gravityeyelids | Jan. 21st, 2019

Jan. 21st, 2019

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westafricanbaby:

starsberrisnunicorns:

Twins 😢💜 #rip

WOW
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uncahier:

Truth coming out of her apple to shame mankind
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argumate:

babyanimalgifs:

Me thinking about a joke I told last week

what the fuck, that’s way funnier than the screengrabs
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anelementofsurprise:

cognitivedissonance:

waitedforgarridebs:

completelycarly:

botwin:

valderie:

nasai:

drunkblogging:

omgggggg

ImM GOING THROUGH MY ARXCHIVE AND I FORGOT ABOUT THIS IM GONNA CRY

THIS IS IMPORTANT

this video changed my life. I’ve never been so touched. nothing better has ever happened to me.

@not-easy-being-green124

WHAT A WAY TO START 2019, KEEP IT UP OMG

I CAN’T FECKIN RUN!

@absolute-twaddle - it’s Irish music and doggos!!
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wumblr:

queenwhiskey:

Chain chomp evolution is weird because they barely changed anything but now their much cuter and way less scary.

chain chomps lost their vestigial forward facing eyes after generations of forced domestication led them away from their predatory nature
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lionheartlance:

This guy came forJameela and she fucking wrecked him oh my god
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mancandykings:

“It really kills me how Asian males are being emasculated, especially in TV and film, I’ve definitely been a victim of discrimination and that’s one of the biggest reasons that I stay in this game—so I can change that.” — Manny Jacinto
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casualdadcore:

king
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sunshine-snowflake:
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toxicrants:

My kink is husbands & wives who are still portrayed as very much in love with each other, because even after years of commitment and kids, they still talk to each other, go on fun random adventures and try new things. No resentment. No portrayal of marriage as a chore. Just actual love.
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springdday:

ommanyte:

Does anyone genuinely call their siblings sis, sister, little/big sis, bro, brother, little/big brother etc. as constantly as this appears to be portrayed in media? I’m extremely sceptical. Now, affectionally addressing them by something like “slug”, “toad”, “fool”, and “bitch”, or even dare I say it, their gotdamn name, is, from my experience, so much more natural.

ok guys, reblog and put in the tag how you name your siblings
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audscratprophetlilith:

After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mara Wilson showed up, Hbomberguy broke $250K. OMFG 💖

#thanksgraham
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vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

Not to……comment on witch blogs bc that ain’t my scene but……I saw a post that was like “new witches are learning not to put up shields and protective circles during summonings because it insults the person of summoning and they might not come.”

And I can’t stop thinking about how this is literally the spooky equivalent of a guy on a first date getting mad at you if you want his last name and plates number to give your friend before you let him drive you somewhere.

Don’t get in a demon’s car without turning on your location for your friend’sphone’s come on guys

I’m losing track of this post as I go

Some Horror Terror from another dimension: Don’t bother summoning me if you have protections up it bums me out when I can’t Eat People on a Whim

Me, doin a summoning in my uncle’s yard barn: No that seems totally reasonable
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fandomsandfeminism:

insanity-keeps-things-fun:

teamgalactica:

teamgalactica:

teamgalactica:

i hope donkey kong becomes known as the ultimate trans ally for eternity now

donkey kong said trans rights !

This is awesome but I need someone to tell me what caused it

Youtuber, Hbomberguy has been doing a stream of Donkey Kong 64 for the last 54 hours (and counting! Not done yet!) And raising money for a uk trans charity. $285k raised so far.
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king:

u know that thing where an animals grow in a far off place and some idiot introduces him to a new habitat and it turns out its characteristics that help them in their own sometimes are too helpful in the new one and they become like an invasive species yeah thats the word i was missing anyway back to my point i think i saw a human version of that just now i was driving in tonights snow storm and i saw a man wearing a big ass cowboy hat to keep the snow off him and a bandit red bandana to keep it off his face and a big ass pancho to keep him warm and nice ass cowboy boots to keep his calves dry and he was prancing along while everyone on the road looked miserable and frozen solid and idk i guess the point im trying to make here is i feel like cowboys would have taken over russia if given the chance or something
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smatter:

apathetic-at-my-best:

This is great thank you
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getcitywater:

aniki-kamina:

tiergan-vashir:

tiergan-vashir:

Anti-trans activists caused a transgender children’s charity - Mermaids - to have part of it’s lottery funding suspended. In response, Youtuber HBomberGuy decided to do a non-stop playthrough of Donkey King 64 until getting to 101% completion while donating any money raised to Mermaids.

