I can't in good conscience [Thanks] that simply because there's not an official FUCK YOU 2016 button. And there's still six fucking days until we can all sit up and watch this year finally fucking die.
At this rate I just assume 2016 is going to carry Carrie Fisher over to 2017 before dropping the axe just to crush our silly arbitrary demarcation of time.
I can't in good conscience [Thanks] that simply because there's not an official FUCK YOU 2016 button. And there's still six fucking days until we can all sit up and watch this year finally fucking die.
New Years, when Obama pushes the button, because, fuck it, Trump's not gonna take the credit.
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Vera Rubin, an astronomer whose theoretical work on galaxy rotation rates led to the theory of dark matter, has died of natural causes, age 88. It's absolutely incomprehensible why she never got a Nobel. Well, probably not, actually: misogyny. But it's unjustifiable, at least.
Actress Liz Smith, BAFTA winning star of Royle Family and The Vicar of Dibley, has also died, age 95.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
At this rate I just assume 2016 is going to carry Carrie Fisher over to 2017 before dropping the axe just to crush our silly arbitrary demarcation of time.
At this rate I just assume 2016 is going to carry Carrie Fisher over to 2017 before dropping the axe just to crush our silly arbitrary demarcation of time.
Nope.
Tomorrow, December 28, 2015, will be one year since Lemmy died. That was when 2016 really started.
I mean, fucking shitfuck shitass shitstorm assholes up the fucker FUCK YOU 2016
Watership Down author Richard Adams has also died, age 96.
Fuck this year.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
It has been posted before, but this image seems somehow appropriate:
I shared that when I first saw it, but the more I thought about it, the more I think it says a lot more about class privilege than gender. Neither her father nor her brother had her support system, advantages or position. Don't forget, she was a princess, someone secure enough in her position to face down Vader, so she had to know she had back up.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
It has been posted before, but this image seems somehow appropriate:
I shared that when I first saw it, but the more I thought about it, the more I think it says a lot more about class privilege than gender. Neither her father nor her brother had her support system, advantages or position. Don't forget, she was a princess, someone secure enough in her position to face down Vader, so she had to know she had back up.
And a timely related to that:
Everyone is sharing pictures of Fisher when she was young, but let me show you the Leia that was the most important to me: General Organa pic.twitter.com/xXFETlkZ8Y
In fairness, the exact same thought occurred to me: neither Anakin nor Luke had the advantages or support systems that Leia did. I doubt she'd have done so well had she grown up like Luke did, or if she'd spent her formative years as a literal slave.
And of course she was never tempted by the Dark Side: she was never trained as a Force User, so it was never an issue.
I still think it's a nice sentiment, though.
Cheers,
Michael
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I can't in good conscience [Thanks] that simply because there's not an official FUCK YOU 2016 button. And there's still six fucking days until we can all sit up and watch this year finally fucking die.
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All buttons on should promptly be changed to read [I know].
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Re: BREAKING: Sometimes Famous People Die
should promptly be changed to read [I know].
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