Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser)
Wonderful.
(via globalwarmist)
June142013
June132013
Cheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Predictably Summons Bigot Wave
A nice Cheerios advertisement whose only discernible difference from other Cheerios commercials is that it depicts an interracial family was forced to disable its YouTube comments section today after it became inundated with virulent racism.
Despite the hate, Camille Gibson, vice president of marketing for Cheerios, told us in a statement, “Consumers have responded positively to our new Cheerios ad. At Cheerios, we know there are many kinds of families and we celebrate them all.”
Read more at Gawker
but this commercial is harmless like…..uuuuugh
this shit was adorable
Odd. Post racial America looks strangely like racist America.
Not gonna add any sociopolitical commentary because i just. HOW COULD YOU HATE THIS. THIS IS THE CUTEST AD IN THE WORLD OMG.
omg this ad is incredibly adorable wtf is wrong with people
June112013
That awkward moment when you moonwalk into MJ
I will reblog this forever.
Fun Fact: That kid is actually Alfonso Ribeiro, AKA Carlton from Fresh Prince.
reblogged for ^that fact right there
SO AWKWARD
8PM
We’re all a little weird…
here’s to all of you in the hope you find your weird-compatible person :)
June72013
Dear God,
Dear God,
Please forgive me!
Forgive me my weakness,
that my myopic vision could only see,
a speck of what was to be.
I was blind to your vast scheme.
Dear God,
Please forgive me!
Forgive my tears of frustration,
my weak heart as it broke.
I should have left my faith in you,
but it waxed and waned like ocean waves.
Dear God,
Please Forgive me!
As my optimism cowered,
My doubt grew like a stubborn weed
but Your love flourishes in leaps and bounds,
unfathomable to my simple mind
Dear God,
Please Forgive me!
May we all reach a level of humility upon recognizing the Greatness of God’s Plans.
7AM
Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple. Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007
Read more on the Guardian exclusive: http://gu.com/p/3gd58/tw
george orwell playing sad trombone dot gif. This is the worst.
They began harvesting data from Microsoft on the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Perhaps the NSA enjoys irony.
Yahoo is on this list, so that might also mean Tumblr is on the list now too?
(via abcsoupdot)
June62013
super duper long day omg got back from work at 9:45!
June12013
Helga was just always on point. And I’m sad I didn’t realize that when I was a kid watching Hey Arnold.
OMG i looooooooove Helga. How many other cartoons have a main female character who isn’t the most talented, prettiest, and/or most loved of them all? Her character may have exaggerated certain insecurities that women have to deal with, but her character dealt with them. For instance, there’s an episode where she isn’t invited to an all girl’s party because she’s not girly enough and the boys won’t let her play baseball instead because she is a girl… so she crashes the girls party and handles it in her own way. Or the fact that they have an entire episode called “Helga on the Couch” where she discusses her feelings and why it’s so hard for her to express her feelings (especially for Arnold) — partly because she has been neglected by her family and is afraid that no one will pay attention to her - so instead she looks for negative attention — and partly because she fears rejection from Arnold, who is the only person who has ever given her positive attention…
I could continue writing about why she is my all time favorite cartoon character evvveerrr but no one cares.
Also, I think Arnold and Helga are soulmates, and I wish there was a movie made after the Hey Arnold movie so we can see what Arnold really thinks of Helga (omg I watch the tv show/movie on netflix whenever there is nothing else to watch)
10AM
A Guide To The Dark World Of James Holmes Internet Fandom
Yes, there is an internet community for young girls who are in love with alleged murderer James Holmes and yes, of course it’s horrible. They call themselves “Holmies.”
omg there are James Holmes fans
10AM
Free Jahar
This has to be the oddest conspiracy website I have ever seen. It’s filled with pictures of Jahar, but also random pics of Amanda Bynes, celebrity gossip, and other things. Also, a song by Justin Timberlake is playing in the background .
10AM
FBI photoshopped some of the evidence photos in the Boston bombings
Digital Journalist Ralph Lopez explains through a set of images.
Reading the comments by other digital artists and updates on the article make it sound like it’s less likely it was photoshopped. It sounds like his conspiracy theory is really only the result of image compression.
9AM
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
(via realfakescientist)
May312013
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Brown people straight up owned the National Spelling Bee this year. Did you see how many contestants in the top 10 were Indian? I thought I was looking at ten 7th grade pictures of me. I think one of them might have been wearing the same tucked in black jeans I had too.
But this beautiful moment goes beyond just brown people winning a contest. Brown people, whether they be Indian, Pakistani, Bengali, Arab, whatever (we’re all the same yo, in this together) — were colonized by people who INVENTED ENGLISH. Then we immigrated to their countries and got mocked and ridiculed for how we speak it. And here we are in 2013, at the highest level of competition, ON PRIMETIME ESPN, straight up dunking on these fools.
Aman Ali, Muslim American stand-up comedian, storyteller, journalist and writer of Indian descent. (via faineemae)
The colonizers thought we were inferior but they were very, very wrong.
(via angryasiangirlsunited)
Brown kids dominate the National Spelling Bee every year! And brown girls, I might add, who won the past three years, until Arvind Mahankali broke the streak this year. Over the past 15 years, South Asian kids have won 11 of 15 national spelling championships.
This year they even added a controversial vocabulary test, which many observers said was intended to thin out the brown domination of the competition by penalizing rote spelling. It did seem to thin out East Asians, but it didn’t stop South Asians who continued to dominate.
(via zuky)
We had guests visiting from Pakistan this week and every time the spelling bee championship would come on the news they would ask why there were so many desis, and why desis were winning. “Why are desis spelling things? What is the purpose of this?”
haha
(via zuky)
10PM
“People tell me to smile I tell them the lack of emotion In my face doesn’t Mean I’m unhappy.
- Jaden Smith.” (via berryharlem)
- Jaden Smith.” (via berryharlem)
(via lalazarda)
4PM
omg most clips I’ve seen with Megyn Kelly are of her saying something completely ridiculous, but I absolutely love her in this clip
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