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Let's begin with Japanese words that fit situations that would be awkward to explain in English. And follow it up with Macho Café, where everything is served by muscular men that will flex and pose for your viewing pleasure and a Boy's Love cafe.
One hundred short science fiction stories, all by women, from the last 75 years.
The United States Treasury Department is looking for ideas on who to put on the new $10 bill.
Classic profanity, in the definition of profane being an invocation of a holy thing in a not holy context.
A campaign in India suggested that women thank the men in their lives for not sexually assaulting them. Which leads nicely into the many bullshit ways that people try to justify sexual assault.
Perhaps we should think about teaching more comprehensively about sexuality, love, and what constitutes good special experience earlier than the never that seems to be standard operating procedure in the United States.
Would you like a good role model for masculinity? Pacific Rim has plenty, in all sorts of ways. They clearly are following the gentleman's guide to behavior in These Modern Times.
The credibility of an NAACP chapter leader has suffered after revelations that they have been lying about their experiences and racial makeup.
How about a good coming out story about being poly.
And a softball squadron that wants to play as a team of Elsa of Arendelle.
Also, making fun of the redpillers that believe body acceptance by women is oppression of men.
Take a look at these pictures of wounded veterans of the current worldwide conflicts. They show the consequences of war.
Two recent studies of deaths involving police officers by the Washington Post and The Guardian give us more insight into what makes someone more likely to be shot or stun gunned.
An infographic offers suggestions on how to sleep so as to minimize pain in common areas.
Fifty-one writers talk about the favorite thing they've done so far in their careers. Which makes me wish there were more than two seasons of Pushing Daisies.
Hollywood obsesses with pretty young people, and needs to be better about casting and employing people at all stages of life.
Mr. Scalzi points out that most people think about the disposition of their physical property with their wills, but they also need to think about the disposition of their creative and intellectual properties.
Laverne Cox talks about Caitlyn Jenner and the issues of trans women and cis beauty standards. We follow on from that with some common mistakes trans allies make about their allyship.
As one might guess, at the intersection of any set of disprivileging identity markers are the challenges of intersectionality, including trans and multiple.
Also, insulting things said to people with autism.
Going the other way, take a look at how easily male privilege is conferred, even on trans* men that look male enough. In contrast, Facebook's name policy means that someone can use their preferred name when working for the company, but not actually on the service.
Ever notice how many bands in the festival circuit are all men, excepting things like, oh, Fleetwood Mac?
The Swan Tower has many smart things to say about the process that should go into a decision on whether to engage in a depiction of sexual assault in print or on screen.
The guide for giving male characters in books the same close and detailed reviews female characters get. Additionally, a good for interacting with your fellow fandom peoples.
Racism manifests in all sorts of ways that sound like edge cases, but are instead mainstream bias.
Children have the right to their bodily autonomy, including refusing hugs, which is a thing we do not do well with them at all.
A famed Paris bridge that lovers attached locks to is undergoing a renovation that will remove the locks and prevent the attachment of new ones, as the weight of all that declared love was stressing the bridge significantly.
Self-acceptance is not the same as resignation to fate - only by acknowledging who we are right now can we do change or realize something isn't going to change. It may also be necessary to get rid of long-held and oft-reinforced beliefs about body size.
Introverts are not a monolith, and "advice" that treats them as such is not good for anyone.
Someone is stealing rare and expensive wine from restaurants and other places where it's being held. And not just stuff that people know is rare, but the expensive stuff that only people who know wine want.
Women in and on video games is an exhausting affair, including the lack of memory or permanence the industry seems to have and the even less permanent Internet where a lot of the conversation takes place. It's difficult, no matter where they are - in Russia, women are just starting to be taken seriously when they talk about their husbands being violent to them.
Miss Piggy is receiving an award for feminism - she explains why it is right and proper for her to receive such a thing, despite her naysayers.
Wardrobe advice on how to repel men, especially those misogynists that you want to avoid anyway.
An at-a-glance look at how the world legally views marriage equality. For which there are far too many countries that aren't in the full acceptance and legality column. Just take a look at what there is to look forward to once marriage is equal.
Infographics of the Marvel Universe, cinematic and otherwise.
Bits and bonds about that devil of a writer, Screwtape.
An all-female musical revue group will be putting on Rurouni Kenshin.
United States film studios have a very long history of casting people of color into stereotype, almost as much as casting a woman as a vampire likely carries with it subtler or more over tones of feminism.
Strength may not be the correct lens to view women characters with, as strength still tends to be associated as a masculine virtue.
It is okay to not like Joss Whedon and still be appreciative of his contributions to more diversified and feminist media. Honest.
