If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I'm guessing Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. See? Now you've decreased their degree of not-forgotten-ness by just that much , which is a bad thing. Or no... maybe it's a good thing. No, it's definitely a bad thing, you've fucked up the narrative. How can they be forgotten when you won't forget them?...

Zvan achieves a fearsome new degree of bloated self-regard. (archive link) http://imgur.com/gIbZxuM.png Zvan thinks it's terrible she lives in a world where she has to remind you she is NOT a programming pioneer. But why would you think she is? She used punch cards as scratch pads when she was a ki...

What you just described is moonshine. It's just untaxed general fresh hooch. Maybe, but I (and I suspect a lot of other people) tend to associate moonshine with 'Deliverance' style backwoods dwellers using home made stills with corn mash as the main ingredient to produce DIY whisky. That old school...

Haven't seen the film yet (so no spoilers please) but apparently Scarlett Johansson's character is used as a damsel in distress trope a few times in the movie. You'd think after all the praise he gave Anita that he wouldn't have committed that mortal sin, right? I'll just leave this here. http://ww...

To FTB'ers who liken Draw Mohammad Day to "drawing insulting caricatures of black people," I would like to draw your attention to this image: http://i.imgur.com/0R1QZh1.jpg That's a very respectful depiction of Mohammad. It's not a caricature, it's not insulting, but it is offensive by the sheer fa...

It's also baffling that it's just terrorism the SJW left is so keen to excuse. Why not their other hobby horse FGM? Surely it's offensive to suggest that long standing tradition is anything but great, to the people who practice it? See, I'm confused if the message is that muslim sensibilities are m...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
dog puke wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Meanwhile, my excellent (if I say so myself) seal-hunting joke went unnoticed.

...
Stop Harping about it. :rimshot:
Ahaha! See, I got the joke because I know what a Harp Seal is.

:bjarte:

Join the club.

:rimshot:

Why ask for a date with a woman if not sex? Why ask for a picture? When he says he prefers PIV sex how is that not erasing women that have penises? :think: Maybe he's also open (fnarr fnarr) to Penis in Magnina sex? And when I say 'Penis', I of course mean 'girlcock'. And when I say 'Mangina', I of...

Hilarious exchange between the creator of Minecraft and a very angry trans-sexual Indie developer who mistakenly thinks he owes her a living: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CD7JA09WIAAqkui.png https://twitter.com/notch/status/594133217814413312 Let's look at Amber Coal's side of the story to be fair. ...

I think I might be among the only people alive who have thoroughly enjoyed Spielberg's War of the Worlds. So I feel quite honoured by this shop. I just came to realize that I really enjoy plenty of movies with Amanda Marcotte. I may have a problem. I'm of the age to have enjoyed Jeff Wayne's War of...

Still quiet over at Shakesville. For those who haven't ventured there, be warned: the front page header is a thing of which nightmares are made. BTW, I think Phil's new avatar is a really great photo (and I'm wearing neither board shorts or flip-flops as I write this). http://i391.photobucket.com/a...

He says he is a 0.5 on the Kinsey Scale. http://i.imgur.com/uVPoJrx.png Translation: Carrier just yelled "no homo" on his batsignal by using alternate language. The depictions on that scale are stereotypes. Men on the far left of the scale wouldn't choose to be skin-to-skin with another man, but ot...

Jessica Valenti hits it out of the park with a new article at the Grauniad. The money shot (emphasis mine):

Privacy laws for students mean young men accused of rape donâ€™t have to disclose the complaint to their new school. This just leads to new victims in new places

Oh my!

He says he is a 0.5 on the Kinsey Scale. http://i.imgur.com/uVPoJrx.png Translation: Carrier just yelled "no homo" on his batsignal by using alternate language. Kinsey was a gonk. Hey! Why are only the faggots smiling in this picture? I am a fucking "0" and I am as happy as any of the faggots I kno...

Just noticed on Jadehawk's storify that Tigzy has changed xis Twatter nym to 'JadehawkIsAGoatmong'.

:D

Jadehawk likely started out with a Confirmation Bias , trying to find material (and apparently actively searched for it) that is considered â€œproblematicâ€ and confirms views already held. This could be seen as the more specific Congruence Bias : now that a hypothesis is established, it is â€œbac...

Tribble wrote:Apparently if your gallbladder turns into a sack full of 2cm marbles, it has to come out. And Percocet is wonderful. Too bad I have a very strong aversion to narcotics and won't take it now that I'm out of the hospital.

Sounds nasty. Wish you a speedy recovery...

Cunt of Personality wrote:
Cunt of Personality wrote:
https://dÃ©marreuraupied.fr
Fucking up links with accented characters in them. That's racist.

Do you even RFC 3986, shitlord?

So I had failed to read, or recall, Heina's blurb on Heina's blog that uses they/them/their for Heina, suggesting that those are the pronouns Heina prefers, requests, & expects. I'll try to remember this, from now on. But that led to a meandering down this previously-untrodden path in my brain: Why...

