gravityeyelids | Oct. 5th, 2017

Oct. 5th, 2017

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important!!

This is happening. (BBC link.)

And the inciting incident? There was a concert in Cairo by the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila (whose lead singer Hamed Sinno is openly gay and an advocate of LGBTQ rights) where someone waved a rainbow flag.

The Egyptian government has made as of October 3rd 22 arrests according to the BBC and 33 arrests according to the Independent (both also linked above). Both articles as well as the facebook statement made to the Mashrou’ Leila facebook page made reference to “anal examinations” (which the facebook post correctly calls out as rape), and that some of those arrested are minors, as well as the aforementioned Grindr stalking.

Not only has the Egyptian government used this tactic before (from 2016 and from 2014), but it’s the same tactic that has been used in Chechnya earlier this year (and possibly continues to be used; news coming out of Chechnya is rare in the best of times).

While both the BBC and Independent articles endeavor to state that in Egypt homosexuality is not technically illegal, the Egyptian government’s use of laws against “debauchery” and “blasphemy” makes clear that that’s just a pretext and a smokescreen.

This comes on the heels of the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Harley (a Trump appointee) voting “No” on a United Nations condemnation of the death penalty for LGBTQ people.

If there were ever a time to hold our elected officials accountable and demand for an end to the oppression of our LGBTQ Muslim siblings, it’d be now.

Timestamp: October 3rd, 2017, 17:20 EST.
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10 Day Yuri!!! on Ice ChallengeDay 9: Favorite relationship (in general/can be romantic, platonic, familial, etc.)
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RIP job

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W H A T,,

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This program is extremely powerful

This is -not- okay. How is this software that good!!!

what kind of dark magic is this?! D:! omg
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Wouldn’t it be great if people would stop uploading photos/art/porn etc without sources or giving credit, so we could actually know who it belongs to and where to find more of their work.
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When u wake up and ur teddy bear is on the floor
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Singlehandedly my favorite life hack compilation, below I’ve included my favorites. Read the whole compilation: http://ift.tt/1HWO9pM

1. Put a bunch of shit in jars

You know when you buy rice, pasta, or grains, they come in perfectly good plastic packaging? Well throw them out, pour the contents into big jars, and put them on display. Voila! Oppan cottage-style.

2. Put a hardcover book on your piece of shit bedside table with a bookmark in it.

You were never going to read Crime and Punishment, but you may as well make it look like you did. If you really want to seal the deal, put a pair of glasses that you haven’t worn since high school on top. They’re back in style now, anyway.

3. Get the biggest bowl in your house and fill it with some fucking lemons.

“Better get this out of the way,” you can say just before you sit down for dinner to make sure everyone has seen it, and then never mention it again. Everyone will assume you have jars of homemade lemon curd in your pantry. But I know the truth.

I like this one:

15. Overwhelm your guests by offering them many types of tea.

“Tea? Sure! We’ve just got green, peppermint, chamomile, lady grey, irish breakfast, elderberry, lemon and mandarin, licorice, jasmine, rooibos, cinnamon, or lemongrass.”

Just make up the first 10 and end up with the three you actually have in your cupboard; they’ll have forgotten the others by then.
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Blessing your day with some cute ass fluff dragons. Look at these lil sky puppies ❤😍😍😍
Ps i will be posting some actual DW stuff soon i promise

MY HEART

@baghnakh

@deadlydeamonflashmob
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conf3ttif4lling:

the fact that this was written two years ago and it’s still relevant… what does that tell you?

I’ve been saying this for years but guys

Sandy Hook.

Sandy Hook was the Nightmare Scenario. It was the “that’s not realistic.” If I’d been arguing with someone who was anti gun control and I said “someone could take a gun and go into a school and kill thirty kindergartners in just a couple of minutes, how would you feel then,” they would have said I was exaggerating, that’s manipulative and unrealistic.

but that’s what happened.

and the thing is

if thirty dead, white, upper middle-class kindergartners in Connecticut aren’t going to motivate change on gun control

then they’re never going to change for queer people in Florida, and they’re not going to change for music fans in sin city, and they’re not going to change for college students in Washington and Oregon, and they’re not going to change and they’re not going to change.

