marissawompler:

i really hate the whole “we’re not trying to take YOUR guns away! we just want stricter back ground checks and education!” thing bc like……wrong! i AM trying to take your guns away! me! i want them gone!! take them all!!! bye-bye guns! can’t shoot em if ya don’t have em!!!!!

davidmfrazier:

• Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34.
• Stanley Almodovar III, 23.
• Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20.
• Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22.
• Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36.
• Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22.
• Luis S. Vielma, 22.
• Kimberly Morris, 37.
• Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30.
• Darryl Roman Burt II, 29.
• Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32.
• Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21.
• Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25.
• Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35.
• Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50.
• Amanda Alvear, 25.
• Martin Benitez Torres, 33.
• Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37.
• Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26.
• Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35.
• Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25.
• Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31.
• Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26.
• Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old.
• Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old.
• Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old.
• Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
• Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
• Cory James Connell, 21 years old
• Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old
• Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
• Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
• Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old
• Jerald Arthur Wright, 31
• Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
• Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25
• Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24
• Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27
• Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
• Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49
• Yilmary Rodriguez Sulivan, 24
• Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32
• Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
• Frank Hernandez, 27
• Paul Terrell Henry, 41

You will not be forgotten. 

jimhines:

• If you label everyone who commits acts of terror and mass violence mentally ill, you’ve created a tautologically meaningless phrase.
• The murderer was American. Not a migrant. Not a refugee. Not an undocumented immigrant.
• He pledged allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call during the attack, but his family said he wasn’t particularly religious.
• The fact that religious extremism is used to justify hate and murder shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
  
• He had a history of domestic abuse against his ex-wife.
• He targeted young LGBTQ people on Latino Night.
• In the U.S., the FDA won’t let men donate blood if they’ve had sexual contact with another man within the past 12 months. (Prior to December 2015, the FDA banned gay and bisexual men from ever donating blood.)
• A few hours before the Pulse attack, an Indiana man was arrested with assault rifles and chemicals for making explosives. He told police he was on his way to a LGBT pride event in Los Angeles.
• Hatred doesn’t exist in a vacuum. More than half the states in this country allow discrimination against LGBTQ people.
• In the U.S., the majority of hate crimes are committed by white people. Men consistently commit the clear majority of these crimes.
• The largest number of hate crimes are racially motivated. Sexual orientation is the second most common motivation.
• Of religious hate crimes, the majority target Jewish victims. Anti-Muslim attacks are the second most common.
• Globally, most victims of terrorism are Muslim. “In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82 and 97 percent of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.”
• From a study published in March of this year in the American Journal of Medicine, “US homicide rates were 7.0 times higher than in other high-income countries, driven by a gun homicide rate that was 25.2 times higher.”
• I know people will argue causes and solutions. Can we at least admit the U.S. has a clear problem with gun violence?
  
• Politicians are trying to pass laws to keep transgender people out of bathrooms, despite the fact that, “Over 200 municipalities and 18 states have nondiscrimination laws protecting transgender people’s access to facilities consistent with the gender they live every day, [and] none of those jurisdictions have seen a rise in sexual violence or other public safety issues due to nondiscrimination laws.”
• Meanwhile, this wave of transgender bathroom panic has led to more attacks by cisgender people.
• One study found that 70% of transgender people had been harassed while trying to use the restroom, and just under 10% had been physically assaulted.

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I’m tired. I’m heartsick.

I’m afraid. Not for myself — statistically, I’m one of the safest people in the U.S. — but for my friends, my loved ones, and my country.

I’m afraid we’ll keep looking for simple, simplistic answers to complex problems. We want a clear enemy to fight. An easy solution. Build a wall. Bomb ISIS. Kick “them” out of the country.

It’s the same pattern, the same thinking I’ve seen with cases of rape. We cling to myths and misinformation that give us a false sense of safety. Like rapists are all strangers lurking in the bushes, easily identified and avoided with simple precautions. Rape victims must have done something to deserve it, and if we avoid those “mistakes,” we’ll be safe. Carrying a gun will keep you from getting raped.

I’m afraid my country will continue to accept these tragedies, so long as those in power aren’t directly or proportionally affected.

I’m afraid people will still refuse to recognize or acknowledge the real risks LGBTQ people, people of color, women, non-Christians, and other minorities face every day in this country. Or we’ll minimize the risks and harassment, as illustrated so well in a recent Dork Tower comic.

