August 2012
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“White men from prosperous families grow up with the expectation that our voices...”
– Why most mass killers are privileged white men - http://www.rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2012-07-why-most-mass-murderers-are-privileged-white-men (via riselikethetide)
“only those who’ve marinated in privilege can conclude that their private pain is the entire world’s problem with...
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This Is My Secret: Just Another Day in the Park →
notemily:
In which Kristin Cashore writes about street harassment and how it relates to Fire.
July 2012
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Take a quick survey to donate cat litter to a... →
soultired:
World’s Best Cat Litter (which is corn based, biodegradeable, and flushable!) is donating one lb of cat litter to MSPCA-Angell for every survey taken. It’s only 9 questions!
Cat litter can be really expensive for shelters, so if they can reach the max 50,000lbs I imagine MSPCA would be able to use the money they would have spent on litter to help even more animals!
Take the...
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So there's only one channel in this motel,
draggle:
madeofmetals:
This morning while I was getting ready I was watching Sesame Street.
They were doing this bit where some clown was trying to wash his hands but kept washing his feet or his elbows and Elmo would go, “no mister noodle, your HANDS!” and all the tv kids would laugh.
Around the fourth or fifth time he couldn’t find his hands, I heard a grown man yell from somewhere else in...
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"So You Want to Be a Wizard" New Millennium...
dduane:
This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece (or two) (or three) removed will pop out of my Tumblr queue. Friday morning, August 3, when the...
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Chivalry on Sinking Ships Only a Myth, Researchers... →
stfuconservatives:
deliciouskaek:
this isn’t a surprise at all
This story is a favorite of men’s rights activists who hold it up as evidence that women have always had it better. SURPRISE, it’s not based in reality.
SHOCKER
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Parents of little lemonade entrepreneurs find... →
alexandraerin:
deliciouskaek:
trapped-n-da-closet-with-malcolm:
jakke:
A pair of sisters who run a thriving lemonade stand in Texas beg to differ with President Obama’s message that entrepreneurs “didn’t get there on your own,” and several grownups who groom the next generation of small business owners say the kids are right.
Clara Sutton, 7, and little sister Eliza, 4, started CoolBlast...
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“According to Limbaugh, who was speaking on his syndicated radio show on Tuesday,...”
– Dark Knight Rises: Bane character ‘part of political plot against Mitt Romney’ (via neon-loneliness)
BECAUSE “BANE” ISN’T A REAL FUCKING WORD THAT HAS EXISTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS WITH ALL OF ITS NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS ALREADY IN PLACE OR ANYTHING.
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Teen girl from Egypt has just reinvented space... →
alexandraerin:
ihavethisblog:
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
fyeahcarlsagan:
Egyptian Aisha Mustafa, 19, has dazzled the physics world with a new invention that could launch spacecraft off the Earth’s surface and soaring through space without any fuel. Space is filled with a billowing sea of quantum particles that jump in and out of existence, and Aisha Mustafa proposes using thin...
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SUCCESS
I MADE ALL THE PHONE CALLS
now watching the wings of the dove
This is a much more sympathetic Kate than I remember from the novel.
Also, bigger hair.
Also, more female bonding over porn.
Also, a guy two separate women fall in love with on first sight ought to be more… visually striking. I’m just saying.
progress
Put my pajamas in the washing machine. Ordered dinner (thanks, credit cards!). The rest can wait a little while.
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a list of things I am freaking out about right now
I have to write three 20-page papers (all requiring lots of research) by August 15 or I lose my funding for the fall and have to take a leave of absence.
I also have to finish writing an informal final exam essay-type thing for a fourth class.
Until I finish writing that final, I don’t feel like I can contact the professor to ask her to grade the paper for an old incomplete that she still...
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“The imaginary proximity to the suffering inflicted on others that is granted by...”
– Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (pp 102-3)
My response to this book is somewhere between “meh” and “ugh.” Like, some of this is true, yes, and a valuable point to make, but it’s thrown in just like this at the end of a chapter and Sontag never returns to it....
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Texts From Jane Eyre | The Hairpin →
JANE MY LITTLE SUNBEAM WHERE ARE YOU I NEED YOU BY MY SIDE I’m taking a walk be back for dinner AH YES MY CAGED SPRITE COMMUNE WITH NATURE AND UPON YOUR RETURN RELATE TO ME THE VAGRANT GLORIES OF THE RUINED WOODS do you really want me to describe my walk to you MORE THAN ANYTHING YOU POCKET WITCH
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“Again a long period has elapsed in which I have been unable to pull myself...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, 1838 (via slychedelic)
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Between 2000 and 2010, of 122,000 published news... →
political-linguaphile:
University of Memphis journalism professor Thomas Hrach conducted a study of 122,000 news stories published between 2000 and 2010, to determine which terms are being used to describe foreign nationals in the U.S. who are out of status. He found that 89% of the time during this period, journalists used the biased terms “illegal immigrant” and “illegal alien.”
Read this...
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