horreurscopes:

i love logging onto tumblr and seeing every single person i follow freaking out over this site self destructing. feels like a homestuck update

amnestylodge:

hay is for horses. why did you take that hay? where did you get it? give that back. do you want to anger the horses? i thought not. you better not let a horse see you. put it back.

prefixofsuffix:

peachdoxie:

jaclcfrost:

jaclcfrost:

the “the colonel calls me riza when we’re alone” scene is/was.. lifechanging tbh

lest anyone forget this iconique moment

“Now do me a favor and die” is such a powerful statement.

hatey-mchaterson:

timemachineyeah:

a-spoon-is-born:

funoftheday:

You don’t say.

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.

pseudo-euphoria:

vantasarcastic:

threedogs-toaster:

Fortnite deadass has a new thing where you play as a group of criminals with an associated card suit

And like… do they know?

Do they know what this means?

Jesus Christ every time I think I know what Homestuck is something like this happens

one-time-i-dreamt:

I found out I was pregnant, and the father was my best friend’s boyfriend. I spent the next few months feeling really stressed and guilty about the situation. Finally I went into labor, and it was incredibly painful and I was breathing heavily - and then the doctors said, “Oh, wait, you weren’t pregnant after all, there’s just a pillow stuffed under your shirt.”
It was a  confusing dream and I was like 12 at the time so, yeah. Weird.

onlymollygibson:

roboticsappreciationsociety:

What if you intentionally put in one squeaky floorboard and tell your regulars that if they squeak it, their first drink costs 10% extra, then only new people who don’t know the rule will step on it and familiars will avoid it.

Did… did you just write an algorithm for human behavior? Because that is exactly what I would expect from a robot appreciation Tumblr.

jrquincy:

Fuck you Marvel

madscientistmerle:

isaacsapphire:

shwetanarayan:

hssanya:

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.