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Why Hikaru Sulu being gay is so important:

- Star Trek is a huge cinematic franchise. It is huge. It has thousands of fans of all different ages. This is a huge, huge step for diversity in wide spread cinema.

- The writers says Sulu will have a husband and a daughter. Not only will he be happy, he will have a family, he will have a KID. Considering how bleak LGBT representation has been this year alone, having a happy little girl with two Daddys is incredible.

- Science fiction does not tend to be an area where we have LGBT representation. 

- Sulu is a main character. He has been an important part of the series and is a major badass.

- John Cho is Korean- American, so not only are we having LGBT representation but POC - LGBT representation! 

- Star Trek have announced Sulu’s sexuality before the film is even out. So therefore giving a big fuck you to any homophobes who now won’t go see the film. Zero fucks given.

- And best of all: the original actor who played Sulu came out in 2005 as a gay man - Sulu being gay is paying respect to real life events. How cool is that?

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Shadow of the Colossus Meets DayZ?

I very rarely write about Kickstarter games on here, but when Sophia posted about it I knew I had too. This ambitious project is trying to combine game play from some of my favourite games Shadow of the Colossus, Deus Ex, DayZ, and BloodBorne.

Prey for the Gods promises battles with giants, a survival system with a day/night cycle, tight BloodBorne style controls, and a frozen wasteland to explore. You can check out all the information and some early game play videos / screenshots over on Kickstarter. They’re currently sitting at just over 100k of a 300k goal with 29 days left of the campaign. 

(This isn’t an ad, I just think it looks really cool) 

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Protecting Seeds to Save the World

The world faces numerous challenges but two seem to stand out more than any: overpopulation and climate change. How can a seed vault help?

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You are standing between two mirrors. Your reflection smiles, so you smile. Your reflection moves its hand, so you move yours. It takes a very long while for you to realise that this is the wrong way round.

Fallen London, A Dream About Your Reflection (via myopinionisimportant)

Linguistics style tip 307. No linguistics abstract (henceforth LA) should contain more than two totally novel abbreviations (henceforth TTNA). Abstracts that violate TTNA impose an unreasonable burden on the poor tired and cranky abstract reviewer (henceforth PTACAR), causing PTACAR to lose track of the TTNAs, and rendering it far more likely than otherwise that LA will be given a lower score than it deserves (henceforth LSTID). LAs that violate TTNA and are consequently LSTIDed by PTACAR deserve the score that they get.

Corollary: Don’t introduce a new abbreviation unless you immediately use it, and frequently. Otherwise PTACAR gets really p.o.‘ed (henceforth POed) trying to find what the stupid abbreviation (henceforth SA) means on page 2 that was introduced in a parenthesis somewhere on page 1 and never reused. And of course don’t introduce any abbreviation that you’re never going to use.

David Pesetsky has some useful linguistics style advice, or, why Linguist Facebook is the best facebook. (Shared with permission.)

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Everything You Need To Know About Ants

Full size infographic - http://infographicjournal.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ants/