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The demolition went fine - just a lot more carefully than usual. But I can't help but think back to that story every time I see a poorly thought out survivalist compound. Forget drones, cannons, and the Ottoman army. All an attacker would have to do is shoot one flaming arrow at the house, then pop a beer and enjoy the fireworks.

Abolish ICE now! The IWW stands in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors and all those terrorized by state violence.

[id. A twitter post by @/Bennieeexyz Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat. Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records. My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now. Called the county clerk. Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty. Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons? Me: Yes, but he's a cat. Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county? Me: He's a legal cat. Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption. Me: He can't file anything. He has paws. Clerk: You can file on his behalf. Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat." Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons." Me: What's the medical reason? Clerk: He's a cat. Me: That's not a medical condition. Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving. Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later. "Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement." Took the letter to my vet. Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty. Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty? Me: Excellent question. No good answer. Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten. Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve? Vet: On what grounds? Me: He's a cat. Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings." Me: Perfect. Sent it in. Got another rejection. "Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court." My roommate thought this was hilarious. Roommate: Felix is going to jail. Me: This is serious. Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens. Decided that was actually the only option left. Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters. Checked in at the courthouse. Clerk: Name? Me: Felix Martinez. Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix? Me: Yes. Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat. Me: I've been saying that for six weeks. Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption? Me: I filed three. All rejected. Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief. Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation? Me: Twice. Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this. Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me. Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote? Me: You tell me. Supervisor: This is a data error. Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out. They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience. Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry. Me: Appreciate it. Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted? Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats. Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card. For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was. Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud. Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent. Roommate: That's what they all say. Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now. Fitting end to his legal career. end id]

He has he/it non-binary swag also

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The people who love this quote are the "weak men" they're talking about, and invariably too thick to realize it. Largely because they define "strong" as "could this person star in 300."

Imagine you're a Lasan native just getting their bearings in the Outer Rim. You start to feel faint and collapse only to experience the lasat equivalent of Chris Hemsworth bursting out of the woods to save you.

(Now, if you want a buddy cop type novel with Chewie and Zeb...)

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

Leverage + The A-Team (the twenty-first century crew of Robin Hoods meets the old generation that had their job in the eighties).

I can just imagine Nate Ford's mounting frustration as he encounters the immovable object to his unstoppable force. (And Sterling's parallel frustration as he's surreptitiously elbowed aside by this random street detective).

(Besides, a world with superpowered persons would be catnip to someone like Nate Ford. There's no way those people wouldn't quickly take up a big part of his case load. Not just HYDRA or AIM; I suspect Stark Industries would've shown up sooner or later).

Nolan's Odyssey is getting so much criticism from Certain Types of People that I'm starting to want to see it, in reaction. I mean, isn't taking ten years to get home from a war a pretty Matt Damon kind of story?

Neither Odysseus nor Helen will look quite the way I'd imagine them, but what the hell, I'm not a casting director. It's no reason to throw the movie overboard.

I’m so proud of our crew and honored to have been a part of this.. for everyone who has waited to watch the official release in order to support the artists and animators, I just want to say thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart - it truly means so much!!

that's hot

Just another way you realize as an adult that these books weren’t really thought through very well.

The problem is that Chamber of Secrets goes so hard on "yes, this is a very straightforward case of enslavement of a sentient species by another," without any hint of brownie implications, that it's very hard to believe that Rowling meant it all along. At best, it was, as part of her whole "the material grows up with the audience," her attempting to inject some complexity into the topic and failing. Largely because slavery is one of the worst possibly topics for injecting complexity into.

No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

His modern equivalents, though? They're causing entirely new problems, bringing back entirely old problems, and preventing any of them from being solved by hoarding all the money and buying up all the governments that might be used to fix them.