February 2012
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Burning the dregs of Honduran society//Belen... →
On February 14, over 350 inmates at La Granja penitentiary in Comayagua, Honduras perished in a fire - the latest in a series of obstacles to existence among the Honduran prison population, which has over the years been subjected to various incinerations and massacres as well as to floodwaters from Hurricane Mitch.
On February 17, the prominent Honduran newspaper El Heraldo, mouthpiece of the...
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white people why have you not yet explained the...
calloutqueen:
I demand answers
while you’re at it explain dirty blond hair with multi-tonal highlights that are almost but not quite natural looking
explain this uncanny valley shit immediately
I was with you up until “uncanny valley”
but uncanny valley hair is actually a pretty intriguing fashion concept
squaresome:
wow looking at all the teen tumblrs makes me realise how much emo is out and lol is in for teens these days
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ain't safe for work, nope.
beatonna:
Last night I was emailed some porn that someone drew of me because I said a thing on the internet that they disagreed with. Because, there you go, ‘justice.’ When stuff like that comes your way you don’t usually say anything because who gives a fuck, but oh well, let’s do it anyway. So, I’ve seen that shit before because I’ve been on the internet for 100 years, but it always looks...
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad about god, mad...”
– i can’t remember quite how that quote goes, but i’m pretty sure this captures the gist (via opendrawer)
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Passive-aggressive maybe, but not... →
interesting little post about julia gillard’s linguistic choices when discussing rudd. via Charles Richardson.
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“Jason Derulo.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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Also, one of the best games to play with a group...
galesofnovember:
Answer can include:
weeping for the plight of the salmon while his mom does his laundry
watching star wars while playing dungeons and dragons
eating pinworms and watching star wars
laying on the couch with his dogs and watching star wars
sending mean letters to Anne Lamont via carrier pigeon while his mom makes his bed
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What does science fiction tell us about the future... →
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Police to revamp training for handling mentally... →
ALL operational police and new recruits are to receive special coaching to deal with the mentally ill after an internal review found previous training was flawed and increased the risks of violent confrontations.
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Station officers hit the beat but doubt lingers on... →
THE first protective services officers started duty at central Melbourne rail stations last night, but key questions remain over their powers and the state-wide rollout.
…By November 2014, the government has pledged, every Melbourne station and key regional ones will have two officers on duty each night after 6pm until the last train.
Civil libertarians and legal groups have...
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Job: 424936, Prime Minister of Australia |... →
Applicants should have extensive experience in the public service or private enterprise, exceptional spoken and written language skills, a genuine interest in, and thorough knowledge of, current affairs, economics, history, statecraft and philosophy, be an eloquent speaker, and be an earnest and empathetic individual of outstanding moral character. However, we will settle for applicants...
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milkeemountainmama:
and one last thing—that’s my number one pure venom spitting hatred for all scifi/fantasy books in the world—the idea that white folks are survivors and resourceful enough to survive in the face of the apocolypse or some other world shattering event— and people of color either don’t exist or exist in this weird other sphere that rarely if ever crosses with the white survivors....
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mixxy99:
ourcatastrophe:
“I condemn slavery with the utmost vehemence, but the fact that my remote ancestors may have been involved in it is nothing to do with me. You need a genetics lecture. Do you realise that probably only about 1 in 512 of my genes come from Henry Dawkins?’”
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Richard Dawkins on his family’s connections with the slave trade.
pretty sure the “Dawkins family estate,...
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“I condemn slavery with the utmost vehemence, but the fact that my remote...”
– Richard Dawkins on his family’s connections with the slave trade.
pretty sure the “Dawkins family estate, consisting of 161 hectares in Oxfordshire …bought in part with wealth amassed through sugar plantations and slave ownership” counts as something to do with him
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Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids: Why Teaching... →
“This overheated hostility toward public schools runs throughout the new literature on liberal homeschooling, and reveals what is so fundamentally illiberal about the trend: It is rooted in distrust of the public sphere, in class privilege, and in the dated presumption that children hail from two-parent families, in which at least one parent can afford (and wants) to take significant time...
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The Tall Man
str-crssd:
One Morning Indigenous man Cameron Doomadgee swore at a police officer and 45 minutes later he was found dead in a police cell.
Watch this documentary here.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this film contains images and voices of deceased people.
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'We will all die here!': hundreds killed in... →
A fire started by an inmate tore through a severely overcrowded Honduran prison, burning and suffocating inmates in their locked cells and killing as many as 356 people in one of the world’s deadliest prison fires in a century, authorities said on Wednesday.
…According to government statistics, the Comayagua prison was built in the 1940s for 400 people but held more than 800...
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Police riot squad to double//Reid Sexton//The Age →
VICTORIA Police is set to more than double its squad of anti-riot officers in a move that new Chief Commissioner Ken Lay says is partly a response to television images of rioting mobs in England last year.
Mr Lay, who flagged a return to traditional policing when appointed last November, said training for new anti-riot police would take place over the next three or four months.
Squad...
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Drake practices
rapindustryfanfiction:
Drake didn’t have a Valentine.
It was late, and he was sitting on the edge of his bed, alone in his apartment. There were plenty of Valentine’s Day parties he could’ve gone to— he got the invitations in his email. But he didn’t want to show up without a date. Meeting a woman at the parties just wasn’t the same. Not on Valentine’s Day. He wanted someone special.
He...
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Why Has Critique Run out of Steam?: From Matters... →
Wars. So many wars. Wars outside and wars inside. Cultural wars, science wars, and wars against terrorists. Wars against poverty and wars against the poor. Wars against ignorance and wars out of ignorance. My question is simple: Should we be at war, too, we, the scholars, the intellectuals? Is it really our duty to add fresh ruins to fields of ruins? Is it really the task of the humanities to...
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“I am absolutely not straight,” she said. “I wouldn’t define...”
– magda szubanski comes out on valentine’s day
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“How joyous the notion that, try as we may, we cannot do other than fail and fail...”
– Donald Barthelme, from Nothing: A Preliminary Account
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The Psychopath Test, Act One:Underachievement... →
NPR Science Correspondent Alix Spiegel tells the story of Robert Dixon, who’s in a maximum security prison in Vacaville California and is unlikely to ever get parole because of his score on the psychopath test. The test also is called “the checklist” or, more formally, the PCL-R, which stands for “Psychopathy Check List—Revised.” Alix tells the story of its...
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Queering the Air →
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hey guys a bunch of my...
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What they are told
aussiediggers:
militarygirlfriend:
I’m sure you have all seen the movies where the drill sergeant yells at all the guys and says, “we are going to make men out of you,” but they say more than just that to your guy. They will tell him what they expect of him as a soldier, a person, and even how they expect relationships to go. Now I’m sure you know all about what they want as a soldier and a...
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Video insurance coming to a helmet near you →
CYCLISTS are using helmet-mounted cameras as a source of legal protection in their bid to avoid trouble with motorists on Melbourne’s roads.
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I have been trying to just generally not think...
itsinthetrees:
But David Brothers wrote an awesome, searing critique of that bullshit Newsarama article about it, and it’s worth a read.
I think what gets me about this idea though isn’t even the intellectual property issues — like, those bug the hell out of me, but they’re not my core issue.
My core issue is that Watchmen is a story specifically about the dangers of nostalgia. That’s...
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