And as if being disrespected once while winning an Oscar wasn’t enough, Patel personally suffered a second insult when Rock announced the winners of the award as Questlove “and four white guys,”

You can have a differing opinion on what form of justice should be met without mis-gendering someone.

See, this here is an idea I can wholeheartedly get behind. 

Tig Notaro is about to be the new Flash.

“What is going on with Ezra Miller?”

How do you handle biracial people who have one Black parent and one white parent? (X+Y)/2?

The sculptures are absolutely stunning. 

Eek! You probably should not use your email address as your user name here.

For consumer automotive applications, Hydrogen is, has always been, and always will be a junk technology. As much as we want it to happen, it almost certainly won’t, and shouldn’t. Here’s a short form essay from one of my fellow Oppositelock Kinja exiles over at our new home, the Hyphen, which you (yes you) should…

I was totally fine with all of it, and pissed that my parents wouldn’t shell out the $125 or whatever it was for the ring so I could participate in the group event at church. I was severely brainwashed.

Hydrogen as a combustible replacement for petroleum based fuels is just trying to placate a couple of generations too ignorant and stubborn to fucking let go. That is an inefficient use of hydrogen and just lowers the efficiency hydrogen already loses to its production and transport.

We’ve designed an entire society and its systems of power around what kind of genitals a person has. So it makes sense people highly invested in maintaining those systems would find any movement to make genitals less important to be an existential threat. 

Let me add one little extra piece of information.

Bazinga!  That was savage...

As a trans person I’d really love to know why cisgender people are absolutely OBSESSED with genitals. What the fuck

That was far worse than I thought it was going to be, jesus christ on a cracker. Who even calls themselves their child’s boyfriend? Even in bizarro world jest? What the actual fuck? 

Gross. Everything about this man and his statements are terrible. Hard to imagine the type of person that would have a child with him.

Our local “best burgers in town” place has a “Jiffy Burger” which is basically a bacon cheeseburger with peanut butter and raspberry chipotle jam. Last I heard it’s their first or second best-selling burger, and it’s fantastic. I just wish it wasn’t so messy. 

X amount for all Black folks, X+Y amount for Black folks who are descendants of slaves. Done.