Toshirō Mifune, veteran of the Japanese cinema and favorite of Kurosawa, will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Crime fiction and thrillers appeal to different persuasions of people who are looking for different plot beats. Oh, and creative people and celebrities, as always, have more pull with average people than politicians do.
Musical taste may be more of a class signifier than other things, as certain economic classes tend to like (and be exposed to) certain types of music.
To combat racism, white allies need to invest time in creating more white allies. That way, narratives that blame civil unrest on black people, instead of the white structures that create those situations, get challenged. Because it is the job of all of us to find ways to be creatively disruptive from the inside of our society.
Speaking of, if your campaign wants to use music for the candidate, you should check with the artist about it, if the artist is still alive.
As much truth as one gets with regard to the creation of Good Omens, the novel.
Pictures of people who live in the space that a capsule hotel encompasses.
If someone around you has social anxiety (or other anxieties), there are things you can do that will help them feel more at ease. Not necessarily "better", but you can at least do things that will help them avoid panicking about you.
Pronouncing global cuisine correctly - and the insistence on the wrong pronunciation as right. Elsewhere, ruthless methods for ensuring your spice cabinet is fresh and appealing.
Sesame Street is as effective or more effective than many preschool options on the United States, which says more about the lack of quality affordable preschool options in the country than anything.
Being a mental health person in a prison or jail is fraught with problems where security concerns are interfering with patient care.
The increased visibility of disabled people in our society is more a function of not trying to sequester or destroy them rather than any uptick in diagnosis. Now that we believe the disabled can function in society, we're not trying to pack them into asylums.
After the influx of donations brought about by the ice bucket challenge, the foundations related to ALS released their spending plans - getting all their clinics back to full funding and sinking the rest into research possibilities. Unfortunately, the Red Cross managed to bungle and waste the influx they got to engage in relief efforts in Haiti.
ProPublica offers tips on how to make your charitable donations do better. And Stanford research indicates a lot of historical humanitarian projects are closely tied to ideology that is anything but affirming of the basic human worth of everyone.
If you want a program that has an excellent track record, direct cash transfers to those people that need it most works best.
English, as a language, mugs other languages and rifles their pockets for spare grammar - so words that appear to be related aren't. They follow the rules of the language they originated with.
In situations where you're likely to interact with people more than once, benefits accrue to those who are nice rather than cutthroat. Additionally, tips on getting jobs and promotions that aren't in standard career advice.
Zen Cho writes about their specific thoughts on writing, and breaking through writer blockages, as well as an interview with Zen Cho about writing and a round table on diversity in the speculative fiction department.
More on writing - the power that authors actually have with their work, the ways that diverse authors need to be able to have the power to tell their own stories, frequently asked questions and answers about the craft of writing, the possibility that growth happens in fits and spurts, rather than on a constant plane of improvement, and ways to make your fiction better and more gripping, while keeping in mind every writer means something different when they ask or give critique.
Also, remember to give your own work a final once-over after the machines have had a look at it.
Lolita fashion is eminently compatible with requirements of religious belief such as hijab. Last of the haters have focused on the hijab, rather than the fashion, but even here, there are intersections.
What Ariel, the Disney Princess, might look like depending on the part of the ocean she hangs out in the most.
Watching nature do what it does to our human constructions is sometimes quite beautiful. And sometimes seeing what people do with their political border points is interesting.
In technology, a website that allows you to identify the birds in the pictures you upload to them and a website and app that will help you identify plants from pictures taken of them.
Seed and crop diversity over the last one hundred years has gone down significantly, often thanks to agribusiness and their patented seeds that prevent sharing. On the other side, if we are going to deal with artificial foods, we should be demanding that they be excellent artifical foods.
Mapping the microbes of the prairies, the viruses of the ocean, and the bacteria in the guts.
Tempescope, a device that displays the weather as actual rain, mist, or simulated storms and sun. The only thing it doesn't do is snow. It also has an open hardware and software version so that you can build your own - it's an Arduino.
Gadgets for the kitchen or that will help the kitchen move from out of the kitchen.
Record labels, while high-profile, are a small drop in the bucket of what might be properly considered the music industry. If you're wandering outside of those places, or you just have a lot of music stuff to work with, there are many excellent applications for getting all your metadata cleaned up.
We have the right to fix our own devices and make modifications to them. Because endless consumption is not actually a thing we want, nor can we afford, so being held hostage by planned obsolescence is not in our designs.
Plasma tubes exist above the known atmosphere, according to the research completed by an undergraduate in Australia. Staying in the theme of lines that aren't easily visible, humans apparently have stripes.