WhaleBiologist wrote:A gift to the slymepit, and particularly to Mr Godfrey Elfwick esq., as a thank for the lulz.

[youtube]rYKQrkPoEUg[/youtube]

Now I'll get back to lurking. Carry on, gents.

Lost it at the [jazz hands]. 10/10 internets to you, sir!

Suet Cardigan wrote: Also, I heard someone say Richard Carrier is "a Kant", but I might have misheard them.

Wha... I literally cunt even...

I just finished a monster burn pile. I wonder what Melody Hensley is up to this fine day. I've shifted about 5 tonnes of clay soil around my yard this last week. All by spade and pickaxe. As I prep the back garden and re landscape fpr a self sufficient no-dig (bwahahahahaha) veg plot. I've built a ...

Billie from Ockham wrote:
dogen wrote:
Suet Cardigan wrote: Is "Tapioca Tasting Evening" a euphemism?
It's a great name for a ~~jazz~~ jizz band!
FTFY

Obviously you didn't read jazz mags as a kid.

I first met Godfrey at a Fair-Trade Tapioca Tasting Evening. That was before he was famous of course. Sad to say, but from that point he just got deeper and deeper into organic grains and pulses. By the time his friends realised he was an addict he was already on 250g of quinoa a day. He was sellin...

Oh my, Godfrey has gone global. https://twitter.com/ONENewsNZ/status/589915513184104448 That's it, he's gone from us now. We will be reduced to muttering 'I knew him before he was a black woman muslim' into the dregs of a pint when he pops up on the bar telly hosting Eurovision. England to New Zeal...

How cool (and worrying) is that? http://www.alexras.info/code/orbital_objects/ Nice wee gadget Phil! And yes, the quantity of debris is pretty worrying. Worth noting that the volume filling factor of the debris (V_debris/V_space) is grossly overstated in the visualization. In reality, the pieces of...

Godfrey Elwick wrote:Star Wars had one lead female character. And like I said, she ends up in a gold space bikini chained to a giant horny space slug. It was.. it was.. it reeked of misogyny.

:dance:

:roll: Phil Plait Read (or skim) this pretty cool article all the way to the postscript at the end, and then follow the final link to the SciAm blog post whose "interesting line of discussion" Plait says he's "mulling over." So DNLee is worried that she and her ilk will not get off earth? Gee I won...

Hey, any astrophysicists (and similar ilks) here? Does the following paragraph mean anything real, or is it, as it sounds, just an extraordinarily dense peice of meaningless bafflegab and nonsense: The Unified Spacememory Network: From Cosmogenesis to Consciousness A generalized holographic approac...

Kirbmarc wrote:
A woman I was dating kept pestering me to do a specific sex act. I didnâ€™t want it at first but eventually I changed my mind.
That was me, actually, not him. I wanted to show the supporters of "Crystal Clear Consent" how fucked up it is.

Wheelbarrow? Mongolian Shag-Swing? Dirty Sanchez?

Chimpout is an atheist site, according to Dr. Richard Carrier PhD. Hmmmmmm. Magic nigger Neil deGrasse Tyson If there is one example of coon worship that drives me crazy, it's how everyone fawns over this magic nigger. People, especially guilty white liberals and atheists, practically worship this ...

debaser71 wrote:Maybe Brianna Wu should move her stuff so that others can pass.

You say that about a woman who is visibly trans? I literally can't even!

Am in the only one that finds that a bit precious? It's wetsuit. So your cat pissed in it. It's not like it took a dump in it, just rinse it and get on with it. you're going to be showering anyway, what's the big deal? The sea won't give a shit. Yeah, I don't get this at all. First of all, she said...

Speaking of people who have a high opinion of themselves, how the hell did I miss this? http://theralphretort.com/sjw-mob-turns-on-brianna-wu-once-again-408015/ I saw it on this site and thought it was a joke. Brianna Wu starts talking about "male privilege", talks about getting upgraded to first c...

Service Dog wrote:Palentology reveals
Slymepitter Jan Steen
has been trawling Ophelia Benson
since the Late Cretaceous Period,
66 million years ago:

http://i.imgur.com/LQHAilj.jpg

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthelia

Billie from Ockham wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:Anyone else get the impression tha Lindsey has seen what he's let CFI become and plans to burn it to the ground on his way out? It warms my nihilistic heart to think so.
I'll believe it when Melody Hensley is unemployed and in Greenland. Until then, he's a pussy.

FTFY.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Billie from Ockham wrote:
What does it mean when a person uses the word "wade" for "weigh"? Is that a subtle form of fat-shaming?
For all intensive purposes, it means the same.

Especially given this doggy dog world of ours...

Struth wrote:

So, take your pick:

1) Misgendered a AWAB

2) Outed a trans-woman

3) Told a trans-woman she doesn't pass

Nice one, Melody!

Ron, did you not listen to a thing you were told at WiS2? Apparently not, because you obviously havenâ€™t learned anything. Donâ€™t you know how much harm the Slymepit has caused women in atheism? Why are you so soft on a site full of known cheerleaders for rape and eager practitioners of the worst...

