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this guy I dislike goes on trips all of the time and is a huge advocate of “adventuring” and “living life” BUT he also has a ton of money in an enormous trust from his grandparents so when he hashtags his Instagram photos with shit like #livinglife #areyou? i actually want to kill him b/c very few of us have access to such a fund so are you rly going to shame people for not “living life” you idiot

most of the time my brain feels too heavy, dead and tired and muddled to feel things or to create, no matter how well I’ve slept (sometimes conversations seem impossible too) and so I’ve taken to statistics and facts and science to comfort me and ground me. otherwise I just feel anxious and empty.

estelcontar:

a flame flickered somewhere in a dark house

a flame flickered somewhere in a dark house and i
well i thought it was you again
lighting those candles in the cold evenings

maybe when the flame is dead
and the wick is burnt
maybe when the wax is all but gone

these are silly dreams, i quickly realize
we tend to forget all too soon
what an old candle was worth
as it dies in the dark.

tears-in-the-tardis:

sometimes my mood is ‘beyonce’

but other times its ‘white person in an infomercial’

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archiemcphee:

Arbore, a flooring contractor in Madrid, Spain, created these awesome interlocking hardwood pieces in the form of M.C. Escher’s famous geometric Reptiles.

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climateadaptation:

rtamerica:

The federal government has proposed a new set of national fracking rules that would weaken disclosure requirements. The proposal allows ‘trade secrets’ to remain unknown from the public, which has distressed environmental groups.

I called it. Last month, environmental groups were doing handstands and backflips over Sally Jewell, who is Obama’s pick to lead the BLM (US Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management).

She used to frack wells for Mobil oil company long before she was CEO of REI.

Last month, I wrote:

…the bigger story is about the left’s environmental heroine, Sally Jewell, who used to frack wells. As new head of the Dept. of Interior, she will (with Obama’s encouragement) - will - allow aggressive fracking on more public lands, possibly much more in our National Parks.

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lordbape:

time periods in american history when the majority of white people were right about the racism people of color were facing and knew more about racism than the people of color that were actually facing it:

• never
• never
• literally never
• this has not ever happened 
• the overwhelming majority white people have always been wrong about racism throughout the entirety of american history and this is still the case

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carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

alwayslookagain:

Cookie Dough Ice Cream Pizza

stop right now

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European countries are piling more pressure on the US to allow them to buy armed Predator and Reaper drones. As we have previously reported Germany wants to buy armed Reaper drones from the US and France too has reported this week that it ‘expects’ the US to allow it to acquire unarmed Reapers as a step towards it aim of acquiring armed drone capability.

Italy meanwhile is getting frustrated with a lack of response from the US to its request to arm the unarmed Reaper that it currently operates. According to the Aviation News article, Italy says that it is “looking for alternatives” including supporting a European black (secret) armed drone project. There are already a number of known drone programmes under development within Europe including BAE System’s Taranis, Dassault’s Neuron and EADS’Talarion (although the future of the latter is far from clear). However these are all at an early stage of development with possible in-service dates being many years off and hence the desire of European countries to purchase Reaper and Predator drones.

This week Germany also announced it was cancelling the Euro Hawk project. Unveiled with such fanfare in 2011, Euro Hawk was a German version of the Northrop Grumman’s surveillance drone, the Global Hawk. Various reasons were given this week to the press for its cancellation but German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière simply called the project “a horror without end” in his Bundestag statement. Cancellation of this project, even though it has already cost Germany 500 million Euros, apparently ‘saves’ a further 500 million Euros which can now be spent on alternative drone developments.

Meanwhile the UK continues to operate its armed Reapers acquired from the US in 2007. The UK is now testing the British-made Brimstone missile on its Reapers as an alternative to the US-made Hellfire missile. This will no doubt make it easier for the UK to continue operating its Reaper drones after the Afghanistan ‘drawdown’.

New figures from SIPRI show that Israel has been the biggest proliferator of drone technology over the past decade with just over 40% of drone exports originating from Israel. Many of these small to medium unarmed drones have gone to European countries but also to Latin America and Africa. YnetNews also reported that sales of drones now nets Israel $400 million per year.

While other countries seek to catch up with the drone wars, the US this week undertook a significant test of its new autonomous X-47B drone. For the first time an unmanned drone has taken off from an aircraft carrier, flown a pre-programmed mission and landed all by itself. As many commentators reported, this is a major step forward.

Ominously, in the same week senior Pentagon officials told a Senate hearing on drone strikes that the war on terror is one without end or boundaries and that it is expected it to continue for another ten to twenty years. [++]

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amorphousblob:

slay-z:

satanic2chainz:

nooooooooooooooo

[laughs to keep from crying]

In the game of loans, you either repay or you die.

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