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There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July.
Rick Santorum says he’ll try to unmarry all of them if he’s elected president.
Does someone need to remind Santorum that he’s running for President, and not Mullah In Chief for the American Taliban?
Actually he needs to be reminded that he’s running for leader of a democracy, not a Christian theocracy.
Because I don’t think the Taliban want him either.
(via neil-gaiman)
![Gravitational waves created by orbiting black holes. From LIGO:
[A] strong gravitational wave will produce displacements on the order of 10-18 meters - this is 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a proton. Waves of this strength will be produced by very massive systems undergoing large accelerations, like two orbiting black holes that are about to merge into one. Since systems like these are rare, these sources will be light-years away. Therefore, the search for gravitational waves is seeking the minute effects of some of the most energetic astrophysical systems from the depths of the universe.
If you ever get a chance to read about the LIGO detectors, you’ll find they’re pretty freaking amazing. The detectors are just giant interferometers, fairly simple devices in principle, but the number of feedback systems it requires to keep the noise below 10-18 meters… well, let’s just say it’s an impressive feat of engineering.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzru3xpT8M1r66hauo1_500.jpg)
Gravitational waves created by orbiting black holes. From LIGO:
[A] strong gravitational wave will produce displacements on the order of 10-18 meters - this is 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a proton. Waves of this strength will be produced by very massive systems undergoing large accelerations, like two orbiting black holes that are about to merge into one. Since systems like these are rare, these sources will be light-years away. Therefore, the search for gravitational waves is seeking the minute effects of some of the most energetic astrophysical systems from the depths of the universe.
If you ever get a chance to read about the LIGO detectors, you’ll find they’re pretty freaking amazing. The detectors are just giant interferometers, fairly simple devices in principle, but the number of feedback systems it requires to keep the noise below 10-18 meters… well, let’s just say it’s an impressive feat of engineering.
We are on to you. Please give it up. We’re not as dumb as you want to believe us to be. In fact, we’ve learned that you guys seem to like to code your racist bullshit and couch it in a lot of pretty language. Velvet slaps, backhanded compliments, passive-aggressive racism, microaggressions.
We know what to look for, and how to find it. We’ll give you props, you’ve learned to tie anti-Black racism into all your supposed interjections about race so that no one save the people you’re targeting can bring it to light. It’s hard to prove, but we know it’s there and so do you, so please stop trying to pull the same wool over our eyes you’ve been pulling for decades.
It’s old and ratty and there’s holes in it big enough to drive a fucking bus through.
As an addendum: RACISM WHETHER IT IS INTENTIONAL OR NOT IS STILL RACISM AND IT IS JUST AS WRONG EVEN IF YOU “WEREN’T TRYING TO BE RACIST”.
This has been a message.
Yes, racist code. LOL.
ATTN: WHITE PEOPLE
Beep-boop-bop-booop-bee beep boop bop bowww bop pop.
I’m starting to believe there is a Black Anxiety Disorder or something similar. I see it in DTWPS. This shit is as paranoid as fuck.
“Baww, scary white people everywhere. They don’t overtly call us niggers anymore, so we can only logically deduce that they must be doing it secretly” .. how ludicrous. Get over yourself.
Flippidy shoowop bowdi boopidy bee bopobowa by the way my white brethren ;)
White people, missing the point since time out of mind.
Ooh, ooh! I can play this game! Watch me say a sentence in racist code:
“We need to stop throwing government money at welfare queens and broken, wasteful inner-city schools and illegal immigrants, and start giving it back to hardworking Americans with strong family values.”
Haha! Nobody knows what that means! It’s just like saying “bleep bloop flippidy flip”! Nonsense! Clearly all these people talking about racially coded phrases are just paranoid!
Ha…
ha…
“Ambient light covering entire areas could reduce the current danger of criminals lurking in the darkness.”
I’m not going to lie, I failed this quiz.
