When I was in university, I drank a lot.

And I did it mostly with a group of male friends.

I sometimes fell down. I sometimes passed out. I sometimes woke up feeling murky about what happened the night before.

But if I passed out, my friends tucked me in or took me home. And I fell, they picked me up. And murky mornings were followed by jovial afternoons of nursing hangovers and swapping stories about the previous evening’s adventures.

And I never, for a second, felt unsafe in their company.

That’s not to say these men should patted on the back for not being rapists. But it goes to show that “boys will be boys” is a piss-poor excuse for rape.

Real men — and have known many — treat women with respect.

via @amirightfolks

Move over, brogrammers. The next generation is here, in the form of an entrepreneurial nine-year-old blonde girl on a scooter.

As of writing this, Mackenzie Wilson, 9, has raised more than $14,000 on Kickstarter to create a role-playing video game. She — or, more accurately, her mom — set up the page two days ago, asking for a paltry $829. Read more.

This cat is so much better than my cats. 

The Renaissance — apparently not really a thing. Who knew? This, and more status-quo-challenging world history at Crash Course, an educational web series and my new favourite thing on the Internet. Click here to find out why.

— Yep, that pretty much describes what insomnia feels like. 

The best reason I can think of to quit reliable job as a tech writer is to build an augmented reality TARDIS from scratch. 

Via Wired. 

— Me on Dragon’s Dogma. My first video game review. My first review of any kind, in fact. 

A post at Rabbit Ears about how women in Game of Thrones seduce men by challenging their worldviews. 

A post about how whatever happens with Community in the post-Dan Harmon era, fans can take comfort knowing the first three seasons tell a satisfying story all on their own.