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I think I understand a little bit better about the heartbreak that happens when characters you are invested in change or leave. Monty's gone, far too early and tragically, which is the only reason I'm not going to write a full-on post about the fact that my primary RWBY ship got sank and I'm still not very happy about it. Instead, have a lovely piece about why shipping is integral to the process of media conversation.
The story you have is unique and should be told - even if there are other stories that look like it or other stories on an archive that take the same characters and setting.
Look at this! We found gravity waves! More of general relativity is right! SCIENCE!
The amount of information you have available to you influences what kind of decision-making processes you bring to the table. Being able to switch between modes is important for coming to a good conclusion.
There exists an International Men's Day, too, people who think there's only a women's day.
I have been looking for something that confirms my suspicions about how the current primaries in the United States are going, and Vox has published a lovely thing that helps - Donald Trump is popular with voters that have authoritarian tendencies and those scared into behaving like authoritarians. This basically is the confirmation I wanted - Trump is popular because he promises what the conservative movement wants, and is willing to say so in terms that the conservative movement believes. You can see the effects most clearly in children, who reflect the culture of their environment. Trump also follows in the tradition of those who pander to the people just above the benefits line and tell them that those receiving benefits are lazy and could be working instead - which they apparently believe, because they want to distance themselves from the place they may have just been.
There are people with mental illness that have violent tendencies - but instead of erasing them or trying to lock them away, why not insist on the provision of social services for them?
Sometimes, you find the right phrase to make everything work - in this case, it's "threat multiplier" applied to climate change issues.
Regardless of what you think of her ideologically, Hillary Clinton has more than proven that she has the ability to weather political attacks and be competent. Which may be the best thing at this juncture - what's needed to get someone who will enact your agenda is to have built the coalition at all levels that will enact your agenda over time - which suggests Senator Sanders' role is to try and pull the party leftward, rather than getting elected. The current coalition to tap into for getting your agenda done is unmarried women - what they want will help a good many more people than just them, and you'll get major liberal accomplishments done, too, if you can manage to get that coalition into power. Women no longer needing marriage for economic security has opened up a new path, much as the forces that want to keep women married don't like it. So marrying later, if at all, is the preference of today's women.
If you intend on voting, realize that in many states you have strict requirements in what you must present to be able to vote, laws put in place likely to prevent you from voting, should you be sometime who might prefer liberal candidates.
Finally, if you're interested in recruiting across classes for your causes, minimize the inessential weirdnesses that you put into your presentation.
The lack of social safety net still means that you find sixty year-old mothers living in their cars because there's no affordable housing anywhere near where the infrequent work is.
The practice of taking opinion polls may be interfering with both getting accurate opinions and with getting useful data from surveys.
The consolidation of media companies into media empires generally means there is no "liberal media" for a conservative to rail against, except in their own minds. The problem is, when you note that conservative zealots have committed acts of terror and violence against those they think are harming the country already, it's a problem if they decide that the "liberal media" and its supporters are similarly a problem.
Victorians and their nipple ring fashions, compared with the strong women of the early Christian Church, who we know about only through the men that mention them, so all of these women fit a particular mode. When the women get to write about themselves, things both change and stay the same.
Romantic comedies tend to portray very bad behavior as positive, which might influence people who see romantic comedies to see that bad behavior as not bad.
I have known that there are multiple bakeries that make Girl Scout Cookies, but I didn't realize the bakery rivalries were so intense.
The Harvard Business Review has a study that suggests paying executives based on their "performance" only funnels money into executive pockets and doesn't do anything to improve company performance.
Orgasm as meditative focus, with the intent being to achieve the state where everything else is simply pushed out. One can take classes on this idea, it appears.
Barbie is getting some new figure sizes in new dolls, including both petite and curvy models.
Harajuku, the street fashion capital of Japan, is becoming less the street fashion capital of Japan because worldwide, everyone knows it as the street fashion capital of Japan. (And because Japan is being gentrified in anticipation of the 2020 Summer Olympics.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has many publications for you to download free, including several full length books.
