brave and steely-eyed and morally pure and a bit terrifying… /testimonials /evil /leet .ask? .ask_long?
1 month ago · tagged #it me · 59,250 notes · source: dongstomper · .permalink
Oh my god, one of the developers of TOR is named Isis Agora Lovecruft.
1 month ago · tagged #it me #so much the aesthetic #nothing to add but tags #also the fbi is a bunch of dickbags · 17 notes · source: wirehead-wannabe · .permalink
1 month ago · tagged #it me #it so me #it more me than most other things · 1,141,016 notes · source: garbage-dono · .permalink
Money absolutely does buy happiness. You are probably just spending it wrong give it to me I’ll show you how it’s done
(via metagorgon)
1 month ago · tagged #it me · 311,115 notes · source: next-venoms · .permalink
it true tho @sinesalvatorem once said that one should not be surprised that wanting to kiss girls correlates with other good decisions, and I say that transitioning would also be expected to correlate with other good decisions (at least it correlates with being a diaspora-type rationalist and with wanting to kiss girls, see the pattern?) and thus nobody should be surprised if trans lesbians, with our exceedingly high prior for making Objectively Good Decisions, would make the decision of dating all the friends or as close as possible or convenient everything fits as beautifully together as a theory ever could, and empirical observation that trans lesbians and trans-lesbian-adjacents tend to be awesome people further supports it!how to spot a trans lesbian: she’s poly and she’s dating all her friends
i feel so attacked right now
Same, really.
And you were almost right…
…Except I’m a godless extrovert with too many friends, and even I can’t date a hundred people.
wait does this mean once I become poly I have to transition
damn you trans-philic SJ and your brilliant marketing tactics
1 month ago · tagged #shitposting #it me #okay not exactly but the basic idea still holds #because why not date all your friends if you want to #in which promethea is a soulless robot #who simply doesn't have time to date all the possibly-dateworthy people #because the world won't take over itself #just one word: plastics · 567 notes · source: opiumhug · .permalink
“video games linked to adhd” gee i wonder why ppl with adhd would be drawn to an interactive medium that fully engages your brain and gives your hands something to do at the same time. it is a mystery
#it me
also: REPL, so much REPL
or in fact programming in general
think about puzzles and have something to fingertwitch at
what’s not to love?
(via michaelblume)
1 month ago · tagged #it me #baby leet · 165,259 notes · source: badassbonerfarts420 · .permalink
conversations with allistics have a turn based mechanic, with a time limit on each turn after the allistics will become displeased. it is thus important that you give everyone else in a conversation opportunities to talk about your special interest as well
give everyone else in a conversation opportunities to talk about your special interest as well
LOOOOL
Really, though, being incredibly blatant in your transitions between topics is nice. The “take turns doing a combination infodump/Q&A session” conversation mode can be fun.
1 month ago · tagged #it me · 266 notes · source: allisticsocialskills · .permalink
"But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive."
Randall Munroe (xkcd What if?)
#did tony stark make this post#i’m laughing ‘it’s not a lesson on hubris!! it’s a lesson on how the little shit should’ve built it better’ (via @kitcox)
hubris is a virtue. pushing untested inventions beyond operating parameters was the true sin here.
(via metagorgon)
(via metagorgon)
2 months ago · tagged #it me #fuck the natural order · 10,802 notes · source: astrowhat · .permalink
Okay so gender nonconformity may be boosted by endocrine disruptors leading to physical dysphoria (plastic in the water? some medications during pregnancy? chem trails? who knows). But what about cultural shifts leading to a rise in social dysphoria, where people wish to opt out of their assigned gender?
Gender roles were more restrictive in the past, but they were also taken for granted and less intensively examined, and when they were studied it was typically to attribute them to God or natural law or some other relatively remote and unchangeable source that doesn’t demand any personal response.
Today, everyone in the developed world will be bombarded from an early age not just with gender roles, but also deconstructions of gender roles and a worldview where they are constructed from human actions, tradition, patriarchy, capitalism, warring forces that you, yes YOU, can help or hinder in your personal life.
