May 2012
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“What is it with the royal family and eggs? If we are to believe Charles Oliver,...”
– I cannot get enough of the ridiculous Diamond Jubilee coverage in the UK. This one’s from “What the royals eat at home”. Also contains the immortal line on Mary consort of George V’s early adoption of wartime rationing: “No one, according to her edict, was to eat more...
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...”
– (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com
(via larepublicadedet)
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a-bayani:
anyone else on tumblr have a sitting disability? or can you connect me with a friend who does? how do you cope / deal with daily life stuff? message me?
(my doctor says i shouldn’t sit for more than half an hour at most, and i generally can’t manage more than 5 minutes or so lately. i’m hoping i can find ways to deal with my pain and get it to a manageable place because the prospect...
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someone came to my post titled “handler beliefs affect scent detection outcomes” by googling “handler beliefs do not affect police dog detection outcomes”. I know this only because of statcounter and have never spoken to them.
I wish every argument I have could happen like this; no muss, no fuss.
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“I feel like the male/female divide is one that should be relatively minor in a...”
– I HATE YOU, melbourne uni queer collective
so much
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Aboriginal owners home after 14-year native title... →
digitaldrum:
ABORIGINAL elders have returned to the ruins of their childhood homes at an abandoned mission in remote South Australia to end a 14-year native title battle over a vast area incorporating Lake Eyre.
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The Wisdom of Slime - NYTimes.com →
becoming-wave:
Despite its ability to solve an array of problems, the slime mold was designed by evolution to solve just one problem: how to build an optimal transport network (for its nutrients). So we decided to investigate how the slime mold, when presented with the task of connecting the major urban areas of the United States, would design a transport system. Would its design resemble...
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on "scandinavian heritage"
w/r/t.
my nanna’s parents were both scandinavian (or technically possibly just “nordic” — have you ever wondered why everyone in the anglosphere says “scandinavian heritage” instead of “nordic heritage” when “nordic” is the broader term and often what they actually mean? because it makes you sound like a goddamn nazi, that’s why,...
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re: neo-pagans whining about the avengers
buttsetcetera:
CAN I JUST SAY that as an authentic norwegian not only do i not care about comic book characters based on the ~gods of my ancestors~, but that if there is one thing regarding norse mythology that’s likely to get me to raise a bit of an eyebrow and put on my true norwegian grumpyface, it’s fucking american neo-pagans who ~practice asatru~ and bang on and on about the norse gods...
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leonineantiheroine-deactivated2 asked: in the first five minutes of Girls the lead is eating a cupcake in the bath while her best friend is towelled and shaving her legs. SEE YOU HATE THE FEMININE. also make this public so everyone can see how funny I am.
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reallyreallyreallytrying:
SOME MORE GOOD QUESTIONS FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TO ASK OF ITS READERS
— DO YOU THINK MORE GAYS SHOULD BE LOCKED UP IN JAIL?
— DO YOU THINK ASIANS SHOULD HAVE THEIR DRIVERS LICENSES TAKEN AWAY?
— THERE’S TOO MANY FAGS IN THIS COUNTRY ISN’T THERE
— SHOULD ASIANS, MUSLIMS & BLACKS BE FORCED TO LOVE IT OR LEAVE BUT PROBABLY JUST FUCKEN LEAVE IT ANYWAY
— ARE THERE...
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Attn: folks in VIC, Australia! Loophole Community...
extendedmetaphor:
Basically the landlords have given us an eviction notice and we have to be out by June the 11th.
Watch this space for some more news and also for how you might be able to help, folks are currently drafting a letter for what’s happened and what we will be doing/what you can do so I’ll post that later tonight or tomorrow. Also, if anyone knows of a shopfront space currently...
januarydaze asked: FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THE PIC OF ELLEN WAS JESSIE BROWN
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leonineantiheroine-deactivated2 asked: gonna change all your sci fi books to include the word twee in them 'the left hand of tweeness'
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summary of blogging persona
1. stop it with your individual choices and individual identities and childish unwillingness to admit that you live in a society
2. stop it with your trying to get me to talk about my feelings, I’ll tell you if and when I’m good and ready
3. (science fiction)
4. stop it with your twee crap
5. stop it with your defensiveness about that twee crap you like
6. stop it
7. stop...
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I am somewhat interested in fashion, but certain clear-cut exceptions aside (fascist symbols, misappropriated regalia, etc) I don’t believe individual style choices significantly help or harm your political goals. I think visual culture of all kinds is of central importance to being human but too slippery, too polyvalent, too fluid, too cooptable to be of significant tactical value in a...
