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Sep. 18th, 2014
#what’s ridiculous is how often this shit finds what you want (via arrowsforpens)
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kennyvee:
kennyvee:
liberalsarecool:
ppaction:
NOPE.
Republicans talking shit AGAIN. This @GOP tweet is the literal opposite of what they believe, campaign, and how they vote.
They know that no matter how outrageously they lie, their base will still believe them.
I reblogged this a couple weeks ago, but I’m reblogging it again because after sending that tweet out on September 1st, Republicans blocked equal pay (yet again) just two weeks later.
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kennyvee:
liberalsarecool:
ppaction:
NOPE.
Republicans talking shit AGAIN. This @GOP tweet is the literal opposite of what they believe, campaign, and how they vote.
They know that no matter how outrageously they lie, their base will still believe them.
I reblogged this a couple weeks ago, but I’m reblogging it again because after sending that tweet out on September 1st, Republicans blocked equal pay (yet again) just two weeks later.
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elodieunderglass:
one thing I want to say today relates to my current job. (As you guys know, I’ve left off working in science labs to work an office job in sci comm. My role is kind of … nebulous and involves a lot of “oh, Elodie can help you with that, she does weird stuff. Train Elodie on that.”)
Because it’s an office job, the mentality is for everyone to present their workflows as incredibly difficult and skilled, requiring a lot of training and experience to do properly. Which is fair enough! These skills are difficult!
"Elodie, today we are going to train you to use… A HIGHLY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT WEBSITE INTERFACE. You will need to take a lot of notes and pay careful attention, because it is extremely advanced. ARE YOU READY"
"… This is Wordpress."
"…No it isn’t! it says something different at the top. And it’s very complicated, it’s not something you can just know already."
"Nah son, don’t worry, it’s Wordpress. I mean, God knows I don’t blog much, but I can manage me a bit of Wordpress, it’s cool."
"No. You can’t. Don’t worry, it’s very difficult. Now sit still and be trained on how to upload a photo to Wordpress."
"All right."
—-
"Elodie, do you think that you can MANAGE SOCIAL MEDIA? It is INCREDIBLY HARD and may involve THE HASHTAGS"
"… I think I’ll manage."
—-
"Elodie, can you put a HYPERLINK in a thing? Think about it before you answer."
"Is it like a BBCode kind of thing, with the boxy bracket things, or do you want it in HTML, with like angley bracket things?"
"It is a button that you press that says HYPERLINK."
"I can do this thing for you."
—-
"Elodie, can you write a punchy summary that will make people want to click on a special link that says "read more" to read all of the text?"
"Probably?"
—-
"Elodie, this is how to use TAGS on CONTENT. TAGS on CONTENT are important because - because of THINGS. Things that are too arcane and mysterious for anyone below the level of Manager to know."
"Cool, I can tag stuff for you."
—-
"Elodie, this is obviously a ridiculous question, but can you edit videos?"
"Not very well, and only if you want to make it look like there is sexual tension between characters from different forms of visual media, or perhaps to make a trailer for a fanfiction? Which is not necessarily a good use of my time and I’m not sure why I felt it was so cool to do to begin with…"
"What?"
"Actually, upon further reflection: no. No. Nope. I can’t edit videos. They’re completely beyond me. Not in my wheelhouse. Hate videos. Hate them. No innate skill whatsoever."
"That’s what we thought"
—-
"Elodie?! You can use PHOTOSHOP?!"
"Yeah, I mean, I usually just use Pixlr. It’s free, it’s online, it’s powerful, you don’t have to download anything…"
"but you are not a GRAPHIC DESIGNER!!"
"Er… no."
"Next you’ll be telling us you can MAKE AN ANIMATED PICTURE."
"I mean, I haven’t really done a lot of it since Livejournal, and they weren’t that good anyway, but yeah… I can do you reaction images."
"THAT IS WITCHCRAFT"
"Yes. Definitely."
—-
What I’m trying to say is: a lot of people talk a lot of crap about what we Millenials do on the Internet, because there is NO CAPITALISTIC VALUE in the screwing around we do with our friends. “Ughh why are you ALWAYS on the computer?” our parents whined.
"How did you make the text go all slanty like that?" our bosses wonder.
We have decades of experience in Photoshop. We know how to communicate; we can make people across the planet care about our problems. We know how to edit media to make two characters look like they’re having the sexual tensions. We can make people read our posts, follow us, share our content. We run and manage our own websites - and make them pretty. We moderate conversations, enforce commenting policies, manage compromises, lead battles, encourage peace, defend ourselves from attack, inspire others, and foster incredible levels of communication.
We produce our art. We advertise our art. We engage with others through our art. We accept constructive criticism and dismiss destructive trolling of our art. We improve our art. Our art gets better.
We narrate our stories.
All by ourselves. Our pretty blog backgrounds, custom-edited themes, tasteful graphics, punchy content, clever gifs, our snappy putdowns and smart-ass text posts, even our familiarity with fonts and composition - all of these skills we’ve casually accumulated for fun/approval are MINDBLOWING LEVELS OF COMPETENCE IN THE WORKFORCE.
