This makes my jaded nerd heart want to sing for joy. GG and well played WOTC. I might go out and buy some cards for the first time in 10 years because of this move. 

I usually *hate* gifs because it’s like saying a word too many times — it just loses its meaning *but* that gif is pure joy ✨

They’re also incredibly open about the fact that couples counseling has been a big part of their relationship since day one, which is refreshing.

I may be mistaken, but I believe these two do a decent amount of charity work. I also greatly appreciate his openness about his struggles/anxiety. This is dumb.

Lets look at how articles like this happen:

counterpoint: don’t!! we left these in the 90s and they need to stay there.

And in the same vein, these babies (and their close-toed bootie-style counterpart that I thought were the height of cool ca. 1999, but can’t seem to find a pic of):

This stood out so much to me too. You got scammed man; just say you got scammed. You don’t need to come up with some kind of ridiculous genetic memory nonsense to go with it. 

I have a naturally high pitched voice, and when I get myself worked up it gets higher and higher until I have to pause and reset because only dogs can hear it. Then I have my professional voice. It’s a little slower and slightly deeper than my natural voice, which is high southern valley girl. My daughter mocks me…

That was the weirdest thing! Someone said it on the podcast, I wanna say it was the Stanford medical school prof who was like, people study biology and engineering and chemistry for decades before having a true scientific breakthrough but this person studies a year and change in undergrad but is suddenly a…

An octave is a pretty massive shift for the human voice. 

A couple of feminist friends took me to task for saying Holmes faked her voice. They said higher octaves don’t help women in the workplace, which I don’t argue with, and she only “lowered her voice an octave,” which in their minds wasn’t fake. I say she lowered it way TOO much, and that’s what makes it fake.

I listened to all of The Dropout and just finished the documentary. I preferred the podcast. Every time she was on screen in the doc, I had to look away. She’s fucking creepy. She would probably stab someone with that blank look her face and then lie about how they ran into the knife. All with that fake, deadpan bro…

“Research” now means “I googled something, scrolled by the results that looked like they could be from an actual scientific journal and went straight to the blogs that repeated my ignorant ideas in cursive on a pastel coloured background because memes > peer-reviewed science”

Two of them, right? Jesse James and this dude with the swastika tattoo.

If you knowingly fuck a neo Nazi, you are a neo Nazi. Sorry babe. 

Yeah, so...she’s still not vaccinating the kid then?

“like a nerd” = “by believing every conspiracy theory I stumbled across”

I research like a complete and total nerd.

“Annnnd they’re off. Into the first turn is Mama’s Boy followed by Really, Him? and If Flour Was A Person. Now If Flour Was A Person is making their move, If Flour Was A Person is coming to the inside followed by No One Wants to Sleep with You and Another Privileged White Boy. It’s still If Flour was a Person, If…