animalstalkinginallcaps:

STAY DOWN, ASSHOLE!

YOU CAME TO THE WRONG BEACH, LITTERBUG.

THAT DROPPING THE WRAPPER SHIT MIGHT FLY WHEREVER YOU CAME FROM BUT THIS IS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. PICK IT UP.

AND YOU’D BETTER BE PLANNING TO RECYCLE THAT BOTTLE, YOU HEAR ME?

I BET YOU DON’T EVEN COMPOST.

SCUMBAG.

prostheticknowledge:

Monkeys + Synthesizers 

What happens when you give six species of monkey a different musical synthesizer? 

Monkeys + Synthesizers is a project where 6 different spieces of monkeys (and some others) were given different synthesizers. Do monkeys like music and do they enjoy creating music?

Humans is the only species on earth that actually compose music. Most birds and some mammals make beautiful sounds, but primarily to scare others away — or to get laid. The project explores if other primates can make music. 

Since the synthesizers was invented, the musicians have been asked “Is this really making music? You just press a button and out comes music, right?” Well… you do press buttons, twist knobs and faders, but there are endless ways of doing this. That is why the synthesizer probably is the greatest musical instrument in history. A great example of human ingenuity and engineering — something that makes us different from the monkeys.

More info at the YouTube page here

Target has pledged $120,000 in cash to promote the legalization of homosexual marriage.

lettersfromtitan:

sillygleekt:

archer-and-anders:

Just saw this in an email from one of my professors who is an adviser for the Lesbian and Gay Vet Med Association at school. Target’s website says it will donate 100% of T-shirt sales from customers during the month of June to Family Equality Council.

See the t-shirts

This is very cool. I love Tar-jhay.

Not that this isn’t awesome, but I wonder if they’ve stopped contributing to anti-gay politicians yet.

It looks like the situation has at least improved: 

Target changes political donations policy after controversy

although I think I want more information before I stop boycotting them.

(via laglaneuse)

(via tikaka)

Screw Diamonds, Eating Disorders are forever

This is why I am so very angry at the way the anti-obesity argument is framed.  This is why I’m so angry at concern trolls and fat shamers.  This.  Because those people did this to me.  People just like them told me that everything about my body was wrong, and the only way to fix it was to starve myself into submission.  People I loved and trusted, doctors, boyfriends, friends, and even complete strangers…  They aided and abetted in my crazy.  They helped form a brain that thinks that hurting myself with hunger is a Reward.

"Landmark ruling" protects trans* people from workplace discrimination

gaywrites:

In a case officials say could be precedent-setting, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that trans* people are protected on a federal level from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

The decision comes from the case of Mia Macy, a trans woman who believes she was dropped from consideration for a job when she revealed that she was transitioning from male to female. She filed a complaint last June.

Now, the EEOC has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects trans* people from sex discrimination “in part because the term ‘gender’ encompasses not only a person’s biological sex but also the cultural and social aspects associated with masculinity and femininity.” Now how’s that for a definition?

“This decision is going to be game-changing for transgender people who face employment discrimination in this country,” said Ilona Turner, legal director for the San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center, which represents Macy. “It’s precedent-setting, and it’s a binding decision on EEOC offices across the country.”

This is truly incredible news. Obviously the case isn’t over quite yet, but this decision could very well change a whole lot about how we address trans* issues at work.

(via crunkfeministcollective)

shewhorollswithrolls:

I’m horrified and disgusted by Comedy Central and Tosh.0 in a way that I can’t even voice- they have stolen an image from the Adipositivity Project, a website whose aim is to promote size acceptance and body positivity, and are using it to fan the flames of bigotry and hatred. I’m copying a blog post below from James Carter, which includes information on how to contact Comedy Central and ask that the image be removed, lest they incur legal action (action which is already underway, I might add).

I urge you to write to Comedy Central and add your voice to stop this hatred:

fat shaming and stealing: tosh.0 style

I want to let you know about Daniel Tosh’s theft of Substantia Jones‘ photograph that features my friend Janie Martinez. If you need to see the vitriol currently being spewed out onto it at the Tosh.0 website, go here.

Over and over, fat people are the butt of jokes, and it must stop. To add insult to injury, Comedy Central and Tosh.0 are using Substantia’s photo illegally. Substantia is a professional photographer who features professional models and every day folk celebrating their beauty and life.

To have Mr. Tosh or anyone steal these photographs for the explicit use of mean, snarky jibes continues a cycle of bullying culture. We wonder why people, especially women, have body image issues, yet the fat shaming entertainment industry encourages this belittling of people. It perpetuates a myth that one cannot be beautiful at any size, and it encourages trolls and bullies to believe what they write is actually funny. It’s not. It’s angry, spiteful and hurtful.

You can do something about this illegal, immoral activity. Please contact comedy central to protest Daniel Tosh’s theft of intellectual property:

Phone: (212) 767-8600
Fax: (212) 767-8592
Email:mail@comedycentral.com

It may not seem like a big deal in this day and age where we right click on photos and share them like toys in a sandbox, but Comedy Central and Daniel Tosh make money off stolen images like this. Reach out, stand up for artists, and help renounce sizeism.

(via karnythia)

pablog:

In SI this week: “The Transgender Athlete.”

Link to an online version of the story is here.

(via lovelyjenny)

cognitivedissonance:

joegressivism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer

Of course you know oil pipelines never leak or rupture or anything like that right?

Seriously, show this to anyone that ever says the words Keystone XL as if it were some sort of magic bullet that would save the economy. It isn’t even a complicated environmental issue, it clearly cuts through something that if anything were to go wrong would absolutely FUCK this country.

Right here. Right here is why you should be concerned.