June 2012
31 posts
“Brought to you by the scholars who believe sperm contains tiny little people.”
– My favorite phrase of the moment. For use mocking pseudoscience, and particularly vitalistic alternative medicine.
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Role Models Are For Suckers, and Other Tales
Well, really just the first bit there.
You see, I don’t like role models. I don’t believe in ‘em. People aren’t heroes, and ain’t nobody perfect. You get a role model, you’ve got to watch them, all the time. Because they have the tendency to be human beings when your back is turned.
That is to say, they fuck up. I first formed this opinion after the girl...
Dear every manufacturer of women's clothing, ever:
hidden-agender:
lord-kitschener:
gothiccharmschool:
Faux pockets are an abomination. If you’re going to bother putting pocket flaps on something, add the G-d damn pockets.
No love,
Jilli
And make the pockets deeper, you soulless bastards.
Sham pockets are tools of the devil. Shallow pockets are almost as bad. (The thing is, some sham pockets are actually real pockets…stitched...
May 2012
33 posts
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/smbc-comics/PvLb/~3/... →
I suddenly feel the need to get into Android dev
You see, tumblr doesn’t work in-browser on my tablet, and all the apps are made for tiny lil phone screens. Is a tumblr app that takes advantage of all my delicious screen size really so much to ask?
I mean, I have no idea how to write it, and it would probably suck, but I feel the need to make one.
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[Series] scarbunkle's Advice That Sounds Like it...
For a handful of specific applications, bondage tape is the shit. It’s basically thin pvc. Like a window cling, except tape, really.
It’s fantastic for cables. While normal tape will leave a sticky residue over time, this stuff stays on using friction. It’s like magic. You can leave it wrapped around your coiled cables to keep them together for as long as you want, then...
hidden-agender:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
scorpysue:
keshawithasharktiedtoherface:
methlabrador:
what if one day for 24 hours everyone with a tumblr turned into whatever their url is
that would be terrifying
THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOo
i don’t want to be that :(
No thanks. I like being loud and visible and don’t want to have to sacrifice that for the sake of a cheap...
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What would you do with industrial bleach?
If you’re a decent person your answer is probably “I dunno, bleach things?” Unfortunately there are terrible people out there. “Tell people it’s medicine and encourage them to drink it.” is a regrettably common response. Branded as Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), industrial bleach is the latest and greatest alternative medicine ‘cure’ for...
What now?
So, I’ve tried drafting this one a few times, once with shit-tons of violent metaphors, once without but still very general. But I think specifics will work better.
I’m done with blood draws. Since my blood clot in March, I’ve needed blood draws once every week or two, in order to check the levels on my warfarin.
Warfarin sodium is basically rat poison. That is to say,...
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Interaction Terms Are Tricky Little Devils
So, I saw this image:
And I got to thinking. When you see something like this, where the data seems to follow totally different shapes depending on a single factor, in linear regressions we start looking for an interaction term.
What is an interaction term? If y is predicted by x and z, we have a couple of possible equations. We have y= x + z, we have y= x*z, and we have y= x + z + x*z. ...
Dinner with my mom's side of the family Wednesday
They’re good people, decent people. I like them a lot. Or at least, Iusedto like them a lot. But these days it’s hard to do so.
I just—the best solution I’ve some up with around them is to literally pretend my SO doesn’t exist. Purposely never mentioning them is literally the most ethical solution I’ve found that definitely keeps me my extended family. I...
Not a Miracle. Period.
Do you know what’s fairly minor, but nonetheless absurd, bullshit? The whole love-your-womanly-earth-period-hippie-granola thing. The kinds of women who treat their periods as some kind of divine expression of womanhood. It’s twofold bullshit. Periods aren’t divine, and they have jack shit to do with womanhood.
Let’s just address that womanhood thing first. Clear up...
Every day is a "fat day" for me.
shakethecobwebs:
Because I’m fucking fat.
If you want to stop having self-doubt days, go right ahead. I will support you in any way that I can.
But fuck you for saying that the days you feel gross and lazy and unsuccessful are your “fat days.”
Because my fat days are full of love, and compassion, putting up a fight for those that I love, feeling beautiful, and fighting against those who would...
Wish List: Roundup Ready Yardflowers
So, I think I may have posted on this before, but I pretty much think GMOs are the shit. They’re seriously kind of awesome. They’re pretty heavily regulated, and I’m not sure how I feel about that, but as a result we do know the ones on the market are pretty safe. I just wish I could put some of that lovely GMO magic to work in my own backyard. Specifically, with Roundup Ready...
Welp, that was a bust.
