Sansa has her eyes firmly fixed on the future.
Jazmine on Danny DeVito’s Twitter:
When you opt into receiving intermittent alerts about a person’s life, boring stuff sort of comes with the territory. But when you’re a fan of that person, “boring” transforms into “behind the scenes,” where every morsel of information is a gift, another step toward making the person seem real. (It also helps when your favorite celebrity isn’t a tabloid staple.) As a proud DeVito DeVotee, I consider DeVito’s most mundane tweets to be among his best for exactly that reason: Danny DeVito likes Jell-O. He once got somesnow. He ran into Sidney Poitier. He has some, er, unfavorable thoughtsabout The New York Times. Sure, these are trivial details, but they’re trivial details that I wanted to know. I’ve retained plenty of insignificant information about my mother that I never signed up for.
TIL about the Electric Universe Theory:
They call themselves The Thunderbolts Project.
They subscribe to an idea called “electric universe,” and sometimes describe themselves as “getting EU eyes.” Like slipping on rose-colored glasses, the conversion changes their perception of the entire universe. The objects and events remain the same. But they’re tinged with truth. And in EU theory, the truth is that electricity rules.
Electric currents that flow along plasma filaments shape and power galaxies. The currents stream into stars, powering them like fluorescent bulbs. They induce the births of planets. Craters on those planets come from electrical arcs, like lightning bolts, that sear the surfaces.
Also, black holes don’t exist, and neither does dark matter. Nor dark energy.
When it comes to appearing on the popular game show Jeopardy, Canadians need not apply.
Were there actually codified rules about what Ghostwriter could and could not do? Rules to his powers?
Oh yeah. He could see letters and numbers, and that’s all he could see. If you were the villain, and you were running down the street carrying the valuable object that’s been stolen, Ghostwriter could go and read the labels on your shoes, and your clothes, and say what size you wear. Or if you wear some exotic brand of shirt or something like that. Or if you had a New York Giants logo on your jacket. He could do those kinds of clues.
But he couldn’t say even if you were male or female, or how old you were, or anything else. He could travel through time, he could travel through space. He could go into a locked filing cabinet, and find a document and read what was there and get that information to the team. He wasn’t bound by any physical time or space constraints, but he was very limited in what he could actually see and do. So they were completely interdependent. The team was dependent on the information that Ghostwriter could supply, but Ghostwriter was dependent on the team to be his eyes and ears.
The female pilots we betrayed:
But in June 1944, when he sought to officially designate the WASPS as members of the United States military, Congress declined. Disgruntled male pilots had complained to Congress that women were taking their jobs. The press took that up and ran with it. So the women remained civilians.
FOR many of those who died while flying, classmates or squadron mates chipped in to ship their bodies home. Some pilots escorted their close friends’ bodies on trains.
The WASPs were disbanded on Dec. 20, 1944, and sent home with no recognition. Victory was in sight, and the female pilots were expendable.
The result of this shameful failure to give WASPs their appropriate military classification: no medical care, no insurance benefits. No Gold Star in the family’s window if their daughter died flying for her country. No burial subsidy. And no flag on the coffin.
The issues with our bail system:
The idea behind bond seems simple enough: If you lose money for missing a court date or committing a crime, you’re more likely to stay out of trouble and return to court.
But that’s not the case, research shows. A 2013 study of 2,000 criminal cases in Colorado found that defendants released on personal recognizance are just as likely to return to court and just as likely to reoffend as those with monetary bonds. In Washington, D.C., where nearly 90 percent of defendants are released without monetary bond, 88 percent make all of their court appearances and 89 percent do not have any new arrests during the pretrial phase.
In fact, someone who is at low-risk to reoffend and who sits in jail pretrial for just two to three days is 17 percent more likely to reoffend than someone released within 24 hours and 22 percent more likely to fail to appear for court, according to research. The likelihood of recidivism and failure to appear increase the longer someone is detained pretrial. Defendants who are held pretrial are also much more likely to be sentenced to jail or prison for their crimes, and for longer periods of time.
Here’s what we know about the Kalamazoo shootings so far:
Kalamazoo County officials say that a man who opened fire across the area on Saturday, killing six people and injuring two others, appears to have gunned down people at random during the four-hour rampage in western Michigan.
On Sunday morning, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeffrey Getting said police identified the gunman as Jason Brian Dalton, 45, of Kalamazoo. Dalton was taken into custody hours earlier.
I can’t stop thinking about Kesha. What a horrible, horrible situation.
If you are made of stern stuff, and are also a real sicko, you may enjoy perusing this terrifying Reddit thread where medical professionals relate the most gruesome things they’ve ever seen. Mallory and I live here now. We all float.
We Hunted the Mammoth shares an obviously made-the-fuck-up nonsense post from that bullshit Return of Kings website, and it’s…incredible. Basically, this guy insists that a hot, dying 30 year old woman told him ALL THE SECRETS about how terrible women are (also, how they want to bone dogs? Guys, we are NOT supposed to tell men the truth, even if we’re dying!):
A woman will do just about anything, sexually speaking, so long as she is fairly certain she won’t get caught. For example, we will occasionally go out of town in order to rendezvous with a man we’ve been longing to fuck, and/or to have multiple sex partners in the same evening, and/or at the same time.
This is something that hot women do, most especially. In our minds, it is a natural desire, and a natural thing, and so long as nobody else finds out, it’s “game on”. Women are receptacles for cock, that’s how we have been biologically designed. Nothing feels better to us than being completely filled up with multiple penises, than being the center of sexual attention, than being the object of unbridled group lust. Since it’s something we can’t risk doing on our home turf (don’t shit where you eat), we have to think outside the box, in order to get our boxes completely satisfied. And you might find this shocking, but many women – many, many women – have sex with dogs on a routine basis. This is just one example of how insatiable we truly are.
it’s like looking in a mirror, right?
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