Highlights: John Romero jumped on the stream and shouted “TRANS RIGHTS” which caused donations to go wild.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cher retweeted the stream. AOC seems to have joined the Discord for the stream.

AOC TALKED ON DISCORD IN THE STREAM. She was amazing and so eloquent.

“fuck terfs gang” getting spammed in chat is cleansing my pores.

Further Update: Neil Gaiman retweeted. Also, they reached $222,222 while HBomberGuy was taking a #2.

Another Update: Matt Mercer retweeted. The chat also just helped pay for a disabled trans person’s wheelchair enough that they could basically buy two wheelchairs.

Hidetaka Swery just boosted the stream

this is literally the best thing to happen in video game history im in tears
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thechaoticgalaxy:

advanced-procrastination:

republicansareahategroup:

tilthat:

TIL that in 1916 there was a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that would put all acts of war to a national vote, and anyone voting yes would have to register as a volunteer for service in the United States Army.

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bring this back and suddenly capitalists don’t wanna go to war no more

Bring this back bc tbh its just common sense. If you truly think war is the best and only way to solve a dispute, then you must be willing to die for that cause.

If someone else can die for a cause, you can too.
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rootbeergoddess:

She is right and she should fucking say it
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ignescent:

archivistofnerddom:

housetohalf:

sparringwoodpecker:

kamicokrolock:

mnwood:

have i ever told y’all about the greatest moment of my academic career

i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word “fuck.” anyway he would do this thing every so often where we’d have a “quiz” and the first two questions were always really easy and the last one was hard - they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you learn about history and what you don’t.

so one day he’s like okay kids time for a quiz and the first question was who killed abraham lincoln. the second question was who killed JFK. third question was who killed william mckinley.

we all take a few minutes and write down our answers, and then the teacher asks the questions again so we can shout out the answers. everybody answered the first two with really no problem.

now, keep in mind that this class was at 9 a.m. and i was exhausted All The Time during my freshman year of college so i sat in the back in my sweats and never said a word and the teacher definitely had no clue who i was.

so you can imagine his surprise when he asked the class who shot william mckinley and without missing a beat i said, “czolgosz,” pronounced correctly and everything.

my teacher froze and in a very stern voice asked, “what was that? what did someone just say?”

i repeated: czolgosz.

my teacher: “who said that?”

i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he’d been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question.

i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there’s a musical called assassins and there’s a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffaloooooooo (in buffaloooooooo)

The arts are important.

I shocked a teacher once because I could recite the preamble to the US Constitution (got bonus points to), She asked why I’d taken it upon myself to memorize it. I had to explain it was in a School House Rock song….

I shocked church with my ‘math skills’ when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year - and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent

Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob’s sons since they’re the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time I’ve been thankful for Andrew Lloyd Webber. I even got points for getting the birth order correct.

My little brother got extra points in a social studies class once for knowing “O Canada” in its entirely (we’re American and grew up in Maryland, for context) because my older sister went to undergrad in Maine and her acapella group learned the Canadian National Anthem could sing it whenever the hockey teams played Canadian teams.

Who says the arts don’t have real world benefits?

