Are you a word guesser or a real reader? When you read something about an ancient, do you tend to read the word as “accident”? When you read something about some sliver, do you tend to read the word as “silver”? Are you a surefooted phonetic speller? Here are a few words in phonetic transcription. Would you know how to spell them?


BAZ-ight
altRISH-l
rayzh-n
PRIG-ess
perry-KLAYZHa
unshl


Are you sure you would automatically spell these words BAZZITE, ALTRICIAL, RASION, PRIGGESS, PERICLASIA, and UNCIAL? Or could you too use a little phonics?

How about doing those exercises WITH Johnny?

I am tired of the Dumb Muscle trope, even if I did not know about Knuckles’ pre-Sonic Boom self!

(Source: ep73x-mod)

protocol00:

boy i can be okay with everything about sonic boom (not the game the game is terrible), even the redesigns, but knuckles’ characterization is something awful

Uuuuuy… That is also my only gripe…

3DS Wishlist
  • A way to import the New Nintendo- 3DS from Australia/New Zealand to Puerto Rico
  • The removal of the 10-game limitation of the R5 (or any clone of the Sky 3DS)
  • A drop in price of the R5 (or a relevant clone)
  • RetroArch in 3DS with support of the New Nintendo- 3DS controls
  • DLC of New Art Academy
  • A way to edit and use Nintendo- 3DS themes
  • A place where I can buy both the R5 (or a relevant clone) and the R4iDSN in the same place (preferably from the United States)
  • A conservative bag that would hold the New Nintendo- 3DS, an R5 (or relevant clone), an R4iDSN, and a battery pack with USB charger
  • A skin from Decal Girl

I remember seeing The 90’s: The Last Great Decade? about two cases:

  1. Lighter-skinned police killed a darker-skinned person yet the police got scot-free.
  2. A darker-skinned person performed armed carjacking, but, despite the tonnes of evidence against the darker-skinned person, the darker-skinned person got free.

The documentary linked the two situations, saying that the 2nd case did not want a repeat of the 1st.

I feel that the same thing is going to happen (albeit in a different way) with the case with Michael Brown. I predict that he is going to be freed while Darren Wilson would be severely punished one way or another, bother Michael’s actual innocence.

quartz-poker:

did-you-kno:

Illegal immigrants in the U.S. provide about $15 billion a year to Social Security. Without their contributions, the Social Security Administration would have been paying out more money than it received since the year 2009. Source

This is part of an interesting phenomenon with illegal immigrants- they pay taxes and stuff even though, by definition, they don’t have to.The reason is, apparently, they believe they’re less likely to get found out by Immigration if they blend in by paying their taxes (the IRS is one of the most effective law enforcement agencies in the world and WILL get you if you don’t pay taxes).
The IRS responds by noting “Oh look, an illegal immigrant. Oh wait, he paid taxes this year. Immigration doesn’t have to find out as long as he keeps paying taxes.”
It really throws anti-immigration people off their game when you bring this up.

The thing is that, generally speaking, people who are anti-immigrant are also anti-Social-Security.

quartz-poker:

did-you-kno:

Illegal immigrants in the U.S. provide about $15 billion a year to Social Security. Without their contributions, the Social Security Administration would have been paying out more money than it received since the year 2009. Source

This is part of an interesting phenomenon with illegal immigrants- they pay taxes and stuff even though, by definition, they don’t have to.

The reason is, apparently, they believe they’re less likely to get found out by Immigration if they blend in by paying their taxes (the IRS is one of the most effective law enforcement agencies in the world and WILL get you if you don’t pay taxes).

The IRS responds by noting “Oh look, an illegal immigrant. Oh wait, he paid taxes this year. Immigration doesn’t have to find out as long as he keeps paying taxes.”

It really throws anti-immigration people off their game when you bring this up.

The thing is that, generally speaking, people who are anti-immigrant are also anti-Social-Security.

AS I DRAW THE THING

baymax-speaks:

((can someone send me sad music i keep listening to dear future husband by meghan trainor and it’s giving me mood whiplash))

'Caged Heart' from Katawa Shoujo (‘Cripple Girls’)

'Riku' from Kingdom Hearts: ReCoded

markysheap asked: My request: I want your Mary Sue playing tennis with Maya Fey (from the Phoenix Wright series).

athensthenos:

I’ll tell you what it’s been for frickin ever since I’ve drawn Mary Sue. I felt that since BD actually lived a few years after the Black Toruney Mary Sue should too, but that also means that it’s more in character for her to never have gone to get mental help for her bulimia so she’s basically a frickin skeleton.

Also Mary’s never as good at anything she thinks she is, being of course a parody character. Sorry Maya that you had to face someone so bad in tennis. I don’t even know if you’re any good at tennis but I can assure you Mary’s even worse than you.

The Stinger: this is actually a reference to the 2nd (or 3rd) Ouendan game. One of the multiplayer scenarios had two people playing tennis with each other; one of the players reminded me of Mary Sue while the other reminded me of Maya Fey.

(By the way, I think that Maya would not be that good at tennis, but, then again, she would be definitely better than Mary Sue at the game.)

(However, did not Mary Sue have anorexia, not bulimia?)

The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican President and every single Democratic President for the past half century. And to those Members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.

kennyvee:

“Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.”

Andrew Bacevisch, as quoted by Glenn Greenwald in "How many Muslim countries has the U.S. bombed or occupied since 1980?"

If you don’t feel like counting, it’s 14 countries.

(via hipsterlibertarian)

14 countries, and 22 separate incidents. We’re so Islamophobic that we’ve attacked several of them more than once. And then we call THEM evil for being angry about this.

Were those countries safer after the interference from the United States of America?