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That is an actually terrifying leader for a bee army.

That bee army is led by the scariest lady bee of all. I mean, look at those tiny smiling faces. Just terrifying.

Sisyphus flies away on the back of 10,000 bees!

YAY! I wonder what the next project will be. It's thrilling!

This is pretty much exactly what Björk said she had to do to get dudes to listen to her.( http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9582-the-invisible-woman-a-conversation-with-bjork/ ) "I’ve been guilty of one thing: After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned—the hard way—that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they—men—had the ideas. "

Can you just paste some ears on a Kirby and pretend it's a Jigglypuff? I'm holding out hope that they'll someday have that sweet sweet Puff Amiibo someday. (I don't own a Wii U, but I would love a tiny Jigglypuff toy for my desk.)

One of the thing in Chait's piece that really rubbed me the wrong way was that he argues that trigger warnings in college syllabuses actually damage victims/survivors of abuse because they can avoid things that trigger those memories, and he explains that this is the case because studies show that controlled exposure to those feelings will actually help heal. (This reads to me as faux concern for victims/survivors of abuse, but he may be genuine.) But isn't that exactly the purpose of trigger warnings? Victims/survivors of abuse are then given the choice to either interact or not with a text on their own terms rather than being ambushed? He seems to think that everyone who sees an applicable trigger warning is going to immediately skip that content rather than choose to engage it on their own terms, at a speed/environment they feel more comfortable with?

@syntheticgerbil I think there are certainly times the facade breaks. Like they live in a very nice house, that they don't seem like they would actually be able to afford given Lorelei's job or the fact that it is sometimes very visible that it's on the WB lot in like Santa Barbara and not in Connecticut where it claims to take place. It's very much a low stakes family drama, with very funny portions. They seem to have enjoyable lives, but the central conflict of the show is the friction between Lauren Graham's character & her parents who are stuffy WASPy old money New Englanders. Lorelei (Lauren Graham) rejects their lifestyle when she becomes pregnant at 16 and refuses to marry the father of her child and runs away from home. The show starts when her daughter is 16 and circumstances force them to interact with them on a more regular basis past Easter & Christmas. I'm a big fan, I think it's a really enjoyable depiction of female friendships, and generational gaps in understanding. Their life is very safe and clean in a way that may be off putting to you, especially if that's an impression you got from just general knowledge of the show, but I would recommend trying an episode or two. You'll very quickly get the idea of what may or may not rub you the wrong way, and then at least you'll know it is or isn't for you.

Griffin tries to emphasize that it's real and funny, but it's hard to be serious on a show where everything is predicated on them totally making up just about everything they talk about. (I think Gilmore Guys is really good, and I think they have really solid guests, have funny & thoughtful conversations about the show and I would recommend it to anyone who watched it or got interested after it was on Netflix. They bring on a variety of guests, ranging from people who are superfans of the show to those who have never watched it before. That second group then breaks down into a range of hatred, apathy, and affection. They do a good job of having conversations about criticisms that are more nuanced than "they talk too fast and that's not realistic." There's a genuine joy to the podcast. It's definitely not RiffTrax-esque. It is much more like Twin Peaks Rewatch in that it's just episode summaries & impressions of the episodes, but much more silly. Demi, one cohost has never watched the show before so it's pretty solidly spoiler free since Kevin the other cohost doesn't want to spoil anything for him. I know that this community is not largely the target demographic of Gilmore Girls, but I'm a huge fan & Jeff Green is a fan too! He knows what he's talking about.)

I love love love John Hodgman, and I highly recommend popping over to his twitter to see everything he had to say about this article & the rest of convo between him and Chait. He's measured and restrained and thoughtful in a way that I have a hard time being.

My current weekly line up is Gilmore Guys (Monday & Wednesday), Sailor Business (Mondays), This American Life (Mondays), My Brother My Brother & Me (Mondays), Twin Peaks Rewatch & Idle Thumbs (Tuesday? Wednesday? Thursday? depends on the week!) The Adventure Zone (Every other Thursday), Polygon's Quality Control (as it comes out), Pop Culture Happy Hour (Friday) Things I don't keep up with every week, and prefer to build up a backlog or listen for specific guests/topics: Judge John Hodgman, Good Job Brain, Jordan Jesse Go, Sawbones, NPR's Ask Me Another, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes I have ~2 hours of commuting every day that is perfectly filled by podcasts, which is how I keep such an extensive list of them. The ones that are 50+ minutes are used for that. The shorter ones are what I listen to at my desk between streaming thecurrent.org

That is exactly what I'm looking for. I have a lot of patience, but fishing is one place that is too tedious even for me. You're the bee royalty champion Tegan.

Thank you Synnah! I added you also. Tegan really helped me out this weekend and got me almost everything I need to finish out my non-national Pokedex. I will eventually need help with a Clamperl once I get the deep sea scale, and then I'll start in on the old national pokedex. I'm sure I'll need trading help with those too. At the very least I have one more friend safari to catch out of! Y'all are the best.

Thank you tegan! I mostly need help with the ones that have certain items they need to hold when trading to evolve. (Your slurpuffs & scizors of the world.) I'll send you a PM when I get home tonight with the list of things I need help with. I think I have the constituent parts for pretty much all of them, so if you have a dummy pokemon to trade me, I can trade to you all the stuff I have, and you can just trade it back to me. The only one I do not have is whatever Aromatisse evolves from & I don't have it in my Pokedex to look for it in GTS.