Hunger is a sign that it's time to eat. And, funny thing, the body gets really good at fighting off starvation.
A group that intended to entrap Planned Parenthood into admitting to the sale of fetal tissue is instead going to be indicted, since they helpfully recorded themselves illegally offering to buy fetal tissue.
When dealing with relationships that involve more than two people, and faulty information, the best way to act appears to be starting nice, not being envious, not striking back at the first sign of an issue, and being willing to forgive. Sounds like winners to me. Because Envy and jealousy can poison a systematic mind and make it impossible for them to trust again, as it did to Iago and Othello.
The basic problem of publications intended for men and those intended for women. And that's before the erasure that happens to women that do write in various fields, whether directly or because stereotype says certain disciplines are by men for men.
The 100 chose to kill a lesbian, and has no real good reason to have done so, especially considering how much yay there was over canonical queer relationships in that show. The story of tragic queer deaths is one that has been tread far too often. Maybe it's time to start something else? How about some comics? Or take the idea that Deadpool is officially a Hufflepuff and run with it. (Here are some basic comics terms.)
Hey, men. Culture that glorifies violence and attacks against women can be defeated by culture that encourages nurturing and emotional connection in men. For this, though, men need role models and people to talk to about this kind of culture and nurturing and their own emotional states. And tips about being more aware of themselves so that they can practice meaningful consent. And stories of how people responded to violence in their communities and lives.
Groups such as Philly's Pissed and Philly Stands Up work to find alternatives that help survivors in what way the survivors want. This often involves using a community-based model of accountability and reparation, as many times going the path of law enforcement is ineffective or causes more violence and trauma to survivors. It can mean providing tools that allow abusers to be accountable.
It should not matter what the color of the person's skin is - if they are a cop and their actions caused someone's death, they need to be prosecuted for it, not shielded.
Methods to become an oral historian and capture the accounts you are interested in. you may not think it important at the time, but then someone will see how important it is, like finding photographs of the Vietnam conflict taken by the North Vietnamese. Or having a collection of photographs of some of the few remaining traditional folk performers of Japan.
We find ourselves reflected in the media we consume. Which allows us to see the clear PTSD narrative in Harry Potter. Or use sentence fragments to make the conversations and pacing be more real. We get to enjoy the details of the costumes and the stories they tell (even as we see what the costumers are doing to make it look right, even if it's not fully accurate). We divide the characters according to our own categories, sometimes in defiance or difference of the categories imposed upon us. We allow that since it's never explicitly said one way, that it could be any way we choose. We see fragments of the past taking on bigger significance. Sometimes, we only see the skill and craft at work long after we have developed easier ways to do the same thing.
Ritual may be an excellent way of filling a perceived void in one's life. It can be created, or others' ritual used, but the point is to create sacred space and time in an otherwise profane world, to create groups of people marked by their shared ritual experience, and to mark the transitions of life and use them as anchors later on, all of which then require The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. Being in the ritual space, even for a little while, helps draw the mind and the body back to the place where it should be - centered and not chasing.
Having rituals can also help with stress busting. Like spinning cotton in a bar. And rituals can be used to create spaces and reasons to feel good about oneself and participate unabashedly in things that make you happy.
Getting into places and situations that would get you out of poverty often requires having the status symbols of not being poor, even though those objects are often prohibitively expensive. (And thus, the need for expensive shoes.)
Creative work rarely survives to publication without compromise or editorial demand interfering. Additionally, to do creative work full time requires the ability to set aside the ordinary responsibilities - thus, patronage and retreats. It's a very ritual thing. The creative impulse, however, should not be forced or fans told that they have to make the things they want themselves.
