September 2011
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Ciara Xyerra : extortion is so punk rock →
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At least once or twice a month I have a discussion with someone new to the zine community about why I chose not to support Microcosm Publishing. Here is Ciara’s blog post about the cancellation of the Microcosm-related “Bikes and Dinner” event in Lawrence, KS.
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Typhoon Nesat batters Philippines →
squaresome:
Typhoon Nesat has smashed into the Philippines, leaving at least 16 people dead, with the capital Manila enduring waist-deep floods, blackouts and dramatic storm surges.
The Philippines is hit by about 20 major storms annually, many of them deadly, but the government said Nesat was one of the strongest the country had faced this year, with its rain and wind path twice as big as ...
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Ward Connerly Joins UC Berkeley’s Republican... →
thenoobyorker:
The College Republicans started selling baked goods at 10am PT this morning. Their first customer was UC Berkeley Professor of Political Science Wendy Brown, who tried to buy all the baked goods but wasn’t allowed. “I thought the Republicans were free enterprise, but they won’t let me buy all the cupcakes.”
Wendy Brown is my hero.
omg
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Tony Hoagland, "Personal"
sharingpoetry:
Don’t take it personal, they said; but I did, I took it all quite personal— the breeze and the river and the color of the fields; the price of grapefruit and stamps, the wet hair of women in the rain— And I cursed what hurt me and I praised what gave me joy, the most simple-minded of possible responses. The government reminded me of my father, with its deafness and its laws, and...
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Liberalism and eugenics
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notjusttheminutiae:
The natural order, of which war was a part, spontaneously generated the race of semi-slaves that society could never do witout. However, this supposedly spontaneous process must be encouraged by timely political interventions from above. According to Mandeville, access to education on the part of the ‘Labour Poor’ was to be avoided at all costs: the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Cortina (8)
Darkstar (6)
Salem (5)
Fever Ray (5)
The Frumpies (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“What is it like to “hear” a hand?
You have to be deaf to understand.
What...”
– Written at 1971 by Willard J. Madsen, professor of journalism at Gallaudet University. This poem was translated into seven different languages and reprinted in publications, including DEAF HERITAGE, p. 380.
Internet Source
(via fydeafies)
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Judging Inner Beauty: Models and Emotional... →
…a cosmetics company specializing in mineral makeup, has a new ad campaign that hinges upon how it found “the world’s most beautiful women…without ever seeing their faces.” Models and actresses showed up at the casting call and filled out questionnaires about themselves… The company then cast the campaign solely on the basis of the questionnaires, choosing models not for their ...
from now on I only want to read books about golems
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la bruja — for witch it stands
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mikkipedia:
RT @Choire: No one does that thing where they put 1s in their !!!s anymore and it makes me so sad.
I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!
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RIP TROY DAVIS (AND THOUGHTS ON PRISONS AND...
loneberry:
This is an interview with Troy Davis’s sister, Martina Correia, and nephew, De’Jaun Correia. This was conducted before the execution. Just try to watch it without crying through the whole thing. Try. Martina—a tireless activist with advanced cancer—talks about her struggle to free her brother, the need to abolish capital punishment, the injustice of the criminal “justice”...
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Ghibli feast (via Anna The Red's Bento & Plush... →
faketrain:
oh, hello.
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California Prison Hunger Strikes to Renew | Black...
ziatroyano:
Inmates at the infamous Security Housing Unit of California’s Pelican Bay state prison say they will go back on hunger strike on September 26, convinced that prison officials have no intention of making a meaningful response to their five core demands. Pelican Bay was the nexus of 21 days of protest in July that, at one point, involved 6,500 inmates at 13 prisons. The protest draw...
troops are being tripled at the prison where Troy... →
so-treu:
big up to Big Boi for being on the scene and keeping folks abreast of what’s going on. #realhiphop
(in the words of one commenter, they gone keep fuckn around & start WW3 out to this bitch.)
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the new international bookshop, trades hall,... →
so I just started volunteering here, I really like it. these days I’m really into putting my energy into left-wing institutions that have a past and hopefully a future. but what made me decide to finally take on a shift here was that a friend of mine has just taken on the coordinator role and she’s doing really good things. obvs I’m biased because my politics are close to hers...
"Nose bitten off in drunken fight", "Arm broken as...
I guess this is a living up to australian stereotypes kind of day
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today, on a whim, I participated in an experiment in the basement of an accredited institute of parapsychology. I had no idea there was such a thing in this city. you can even get FEE-HELP for their degrees. anyway I am pretty convinced that there is no such thing as “psychic powers” as they are generally understood but I grew up on too many tales of heroic telepaths to refuse such...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Hüsker Dü (29)
Aesop Rock (9)
The Knife (5)
Trina (4)
Ladytron (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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"Identify the London Rioters" ...uhhh. →
f-e-r-a-l:
This is a website trying to identify the rioters in London. Our job here is to answer every photo with false information. Use whatever names you want, Steve Seagal, Prime Minister David Cameron, Seymour Butts. Whatever.
SPAM THIS SHIT.
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rgr-pop:
Have I told you guys that I’m in love with a bro? He’s beautiful. He’s in my women’s studies class. There’s this girl in my class who Tina and I call Ambassador To All Dudes, and when she says stuff like, “I just think we need to appreciate the impressive things that men do in the home these days,” he slowly raises his perfect, bumbly hand and says things like “I just think men...
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle//The Age →
…a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3D picture that “unfolds” the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs.
This is where Foldit comes in.
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video...
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Money runs out for former wards' health... →
A STATE government program that paid health expenses for former state wards has been axed because demand was much greater than anyone expected.
Last Monday, Open Place, the Victorian support service for ”the forgotten Australians”, froze all individual grants after demand for health funds increased sixfold in 18 months.
In January 2010, two months after Kevin Rudd made a ...
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Diminishing dole a 'ticking time bomb'//Peter... →
AUSTRALIA’S 3.4 million pensioners can loosen their belts from tomorrow. They’ll get a pay rise of $19.50 a fortnight. But those on Newstart unemployment benefits and student allowances won’t be so lucky - they’ll get an extra $11.73.
The disparity between the two increases means Newstart is worth just two-thirds of the pension - and is set to fall to less than...
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Bullying alleged at WorkSafe//David Rood and... →
Compared to the Australian average, WorkSafe employees were more likely to feel negative about working relationships, leadership and direction. One in three staff believed management did not care about their health, safety and wellbeing.
The Age investigation revealed widespread distrust of WorkSafe’s approach to internal complaints. When a consultant is commissioned to investigate,...
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“(Trigger warning for abuse.)
In activist communities, who is believed? And...”
– Connie Burk, Think. Re-think. from The Revolution Starts at Home.
I am glad that I don’t obsess about these power dynamics anymore (it led to major paralyzing guilt), but this is still a good excerpt. Things become muddled on both sides; people are capable of reacting and acting out their own...
sexartandpolitics replied to your link: Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes//Animal Cognition//Lisa Lit, Julie B. Schweitzer and Anita M. Oberbauer
and the fact that a sniffer dog makes for probable cause for a 4th amendment search.
that is very interesting although I would suggest you reblog adding this rather than replying to me as I am not from the USA
sorry sometimes I get...
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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog... →
Our aim was to evaluate how human beliefs affect working dog outcomes in an applied environment. We asked whether beliefs of scent detection dog handlers affect team performance and evaluated relative importance of human versus dog influences on handlers’ beliefs. Eighteen drug and/or explosive detection dog/handler teams each completed two sets of four brief search ...
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