The Happiest Place in the Known Galaxy
Where am I going today? It’s a leap day, so there’s an answer for that. 
The Happiest Place in the Known Galaxy
Where am I going today? It’s a leap day, so there’s an answer for that. 
David Tennant: Oh, from when I was a kid? I loved… I mean, I’d love to be a kid now, I’d love to watch those super heroes movies that are coming out. I always yearned for them when I was a kid and they never really happened. There was a couple of slightly dodgy Spider Man movies, but I’d love to have been a kid when the Spider Man movies we have now were coming out. Or Iron Man… Oh I’m really looking forward to The Avengers.
REBLOGGING BECAUSE NEW AVENGERS TRAILER IS OUT AND OHMYGOSH.
ALL MY FEELINGS.
Geekboy forever.
oh he 100% doesnt know what year it is
i am not happy with our choices this election. But you should know that the reason he's the first president to "refuse" a cognitive test is because one isn't included in the presidential physical exam in the first place.
There was a petition of doctors who wanted Trump's cognitive function tested during his physical exam, and everybody involved on the republican side said no, and then Trump himself actually insisted he did take one in a fit of ego. He was, as far as i can tell, the first president to ever take one while in office.
At his request for the cognitive testing, Trump's doctor administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which is like 5 questions and has not been proven to be an accurate test of much at all. It's a lot like when you hit your head and they ask you the date and your name and stuff -- answering correctly in no way means you don't have a head injury or concussion or whatever, it's just a couple of first step questions. Then Trump said a lot of lies and bullshit about his "cognitive test"
Now republicans and right leaning publications are spreading shit like this. Biden didn't "refuse" a cognitive test, his aides confirmed that, as usual, a cognitive test is not included during the president's doctor visit.
again, i think our choices are shit this election, i don't like how old Biden is, and i think the way our first-past-the-poll voting system automatically results in an extremist two party system fronting candidates that the majority of the country doesn't like is some fucked up bullshit
but our house is on fire and one candidate is a bucket of water that won't help much and the other is a bucket of gasoline, and, y'know, angry as i am about it all i am still going to vote for the bucket of water while we look for other solutions
Don't let them trick you into letting gasoline get thrown on this fire please
At this point I’m not even posting this for politics reasons, I’m posting it because my GOD you gullible bitches need to learn how extremely basic propaganda works. Jesus christ.
Mood.
I haven’t seen any bad valentine’s cards yet so I thought I’d make some
Where would I put my 22nd livejournal anniversary image, other than Tumblr?
Historic Songfest For Africa Life, April 1985
In early 1994, I was the Manager of Dartmouth’s Computer Resource Center, an artisanal pre-sales and consulting office in Dartmouth’s Computing Services. One morning, the Director of Computing stopped by my office and handed me a floppy disk and told me to check out what was on it. I popped it into my computer and saw that it contained a single application, Mosaic 0.9b. Curious, I launched it and thus began my experiences with the World Wide Web. Within a week, I had created Dartmouth’s first Web site (and one of the first 50 college web sites in the world, near as I could figure at the time). By fall, I created my blog (one of the first ever) and was looking for new, higher-profile projects.
I noticed that TV show websites were becoming a popular and I sought out a show I could get in on. My big obsession at the time was The X-Files so I reached out to the webmasters of one of the better sites offering my help. They told me they had things in hand and didn’t need any help so I cast about looking for other things I could do.
In the fall of 1994, Friends premiered and I noticed that since there was no USENET newsgroup for the show, people were talking about it in alt.tv.mad-about-you, much to the chagrin of the folks there who didn’t care for Friends or who were just OCD about things staying on-topic. It had no website, no mailing list, no newsgroup. And, hey, I really enjoyed the show. So, I sprang into action. I created alt.tv.friends, a LISTSERV mailing list, and a website.
Soon after, a supervising producer of Friends reached out to me to start providing some information back to us fans on the list. He told me that they put the Episode Guide and FAQ up outside the writers’ room to help with continuity. A thriving fandom had been born.
But by around January 1995, as people on the mailing list began to get to know one another more, topics began to stray from the show to talking to each other about anything. Friends were being made. This upset those people who preferred the list stay on-topic and there began to be some anger running around. I decided to split the list into two lists: Friends-TV for discussions only about the show, and FriendsZone for folks to just hang out.
On February 6, 1995 the list was created and the first subscribers began to appear.
The history of this virtual community is long and storied but the short version is that, 20 years later, it is still around. While there is still a mailing list, it is almost never used. Instead, a Facebook group now carries most of the conversation.
And this weekend, in Las Vegas, a group of these folks are getting together to celebrate the 20th anniversary. I wish I could be there with them but it just wasn’t in the cards for me. I hope they all have a great time and post a lot of pictures.
