start up idea - you get access to the same users as Netflix, Facebook or Amazon. On the Internet, anyone can succeed.
But…
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…America’s ISPs wanna set up a pay-for-play system where rich companies pay extra to get to those users first.
If this happens…
…instead of a wonderful playground if innovation that it is now, the Internet will become like cable TV where you can only get stuff that’s been pre-approved by a bunch of old rich guys.
Ten years from now…
…your Internet bill could be a bigger “fustercluck” than your cable bill.
Now, you might be thinking…
…isn’t the government supposed to protect me from fragrant doucheholery like this?
Unfortunately…
…the former chairman of the FCC (government agency that’s SUPPOSED to protect you) is now the cable industry’s head lobbyist. And another former cable industry lobbyist is now the CURRENT head of the FCC.
So…
…we can’t trust the FCC to make the right decision on their own. That’s why WE need to protect the Internet we love. The chaotic, AWESOME, often quite weird, place where literally everyone’s voice can be heard.
In a few months…
…the FCC will approve this festering soal of proposal unless we speak up. The Internet is one of the few places where human voices speak louder than money. So while that’s still the case, let’s use those voices. Go to DEARFCC.ORG and tell them to protect Net Neutrality. Thanks for doing your part to protect the Internet.
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Contact FCC at https://dearfcc.org/
IF DEARFCC.ORG IS DOWN, simply go to good oldhttp://www.savetheinternet.com/
All GIFS are courtesy of our new friend, RANDY!
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I totally wrote a letter!
I no longer recognize the FCC as an authority. They've become the very entity they were created to keep in check.
So, yeah, we're trying the third cat thing again. This is Zelda. Her mother is a Calico and her father's a Maine Coon (hence the ears). She's a bit skittish and scared, currently hiding in my roommate's bathroom, but she's very quiet. Loves being held. I don't even think the other cats have even really acknowledged she's here. I think they'll all get along well enough.
Today’s the day. The day you help save the internet from being ruined.
Ready?
Yes, you are, and we’re ready to help you.
(Long story short: The FCC is about to make a critical decision as to whether or not internet service providers have to treat all traffic equally. If they choose wrong, then the internet where anyone can start a website for any reason at all, the internet that’s been so momentous, funny, weird, and surprising—that internet could cease to exist. Here’s your chance to preserve a beautiful thing.)
The free market should not have an admission price. A product or service stands on its merits, not how much money it can throw at competition.