(via ussawesome)
Things I have done recently:
1. Received an offer for a summer job at a prestigious university to help with research on gravitational wave phenomena.
2. Bought myself a couple of dress shirts and ties, marking the first time I have shopped in the men’s department for everyday clothes.
3. Wildly underutilized exclamation points in this post in an attempt to conceal my unseemly excitement about the previous two points.
Shameless self-promotion: an article about the Star Trek webcomic written by this Tumblr’s author has appeared on IO9.
People ought to be reading this.
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Barbie, why in the fuck do you have a wine bottle on top of the oven. That’s a safety hazard, you stupid bitch.
Jesus christ Barbie, you left the fridge open — I mean seriously, you’re letting all that cold air out and all your food is going to spoil. What the hell is wrong with you barbie, you food wasting bitch. What. the actual. hell.
How could you just leave a cheese grater on top of the fridge like that? It can easily fall and hurt someone, what the hell barbie, you fucking sadistic fuck.
Barbie, what the fuck do you even think you’re doing?! Did you think you were going to get away with this?! If your mother saw you trying to clean up blood with Dawn — fucking Dawn, Barbie — she’d shit a brick. Use some god damn bleach. Jesus.
Bitch use some goddamn fucking common sense. If you’re going to store raw meat in your fridge, put it in goddamn container. JFC, are you [redacted]? That shit’s going to drip blood ALLLLL over all your other foods. Do you want to get sick? That little pan you got it on ain’t gonna cut it - it’ll fill right up and drip from the corners. Jeez, think, would ya?
For the love of fuck, Barbie, how dirty do you have to be to have a fucking rat just chill next to your fridge????
Try sweeping up the fucking crumbs before you try mopping anything with fucking Dawn. Jesus Christ.
Barbie, the Swiffer is your friend. I’m just saying. The days of getting on your hands and knees and scrubbing the kitchen floor are behind us. Also, Dawn? You do realize that a dab of Clorox and some Comet will do a much better job, right?
IS THAT A RAT?!
Barbie, do you have any idea how difficult it is to get blood out of white pants? Didn’t you read YM as a teen? You might want to put on different house cleanin clothes.
BARBIE, IS THAT THE DOG BY YOUR UNCLEANED CARCASS? Have you no home training you stupid bitch? You think it’s okay to have your dog beside a corpse? What about worms? What about infection? It’s just a puppy, for Christ’s sake. Barbie if you don’t do something, I’ll report your sorry ass to the fucking ASPCA.
Oh so every single one of the people who wrote the above replies are completely blind right? You guys can’t see what has happened? You think this is a joke? You think this is funny? I hate when people see a picture and miss the ENTIRE point of a post. The fucking bread is halfway on the stove. You don’t see that shit just sitting halfway on the damn burner? Um…and not a smoke alarm in site. You are all a bunch or derailing muther fuckers and I am sick of it. BARBIE GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER! How fucking difficult is it to get a damned smoke alarm?
..oh and look at this shit. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhv25Qe0J1rnjhuro1_500.jpg)
Barbie, why in the fuck do you have a wine bottle on top of the oven. That’s a safety hazard, you stupid bitch.
Jesus christ Barbie, you left the fridge open — I mean seriously, you’re letting all that cold air out and all your food is going to spoil. What the hell is wrong with you barbie, you food wasting bitch. What. the actual. hell.
How could you just leave a cheese grater on top of the fridge like that? It can easily fall and hurt someone, what the hell barbie, you fucking sadistic fuck.
Barbie, what the fuck do you even think you’re doing?! Did you think you were going to get away with this?! If your mother saw you trying to clean up blood with Dawn — fucking Dawn, Barbie — she’d shit a brick. Use some god damn bleach. Jesus.
Bitch use some goddamn fucking common sense. If you’re going to store raw meat in your fridge, put it in goddamn container. JFC, are you [redacted]? That shit’s going to drip blood ALLLLL over all your other foods. Do you want to get sick? That little pan you got it on ain’t gonna cut it - it’ll fill right up and drip from the corners. Jeez, think, would ya?