What do novels look like with only the punctuation?
if you ask women went they don't apply for jobs, a disproportionate number of responses are related to the belief that job qualifications sights are the actual qualifications needed for the job, and not a fantasy list of the ideal candidate. This, convinced with the heavy social structures that reward women for following rules, puts a lot of women who would otherwise be qualified for the job through the interview process of of the running before they would even start.
Yet, others would have you believe that the widespread distribution of tools that allow us to share are turning us into narcissists. As we compete to have our message heard against the messages of everyone else, that is, and deal with the attendant envy that comes from seeing someone else do what you're doing, but better. The idea that we are all leaders, or that leadership is some sort of ineffable quality, makes it difficult to separate wheat from chaff when it comes to selecting leaders and who we listen to. This becomes even more difficult in a media environment that feeds and profits on providing as much energy as it can to publicizing things that are damaging to those involved in it, happily parroting one side if the other doesn't have the energy or the desire to perpetuate what is ultimately draining and hurting them. There's also the culture that works to monetize every experience had online, sometimes with terrible disasters following what looks to be very profitable ventures.
Tsuneko Sasamoto is putting on photography exhibitions at 100 years of age, which is excellent.
A short comic about how privilege, or its lack, adds up over time, without necessarily blaming anyone for their privilege. Being visibly and outwardly queer is still more likely to lead to a lifetime of poverty and discrimination. And not necessarily the kind of legally provable stuff, either.
Language can acquire pejorative meanings reasonably swiftly, even if they were originally not so. Thus, be careful in praising things you think are virtues, when they promote invisibling women. Similarly, twisting language in knots to avoid making a statement like "men generally commit sexual assaults" ends up making crimes appear to just happen to victims.
Have we mentioned as well that the sex ed received in United States schools, if it exists, is more often than not going to be useless and possibly untrue?
Introducing men by emphasizing their sexual characteristics, in the same way that many women are introduced.
Women engage with men that harass them because it's safer for them to do so. Which puts the onus on men to not harass. Because demanding respect isn't really easy, or even possible. The tools available for enforcing boundaries are few. If you're not willing to grant sometime else the right to enforce their boundaries, don't start a conversation with them.
101 information about disability, formatted for con goers and speculative fiction enthusiasts. Which also has the ways in which the neurotypical enjoy privileges by not being visibly disabled. And ways in which making things accessible to the disabled draws unthinking ire from environmentalists.
Which I put next to anger at people who believe paper is the only medium by which books can be read for no apparent reason.
The story of a very successful con man, who sold the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting marks at least twice. This, along many other reasons, is why reputation is a terrible currency.
The show is called Hamilton, but the hero is Burr. (Okay, the real hero is the creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda) Here's a reason why you should have a listen, or, if you are lucky, go see. if that's not convincing, perhaps a taste of what happens before the ticket lottery will help. Here's another write-up on why Hamilton is such a smash. And another. And why they're so well loved. If none of that works, well, this is how it opens. Now, here's the complete cast recording and the handy follow-along lyrics sheets.
(If you're already a fan, have some meta. And some information about the mixtape, an excellent fanart poster, the cast as a reference drawing sheet, some Martha Washington love, the historical treatment, Finn and Poe looking ready to step into that world, and an interview about the show and the difficulties of reaching the intended audience.)
Speaking of things to watch, here's a convincing case why you wanted to pay better attention to Beyoncé doing Formation at the Super Bowl. And, in fact, why you want to pay attention to Formation in general, because it is unabashedly about being a black woman and the legacy of being black in America. A legacy that your least favorite white supremacists want to appropriate and claim that white people were treated worse than black ones.
Biography break - read up on the first regular black woman newspaper columnist.
Minorities do not have to give white people the benefit of the doubt or accept that intent is magic when it comes to hurtful things, even unintentional ones. Language needs to change so as to avoid causing harm to minorities with its usage.
Fantasy authors should steer clear of appropriating cultures they cannot represent well, if at all. (And then, things get worse.) The accessories worn by a person often have cultural significance that needs to be respected.
