January 29, 2012
It turns out that trying to take a new photo for LinkedIn involved a lot of timer shots, a suit and a glass of what looks suspiciously like wine :) Here’s one from the B-roll.

It turns out that trying to take a new photo for LinkedIn involved a lot of timer shots, a suit and a glass of what looks suspiciously like wine :) Here’s one from the B-roll.

January 27, 2012 • 27 notes • xntrek

by name and nature: #StopACTA

xntrek:

Hi there,

Australia, without us knowing it, signed an international treaty that will destroy an open internet around the world. Now, the European Parliament is our last hope to stop it. Whilst it is too late to do anything here, and while we may not be able to protest in Europe, we can help by…

Signal boost!

January 25, 2012 • 2,628 notes • nevver
nevver: Instructions:1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds. 2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall). 3. Blink repeatedly and quickly. 4. WTF! one+infinity SO cool

nevver:

Instructions:
1. Stare at the red dot on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds.
2. Turn your eyes to a plain surface (your ceiling or blank wall).
3. Blink repeatedly and quickly.
4. WTF! one+infinity

SO cool

January 24, 2012 • 39 notes • cooksuck
morefunthanbeingsad: cooksuck: italians brought us the subtle flavours and balance of bocconcini cheese which compliments fresh salads and pasta and welcomes/soaks up other flavours from the plate.  in australia, we have a big ol’ fuckwit cheese-ball with a clear ‘stop the boats’ agenda on what is essentially a cronulla race riot of jatz.  i call this: ‘the tony abbott salad’. Wow… that is a phenomenal review.  Cooksuck - Reviews of meals that people upload onto their facebook or blog and are proud of for some reason. This website is awesome. Am at work laughing like a fiend. 

morefunthanbeingsad:

cooksuck:

italians brought us the subtle flavours and balance of bocconcini cheese which compliments fresh salads and pasta and welcomes/soaks up other flavours from the plate.  in australia, we have a big ol’ fuckwit cheese-ball with a clear ‘stop the boats’ agenda on what is essentially a cronulla race riot of jatz.  i call this: ‘the tony abbott salad’.

Wow… that is a phenomenal review. 

Cooksuck - Reviews of meals that people upload onto their facebook or blog and are proud of for some reason.

This website is awesome. Am at work laughing like a fiend. 

January 23, 2012 • 1 note

This is begging to be redone with the pedobear.

January 20, 2012 • 9,904 notes • melislestrade

stfuconservatives:

bookling-stormborn:

heysammy:

heathyr:

melislestrade:

Neil Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web

“Places where I was being pirated […] I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. And then they were going out and buying the real books”

“Nobody who would’ve bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free. What you’re actually doing is advertising, you’re reaching more people, you’re raising awareness.”

Have I said how much I love him?

Neil Gaiman is a better person than. Period.

Trufax.

A different author’s perspective. Like the pirates who are ten times more likely to buy music than other people, a lot of folks are introduced to new authors and series through pirating.

-Jess

This is up here because (a) Neil is awesome, and listening to him speak is incredibly calming, and (b) because he is intelligently, incisively and calmly demonstrating that his personal success as an artist increases with sharing content. 

January 20, 2012 • 48,410 notes • glitterclash

stfuconservatives:

pixyled:

renamok:

REBLOG THIS IF YOU ARE A PART OF TUMBLEDORE’S ARMY.

STOP SOPA, START SELF EXPRESSION.

People of Tumblr, don’t you ever fucking change. ♥

OH my god htis is amazing

Years of Internet conditioning have rendered me physically unable to NOT reblog this.

Reblogging purely because of Tumbledore’s army

January 19, 2012 • 4 notes

The idea of a multiverse, in which parallel versions of me exist as a result of different outcomes or decisions, fills me with a tremendous sympathy. Poor alternate versions of me. Somewhere among your infinite potential number sits the alternate me who, despite his allegiance to my actual timeline, made a different choice when it came to picking adventure over despair. You poor bastard.
Which, incidentally, is why I don’t subscribe to that theory. The best thing we can hope for is a life where we choose more than half of what happens to us.
I read a quote that said something like ‘the definition of hell is that on the day you die, you meet the person you could have been’. All I can think is ‘so do they’. Call no man happy, right, Herodotus?

January 17, 2012 • 1 note

I love this video. 

January 17, 2012 • 11 notes
I don’t hate humanity. I think humanity is amazing. But it’s like the ocean. You can enjoy its beauty and marvel at the wonders that flourish within its depths, but never forget that its power wears down countries, separates nations, takes lives with reckless abandon, and is beholden to no one. Water, like the spirits of people, can nourish us or drown us, can let us sail or drag us to die beneath the pressure and the waves.
Me, on why stories like the tale of Syliva Likens or Marina Abramovic’s Rhythm 0, 1974 don’t rob me of my faith in humanity.  
January 17, 2012 • 86 notes • groupoftrees
groupoftrees: The dog was named Parrot. This was taken moments before Parrot was murdered by the cop. The cop drove his knee into the middle of Parrot’s back while stretching Parrot’s forelegs behind him, as one would do with an armed criminal. Without waiting to determine whether this technique would calm Parrot, the cop grabbed Parrot, lifted him off the ground, and brought him to the top of the concrete staircase. He threw Parrot over the banister, down twelve steps, and onto the concrete floor. Then, the cop stood at the top of the stairs, drew his weapon, and executed Parrot. Aaron, the animal’s owner, cannot recall the number of shots fired. Witnesses state that Parrot was not harming anybody and was simply frightened by the cop. At no time did Parrot try to bite the officer, all he did was start barking. It doesn’t matter if you are a part of an Occupy movement, PETA, Republican, Democrat, Independant Religious or not, if you are a part of the human race this should be a wake up call that something is very wrong with our society. Isn’t brutally killing animals something that most Serial Killers do right before they switch to killing humans? Fuck this shit. 

