mathed-potatoes:

Yesterday I went to dinner to catch up with my buddy from the math department, and he told me this story about how he ran the city marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes. That’s an amazing time. He was 19th out of thousands. 

He was doing pretty well for the first half, but then his ankle started to hurt. He slowed down for a bit, but then this girl he passed before passed him, and he started overthinking whether or not it was awkward to pass the same person multiple times, and, like, what if they small-talked about it? He decided it was better to pass her and stay ahead, so he picked up the pace. A few miles later, he fell in with two dude-bros who started talking to him. Not pleased to find himself in the company of dude-bros, he pulled ahead once again. This continued for a while; every time he got closed to a group of other marathoners, his social anxiety kicked in and he ran faster because he felt nervous being near people. 

TL;DR A mathematician ran an record marathon to avoid making small-talk with randos. He introverted his way into qualifying for the Boston marathon. 

drst:

raptorific:

I was babysitting a kid the other day and I asked if he watched Steven Universe and he sighed and said “I know I would like it if I watched it, and I will EVENTUALLY, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet, you know?”

Which is the answer I’d expect from a 35-year-old who just got asked if he watches House of Cards

That’s basically me about half of the television out there.

artifitzal:

nobody has the same exact friends that you do

nobody is able to support the same exact people that you are able to

nobody can write like you or draw like you or sing like you

nobody can tell stories or jokes in the same manner that you do

nobody has the same expressions or the same voice or the same laugh

you are NOT replaceable, you are not a misfit because nobody “fits in” anyway

you are super important and unique and you can add your own little gift to the world in a way that nobody has seen before

drst:

bilt2tumble:

ptenterprises:

truth-has-a-liberal-bias:

iammyfather:

usps-official:

average-caucasian-shark:

madameliberty:

usps-official:

godzillaswaifu:

#AbolishTheUnitedStatesPostalService

Hey fuck you buddy

yeah the usps is one of the most efficient businesses in the nation

@usps-official, you’re about efficient and we’ll liked as the IRS. If you weren’t so heavily subsidized by the Fed, you’d be outta fucking business. Please go away you twats!

We regret to inform you that the delivery of your anime body pillow has been delayed. 

Please be patient with us.

“ In the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989, the Postal Service won a hard-fought legislative battle, at some cost, to put its funding permanently off budget. Congress agreed that mail delivery was a self-financing business whose operations should not be scaled up or down depending on national budget considerations. “

https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/federal-budget-treatment-postal-service

Very good info in the above link. ^^^

The reason why the USPS has gotten such a bad reputation as of late is because, I think, of two major issues. 

First, the leadership refused to embrace the increase of electronic mail, and rather than get ahead of the technology curve, it chose to stay behind and lost all kinds of revenue and circulation, and are still trying to catch up.

Not that they ever will, because second, because of the GOP and their fetish of privatizing any and all government operations, set in motion legislation to force the USPS to bankrupt itself (so that it can be sold off to private interests, of course) by demanding that it fund its pension plan 75 years in advance! 75 years!!! No business requires that much foresight and pre-funding, but the GOP saw it as the perfect way to pave the way for a more “efficient” (read: privatized, for-profit, and innately with reduced availability dependent on income) postal service.

The USPS is the victim here - both of its own lack of foresight and of elements trying to kill it. But despite all that, it’s still here, so that’s something, at least.

Consider also; the USPS is the backbone of Legal Document Delivery. Need to send payment for that coveted, fully anatomical, VERY EXPENSIVE anime body pillow to ‘Frisco and be reasonably sure it gets there? Send it Certified Return Receipt. The receipt card you get back from the USPS IS LEGAL PROOF THAT THE PACKAGE YOU SENT, (your payment) WAS RECEIVED. If drooling privatization RepCons successfully kill The USPS, Fedex (or Whoever gets the contract) can deliver your check to a hog farmer in Yugoslavia & be, like, ‘Oops!’ Worse? ‘Pillow Pleasures Inc.’ could GET your check, claim they never did, and refer you back to Fedex who Does not. Will not. And will never give a fuck about you. ‘Have fun filing your Class Action suit!’ (MAYBE we’ll deliver THOSE documents… To Dubai!)

If the Postal Service is running less than efficiently right now it’s because the Republicans in Congress are trying to kill it by starving it of support through this inane 75 year requirement.

Also, CONGRESS HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE POSTAL SERVICE RUNNING WELL. ARTICLE I, SECTION 8.