When these skills are sold to you - when they’re packaged and marketed, and when you pay to consume them and have the Elders rate you on them - they are incredibly valuable. They are Media and Communications degrees. They are marketing internships. They are leadership workshops. They are graphics design modules. They are web design courses. They are programming courses. We are good at this shit; we have it nailed down.
You can’t put “fandom” or “blogging” on your CV, but you deserve to. You should get this credit. You should claim this power and authority.
Claim these skills. They are valuable. They are important.
Everything you have ever done is a part of your powerful makings.
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one thing I want to say today relates to my current job. (As you guys know, I’ve left off working in science labs to work an office job in sci comm. My role is kind of … nebulous and involves a lot of “oh, Elodie can help you with that, she does weird stuff. Train Elodie on that.”)
Because it’s an office job, the mentality is for everyone to present their workflows as incredibly difficult and skilled, requiring a lot of training and experience to do properly. Which is fair enough! These skills are difficult!
"Elodie, today we are going to train you to use… A HIGHLY COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT WEBSITE INTERFACE. You will need to take a lot of notes and pay careful attention, because it is extremely advanced. ARE YOU READY"
"… This is Wordpress."
"…No it isn’t! it says something different at the top. And it’s very complicated, it’s not something you can just know already."
"Nah son, don’t worry, it’s Wordpress. I mean, God knows I don’t blog much, but I can manage me a bit of Wordpress, it’s cool."
"No. You can’t. Don’t worry, it’s very difficult. Now sit still and be trained on how to upload a photo to Wordpress."
"All right."
—-
"Elodie, do you think that you can MANAGE SOCIAL MEDIA? It is INCREDIBLY HARD and may involve THE HASHTAGS"
"… I think I’ll manage."
—-
"Elodie, can you put a HYPERLINK in a thing? Think about it before you answer."
"Is it like a BBCode kind of thing, with the boxy bracket things, or do you want it in HTML, with like angley bracket things?"
"It is a button that you press that says HYPERLINK."
"I can do this thing for you."
—-
"Elodie, can you write a punchy summary that will make people want to click on a special link that says "read more" to read all of the text?"
"Probably?"
—-
"Elodie, this is how to use TAGS on CONTENT. TAGS on CONTENT are important because - because of THINGS. Things that are too arcane and mysterious for anyone below the level of Manager to know."
"Cool, I can tag stuff for you."
—-
"Elodie, this is obviously a ridiculous question, but can you edit videos?"
"Not very well, and only if you want to make it look like there is sexual tension between characters from different forms of visual media, or perhaps to make a trailer for a fanfiction? Which is not necessarily a good use of my time and I’m not sure why I felt it was so cool to do to begin with…"
"What?"
"Actually, upon further reflection: no. No. Nope. I can’t edit videos. They’re completely beyond me. Not in my wheelhouse. Hate videos. Hate them. No innate skill whatsoever."
"That’s what we thought"
—-
"Elodie?! You can use PHOTOSHOP?!"
"Yeah, I mean, I usually just use Pixlr. It’s free, it’s online, it’s powerful, you don’t have to download anything…"
"but you are not a GRAPHIC DESIGNER!!"
"Er… no."
"Next you’ll be telling us you can MAKE AN ANIMATED PICTURE."
"I mean, I haven’t really done a lot of it since Livejournal, and they weren’t that good anyway, but yeah… I can do you reaction images."
"THAT IS WITCHCRAFT"
"Yes. Definitely."
—-
What I’m trying to say is: a lot of people talk a lot of crap about what we Millenials do on the Internet, because there is NO CAPITALISTIC VALUE in the screwing around we do with our friends. “Ughh why are you ALWAYS on the computer?” our parents whined.
"How did you make the text go all slanty like that?" our bosses wonder.
We have decades of experience in Photoshop. We know how to communicate; we can make people across the planet care about our problems. We know how to edit media to make two characters look like they’re having the sexual tensions. We can make people read our posts, follow us, share our content. We run and manage our own websites - and make them pretty. We moderate conversations, enforce commenting policies, manage compromises, lead battles, encourage peace, defend ourselves from attack, inspire others, and foster incredible levels of communication.
We produce our art. We advertise our art. We engage with others through our art. We accept constructive criticism and dismiss destructive trolling of our art. We improve our art. Our art gets better.
We narrate our stories.
All by ourselves. Our pretty blog backgrounds, custom-edited themes, tasteful graphics, punchy content, clever gifs, our snappy putdowns and smart-ass text posts, even our familiarity with fonts and composition - all of these skills we’ve casually accumulated for fun/approval are MINDBLOWING LEVELS OF COMPETENCE IN THE WORKFORCE.
When these skills are sold to you - when they’re packaged and marketed, and when you pay to consume them and have the Elders rate you on them - they are incredibly valuable. They are Media and Communications degrees. They are marketing internships. They are leadership workshops. They are graphics design modules. They are web design courses. They are programming courses. We are good at this shit; we have it nailed down.
