June 2012
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“The song is an example of threatened emancipation, as the singer tells a lover...”
– wikipedia: you don’t own me
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andromedalogic:
i actually lol whenever this happens because anyone who thinks like anon clearly has no knowledge of evolution/natural selection/biology in general
for one thing “survival of the fittest” is not even a darwinian term it was coined by herbert spencer who was a social darwinist and social darwinism is dependent on a misinterpretation of the process of natural selection
all...
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“You’ll forgive Aboriginal people for not jumping over the moon today at the...”
– A planetary phenomenon and an earthly invasion//Chris Graham//The Tracker
via CP
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pussy-strut replied to your photo: this is the best theory joke that the universe has…
omg names and the criminal justice system are so busted/at my job we are often unable to locate prisoners bc they are in the system under a misspelled name etc etc
let me just say how much this doesn’t surprise me.
also I imagine the issue would compound if the person had a non-Western or...
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1. ugh why can’t I have a simple answer about What Is To Be Done about the state 2. has anyone written anything on Japanese literary history and écriture féminine? (I don’t “agree” with much of what Cixous says or even really know her work that well but I find her an interesting place to begin.) apparently women are overrepresented in early Japanese-language writing...
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Call for inquiry into use of unpaid jobseekers as... →
A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river pageant.
Up to 30 jobseekers and another 50 people on apprentice wages were taken to London by coach from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth as part of the government’s Work Programme.
Two...
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I don’t understand why you expect me to care about you doing stuff purely for yourself.
like sometimes that’s fine of course but why would you tell me that self-care is your ethos? the sole organising principle of your life? if that’s really the case, why wouldn’t you just do it and not care what I think?
it’s almost like this individualistic self-care stuff...
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Work is its own cure. You have to like it better...
sort of re: this thread.
I dunno man, I don’t like these assertions that if you fixed your mental health problems with effort and discipline and medical advice then they must not have been very serious to begin with, that if you were truly crazy you would not be able to take any steps to improve your situation, only to ameliorate it around the edges.
it’s true that I’ve had...