Exploiting a loophole in the immigration law meant to keep out Chinese laborers allowed those who, say, opened a restaurant, to bring in their families as immigrants to help with the shop.
Being supportive when someone comes out to you involves steps that should be simple. Admittedly, at the end of that article, where someone says that they feel honored when someone comes out to them? Honored is an excellent thing, yes, but I admit that when I've had people come out to me, I'm both honored that they told me and fucking terrified that I'm going to fuck it up in a "never come back here again" sort of way. Because it's really easy to see how people who claim to be allies try to control the narrative about the people they're supposed to be allied with, at the expense of actually letting people speak to their own experience, or to invalidate someone's lived experiences because they don't fit the mold am ally had constructed of the world.
Performing couples on what it's like to be partners in more than one sense. Yoko Ono is now back in musicians' good graces, having basically outlasted her detractors. The translation of works from Japanese is more writing a story that captures the essence instead of trying to replicate the words exactly. The recreation of Edgar Degas paintings by Misty Copeland, and Star Trek's vision of the fashions of the future.
Manga for fans of Neko Atsume. And page markers that are adorable cats. The toys of Neko Atsume, for actual cats. Also, the Cat Museum of San Francisco is offering to help your cat gain the protection of Bastet, unto whom cats are sacred animals.
This is what some of our foods look like in their natural forms. And this is what pasta derived from insects looks like.
The Internet is designed to remember everything, so all the skeletons come out in data breaches. Or when someone goes digging into your past online. Wendy's is the latest place hit by skimmers and malware, in case you've eaten there recently. The United States Public Interest Group recommends that people freeze their own credit accounts to avoid thieves opening new lines of credit in their name.
The ideal of the war between attackers and defenders regarding methods of authentication. And the ways in which ad blockers are making money for themselves by offering companies the ability to unblock their ads.
Amazon's latest Fire OS for their tablets removes the ability to encrypt files. Windows 10 is Microsoft being the evil empire is several ways. And then there are all the things to keep in mind for upgrading or installing and post-installation to Windows 10.
Facebook's new emoji are meant to help resume their desire to tailor content so that you're surrounded by what you like.
The person whose voice became Siri has had to assist to that reality...and the part where Apple doesn't pay her anything for the use of her voice.
A complaint about the ubiquity of online shopping from those who want to physically see and feel a product. And their complete dislike for the self checkout machine.
Knuckle-cracking doesn't lead to arthritis - it's gas bubbles popping.
There are different forms and degrees of being unable to recognize faces.
The optical illusion of a dress has the benefit of allowing scientists to study how the brain processes visual tricks.
An early Newberry honor book set in France skillfully teaches sufficient French through the novel that the reader can follow along as the novel concludes with for pages of written French and no English at all.
The colorful world under the water, the ways that venom could be used selectively as pain blockers, how animal structures could become human structures, An interesting fish collected, Death Valley in bloom, new protected lands, capturing a volcano in eruption at the precise moment of a lightning strike, capturing the point in time where a waterfall appears to be spilling lava, a fishing village in fog, some of the unpublished work of National Geographic magazine, photographs of weather and natural phenomena, photographs of very strange natural phenomena, rats and other animals trained to detect tuberculosis infections and other diseases,
Cats shaking themselves dry, a giant rabbit needs a home, bookstores with cats, pictures of polar bears exiting their winter dens, the new Senior Pest Controller at Huddersfield Station, a program of getting kids to read to shelter dogs as a way of encouraging the shy and calming the excited (which also gives the kids reading practice with a non-judgmental partner), cats on Instagram, The dogs of the American Ballet Theater, a cat with very large eyes, treats with cat and cherry blossom themes, the abandoned and for sale dinosaur-themed amusement park, dog breeds that no longer exist,
Last for tonight, playing Monopoly as The Landlord's Game, as it was meant to be played, will not only allow you to win, but show why Monopoly is meant to be a demonstration tool, not a fun game.
After that, using sand and variations of speed on a pottery wheel, an artist makes great patterns.
