September 2011
Casanova was a librarian...
sheisanarchy:
…just sayin’. So all you people who think male librarians are wimpy…think about it. That guy got laid…A LOT!
I think @cthulhuchick will appreciate this on multiple levels. #audiobooksftw
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August 2011
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Why Witnesses Won't Talk to Oakland Police →
As first reported by KALW radio and then in a more in-depth follow-up by the Trib, the monitors analyzed 80 events in which 215 officers drew down on people. They found that in 28 percent of the instances, Oakland cops had no legitimate reason for drawing and pointing their guns. The monitors also tabulated the racial breakdown of who was having guns pointed at them and discovered that 78 percent...
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Tip: DO NOT BE LIKE THIS
(link via @CheyenneTardis and @JessicaDwyer)
1. No. Just: NO. I don’t care how famous someone is, I don’t care how big of a, “Fan,” you are, this is WRONG. Respect the fact that this is a human being, with a right to privacy, with a right to a life.
2. Do the words, “Stalking,” and, “Assault,” ring a bell? If you lay hands on someone without...
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Watchthedailywhat:
Priority Realignment of the Day: Hey, did you hear how Michele Bachmann totally screwed up some insignificant piece of pop culture minutia that isn’t in any way a measure of a presidential candidate’s competence or suitability? Oh man!
Seriously, though, can we drop the innocuous gaffes for a year and a half and get back to the issues? Because Bachmann has quite a few of them.
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Father Sews Wonder Woman Costume For Daughter So... →
mslorelei:
When invited to a birthday party whose theme required that the boys dress as superheroes and the girls as princesses, dad Jay C. Batzner came up with an awesome compromise that simultaneously stomped on the face of gender normativity and made his daughter happy. Wonder Woman, both a princess and a superhero, had long been Daria’s favorite hero, so he sewed her this costume. We...
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Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt: squeetothegee:... →
squeetothegee:
steviemcfly:
Digging For Roots: I say something about why white people are asking the wrong questions…
squeetothegee:
robot-heart-politics:
diggingforroots:confessionsofasablefangyrl:karnythia:diggingforroots:
And then there’s this….
Reblogging because it’s worth thinking about.
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“They [the White working class] became presented as a lost tribe on the wrong...”
– - Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (via femmenoire
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Yes!!!!! In a way I can’t even begin to unpack now but bigotry towards the white working class became OK even as liberal and conservative bigotry passed
Which is starling as much of MY most comforting moments and...
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“If it was so “unrealistic” that Barbara Gordon remain disabled in a fictional...”
– Me, The Nerdy Bird, Jill Pantozzi
I’ve been in a wait and see mode on the Oracle/Batgirl situation for a while now but still seeing people insist she should be cured simply because it’s fiction and anything can happen is bullshit.
(via thebirdandthebat)
While I can agree with the OP that death in...
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That's Pretty F**king Racist (via @pajiba) →
The Help? Yeah, it is actually. Eat, Pray, Love? Yeah, it is, actually. Racist, classist and examples of why priv-lit rots the brain.
The Help is not a story that should be told from a white girl’s PoV. Why? BECAUSE SHE ISN’T THE HELP, DAMMIT. Also, that PoV supports the idea that white people somehow rescued the poor negro women and gave them civil rights and dignity.
FUCK YOU....
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The irony of David Cameron's riot condemnation →
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The Tea Party, the debt ceiling, and white... →
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Rags 'n' Bones: guerrillamamamedicine: Love &... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
Love & Zombies: How to Make Love to a Trans Person by Gabe MosesForget…
genderfuked:
How to Make Love to a Trans Person by Gabe Moses
Forget the images you’ve learned to attach To words like cock and clit, Chest and breasts. Break those words open Like…
Gorgeous poetry.
Shopocalypse Now? →
via @angegarrod, @andyhopkins1
How our cultural obsession with consumerism shapes the expression of rage in London Riots.
I don’t think the analysis is wrong. There’s definitely a little bit of patronizing language, but there is a point to it.
While I don’t think isolationism is the answer, I do think that we have to look at the world we live in, and what we value.
As a...
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At 120 degrees, it was so hot in Australia that...
geekyjessica:
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kyoscock:
One Koala entered someone’s house, looking for water and shade, and here’s what happened when the owner gave him something to drink.
KOALAS :((((((((((
I reblogged this earlier from my phone and couldn’t see the date on the picture was from 2009. Googled it and discovered the story is, in fact, two years old. Just an FYI update,...
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I am a guy, and I am very jealous of girls....
tdfangirl:
You know, I agree that it blows that men are required by American culture to be macho assholes, but SERIOUSLY, did you just say that women are fragile little flowers who need menfolk to protect and coddle them? What the fuck, man. Way to completely ruin the potential for making a really good point about sexism with even more sexist bullshit.
Pro-tip: DO NOT BE THE OP. Seriously....
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“I’d rather be working for a paycheck/than waiting to win the lottery”
– SO.
I am sitting in a cafe doing some work with one of my BFFs who has been gone for the WHOLE SUMMER and is now back (missed u jesse). And he has headphones on and I do not at the moment and so the damn Bright Eyes song that just came on didn’t strike him at all.
But it did me, because one of my...
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“In defiance of all reason and compassion, the criminalization of poverty has...”
– Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) | TomDispatch
#classwar.
(via champagnecandy)
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On Being Geeky: And Another Thing... →
geekyjoey:
I only sought help for my depression and anxiety at the age of 20. It kept me from learning the coping skills necessary to get on with my life.
If you don’t have an understanding of mental illness, imagine never knowing that you have any value for most of your existence. Or that it’s okay to be…
Well worth reading.
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“Like most Americans, at this point, I have no idea what Barack Obama — and by...”
– What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com
This. Democrats are failing on messaging in such an epic way that I have to consider that most of them don’t actually want to win.
It can’t be that hard to figure out that nobody gets excited about “revenues” but 70-80% of the population favors...
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