groupoftrees:

The dog was named Parrot. This was taken moments before Parrot was murdered by the cop. The cop drove his knee into the middle of Parrot’s back while stretching Parrot’s forelegs behind him, as one would do with an armed criminal. Without waiting to determine whether this technique would calm Parrot, the cop grabbed Parrot, lifted him off the ground, and brought him to the top of the concrete staircase.


He threw Parrot over the banister, down twelve steps, and onto the concrete floor. Then, the cop stood at the top of the stairs, drew his weapon, and executed Parrot. Aaron, the animal’s owner, cannot recall the number of shots fired. Witnesses state that Parrot was not harming anybody and was simply frightened by the cop. At no time did Parrot try to bite the officer, all he did was start barking.


It doesn’t matter if you are a part of an Occupy movement, PETA, Republican, Democrat, Independant Religious or not, if you are a part of the human race this should be a wake up call that something is very wrong with our society.


Isn’t brutally killing animals something that most Serial Killers do right before they switch to killing humans?

Fuck this shit. 

(via timeandsound)

January 12, 2012 • 1,026 notes • thedailywhat

thedailywhat:

BAMF of the Day: An LA Country Sheriff’s deputy reportedly attempted to intimidate an army war vet who used his cellphone to record the cop punching a mentally disabled woman on a bus in Bellflower, California.

“I think they would try to cover it up,” said Jermaine Green when asked why he refused to hand over the video to the deputies. “I think a lot of things get covered up and people need to come forward if they see something, report it because it can’t be fixed unless it’s brought to the public’s attention.”

A spokesman for the sheriff’s department would not comment or look at the video, but said they would investigate if an excessive use of force claim was filed.

[nbcla / thanks adam!]

Reblogged for (a) proof everything’s recorded and (b) the chutzpah of Jermaine Green.

(via inothernews)

January 10, 2012 • 746 notes • torturedtangledhearts

Sign the petition against 'Gay Panic' law in QLD

stfuconservatives:

torturedtangledhearts:

From Paul Kelly -
A loophole in Queensland law allows people accused of murder to defend themselves in court by claiming “gay panic” — that is, if someone who they think is gay “comes onto” them, the sheer panic they feel is partial justification for murder.

This law belongs in the dark ages —affirmed by the High Court in the notorious Green case in 1997, when a man responded to “gentle touching” by brutally murdering his victim.

The killer’s argument was this: “Yeah, I killed the guy, but what he did to me was much worse.”

Just over two years ago, a man was murdered in my church’s grounds, and his killers used this same “gay panic” defence. They were eventually acquitted of murder. I’m utterly appalled that a law that so revoltingly and openly discriminates against gay people is still tolerated in a modern society. Laws like the “gay panic” defence are a crucial part of legitimising and reinforcing a culture of hate which means that 73% of gay and lesbian Queenslanders are subjected to verbal abuse or physical violence for their sexuality.

While almost all other state governments have abolished similar laws, and refuse to admit evidence of non-violent homosexual advances in murder trials, nothing has changed here. Queensland is now one of the last states upholding the idea that a person can be panicked enough by gay and lesbian people to justify murder. In addition, the mere introduction of this evidence pollutes jury deliberations. That’s why I am calling on the Queensland parliament and LNP leader Campbell Newman to eliminate this law as a partial defence for murder, and forbid non-violent homosexual advance being treated as evidence in any murder trial. This situation cannot go on.

Please sign and help eliminate this antiquated, 17th century defence from our law books.

Take the message of why you signed the petition directly to Campbell Newman, who is likely to become Qld Premier in March: http://on.fb.me/y8qPeA

For more information, see recent news coverage here:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/better-laws-needed-to-protect-gays/story-e6frerdf-1226160221310

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/men-jailed-over-churchyard-homosexual-bashing-death-20100513-v099.html

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/gay-men-targets-of-violence/2008/11/02/1225560616212.html

Sign it!

(Can you imagine if there was a law that made murder legal if a straight guy wouldn’t stop hitting on you? I once reblogged a thing that said homophobia was basically straight men’s fear of being treated like they treat women. When it’s a gay man hitting on a straight man, it’s a murder-worthy offense; when it’s a straight man hitting on a woman, she was asking for it/should be flattered/it’s in their nature to objectify you and say skeevy things!!!)

-Jess

Every now and then, I’m super proud of Australia. Now is not one of those times. Surely we can get this law removed?

January 9, 2012 • 2 notes
The price of glory is always comfort.
January 8, 2012 • 20 notes • fonrenovatio
Now that’s beautiful!

Now that’s beautiful!