peristeronicsuperhero:

trainthief:

me, circa early 1800s, paying a stable boy a few coppers to ride overnight to deliver you an urgent letter with a thick wax seal that after you struggle to break it just says “bitch!” in tiny little writing 

no no no, you don’t understand the true level of spiteful here. The sender of a letter didn’t pay for the post in 1800. The receiver did. You just made your enemy pay for the privilege of being insulted.

gaspack:

me on the first date: I’m not afraid to die. 

starlene:

Went to a musical concert yesterday. The pianist delivered pretty much the best two-sentence summary of Les Misérables I’ve ever heard.

“It’s not all about misery.

It also features poverty and violence.”

i-am-a-fish:

Try not to stress out dude!!!!!!! Take care of yourself out there!!!!!!!!!!!!Don’t worry about shit that’s out of your control!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALM THE FUCK DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

curlicuecal:

so I’ve been having fun playing with ConceptNet, a semantic network designed to help computers understand language.

Here’s what the robots have figured out about cats:

lord-kitschener:

The idea that being born with a penis/testicles means that you’re biologically programmed to be an aggressive, domineering, violent, selfish asshole and there’s simply no way to avoid it is patriarchal propaganda meant to excuse men’s violence (especially against women), and to convince women to blame themselves when men are violent against them, and any feminist who tries to repackage this view in their analysis of “biological sex” is what 11/10 experts call a sucker