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Father’s Day is coming up soon and I just wanna give a shoutout to those of you who don’t have a stable and healthy relationship with your fathers, not wanting to talk to or wish your dad happy Father’s Day due to abuse/neglect doesn’t make you selfish or ungrateful, your pain is justified, your anger is justified and you have every right to not want to communicate with someone who hurt you, even if it is one of your parents

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Videos from #HITB2016AMS CommSec track released

Videos of the open-to-public HITB CommSec (community and security) track of talks held alongside the 7th annual HITB Security Conference in The Netherlands have been uploaded to the HITBSecConf Youtube channel.

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Source: HITBSecNews - Keeping Knowledge Free for Over a Decade http://news.hitb.org/content/videos-hitb2016ams-commsec-track-released June 17, 2016 at 09:58AM via \hack\ l33tdawg

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saw this on twitter

reblog for your Texas #LGBTQ followers who may be going to Houston Pride!

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saw this on twitter

reblog for your Texas #LGBTQ followers who may be going to Houston Pride!

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There’s a nasty brushfire burning about 50-60 miles south of me.

Nicknamed the Sherpa Fire and located a little north of Santa Barbara, it broke out yesterday and has burned about 1,400 acres at this point. I’ve been getting push notifications on my phone all day with updates, and the latest is that firefighting efforts have led to a large portion of Highway 101 being closed for the second night in a row.

See the big water-dropping airplane? Our local airport is a refueling point for them, so all day I had those big jets taking off and flying right over where I live on the way to the fire, and I’m sure they’ll be doing it again tomorrow.. The last time there was a big fire down in Santa Barbara, the Painted Cave fire, we got so used to those planes flying over us for days and days from sunrise to sunset that it seemed almost too quiet when they were finally able to stop.

The good news is that no one has been hurt or killed, and so far I’m unaware of any homes being damaged, although there have been mandatory evacuations.

The bad news is that this is just the beginning. We were supposed to get hammered by the Godzilla El Nino this winter, and we got stood up at the altar. We had a couple of decent storms, but nothing really special. So the vast majority of the state is in the 5th year of a drought (which that asshole Donald Trump says doesn’t exist and it’s all been engineered by environmentalists), which means we’re one gigantic tinderbox just waiting to go up.

Details, including the sources of the above photos, can be found here [x]

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Brilliant Landscape Illustrations Are Composed with Glow-In-The-Dark-Paint by  Cristoforo Scorpiniti 

Italian artist Cristoforo Scorpiniti composes dazzling illustrations, which are illuminated in the shadows with glow-in-the-dark paint. When the lights are off, Scorpiniti’s paintings dazzle in specks of glimmer and warmth. The iridescence creations are composed of dreamy landscapes inspired by wildlife and landscapes.

Every piece comes alive during the night. The stars come out to be admired. Equally beautiful without the presence of the glow-in-the-dark paint, Scorpiniti carefully manipulates his brushstrokes to add the perfect dose of shimmer and glow in his collection. Find his work in his Etsy shop.

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In the same vein as other ‘things humans do that aliens might be weirded out by’ what if human pattern recognition skills were the thing? Like the ability to see a cloud resolve into a dog, or faces in wall patterns. Stuff that evolved from predators having camouflaging abilities, or let’s face it, bugs that can look basicaly like a leaf to prey ON. 

Imagine an alien being super confounded by a human being like ‘oh, that control board looks like a face’ and it’s just this big grouping of random lights and line but no ALL the humans on board think it looks like a FACE and theyve started NAMING it. And it just seems so confusing- is there anything on this flat painted wall? ‘No of course not’ HOW IS THERE AN OF COURSE NOT. What about in that galaxy? And the human squints and stares at it and says ‘yeah, it looks like a cat.’

And they an draw out what they’re recognizing in the lines but it’s just so strange. 

And then an enemy develops ‘cloaking technology’ that’s based on camouflaging and are so angry that every single human is able to point it out because it’s a completely obvious moving shape to them. 

or: alien species are introduced to leaf insects, tigers, and that one octopus that imitates a coconut and freak the heck out.

