Bits of Peter

"Being a feminist doesn’t mean suddenly no longer liking problematic things. If you stopped liking..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:55:33 -0400

“Being a feminist doesn’t mean suddenly no longer liking problematic things. If you stopped liking everything that was sexist in media and entertainment there would be no media or entertainment left. Being a feminist, to me, is being aware of what it is you’re liking, and of its problematic aspects.”

- sabrina_il (via tumblinfeminist)

"But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the “friendzone” is some..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:15:27 -0400

“But most of all, stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the “friendzone” is some sort of purgatory women put “nice guys” into. My friendship is not a crappy consolation prize that you’re left with if I deny you a sexual relationship– and my body is not your reward for good behavior.”

- Taylor Callobre, The “Good Guy” Myth (via albinwonderland)

TMI.

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:36:57 -0400

TMI.

Gmail has a sense of humor. (Email from Timehop.)

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:00:26 -0400

Gmail has a sense of humor.

(Email from Timehop.)

Pomplamoose - Let’s Go for a Ride Okay, that song’s...

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:31:32 -0400

Pomplamoose - Let’s Go for a Ride

Okay, that song’s great, but the electronicky stuff they tease at the end? Shivers of joy.

"One of my core beliefs is that spreading the word that women sometimes do want sex is crucial to..."

Sun, 20 May 2012 08:30:53 -0400

“One of my core beliefs is that spreading the word that women sometimes do want sex is crucial to explaining why it’s important to respect when women don’t want sex. If you think women always just tolerate sex, then forcing them to tolerate it doesn’t seem like such a big deal. And if you think women never really want to indulge fetishes, why would “no, I don’t want to indulge your fetishes” slow you down?”

- Cliff of The Pervocracy, in her monthly Cosmocking.

The whole Cosmocking series is hilarious, by the way.

The origin of suffering is attachment.

Fri, 18 May 2012 11:11:58 -0400

The origin of suffering is attachment.

Moon Hooch with vocals. Prepare for ass-kicking-ness to shoot...

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:49:17 -0400

Moon Hooch with vocals. Prepare for ass-kicking-ness to shoot out of your speakers.

This studio handcrafts plush toys for children based on their...

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:08:32 -0400

This studio handcrafts plush toys for children based on their drawings. How cool is that?

It’s not unlike a software programming role on a development team. The job of that role is to empower the product role to make choices. The programming role facilitates product creation by getting out of the way, just as this studio facilitates toy creation by getting out of the way.

Powerful stuff.

(via Today I Learned Something New)

Cliff on Asking

Sat, 12 May 2012 09:30:23 -0400

Cliff on Asking:

[NSFW-ish. This post discusses sex.]

Cliff (formerly known as Holly) wonders why anyone would not want to ask for consent before sex.

I don’t think I’ve ever made someone stop desiring me by asking. I’ve only found out that they didn’t desire me. And holy shit, am I glad I did! Whether as serious as keeping me from becoming a rapist or as bittersweet as turning sexual tension into “at least I know now,” only good things have ever come from finding out someone doesn’t desire me.

Anonymous responds in the comments:

We always ask. Admittedly, sometimes ‘asking’ is me pulling my underwear off and yelling “BOSS FIGHT!” but we both know what that means, and I wouldn’t use it on anyone who doesn’t know that I like receiving oral sex during boss fights.

How does Jazz work?

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:40:25 -0400

How does Jazz work?:

Ethan Hein answers the question “How does Jazz work?” on Quora. I suggest listening along and following the timestamps in his breakdown.

Pork Butt Sliders is my Butthole Surfers cover band.

Tue, 08 May 2012 19:57:00 -0400

Pork Butt Sliders is my Butthole Surfers cover band.

laughingsquid: Cinco de Mayo Candy-Filled Piñata Cookies Yes,...

Wed, 02 May 2012 22:43:56 -0400

laughingsquid:

Cinco de Mayo Candy-Filled Piñata Cookies

Yes, please.

ladyunlaced: spiritracks: margflower: sherlockholmesanddoctorw...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:21:08 -0400

ladyunlaced:

spiritracks:

margflower:

sherlockholmesanddoctorwatson:

little-hiding-owl:

disneyworldcastmembers:

…. I just died.

THUNDERING OF STAMPEDE

VERY VERY FRIGHTENING ME!

GALELEIO! GALELEIO! GALELEIO!

HAKUNA MATA-TA-TA

I’M JUST A POOR CUB, NOBODY LOVES ME

HE’S JUST A POOR CUB FROM A ROYAL FAMILY

SPARING HIS GUILT FROM THIS MONSTROSITY

Easy come easy go

where did Simba go?

Timon and Pumba knOOOw just where he did go

Where’d he go?

Timon and Pumba knOOOW just where he did go

Where’d he go?

Timon and Pumba knOOOW just where he did go

Where’d he go?

Just where did he go?

grubs are salty and satisfYYYYing

ew ew ew ew ew ew

to Tanzania tanzania

to tanzania he did go.

He must return to have his uncle put aside to be

to be

the KIIIIIIIIIIIING!

I love the lyrics.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DETHRONE ME AND SPIT IN MY EYE

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN BANISH ME AND LEAVE ME TO DIIIIEEE

VIM Adventures

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:54:29 -0400

VIM Adventures:

What is VIM Adventures?

VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM’s keyboard shortcuts (commands, motions and operators). It’s the “Zelda meets text editing” game. It’s a puzzle game for practicing and memorizing VIM commands (good old VI is also covered, of course). It’s an easy way to learn VIM without a steep learning curve. You play a blinking cursor appearing one day in a semi text based world inhabited by little people but ruled by bugs. You soon discover that your arrival was foretold by an old prophecy and that you’re expected to restore order to the world.

"It seems absurd to think of programming as a performance art. And yet watching those people up on..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:09:16 -0400

“It seems absurd to think of programming as a performance art. And yet watching those people up on stage working through routines that they had clearly practiced over and over again, was delightfully entertaining to me, and to the crowd. There were cheers and applause when a performing pair did something especially well. There was laughter when a pair executed a clever joke in code, or in behavior. For programmers, watching other programmers perform well practiced routines was fun!”

- Uncle Bob Martin: What’s all this nonsense about Katas?

From the “Related Stories” to Ashley Judd’s...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:54:41 -0400

From the “Related Stories” to Ashley Judd’s op-ed on the media’s deconstruction of her facial “puffiness”, as originally run on The Daily Beast.

"That women are joining in the ongoing disassembling of my appearance is salient. Patriarchy is not..."

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:48:11 -0400

“That women are joining in the ongoing disassembling of my appearance is salient. Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.”

- Ashley Judd

Photo

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:22:29 -0400

Photo

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:55:26 -0400