Time and again we refuse to listen. We refuse to believe people when they talk about the threats, the harassment, the fear they face simply for existing. Simply for trying to have a voice. We call them thin-skinned and oversensitive. We accuse them of making it up for attention. We dismiss them as “perpetually offended.” All so we can avoid the discomfort of acknowledging the hatred and violence others face every day.

I’m afraid we’ve grown numb to violence.

I’m afraid we’ll continue to let everyday hate and bigotry go unchallenged.

I’m afraid we’ll keep attacking things like diversity and inclusiveness and representation instead of recognizing them as a reflection of the world we live in, and a way to help build empathy and connection and acceptance.

I’m afraid those in power are teaching our children to Beware the Other, and to use hate and violence to keep those others from gaining power of their own.

I’m afraid people will continue to choose the comfort of ignorance.

To all of my friends and readers and loved ones, particularly those of you who are people of color, who are LGBTQIA, who aren’t Christian, who aren’t male, and who are otherwise marginalized, you don’t deserve this. You don’t deserve the hatred. You don’t deserve to live in fear.

You have my love, and you have my ongoing pledge to try to make things better in whatever ways I can.

bedannibal-lectaurier:

bedannibal-lectaurier:

I just want Hallmark Christmas movies but with lesbians: 

• You’re a hot shot femme reporter stuck in our small town for Christmas when your car breaks down and I’m the soft butch mechanic who owns the only garage. 
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• I almost asked you to the Winter Ball in high school fifteen years ago, but chickened out, but now we’re both home for Christmas and single and maybe we’ve got a second chance?
  
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• You’re a cold-hearted businesswoman and I’m one of Santa’s Elves whose been put on probation and if I can’t teach you the true meaning of Christmas, they’ll never let me back in the North Pole. 
  

I can’t believe this post got something like 2k+ notes! Here are some more Hallmark Homo for the Holidays movies: 

• We’ve always been rivals at the Annual Christmas Cookie bake-off, but when we get snowed in at the Town Hall the night before the competition and are forced to Huddle for Warmth, it could be love. 
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• I’m a lonely veterinarian who hasn’t had a date in years, but this Magical Christmas Cat that I rescued keeps bringing hot women by the clinic and now I don’t know how to choose. 
  
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• I’m a poor single mom struggling to keep my toy store afloat and you’re Santa Claus’ daughter looking for a Mrs. Claus of her very own. Can we find love and save the family business before midnight on Christmas Eve?
  

badfoodnetworkpuns:

lyinbrian:

badfoodnetworkpuns:

thelastunicorg:

ironbearicade:

thelastunicorg:

badfoodnetworkpuns:

livin-with-ocs:

badfoodnetworkpuns:

I’m hungry. I think someone should cook me something so that I can judge/eat it. Open your baskets! Your mystery ingredients are dough, tomato sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. You must incorporate all mystery ingredients IN MY DAMN PIZZA. ya you heard me, I’d like a pizza, por favor

So what I’m going to do is make a deconstructed pizza, with a kind of tomato-cheese soup served with pepperoni bread sticks.

AND YOU ARE CHOPPED YOU ARE SO SO CHOPPED GET OUT OF MY KITCHEN (but I’ll keep the bread sticks) 

My family doesn’t do a lot of “Italian” food, so I’m putting a sort of whimsical childhood twist on the dish. I’m going to stuff the sausage with the cheese, and then cover the whole thing in a cornmeal dough before I deep fry it. I’m going to serve it with a tomato, vinegar, and sugar reduction to really bring out the umami of the dish. I will plate my dish by impaling the sausage on a stick and drizzling the tomato reduction over it.

Stahp, please :( You’re killing it :(((

You like corndogs tho. I know you do. You can’t hide your shame from me.

I’ve lost my appetite and I’m laying on the floor behind the judge’s table crying 

Time’s up and I look at my competitors’ dishes and I realize I forgot the dough… How am I going to present this to the judge?
“Hello, today I’ve prepared for you a glueten-free, Atkins style pizza.”

I could forgive the no dough, but what I cannot forgive is this irrelevant side salad made only of raw cabbage drenched in truffle oil

digitaldiscipline:

brainsforbabyjesus:

alessariel:

optimysticals:

broliloquy:

gundamdick:

thepioden:

hair-old-styles:

harrystyies:

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

@brainsforbabyjesus

okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.

The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).

This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.