August 2012
cosmo tip #185: when climaxing, announce your orgasm in the batman voice
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“Although it seems counterintuitive to give away any of your time when you feel...”
– How to Find More Time: Give Some Away (via azspot)
“Guys on Reddit are very typically coming from STEM fields - a lot of engineers,...”
– “Why is Reddit so Anti-Women?” Fascinating (and highly sensical) approach here, underscoring what gets lost when education (policy) is viewed as strictly the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields (the globally profitable/innovation-driven ones) at the expense of social/cultural...
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Dear Mr. Romney: Palestinians are Poor Because You... →
Mitt Romney, a privileged white man worth a quarter of a billion dollars who has sheltered his money from taxes in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and who never misses a square meal, stooped to a new obscene low in blaming the victim on Monday by slamming the Palestinians for not being richer. Palestinian politician Saeb Erekat characterized Romney’s remarks as “racist,” but even...
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“Americans, no matter how bloody their hands, have always liked to think of...”
– U.S. Escalates Military Penetration of Africa (via arielnietzsche)
July 2012
“The ease of not being aware of privilege is an aspect of privilege itself, what...”
– Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)
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when sad I just take on the charm and grace and coolness of serena van der woodsen and everything seems okay
“Some part of all of us wants to be credited and enjoys the acclaim. And a big...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates on journalism, Jonah Lehrer, and the truth. (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
winifredsburkle:
do you ever get so platonically infatuated with someone that you just want to shower them with love and never stop but you’re afraid they’ll think you’re creepy and secretly start to judge you and no ssh stop all i want to do is love you
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“& those scars i had hidden wit smiles & good
fuckin
lay open
& i...”
– Ntozake Shange (via wretchedoftheearth)
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[[MORE]]It frustrates me when I’m not my best self because the people in my life deserve better but it also frustrates me how little control you feel that have over yourself sometimes. I’m upset and regretful about my occasional overflow of feelings and inability to treat people how they want to be treated. Case in point: what I’m saying right now is me being incredibly...
“Democrats are significantly less likely now (39 percent) than they were in the...”
– Charles Blow, “Where’s the Outrage,” showing why I think Mitt Romney will win this fall. (via climateadaptation)
There is a very real likelihood that Romney could win, apathy among voters makes me shake my head.
I mean, I understand how people can get jaded about this sort of thing, but all...
“Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more because he becomes very...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
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aboutmaleprivilege:
male privilege is ryan lochte responding to ye shiwen’s record-beating swim by saying “it was pretty impressive. and it was a female. she’s fast. if she was there with me, i don’t know, she might have beat me.”
lochte swam his final 50 meters in 29.10 seconds. ye swam it in 28.93. motherfucker, she DID BEAT YOU.
Stress May Cause Women's Brains to Age Earlier →
neurosciencestuff:
By Makini Brice | July 26, 2012
Scientists were surprised, expecting the areas of the brain to age more slowly, or even delayed, than those of men.
Photo: Microsoft
Even though the gap is closing now in many high-income countries, on average, women tend to live longer lives than men do. Despite – or perhaps because of – women’s physical longevity, women tend to battle...
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via langste)
Romney in Israel: Palestinian Culture Is Inferior →
Speaking to roughly four dozen donors at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Mr. Romney suggested that cultural differences between the Israelis and the Palestinians were the reason the Israelis were so much more economically successful than the Palestinians. He also vastly understated the income disparities between the two groups. …
“Culture makes all the difference,” Mr. Romney said. “And as I...
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“While Qatar and Saudi Arabia arm and fund the rebels of Syria to overthrow...”
– Robert Fisk (via azspot)
Fake Science Wins in Extremely Troubling South... →
stfuhypocrisy:
Katie J.M. Baker
Today, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Dakota has the right to order doctors to tell women seeking abortions that they’re likelier to kill themselves if they go through with the procedure, even though that’s a blatant lie.
The controversial provision is part of a larger law that was introduced in 2005 and might as well be called,...
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“Our culture denigrates sharing. The recent innovations in “intellectual...”
– Jason Godesky, Thirty Theses, Thesis VII: Humans are best adapted to band life
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I am so glad that my mom is my mom
and that my dad is my dad because they are great
also my sister is 100% awesomeness I would actually be nothing without the goober
sometimes we’ll have disagreements but I am extremely extremely extremely thankful for my fambam.
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too much on my mind right now so I won’t spout any of it
degenerating into poop I think
will watch even more gossip girl to pretend nothing I am upset about is making me upset
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urbran:
excuse me while i blog in private
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7 months today so happy so happy so happy
