October 2011
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face —...”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via downlo)
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September 2011
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What I have taken from the Leisha Hailey/Southwest...
avocadosalad:
LEISHA AND CAM ARE DATING?
RIGHT?!
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“Can we forgive ourselves? The nearest we can come to forgiving ourselves is to...”
– Claire Weekes (via psychotherapy)
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“Look, we have some very smart people on this. Don’t think that we don’t...”
– President Barack Obama, responding to Rabbi Eric Yoffie, a Reform Jewish leader, when asked to explain why he singled out Israel in public for criticism over its settlements rather than keep disputes with an ally private. (via newsweek)
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“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students...”
– Ten myths about affirmative action (via linzyxxxxx)
well well well look at that.
(via piddlebucket)
OH HEY
OH HEY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS/YAF
OH HEY WOULD YA LOOK AT THIS
(via viviopsis)
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I am having an existential crisis. Which is like a...
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kara helped me set up that developer thing where you can try out the new facebook format before everyone else switches over next saturday, and it fucking sucks.
that website jumped the shark worse than livejournal and in way less time.
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“I have long maintained that to bring in more female readers, superhero comics...”
– Laura Hudson at Comics Alliance, in a long but worthy article on why women are so goddamned tired of this shit. (via drst)
“Rarely have I seen a more unpatriotic public display.”
– Paul Begala at The Daily Beast responds to the moment in last night’s GOP debate when audience members booed an openly gay U.S. soldier serving in Iraq. Watch the video here. (via theweekmagazine)
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The GOOD Guide to Hustlin': The Best Cities for... →
downlo:
I’ve maintained for years that Philly is a great, liveable city for people of small means. It’s a short train ride away from NYC and DC. Rents are affordable in nice neighborhoods. There’s a wonderful restaurant scene with lots of reasonably-priced options. It’s small enough that walking and biking are viable ways to get around. The public transit system is pretty good (not great, but...
I sometimes forget that people not strictly...
sixtyforty:
But then I watch 5 minutes of any tv show.
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kittenmeat:
i like sleeping because its like being dead without the commitment
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“So if you speak to a woman who is otherwise occupied, you’re sending a subtle...”
– Schrödinger’s Rapist (via petitefeministe)
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Working-Out.
knowwhatsfuckingcrazy:
So we go to a gym or a track, and we move our body super fast and lift heavy weights and do all this weirdass pushing and pulling and jumping and lunging that mimic our caveman ancestors who didn’t need artificial training.
Those motherfuckers just ran around hunting and moving boulders and shit.
And working out not only makes our bodies healthier, it makes us look...
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“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
– A. P. Chekhov (via zamimi)
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This Piece in the Atlantic
lazybookreviews:
…in which prominent African-Americans discuss the most racist thing that’s ever happened to them (or the more meta over-arching concept, etc.), is FUCK, MAN.
In 1964, in West Virginia a fourteen-year-old Henry Louis Gates Jr. broke his hip and went to a doctor who x‑rayed his knee, which was also in pain. The doctor saw nothing wrong with his knee and deemed his pain ...
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“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Wiesel, in his 1986 Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via beautifulitisnot) 