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Queen Latifah comes out at Gay Pride Parade

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“Y’all my peeps (people),” she said, referring to the LGBT community. “I love you!” Queen performed for more than an hour, rocking the festival with her hits like “U.N.I.T.Y” and “Ladies First.” From the moment Queen told the crowd that she “has been waiting to do this for a long time”, it was clear that the event would be no ordinary. She later on added that she was “proud to be among her people”.

The 42 year old, Latifah thanked the crowd for their support and advised them to keep safe. Thank you to all my favorite peep guests who came out to support me. I appreciate it. I love you so much. Hope you had a beautiful time,” she said. “Y’all be safe whatever y’all get into tonight. Boys –- strap it up. Ladies –- strap it up.”


Aww, yay! Ok, I’m glad that she felt safe and good enough to come out! 

I was afraid she was outed for a moment, but I’m so glad she came out on her own. 

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nickturse: My new book, Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 is finally available today.  Co-written with Tom Engelhardt, it also launches a new publishing venture of mine — Dispatch Books.  For years, Tom (who brought the world Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, Eduardo Galeano’s beautiful Memory of Fire trilogy and about 1000 other books by everyone from Noam Chomsky to Rebecca Solnit) and I have talked about starting up a small press.  Now we’ve finally done it. With Terminator Planet, we’ve carefully put together the best of our joint work on the subject of American robotic warfare, shaped and edited, and added a powerful new conclusion. The result is the first comprehensive history of drone warfare (with a preview of the drone’s possible future as well).  From the opening missile salvo in the skies over Afghanistan in 2001 to a secret strike in the Philippines early this year, or a future in which drones dogfight off the coast of Africa, Terminator Planet takes you to the front lines of combat, Washington war rooms, and beyond. Drawing on several years of research — including official documents, open-source intelligence, and interviews with military officers and Pentagon officials, we offer up a sobering, factual account of robot warfare combined with critical analyses you’re likely to find nowhere else. Packed with rarely seen Pentagon photos, Terminator Planet provides a rich history of the last decade of drone warfare, a clear-eyed look at its present, and a far-reaching guide to its future. You used to have to watch science fiction movies to imagine where that future was headed, now you can read Terminator Planet — and know. I hope you’ll take a look and perhaps download it as an ebook or purchase an old-fashioned hard copy.

nickturse:

My new book, Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 is finally available today.  Co-written with Tom Engelhardt, it also launches a new publishing venture of mine — Dispatch Books.  For years, Tom (who brought the world Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, Eduardo Galeano’s beautiful Memory of Fire trilogy and about 1000 other books by everyone from Noam Chomsky to Rebecca Solnit) and I have talked about starting up a small press.  Now we’ve finally done it.

With Terminator Planet, we’ve carefully put together the best of our joint work on the subject of American robotic warfare, shaped and edited, and added a powerful new conclusion. The result is the first comprehensive history of drone warfare (with a preview of the drone’s possible future as well). 

From the opening missile salvo in the skies over Afghanistan in 2001 to a secret strike in the Philippines early this year, or a future in which drones dogfight off the coast of Africa, Terminator Planet takes you to the front lines of combat, Washington war rooms, and beyond. Drawing on several years of research — including official documents, open-source intelligence, and interviews with military officers and Pentagon officials, we offer up a sobering, factual account of robot warfare combined with critical analyses you’re likely to find nowhere else.

Packed with rarely seen Pentagon photos, Terminator Planet provides a rich history of the last decade of drone warfare, a clear-eyed look at its present, and a far-reaching guide to its future. You used to have to watch science fiction movies to imagine where that future was headed, now you can read Terminator Planet — and know.

I hope you’ll take a look and perhaps download it as an ebook or purchase an old-fashioned hard copy.

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May 31, 2012

There’s always a silver lining.

I take a while to warm up to people, I know, but I’m pretty close with my family despite our sarcastic natures and occasional bickering. That’s where I picked up my pragmatism and irresistible good looks. 

That means I’m disappointed to realize that the mandatory all-day training for the Obama campaign’s organizing fellowship is the same day as my little sister’s graduation party and my older sister’s bachelorette party.

On the other hand, though, despite my procrastination on scheduling an interview, I did get accepted to the program. When I asked about doing the interview today, the regional director emailed me back saying “Hey, I reviewed your application and I think you’d be a good fit! We need people in your county to gain that three percentage points” and included all the information I need. Over the past several months my counselors have had to point out to me that my procrastination might cause stress, which is bad, but sometimes I still get really good results out of it.

(Note: This is not an excuse to procrastinate.)

I’ll talk to my family about it, but I think I’ll say yes and figure out if there’s a way to stay involved with these events a bit.

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funwithfibers: Mythbusters Embroidery Portraits by CraftyOctober. Click through to get to some amazing up close, detail images. It is some incredible work! I totally want this.

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Mythbusters Embroidery Portraits by CraftyOctober. Click through to get to some amazing up close, detail images. It is some incredible work!

I totally want this.

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For the general population, the 99% in the imagery of the Occupy movement, it’s been pretty harsh — and it could get worse. This could be a period of irreversible decline. For the 1% and even less — the .1% — it’s just fine. They are richer than ever, more powerful than ever, controlling the political system, disregarding the public. And if it can continue, as far as they’re concerned, sure, why not?

Take, for example, Citigroup. For decades, Citigroup has been one of the most corrupt of the major investment banking corporations, repeatedly bailed out by the taxpayer, starting in the early Reagan years and now once again. I won’t run through the corruption, but it’s pretty astonishing.

In 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances.” It urged investors to put money into a “plutonomy index.” The brochure says, “The World is dividing into two blocs — the Plutonomy and the rest.”

Plutonomy refers to the rich, those who buy luxury goods and so on, and that’s where the action is. They claimed that their plutonomy index was way outperforming the stock market. As for the rest, we set them adrift. We don’t really care about them. We don’t really need them. They have to be around to provide a powerful state, which will protect us and bail us out when we get into trouble, but other than that they essentially have no function. These days they’re sometimes called the “precariat” — people who live a precarious existence at the periphery of society. Only it’s not the periphery anymore. It’s becoming a very substantial part of society in the United States and indeed elsewhere. And this is considered a good thing.

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"It’s a dead heat between Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett mixes a mean martini. It was quite rare that we were all there [on set] - it was like a relay race - but there was one weekend where we were all together. I’ll never forget the Saturday night in Albuquerque - every mobile phone of every single actor playing every single Avenger received a text message from Chris Evans that simply said “Assemble”. The following text message then said “Yes I did. I’m drunk.” We met at this bar on the high street and had a really fun time actually. There was a birthday party happening in the same bar and we were all on the dancefloor next to the VIP area. I remember the birthday boy celebrating with his friends… and then seeing Black Widow dancing with Captain America."

— Tom Hiddleston in GQ about “Who gets the drinks for the Avengers?”

I’m dead. Chris Evans, you fuckin dork. (via marielikestodraw)

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Overly Accepting Thor

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Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.

Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.



And it is distributed under a Creative Commons license, meaning it is not only free to play, but remixing, and changing the game are more than just encouraged.

The official hard copy has been sold out for a while now, but a PDF of all the cards, and instructions distributed by the creators for making your own deck can be found here.

You’re welcome, and enjoy!

 #omg it’s like angsty apples to apples

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