TL;DR: Introverts are mostly cats.
Someone, somewhere could have saved me a hell of a lot of trouble and heartache this month by adhering to rule number 6.
Rules 4 and 10 are also relevant.
OH MAAAAAAN
SCI-FI HALL HAS PLAYED THAT GAME FOR YEARS, WE INHERITED IT FROM BATTLE LOUNGE, I DIDN’T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE PLAYED IT
(it is the best in the midwestern wintertime, obviously. snowbanks ahoy.)
(we even played it on the internet once)
also hello everyone, posting from Oberlin, will be gone for several more days before normal activity is resumed
Well, actually, no. SciFi Hall mostly inherited it from SciFi Hall. Hall members were already playing it before I matriculated in fall 2005. Battle Lounge may have picked it up independently—Jeff or Bryn would have to check me on that—but it was a SciFi Hall thing long before that in any case.
(via maspower)
Says you’ll never make it to Albany
With all of the luggage
You were planning on leaving behind
I have got fifty dollars
Says you’ll never make it to Albany
A polar bear smells a seal under the ice. Unfortunately for the bear, the ice is too thick. (Planet Earth Live - BBC)
I know that feel, bro.
(via gingerhaze)
LOL Butter Quarters.
Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil.
Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told reporters that although the girl fell pregnant after apparently being abused by her stepfather, her twins had, “the right to live, and could not be eliminated”.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, the cardinal added: “It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons. Life must always be protected.”
Police believe the girl was sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather, possibly since she was six. That she was four months pregnant with twins emerged only after she was taken to hospital complaining of severe stomach pains.
The controversy represents a PR nightmare for the Vatican. The unnamed girl’s mother and doctors were excommunicated for agreeing to Wednesday’s emergency abortion yet the Church has not taken formal steps against the stepfather, who is in custody. Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the man would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed “a heinous crime”, the Church took the view that “the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious”.
Let’s parse that again: the Catholic Church thinks it’s more heinous for a young woman to have a life-saving medical procedure than for a stepfather to repeatedly rape a girl for three years.
Your tithe dollars at work.
If this doesn’t make you wonder why the Catholic Church continues to exist, we are probably not friends.
In the words of Billy Shipton:
Look at my hands. They’re old man’s hands. How did that happen?
Here’s hoping the next twenty-five years make a bit more sense.
Would it kill you to build an API that lets me get notifications whenever someone reblogs, likes, replies to, or otherwise interacts with one of my posts?
I’ll even settle for one that sends me a summary of those notifications once an hour or so.
Please.
P.S. - And while you’re at it, try to fix the note-count feature so it doesn’t show two notes on a post where nothing has happened and crap like that.
Religious people can say whatever idiotic reality-contradicting hateful bullshit they’re inclined to, and it’s marked down to the religion they follow. “They only say that, you know, because they’re Christian (or Muslim) and that’s what the books says.” Religious people don’t have to take personal responsibility for what they say, because one or more invisible critters that cannot be proven to actually exist said it first.
But if an atheist utters the same idiotic reality-contradicting hateful bullshit, they’re held personally responsible. Since, you know, they were the one who thought the thing and then opened their mouth and actually made the awful noises. Worse, theists then frequently (and speciously) point to that one atheist as an example of what all other atheists believe.
Let’s try treating theists like adults for a while. When a Christian spews genocidal hate speech about putting gay Americans behind an electrified fence, let’s hold their feet to the fire:
Q: “Why did you say that?
A: “I didn’t; God did.”
Q: “Okay, but why did you just now open your mouth and say those words? Do you personally think it would be right to put 5-10% of the American people behind an electrified fence and let them die out? Do you think that’s what Jesus would do in this situation?”
A: “Well… no, of course not. That would be awful. Jesus would never do that.”
Q: “Then why did you say it?”
I don’t care what imaginary philosophical entity you profess belief in. If you’re an American, you don’t get a free pass to advocate genocide of your fellow Americans. And you really don’t get to blame somebody else if you’re determined to say that shit anyway. You’re a person living in one of the wealthiest and best-educated nations in the history of the world.
Own your damn words.