This is exhausting! Everything you do becomes weighted with symbolism in the struggle to define what gender means, and to be a man or a woman is to join an army locked in ideological struggle.
Combine this with the obsessive focus on internal identity, “born this way”, and the idea that men and women have some completely different gender qualia at a fundamental level and it’s unsurprising that many people would decide they just don’t feel strongly enough to justify claiming any gender at all.
we shall give people the means motive and opportunity to opt out of the cistem until it collapses under the weight of its own impossibility and this creative destruction shall achieve the redistribution of the means of social construction so that the abolition of gender as all previous generations have known it shall be reality and one day our children will not know that once people were very concerned about what their genitals looked like and adults wrapped them in pieces of cloth superficially hiding their genitals but also signaling very strongly to everyone what they looked like despite such things making very little sense and our descendants will not even be horrified when we tell them the reason old buildings have an even number of bathrooms because the idea itself will be just as absurd as purple hippos with six legs
2 months ago · tagged #support your local supervillain #it me #steel feminism · 54 notes · source: argumate · .permalink
Seriously, it kills me when I see people hold scientists up as pinnacles of logic and reason.
Because one time the professor I was interning for got punched in the face by another professor, because mine got the funding, and told the other professor his theory was stupid.
This same professor told me to throw rocks to scare the “stupid fucking crabs” into moving so we could count them properly.
SCIENCE
thank you
this is one of the best comments this post has recieved
I have witnessed:
Two professors hiding around a corner and snickering, “Shhh, here she comes!” While a female professor approached and, when she finally found them, she proceeded to scream while pointing from one to the other, “You! I called your office but you weren’t there! So I tried to call YOUR office to figure out where HE was but YOU weren’t there!”
Two grad students standing outside a closed and locked door yelling, “Come out of the damn office. You haven’t left for days. If you didn’t have a couch in there I’d be concerned as to where you were sleeping!”
A religious studies professor apologizing for being late to class because, “security stopped me because I’m dressed like a hobbit”
Watched a professor snort the results of my experiment to determine if I had the right final compound.
Two archeology professors toss priceless fossilized teeth back and forth in an attempt to figure out who is smarter by “guessing the type of tooth and species of animal before it lands”
Multiple fully degreed individuals throw dry ice at one another in an attempt to be first to use the lab/get that piece of equipment/or change the iPod song.
A genetics professor build furniture out of stacks of paper and planks of wood because she is that far behind in grading papers/responding. One of the impromptu furniture pieces housed a fish tank.
I could go on but I think that covers the larger portion of the insanity…
Every time it comes around on my dash, it gets better.
- I have had a professor buy a huge fuckoff bottle of rum during fieldwork in Costa Rica and let the undergrads get wasted because “you’re not underage in Costa Rica and we’ll be up all night with the bats anyway!”
- Same professor hung a bat from her headlamp and wore it as a decoration for an entire night.
- A whole swarm of older women - and these are women with PhDs and world-renown bat experts, the bigwigs - all, to a woman, go to the formal charity dinner at an international research symposium in Toronto in late October dressed in skimpy Batgirl costumes. Because Halloween was that weekend, you see.
- At a different conference, a professor get blackout drunk and pass out on the side of the road.
- “Yeah, we have to say we did it properly for the grant but to be really honest, Miracle-gro works better.”
- Teaching lab: we had liquid nitrogen for a demo, and after class the professor, the other TA, and I spent a good two hours freezing and breaking things in it.
a chemistry class begins with 30 students nine months later just six of us left sitting on tables dipping paper into contaminated chemicals to see what happens when we burn it teacher making idle suggestions while he marks our work
“go to the fume hood thing, yeah now put some potassium in chlorine” can i burn the results sir? “fuck it sure whatever its tainted anyway”
The prof I’m working for just asked me if I knew how to pick a lock, and when I responded “yes” she replied, “see, this is why I hire the former delinquents instead of the suck-ups. You’re actually useful.”
I then let her into her office.
(via endecision)
2 months ago · tagged #it me · 186,089 notes · .permalink