Happy Birthday Zone!
Heidi’s note: Yes, I joined the very first day. I was supposed to be in Vegas this weekend and for a number of reasons, suddenly I’m not, and I’m so sad about it. It’s not the first fandom thing I’ve missed - I haven’t made it to many of the Zone Ganzas through the years - but today, I’m really sad that I’m not with old friends in Vegas, and I’m thinking about all of the wonderful things in my life that have been impacted by fandom through more than 20 years.
If you’re a friend I’ve made in any fandom, I love you and I miss you and I hope to see you soon. And in a way, you’re a Friend I made because of The Zone, because it’s what got me comfortable with conversations online, with websites and html and mailing lists and off-topic chatter, fanfic and fan theories and trivia - and all the people who you meet along the way while discussing all those off topic things, and the fanfic and theories and trivia.
Happy 29th Zone-a-Versary!
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce celebrate the Chiefs' win and advancement to the Super Bowl.
Incredible
wait so
all this time it was not normal
because all the time I have something playing in my head
(Most recently its usually Lagtrain, Loopspinner or a remix of the two)
its completely normal. 92% of people get songs stuck in their head.
this feels like a good time to plug this study:
reblolgos for bigger sample size :))
It’s kind of funny for me to read this after voting for Strawberries & see that Mango is in the lead, as that’s the only thing on the list that I’m majorly allergic to.
I opened my copy of The Tale of the Body Thief & immediately had to close it again because of this silly little annotation
How To Make a Transformative Work
(And hi, am happy to consult about Miami in 1990 when I ran the shop at the Clevelander.)
I, and many mothers of my generation, thought that when our daughters came of age, they would enter a world of unprecedented equality, with autonomy over their own bodies and life choices, and the guarantee they would be paid according to their value in the workplace, not by virtue of their genitalia. So how does reality stack up to that twenty-year-old belief?
To borrow from a movie title from those early 90s, reality bites. Not only haven’t rights and opportunities for women in this country improved, they are on the decline. The world our daughters are inheriting looks like the one in which our mothers or even our grandmothers came of age. In 2011, the year my daughter graduated from college, state legislatures enacted 83 laws to restrict or even eliminate access to abortions. In the first three months of 2012, 944 bills were introduced in state legislatures related to reproductive health and rights, targeting access to birth control as well as abortions.
Not content to limiting their attacks on women to the female body, several states have moved onto the workplace, with Wisconsin Republicans leading the charge to eviscerate federal statutes, including the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, that require equal pay for equal work.
Worth reading in connection with Vulture’s re-examination of CBS’s long-running Murphy Brown; it’s 20 years this week since Dan Quayle disparaged the character and the concept that a woman might want a child, but not a marriage.
Think for a second about the differences in how women were regarded in the workplace, in medicine, in schools, in homes, between 1972 and 1992, and the differences between 1992 and today.
There were sea changes from ‘72 to '92 - if you read teen novels from the early 70s, you’ll be reminded that girls couldn’t ask boys out - ever - and couldn’t do newspaper delivery routes, or play on team sports other than possibly field hockey (gymnastics and skating weren’t really team sports) or wear jeans or trousers to school, or ride motorcycles or live in your own apartment after college. You could work, certainly, in retail or as a teacher or a stewardess, but you likely wouldn’t after you were married and certainly not after having kids. The Pill was brand new, and no mom would go to a rock concert and scream for the band - although she might accompany her kids and pretend to be disinterested. Abortion wasn’t legal everywhere yet - but soon, it would be.
From 1992 to now? How many leaps have we had?
More women as CEOs, which is fantastic. More recognition of the contributions women have made in science and math and engineering and the military since time immemorial. Awesome women in the Cabinet and the legislature. So many more women running small businesses and being entrepreneurs…
But women still make less than men for the same jobs, even when time out of the workplace is factored in. Some men still say that women shouldn’t have the right to vote, and some say that women should be subservient to men. Almost every legislature in this country is considering restrictions on abortion and most have at least one bill restricting access to birth control, or that state that birth control (which, frankly, I prefer to call “hormonal regulation”) is not a health-care matter.
And women are still under 20 per cent of Congress.
It’s been almost a dozen years since I first Reblogged this post, and the slide backwards in rights for women and girls - and those who are nonbinary — is massive.
Yes, opportunities still exist — in congress, in business, to be elected the country’s VP or a governor. But women are dying from miscarriages, in mass shootings and from preventable diseases, not able to get access to life sustaining medical care - including medicine and mental health care. Are we better situated than we were in 1992, and where is the road leading to?
For some reason, I have more fandom-friends with birthdays in the middle of January than any other one-week period of the year (except the last week of July/first week of August). Like attracts like, perhaps?
Fluffalo is smooth as FUCK.
Things from 2014. Still perfect.