Let it be noted that charred backpack does NOT dissolve in acetone.
A Queer One From The Start: Reblog With an... →
howscandinavianofme:
thestrongestman:
roachpatrol:
rainbowbarnacle:
badger-shenanigans:
ukeaco:
starkinglyhandsome:
i-haveahulk:
arrowapollo:
reindeergamess:
rekhyts:
Butterflies
being abandoned by my friends.
ceiling…
Hair ties.
“‘Safe space’ should never mean ‘safe from #triggers,’...”
– Been puzzling over this one today. There’s a part of me that wants to interpret it as favoring the intellectual safe space, wherein one can work out convoluted trains of thought, sometimes, trodding all over people by accident on the way to a better idea, over the emotional safe space,...
Butt Plugs Shaped like Republican Candidate Voter... →
hawkeward:
I don’t want to become that person (i.e. the one who’s always posting artistic sex toys), but this made me laugh.
I love innovate data-visualization. And this is certainly that.
I am getting so much better at blood draws.
Like, today I actually sat there and talked like a normal person, and only briefly and quietly devolved into a stream of ‘I don’t want to die’s. And then it was back to chatting like a normal person.
I had to get stuck twice though, despite having had a shit-ton of water. Sometimes I wish I had sticky-outy veins.
So that fire in the garage...
It was on my table. My table is fairly undamaged, strangely enough, despite being very old, dry wood.
But it wasn’t in great shape before, and now has some backpack melted onto it. But I’m going to fix it up. A chisel and a sander, and it should be good as new. I may even repair the wobbly legs.
Because it’s my table, by god. I found it, and I had faith in it when no one...
I was late packing up, and that's OK.
Because when we got home, my garage was ever-so-slightly on fire. The only thing we lost, thanks to our timing, was some rags and a dropcloth, and half a cardboard box, but that was really timing.
Procrastination saved my house. And my father and a fire extinguisher.
I also don’t really trust my house right now, so I’m holed up at a friend’s. I have a very, very reasonable...
Two days ago, I taped up my knee, and it was awesome. All 3 pieces were tight enough, first time. Now the corners are rolling & it’s getting stuck to my pants. Dammit.
A Queer One From The Start: Hey there internet, →
vikkiisagenderneutralname:
If you refuse to put pictures/gifs of bdsm/rough sex up behind links with trigger warnings, did you know that you can tag them? You can tag them things like porn, bdsm, even nsfw, stuff like that! This gives people the option of putting these tags into Tumblr…
Metadata is a pipe dream. Tags are the exact sort of crude metadata that falls under the heading of...
A Queer One From The Start: Some of Y'all Lack... →
ustreet:
f0rcedpri0rity:
I know the entire world moves a mile a minute, and there is an enormous rush to contribute your two cents before someone else says the same thing. It’s sad that I avoid tumblr on nights like tonight, mainly because I don’t want to be disappointed by the…
We all make allowances for our homeland. It’s only natural. Our place is the best place, and it...
L.A. Liberty: On North Carolina's Amendment One →
laliberty:
As I’ve said repeatedly: how individuals wish to peaceably associate and live their lives should not be subject to majority opinion nor permission from “superiors.” Why should anyone need permission from politicians or the public at large or any third party to peacefully pursue their…
hidden-agender:
gematriya:
lol @ saying fuck you to urban outfitters because of a slayer shirt rather than all of the gross racist and anti-semitic shit they’ve pulled and never apologized for
AND CISSEXIST SHIT
Let’s not forget that, please.
Also sizeist, ableist, and probably more. They’re really just equal-opportunity bigots. Plus they’ve plagiarized small independent...
Why "douchebag" is an awesome insult:
niaili:
When you call someone a douchebag, what you’re literally saying to them is,
“You think you’re so great, but your existence is actually totally unnecessary and your main function is probably toxic. Also you shouldn’t be allowed near anyone’s genitalia.”
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Ignorance, Malice, Occam's Razor, and Bayesian...
You know that saying about how it’s best to not attribute to malice what can be better explained by ignorance? That’s an important thing. Came up in a discussion I had today, and I think it bears repeating for the world.
You see, ignorance and malice are two totally different things. (Note that ‘ignorance’, throughout this entire post, means accidental ignorance, not...
A Queer One From The Start: Smoke and Steam →
hidden-agender:
(Humor me here. I’m a BIG fan of cheesy metaphors for explaining certain subjects, and this conception of privilege/disprivilege is one I’ve been mulling in my head for a few days now, and I think it works. Do leave feedback or things I left out, though, if you want.)
So let’s take a given…
I think a lot of it’s pretty good, except for the fact that tobacco does...
