#NeedsMoreLikes

[anon15383236]

Short film about Chris Ware: "I distinctly remember being told by my teachers, if you draw women, you're colonizing them with your eyes"

Because it was thirty years ago, delivered to a twenty-year old, and sounds like a ridiculous oversimplified caricature of an idea that is actually not totally insane if you are able to think about it with half an ounce of nuance instead of knee-jerk reaction? (Also because it’s clearly a bait-y headline of the “lets get feminist outrage clicks” variety?) Like believe it or not, there’s nothing in the statement “if you draw women, you’re colonizing them with your eyes” that says “never, ever dr…

[davide405]

Watch this stylish electric bike zoom through the countryside

In brightest day, in blackest night, No hazard shall escape my sight. Let those who worship gas’s might Beware my power… Wood Lantern’s light!

[Nightflyer]

FBI traced a 'fake news' disinfo attack on Election Day from Russia, CNN reports

Donald, is that you? Dammit! I just went to the can for five minutes. Signed, John Kelley

[LutherBlisset]

This doesn’t need more likes, this needs All The Likes. (Sir David is not the best example, IMO - he is a communicator and a naturalist. I wouldn’t say he’s a scientist - but then, he has contributed more to science than me, and I was a scientist by profession until recently…)

How Americans got so weird about science

IDK, I think scientists have always inclined towards patronising the general public. You get the occasional gifted communicator like Carl Sagan or David Attenborough, but more often scientists assume lay people won’t listen to detailed arguments, and need stuff dumbed down to the point where it sounds like religious dogma. And in fairness, that is broadly true. Suppose you want people to make scientifically informed choices about vaccinating their kids. Ideally you would say “here’s the avai…

[Kimmo]

Trump thanks Putin for kicking US Embassy workers out of Russia

Recently, one of the repub-trumper-yahoos here at work said, “I wish Trump would just shut up.” He’s losing them.

[Kimmo]

Watch: Train plows into semi-truck that is stuck on the tracks

we got you covered

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3IRQdilkA

I fucken hate limos.

[anon61221983]

So the Alt-Right is coming to your campus

You debate somebody to give an equal opportunity to both sides to have a reasoned and civil exchange of ideas, so that those listening can make an informed choice. There aren’t two sides, here. There is no civil exchange to be had. (To paraphrase NK Jemisin), you don’t debate who gets to be people. There is nothing productive to be gained by “debate” with people that spout the slogans and cloak themselves in the symbolism of an ideology that has murdered millions of people. People who align t…

[anon15383236]

What to do with Confederate statues?

This is exactly it, what @ff is saying. Most of these statues are repros and scattered about the South in an attempt to rewrite history. They are knockoffs, made of thin metal, not solid or thick walled casting. [image] That’s why they crumple like this when they get knocked over. They’re cheap, made to look like a Rodin or classical bronze casting, to imbue the observer with a sense of power and History, as if it’s important. What’s more, most of these things were put in at the tail end o…

[anon89609066]

Aww. Shucks. kicks the dirt

[Kimmo]

Trump: 'Alt-left' attacked in Charlottesville, 'both sides' to blame for deadly violence

White supremacists: We want to kill you, oppress you, or ethnically cleanse you. Anti-white supremacists: Not without a fight. Trump: See, both sides are violent.

[anon15383236]

What to do with Confederate statues?

Some of us actually want to study and better understand the past. The “folklore” your talking about were carefully calculated lies meant to bolster white supremacy. The Lost Cause mythology wasn’t built in folkways, generally, it was built by powerful people and it was meant to hide the truth of the civil war and its cause. Period. And hiding that by celebrating the confederacy only makes us smaller and more ignorant. That is very reductive, and I suspect you know that. The people you accus…

[Wanderfound]

This guy had a stroke after white supremacists doused him in torch fuel and struck him in the neck with torches

That’s what it is, regardless of any pixels you might see.

[anon61221983]

[anon15383236]

Christopher Cantwell - that NAZI in the VICE article - is crying like a little kid in this video

I went a head and edited the title. I am not going to get into its acceptability/unacceptability of its use, but I decided I didn’t want to lower myself. Thanks.

[One_Brown_Mouse]

You Can Look Directly At This Totaled Eclipse

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[davide405]

Total Eclipse of the Pug

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely And your tail is tight and curly Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of you snore Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous That the best of clothes still have fur Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified And then I see the look in your eyes Turnaround bug eyes, but every now and then I fall apart Turnaround bug eyes, every now and then I fall apart …

[One_Brown_Mouse]

Total Eclipse of the Pug

Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit lonely And your tail is tight and curly Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of you snore Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit nervous That the best of clothes still have fur Turnaround, every now and then I get a little bit terrified And then I see the look in your eyes Turnaround bug eyes, but every now and then I fall apart Turnaround bug eyes, every now and then I fall apart …

SRSLY GYZ

[Kimmo]

Trump pardons Joe Arpaio

I don’t know, it might make an interesting test case to see how far the presidential pardon goes. Arpaio violated an injunction against continued unconstitutional detentions. IF a president can give pardons for that, it means that constitutional rights are essentially unenforceable, if government actors can violate them with no repercussions. Just a thought, I have no idea if the ACLU or anybody else has this teed up… Edited to add: I see there is an article up at NYT about this very subject. …

[Wanderfound]

In swiftly-deleted posting, GOP links Legend of Zelda to progressive taxation

So much of American political language is controlled by the right wing. They want you to call them conservative because there is credibility in that name, yet they are far closer to Dark Enlightenment ideas. The scary thing for me is that if we continue to refer to reactionaries as conservative then the Dark enlightenment may also gain credibility, and looking at the far right marches I’d say they already have too much of that. The American political system is way out of alignment, the US O…

[Magdalene]

Evolutionary psychologists are very butthurt about the new Scientific American

maybe this is part of why the alt-right is so uptight. in no way does talking about the patriarchy mean “men are bad and evil.” nor does talking about “white supremacy” mean that “white people are bad and evil.” nor does “privilege” mean “people with more economic and social and political connections are evil.” it’s talking about the system. and yes, it’s appropriate to talk negatively about patriarchy. “patriarchy”, “white supremacy”, and “privilege” are about continuing artificial construct…