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So, when my maternal grandmother died, we had to find loving, permanent homes for all five of her cats because otherwise she would have risen from the grave to kill the entire family. We took in Chloe because Chloe was my grandmother’s favorite, and she made my mom promise to look after her. Now my mother treats Chloe like her third child, and the cat is basically plastered to her 24/7 when she isn’t hiding from some imagined enemy like the dustbuster or my dad’s footsteps.

Anyway, we wound up giving the rest of the cats to this couple that runs a joint called Kitty Korner. They try to find loving homes for all the cats they take in, but will care for the unadoptables (read: assholes) for the rest of their lives. That’s great, because one of the cats we gave to these poor women was Tobey. I have no idea why my grandmother ever adopted Tobey. He was a huge schmuck. The most handsome orange tomcat you ever saw, and he loved to crawl in your lap. But if you ever tried to touch him, he would switch immediately into Kill Mode and you could say goodbye to your hand. Needless to say, having him in your lap was awkward. It was like holding a bomb.

Kitty Korner sends us detailed letters every year to give us updates on how Tobey’s doing. Basically, they are status reports on how much of a douche Tobey is and continues to be. These women are saints. I guess they really like cats, because these letters are like a full page of single-spaced text. But more or less, they amount to:

2003: Tobey has a real colorful personality! But, uh, we don’t think he’s suited for adoption yet

2004: Nope, still not suited for adoption

2005: I think this is pretty much a lost cause

2006: WTF

2007: Tobey is trying to kill us and every other cat in the house

2008: Tobey is still trying to kill us and every other cat in the house

2009: Tobey is a vicious dictator and can only find pleasure in the subjugation of other organisms

BUT!!!! The past few years, Tobey has apparently been making steady improvement. And in our most recent letter, we have been informed that he is no longer doing things like venturing upstairs expressly to beat the living shit out of the other cats at Kitty Korner. He will also let you pet him, and when he’s had enough he’ll give a warning nip instead of removing your limb. In fact, Tobey, at a ripe old age of 14, is ready for a new home! With an experienced cat owner, comes the necessary caveat, and like… no kids. At all. Ever. Or other cats, probably. But at least he’s no longer a psychopath.

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We have lost a dedicated campaigner for equality and a promising young MP. More importantly her children have lost a mother, and husband has lost a wife. All because the killer wanted to put “Britain First” Jo Cox, Labour MP, Killed In Shooting In Birstall, West Yorkshire

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the best part of being an adult is watching your friends also be adults

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what the actual fuck

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what the actual fuck

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Some assholes have been putting nails in cheese and treats in dog parks in Chicago and Massachusetts. Also adding antifreeze to water bowls.

Please watch out for your dogs. And if you find out the address of someone doing this, give me the address and tell no one. I will disembowel them.

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James Garner, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Charlton Heston, Harry and Julie Belafonte, and Diahann Carroll, all marching with more than 200,000 people in The March On Washington on August 28, 1963.

52 years ago today.

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The Sherlock Fandom Is Out Of Control

I’m probably gonna get a lot of hate for saying this, but just cause we all watch a show about a consulting detective doesn’t mean we automatically have the powers of deduction. Everyone is either getting really, really, WAY into it, and they’ve added the shipping wars into the mix, all the while calling for Mary’s death, the baby gone (Guys, let’s be serious, if you’re demanding a baby be removed from the show or something to happen to it, then you’ve sunk to a very bad low…) and  a Johnlock kiss at Niagara Falls. 

For the love of Hudders everybody: CALM DOWN.  

We can speculate all we want about what’s going to happen on season four and morph it into what we want. But the creators have control over this. Whats going to happen, according to THEM, is going to happen.

Just know that we’re all going down into the hell they give us TOGETHER. 

Until that happens…CALM DOWN! And it wouldn’t kill us to be nice to each other regardless of who you ship…

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