May your shadow always follow you

thefrogman: [twitter]

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:36:00 -0400

thefrogman:

[twitter]

guineapiggies: Benny, a paralyzed piggy who’s getting around...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:17:51 -0400

guineapiggies:

Benny, a paralyzed piggy who’s getting around just fine with his wheels.

(via Boston Pignic: June 2013)

"I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:15:42 -0400

“

I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.

There are not any.

By far your best shot, numbers-wise, at finding one that’s at least even-handedly featuring a man and a woman is Before Midnight (on 891 screens) so I hope you like it. Because it’s pretty much that or a solid, impenetrable wall of movies about dudes.

Dudes in capes, dudes in cars, dudes in space, dudes drinking, dudes smoking, dudes doing magic tricks, dudes being funny, dudes being dramatic, dudes flying through the air, dudes blowing up, dudes getting killed, dudes saving and kissing women and children, and dudes glowering at each other.

Somebody asked me this morning what “the women” are going to do about this. I don’t know. I honestly am at the point where I have no idea what to do about it. Stop going to the movies? Boycott everything?

They put up Bridesmaids, we went. They put up Pitch Perfect, we went. They put up The Devil Wears Prada, which was in two-thousand-meryl-streeping-oh-six, and we went (and by “we,” I do not just mean women; I mean we, the humans), and all of it has led right here, right to this place. Right to the land of zippedy-doo-dah. You can apparently make an endless collection of high-priced action flops and everybody says “win some, lose some” and nobody decides that They Are Poison, but it feels like every “surprise success” about women is an anomaly and every failure is an abject lesson about how we really ought to just leave it all to The Rock.

”

- At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR

The whole article is fantastic, as is pretty much everything Linda Holmes writes.

(via kdhart)

retrogasm: It’s Tuesday…

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:13:54 -0400

retrogasm:

It’s Tuesday…

doctorscienceknowsfandom: kasmir-the-soulless-ginger: Yes...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:07:58 -0400

doctorscienceknowsfandom:

kasmir-the-soulless-ginger:

Yes this.

GPOY

thedruidsteaparty: Oh there is a word for it bliss this is...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:44:33 -0400

thedruidsteaparty:

Oh there is a word for it *bliss* this is one of my favourite things <3

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:25 -0400

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning:

The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. I think he thinks youre drowning, the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine; what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not 10 feet away, their 9-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!”

How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew know what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

The Instinctive Drowning Response—so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the No. 2 cause of accidental death in children, ages 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents)—of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In some of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening.* Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

takeiteasymountainface: #this was the greatest moment in the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:39:20 -0400

takeiteasymountainface:

#this was the greatest moment in the theater because everyone screamed

wisconsinforward: Politically speaking, Wisconsin and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:34:22 -0400

wisconsinforward:

Politically speaking, Wisconsin and Minnesota are practically twins.

They have voted the same way in the last seven presidential contests. They gave President Obama almost identical victory margins last fall. They share a common border, a common heritage, and the highest election turnouts in America. Yet based on how they are being governed, you would think they were two different planets.

Wisconsin is poised to pass new tax cuts this session.

Minnesota just passed a major tax hike on cigarettes, corporations and high-earners, including a new and higher rate on the top 2 percent.

Wisconsin eviscerated public-sector unions.

Minnesota just gave childcare workers and personal care assistants the ability to unionize.

Wisconsin has been expanding vouchers for private school.

Minnesota just funded all-day kindergarten and made in-state college tuition available for some illegal immigrants.

The two states have taken dramatically approaches to the implementing the new federal health care law.

And on social issues, Wisconsin lawmakers just passed a bill requiring ultrasound tests for women seeking abortions — an unthinkable step for Minnesota under its current government.

Minnesota just became the 12^th state to legalize same-sex marriage — an unthinkable step for Wisconsin under its current government.

Read more here.

thearcanetheory: androphilia: “Being a woman is not a means to...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:01:04 -0400

thearcanetheory:

androphilia:

“Being a woman is not a means to humiliate and punish anyone”

After a policeman in the Iranian Kurdish town of Marivan paraded an accused criminal in traditional Kurdish women’s clothes in the streets in order to humiliate him, women marched in the city condemning the use of women’s attire as a kind of humiliation.

In support, an internet campaign of Kurdish and other Iranian men has sprung up showing men wearing Kurdish women’s clothes and messages and support. For example, this message says,”wearing Kurdish women’s clothes is not only not an insult, it is instead a great honor for us,” and goes on to describe how women stand side by side with men in every part of society and during wartime.

Support the campaign by liking the page!
زن بودن ابزار تحقیر و تنبیه هیچ کس نیست

(via Ajam Media Collective)

WOW

mysecretorigin: thorinsexenshield: popeyeschicken: thatscience...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:01:25 -0400

mysecretorigin:

thorinsexenshield:

popeyeschicken:

thatscienceguy:

1 and 5 are kind of Humbling…

can we NOT DO THIS RIGHT NOW

this makes me wanna puke guh

O hai, deepsea hatchet fish. I’ll see you in my nightmares.

youngstero: I hate getting to the center of tootsie pops because I have no idea what it is and it...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:01:27 -0400

youngstero:

I hate getting to the center of tootsie pops because I have no idea what it is and it feels like I’m biting into a small fragile head

Photo

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:04:02 -0400

I just realized how grammatically bad my original PARKOUR post was, which is odd, because I’m...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:56:05 -0400

I just realized how grammatically bad my original PARKOUR post was, which is odd, because I’m pretty sure the vicodin has only really started to kick in now. At 4 am. I sure do enjoy the fact that I can’t seem to sleep more than 2 hours. I’m not sure what’s going to happen when I run out of “Life of Mammals” to watch.

..crowned at last

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:51:12 -0400

..crowned at last

fuckyeahsciencefiction: syfycity: Dune Books in The Simpsons...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:30:52 -0400

fuckyeahsciencefiction:

syfycity:

Dune Books in The Simpsons S24E20.

My favorite is “Dune, where’s my car?”

art-of-swords: Swordsmiths forge “Spear of Longinus” from...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:24:32 -0400

art-of-swords:

Swordsmiths forge “Spear of Longinus” from Evangelion anime

The replica of “Spear of Longinus” that appeared in “Neon Genesis Evangelion” anime has been forged. The sword/spear remained faithful in looks to the original and measures 3.3 m (over 10 feet).

The sword was forged by one smith, a master that’s been making swards for 40 years and it took him 6 months to make it. Also he used about 20 swords worth of steel to make the replica.

The sword display will be available to the public from July 2012 at the Bizen Osafune Setouchi City, Okayama Prefecture Museum of swords (Osafune). The former township of Osafune is best known as the home of some of the most skilled swordsmiths in Japanese history.

The Evangelion exhibit will run from July 14 to September 17. The same museum hosted an exhibit with the weapons and armor from the Sengoku Basara game last summer, and 20,000 visitors (mostly young people) visited.

Source: Asashi

I MEANT FOREVER I CAN ONLY TYPE WITH ONE HAND BECAUSE...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:12:24 -0400

I MEANT FOREVER I CAN ONLY TYPE WITH ONE HAND BECAUSE PARKOUUURRRR

YOU GOTTA LAY OFF THE PARKOUR FOR AWHILE.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:06:12 -0400

NO I AM PARKOUR FOEVER

Dear tumblr, Today I broke my arm for the third time. I fell down some stone steps in my...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:10:00 -0400

Dear tumblr,

Today I broke my arm for the third time. I fell down some stone steps in my parents’ backyard & broke my arm. It was not how i planned to spend the day.