Month: November 2015

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nerdfighterwhatevernumbers:

CEO of a major corporation: What are the teens into these days?

Assistant: Well sir, it seems they’re blogging about… the Founding Fathers

CEO: I need a real answer, Jones!

Assistant: Sir, that IS the real answer

CEO:.. I don’t understand what the children want

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#Hamilton #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #not in this fandom but it’s still funny

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justice-turtle:

So the Rockbreaker’s Ceremony pre-festival push and raffle is starting up this Sunday, aaand I may have just volunteered as a dragon acceptor.

Eh, I was planning to spend the week in coli anyway. I’ll just be getting my fodder through CRs instead of from the AH. :D I’ll have to practice taking care of myself and being willing to knock off work at reasonable hours even if nobody else is online to take over, though… that should be interesting. ;P

(So, y’know, if you were planning to participate in the Rockbreaker’s raffle, consider throwing dragons at me starting Sunday… ^_^)

I was actually leaning towards not participating in the dom raffle (well, the dragon part; if they have daily trivia I’ll do that), because I defected during the last Lightning profit push and felt bad about it even though I had official permission (they said that since it was “about profit, not placement”, it was okay to exploit Nature’s ridiculous payouts instead of exalting ourselves). We got second place that week because of the efforts of people who ignored or didn’t hear that permission, and I felt like I was parasitising them. Lightning is going for bolstering next week, and I intend to Do My Part.

Perhaps I’ll send you one dragon for luck. I’ve heard OOF raffle accepting can get a bit overwhelming, so yes, please do take care of yourself.

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#Flight Rising #reply via reblog

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People who oppose the use of screens aren’t trying to silence disabled people. The problem is that they aren’t thinking about us at all. When confronted with what smartphones can do for disabled people, anti-screen folks will claim that they are not talking about us. The thing is, when they look at a café and see people using their phones, there is no way to distinguish between the people who use phones as disability aids and people who just happen to find speaking through social media a perfectly adequate or even preferable mode of communication. A false hierarchy is formed, and of course, the ways some disabled people speak is at the bottom of it.

By idealizing inflexible, narrow definitions of communication, we are dehumanizing the people who don’t make eye contact, the people who don’t speak. Social media just gives us more socially acceptable and normalized options for communication. A world where people are “glued to their screens” is a world where I and others can more easily exist, succeed and be happy. Stop telling strangers you pass on the street to “look up.”

Screen Backlash is a Disability Issue
(via digoldenepave)

It also is so hugely helpful for those of us who are too ill to go out and have an active public social life. 

(via hermionxjean)

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#(oh right I never actually reblogged this) #(fixing that now) #yes this #that excuse for communication called speech

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mahoganyclaus:

jk rowling’s reasoning as to why fenrir greyback turned remus into a werewolf: remus’s father insulted him so he did it as an act of revenge

the actual reason greyback bit remus: the temptation to succumb to the fact that biting remus whose name literally means ‘werewolf mcwerewolf’ would be the greatest feat in lycanthropic irony the world had ever seen

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#Harry Potter #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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sinesalvatorem:

Sam: You’re sweet

Alison: You’re sweeter, honey.

Sam: I will accept your corny endearments tonight

Alison: What, so now you’re comparing me to high-fructose corn syrup? Sweet, but unhealthy? :p

Sam: I knew you’d go there

Sam: Puns everywhere

Sam: All over the carpet

Alison: Oooh, I can’t wait to make a bad pun during Passover and then tell Kelsey “It’s totally fine for *Sephardim* to pay corny compliments during Pesach.” :p

Sam: And you are going to save it for months

Alison: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss

Sam: And inflict it on a poor, unsuspecting Kelsey

Alison: Indeed. I am a terrible girlfriend.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #puns #Judaism

Reblog if you’re perfectly fine with mutuals speaking to you through the new messaging system

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brin-bellway:

ozymandias271:

or non-mutuals, really

ping me

I thrive on attention

Wait, what?

Oh!

People were talking as if it were a virus, so once someone quit the metaphor and explained, my immediate second reaction was that this was going to be the best use of Brin’s tag for Tumblr updates. And, well,

#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

I’m pretty sure we’re all going to be eaten by zombies.

…good point. I guess apocalyptic things have happened.

(Aww, you thought of me!)

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#reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #awww

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Finally got a chance to install the latest security patch for my body.

(I don’t know why my doctor’s office does their flu vaccinations so late, but at least I got there in the end.)

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#yes ‘installing security patches’ is pretty much how I think of it #’performing a civic duty’ is a nice framing as well #oh look an original post