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The sails of the Sydney Opera House will be lit this evening to celebrate the passing of #marriageequality into law in Australia 📷 Ann-Marie Calilhanna. 🌈 🌈 🌈

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I liked being Princess Leia. Or Princess Leia’s being me. Over time I thought that we’d melded into one. I don’t think you could think of Leia without my lurking in that thought somewhere.

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how come conservative students think they’re smarter than professors with doctorates and shit

conservative students swear that every university professor is some radical leftist with an agenda when usually it’s a professor that just uses critical thinking skills, context, and has empathy

if you swear all the professors you encounter are wrong, it might actually be that your opinions are outdated, bigoted, and incorrect lmao

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Sharon Stone, Tom Petty, and Carrie Fisher enjoying some time backstage at amFAR’s “Strictly Western 2: Steppin’ for the Cure III” in 1996.

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Drew the first three starter sets/families. Started as a warm up but then I felt the need to finish them, so I did.

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The interesting thing about Glados/HAL 9000 parallels is that

Hal was conceived at a time when artificial intelligence was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. Hal is introduced as humanlike because the audience is familiar with and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It’s when he starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes “oh no, he’s a computer” and he becomes threatening.

By the time Glados was conceived, we had become used to computer automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter in daily life. Glados is introduced as a computerized preprogrammed voice because that’s what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It’s when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes “oh no, she’s alive” and she becomes threatening.

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Overwatch support roster doing the Baywatch run.

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@timeisthearchitect ROCKET SAINT

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Look at this picture of Lily Tomlin holding a clutch made up of Jane Fonda’s mugshot. My gay ass was not ready for this.

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(x) Pokemon Zodiac, it took a lot of time but is finally finished.

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Dick Deadeye: Aye, it’s a queer world *Waves rainbow flag like a maniac*

Ralph Rackstraw: Such revolutionary sentiments are enough to make an honest sailor shudder!

Deadeye: *sadly puts flag away*

Sir Joseph: *Kicks down door* DID SOMEONE SAY SPLENDID SEAMEN?

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If you’re going to space. You have to be prepared to fuck the aliens. Or like at least one person on your crew does I get that it’s not everyone’s thing. I’m just saying. Someone’s gotta do it.

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(via PhilipNByrne)