you can't hold ten pokemon.

Operation not talk to anyone today is a go!

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:40:27 -0500

i told my coworkers NO NO NO

"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:04 -0500

““We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.””

- Buckminster Fuller

(via bornnotmade)

i fantasize a lot about owen making enough money that i can get a part time job, take care of animals, write, and think. i don’t know if this is fair, plausible, or right, but i want it.

I'm Chronically Ill And I Still Believe In Body Acceptance

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:32:00 -0500

I'm Chronically Ill And I Still Believe In Body Acceptance:

As a woman, it’s easy to believe that my body’s job is to be beautiful. As a modern citizen, it’s easy to believe that my body’s job is to be powerful. As a young person, it’s easy to believe that my body’s job is to party hard and work hard and handle both easily. These expectations become essential to my existence. If I’m not beautiful, if I’m not powerful, then I’m not a good human.

This self-criticism is not only painful but also tremendously wrong. My body’s job isn’t to meet anyone’s expectations — not even my own, really. Its job is to give my soul a way to live on this earth. My soul is here, and it likes the world, and that’s success. My body is a success. My body is successful.

Thanks, body, for being the conduit to a spectacularly human experience.

The body also provides a basic link to the deeply physical nature of life. There’s a reason humans are not bodiless souls floating around (metaphorically) in a purely cerebral existence. We are intrinsically physical creatures, designed for lives full of physical joys and adventures and sensations that can only be experienced through the body. We have eyes to see, ears to hear, tongues to taste, and skin to feel the difference between silk and sandpaper and a summer breeze.

Without bodies to exist through, we would be trapped in our own minds forever. I don’t know about you, but my mind is sometimes a terrible place, and I’d much rather go to the beach.

i know this article might be problematic for a lot of other chronically ill people, but i’m really trying to think through all this stuff as i battle my own body anxiety/horror. thanks, cassie, for sending this to me.

heirofmedusa: freshest-tittymilk: missmurrka: speedwithteeth: ...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:24:16 -0500

heirofmedusa:

freshest-tittymilk:

missmurrka:

speedwithteeth:

catbountry:

weirdmoviefan:

networkandsharingcenter:

globochem:

This story truly is the gift that keeps on giving. [link]

I’m just surprised this took longer than I expected it to.

the Amy’s Baking Company rollercoaster ride does not stop

WHAT?!?

OH WOW.

holy shit

“Banned from France, Germany”

what the fuck you gotta do to get banned from god damn france?!

Lmaoooooo

So, you’re this Funke everyone’s been talking about. You can’t...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:22:58 -0500

So, you’re this Funke everyone’s been talking about. You can’t be more than what? Fifteen?

the-mtblog: The Kids in the HallToronto1986 Photo by Rick...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:01:51 -0500

Photo: Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star

Photo: Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star

the-mtblog:

The Kids in the Hall
Toronto
1986

Photo by Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star

harharhar: Jessica Hische, “Upping Your Type Game” I try to...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:55:49 -0500

harharhar:

Jessica Hische, “Upping Your Type Game”
I try to find sans-serifs that pass the Il1 rule. Type a capital I a lowercase l and a number 1 next to each other. If you can’t tell the difference between these characters, you may run into some trouble when setting the text. There was a fake London2012 twitter account posting some incendiary things this year that looked completely legit because the sans-serif twitter uses (Helvetica Neue) doesn’t pass the Il1 rule. The account was actually London20l2 but no one could tell the difference.

It's important that the pants are FOR the snakes

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:40 -0500

Not FROM them.

Sung to the tune of "Sailing, Sailing, Over the Ocean Blue"

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:54 -0500

oldtobegin:

abloodymess:

Snake pants, snake pants, pants that are made for snakes.

this is owen’s finest work thus far

you now rule my whole face. please be gentle, there's not much to work with.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:30:00 -0500

hahahaha. i just lucked into an exceptionally cool family. what was really nice was paying back the favor when i was a teenager and introducing them to bands i knew they’d like, like phish, medeski martin & wood, etc.

lousy hippies.

i've seen the grateful dead live. i don't mean "the dead" after jerry died. i mean the whole deal.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:49 -0500

scottfriday:

i wonder how many people who follow me have had this same experience. i don’t think i generally attract that kind of crowd.

i started seeing the dead when i was 8 years old. i saw them about a dozen times before jerry died.

ro-s-aspa-rks: Pirate Jokes by minisparks What is a pirate’s favorite kind of music? Rrrrr &...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:23:45 -0500

ro-s-aspa-rks:

Pirate Jokes by minisparks

What is a pirate’s favorite kind of music?

Rrrrr & B

A pirate wearing a paper towel on his head walks into a bar and orders some rum.

The bartender asks, ‘Captain, why do you have a paper towel on your head?’

‘Arrrrr! Because I got a Bounty on me head!’

OMG the bounty joke

hotbiochemist: there are.. so many amendments… in the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:03 -0500

hotbiochemist:

there are.. so many amendments… in the cons-ti-tu-tion.. of the united.. states.. of americaaaa. i can only choose ooooone.

i can only choose

oooooooooooooooooooooone

oldtobegin’s drink of summer 2013: the dark ‘n...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:40 -0500

oldtobegin’s drink of summer 2013: the dark ‘n stormy.

this is about to be my jam. need to stock up for memorial day weekend. it’s probably the only way i’ll make it through to december + cancun.

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:11:35 -0500

alfarosaurus: Archaeopteryx lithographica in progress… Colored...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:24 -0500

alfarosaurus:

Archaeopteryx lithographica in progress…
Colored pencil on color Canson paper

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman: Okay. There’s lots of different kinds of prayer. One is the stupid kind...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:22:48 -0500

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

Okay. There’s lots of different kinds of prayer. One is the stupid kind where someone says I’ll pray for you because they’re judging hating and offering to work their stupid whisper magic to make you be more like them and we all know those people are obviously awful.

Then there’s the people who say they are praying for things because they feel like they should say something and it’s kind of like saying bless you after a sneeze. No snot is being actually consecrated. People just want to say something safe and kind.

Then there’s people who use the word pray in the same way as feel. It’s their way of saying, I’ll feel something for you. I’ll think about you later today and won’t just forget. What happened to you has impacted me and I’ll take time to meditate on the meaning of it.

Another thing about prayer is that it doesn’t necessarily exclude action, donating money, organizing help for others or making personal changes. In fact, sometimes the focus and reflection helps some people find the emotional clarity that lets them access thoughtful, creative responses.

In conclusion, shut up Ricky Gervais.

i’ve learned not to worry when someone says “i’ll pray for you” and instead say “thank you” and mean it.

how can i go into the kitchen and heat up my lunch without talking to anyone

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:48:02 -0500

AVALANCHES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:46:00 -0500

AVALANCHES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM:

OH MY GOD

abloodymess: purepopfornowpeople: Why do we dislike LeBron? For me, it’s how he left Cleveland. I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:29 -0500

abloodymess:

purepopfornowpeople:

Why do we dislike LeBron?

For me, it’s how he left Cleveland.

I thought The Decision was a really shitty thing to do.

What Adam said. He is also such a special snowflake and gets treated as such by the league. Dude NEVER gets called for his fouls and is never above sneaking in a cheap shot.

i was about to say i don’t like his entitlement, but if i was as good as he is i’d be confident too. what i don’t like is his attitude. he never seems excited about basketball, just about himself.