February 2012
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“The Guinea Pig and the Green Balloon
I approached the luminous stranger who...”
– Oni Buchanan
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What I said to the FB racist after he left five (FIVE! and two of them were super long!) douchey comments for me today:
This is going to be a shorter comment than I’d like it to be, because I just don’t have the free time at the moment to respond to you at the same length as you’ve responded to me.
Let’s begin with this: “I am well aware of the history you...
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An answer.
curiouslycool:
stfuconfederates:
I have a private question for you. Is it wrong to get sick and tired of seeing everything being associated with racism and being racially motivated?? I feel like every disagreement on tumblr is blamed on race when PoC are involved, and because of this, I stay out of any conversations on racism. I’ve become even more discouraged to speak up about racism because...
Your source for daily science things.: Up to the... →
whateverlizzie:
dailysciencething:
Over in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers have put together an enormous prehistoric penguin’s fossils.
Kairuku sp., from the Maori for “diver who returns with food,” was a giant penguin who lived in New Zealand 25 million…
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So I woke up late this morning and found an enormous white-mansplainy diatribe on FB in response to this. Apparently Billy Crystal performing in blackface at the Oscars is equivalent to, among other things:
a single Black female cashier believing that a single Jewish man is racist for putting his money on the counter instead of directly into her hand when really it’s just that his religious...
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Someone actually studied it, and it turns out that... →
shortformblog:
And Ezra Klein brings the kicker:
Bloomberg has more details on the findings here, including interviews with the authors. They also note that the study isn’t alone. It “builds on previous research that has shown wealthy people are worse at recognizing how others feel and are more likely to be disengaged during social interactions than others.”
Of course, left unanswered is a...
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oh my goodness Fringe
jakke:
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Astrid got totally shafted in this episode. She was relegated to a couple lines of lab-assistant duties. Even worse, she was made less capable for expository purposes. Remember her computer science degree? Neither did the writers, when she was unsure how the data recovery process worked.
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Any time Olivia went into John Scott’s mind, she stripped down to her...
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allyintraining:
OK, I just found out from my dashboard about the whole Billy Crystal black face debacle. I don’t have cable, so there ya go. WTF, Billy Crystal?! Anywho, I found this article about it, and there’s a poll that asks, “What did you think of the blackface moment?” The results are not encouraging:
So could we get some more intelligent voting on this?...
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PSA:
ouyangdan:
ilikelookingatnakedmen:
thewolf-inme:
peanutbutterpretzel:
ouyangdan:
Hitting children is wrong. Full stop.
If you can’t think of a better way to discipline a child, a tiny human who is smaller than you, you need to re-evaluate your approach.
There is NOTHING that a child, who is on the losing end of the power imbalance, can do that warrants striking them. Ever.
Children...
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young adults taking my class: please, please,...
Their first papers are due Thursday, and about 25% of the class has emailed me draft thesis statements or paper topics, and I know that none of them have started writing yet so I don’t expect them to be super focused at this point, but so far there’s only one of them who I think I can trust to come up with an interesting argument without me asking a million leading questions to point...
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Ginsberg
isabelthespy:
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I...
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PSA:
notemily:
ouyangdan:
Hitting children is wrong. Full stop.
If you can’t think of a better way to discipline a child, a tiny human who is smaller than you, you need to re-evaluate your approach.
There is NOTHING that a child, who is on the losing end of the power imbalance, can do that warrants striking them. Ever.
Children are an oppressed class of humans. They have no rights, very little...
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#1 infallible sign that you’re full of shit: Hugo Schwyzer is the first to reblog your self-righteous post about how mean other people are for calling you on your bullshit.
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Feminist X: We are a group of established feminist... →
blackamazon:
feministx:
We are a group of established feminist activists, educators, writers, bloggers and lecturers. We are speaking out as the result of the behaviour and posts coming from some of the online feminist community, which we view as unhealthy for the movement. After some thoughtful consideration, we can…
No.
We ask you toe top being cowardly entitled twits, who only seek to...
ideleteme:
“Everyday Is Like Sunday” by...
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MY DAY BY JONESY: A CAT'S EYE VIEW OF ALIEN →
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BU Hockey Player Pleads Not Guilty to Rape |... →
I don’t know anything about this situation other than what’s in this article, but I’m enraged at the idea that this guy might be able to come back to school over the summer and still graduate on time. I flunked out of college the first time I tried to go because I was depressed, and I’m having trouble in grad school now for the same reason. If I end up having to leave my...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU INTERNET
WHY WON’T YOU GIVE ME A GIF OF MORGAN LE FAY SAYING “BRING ME THE GILDED DRESS” TO A NUN WHILE SMOKING A PIPE IN THE BATH.
WE ARE SO DONEZO.
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Cat, get out of my internets! →
I was asked by my 26(?) year old officemate the other day what the internet was like in the 90s. SADLY NOTHING LIKE THIS.
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thedisgruntledgradstudent:
stfuconservatives:
daniellemertina:
stfuconfederates:
Oh for fuck’s sake, if people don’t stop using the word ‘Caucasian’ when referring to white people I’m going to rename my blog Caucasiandoesnotfuckingmeanwhite.
‘Caucasian’ is a (racist) term incorrectly applied to white people when white people found actual Caucasian skulls (in, you know, Caucasia) which...
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Watchallcreatures:
Hilarious video. Rare bird shagging Stephen Fry’s photographer’s head.
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Ewen Callaway at Scientific American: Alex the... →
Even in death, the world’s most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex — an African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) trained to count objects — have just been published.
They show that Alex could accurately add together two Arabic numerals to a sum of eight and the total number of objects under three cups, putting his mathematical abilities on par with...
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lunchtime poll: what's your desktop background
abbyjean:
here’s mine:
i like calendars. and colors. i change it once a month.
what is yours (photo link or description or whatever)? why?
Remedios Varo. Because YES.
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Goats 'can develop their own accents' →
Researchers found the animals develop their own speaking voice when they move away from their siblings and mingle with others. They found that a goats’ “accent’ changed as they grew older and moved in different groups, disproving claims that their voices were entirely genetic. The team, from Queen Mary University of London, said their findings are the first to suggest that most mammals can...
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