The colors of eyes are determined by variations of melanin and collagen amounts in our irises. Which, in turn changes the reflection of light. Neat.
The lack of rigid structures in jellyfish allow them to reorganize their symmetry fairly quickly after losing a limb.
Washable underwear for women designed to help with menses that have their absorbent pads built in, with much of their monies donated to helping those in underdeveloped countries get reusable pads as well. Elsewhere, the nearly-ubiquitous bindi is being used as an iodine delivery system to get impoverished areas necessary nutrients.
Learning new things causes damage to DNA - age-related conditions may be a result of an inability to repair the damage quickly enough or well enough. Much like how exercise causes the destruction and rebuilding of muscle tissue, perhaps?
Disney and others have built a robot that can draw lovely pictures in the sand.
Microbes have a method to detect DNA that they do not want and excise it on a precision basis. This technique can be exploited by scientists looking for sequences to eliminate and possibly replace with others.
As more and more tools are developed to help us with our biology and to enhance our biology, we have to think about who benefits and who should benefit.
A large art sculpture is also a functional water filtration device, pouring form and function together.
A suitcase with a fold-out desk and stool, perfect for people doing work on the go, or cosplayers and artists that need a surface for makeup or for creation or sale of their work. This is excellent and why hasn't it happened before?
Games such as the original Super Mario Brothers used to have their levels designed on graph paper, with changes marked and discussed using transparent papers on top of the original level design. That's pretty cool.
Last for tonight, Photography of over and under water of the same things. And the under water is usually more colorful than the over. Also punk taking time out to enjoy the cute, cute baby animals, a husky with cat tendencies, happy puppies, corgies chasing a camera that's at eye level for them, a government building that allows employees to take local shelter cats back to their desk for an hour, as well as providing a high-visibility spot for the cats to be adopted by the public, Steve Irwin's daughter is continuing the family legacy of wildlife conservation and advocacy, a convention devoted to cats in Los Angeles, the elevation of a cat from stationmaster to goddess, traveling the world with one's cat, an infographic about the various communications cats do to us and each other, animals that are seeking warmth, fascinating fox facts, with a picture of what foxes can do if you respect them, hippopotamuses appearing to give a duckling a lift, a cafe with owls as the main attraction, underwater views added to the Street Maps in honor of World Oceans Day, and reasons why getting a dog are good - assuming you're also willing to put up the requirements, as well as justification for watching all those lovely videos, gifsets, and pictures.
One hundred short science fiction stories, all by women, from the last 75 years.
The United States Treasury Department is looking for ideas on who to put on the new $10 bill.
Classic profanity, in the definition of profane being an invocation of a holy thing in a not holy context.
A campaign in India suggested that women thank the men in their lives for not sexually assaulting them. Which leads nicely into the many bullshit ways that people try to justify sexual assault.
Perhaps we should think about teaching more comprehensively about sexuality, love, and what constitutes good special experience earlier than the never that seems to be standard operating procedure in the United States.
Would you like a good role model for masculinity? Pacific Rim has plenty, in all sorts of ways. They clearly are following the gentleman's guide to behavior in These Modern Times.
The credibility of an NAACP chapter leader has suffered after revelations that they have been lying about their experiences and racial makeup.
How about a good coming out story about being poly.
And a softball squadron that wants to play as a team of Elsa of Arendelle.
Also, making fun of the redpillers that believe body acceptance by women is oppression of men.
Take a look at these pictures of wounded veterans of the current worldwide conflicts. They show the consequences of war.
Two recent studies of deaths involving police officers by the Washington Post and The Guardian give us more insight into what makes someone more likely to be shot or stun gunned.
An infographic offers suggestions on how to sleep so as to minimize pain in common areas.
Fifty-one writers talk about the favorite thing they've done so far in their careers. Which makes me wish there were more than two seasons of Pushing Daisies.
Hollywood obsesses with pretty young people, and needs to be better about casting and employing people at all stages of life.
Mr. Scalzi points out that most people think about the disposition of their physical property with their wills, but they also need to think about the disposition of their creative and intellectual properties.
Laverne Cox talks about Caitlyn Jenner and the issues of trans women and cis beauty standards. We follow on from that with some common mistakes trans allies make about their allyship.
As one might guess, at the intersection of any set of disprivileging identity markers are the challenges of intersectionality, including trans and multiple.
Also, insulting things said to people with autism.
Going the other way, take a look at how easily male privilege is conferred, even on trans* men that look male enough. In contrast, Facebook's name policy means that someone can use their preferred name when working for the company, but not actually on the service.
Ever notice how many bands in the festival circuit are all men, excepting things like, oh, Fleetwood Mac?