When i was in high school, my history teacher asked what historic technology caused the biggest alteration in military tactics. I answered stirrups, and explained that the ability to brace against the horse to use a weapon and the better maneuverability vs a chariot created the entire concept of cavalry, which led to modern tactics, etc. The teacher said I was the first student to ever give that answer and that I was basically correct, and then asked where I had found that out. I then had to explain I had read it in a Star Trek novel.
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the-doctor-is-ace:

John Mulaney needs to make another Netflix special cause I already memorized all of his work
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mugen-nimbus:

My cat: literally just fucking meows

Me:
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saxifraga-x-urbium:

Questions for media literacy

1. What the fuck am I reading? Is it a news story or an editorial/opinion column? If it has a byline/author photo it’s likely editorial. That means it’s not required to be factual.

2. Where the fuck am I reading it? What’s the trust & veracity rating of this source? Sources like the Daily Mail have a very poor veracity rating and are frequently compelled to print retractions and corrections, whereas news agencies like Reuters will supply the bare facts.

3. When the fuck was it written? Online everything kind of blurs together. Make sure you’re not reading old news that has been superseded by new information.

4. Who the fuck wrote it? Very important with editorials. Try to maintain some idea of which writers are full of shit, which are shitstirrers, and who is connected to who, which can be a trial. Guest writers from businesses or political parties will surely indicate this at the beginning or end of a column.

5. Why the fuck was this written? Choices that are made in publishing reports: is it fresh? Is it sensational? Does it serve our agenda or that of our advertisers?

6. How the fuck was it written? Word choice, structure, and framing of events can give you a good idea of what a publication wants you to infer. Headlines which contradict body text, ‘widespread outrage’ that only quotes one person, namedropping lobby groups or think tanks with ambiguous names, or reporting on reactions to an event rather than an event itself are Not News indicators. Reports that are effectively “a company has made a press release” or “survey results” are not meaningful news. (More depth if requested)

7. What is my immediate reaction? If it’s “must show everyone this bullshit/good take” it’s entirely possible that you’ve been emotionally manipulated by the content. Instead of sharing, rephrase for the factual information. If what you find doesn’t amount to anything more than some figures, find the source of those, and post them instead.

Finally: don’t trust surveys run by newspapers or tv stations, they use the most unbelievably rigged and fucked up leading questions to produce something to confirm their own biases. It’s a closed loop and not worth wasting energy on.
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music-daily:

Janelle Monae photographed by Shaniqwa Jarvis for Refinery29 (2018)
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the-artificem:

A few years ago, when I was still in an all-girls catholic high school, one of my teachers told us in her weekly “it’s just a phase” lectures that lesbian relationships are toxic because unlike a man and a woman, two women understand each other completely, thus, making it harder for one to break up with the other, resulting in them being trapped in a lesbian relationship for the rest of their lives just because they got too cozy with having a partner that supports and cares for them.

Anyway can you imagine being straight and thinking that people understanding their partners needs are toxic im so glad i cant relate
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deviantart:

“Cold Trail” by LG77: http://bit.ly/2F8TP9U

With a chilling fog nestled between the forest trees, it’s hard not to shiver when looking at this stunning winter scene.
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nescafes:

Another episode of pastel and goth gf
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leavinpuzzlesunsolved:
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bwitiye:

its like people on this site either think gay men did nothing for their own liberation and it was all trans women, or they think that trans people did nothing for the lgbt movement and that they just co-opted it later and neither of these are true. you can talk about stonewall without acting like it was only marsha johnson and sylvia rivera (who, by the way, were both trans and not, “crossdressing men”) or acting like it was only stormé delarverie who sparked stonewall. the truth about the movements which have focused around lesbian, bi, gay, and trans rights is that no one group sat on their asses or co-opted the movement, but instead all of the groups came together as people oppressed on sexuality and gender axes to work for a common goal: liberation.
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He snapped
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saffron-starlight:

mcavoy:

One thing all cat owners can agree on.

hitting the edges w their whiskers makes em uncomf!!!!
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blackfemalescientist:

jenniferrpovey:

egoofthedead:

thathopeyetlives:

cricketcat9:

asryakino:

lyrslair:

catalystofthesoul:

So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them

Also important to note, and something my bf has repeated to me many times: a contract is a negotiation until it is signed, and YOU ARE ALLOWED TO AMEND IT. Tech companies often put some bs in there about “we own everything you make while you work for us” which broadly applied also means anything done on your own time. He always ALWAYS does write-in amendments with initial and date to state that they only own things done FOR the company, on company time, because there have been companies that enforced that bullshit when somebody had a personal side project the company decided they wanted to steal. There’s only one company that threw a fit at his attempts to amend it and he considered that a huge red flag and refused to sign, turned down the job.

