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June 24, 2012
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jessicavalenti:

Sad White Babies With Mean Feminist Mommies

The Atlantic is reviving the tired feminist-baiting question “can women have it all.” Le sigh. In celebration of this backlashtastic event, I’ve compiled some of my favorite images that are often the art in these kinds of articles: The mean/frazzled/distracted working white mom (because WOC don’t exist in this narrative) who has been fooled into thinking she can have it all by feminism. Good times.

Note: I haven’t read the piece (it’s not out yet) and for all I know is a scorchingly awesome piece of feminist writing. But the headline/art/cover is just too awful and (knowingly) plays into the anti-feminist cliche the search for work/life balance is greedily trying to have “it all.”

Their lives would be so much easier if engineers just created babies with pre-installed blackberries. And a silent mode.

Tags: crotch fruit stock photos exist for tumblr

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May 30, 2012
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“They like him because he’s white.” - BlanketDenial

“They like him because he’s white.” - BlanketDenial

Tags: herman bearing bears and nazis are not porn

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April 18, 2012
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"An escalator can never break—it can only become stairs. You would never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there.’"

— Mitch Hedberg (from probably the funniest comment thread I’ve seen this week)

Tags: daily absurdistan escalator to heaven

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March 04, 2012
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mandaflewaway:

CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC

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January 25, 2012
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trextrying: T-Rex Trying To Put On A Cardigan #TRexTrying It will never be able to wear jorts, either. It is our loss.

trextrying:

T-Rex Trying To Put On A Cardigan

#TRexTrying

It will never be able to wear jorts, either. It is our loss.

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January 11, 2012
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I look forward to “Fotoshop by Adobé” for men.

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January 09, 2012
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blueandbluer: baconqurlyq: stfupenguins: lizlet: rachelfershleiser: awesomeringerud: “Drillmaster,” he said, “this is not alagai’sharak as we were taught it.” -The Desert Spear I think I win this one. “The quality of laughter is so incredible and deep and real and serious.” Nope, I do! “He can’t look at me — his eyes are closed, his face is all scrunched up.” :( “The moment blew away like an autumn leaf, and Chris sat back with a look of tipsy fulfillment on his face.” Hey, I’ll take it. “The translation of linear addresses is accomplished in two steps, each based on a type of translation table.” -Understanding the Linux Kernel Well, this doesn’t bode well. “Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.”  “The use of coupling in probability theory goes back at least as far as the beautiful proof by Doeblin of the ergodic theorem for Markov chains.” - Probability on Graphs It’s not often you see the word “coupling” in a mathematical monograph. Bring it, 2012.

blueandbluer:

baconqurlyq:

stfupenguins:

lizlet:

rachelfershleiser:

awesomeringerud:

“Drillmaster,” he said, “this is not alagai’sharak as we were taught it.” -The Desert Spear

I think I win this one.

“The quality of laughter is so incredible and deep and real and serious.”

Nope, I do!

“He can’t look at me — his eyes are closed, his face is all scrunched up.”

:(

“The moment blew away like an autumn leaf, and Chris sat back with a look of tipsy fulfillment on his face.”

Hey, I’ll take it.

“The translation of linear addresses is accomplished in two steps, each based on a type of translation table.” -Understanding the Linux Kernel

Well, this doesn’t bode well.

“Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.” 

“The use of coupling in probability theory goes back at least as far as the beautiful proof by Doeblin of the ergodic theorem for Markov chains.” - Probability on Graphs

It’s not often you see the word “coupling” in a mathematical monograph. Bring it, 2012.

(Source: meme-meme)

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January 04, 2012
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chescaleigh:

Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls (via Chescaleigh)

Born and raised in the suburbs, this video is basically my life story in 2 minutes. Throw me a reblog if you can relate.

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December 19, 2011
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surisburnbook:

The Beckhams have returned to Mother England, looking very casual. (Harper’s still not keen on shoes, I see.)

In the spirit of the holidays, I shall put aside my differences with Harper Beckham and not rejoice in the fact that these dear friends of mine are on another continent right now.

I will also, very politely, link you to this scientific assessment of celebrity children and our spheres of influence.

Spoiler alert: I beat Harper for first.

We’re friends.

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December 17, 2011
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Adventures in Data Land: Random numbers in constant storage

smolix:

Many algorithms require random number generators to work. For instance, locality sensitive hashing requires one to compute the random projection matrix P in order to compute the hashes z = P x. Likewise, fast eigenvalue solvers in large matrices often rely on a random matrix, e.g. the paper by Halko, Martinsson and Tropp, SIAM Review 2011