prokopetz:

askmissbernadette:

prokopetz:

A clock whose face goes up to 13 is a total cliché at this point – If I walked into some Hell-dimension and saw that, I’d just think they were trying too hard. You know what would really unnerve me? A clock whose face stops at 11.

Especially since “The Eleventh Hour” is generally used to refer to the Last Possible Point BEFORE everything goes horribly sideways, so this would suggest that you are in a place perpetually stuck at the terrible and fruitless moment just shy of impending disaster.

See, she gets it.

beholdthemem:

ghostclvb:

jsscvlnt:

znorton:

horrorbisexual:

like obviously i hate buzzfeed and would never work at a place that has such a large hand in destroying serious journalism but i cannot deny that it would be literally the sweetest gig of all time. work in an office with a bunch of other hungover 29 year olds, screenshot posts made by 16 year olds on tumblr who are funnier and smarter than i am and call it an article complete with my own byline, and finish off my day by getting drunk on camera and being paid to do it. that’s the fucking life babey

Buzzfeed News’s journalism is actually pretty solid–they’re the ones that broke the now-infamous Steele Dossier for example. The problem is that, to fund their serious journalism, they also run a clickbait site (plain ol’ Buzzfeed) and people–understandably–confuse their clickbait department and their journalism departments and have a tendency to dismiss the journalism department because of that. But Buzzfeed News is actually one of the few news organizations participating in serious investigative journalism.

Buzzfeed isn’t *destroying* serious journalism. It’s keeping it alive–by using clickbait bullshit to pay the bills while its reporters do the serious-but-not-lucrative journalism the world needs.

Also remember that Buzzfeed News is the first site to publish the statement from Jane Doe in the Brock Turner trial

y’all really kill me with that “buzzfeed is destroying journalism” shit as if plenty of respected news sources didn’t start selling themselves out to the detriment of journalism at LEAST a good ten some-odd years ago lmfao

I did not know this, but I do remember that during the Winter Olympics when CNN and the New York Times published all these weirdly glowing articles about Kim Jong Un’s sister “stealing the show” and “flashing smiles, turning on the charm, the Ivanka Trump if North Korea” Buzzfeed was the only publication to point out that glorifying a woman who’s family runs gulags is kind of fucked up.

drferox:

Feathered wings are an aerodynamic adaption. They have developed to guide air smoothly over the wings, from front to back. If you want a ‘realistic’ hybrid wing, you would find feathers on the front edge, just small ones to round out and smooth the shape for gliding, and continue into a membrane towards the back.

For this hypothetical wyvern, there has already been a real word possible analogue, the Yi qi. This specimen has a kind of hybrid wing, which unfortunately didn’t do well in evolution. Otherwise we might have dragons.

ommanyte:

hustlerose:

hustlerose:

time to post big nirnroot

swolerbear:

patriciavetinari:

Thin people actually think they’ve ‘earned’ their bodies. They honestly believe their thinness is a product of their own hard work, restriction of food and exercise. People who were just born thin, eat a normal diet and go to yoga twice a week think that that’s what it takes, and cannot fathom that there are fat people out there doing the same amount of exercise or more, eating the same or (in a lot of cases) a more restrictive diet and yet remain fat.

When offered a brownie thin person would joke “oh you want me to get fat” (let’s not even touch on how they think it’s somehow bad), but they honestly think eating a brownie or liking sweets and having them every day would actually make them fat.

Like, honey, you’re a size two. You can live off brownies for a month and not move and you’ll gain at best a couple of pounds. That’s how your body works. Some bodies work like that. Others don’t.

There’s a scientific study out there that found that thin people on average eat more than fat people. Yet they remain thin. They work office jobs, and go to yoga twice a week, or they’ve romanticized going to gym for a booty blasting workout and they think that this is the hard work they’re puttig in, and that if they stop, they will pretty much overnight, automatically rocket into size 20.

Even though there are plenty examples of thin people not liking exercise while being foodies and remaining thin, they will still claim that ‘it all burns off in the hard work of taking pictures for Instagram’. Or some shit. They continue to eat fast food on the same exact rate as fat people, and they drink alcohol, which is extremely high in calories, yet they think that yoga and kale salad and a smoothie the next day solve all their problems, and fat people are just too unintelligent and lazy to do exactly that.

There are thin people being foodies and hating exercise and drinking and temaining thin, and there are thin people being gymrats and counting calories and being vegan and remaining thin and thin people an mass still don’t see anything contradictory to their gospel in those kinds of thin people coexisting, while completely disproving everything we are told about diets. It’s not about a diet, diets don’t work.

Models will claim in interviews that they have to restrict themselves severely and workout dawn till dusk just to keep up the rare body type the lottery of genes has granted them and has no intention of taking away, workout or no workout. And then they die of malnourisment.

Thin people turn to fat people and tell them to follow the diet and workout for years, because they believe, ultimately, that all the body types stem from one thin one, or a couple of types of a thin one, so there must be a way to reach it. If they have that body type naturally, they feel entitled, they feel like they tried hard enough to reach it, even if by doing virtually nothing, and other fat people are not trying hard enough.

It’s akin to a person born rich telling a poor person to try harder to win the lottery of capitalism. I’m not even talking about billionaires, it’s the same mindset in upper middle class, who believe that by being born, stepping into all the doors that are open to them and literally not bankrupting themselves in a system built to prevent that, they’ve done some hard labour and deserve that pat on the back, and a brownie, that’s their guilty pleasure, alongside cocaine or some shit.

It’s an untrue, entitled mindset that’s harmful for everyone involved, including models and thin people who feel guilty for eating, and to fat people who often themselves think the same way, that if they work hard enough, they can win the lottery of genetics.

And it takes so much hard work to break free from that mindset.

Thiiiiiiiiiiiiis

Different bodies partition energy different ways for various reasons. Two people can eat the exact same diet and have the same activity levels, but their bodies will partition energy two completely different ways. We need to recognize that, we need to understand that. It’s been completely freeing for me to learn this.