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this just in: incredibly wealthy elite... →
St Michael’s Grammar head of school Simon Gipson has denied the school has any plans to draw the curtain on the Astor Theatre as a working cinema, and has compared the social media campaign that has flared against the school in recent days to a case of cyber-bullying.
“To be condemned in the way that we have been, out of hand, is deeply hurtful, because it was based on a false...
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“It is becoming easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine a critical...”
– towerofsleep
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Watchbecoming-wave:
getradified:
David Harvey and David Graeber in conversation.
Ooh this happened the weekend after we were in NYC and we didn’t know it was happening until shortly after we’d booked our tickets. I will definitely watch it now though!
(And I am pleased to say, the audio was actually well recorded! It’s echoey for the first minute of the intro speaker then someone clues in and...
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Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? →
emilysyrja:
danharmon:
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
I didn’t want to believe or post anything about Community until Dan...
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OPI 'failed to probe cruel assault'//The Age →
contains graphic descriptions of racist police violence in australia.
Nassir Bare complained to the OPI in February 2010 that one year earlier, when he was aged 17, police had repeatedly struck his chin against the gutter, chipping his teeth, kicked his legs out from under him, kicked him in the ribs, sprayed him in the face with capsicum spray while handcuffed and told him ”you black...
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I can't personally get into "feminist oversharing"...
in all seriousness, when I think about “oversharing” between women I think about being in my early teens and making up appropriate crushes so I would have something to talk about. because otherwise I would be shut out, because we had to trade vulnerabilities, but what actually scared me — the fact that I didn’t understand and couldn’t conclusively label my sexuality...
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hysteriarama:
TRIGGER WARNING WHATEVER I FEEL GROSS PLZ DON’T TELL MY MOM I’M NOT READY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION UGH UGH THIS FEELS LIKE COMING OUT
to contextualize oversharing as a tactic:
- caution, the ways we speak in hushed tones
- being a “shitty person”, carefully measuring our words out to not transgress upon anyone’s hard-won autonomy and safety
- except that that can be silencing,...
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Anonymous asked: is there anything that isnt taught at universities that should be
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AfT3r ParTy ~ The $olo H0uR [1]
afterpartythesolohour:
1. REDXBLOOR - DropxLife
2. Hip Hop Spa - Fatima Al Qadiri
3. $ u ӎ ӎ є r Я a i n ✌ - ~Ǥõ§ƪõŵ~Õçëånßrõ~
4. Til the World Ends - SALEM
5. My Life - jj
6. Burnout Eyess - oOoOO
7. Crush - Butterclock
8. Hustling (ft. oOoOO) - Butterclock
9. SAYSO - Evy Jane
10. I’m On One (Drake) - Shlohmo
11. I’m God - Clams Casino
look at this great playlist from last...
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“In one oft-cited study, an inmate therapy group that halved the recidivism rate...”
– okay, one quote. this is talking about adults here, obviously, and also nails why i don’t give a fuck about reformed abusers and absolutely will not give them a second chance. (via isabelthespy)
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the more I study the more I’m convinced my thesis title will be “Give People With Not Much Money More Money and Stop Ripping Apart Their Support Networks: Everything Else is Rearranging Deckchairs on the Titanic, Let’s Not Kid Ourselves”
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I know it’s stupid and unscientific and also anti-feminist and so on but most days I just want to be free of the corporeal. be a brain in a jar or a ghost. it’s not really anything to do with body image or trauma or whatever, at least not consciously or directly. it’s more that this whole “having to negotiate multiple layers of experience” thing gets me down. ...
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English-only housing survey locks out many →
AS THE state government prepares to restructure public housing, feedback surveys given to tenants this month are available only in English, a foreign language for about half of residents.
Mere-Paore Epere, chairwoman of an inner-suburban tenants’ group, said the survey is a mystery to many residents. Ms Epere said the 4000 tenants represented by her group included African, Arabic,...
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“The prisoner condemned to death will be taken to the scaffold in a cart...”
– Bexon’s 1804 proposal for a new “penal heraldry”; quoted in Foucault’s Discipline and Punish.
#rockabilly is the state
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getting up is giving up
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cedars:
Feminism is over because today I chose between Coke and Cherry Coke.
EXERCISING CHOICE
IN A VACUUM
BEING A FEMINIST
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marshmallowmegamama:
i’ve been struggling to come up with something to say all day about the death of maurice sendak. i’ve been saddened or even grief stricken by the death of a famous person before—but this is so personal to me, i can’t stop crying. that is the only thing i can write, is that i can’t stop crying.
mr. toast tried to comfort me earlier and pointed out that maurice was 83 and so...
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