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Let's begin with context - an iconic photo, some necessary context...that is then glossed over and ignored despite it changing a possible interpretation of the photo, or the ones following it. Not that this is a unique thing - given information that someone is doing things that are likely nonconsensual...the response from institutions (not just the Catholic Church) tends to be "bury it". That's not exactly saying great things about our culture.
(Neither is murder over farting, but it's not in the same league.)
Elsewhere, lacking the necessary empathy to understand the situation most QUILTBAG people have in the world, a striaght evangelical Christian pretended to be gay for a year. And apparently doesn't hate gate people anymore while retaining their faith as a Christian. I wonder whether they're going to think of it as a "lifestyle choice" they made, though. And what's going to be more disturbing is this person pretending to be gay will get more press and more people reading his book than actually reading and listening to the experiences of people who have been QUILTBAG all their lives. Plus, it's not necessarily going to change the minds of people who see secret plots by "the homosexual agenda" in things like programs meant to prevent kids from cliquing in school.
Out in the world today, the Conservative government of Canada dismissed all non-Christian chaplains for the prison system from their posts, with the minister responsible claiming that he didn't believe other religions' chaplains were an appropriate use of tax dollars.
Also in Canada, a sing-along of the first single from four men from Liverpool...fifty years ago.
Elsewhere, another study suggesting that decriminalizing small amounts of drug possession won't increase usage and will free up a lot of resources for enforcement authorities.
An article from 2007 about the large amount of women scholars of the hadith and their role in establishing the oral and written traditions of Islam, including the varieties so fundamental that they exclude women.
Domestically, the official unemployment rate dropped below eight percent in the latest September report, drawing accusations of statistical manipulation and lots of talk from the campaigns about how good, bad, and accurate the numbers are.
Despite what anyone thinks about the brilliance of the opinion, it is not kosher to knock someone personally for their opinions regarding presidential choice. You can point out all the reasons why it doesn't make sense to hold that opinion, but going personal isn't an option. Besides, you can be a lot funnier with a quick and useful graphic about difficult it is to get details out of the Republican candidate.
This works on other topics, as well - observe a well-written counterargument to anti-vaccination rhetoric. Additionally, deliberate obfuscation of the difference between questions of taste and questions of fact presents us with scenarios where people say blatantly false things and expect to be respected and given television time for it.
The issues of making sweeping statements regarding precedent in elections, courtesy of xkcd. Which leads nciely into an admonishment for liberals to stop freaking out about poll number changes. Especially when there are Republican candidates telling executives of companies that it's totally okay to intimidate their employees into voting for him, without explicitly saying so, of course, and billboards in predominantly African-American neighborhoods warning about the penalties for voter fraud, despite the statistics and accounts saying that there are basically no cases of voter fraud by impersonation ever.
The city hall of Akron, Ohio evacuated after a walking stick emblazoned with the name of someone called Kaboom was discovered.
Your first Handmaid's Tale Action Figure. (image)
Elsewhere, a study that shows how unwelcome the sciences make women and how there's a bias against accepting the results of women scientists in their experiments to prove - and how unscientific that is. It's not just sciences, though, that are often hostile to women - there are plenty of microagressions that women suffer every day. And that's without the large amounrs of everyday language that is hostile.
And speaking of the future, in technology, Warren Ellis gives us a primer on how to view our present - completely awesome. And there's also a request to make time travel type stories messy, rather than making them turn out to be a closed-loop predestined sequence of events.
Someone has to have some ideas on how to technologically accomplish these male versions of female comic character outfits.
For the presence of a Nook Color, an entire new generation was exposed to new ways of thinking. It's pretty cool to read it all.
And then there's managing to put together a detailed picture of the area around the habitable base in Antarctica, using freely-available source imagery and some serious hacking of mapping software. And the strong possibility that Voyager 1 has passed past the helioshock and is now outside the solar system, perhaps on his way to discovering more details about the Earth-mass exoplanet about Alpha Centauri Beta [PDF].
Cave paintings from our anestors may have been intended to animate in firelight. And they may have developed tools to animate drawings long before the Victorians (re-)discovered it a few hundred years ago.
Last out of the section, poorly-generated automated DMCA takedown notices generate automatic blacklisting of major sites...apparently over the presence of the number 45.
Welcome to opinions, where we see why we need more people confronting the things "everyone knows" about physical appearance and health.
Suggestions on the usage of politics in gaming campaigns that will not cause the PCs to fall asleep.
Why do people care what others think of them? Because, as it turns out, there's a lot of things regarding health, success, and avoiding violence that hinge on people liking you.
DC Comics is bad at maths - they take a well-liked character in the animated Teen Titans and turn her into a bimbo in the comics, effectively killing the likelihood of those television watchers transitioning to the comics. Additionally, a quick primer on how to make something actually sexy, rather than forcing your comic women into inhuman proportions so you can show everything all in the same panel.
Last for tonight, a timeline to stitch together the continuity of the Marvel Movieverse, a Calming Manatee, in the same vein as Boggle, the Owl That Loves You.
