This is something that is very important to pay attention to, and if you are an American I implore you to do everything that you can! Contact your representatives, research your ISPs, and keep a vigilant eye on this! The FCC is likely to make this ruling close to Thanksgiving in an attempt to squeak it by without anyone noticing.
Net neutrality is the reason why you can visit any website confidently. It’s why you don’t have to pay a premium to be able to access YouTube. It’s why you don’t have the internet bundled into different packages like TV is.
If they remove net neutrality protections, then there is no benefit to the consumer. Put simply, your ISP could choose to charge you more in order to visit specific sites, and not every town in the United States has the option to switch to a new ISP because some ISPs hold a monopoly in some areas.
This is what the internet looks like without net neutrality:
They’re trying to fatigue public resistance by trying to repeal net neutrality as often as possible. We have to stay vigilant. Motivate yourself by assuming no one else is calling/writing. Don’t assume other people will do it.
#RIP #EarleHyman (October 11, 1926 – November 16, 2017), American stage, television, and film actor well known as Russell Huxtable in The Cosby Show and as the voices of #Panthro, #Jaga and #MummRa in #ThunderCats from 1985 to 1989.
Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore. Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their way to professional success will appreciate this list of useful search applications that are great from making writing a little easier and more efficient.
Professional
Find other writers, publishers and ways to market your work through these searchable databases and search engines.
Litscene: Use this search engine to search through thousands of writers and literary projects, and add your own as well.
Thinkers.net: Get a boost in your creativity with some assistance from this site.
PoeWar: Whether you need help with your career or your writing, this site is full of great searchable articles.
Publisher’s Catalogues: Try out this site to search through the catalogs and names of thousands of publishers.
Edit Red: Through this site you can showcase your own work and search through work by others, as well as find helpful FAQ’s on writing.
Writersdock: Search through this site for help with your writing, find jobs and join other writers in discussions.
PoetrySoup: If you want to find some inspirational poetry, this site is a great resource.
Booksie.com: Here, you can search through a wide range of self-published books.
One Stop Write Shop: Use this tool to search through the writings of hundreds of other amateur writers.
Writer’s Cafe: Check out this online writer’s forum to find and share creative works.
Literary Marketplace: Need to know something about the publishing industry? Use this search tool to find the information you need now.
Writing
These helpful tools will help you along in the writing process.
WriteSearch: This search engine focuses exclusively on sites devoted to reading and writing to deliver its results.
Here’s a new set of hi-res phone wallpapers from my recent artwork, for you to use if you’d like! Thanks for all your support; I hope you have a nice week ♥
Science wasn’t actually certain how fungi like cordyceps “hijacked” their host’s behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some simplistic damage to the brain.
As it turns out, it works much more elaborately and much MORE like the dramatized sci-fi horror parasites constantly inspired by it.
These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.
All the while, THE BRAIN ISN’T INVADED AT ALL.
These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.
noooooooOOPE
Ohohoh Jesus fucking no
(I love this fungus but it terrifies me)
That means that the zombies in the last of us know that they’re eating people.
that means that the zombies in the last of us know that they’re eating people ^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Reblog and you might save someone’s life, especially with all our Black Girls going missing #ProtectBlackGirls #SaveLife
For those who don’t know what’s happening in the video, she untied her shoelaces, pulled one through the inside of the zip tie binding her hands, then tied the shoelaces together. Then, by pulling downward and back and forth on the shoelaces with her feet, she created enough friction to wear away part of the ziptie, making it weak enough to snap right off her hands.
SIGNAL BOOST
SIGNAL BOOST
SIGNAL BOOST
Will always reblog
Protect all the ladies and the dudes
Damn
For those who don’t have shoelaces and for those who do but don’t want to trip over their own feet in case something goes wrong, here’s another way:
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One of the long established backstory DC’s Wild West character Jonah Hex, is that after getting shot was an old man when he wasn’t looking, his body was stolen stuffed and put on display. This was both a reference to the seemingly common practice of displaying the bodies of imfamous dead outlaws back in the 19th century, as well as the more specific example of Elmer McCurdy.
Elmer McCurdy was an outlaw in the early 1900s who had the distinction of being one of the worst train robbers of the age… and by worst, I mean he wasn’t very good at it. His last robbery was meant to be targetting a train carrying $40,000 in cash, but he attacked a passenger car instead, netting him the princely some of $45. An earlier attempt to rob a safe resulting in his blowing up the content, and only managing to get away with $450 in silver coins, which had melted into a single heavy lump.
In 1911, he was eventually gunned down by a posse and since no one came to collect his body, the funeral home had him embalmed and charged people to come and look at the outlaw instead. This proved to be a popular draw, until a man pretending to be a relative of McCurdy showed up to indignantly claim the body… and promptly sold it to a series of travelling sideshows.
Elmer would disappear from history for several decades at this point, until in 1976, a member of the production crew on an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man had a nasty surprise. He had been asked to remove a mannequin hanging from a gallows outside the Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, Callifornia when the arm fell off.
Turned out that along the line people just assume that Elmer was a wax body, and treated his body as such. An autopsy confirmed Elmer’s identity, and in 1977 he was flown back to Oklahoma to have an actual burial. 300 people attended his funeral, and, to prevent further attempts at graverobbing, two feet of concrete was poured on top of his coffin.
The DC reboot’s All Star Western series retconned Jonah’s fate, however. There Jonah was accidentally transported to the present day, learnt of his corpse’s fate, and ended up getting into a drunken motorcycle accident, where the modern doctors were able to fix his disfigurement.
This “fixed“ Hex ended up going back to the past, where he bumped into an outlaw who had stolen his identity while he was away to commit crimes, leading Hex to shooting him while adopting the name of Hex’s own historical assassin.
Thus freed from the timestream, Hex and his long-time love interest Tallulah Black decide to buy a boat and begin a new life in the Carribbean instead.
