posted April 1, 2017 #

This person is obviously a wizard. https://t.co/OEOY458aiF

posted April 1, 2017 #

Only reading news if it's limerick form from now on https://t.co/r4r3Rbs6sz

posted April 1, 2017 #

@_daveg @yewknee "I am human and I need to be loved" https://t.co/e6EOa25c9J

posted March 31, 2017 #

You have to transport Pence, his wife, and another woman across the river. But your boat can only hold two.

posted March 31, 2017 #

Blessed image https://t.co/VV3m5BOaiK

posted March 31, 2017 #

https://t.co/JCZC9R1jGW

posted March 31, 2017 #

PSA: tomorrow is April Fools Day. Don't go on the internet.

posted March 31, 2017 #

LOL @uscreentv doing a pretty striking riff off of my @vhxtv page designs! https://t.co/1TaxAZEw3y

posted March 31, 2017 #

Every time this story comes up, read it again. Share it. Scream about it. It is overwhelmingly sad that this coul… https://t.co/qefCRYvir1

posted March 31, 2017 #

This is the best internet video I've ever seen https://t.co/RooSpAMGhH

Friday Videos - Mar 31st, 2017

posted March 31, 2017 #

Videos below. I'm just working for the weekend these days.

Broken Social Scene "Halfway Home" - first new BSS song in seven years. Good to see them back. New album this summer.
Shot on iPhone 6 - we live in a weird weird world.
Skyway Man "We Both Have Nothing to Fear" - I mentioned it before but this performance from Skyway Man is great, don't miss it.
Fargo Season 3 Trailer - I'll be honest, I have not watched this because I want to go in stone cold ignorant to the new episodes. I know enough already to be intrigued but I'm sure you'll enjoy watching this.
Rick and Morty 8-Bit Vision - how did I miss this Paul Robertson animation for Adult Swim? Better late than never.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - red band trailer with plenty of cursing but Frances McDomand is amazing. Normally I'd shy away from this but it's legit amusing.
Rayne meets a "Robot" - c'mon folks, this is just adorable. A hot water heater has never felt such kindness.

I was tempted to post these bonkers supercuts but they vary wildly between true amusement and grueling stupidity. So maybe they were perfect?

This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account

posted March 31, 2017 #

excellent sleuthing from Gizmodo

S-Town

posted March 31, 2017 #

If you weren't aware, the minds behind Serial and This American Life have released a new podcast entitled S-Town. It explores a murder perpetrated by a wealthy families son and how the town does nothing but cover it up.

Except the podcast is about a lot more than that. I won't spoil it but as you listen, it's easy to tell as soon as the second chapter that this thing is going into a much more diverse range of topics. It's far more than a murder mystery investigation.

Furthermore, it serves as a compelling investigation of the Southerner - an archetype filled with conflicting personality traits. Racist but affable. Concerned with the world but stuck within a smaller sphere of family obligations. Idiotic sounding but more well learned than most of us. That alone makes it worth a listen. Oh, and since they released it Netflix style (every episode available all at once), you can dive right in.

posted March 30, 2017 #

It ain't all doom and gloom. Like, there are still kittens and shit.

The death of internet privacy is tearing Reddits The_Donald page apart

posted March 30, 2017 #

time and time again, people are assholes until they encounter an issue that directly affects them

The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs

posted March 30, 2017 #

ugh ugh ugh

Political Tools, March

posted March 30, 2017 #

Came across some rather interesting and helpful tools to enable you to more quickly and easily contact your representatives.

Call Party - a Facebook Messenger app that sends you regular updates on "pro-democracy & progressive issues" alongside scripts and contact info to let your Reps know how you feel. Calling is still the most effective way to get your voice heard, as alien as it feels to us these days. Call Party can help alleviate that discomfort.
ResistBot - an SMS based bot that receives your text message, gathers some info about you (i.e. zipcode) and then faxes your custom messages directly to your Reps. There's an environmentally wasteful element to the idea of an office flooding with fax paper but probably not moreso than the damage being done to the environment by horrible decision making. Long story short, you can fax a politician while waiting in line.

These tools are helpful, easy, ways to stay motivated and interacting. An open dialog and phone calls are essential to working through the changes we need to hold on to.

Ori Toor

posted March 30, 2017 #

Looking at the massive portfolio of work on Ori Toor (self-described as "illustration and animation work based on movement and spaghetti"), it's hard to believe it all comes from the same person. It runs an extremely wide gamut of styles and implementations. There's organic looking structures, there's grainy ghost coffee mugs, there's spooky lettuce animations - and that's just a handful. It's a wonderfully diverse collection to say the very least.

via Day Wreckers, whom I've been lifting plenty of content from lately but it's all so damn good.

posted March 29, 2017 #

I guess I understand why people use Pinterest now. It really does get me. https://t.co/85P2QjvblM

posted March 29, 2017 #

"Pitbull is the modern day Kenny Rogers" already the best phrase I'll read all day https://t.co/7RQXKs1Fho