For the love of fuck, Barbie, how dirty do you have to be to have a fucking rat just chill next to your fridge????
Try sweeping up the fucking crumbs before you try mopping anything with fucking Dawn. Jesus Christ.
Barbie, the Swiffer is your friend. I’m just saying. The days of getting on your hands and knees and scrubbing the kitchen floor are behind us. Also, Dawn? You do realize that a dab of Clorox and some Comet will do a much better job, right?
IS THAT A RAT?!
Barbie, do you have any idea how difficult it is to get blood out of white pants? Didn’t you read YM as a teen? You might want to put on different house cleanin clothes.
BARBIE, IS THAT THE DOG BY YOUR UNCLEANED CARCASS? Have you no home training you stupid bitch? You think it’s okay to have your dog beside a corpse? What about worms? What about infection? It’s just a puppy, for Christ’s sake. Barbie if you don’t do something, I’ll report your sorry ass to the fucking ASPCA.
Oh so every single one of the people who wrote the above replies are completely blind right? You guys can’t see what has happened? You think this is a joke? You think this is funny? I hate when people see a picture and miss the ENTIRE point of a post. The fucking bread is halfway on the stove. You don’t see that shit just sitting halfway on the damn burner? Um…and not a smoke alarm in site. You are all a bunch or derailing muther fuckers and I am sick of it. BARBIE GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER! How fucking difficult is it to get a damned smoke alarm?
..oh and look at this shit. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER?
Okay, forget everything I have ever complained about or told you to do, politically. Forget if you don’t read political posts. Stop. WATCH/READ THIS RIGHT NOW.
For those of you who for some reason cannot or do not want to watch the video, allow me to summarize. Right now there is a law that has passed the Virginia legislature that would mandate a trans-vaginal ultrasound for anyone seeking an abortion. No exceptions.
Now that in and of itself does not sound so scary, right? Wrong. A trans-vaginal ultrasound is not a normal type of ultrasound. It is an ultrasound that is taken by sticking a probe into a woman’s vagina. And it is completely and totally medically unnecessary. The Republican legislators who have passed this bill admit to it being completely medically unnecessary. It exists for the sole purpose of discouraging women from getting abortions.
I honestly could care less what your personal views on abortion are, but here’s something we have to get straight right now: no matter how you feel about abortion or why, this is government-mandated rape. Think I’m exaggerating? Let’s look at how rape is defined by the federal government of the United States of America:
“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
Let’s re-iterate here: there are no exceptions. It doesn’t matter if you are getting an abortion one week or eight months into your pregnancy. You will be forcibly probed. It doesn’t matter if you are aborting for personal reasons or because it’s a medical necessity for either your safety or the safety of your child. You will be forcibly probed. It doesn’t matter if you are fourteen or forty. You will be forcibly probed. It does not matter if your child is the product of incest or even the product of rape. You will be forcibly probed.
Now, I don’t live or vote in Virginia. Technically, there is nothing I can do about this. But currently this bill is on the way to the governor’s desk, and the only hope there is of it not becoming law is if Virginia citizens contact the Governor and tell him about their opposition to him signing this into law. (Contact information is here. Please note that calling generally carries more weight than e-mailing does.)
Please re-blog this story. E-mail it to everyone you know. Tell them to e-mail it to everyone they know. Eventually, some of these people we all know should be from Virginia, and if you are from Virginia, you need to let your voice be heard now. Regardless of if you think life begins at conception, there is no justification, ever, for the government mandating the rape of women.
Jim’s hilarity should be rebloggable. -Claire
No seriously I really am an ordained minister one time Liberty ran the God K against me and I pulled out my license as my permutation evidence. They had evidence specific to my church because they’re Liberty and have answers to EVERYTHING. - Jim
Why can’t I ever judge rounds like this?
Yes, yes, I know, high schoolers—but WHY?