Never. EVER. Sign shit without reading it. Also: if your prospective employer won’t let you take the thing home to read before you sign it and says you need to sign it then and there THAT IS A RED FLAG. The job I had that turned out to be abusive as shit was like that. Every other job I’ve been able to bring the contract home to my parents to have a more experienced set of eyes on it. It’s also common practice in some fields to have one’s attorney look over it before signing. So never let them tell you that you can’t look over it with someone else. That’s a fat load of shit. For “lower level” jobs they may not accept amendments to the contract but if they won’t even give you the proper time to read it over, they’re trying to pull some bullshit on you and you’re going to regret it if you sign. Even if there’s nothing bad in what you signed it’s an example of how they are going to treat you while you’re there. Take it to heart and run like fucking hell.

Please also tell your coworkers. Inform others. Tell everyone. Please, for the lovee of everything TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.

Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal.

Read shit. Tell everyone else to read shit. BE INFORMED.

Absolutely 100% good advice ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

Never ever ever sign shit without reading and re-reading it! Take it home, show it to someone more experienced, if you can, show it to a lawyer. A contract is supposed to work for both sides. A company in Toronto tried to make me sign a contract with clause that in event of me leaving the job I will not work in a similar position anywhere in Ontario. Yeah, right, not enforceable in court, dudes, you can’t prevent me from making a living. Read the shit and don’t let them intimidate you.

The last thing - with stuff being unenforceable by law - is also important! It’s important not to be overawed by the power of the company or other entity.

Also, some liability disclaimers are paper thin once lawyers become involved.

Hell, Target pulls the ‘we own everything you make‘ bull on seasonal workers. It’s very common.

And companies will sue for breach of contract over it.

This also goes for freelance contracts.

I once had a company slide into their NDA, before we had even discussed compensation, that anything I wrote that was “similar” to what I’d be working on for them belonged to them. It was so broadly worded, that anything I wrote with a contemporary setting would belong to these people…including the web serial I was writing and publishing at the time. Full rights.

I told them I could not sign it as stands and attempted to open negotiations.

I never heard from them again. I strongly feel I dodged a bullet.

Never, ever sign a non-compete clause unless it is extremely narrow. “Don’t take our stuff and sell it” is fine.

“We own everything you make” is not fine.

I also had a temp employer try to do a milder version, which was “Anything you write during your commute.” Uh, right. You going to pay me for my commute time then. I refused to sign and did not get the job.

Unless you are literally at the “Can’t pay my rent/food bill” point? It is better not to get the job or gig than to be locked into an aggressive non-compete.

With the legally-required disclaimer that I’m not a lawyer, watch for these in publication contracts and NDAs:

Overly broad non-competes. “Please don’t self publish a book the same month we’re releasing your book” is fine and only good manners. “You aren’t allowed to self publish for the life of this contract” is a red flag.

On the same note, overly broad first refusal clauses. Don’t sign with a publisher who insists that they have to have first refusal on every single book you write for the length of the contract. Often they will sit on your books for months, even if they don’t publish that genre. However, it is always polite to give first refusal on sequels and other books set in the same world.

Life of copyright clauses. For the love of little puppies and kittens: Never. Sign. A. Life. Of. Copyright. Contract. (Work for hire is obviously a different situation. I’m talking for original work here). Contracts should have a specified term in years, after which your rights automatically revert if you don’t renegotiate. Automatically. You shouldn’t have to request them.