A white man can buy 19 automatic weapons and no one is going to raise an eyebrow. And then afterwards they’ll send thoughts and prayers.
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Calvin and Hobbes still relevant 25 years later.
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“CONCIERGE”
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in every conceivable way orlando bloom seems like someone’s oc, like he was the design of an arrogant young human mind and not the universe’s cruel game of chance

“he’s a famous actor. he got famous playing the elf in lord of the rings. he’s unsettlingly pretty and he doesn’t age. he punched justin bieber. his name is orlando jonathan blanchard bloom and he was named after a famous baroque composer. original character do not steal”
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“If you are in this to see change in your lifetime, get out now.” Love this story.
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game of thrones [part 2] | text posts

Is it possible that I am somehow both Arya and Brienne at any given moment?

Knowing you as I do, @lady-feral , I can categorically say it is absolutely possible. And I mean that as a respectful compliment. ❤

!!!!
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cecaeliawitch:

I firmly believe that unless the couple has discussed and agreed to marriage ahead of time, nobody has any business making a surprise public proposal.

Okay except some people want a surprise public proposal.

Girl my husband took me to Spain and gave me a kinder egg on the beach, the ring was inside the capsule (Lord knows how he did that) if any feminist tried to take that away from me I may cut a bitch. Best surprise of my life.

I wish people were capable of analyzing larger social trends and figuring that a significant number of women end up getting pressured into engagements or marriages they don’t want bc the audience that comes along with a public proposal will think she’s a bitch if she says no - instead of thinking “i liked it when it happened to me, therefore it could never turn out badly for anyone, not ever!!!!”

I think what people are misunderstanding here is that agreeing to marriage ahead of time doesn’t need to be like, asking permission to propose? I surprised my now spouse with a proposal in Disneyland but before that we had several conversations about the future of our relationship, future plans for our retirements and how we’d have to get married eventually for immigration purposes. I didn’t go to her and say “so would you say yeah if I proposed?” or hash out deets ahead of time, but we had enough of a mutual understanding and communicated desire to get married that, although it was a surprise for when and how I proposed, it wasn’t out of left field at all.

This is exactly like conversations about consent, people get up in arms thinking that it means you have to have contracts and serious sit down conversations before doing anything when its REALLY EASY to simply COMMUNICATE with your partner so things like this are done properly, yeesh

“proposal can be a surprise, engagement shouldn’t be“ - saw that somewhere, thought it was the most accurate
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Source

For more posts like this, CLICK HERE to follow Ultrafacts

Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”

AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE

so that’s the function of a rubber duck

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
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““Matthews pointed out that tigers daily excrete lipids (through urine and marking fluid) equivalent to one week’s butter ration for the British soldier in the second world war.””
- Favorite new unit of measurement in published science (from an article about felid scent marking) in the Tigers of the World anthology from 1987.
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Bringing this back because it’s still one of my favorite units of measurement.

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livejournal, fanfiction.net and ao3which one were you?

I HAVE LITERALLY LIVED THROUGH ALL OF THEM WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME

Oh bb there is so much more to it than that.

First there were zines, lovingly mimeographed and stapled by our fandom foreparents, and those who remain to us from the Zine Age are powerful and wise.

Then there was Usenet, where formatting went to die. You know not the strength it takes to read 60k fics entirely in Courier New, or the pleasure of a really artistic looking section break marker composed of ASCII characters.

Then there was the Great Schism, as fandoms spread far and wide across the Web, and basic HTML was the whole of the law. Many of us lied our way into private “18+” listservs, and roamed the webrings, lamps aloft, in search of one virtuous author (or at least somebody else who shipped the thing).

From this dark age rose FF.net, that pit of voles from whose bourn many a hungry reader has returned, starved for citrus and heartsick from the cutesy author notes.

