The Good,The Bad, & Some Other Stuff
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I'm glad the NYT is documenting this for the future (first draft of history and all that), but the answer to why "Trump" is a racist jeer is simple: he's a racist and so are all his supporters.
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Hi, I read that you've dealt with with impostor syndrome in the past, and I'm really struggling with that right now. I'm in a good place and my friends are going through a lot, and I'm struggling to justify my success to myself when such amazing people are unhappy. I was wondering if you have any tips to feel less like this and maybe be kinder to myself, but without hurting anyone around me. It's a big ask, I know, but any help would make my life a lot less stressful
The best help I can offer is to point you to Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence. She talks about Imposter Syndrome (and interviews me in it) and offers helpful insight.
The second best help might be in the form of an anecdote. Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.
On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They’ve made amazing things. I just went where I was sent.”
And I said, “Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”
And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did. Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for.
(There’s a wonderful photograph of the Three Neils even if one of us was a Neal at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong.html)
This is beautiful.
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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
More posts on Dr. Willie Parker
Good man. He should be careful you never know with those crazies. Toupee being potus is empowering them.
Hero
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it was probably the black guy
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Can we talk about how perfect the original Amanda Waller is?
Because she is PERFECT.
Just look at that badass intimidating Batman like it’s her job. Because it IS her job.
And she’s GOOD at it thank you very much.
—Suicide Squad #10 (1988) cover by Jerry Bingham
Amanda “The Wall” Waller.
Gov’t bureaucracy at its most lethal.
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Because the Ark was REAL
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i love Tarn, just drawing him isn’t enough so I animated his obssession, based on MMC’s Kultur [oh cannot wait for release!]
angles of transform aren’t exactly original; follows Megatron’s health warning that play before airing TFA in japan ^^, because Tarn’s a Mega-nerd, I want that association. Would have gone with a slower tf squence if not for Tarn’s simplistic transformation canonically], so chose a faster sequence. maybe i will work on slower sequence that shows more facets of transformation in future
wow
TARN!!!!
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