La tormenta en el vaso

eyepool: This is not a joke, by the way. this ruins the arcade...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:42:36 -0400

eyepool:

This is not a joke, by the way.

this ruins the arcade fire for me

Kicked Out For Being Gay, Forced To Repay Thousands

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:08:35 -0400

Kicked Out For Being Gay, Forced To Repay Thousands:

thesharpmountain:

Danielle Powell was close to getting her bachelor’s degree when she was kicked out of her university for being gay in 2012, and now says the only way the school will transfer her credits to another school is if she agrees to pay $6,300. In response, Powell has launched an online petition to pressure the school to forgive the debt.

Powell was a student at Grace University in early 2011 when she began her first same-sex relationship. Up until that point, neither she nor her then-girlfriend identified as lesbian. When Grace, a religious university in Omaha, Neb., found out about the relationship through a spiritual adviser at the school, they brought Powell before a judiciary board to decide whether she should be allowed to stay enrolled.

“At that time, my family had no idea, so I had to come out to my family sooner than I would’ve wanted,” Powell told The Huffington Post.

Powell said the board asked her why she did what she did and whether she was remorseful, treating her, in her words, “like a sexual predator.” The university ultimately decided in March 2011 to suspend her and not allow her to finish the semester. Powell said she was also told she now owed Grace just over $6,000 after an academic scholarship she’d been awarded was revoked.

Powell said that the university told her she could participate in a restoration program, involving counseling and regular church attendance, to get readmitted, but she would have to live off campus and could not stay overnight in the dorms. She began the restoration process in the summer of 2011, so as not to jeopardize work that she was afraid she might lose by transferring to another institution.

But shortly before the start of the spring 2012 semester, Grace decided not to readmit her because she was still dating women.

“They were doing a witch hunt,” Powell said, “calling around to see if I was in a same-sex relationship.”

James told Powell in a letter, a copy of which was provided to HuffPost, that she was being “deceitful” and said it would be “unethical” for the university to readmit her since it “would be impossible for the faculty of Grace University to affirm your Christian character, a requirement for degree conferral.”

Mary Poppins: Niños, os voy a enseñar una palabra para cuando no sepáis qué decir, puede significar lo que uno quiera.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:54:00 -0400

Mary Poppins: Niños, os voy a enseñar una palabra para cuando no sepáis qué decir, puede significar lo que uno quiera.
Jenny y Michael: ¡Supercalifragilísticoexpialidoso!
Mary Poppins: No, ésta es otra.
*más tarde*
Sr. Banks: Niños, ¿cómo os ha ido en la feria?
Jenny: De la chingada.
Sr. Banks: ¿Qué has dicho?
Michael: Te van a chingar…
Sr. Banks: ¿Y tú también?
Michael: Ah chingá, ¿por qué chingados no?
Sr. Banks: ¿Pero quién os ha enseñado semejante palabra?
Jenny: La chingona de Mary Poppins.
Sr. Banks: ¿Y para qué sirve?
Michael: Namás, pa' chingar.
Sr. Banks: ¡Se están ganando unos chingadazos!
Mary Poppins: Mi trabajo está cumplido con esta familia. Qué chingón es poder ayudar a la gente.

Every time you write parallel fifths,

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:04:54 -0400

no-tritones-for-you:

the-voice-leading-nazi:

BBC kills off a beloved character.

*casually listens to ‘Music in Parallel 5ths’* bless you, Philip Glass

*casually listens to ‘Iron Man’* bless you Tony Iommi

Mirror test grade: F

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:58:49 -0400

Mirror test grade: F

A sci-fi play in one act by Tormentas

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:36:00 -0400

21st century guy: Welcome to the future!
19th century guy: Hey, what's up?
21st century guy: We've got all kinds of crazy future stuff. We even got 3D printers!
19th century guy: What's that?
21st century guy: Oh, it's a device that can automatically manufacture objects following an input programmed in code! It's crazy!
19th century guy: You mean, like a Jacquard machine?
21st century guy: Well… yeah. Like a Jacquard machine, I suppose.
19th century guy: That's cool.
21st century guy: You don't have to say that…
19th century guy: No, really. It's cool.
21st century guy: Hey, let me show you some future music, just listen to this crazy stuff, Skrillex!
19th century guy: Funny, that's exactly how a Jacquard machine sounds like.

fuckyeahlogical: Submitted by alejocava

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:36:43 -0400

fuckyeahlogical:

Submitted by alejocava

folks: let’s have a disney female protagonist with a...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:48:00 -0400

folks: let’s have a disney female protagonist with a normal body and outfit!