The Swan Tower has many smart things to say about the process that should go into a decision on whether to engage in a depiction of sexual assault in print or on screen.
The guide for giving male characters in books the same close and detailed reviews female characters get. Additionally, a good for interacting with your fellow fandom peoples.
Racism manifests in all sorts of ways that sound like edge cases, but are instead mainstream bias.
Children have the right to their bodily autonomy, including refusing hugs, which is a thing we do not do well with them at all.
A famed Paris bridge that lovers attached locks to is undergoing a renovation that will remove the locks and prevent the attachment of new ones, as the weight of all that declared love was stressing the bridge significantly.
Self-acceptance is not the same as resignation to fate - only by acknowledging who we are right now can we do change or realize something isn't going to change. It may also be necessary to get rid of long-held and oft-reinforced beliefs about body size.
Introverts are not a monolith, and "advice" that treats them as such is not good for anyone.
Someone is stealing rare and expensive wine from restaurants and other places where it's being held. And not just stuff that people know is rare, but the expensive stuff that only people who know wine want.
Women in and on video games is an exhausting affair, including the lack of memory or permanence the industry seems to have and the even less permanent Internet where a lot of the conversation takes place. It's difficult, no matter where they are - in Russia, women are just starting to be taken seriously when they talk about their husbands being violent to them.
Miss Piggy is receiving an award for feminism - she explains why it is right and proper for her to receive such a thing, despite her naysayers.
Wardrobe advice on how to repel men, especially those misogynists that you want to avoid anyway.
An at-a-glance look at how the world legally views marriage equality. For which there are far too many countries that aren't in the full acceptance and legality column. Just take a look at what there is to look forward to once marriage is equal.
Infographics of the Marvel Universe, cinematic and otherwise.
Bits and bonds about that devil of a writer, Screwtape.
An all-female musical revue group will be putting on Rurouni Kenshin.
United States film studios have a very long history of casting people of color into stereotype, almost as much as casting a woman as a vampire likely carries with it subtler or more over tones of feminism.
Strength may not be the correct lens to view women characters with, as strength still tends to be associated as a masculine virtue.
It is okay to not like Joss Whedon and still be appreciative of his contributions to more diversified and feminist media. Honest.
Toshirō Mifune, veteran of the Japanese cinema and favorite of Kurosawa, will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Crime fiction and thrillers appeal to different persuasions of people who are looking for different plot beats. Oh, and creative people and celebrities, as always, have more pull with average people than politicians do.
Musical taste may be more of a class signifier than other things, as certain economic classes tend to like (and be exposed to) certain types of music.
To combat racism, white allies need to invest time in creating more white allies. That way, narratives that blame civil unrest on black people, instead of the white structures that create those situations, get challenged. Because it is the job of all of us to find ways to be creatively disruptive from the inside of our society.
Speaking of, if your campaign wants to use music for the candidate, you should check with the artist about it, if the artist is still alive.
As much truth as one gets with regard to the creation of Good Omens, the novel.
Pictures of people who live in the space that a capsule hotel encompasses.
If someone around you has social anxiety (or other anxieties), there are things you can do that will help them feel more at ease. Not necessarily "better", but you can at least do things that will help them avoid panicking about you.
Pronouncing global cuisine correctly - and the insistence on the wrong pronunciation as right. Elsewhere, ruthless methods for ensuring your spice cabinet is fresh and appealing.
Sesame Street is as effective or more effective than many preschool options on the United States, which says more about the lack of quality affordable preschool options in the country than anything.
Being a mental health person in a prison or jail is fraught with problems where security concerns are interfering with patient care.
The increased visibility of disabled people in our society is more a function of not trying to sequester or destroy them rather than any uptick in diagnosis. Now that we believe the disabled can function in society, we're not trying to pack them into asylums.
After the influx of donations brought about by the ice bucket challenge, the foundations related to ALS released their spending plans - getting all their clinics back to full funding and sinking the rest into research possibilities. Unfortunately, the Red Cross managed to bungle and waste the influx they got to engage in relief efforts in Haiti.
ProPublica offers tips on how to make your charitable donations do better. And Stanford research indicates a lot of historical humanitarian projects are closely tied to ideology that is anything but affirming of the basic human worth of everyone.
If you want a program that has an excellent track record, direct cash transfers to those people that need it most works best.
English, as a language, mugs other languages and rifles their pockets for spare grammar - so words that appear to be related aren't. They follow the rules of the language they originated with.
In situations where you're likely to interact with people more than once, benefits accrue to those who are nice rather than cutthroat. Additionally, tips on getting jobs and promotions that aren't in standard career advice.