Hemant has his article up about the pz myers situation. Kind of comes across as matter-of-factual style reporting. But he does a good job of bringing up the points, and has included a few extra interview comments from Michael Nugent. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/04/08/atheist-i...

Hemant has his article up about the pz myers situation. Kind of comes across as matter-of-factual style reporting. But he does a good job of bringing up the points, and has included a few extra interview comments from Michael Nugent. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/04/08/atheist-i...

I don't want to trigger anyone, but I think jazz hands is a bit wank, so....... Mr Nugent, this is well deserved http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesyn...

I don't want to trigger anyone, but I think jazz hands is a bit wank, so....... Mr Nugent, this is well deserved http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/images/boss-hc2.jpg http://www.vintagesyn...

I tried to as the Queen, but all I got was Innuendo... I still got it, Phil. Excellent choice of hero, BTW. I was raised on a diet of Queen, Dad was a superfan. Innuendo is one of my favourite albums. There will never be another like Freddie. Showmen are ten a penny but that man was a genuine star....

Grandson of the old cunt who set up the first Sharia court in the area. I still can't believe that you Brits allowed Sharia courts in your country. Religious tribunals are an enormous violation of the independence of Church and State, not to mention a legal quagmire. You should ask the Queen (head ...

Post 56... Yet it canâ€™t be racist because the Irish are not a race. Riiiiight, how many ways can we parse this out with the words "Brown, Jew" or whatever arbitrary division we throw up? Also subsequent: â€œIrish wankerâ€ as racism is about as strained as you can get. Oh fuck lord. Okay non-Iris...

I just hope this fundraiser doesn't take attention or donations away from Hensley's. She's only $65 away from her first stretch goal, you guys. Please. Give until it hurts. If she beats her second stretch goal, she might even seem grateful when she posts a third. https://www.kickstarter.com/project...

Tigzy wrote:Holy Shit.

[youtube]hEJnMQG9ev8[/youtube]

Also:

[youtube]YWNWi-ZWL3c[/youtube]

Ableist as fuck!

Tony Parsehole wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Any Pitter in Dublin, pint's on me.
See that fat ginger bloke behind you? The one with the green puritan hat with a buckle on it and the ginger chinstrap beard?....
That's not me but I know he's there.

After yer lucky charms, to be sure!

FINALLY got round to using a decent password vault (I chose lastpass). It wasn't until I'd imported and examined all the passwords my browsers had stored that I realized how crappy they were. It works really well, and can generate cool passwords like 7o&I9&248^3RvsiXsrzX When you're automating it a...

I've only just dipped mt toe into the airy waters of Cities; Skylines, but I have to say, it is brilliant. It is everything EA's recent SimCities games wanted to be but failed abbysmally at realizing -- EA sucks big time anyway, but especially in the last one or two versions of SimCity which were v...

I've only just dipped mt toe into the airy waters of Cities; Skylines, but I have to say, it is brilliant. It is everything EA's recent SimCities games wanted to be but failed abbysmally at realizing -- EA sucks big time anyway, but especially in the last one or two versions of SimCity which were v...

I think calling Phil a scientist is a stretch -- he hasn't published a paper in one of the astronomy journals for at least a decade. Sure, he's put stuff out about science education; but that's a different kettle of fish. That definition of "scientist" leaves a lot of people out. Researchers at gov...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: Phil Plait is a practicing astronomer. He's personally measured the Schwarzschild radius of Pamela Gay.

Did you just fat-shame a Woman of Mass?

http://www.redesignrevolution.com/wp-co ... cream1.jpg

Lettuce should be on the bottom, then tomatoes, then meat patty, then onions, then pickles and throw that fucking orange thing out the window. - your local burger Nazi. Ya fucking nuts?!? It's (bottom to top): bun, bit of sauce, patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, bit of sauce, bun. I'm sure th...

[ My prediction is that Phil Plait will be involved. https://twitter.com/SurlyAmy/status/580487506078076929 :roll: I think calling Phil a scientist is a stretch -- he hasn't published a paper in one of the astronomy journals for at least a decade. Sure, he's put stuff out about science education; b...

https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/580486481262874625 Of course Myers is a White Knight for women and non-whites. Unless they happen to be both and still talk to conservatives. Then fuck them in the ground. Yeah, funny that... Especially as he fled back to his predominantly-white mid-western town t...

I'll just leave this here: "A Bechdel Test for Programmers?"

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15 ... rogrammers

Where Watson simulaneously trashes ChiFi in Chicago, acknowledges the free room provided for Quiz-a-thing, takes ownership of the Con and apologises to the conference victims. All while demanding a merch table. But maintains "I'm a professional". http://youtu.be/Pu7BOVCsOOA http://i.imgur.com/UzRzK...

Badger3k wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:http://i.imgur.com/7c4tLnE.jpg
For some reason, maybe just the implication of the monocle, she reminds me of Frau Engel. Maybe the attitude and wrinkles? I don't know.

I was thinking more Frau Farbissina.

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