July 2011
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things that spin me out in media coverage of the US debt crisis: you get statements like “your mortgage payments might increase by $100-$200 per year” given more focus than “social security payments might be delayed or stopped altogether”
it’s been really hard for me to find out about what’s going to happen for people on unemployment benefits/pensions/etc, it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Invincible (3)
Public Enemy (2)
Nirvana (2)
Yo La Tengo (2)
Nicki Minaj (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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what baboons teach us about culture//emily... →
Typical baboon troops are intensely hierarchical and patriarchal, competitive to the point of Machiavellian deceit and violence.
But.
In this one troupe, the aggressive alpha males were killed by infectious disease, leaving more females than males and the males who were left were non-dominant.
Result? A total revolution in the culture of the troupe. Low aggression, high social affiliation....
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overly airbrushed ads banned as "misleading"//the... →
The [L’oreal] print advertisements, featuring digitally enhanced images of the women, were found to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after complaints by Jo Swinson, a Liberal Democratic MP.
The regulator said in statements on its website that the two magazine advertisements did not accurately represent what Maybelline’s The Eraser and Lancome’s...
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Glenn Beck likens Norwegian dead to Hitler... →
Glenn Beck, the rightwing US broadcaster and Tea Party favourite, has compared those who were massacred on the Norwegian island of Utøya to the Nazi party’s youth wing.
“There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler youth, or, whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics. Disturbing,” said Beck on his...
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Handsome men mean better sex//WA Today →
zincfingers:
ourcatastrophe:
Women orgasm more quickly and more often with handsome partners, according to research carried out by anthropologists and psychologists.
Noting that “supporting evidence indicates that female orgasm promotes conception,” the researchers concluded that the female orgasm is linked to the urge to produce “quality” offspring.
guys
you guys
stupid shit like...
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Handsome men mean better sex//WA Today →
Women orgasm more quickly and more often with handsome partners, according to research carried out by anthropologists and psychologists.
Noting that “supporting evidence indicates that female orgasm promotes conception,” the researchers concluded that the female orgasm is linked to the urge to produce “quality” offspring.
guys
you guys
stupid shit like this is why...
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Detainee cuts throat in protest//The Age →
A male refugee has cut his own throat and another his arm during a protest at a remote Queensland immigration detention centre.
The two protesters are among some 60 to 80 men who have been on a hunger strike since Thursday at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa, on the Cape York Peninsula.
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Legal challenge may free alleged people... →
AUSTRALIA’S migration laws could be unravelled by a landmark legal challenge in Victoria arguing alleged people smugglers are lawfully entitled to assist refugees seeking asylum.
…Victoria Legal Aid is considering launching a test case that if successful could see hundreds of men being held for aggravated people smuggling under the Migration Act freed from detention here.
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i got a complicated relationship with...
rina-anxiety:
problems i have been slowly developing with way “babe” is used by queer punxxxx in my life, after using it for years:
babe has a history (in my life, and in general) of being used to describe only the most shallow aspects of a person. babe means someone who fits your idea of what’s hot, whats fuckable. babe means an object. using babe constantly: babe babe babe, using the same...
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on "call-out culture" and why I'm not into it
(and, side note, don’t think it’s a bullshit evasive term like “politically correct”)
firstly: to me, calling someone out primarily means calling them out for abuse or assault. that’s the context I first heard the term in. like confronting a rapist, for example. therefore, I really dislike the use of term call-out to mean political critique; I think it’s...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →
Tilly and the Wall (1)
Yo La Tengo (1)
Bessie Smith (1)
Cobra Killer (1)
The Cave Singers (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Anonymous asked: I recall you posting about Ludwig Wittgenstein a few times so I thought you might find this interesting:
autisticsymphony (dot) com (slash) wittgenstein (dot) html
autisticsymphony (dot) com (slash) wittgenstein (dot) html
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Binge drinking 'can damage memory skills' in teen... →
Teenagers - especially girls - who binge drink could be damaging the part of their brain which controls memory and spatial awareness, say Californian researchers.
…Using MRI scans, the study team found that female teenage heavy drinkers had less brain activation in several brain regions than female non-drinking teens when doing the same spatial task.
They suggested that this could...
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Police face fury after death of African... →
MORE than 250 people from the local African-Australian community gathered in Flemington yesterday to demand a full investigation into the death of Michael Atakelt, 22, found dead in the Maribyrnong River on July 7.
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Michael Atakelt, who was of Ethiopian background, was last seen by his girlfriend on June 26. His mother, Askalu Tella, rang Footscray police several times and went to...
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“Life ought to not be conceived of as matter, for matter is nothing but the...”
– Henri Bergson’s vitalism, as summarised by Claire Colebrook, “On Not Becoming Man”, in Material Feminisms, 2009, Indiana University Press.
huh.
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sometimes when I’m talking with someone about cultural products we like and don’t like I feel like whoever dislikes the most things wins
I pretty much hate it
can I have my prize now
