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micdotcom:

The Pentagon reportedly buried a report showing it wasted $125 billion of taxpayer money

  • The Department of Defense buried a report saying it could have prevented wasting $125 billion of taxpayers’ money.
  • The Pentagon buried the report in order to protect its massive budget.
  • The defense report (released in January 2015) outlined a series of solutions for the Pentagon to save $125 billion over five years without firing any civilian or military personnel. 
  • It was killed by high-ranking defense officials who believed exposing administrative waste could cause Congress to allocate it less money in the future. Read more

Wow.

Have you ever wondered where books come from?

blurryfaceinspace:

neil-gaiman:

allofthefeelings:

bluelightseven:

zwischendenstuehlen:

Well then, let me show you, because that’s what I do for a living.

Right now, it’s this time of the year, and the little ones have just freshly hatched:

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You’ll notice they’re still blind and naked when they hatch. So I make them little coats to keep them warm during their first winter:

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See how they happily line up to put them on:

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See? Better. Now they’re ready to go and explore the world.

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And if they make it through the winter and we take good care of them, they will grow up to be strong and wise like their older fellows:

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So, in case you were ever wondering, now you know.

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As a Publishing Professional I can say that this is 10000% accurate, and I am a little concerned you’re just giving away all of our industry secrets on Tumblr.

I am a famousy awards-winning author of BOOKS and I endorse this post.

this is such a pure post and I’m glad it’s back

I’ve seen the little ones in the wild – they’ve so much to say, but hardly know how and prefer to show you pictures, instead.  Very charming.  I’ve adopted a few.  

Right. Seeing too much of this again.  

Why do you all think ADC doesn’t like her fans or doesn’t want them?  Where are you getting this from?

– Her character was killed off and the fury over that is still resonating – she clearly doesn’t want to step on anyone’s toes over it or start another shit storm. She’s cautious with what she says.  She also knows it is not about her – but the character, about what happened and she’s respectful of fan’s voices.  

– She hasn’t played the character in months and has not been asked back for s4.  They don’t want her and she’s on another show that she is contractually obligated to promote. She’s a young actress starting her career.  She isn’t going to piss off her current bosses over a show she is no longer connected with.  

– She carried around the Clexa fan art book today during promotion for her own show and, according to fans, kept her security at bay so she could meet her fans and get photos/autos.  

– She isn’t Eliza Taylor and she isn’t going to go around talking up Clexa while promoting her own show.  No one asks her about it while promoting her show.  Eliza talking up Clexa has been a clever way to steer the narrative of her show so that no one winds up getting hurt again. She isn’t just going on about Clexa because she’s a fan.  There’s some political skill to it.  It’s had it’s effect: even Rothenberg called Clexa ‘soulmates’ at SDCC and it looks unlikely that Clarke will have any love interests this year.  Comparing the two actors who are in two completely different situations isn’t really fair.

– Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say.  She’s not savvy with the social media.  She’s been the target of plenty of hate and strangeness and privacy invasion.  She protects herself and who can blame her?  

Stop imagining the worst about them.  They’re just people trying to do their jobs in a demanding climate where ten million things are coming at them at once.  It isn’t something personal against the audience.  Time bears this out.  Wait ten years and see what they’re like then. 

PS: maybe consider that disparaging someone over how you want them to behave (especially by comparing them to someone you favour) isn’t much different than those who police young women’s behaviour in general.