So the GOP is shirking their Constitutional obligations by fucking with the USPS. If the Founding Fathers were alive they’d be beating the Republicans with their canes.

fawnmother:

sorry but same gender couples kissing or holding hands in public continues to be a radical statement especially because every time we do it we are putting ourselves in danger so excuse me if I don’t want to hear your bullshit homophobic opinion about how much pda upsets you

you know what upsets me? that my wife and i can’t kiss to say goodbye in public or at all but a man can slap his gf’s ass or slobber on her

and that we can’t hold hands without getting looks at the least and harassment at worst, but again straight couples can dry hump on public transit

shut the fuck up

queerhawkeye:

once more with feeling:

there are no latinx names. there are no latinx features. there is no “latinx” race.

latinx is an ethnicity that encompasses all the people whose familiar history is tied to the pre and post colonial and/or diasporic experience of latin america. 

latinx includes indigenous latin americans who have different features, stories, cultures and languages. there are hundreds of different indigenous people across latin america.

latinx includes afro latin americans whose ancestors were brought to latin america by slavers, as well as africans who emigrated to latin america later.

latinx includes europeans who’ve been here since colonial times and europeans who emigrated later, both white and non-white. spanish, italian and portuguese people of arab heritage, jewish people, rromani people. 

latinx includes people of all races. just as an example, in the past half-century, south america has become the largest south-asian diaspora in all of the western world. there are plenty of second or third generation asians living in latin america who are as latinx as spaniards who emigrated during wwii or italians who came escaping fascism. 

latinx names can be hispanic, asian, indigenous or anglosaxon names. latinx features can be the features of any race. latinx culture is the intersection of every person’s individual culture with their country’s culture, and the many cultural variations that have been and are created by diasporic latinxs living outside of latin america.

we have a shared history, we have shared traits and a couple languages that are more or less spoken across most of our communities, there are certain cultural factors that most latinxs share. but that doesn’t mean all latinxs look, behave, speak or are named in similar ways.

so, repeat with me:

latinx is not an homogenous identity. 

latinx is not a race. 

latinx is an ethnicity.

seriesofnonsequiturs:

blue-author:

evilcoyote:

theblackoaksyndicate:

So i work as your friendly underpaid barista and currently we’re having problems with one of our regulars hitting on our women staff members. The first woman he hit one, he wrote a note to her….as in elementary school note passing. Now of course, she’s at work and the model in f&b and retail is that you do everything in your power not to piss off the guest.

So in hopes of not causing a scene, she kindly wrote on the note that she appreciate the interest but she’s a lesbian. Now, 1) she shouldn’t have to out herself to a complete stranger all to avoid a bad yelp review. 2) She shouldn’t be forced into a situation where she has to entertain a guests unwanted attentions to avoid at the least, a negative review on yelp. 

So once she passes this dude the note, he then starts jokingly exclaiming “I always fall for lesbians” in the middle of our cozy cafe, effectively outing her to anyone within earshot. Now my co-worker isn’t closeted, she’s out and proud etc, etc. However, that doesn’t give someone else the right to disclose her sexuality without her permission, and especially not after he effectively coerced her into outing herself in order to avoid his come-ons.  

Another one of our regular guests, hits on one of our baristas on a regular basis. No matter how much she casually brings up her boyfriend. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve had to literally stand in front of her so he can’t force eye-contact with her (Naturally we do this kind of thing in a low-key manner so that we don’t actively piss off guest and thus put our jobs at risk).

I’ve had to actively shut down people on behalf of my women co-workers (Nah dude, she’s seeing someone. She’s not interested in that sort of thing. Dude, chill out.) because they simply can’t understand the fact that they are at their jobs and simply just want to get their jobs done and go home. Stop taking advantage of the unequal power dynamics to force her to engage you. She’s seem nice? Of course she is, her job revolves around being nice. She seemed into you? No, I can promise she’s not, she’s doing her job and told me five minutes ago how you were clearly staring down her chest. 

“But how am I supposed to let her no I’m interested in her?” you might say. My answer, that’s not my fucking concern. There are plenty of opportunities to meet people in this world that don’t revolve around you forcing them into an uncomfortable position while they’re literally trying to earn a living. Not every person your interested in obligated to entertain that interest. 

Simply put, stop being goddam creepers and let people do their goddamn jobs. 

Fuck off. Some of us have a hard enough time talking to people without shitheads like you guilting us over it.

No one’s guilting you over anything. The point of this post is for you to stop doing it, not to do it and feel guilty.

If you feel awkward hitting on someone who’s not in a position where she can safely be honest with you or leave if you make her uncomfortable, that’s good. Listen to that awkward feeling. It’s telling you that you’re transgressing a boundary.

Now, if you feel like you’re always awkward and always crossing a boundary, then posts like this should be a gold mine. It’s telling you in clear terms where boundaries actually exist and why.

onionhighonionandrenown:

thisnewdevilry:

onionhighonionandrenown:

ollivander:

just-shower-thoughts:

Three of the four elements are represented in types of hockey; Air hockey (air), field hockey (earth), ice hockey (water). Fire hockey needs to be a thing.

fire hockey 100% does not need to be a thing

Yes. Yes it does.

Fire hockey already exists.  Welcome to pelota purépecha, or Mayan Fireball hockey.

…this is the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.