patriarchy: lol, no

A philosophical short story

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:59:00 -0400

The Swampkid was a boy that was spontaneously created one day, when there was a very big storm in the marshes just outside of town. By a sheer coincidence, a series of lightnings recombined the matter in the wetland in a way that resulted in the exact duplication of a local child named Donald. As the Swampkid had the exact same brain structure as Donald who was playing in the swamp in that same moment, he even had the exact same memories. The towns people decided to give the Swampkid a temporal home until they decided what to do with him, and he began attending classes (in the same school as Donald). The saddest day of his life was during biology class. The professor was Mrs. Millikan, which was no biologist but actually was the Connecticut philosopher Ruth Millikan, who conned the school into hiring her only because she heard about the Swampkid and wanted to meet him in person. Ruth Millikan had wrote a book where she argued that the only coherent notion of function was that something had a function only if it existed because of that same function, as in the case of structures resulting from evolution. The day Mrs. Millikan taught about the circulatory system, she asked the class what was the purpose of the heart. Children unanimously responded: “To pump blood!” “That’s right” said Mrs. Millikan. “The heart’s function is to pump blood.” Then her face became dead serious. “Except yours, Swampkid. Your heart has no function nor purpose.” Tears began rolling down the Swampkid’s eyes. “In fact, if we define organs as structures that have some proper function, we could very well say that you have no organs at all!” “Oh my!” thought Donald, “I would cry too if someone told me that I had no heart.” The director, who was waiting by the door, stepped in. “Mrs. Millikan, how do you know he has no organs? Don’t you admit the boys could have been mistakenly switched in the confusion of the storm, without they even realising it themselves?” “I suppose so, Director Lehrer” said Mrs. Millikan grudgingly, “but I don’t have any reason to think that it happened.” The director was in actuality philosopher Keith Lehrer, who also conned the school into hiring him, in his case to prove an epistemological point. “Well, if you admit that’s a possibility, you can’t really say that you know this boy had no heart.” “Hum” answered Mrs. Millikan visibly upset, “even if I was looking at him, I addressed my comment to the ‘Swampkid.’ Hence I was referring to the Swampkid whomever he was.” Mrs. Millikan wasn’t saying that in honesty, she just wanted to win the argument. Director Lehrer was about to answer when the door was slammed… “Stop right there!” said Mr. Kripke, the old janitor, as he pointed towards the boy. “We must destroy the golem!”

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allies shouldn’t view gay marraige as other people’s right, it’s their own right...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:40:00 -0400

allies shouldn’t view gay marraige as other people’s right, it’s their own right to marry whomever they want that’s being trampled (even if it has no practical consequences for them)

Cultural criticism: a decalogue

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:21:00 -0400

1- Thou shalt not coin a new concept describing present day humans called “homo [latin present participle].

2- Thou shalt not use “The critique of pure [concept]” as a title.

3- Thou shalt not write the same book many times under different titles only because the first version was successful.

4- Thou shalt not use “new [old trend of thought] to describe your position.

5- Thou shalt not use “why [something everyone thinks is right] is wrong” as a subtitle.

6- Thou shalt not dismiss all negative reviews as misunderstanding your groundbreaking view.

7- Thou shalt not use a clever epigraph for each chapter.

8- Thou shalt not omit citation of proper references.

9- Thou shalt not use a black and white picture of yourself on the flap.

10- Thou shalt not promote your book every time you state your opinion on some related matter.

Three little rational piggies: a decision theoretic play in one act by Tormentas

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:21:00 -0400

WOLF: Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!
PIG (FROM WOODEN HOUSE): Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin. You'll eat me. I don't have any incentive to open.
WOLF: Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!
PIG: Moreover, you don't have any incentive to blow my house. If you do it, I will become inedible from the debris.
WOLF: I don't care. I'll huff and puff…
PIG: Think about it. For any outcome the payment is zero. You'd be better off just walking away than investing some effort in blowing my house.
WOLF: I can't walk away, I've been here all morning!
PIG: And that's why you're irrational. See, that's a sunken cost.
WOLF: *starts blowing*
OLDER PIG (FROM BRICK HOUSE): Hey! You didn't read those Kahneman articles I sent you?
PIG: Listen. Why don't you go fuck yourself?

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flamingatheist: Joel Creasey on Margaret Court’s homophobia.

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:04:09 -0400

flamingatheist:

Joel Creasey on Margaret Court’s homophobia.

during the recording of young americans a crowd of fans gathered outside the studio everyday to...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:03:00 -0400

during the recording of young americans a crowd of fans gathered outside the studio everyday to stalk david bowie, so he called the police and threatened with a lawsuit… lol, just kidding, he invited them over to listen to the cuts

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