Signing over rights the publisher doesn’t intend to exercise. Don’t sign over audio rights unless the publisher has a solid record of producing audio books (if they do have a solid record of it then do give them audio rights and make them pay the production costs). Don’t sign over movie rights to a book publisher! Yes, I have seen this. The publisher was Curiosity Quill. They have since imploded. If a publisher is e-only ask about splitting off the print rights.

For work for hire contracts, then you are signing over all the rights in the contract. (Editing contracts are always work for hire). An NDA is standard and don’t be afraid to sign one even if they’re scary, just make sure they don’t hide anything nasty in it. A standard NDA should boil down to “Please don’t share the files with anyone and please don’t talk about the project publicly without our permission.” I personally treat every project as under an NDA even if I haven’t signed one…you’ll see me talk occasionally about “This project I can’t talk about is taking up my time.” That means I’m either under an NDA or I should be if the publisher had any sense.

The “opposite” of an NDA is a required publicity clause. Be careful of these: Make sure you aren’t responsible for the results. Usually they aren’t too onerous, though. It’s more like “Would you please share the kickstarter with all of your Facebook friends.” I also had one which required me to post the release of the anthology to my blog. Usually they’re no big deal, but watch out for pressure being put on you to do a ton of marketing on a small thing like a short story. It can take you away from marketing stuff which really needs it.

Tl;dr:

Don’t sign broad non-competes. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Don’t sign away the rights to something a company can’t use/exercise.

Don’t be afraid to negotiate.

Don’t be afraid to walk away (unless, again, you would end up on the street/without health insurance/etc).

Make sure you double check the numbers. My pay is standardized by the federal government, and every year I get a cost of living adjustment, in addition to a small raise. In my latest contract, the university used old numbers, stiffing me what would have been about 2K over the year. Don’t sign contracts you haven’t read.
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royaltealovingkookiness:

deliciouskookaburrabouquet:

deliciouskookaburrabouquet:

professorsparklepants:

thanakite:

I wonder if Ozai heard that the Avatar was back and was just like, Shit! Now there’s potential for my son to complete that impossible task I assigned him

Zuko literally is that idiot in a fairy tale who doesn’t realize the task he’s been handed is supposed to be impossible, so he just goes out and fucking does it.

Saving this for later

Okay, I’m back.

I love this, but I have to add… Zuko is not that idiot in a fairytale who doesn’t realise capturing the Avatar is supposed to be impossible.

The second Ozai gives the order and the banishment is official, everyone knows. Nobody has seen the Avatar in a hundred years. Either he’s dead, or he’s an old master that a fourteen year old punk could never hope to beat.

Iroh knows. That’s why he keeps trying to distract Zuko with his little diversions. The crew knows. And they are wondering who exactly they pissed off to get this assignment?

And Zuko knows. Of course he knows. How could he not? But he doesn’t let himself believe it. He lies to himself. Every day. He convinces himself that the Avatar is out there and that one day, if Zuko just tries hard enough, he’ll find him. And he’ll bring him to his father.

Because if it really is impossible? Then that means that Zuko’s father never loved him. Then that means that Zuko can never go home. Then that means that maybe Azula was right and Ozai really was going to kill him the night that his grandfather died and his mother disappeared.

And it is so much easier to believe in the impossible than it is to believe that your father is a monster.

Oh God, yes this ^^^^

Ozai mocked, hurt and threw away this good-hearted kid, the only person who ever truly loved him unquestioningly, believed in him, who never wanted to lift a finger against him. It literally took for Ozai to stand in front of his war council gloating about his genocidal plan, for Zuko to finally fully accept that his father is an irredeemable monster.
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tiny-septic-box-sam:

meco-official:

meco-official:

great-tweets:

[source]

FREE HIM

HE CAME BACK

Everything about this is so fucking funny. The song. The chubby dances. The way he just gets fucking KIDNAPPED. The presentation of the guy in the white shirt in the picture when he returns. This is my favorite post.
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