You can’t put “fandom” or “blogging” on your CV, but you deserve to. You should get this credit. You should claim this power and authority.
Claim these skills. They are valuable. They are important.
Everything you have ever done is a part of your powerful makings.
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bdsmgeek:
fetishweekly:
Shibari Tutorial: Weave Harness
♥ Always practice cautious kink! Have your sheers ready in case of emergency and watch extremities for circulation issues ♥
All the weaving! Very beautiful, thank you.
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fetishweekly:
Shibari Tutorial: Weave Harness
♥ Always practice cautious kink! Have your sheers ready in case of emergency and watch extremities for circulation issues ♥
All the weaving! Very beautiful, thank you.
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batter-sempai:
thetrailmixteapot:
ulfric-ulfprick:
godotal:
hkirkh:
Confused husky pup
He’s not expressing confusion, he’s tilting his head for better sound localization. While having an ear on each side of the head is good for lateral echolocation, tilting the head so that the ears are offset gives it vertical depth.
doG SCIENCE
Q
Oh my gosh, that explains why some dogs put their head to one side when you talk to them. They’re not confused, they’re trying to listen to us better. Awww.
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thetrailmixteapot:
ulfric-ulfprick:
godotal:
hkirkh:
Confused husky pup
He’s not expressing confusion, he’s tilting his head for better sound localization. While having an ear on each side of the head is good for lateral echolocation, tilting the head so that the ears are offset gives it vertical depth.
doG SCIENCE
Q
Oh my gosh, that explains why some dogs put their head to one side when you talk to them. They’re not confused, they’re trying to listen to us better. Awww.
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oh god i just saw a reblog of a post that started talking about season 6 and i blocked it super quickly but it was very much implying that klaine is going to break up and i am not real right now so i only feel like i should feel like throwing up which is i guess better than actually feeling the emotion but no like seriously people tag your damn spoilers
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flamingmuse: Just as a reminder, I have a
Sep. 18th, 2014 07:04 pmflamingmuse:
Just as a reminder, I have a one-strike-you’re-out spo!ler policy around here for tumblrs I follow. It’s nothing personal. I have had to unfollow some people I like quite a lot because of what’s showing up on my dash. It’s just that I have very strict lines about what I want to see/know - which is nothing - and if your lines are different in terms of what you are posting or how you are tagging (or not tagging), then I will see you on the other side of the hiatus or possibly the end of the season. <3
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Just as a reminder, I have a one-strike-you’re-out spo!ler policy around here for tumblrs I follow. It’s nothing personal. I have had to unfollow some people I like quite a lot because of what’s showing up on my dash. It’s just that I have very strict lines about what I want to see/know - which is nothing - and if your lines are different in terms of what you are posting or how you are tagging (or not tagging), then I will see you on the other side of the hiatus or possibly the end of the season. <3
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flamingmuse:
lizinprogress:
alianne:
please please please PLEASE tag your spo!lers?
I don’t want to start unfollowing people, I love all of you, but I’ll do it. Seriously, I don’t want to know *anything*.
This. A thousand times this. Including ANYTHING sp0iler-related, pretty please? Sketch fic, fanart, all of it. Pretty please.
It makes me sad to unfollow people I like.
For me, this includes people behind-the-scenes photos. Guest stars, main cast in costume… I do not want to see it. They’re spo!lers. Please tag!
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lizinprogress:
alianne:
please please please PLEASE tag your spo!lers?
I don’t want to start unfollowing people, I love all of you, but I’ll do it. Seriously, I don’t want to know *anything*.
This. A thousand times this. Including ANYTHING sp0iler-related, pretty please? Sketch fic, fanart, all of it. Pretty please.
It makes me sad to unfollow people I like.
For me, this includes people behind-the-scenes photos. Guest stars, main cast in costume… I do not want to see it. They’re spo!lers. Please tag!
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puppy-love-club:
inabasket:
shout out to fat girls who go clothes shopping with their skinny friends and have to pretend they’re having a good time
"Oh, scarves!"
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inabasket:
shout out to fat girls who go clothes shopping with their skinny friends and have to pretend they’re having a good time
"Oh, scarves!"
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portablemiah:
i would describe my art style as post-kindergarten scribblecore
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i would describe my art style as post-kindergarten scribblecore
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leupagus:
im-heem:
thugger-thugger:
owning-my-truth:
rubyvroom:
Sorry for the extremely lengthy post on your dashes but this is so important
SHARE THIS!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
important
Really useful breakdown of what’s going on in the trial of Darren Wilson, and why we’re unlikely to see an indictment, let alone a conviction.
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im-heem:
thugger-thugger:
owning-my-truth:
rubyvroom:
Sorry for the extremely lengthy post on your dashes but this is so important
SHARE THIS!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
important
Really useful breakdown of what’s going on in the trial of Darren Wilson, and why we’re unlikely to see an indictment, let alone a conviction.
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