Finally, a visual guide to proper sushi etiquette, along with what training to be a sushi chef would be like.
And young children imitating the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
The story you have is unique and should be told - even if there are other stories that look like it or other stories on an archive that take the same characters and setting.
Look at this! We found gravity waves! More of general relativity is right! SCIENCE!
The amount of information you have available to you influences what kind of decision-making processes you bring to the table. Being able to switch between modes is important for coming to a good conclusion.
There exists an International Men's Day, too, people who think there's only a women's day.
I have been looking for something that confirms my suspicions about how the current primaries in the United States are going, and Vox has published a lovely thing that helps - Donald Trump is popular with voters that have authoritarian tendencies and those scared into behaving like authoritarians. This basically is the confirmation I wanted - Trump is popular because he promises what the conservative movement wants, and is willing to say so in terms that the conservative movement believes. You can see the effects most clearly in children, who reflect the culture of their environment. Trump also follows in the tradition of those who pander to the people just above the benefits line and tell them that those receiving benefits are lazy and could be working instead - which they apparently believe, because they want to distance themselves from the place they may have just been.
There are people with mental illness that have violent tendencies - but instead of erasing them or trying to lock them away, why not insist on the provision of social services for them?
Sometimes, you find the right phrase to make everything work - in this case, it's "threat multiplier" applied to climate change issues.
Regardless of what you think of her ideologically, Hillary Clinton has more than proven that she has the ability to weather political attacks and be competent. Which may be the best thing at this juncture - what's needed to get someone who will enact your agenda is to have built the coalition at all levels that will enact your agenda over time - which suggests Senator Sanders' role is to try and pull the party leftward, rather than getting elected. The current coalition to tap into for getting your agenda done is unmarried women - what they want will help a good many more people than just them, and you'll get major liberal accomplishments done, too, if you can manage to get that coalition into power. Women no longer needing marriage for economic security has opened up a new path, much as the forces that want to keep women married don't like it. So marrying later, if at all, is the preference of today's women.
If you intend on voting, realize that in many states you have strict requirements in what you must present to be able to vote, laws put in place likely to prevent you from voting, should you be sometime who might prefer liberal candidates.
Finally, if you're interested in recruiting across classes for your causes, minimize the inessential weirdnesses that you put into your presentation.
The lack of social safety net still means that you find sixty year-old mothers living in their cars because there's no affordable housing anywhere near where the infrequent work is.
The practice of taking opinion polls may be interfering with both getting accurate opinions and with getting useful data from surveys.
The consolidation of media companies into media empires generally means there is no "liberal media" for a conservative to rail against, except in their own minds. The problem is, when you note that conservative zealots have committed acts of terror and violence against those they think are harming the country already, it's a problem if they decide that the "liberal media" and its supporters are similarly a problem.
Victorians and their nipple ring fashions, compared with the strong women of the early Christian Church, who we know about only through the men that mention them, so all of these women fit a particular mode. When the women get to write about themselves, things both change and stay the same.
Romantic comedies tend to portray very bad behavior as positive, which might influence people who see romantic comedies to see that bad behavior as not bad.
I have known that there are multiple bakeries that make Girl Scout Cookies, but I didn't realize the bakery rivalries were so intense.
The Harvard Business Review has a study that suggests paying executives based on their "performance" only funnels money into executive pockets and doesn't do anything to improve company performance.
Orgasm as meditative focus, with the intent being to achieve the state where everything else is simply pushed out. One can take classes on this idea, it appears.
Barbie is getting some new figure sizes in new dolls, including both petite and curvy models.
Harajuku, the street fashion capital of Japan, is becoming less the street fashion capital of Japan because worldwide, everyone knows it as the street fashion capital of Japan. (And because Japan is being gentrified in anticipation of the 2020 Summer Olympics.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has many publications for you to download free, including several full length books.
Hunger is a sign that it's time to eat. And, funny thing, the body gets really good at fighting off starvation.
