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MONGO IS APPALLED

(Art by Layna of Lund, Discord)

You’re not going to take two of us with a stick. Two marks says I could. Each. ...You afraid? Done then. Let us put an end to this farce after all. Dovie’andi se tovya sagain.

THE WHEEL OF TIME 3.03 | Seeds of Shadow

technoturian

Wheel of Time Season 3, Episode 7 || Perrin Aybara & Faile Bashere

"I don't want to see you die." "You won't. I'll last longer than you."

everythingfox

“I’m a horse vet. This adorable little guy fell asleep on my feet while I talked to his people.”

(Source)

nickyflowers

i bet there were guys in the 1800s who were super fucking Reddit about everything, but no one had the right word yet for why those guys were so annoying. so they just had to wonder

doctorbluesmanreturns

Der lästige Kavalier (The Annoying Gentleman), by Berthold Woltze, 1874.

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

that is a "hello darkness my old friend" face if I ever saw one.

safetynot9uaranteed

Cybersmith off his shits

marzipanandminutiae

keep in mind also that this girl is

A. A teenager, since her hair is almost fully down (the longer skirt and her traveling alone make me think maybe 14-15), and

B. In mourning, as evidenced by her entirely matte and unornamented black dress, gloves, and hat

so this guy is pestering a young girl who's just lost someone close to her, in absence of clear social cues meant to convey exactly that

shinyhappygoth

I recently saw it pointed out elseTumblr that, a remarkably easy detail to miss, she is going for her hatpin. The clear social cues are about to escalate.

lyricwritesprose

I for one think that is very valid of her and that hatpinning That Guy should still be considered a socially acceptable and perhaps even laudable option.

maxturnerwrites

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o-kurwa

skulki-d

I don't say this often, but the French really know what they're doing with this one.

blackwoolncrown

this is the ONE thing they deserve props for

cykelops

You won’t see this every day but making sure the system cannot proceed unless women have a seat at the table is the best possibly thing you can do in a place of privilege.

decentsapling

The man who defended Rep. McBride is 72 year old Rep. Bill Keating from Massachusetts.

Here is his website if you want to send messages of support.

pangur-and-grim

once when I was at my dad’s workplace, he and I were speaking to his coworker who had a butterfly tattoo. and as soon as she was out of earshot, he said “whenever I see people with tattoos, I feel that their parents have failed them.” and me, being the child of this person, who already had multiple tattoos hidden under clothing, was like 😬

pangur-and-grim

people who are judgmental about tattoos are so funny to me. when my aunt saw my wrist flowers she said “well now you can never become a lawyer. you’ve limited yourself.” and it was like……I am old as fuck with an arts degree and have zero ambitions toward law, those are probably bigger obstacles.

like yes, I will never become a lawyer, because I am an illustrator. tattoos aren’t the problem there.

bundibird

I worked with a bloke who was THEE most straight-laced, button-up dude you've ever met. Only sike, no he wasn't, that was just a carefully curated facade. He was actually a super cool dude who owned several snakes and who went overseas to get gay-married YEARS before it was legalised here - and he was COVERED in tattoos. He wore a dress shirt with slacks and a tie every single day, and he had to wear a long-sleeved top under his shirts whenever he wore a white one, so that his tattoos didn't show through the fabric.

We worked with this woman who was great, but VERY old-school. One day, tattoos came up and I mentioned that the only reason I don't have one is because my attention span is too short-lived to commit to having something permanently on my skin; I would love it for a few years and then I would be over it and would wish I'd gotten something else.

She launches into this whole speech-slash-rant, begging me not to get a tattoo, telling me that I'll regret it, telling me that only degenerates get tattoos.

Tattoo-guy, who kept his tats VERY much on the downlow because the job he was in would have frowned upon them, says something along the lines of, "oh, RIGHT? Honestly, the rise in tattoos in today's youth is something society aught to be ashamed of."

I start grinning, because I know about his tattoos, and I know he's taking the piss, but old-school-colleague does NOT know. She's like "Ah! An ALLY!!" and launches into an even more impassioned rant.

He joins her - matches her energy perfectly. Throws in a few lines about how "you know, in Japan, if you have a tattoo it means you're a CRIMINAL" and other such juicy bits. Meanwhile, as he's talking, he's taking off his jacket, unbuttoning the cuffs on his shirt, revealing the white long-sleeved top underneath. He waits for an opportune moment -- she was half way through a staunch sentence about Just What She Would Do If Her Son Ever Came Home Tattooed, and he pushes his long-sleeve all the way up to his elbow, revealing his many, many tattoos.

She SHRIEKS.

I shit you not, the sound she made lives rent-free in my head. Absolutely screamed in horrified shock; turns around and shields her eyes, the whole thing. I'm pissing myself laughing at this point, and so is tattoo-guy. He rolls up his other sleeve just in time for her to manage to gather herself and turn back around, only to be faced with his second tattooed forearm, and she screams again and turns away.

The shrieking was mostly due to her own embarrassment, not that she genuinely couldn't look at the tattoos -- it was that she'd realised she'd gone on this absolutely passionate rant about the inherent degenerate nature of anyone who gets a tattoo...... to her very highly esteemed co-worker, who was a walking artpiece under his starched white shirt, and she was MORTIFIED.

He wasn't offended, though -- he was laughing just as much as I was, ABSOLUTELY delighted to have been able to set up and execute his little prank -- and it wasn't long before she saw the funny side of it too and was laughing with us, HEARTILY embarrased, but in addition to it being genuinely hilarious, I suspect it might also have given her reason to, you know, not judge people with tattoos so uniformly? Or to go on fewer impassioned rants about how much she hates tattoos, at the very least.

starl1tsky

the thing about natasha pulley is that she can write well but like. every book of hers, the plot is Man Complicit in Atrocities/Pathological Liar Lies To His Amnesiac/Deeply Confused Love Interest

everythingfox

Saved us from a natural disaster

odinsblog

“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers

klapollo

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

marcchurch

xskadi-deactivated20240221

I don’t know what’s going on here but I’m in

jonaldronaldrolkientolkien

girls night

english-mace

girls night

noirpoison1

celticjade13

I see @copperbadge is terrorizing the pigeons again. 😂

copperbadge

IT WAS ONE TIME.

Admittedly if that pigeon flew at me with that in its beak I would definitely punch him out of startle reflex.

[ID: A photograph of a pigeon standing on a sectional sofa; the pigeon is holding a little sticker in its beak that shows an image of a pigeon's head and reads "be nice to pigeons" on it.]

mindblowingscience

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

pusheen-the-radical

the world hates women so much 🤗

madlori

This has happened to every single profession that women have entered, and the reverse is also true. When a previously female-dominated field like computer coding becomes popular with men, it gets more presitigious and higher-paid.

The world hates women so much that when we excel in a career that men previously dominated, it doesn’t make people think better of women…it makes people think less of the career.