I don’t think people give Flash enough credit.
…………….my goodness
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A Bit of Everything
Whatever I feel like sharing: Fandoms, Personal Thoughts, Music, Video Games, Inspirational, etc~
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.
One teacher’s approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”
She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.
“My ponytail,” she cried.
“Can I see?” I asked.
She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.
“How’s that?” I asked.
She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.
‘Why Do You Look Like a Boy?’
*cries*
I wish the kids in my hometown had been taught this.
Imagine if writers spoke about other people’s professions the way other people speak about writing.
Or if artists spoke to other people about their professions the way other people speak to artists about theirs:
“Oh, you’re a carpenter? Would you be interested in building me a house? I can’t really pay you or anything, but it’d be great exposure.”
Reblogging for truth.
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If you are reading this, thank this woman. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMEN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.
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I hear this too often aaa
Diversity is the spice of life
*murderous glair* but don’t erase people’s experiences and identities
ijggjdijgidjg! Instant save because I hear/read this too much and I’m just gonna whip out this image from now on.
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...and then they came for the trans* people.
Transgender people in Greece are now being rounded up and detained in a continuation of the social cleansing of the “undesirables”.FUCK.
THIS.
Umm I’m pretty sure it should read “and then they came for transgender women”
I really resent the trans* identity at times like this
“The testimonies of a large number of victims suggest that before being released from custody, the policemen threatened transgender women, warning them that if they did not ‘return to normal’, legal proceedings against them would be initiated for indecent behaviour in public places.”
http://www.grreporter.info/en/transgender_persons_thessaloniki_become_victims_police_violence/9400#sthash.DTZuhKOk.wstjBQTp.dpuf
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I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.
There are not any.
By far your best shot, numbers-wise, at finding one that’s at least even-handedly featuring a man and a woman is Before Midnight (on 891 screens) so I hope you like it. Because it’s pretty much that or a solid, impenetrable wall of movies about dudes.
Dudes in capes, dudes in cars, dudes in space, dudes drinking, dudes smoking, dudes doing magic tricks, dudes being funny, dudes being dramatic, dudes flying through the air, dudes blowing up, dudes getting killed, dudes saving and kissing women and children, and dudes glowering at each other.
Somebody asked me this morning what “the women” are going to do about this. I don’t know. I honestly am at the point where I have no idea what to do about it. Stop going to the movies? Boycott everything?
They put up Bridesmaids, we went. They put up Pitch Perfect, we went. They put up The Devil Wears Prada, which was in two-thousand-meryl-streeping-oh-six, and we went (and by “we,” I do not just mean women; I mean we, the humans), and all of it has led right here, right to this place. Right to the land of zippedy-doo-dah. You can apparently make an endless collection of high-priced action flops and everybody says “win some, lose some” and nobody decides that They Are Poison, but it feels like every “surprise success” about women is an anomaly and every failure is an abject lesson about how we really ought to just leave it all to The Rock.
At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR
The whole article is fantastic, as is pretty much everything Linda Holmes writes.
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Fuck, when was the last time we even had a movie about a woman?
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Help us out with a Home!
One of my very dearest friends is still looking for a home and I’d love if you all could, at the very least, signal boost this. I can attest, personally, to Jack’s cleanliness and absolute wonderfulness.
Myself and two of my friends are desperately looking for housing. We’re up in north seattle, u-district right now. We are looking for housing for a year or more. We are a respectable group, all have stable employment, and are good tenants. We are all prompt with payment, having never been late with rent or utilities. We are clean, quiet, do not have large parties, do not drink in excess, and do not do drugs or smoke.
Phil has a degree in Computer Science, and is currently working full time for AT&T, making over $3,000 a month. He is also going to school part time to obtain a furthered degree in Computer Science.
Michael will soon graduate from the University of Washington with a degree in Mathematics, works part time making over $1,000 a month, and will begin working full time after graduating after Fall Quarter.
Jack is going to school part time, works part time as a Web Admin, and is also looking for further employment.
Phil and Jack enjoy cooking, and are both very interested in gardening. Michael and Phil perform online sketch comedy. All three are into video game and nerd culture, and create web content in their spare time.
We are looking for housing with 3 Bedrooms in the U-distract, preferably. However, the number of rooms and general area are negotiable. Other areas that would work for our situation would be: Sand Point, Ravenna, Wallingford, Maple Leaf, Greenlake, Northgate, and Freemont. We would also like a yard if possible, but this is not a requirement.
For more information, feel free to email the group at ceilx@live.com . We’d be happy to hear from you and to answer any questions that you may have!
Thank you for your time and interest,
-Michael, Phil, and Jack