A group that intended to entrap Planned Parenthood into admitting to the sale of fetal tissue is instead going to be indicted, since they helpfully recorded themselves illegally offering to buy fetal tissue.
When dealing with relationships that involve more than two people, and faulty information, the best way to act appears to be starting nice, not being envious, not striking back at the first sign of an issue, and being willing to forgive. Sounds like winners to me. Because Envy and jealousy can poison a systematic mind and make it impossible for them to trust again, as it did to Iago and Othello.
The basic problem of publications intended for men and those intended for women. And that's before the erasure that happens to women that do write in various fields, whether directly or because stereotype says certain disciplines are by men for men.
The 100 chose to kill a lesbian, and has no real good reason to have done so, especially considering how much yay there was over canonical queer relationships in that show. The story of tragic queer deaths is one that has been tread far too often. Maybe it's time to start something else? How about some comics? Or take the idea that Deadpool is officially a Hufflepuff and run with it. (Here are some basic comics terms.)
Hey, men. Culture that glorifies violence and attacks against women can be defeated by culture that encourages nurturing and emotional connection in men. For this, though, men need role models and people to talk to about this kind of culture and nurturing and their own emotional states. And tips about being more aware of themselves so that they can practice meaningful consent. And stories of how people responded to violence in their communities and lives.
Groups such as Philly's Pissed and Philly Stands Up work to find alternatives that help survivors in what way the survivors want. This often involves using a community-based model of accountability and reparation, as many times going the path of law enforcement is ineffective or causes more violence and trauma to survivors. It can mean providing tools that allow abusers to be accountable.
It should not matter what the color of the person's skin is - if they are a cop and their actions caused someone's death, they need to be prosecuted for it, not shielded.
Methods to become an oral historian and capture the accounts you are interested in. you may not think it important at the time, but then someone will see how important it is, like finding photographs of the Vietnam conflict taken by the North Vietnamese. Or having a collection of photographs of some of the few remaining traditional folk performers of Japan.
We find ourselves reflected in the media we consume. Which allows us to see the clear PTSD narrative in Harry Potter. Or use sentence fragments to make the conversations and pacing be more real. We get to enjoy the details of the costumes and the stories they tell (even as we see what the costumers are doing to make it look right, even if it's not fully accurate). We divide the characters according to our own categories, sometimes in defiance or difference of the categories imposed upon us. We allow that since it's never explicitly said one way, that it could be any way we choose. We see fragments of the past taking on bigger significance. Sometimes, we only see the skill and craft at work long after we have developed easier ways to do the same thing.
Ritual may be an excellent way of filling a perceived void in one's life. It can be created, or others' ritual used, but the point is to create sacred space and time in an otherwise profane world, to create groups of people marked by their shared ritual experience, and to mark the transitions of life and use them as anchors later on, all of which then require The triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. Being in the ritual space, even for a little while, helps draw the mind and the body back to the place where it should be - centered and not chasing.
Having rituals can also help with stress busting. Like spinning cotton in a bar. And rituals can be used to create spaces and reasons to feel good about oneself and participate unabashedly in things that make you happy.
Getting into places and situations that would get you out of poverty often requires having the status symbols of not being poor, even though those objects are often prohibitively expensive. (And thus, the need for expensive shoes.)
Creative work rarely survives to publication without compromise or editorial demand interfering. Additionally, to do creative work full time requires the ability to set aside the ordinary responsibilities - thus, patronage and retreats. It's a very ritual thing. The creative impulse, however, should not be forced or fans told that they have to make the things they want themselves.
What do novels look like with only the punctuation?
if you ask women went they don't apply for jobs, a disproportionate number of responses are related to the belief that job qualifications sights are the actual qualifications needed for the job, and not a fantasy list of the ideal candidate. This, convinced with the heavy social structures that reward women for following rules, puts a lot of women who would otherwise be qualified for the job through the interview process of of the running before they would even start.
