February 2012
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Reblog if you want Anons to tell you who they ship...
elementarymydearturtle:
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An Open Note to the Republican Candidates Who Keep...
Dear Sirs:
Maybe I’ll just being dense, but I have a couple of questions.
First, how do you expect to lower taxes (or eliminate them, which seems like your endgame), stop borrowing money from other countries, and still keep our government running?
Second, why is it so necessary to ensure the government invades a woman’s uterus and a non-cisgendered/non-heterosexual couple’s...
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Why don't they care about this stuff?
teachthemhowtothink:
My 7-year old picked out a book about our solar system for our bedtime story tonight. (My 22-month old was thrilled with this choice as she loves to say “Jupiter has 63 moons” every time we come to a page with Jupiter on it…though now that I type that I wonder if that is still accurate? This book was published in 1998…. hmmm…)
Anyway, when we got to the pages discussing...
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The myth of the eight-hour sleep →
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Lines from... →
m-ci-git:
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to say?”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
“I don’t think I’m quite familiar with that phrase.”
“I would not say such things if I were you!”
“I do not suppose you could speed things up?”
“Skip to the end!”
“That is the sound of...
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“Vertigo
Mind led body
to the edge of the precipice.
They stared in desire
at...”
– Anne Stevenson, “Vertigo” (via words-in-lines)
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Books and Ghosts: His Libraries, 12,000 So Far,... →
newstfionline:
By Nicholas D. Kristof, NY Times, November 5, 2011 CAI LEI, Vietnam—One of the legendary triumphs of philanthropy was Andrew Carnegie’s construction of more than 2,500 libraries around the world. It’s renowned as a stimulus to learning that can never be matched—except that,…
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“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
– JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
Shit like this is a huge deal. People need to realize that women are having their rights stripped away....
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“oNo one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much... →
I am sorry our culture has treated women so poorly for so long that suffering abuse to receive celebrity attention seems like a fair and reasonable trade. We have failed you, utterly.
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I'm making a "This is Your Punishment for Loving...
When I was a kid, my parents listened to a lot of country. So I have a lot of cheesy country love songs bouncing around in my head.
I’m sure you see where this is going.
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nothing-rhymes-with-ianto:
tea-kitten replied to your post: When you’re looking through fonts for a graphic, after a while the word “SAMPLE” stops looking real.
Also known as “semantic satiation” - the neural pathways in your brain connecting the word “sample” with its meaning became exhausted. *random factoid of the day*
Cool!
The things I learn on Tumblr!
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“Her heart was exceptionally loud—not with love,
But with knowing. Knowing...”
– Rex Wilder, from “Séverine in Summer School” (via aubade)
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My brain is making awful, awful mashups.
It put Ke$ha’s “Your Love is My Drug” with Boston’s “More Than a Feeling.” Like, seriously? What kind of fuckery is that?
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We're picking their time. →
whatsprotocol:
I can really appreciate the post-punk sound ofEdelweiss with their sharp guitars and hazy vocals. Not to mention these boys have fantastic style. You’d think they’re Brits by the way they’re smartly dressed yet, they hail from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. These guys remind me of a more melodic version of Minus The Bear with more use of synths especially in the track “Icarus” off...
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“Homage to My Hips
these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around...”
– by Lucille Clifton (via words-in-lines)
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones on MIA’s middle finger and everyone else’s panties being in a bunch over it. (via iwantnothingless)
So good.
(via zurik)
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“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
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Tell Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto →
He’s appointed a Monsanto lobbyist as a senior adviser to the FDA. People trust the FDA to determine what is safe to put into their bodies. I can’t help but think that corporate interests cannot be trusted to be objective in any lawmaking, and this is too important to throw the dice on whether or not we’re about to be betrayed by the love of money.
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My bets for today's Superbowl:
johngreenismypatronus:
Ireland will win, but Krum will catch the Snitch.
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KRUGMAN / NY TIMES: "You can say this for (Mitt... →
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Rare Words
nothing-rhymes-with-ianto:
girlargueswithtree:
tenderstatue:
acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists paralian - A person who lives near the sea aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets dwale - To wander about deliriously sabaism - The worship of stars dysphoria - An unwell feeling aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn eumoirous - Happiness due to being...