And a call out to authors and artists to provide material for a therian/Otherkin romance anthology. Paid gig and you get to show off your stories to an appreciative audience.
(Neither is murder over farting, but it's not in the same league.)
Elsewhere, lacking the necessary empathy to understand the situation most QUILTBAG people have in the world, a striaght evangelical Christian pretended to be gay for a year. And apparently doesn't hate gate people anymore while retaining their faith as a Christian. I wonder whether they're going to think of it as a "lifestyle choice" they made, though. And what's going to be more disturbing is this person pretending to be gay will get more press and more people reading his book than actually reading and listening to the experiences of people who have been QUILTBAG all their lives. Plus, it's not necessarily going to change the minds of people who see secret plots by "the homosexual agenda" in things like programs meant to prevent kids from cliquing in school.
Out in the world today, the Conservative government of Canada dismissed all non-Christian chaplains for the prison system from their posts, with the minister responsible claiming that he didn't believe other religions' chaplains were an appropriate use of tax dollars.
Also in Canada, a sing-along of the first single from four men from Liverpool...fifty years ago.
Elsewhere, another study suggesting that decriminalizing small amounts of drug possession won't increase usage and will free up a lot of resources for enforcement authorities.
An article from 2007 about the large amount of women scholars of the hadith and their role in establishing the oral and written traditions of Islam, including the varieties so fundamental that they exclude women.
Domestically, the official unemployment rate dropped below eight percent in the latest September report, drawing accusations of statistical manipulation and lots of talk from the campaigns about how good, bad, and accurate the numbers are.
Despite what anyone thinks about the brilliance of the opinion, it is not kosher to knock someone personally for their opinions regarding presidential choice. You can point out all the reasons why it doesn't make sense to hold that opinion, but going personal isn't an option. Besides, you can be a lot funnier with a quick and useful graphic about difficult it is to get details out of the Republican candidate.
This works on other topics, as well - observe a well-written counterargument to anti-vaccination rhetoric. Additionally, deliberate obfuscation of the difference between questions of taste and questions of fact presents us with scenarios where people say blatantly false things and expect to be respected and given television time for it.
The issues of making sweeping statements regarding precedent in elections, courtesy of xkcd. Which leads nciely into an admonishment for liberals to stop freaking out about poll number changes. Especially when there are Republican candidates telling executives of companies that it's totally okay to intimidate their employees into voting for him, without explicitly saying so, of course, and billboards in predominantly African-American neighborhoods warning about the penalties for voter fraud, despite the statistics and accounts saying that there are basically no cases of voter fraud by impersonation ever.
The city hall of Akron, Ohio evacuated after a walking stick emblazoned with the name of someone called Kaboom was discovered.
Your first Handmaid's Tale Action Figure. (image)
Elsewhere, a study that shows how unwelcome the sciences make women and how there's a bias against accepting the results of women scientists in their experiments to prove - and how unscientific that is. It's not just sciences, though, that are often hostile to women - there are plenty of microagressions that women suffer every day. And that's without the large amounrs of everyday language that is hostile.
And speaking of the future, in technology, Warren Ellis gives us a primer on how to view our present - completely awesome. And there's also a request to make time travel type stories messy, rather than making them turn out to be a closed-loop predestined sequence of events.
Someone has to have some ideas on how to technologically accomplish these male versions of female comic character outfits.
For the presence of a Nook Color, an entire new generation was exposed to new ways of thinking. It's pretty cool to read it all.
And then there's managing to put together a detailed picture of the area around the habitable base in Antarctica, using freely-available source imagery and some serious hacking of mapping software. And the strong possibility that Voyager 1 has passed past the helioshock and is now outside the solar system, perhaps on his way to discovering more details about the Earth-mass exoplanet about Alpha Centauri Beta [PDF].
Cave paintings from our anestors may have been intended to animate in firelight. And they may have developed tools to animate drawings long before the Victorians (re-)discovered it a few hundred years ago.
Last out of the section, poorly-generated automated DMCA takedown notices generate automatic blacklisting of major sites...apparently over the presence of the number 45.
Welcome to opinions, where we see why we need more people confronting the things "everyone knows" about physical appearance and health.
Suggestions on the usage of politics in gaming campaigns that will not cause the PCs to fall asleep.
Why do people care what others think of them? Because, as it turns out, there's a lot of things regarding health, success, and avoiding violence that hinge on people liking you.
DC Comics is bad at maths - they take a well-liked character in the animated Teen Titans and turn her into a bimbo in the comics, effectively killing the likelihood of those television watchers transitioning to the comics. Additionally, a quick primer on how to make something actually sexy, rather than forcing your comic women into inhuman proportions so you can show everything all in the same panel.
Last for tonight, a timeline to stitch together the continuity of the Marvel Movieverse, a Calming Manatee, in the same vein as Boggle, the Owl That Loves You.
And a call out to authors and artists to provide material for a therian/Otherkin romance anthology. Paid gig and you get to show off your stories to an appreciative audience.
