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shortformblog: mauricecherry: SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas Trigger Warning: Rape, Physical Assault My heart and my support go out to Adria. Also, my righteous anger. Here’s the gist of what happened. Adria was at PyCon, a developer conference, and noticed that two men behind her were making lude sexual jokes. She snapped a photo, tweeted it, brought up the behavior to PyCon officials (since they did have a code of conduct for their conference), and the situation was “handled”. What’s happened after that is a prime example of why women and people of color (and women of color, of course) are few and far between in the world of tech. One of the men making the jokes, who was there representing his employer, got fired for his actions. Adria’s website starts getting DDoS attacks, as does her employer’s website. People are leaving her nasty comments and she’s been getting death threats and rape threats tweeted to her since yesterday. Today, SendGrid fired Adria. And they didn’t just fire her, but they announced it on Twitter and on Facebook so people could spread the word and comment on it. The Facebook comments are particularly vile, including one where a man details a particularly gruesome threat against Adria, concluded with the words “Make her pay. Make her obey.” All of this for speaking up about something which made her uncomfortable. Read More To say that this is problematic would be an understatement, and it’s particularly troubling in a week when we’ve already seen two high-profile (and altogether disturbing) responses to sexual assault cases capture media headlines. We can’t figure out what possible justification SendGrid  thinks they have for terminating Adria — and don’t even get us started on how they handled it — but if you’re as curious as we are then here’s SendGrid’s contact information. 

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thefrogman:

If you haven’t seen this yet, you should watch it. If you have seen it you should watch it again.

Protéigon by Steven Briand [vimeo]

(Source: jay-abovetheclouds)

thefrogman:

Contra Meets Metal by Eric Calderone [YouTube | Facebook]

Even if you never played Contra as a wee lad or lass, this will still rock your genitals until they fall off from too much rocking. 

bijan:

Skeletons — Of Monsters and Men

Original by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Love this one. Happy cover Friday! 

buzzfeed: “Nice Guys” are the worst.
kateoplis: “To complain about the sexualisation of women in men’s magazines may... ➜

kateoplis:

“To complain about the sexualisation of women in men’s magazines may seem like complaining about the weather. But as Knowles rightly says in relation to the pay gap, the status quo should not just be shruggingly accepted if it is wrong. I never fail to be amazed at the high profile, often A-list…

(Source: Guardian)

If you have google chrome check this out. ➜

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sizzlykins:

This is simply stunning.

Worth downloading chrome just to see this. 

If you can watch this and still believe that an anthropomorphic deity created all of this just for us, then you are a special kind of stupid.

My god, it’s full of stars.

(Source: sassyasscas)