And FF.net begat Livejournal, which allowed easy archiving, threaded comments, flocked posts and invite-only communities. And it was Livejournal, in its death throes, that begat AO3, which once seemed like only a utopian vision and now bestrides the world like a Colossus.
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small angry dog 2: the reckoning
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depressed kids in the media: I don’t wanna go to therapy! I don’t need help! I’m not some specimen for you to dissect!

me, rollin up to my therapist’s office and collapsing in relief: what is UP my homeboy I fuckin missed you,, hope ur ready to hear some Bull Shit that fuckin happened to me this week

alternatively my sad broke ass: imagine how nice it would be to get some goddamn help up in here
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desert girls make do

Y'know sometimes i wonder if y'all are

Actually okay.
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Bearded Man Playfully Poses for Pin-Up Calendar to Raise Money for Children’s Charity

this is the best thing because look at that body positivity

I love how not all these photos are cheesy and a lot of them are sincerely adorable and beautifully shot

I would absolutely buy this calendar.

@thebibliosphere because its amazing

What a cutie.
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Unpopular Opinion:

Tumblr’s “walking on eggshells” and “one strike, you’re out” mentality is really really immature.

Reblog if ya agree.

Another unpopular opinion:

The “You can apologize, beg for forgiveness, and change your ways all you want but it won’t change a thing cause you’re still horrible vile trash that deserves to die a fiery death” mentality is really harmful, scary, disgusting, and will probably get someone killed, be it by someone else’s hand or their own

yet another unpopular opinion: the ‘unproblematic fav’ mentality is really bad because you’re putting an individual up on a pedestal and treating them like a deity of sorts and forgetting that they too are human beings and make mistakes.

Another unpopular opinion: Not every mistake is the Worst Thing Ever. Sometimes people make small mistakes, and sometimes ignorance is a small mistake, and they do not need to grovel and beg and apologize perfectly because in the scheme of things it was a small mistake that didn’t even seriously hurt anyone, outside of tumblr’s performative moral outrage being offended.
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Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer steal Subway stations from lots.

Sims can no longer WooHoo in the Elevator with a Sim who is on a different floor.

The Grim Reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affiliation.

Fixed a tuning issue so that Sims now vomit at acceptable levels.

It is no longer possible to ‘Try for Baby’ with the Grim Reaper.

“Become Enemies with Child” wish no longer appears.

Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out.

Pregnant sims can no longer brawl.

Baby Sims will no longer become stuck on a Sim’s hand while driving a car.

Sims will no longer receive a wish to “Skinny Dip” with Mummies.

A meteor can hit a building, which case everyone will run out before the collision. Those who do not exit the building will die. Sims automatically leave if a meteor is approaching, unless it is a school, in which children are not allowed to leave and will always die.

I can’t stop laughing holy shit

As a programmer I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Halloween

by Chris Dunn

Reblog for the mummy!
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*misses my kids first steps so i can draw torbjorn some new shoes*
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A bar has opened that doesn’t serve alcohol, and it’s surprisingly successful.

Brillig Dry Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan doesn’t serve alcohol, but owner Nic Sims is counting on customers not caring.

She hasn’t had a drink in 20 years, and she wanted to create a space where people—including, but not limited to, recovering alcoholics—could gather to have fun and socialize without worrying about drinking. In other words, she wants Brillig Dry Bar to have “a bar-like convivial atmosphere, with snacks and drinks and conversation, without it being a bar,” she told MLive.com.

Sims runs the bar as a pop-up out of her husband’s coffee shop, Mighty Good Coffee. She serves interesting non-alcoholic drinks, like Brooklyn Egg Creams, Pomegranate-Rosemary Sodas, and Vegan Pumpkin Chillers, as well as snack plates with meats, cheeses, and cookies.

Though some detractors have accused Sims of being anti-alcohol, the bar’s opening night last Friday was packed. According to BuzzFeed, “Brillig’s first customers included former drinkers, pregnant women, Muslims, teenagers, and college kids.”

The next pop-up will be December 26.

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This is actually really cool, especially for people who can’t drink alcohol, like people with liver/digestive/processing issues.

That and alcoholism is such a weirdly normal thing and it shouldnt be, this is super important

Not to mention all of the people who’s bodies can’t break down alcohol or wheat.
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