August 2012
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mamajava:
dasdeutschtard:
ink-film-nibbles-script:
“England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn’t been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler’s ambitions.” — Mitt Romney
The Americans:
The British:
way to...
“I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father...”
– Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
(via cgdageek)
Forever reblog.
(via missgingerlee)
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“Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan’s speech at the RNC was interrupted by two...”
– Code Pink press release
[NB: Ryan’s policies affect more people than just cis women.]
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
Good for them. They’re doing what they have to, in order to stop absolute madness for millions of people.
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No. 130 For Love is Live! →
It’s new comic day. Do you like Shakespeare? Steampunk? The machinations of the Roman Empire? Spun and shaken, this is what happens when Amber Love and I decided to dig beneath the skin of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130.
For $1.99, you can buy the digital single but for $24.99, you can pre-order the HC and get a digital single as well. (Hint: Pre-order the HC, you’ll thank me.)
WatchThirty seconds of my very happy creeper kitty, Pumpkin.
Useful Stuff: Politics, follow the money? There's...
nprfreshair:
Our friends at On The Media did a story in July on this neat tool called the SuperPacApp. It allows your to wave your phone in front of a TV and find out who and how much money are behind the ad. Now, a good reason to stick around during the commercials…
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“I realized that I had been lying to both myself and God. I was never a “poor”...”
– reading all the annoying crowing from conservatives about the “liberals don’t give money to the poor data”, I remembered this article and why I liked it. I think it’s some pretty awesome real talk for ~my people~, by which I mean young, single, underpaid non-profit workers from nice middle class...
Untitled: I never get anything for my birthday →
tishalulle:
I also ever actually ASK for anything. This year is different, this year shortly after my birthday we will be closing on the purchase of what is pretty much my dream house. BUT, it doesn’t have a washer/dryer or a refrigerator. Since every penny of our money is going into the purchase of the house…
A. Signal boost. B.Hey, @tishalulle1 have you registered for them as...
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We refuse to cede the narrative: Rape Culture and...
Some of you are going to read this and snort. Some of you are going to read this and fist-pump. Some of you are going to read this and think, “I… never knew what that meant.”
I’m putting a large TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF RAPE, RAPE CULTURE, SUICIDAL IDEATION, and TRAUMA here, because I don’t know what may trigger people and I’m not easily triggered.
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On being a decent human being
1. Regardless of religion or lack thereof, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is pretty good advice and covers nearly every situation.
2. You can’t remake the world in your own image or ideology, stop trying.
3. Nobody is required by law to agree with you, all laws can do is make them behave in certain ways, or (and this is important) risk censure and/or...
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Fifty things you probably didn't need to know...
theroseinbloom:
1: When you have a container of Neapolitan ice cream, what flavor do you leave for last?
Vanilla. At least with Spumoni there’s pistachio. I bloody loathe vanilla. 2: Would you rather be caught in a thunderstorm without an umbrella or a snowstorm without boots?
I don’t need no stinkin’ umbrellas. True story: I never use them because I was taller than my mum when...
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Keep your Bullshit out of my Uterus!: 16-Year-Old... →
rabbleprochoice:
abaldwin360:
A pregnant 16-year-old in the Dominican Republic died from complications of leukemia, according to CNN. The young woman was forced to wait nearly three weeks to begin chemotherapy to treat her disease as hospital officials initially refused to treat her…
Don’t get smug, USA, go read H.R. 358. Oh yeah, didn’t Ryan co-sponsor it? Yes, he did.
How Many People Will Walk Out of Compliance? by... →
starfishncoffeeelephantsnflowers:
Alert: Spoilers in article.
The press screening for Craig Zobel’s Compliance was probably about half an hour in when the murmurs began. “Oh, come on!” someone loudly sighed. Much of the audience had become audibly uncomfortable with the representation of true events in which characters behave in seemingly inexplicable ways. Several—including one woman who...
So back the hell up on your moral indignation and...
theroseinbloom:
fuckyeahfeminists:
womensenews:
SEVEN CENTS A DAY: ABOUT $26 A YEAR.
That’s how much it costs a company to pay for an employee’s contraception benefits.
But that low cost hardly means the battle for contraceptive coverage is won.
Missouri Hosts a Rip Tide on Contraception Mandate
wow i had no idea the cost was so low!
Seven cents.
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Context, co-opting, and condescension: When...
NB: I will not be linking to any of the articles mentioned, because y’all have plenty of google-fu.
ETA: Excuse the typos of phone-blogging, I’m rather bleary-eyed atm.
From the debacle a few weeks ago, over, “Fake,” geek girls to this week’s slut-shaming, hairdo-controversy, and the insidious misuse of a quote fragment to frame an actor as an object of the class debate: media has been...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Our Fearless Leader!!!
bakerstreetbabes:
It’s the 25th birthday of none other than…
drumroll…
wait for it…
CurlyFourEyes!
We love you, baby! All the applause. Is she the best??? Yes, I thought so. Keep owning it, lady boss, you rock our world.
Happy Birthday to @CurlyFourEyes!
The empty glass and the folly of the ostrich
I keep wanting to say something about the Temple shooting. I find that I can’t. People turned into objects in order to slake a terrorist’s hate. I can grasp the shape of it, but not the warped vision behind it.
The 21st century is an era of miraculous things. The Mars Rover Curiosity, the global network of humanity in social media, computing in the palm of our hands.
Yet we blind...
If you are even a small part of the BBC Sherlock...
beautifulfic:
jennstarkid:
everything will be explained later
Reblogging because I don’t want to miss out on something and feel like a fool. But also because of the curious confusion I feel whenever I see this message go by….
I am a curious creature. Bring it on.
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Things we say and do not say.
We have a rule, in my house: Nobody leaves, goes to bed, or ends a phone call without saying, “I love you.” Life is short and fragile. I’ve had to perform mouth-to-mouth on my mom twice, and one morning when I was 23, I woke up to her screaming and ran downstairs in any icy panic to find my grandmother wasn’t breathing. I performed CPR, and I could taste death, felt her...