Zen Cho writes about their specific thoughts on writing, and breaking through writer blockages, as well as an interview with Zen Cho about writing and a round table on diversity in the speculative fiction department.
More on writing - the power that authors actually have with their work, the ways that diverse authors need to be able to have the power to tell their own stories, frequently asked questions and answers about the craft of writing, the possibility that growth happens in fits and spurts, rather than on a constant plane of improvement, and ways to make your fiction better and more gripping, while keeping in mind every writer means something different when they ask or give critique.
Also, remember to give your own work a final once-over after the machines have had a look at it.
Lolita fashion is eminently compatible with requirements of religious belief such as hijab. Last of the haters have focused on the hijab, rather than the fashion, but even here, there are intersections.
What Ariel, the Disney Princess, might look like depending on the part of the ocean she hangs out in the most.
Watching nature do what it does to our human constructions is sometimes quite beautiful. And sometimes seeing what people do with their political border points is interesting.
In technology, a website that allows you to identify the birds in the pictures you upload to them and a website and app that will help you identify plants from pictures taken of them.
Seed and crop diversity over the last one hundred years has gone down significantly, often thanks to agribusiness and their patented seeds that prevent sharing. On the other side, if we are going to deal with artificial foods, we should be demanding that they be excellent artifical foods.
Mapping the microbes of the prairies, the viruses of the ocean, and the bacteria in the guts.
Tempescope, a device that displays the weather as actual rain, mist, or simulated storms and sun. The only thing it doesn't do is snow. It also has an open hardware and software version so that you can build your own - it's an Arduino.
Gadgets for the kitchen or that will help the kitchen move from out of the kitchen.
Record labels, while high-profile, are a small drop in the bucket of what might be properly considered the music industry. If you're wandering outside of those places, or you just have a lot of music stuff to work with, there are many excellent applications for getting all your metadata cleaned up.
We have the right to fix our own devices and make modifications to them. Because endless consumption is not actually a thing we want, nor can we afford, so being held hostage by planned obsolescence is not in our designs.
Plasma tubes exist above the known atmosphere, according to the research completed by an undergraduate in Australia. Staying in the theme of lines that aren't easily visible, humans apparently have stripes.
The colors of eyes are determined by variations of melanin and collagen amounts in our irises. Which, in turn changes the reflection of light. Neat.
The lack of rigid structures in jellyfish allow them to reorganize their symmetry fairly quickly after losing a limb.
Washable underwear for women designed to help with menses that have their absorbent pads built in, with much of their monies donated to helping those in underdeveloped countries get reusable pads as well. Elsewhere, the nearly-ubiquitous bindi is being used as an iodine delivery system to get impoverished areas necessary nutrients.
Learning new things causes damage to DNA - age-related conditions may be a result of an inability to repair the damage quickly enough or well enough. Much like how exercise causes the destruction and rebuilding of muscle tissue, perhaps?
Disney and others have built a robot that can draw lovely pictures in the sand.
Microbes have a method to detect DNA that they do not want and excise it on a precision basis. This technique can be exploited by scientists looking for sequences to eliminate and possibly replace with others.
As more and more tools are developed to help us with our biology and to enhance our biology, we have to think about who benefits and who should benefit.
A large art sculpture is also a functional water filtration device, pouring form and function together.
A suitcase with a fold-out desk and stool, perfect for people doing work on the go, or cosplayers and artists that need a surface for makeup or for creation or sale of their work. This is excellent and why hasn't it happened before?
Games such as the original Super Mario Brothers used to have their levels designed on graph paper, with changes marked and discussed using transparent papers on top of the original level design. That's pretty cool.
Last for tonight, Photography of over and under water of the same things. And the under water is usually more colorful than the over. Also punk taking time out to enjoy the cute, cute baby animals, a husky with cat tendencies, happy puppies, corgies chasing a camera that's at eye level for them, a government building that allows employees to take local shelter cats back to their desk for an hour, as well as providing a high-visibility spot for the cats to be adopted by the public, Steve Irwin's daughter is continuing the family legacy of wildlife conservation and advocacy, a convention devoted to cats in Los Angeles, the elevation of a cat from stationmaster to goddess, traveling the world with one's cat, an infographic about the various communications cats do to us and each other, animals that are seeking warmth, fascinating fox facts, with a picture of what foxes can do if you respect them, hippopotamuses appearing to give a duckling a lift, a cafe with owls as the main attraction, underwater views added to the Street Maps in honor of World Oceans Day, and reasons why getting a dog are good - assuming you're also willing to put up the requirements, as well as justification for watching all those lovely videos, gifsets, and pictures.
