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someauthorgirl: elleeldritchunderground: jenandtonic: BRING...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:33:40 -0800

elleeldritchunderground:

jenandtonic:

BRING IN THE NERDS!

Oh. Oh fuck all of that.

Check your emails*, Congress. We “nerds” have been emailing you sorry motherfuckers about this for days.

*Note: ask your local office “nerd” for how to accomplish the checking of email.

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Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:10:48 -0800

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Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:05:01 -0800

Study: Women Ask for Raises & Promotions as Often as Men, Receive Fewer & Slower than Women Who Don't

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:50:16 -0800

Study: Women Ask for Raises & Promotions as Often as Men, Receive Fewer & Slower than Women Who Don't :

stfupenguins:

stfuconservatives:

Well there’s another bullshit myth we can put to rest.

-Joe

Did the study adjust for factors such as general uppidyness and just women being bitches for the most part?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Nice try, “science”.

findvegan: Olive Tapenade Pull Apart Brioche

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:43:42 -0800

findvegan:

Olive Tapenade Pull Apart Brioche

(via a softer world: 757)

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:21:17 -0800

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michaelsnot:

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:14:50 -0800

michaelsnot:

therealkatiewest: tangledupinlace: majesticlegay: ”in the...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:13:52 -0800

therealkatiewest:

tangledupinlace:

majesticlegay:

”in the dark safe corners of the night, we fucked with our fists, teeth and hearts like we were indestructible” - Amber Dawn, in “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”

Two wives

Whenever I hear the word BABE, I see these two in my head.

blueandbluer: ladonnapietra: I need this staircase in my house...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:34:16 -0800

blueandbluer:

ladonnapietra:

I need this staircase in my house and an Alexander McQueen dress that I can wear solely for the purpose of walking up and down the staircase in style. My life would then be complete.

I would never be able to walk down these steps without announcing to Imaginary DeMille that I am “ready for my closeup.”

"Lesbians shouldn’t be allowed to use sex toys, they made their choice."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:32:46 -0800

“Lesbians shouldn’t be allowed to use sex toys, they made their choice.”

- (via microaggressions)

That doesn’t even make the tiniest amount of sense. What?

(via greycatbrigade)

I got nothin.

(via blueandbluer)

Is this assuming that straight people don’t use sex toys? Because that is the only way I can think of it making sense, and that is just sad/wrong.

I would get my period when there's only one tampon left.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:29:57 -0800

baconqurlyq:

blueandbluer:

ubykotex:

That’s the worst!

It’s better than when you have NONE left. At least you’ve got one to run to the store in!

My husband makes fun of me for tampon fairying the apartment. There are secret stashes of feminine hygiene products EVERYWHERE. I may be silly but I never have the above conundrum because of it.

I “subscribed” to tampons on Amazon, and now I just get a box of them in the mail every month. It is AWESOME.

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baconqurlyq: retrogasm: One way to get people to...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:24:04 -0800

baconqurlyq:

retrogasm:

One way to get people to brush…

Rebagel!

"How do you know when it’s New Year’s? ‘Oh, New Year’s is when we drink with hats on.’"

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:09:10 -0800

“How do you know when it’s New Year’s? ‘Oh, New Year’s is when we drink with hats on.’”

- Louis Black on drinking in Wisconsin (via zaftig-hippie-chick)

it’s like new years every fuck night.

(via inscienceandcatgames)

I pretty much had this conversation last night. ”How is what everyone is doing any different from what we did christmas eve?” ”Or any random friday?” ”They are wearing stupid hats” I deliberately put on one new years hat and one tiara, maybe two for short periods, and literally dropped a drink on the floor to block my friend’s girlfriend from putting another goddamn plastic hat on me.

(via maevele)

I love a good tiara, but you can keep your paper/plastic hats. I was able to fend them off by pointing out that they would compete with my crest.

(via cabell)

ryannorth: comicsalliance: The United States Government...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:56:31 -0800

ryannorth:

comicsalliance:

The United States Government Debates Whether the X-Men Are Human Beings… In Real Life

By Chris Sims

If you’ve ever read Marvel’s X-Men comics — and let’s be honest, you have — you’re probably already aware that the central conflict of the story involves the struggle of mutants to gain acceptance in the world of humans that hates and fears them. Since the series first began, the struggle for Mutant Rights has been the story of the franchise, reflecting the battle for civil rights that every minority group has faced in history. What you might not know, however, is that there was a time when the United States Government was called upon to rule on whether Marvel’s mutants were considered to be human beings or not in real life.

It’s reported on this week’s edition of the Radiolab podcast, and as you might expect, it all started with taxes.

You can listen to the fascinating story above — including a few thoughts on the case from X-Men movie director Bryan Singer — and it’s well worth 18 minutes of your time. The short version is that tariff law classifies toys into two different categories. Anything that’s brought into the country for a kid to play with is either a doll, which includes anything that represents a human being, or a toy, which covers anything that’s not. It might seem like a small distinction — especially when I’m sure some of you are out there shouting “they’re action figures!” — but the fact is that the import tax on dolls is twice what it is for toys.

Back in the ’90s, when Toy Biz was making so much money off of X-Men action figures that it was able to actually buy Marvel comics at one point, this was a pretty big deal. But the thing about those lucrative X-Men toys is that they’re not based on “humans” — or at least, they’re not based on homo sapiens. So armed with that distinction, trade lawyers Sherry Singer and Indie Singh went to the customs office to take up the proud tradition of Bolivar Trask and argue that mutants are not, in fact, human beings, and should not be treated as such.

The result was a court case that lasted for years and turned into a hilarious / eerie / hilariously eerie reflection of the struggle that goes on in the comics. Characters that didn’t look human, like Beast, were judged by their appearance, while — in one of the best moments in the history of United States Law — the court found that it could not rule out the possibility that Wolverine could represent a future evolution for humans.

In the end — Spoiler Warning! — the court found that mutants are not human. While Marvel benefits to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in reduced import taxes — and Singer and Singh are quick to point out that they are in no way debating the civil rights metaphor that exists in the comics — I can’t help but be a little disheartened by that ruling.

I mean, even if it’s just in reference to toys, it is actually now part of real-life U.S. Law that people born with the strange and unusual powers granted by the X-Gene aren’t considered human, and I think we all know where that story ends up.

Magneto was right, y’all. About international trade taxes, at least.

US government rules that mutants, like the X-Men, are not human (for tax purposes at least)

gingerhaze: obligatory because butts

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:44:16 -0800

gingerhaze:

obligatory because butts

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Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:39:39 -0800

I am being dragged to Tintin

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:02:55 -0800

invertebrate-party:

I have absolutely NO desire to see this movie, but I need to get out of the house.

I actually kind of want to cry I so badly DON’T want to see it.

In my head I refer to that move as “Tintin and the Uncanny Valley.”