Thanks jane! Edit: Thank you Sean for writing this. It really and truly speaks to me. The NFL is such a disgusting organization. I've had such an easy time purging things from my life that I like until I realize the producer of that product is a skeeze ball that I'm having a hard time understanding why I can't do it with the NFL. (I have a long list of controversial entries to these lists. The most justifiable and least controversial of them being Roman Polanski & Woody Allen) I guess I come up with all sorts of flimsy explanations about how the Green Bay Packers are community owned, and I will stand to inherit one of those shares someday. The more I think about what you wrote, the more I realize that the most useful thing to examine is why I feel like I need to proselytize to others on why they shouldn't like something. If anyone else interested in hearing my Sports Opinionstm I've been talking about the NCAA over in the Idle Banter -> Sports thread. Otherwise I'll leave this be here.

(If there's anyone who wants to add me so that I can have more friend safari's my 3DS friend code is in my sig & I've posted recently in the 3ds friend codes thread over in the multiplayer networking subforum) I'm very close to filling out my Non-National Pokedex, and if someone with Y was interested in helping me out, I would appreciate it.

Oh I totally get it. My boyfriend grew up in Norman, OK and is a huge OU fan. He had OU basketball season tickets when they were real bad in those few years post Blake Griffin leaving, and I see his love is true. (I'm sure the KU basketball experience is v similar to the OU football experience.) I've even enjoyed the OU football games & basketball games I've gone to, and know that the players love it, but I have a hard time getting past how grossed out it makes me feel. Congratulations on not burning any couches. (Lookin' at you West Virginia!)

My father is a huge Packers fan and as a result I am as well. It's becoming increasingly difficult to justify this love to myself given how terrible the NFL is as an organization. I can't stand the NCAA because I can't get over the chicken shit nature of them as an organization, and I can't handle the exploitation of young (predominately black) men in college football & basketball specifically. (I know the revenue from those sports serve to fund the non money making sports, especially women's sports, which I very much value, but it still makes me feel icky.) I didn't start watching basketball until 2011, because my boyfriend & his roommates were super into it. That final series between the Heat & the Mavericks is what sold me on basketball, and sold me on the Mavericks specifically. As part of a long, detailed negotiation with said boyfriend, I was forced to select one NBA team to be "my" team. I wanted to be a general NBA fan, and as a result, I have affection for a lot of teams in the West especially. (Specifically the Minnesota Timberwolves, who I saw a couple times when I was living in St. Paul. It was hard to resist double double machine Kevin Love, and dreamboat Ricky Rubio. I also appreciate the LA Clippers because I adore Chris Paul & Blake Griffin, the Indiana Pacers due to my affection for one of my friends from Indiana, and also when Lance Stephenson was there. I also want the clippers to be good and the lakers to be bad so that a tiny bit of cosmic justice is restored to the world. I have lots of basketball based opinions, some founded in logic, mostly founded in feeling, as any good sports opinion is. I also believe that 2011 was the most perfect sports year for me, Jennegatron, that will ever occur. It's a shame I peaked so early.) I grew up in Illinois, at the height of Michael Jordan fever, but because my family didn't watch basketball, it didn't really stick with me. I loved Space Jam, but that was the full extent of my basketball feelings until I was 19 or so. The other sports (baseball, hockey, Futbol, etc.) are decidedly not my jam. Being in Illinois (but not Chicago) my family were part of a vocal Cardinals fan minority, so I do get a small joy out of the Cubs being perennial non-contenders, but that's about it.

Does anyone have a link to what Sean wrote about quitting the NFL? I have been seriously considering it especially since the official lock out a couple years ago, and his argument will make me at the very least justify sticking with it to myself.

It's been going on for a while now, but it continues to make me smile twice a week. Gilmore Guys is a podcast about Gilmore Girls (spoiler free as one of the hosts is watching the show for the first time.) They bring on a variety of comedy guests out of the LA area, especially women. If you like the tv show, I would recommend it. The podcast really fun and funny. You'll either love or hate the guests that don't like the show. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/12/gilmore-guys-podcast-interview/383851/

I've been playing X since I got it for Christmas, after playing (and beating the Elite 4) in Red, Yellow, Silver, Crystal, & Ruby back when they came out. (I played platinum but didn't finish it.) Yesterday I caught the first shiny I've ever encountered in the wild. It's a yellow Shelmet! (It is not the first shiny I've had. Someone wonder traded me a shiny Walrein with Pokerus last week and I'm still in awe of that. I assume the red Gyrados doesn't count since it's a guaranteed encounter. Some one else wonder traded me an Entei. What is up with these super nice people?!) I just hope the hunt for the shiny female Combee is still going strong!

Yeah, I think the most compelling argument for the decriminalization of marijuana for me personally is the prison population one. Maybe with that tax revenue they would be able to provide support to those exiting the prison system and attempting to reintegrate into the population. Ha ha ha, they would never do that. Prisons make too much money off of keeping people in prison, and getting people back in once they've been released. (When I think about how hard it must be to live life in the United States as a Black person with a felony record, it pretty much makes me cry.) The fact that our justice system over-incarcerates people of color, specifically Black People (Black Men in particular) make me inclined to advocate for the release of non-violent offenders especially those with possession without intention of distribution charges against them.

Gotta get dat flame body! (Flame body halves the number of steps it takes to hatch an egg.)

I spent ~7 months living in Oklahoma and ate so much of the caramel pecan praline Blue Bell. It's criminal they don't distribute everywhere.

I had the same recommendation for MBMBaM. Here is their sampler. It might give you an idea of what to expect: http://maximumfun.org/2011/05/10/mbmbam-sampler Judge John Hodgman is pretty reliably funny. I second the Adventure Zone recommendation as well.