Yet, others would have you believe that the widespread distribution of tools that allow us to share are turning us into narcissists. As we compete to have our message heard against the messages of everyone else, that is, and deal with the attendant envy that comes from seeing someone else do what you're doing, but better. The idea that we are all leaders, or that leadership is some sort of ineffable quality, makes it difficult to separate wheat from chaff when it comes to selecting leaders and who we listen to. This becomes even more difficult in a media environment that feeds and profits on providing as much energy as it can to publicizing things that are damaging to those involved in it, happily parroting one side if the other doesn't have the energy or the desire to perpetuate what is ultimately draining and hurting them. There's also the culture that works to monetize every experience had online, sometimes with terrible disasters following what looks to be very profitable ventures.
Tsuneko Sasamoto is putting on photography exhibitions at 100 years of age, which is excellent.
A short comic about how privilege, or its lack, adds up over time, without necessarily blaming anyone for their privilege. Being visibly and outwardly queer is still more likely to lead to a lifetime of poverty and discrimination. And not necessarily the kind of legally provable stuff, either.
Language can acquire pejorative meanings reasonably swiftly, even if they were originally not so. Thus, be careful in praising things you think are virtues, when they promote invisibling women. Similarly, twisting language in knots to avoid making a statement like "men generally commit sexual assaults" ends up making crimes appear to just happen to victims.
Have we mentioned as well that the sex ed received in United States schools, if it exists, is more often than not going to be useless and possibly untrue?
Introducing men by emphasizing their sexual characteristics, in the same way that many women are introduced.
Women engage with men that harass them because it's safer for them to do so. Which puts the onus on men to not harass. Because demanding respect isn't really easy, or even possible. The tools available for enforcing boundaries are few. If you're not willing to grant sometime else the right to enforce their boundaries, don't start a conversation with them.
101 information about disability, formatted for con goers and speculative fiction enthusiasts. Which also has the ways in which the neurotypical enjoy privileges by not being visibly disabled. And ways in which making things accessible to the disabled draws unthinking ire from environmentalists.
Which I put next to anger at people who believe paper is the only medium by which books can be read for no apparent reason.
The story of a very successful con man, who sold the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting marks at least twice. This, along many other reasons, is why reputation is a terrible currency.
The show is called Hamilton, but the hero is Burr. (Okay, the real hero is the creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda) Here's a reason why you should have a listen, or, if you are lucky, go see. if that's not convincing, perhaps a taste of what happens before the ticket lottery will help. Here's another write-up on why Hamilton is such a smash. And another. And why they're so well loved. If none of that works, well, this is how it opens. Now, here's the complete cast recording and the handy follow-along lyrics sheets.
(If you're already a fan, have some meta. And some information about the mixtape, an excellent fanart poster, the cast as a reference drawing sheet, some Martha Washington love, the historical treatment, Finn and Poe looking ready to step into that world, and an interview about the show and the difficulties of reaching the intended audience.)
Speaking of things to watch, here's a convincing case why you wanted to pay better attention to Beyoncé doing Formation at the Super Bowl. And, in fact, why you want to pay attention to Formation in general, because it is unabashedly about being a black woman and the legacy of being black in America. A legacy that your least favorite white supremacists want to appropriate and claim that white people were treated worse than black ones.
Biography break - read up on the first regular black woman newspaper columnist.
Minorities do not have to give white people the benefit of the doubt or accept that intent is magic when it comes to hurtful things, even unintentional ones. Language needs to change so as to avoid causing harm to minorities with its usage.
Fantasy authors should steer clear of appropriating cultures they cannot represent well, if at all. (And then, things get worse.) The accessories worn by a person often have cultural significance that needs to be respected.
Exploiting a loophole in the immigration law meant to keep out Chinese laborers allowed those who, say, opened a restaurant, to bring in their families as immigrants to help with the shop.
