January 2012
MittBucks.com →
For every $1 you make, Mitt Romney makes $2,484.16 For Mitt to have an understanding of your day-to-day expenses, a gallon of gas would have to cost him $8,321.95, a 20 oz. soda would have to cost him $3,949.82, and a pizza would have to cost about $25,785.61. When Mitt casually bet Rick Perry $10,000 at a recent debate, that would be like you betting a friend $4.03. Consider that - Mitt thinks...
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and...”
– The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers (via maxistentialist)
Gee, the MPAA made it up. Quelle surprise. Je ne suis pas ne lapin heureux.
Marie likes to draw: It's good to be a geek. →
marielikestodraw:
Today I’m wearing my Captain America Star tee shirt, and my Adidas Wings, which basically makes me a hipster superhero (lol-ing at myself here, of course).
I got in the tube, and there was a group of schoolboys waiting to go on a school trip. Three of them saw me and started flailing excitedly…
This is the story of how Marie won at life. It is awesome.
The Benedict Cumberbatch Situation | Huffington... →
nolala:
megsokay:
I feel like I could have probably put more thought into publishing this, I needed to get this out of my system so I can think about things other than Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in Sherlock again.
It’s a great performance. Seriously.
Describing Benedict as “a situation that me and most of my friends are all having” is SO GODDAMN TRUE I currently don’t know what to...
Real women have/are/do/don't-
whatfreshhellisthis:
Do us all a favour and shut the fuck up before you even try to finish that godawful sentence.
People aren’t puppets. We’re not Pinnochio, ffs. So, let’s drop this, “Real,” business. We’re here, we’re real, and we do not need anyone’s permission or validation to be so. What we need, is for anyone whose latent fascism makes...
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Marie likes to draw: i am sorry. my fandom love is... →
infinitymax:
rukawagf:
If everyone donates $5 to chibi.coco@gmail.com or $10…. she can have a surgery and live.
The goal is $30,000.
This is an EMERGENCY and she’ll need the money ASAP (like possibly even THIS WEEKEND ASAP)
I apologize for the spam but to me it’s important.
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One: The Hill-Burton act, if she’s treated as an emergent case, it can be invoked through the...
The Baker Street Babes: Help save Sir Arthur Conan... →
subtlefire:
Which home? He moved around a lot.
Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Hindhead, Surrey from 1897-1907. He built a house there, called Undershaw, to his own specifications, many of which were conveniences for his wife Louise who had tuberculosis. This is the house where he wrote The…
Reblogging because when we lose these touchstones with our history and culture, we lose something...
The Rose in Bloom: A Slightly Uncomfortable... →
theroseinbloom:
I went out for dinner tonight with my family. A waiter we’re friendly with, Joe* decided to tell us the following story, saying “I don’t know if this is appropriate dinner conversation, but I have to tell you about this uncomfortable incident I had last night with a gay man.”
Immediately I…
^This. Barring risks to your own physical safety, silence is assent.
Knock-Down Drag-Out: dormio: i carry your heart... →
dormio:
i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful…
I don’t like a lot of cummings, but this always chokes me up.
I'm sick of body-shaming so... →
theroseinbloom:
Body shaming sucks hairy gorilla balls. All bodies are good bodies. Big, little, fat, thin, short, tall, voluptuous, skinny, buff, lanky, hairy, smooth. ALL BODIES ARE GOOD BODIES.
THERE IS NO WRONG WAY TO HAVE A BODY. I made tee shirts to that effect. Buy one and stand up against body policing.
#theresnowrongwaytohaveabody learn it, live it, spread the word.
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What the Actual Fuck? →
theroseinbloom:
roxanneritchi:
swanblood | unknownbinaries:
“I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few days later I get a call from FedEx saying that the DVDs were being held at U.S. Customs until I filled out a Video Declaration Form, which she said was now standard practice. Now, I’d never heard of this before,...
“Q: Why do you write strong female characters?
A: Because you’re still asking me...”
– Joss Whedon (via eventuallythebirdsmustland)
I will always reblog this when it comes up on my dash.
^Truth. We’ve reached an interesting point in time, though. Define, “Strong.”
No, really, define what strong means, in a female character.
A strong female character may be a...
Rags 'n' Bones: There Is No Hierarchy of... →
yourhue:
From “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” by Audre Lorde
I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black,…
Until all of us are free, none of us are free.
Rand Paul may singlehandledly bring down the TSA... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
shortformblog:
Paul apparently set off an airport security full-body scanner “on a glitch,” a spokesman in Paul’s office told ABC News.
The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding a full body pat-down.
The Paul spokesman said his office called TSA administrator John Pistole about the incident this...
