YES.

This is legit.  Seriously.

taking any college course on societal issues in the united states is just like: *realizes its bc of reagan* *traces the cause back to reagan* *discovers the original policy came out of the reagan administration* *finds factual inaccuracies ignored by the reagan administration that are then used to push policy* *finds statistics that show the severity of the aids crisis as well as the beginning of mass incarceration of poc were caused by reagan* *hates reagan*

Good lord, this. Due to strange circumstances, I've been involved in editing a translation twice in my life. It's insane. In one case, the original author was relying on a WORD COUNT to judge the accuracy of a translation-- that was a two-language chain, at that! Languages are nothing like each other at all, and it's fairly common to have concepts, words or just grammar that doesn't translate between two languages at all.

strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language

This is how we got here, yeah.

My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.

Hey, it's worth spreading around! Cool idea for places and times when trees aren't an option!

I mean, this is true. And it's silly. Don't ask me what my favorite book is, favorite song, all kinds of things like that.

why do people always only expect you to have one thing. one disorder one pet one gender one pronouns one name one favorite movie one crush one best friend. like why do I have an inventory limit

Yeah, it was always obvious where they were going.  This is why unity matters in opposing bigotry; the leopards will always eat your face, too.

There's a reason the state starts by going after the people you refuse to respect

Hey, that's good stuff! Our lives touch each other in ways we don't expect!

They need to be better known!  And if they’re predators, can we train them to hunt creationists?  (I don’t mean for them to HURT anybody.  Just track them down, and skim in front of them holding up signs that say “I got your transitional form RIGHT HERE BUDDY”)

THDI IS FUCKING KILLING MEEEE

It shouldn't have to be said. And yet, here we are.

An important tweet

No peace in reblogs!

Especially because teasing Yaoi between Ishmael and Queequeg is CANON. Moby Dick as God? Symbolically CANON, and Melville's excessive dedication to symbolism means that it's absolutely canon! Ahab as a hot-blooded (but old) Shonen Protagonist? Buddy, that degree of obsession fits nicely.

So what I'm saying is, YES THIS SHOULD HAPPEN!

op turned reblogs off :/