Being supportive when someone comes out to you involves steps that should be simple. Admittedly, at the end of that article, where someone says that they feel honored when someone comes out to them? Honored is an excellent thing, yes, but I admit that when I've had people come out to me, I'm both honored that they told me and fucking terrified that I'm going to fuck it up in a "never come back here again" sort of way. Because it's really easy to see how people who claim to be allies try to control the narrative about the people they're supposed to be allied with, at the expense of actually letting people speak to their own experience, or to invalidate someone's lived experiences because they don't fit the mold am ally had constructed of the world.
Performing couples on what it's like to be partners in more than one sense. Yoko Ono is now back in musicians' good graces, having basically outlasted her detractors. The translation of works from Japanese is more writing a story that captures the essence instead of trying to replicate the words exactly. The recreation of Edgar Degas paintings by Misty Copeland, and Star Trek's vision of the fashions of the future.
Manga for fans of Neko Atsume. And page markers that are adorable cats. The toys of Neko Atsume, for actual cats. Also, the Cat Museum of San Francisco is offering to help your cat gain the protection of Bastet, unto whom cats are sacred animals.
This is what some of our foods look like in their natural forms. And this is what pasta derived from insects looks like.
The Internet is designed to remember everything, so all the skeletons come out in data breaches. Or when someone goes digging into your past online. Wendy's is the latest place hit by skimmers and malware, in case you've eaten there recently. The United States Public Interest Group recommends that people freeze their own credit accounts to avoid thieves opening new lines of credit in their name.
The ideal of the war between attackers and defenders regarding methods of authentication. And the ways in which ad blockers are making money for themselves by offering companies the ability to unblock their ads.
Amazon's latest Fire OS for their tablets removes the ability to encrypt files. Windows 10 is Microsoft being the evil empire is several ways. And then there are all the things to keep in mind for upgrading or installing and post-installation to Windows 10.
Facebook's new emoji are meant to help resume their desire to tailor content so that you're surrounded by what you like.
The person whose voice became Siri has had to assist to that reality...and the part where Apple doesn't pay her anything for the use of her voice.
A complaint about the ubiquity of online shopping from those who want to physically see and feel a product. And their complete dislike for the self checkout machine.
Knuckle-cracking doesn't lead to arthritis - it's gas bubbles popping.
There are different forms and degrees of being unable to recognize faces.
The optical illusion of a dress has the benefit of allowing scientists to study how the brain processes visual tricks.
An early Newberry honor book set in France skillfully teaches sufficient French through the novel that the reader can follow along as the novel concludes with for pages of written French and no English at all.
The colorful world under the water, the ways that venom could be used selectively as pain blockers, how animal structures could become human structures, An interesting fish collected, Death Valley in bloom, new protected lands, capturing a volcano in eruption at the precise moment of a lightning strike, capturing the point in time where a waterfall appears to be spilling lava, a fishing village in fog, some of the unpublished work of National Geographic magazine, photographs of weather and natural phenomena, photographs of very strange natural phenomena, rats and other animals trained to detect tuberculosis infections and other diseases,
Cats shaking themselves dry, a giant rabbit needs a home, bookstores with cats, pictures of polar bears exiting their winter dens, the new Senior Pest Controller at Huddersfield Station, a program of getting kids to read to shelter dogs as a way of encouraging the shy and calming the excited (which also gives the kids reading practice with a non-judgmental partner), cats on Instagram, The dogs of the American Ballet Theater, a cat with very large eyes, treats with cat and cherry blossom themes, the abandoned and for sale dinosaur-themed amusement park, dog breeds that no longer exist,
Last for tonight, playing Monopoly as The Landlord's Game, as it was meant to be played, will not only allow you to win, but show why Monopoly is meant to be a demonstration tool, not a fun game.
After that, using sand and variations of speed on a pottery wheel, an artist makes great patterns.
Finally, a visual guide to proper sushi etiquette, along with what training to be a sushi chef would be like.
And young children imitating the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
