December 2010
82 posts
Eventual Ghost: Reasons To Hate New Year's Eve →
eventualghost:
1. Yet another reminder of aging and mortality. 2. Vague sense of regret and failure. 3. Amateur hour at the bars, liquor stores, on the street, etc. 4. Irrational exuberance among your friends and acquaintances. 5. It comes a week after Xmas, but there are no presents. 6. Childhood…
Be Careful This New Year's Eve
fakescience:
Watch a 9-Year-Old’s Awesome ‘Whip My Hair’... →
This is amazingly awesome.
“Jesus, you can quit making us feel guilty about the fact that you’re poor.”
– From a good friend after I offhandedly mentioned not being able to afford new boots. I go to an extremely expensive liberal arts college on full scholarship, so I feel really out of place when things like this happen. (via microaggressions)
Disobedience (originally on my poetry blog)
05.04.2010
DISOBEDIENCE
And this is the way it can go: there was love the kind of love that doesn’t make sense, ever. A lot of loves are like that but they will insist this one is different because it is their particular confusion and they are unique people of course. They will touch tongues and pull back very quickly. In their minds. In real life it will not be so cute. In real life it will...
Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters | Reuters →
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Tumblr Pet Peeves....
alittleriddle:
automatic playing music
music that automatically starts
when a song just starts automatically when I go to your page
that song that interrupts my song because it started without my knowledge
music on your page that just comes out of fucking nowhere
that annoying music
music on tumblr
tumblr music
narindaism: Bought and Sold by Benjamin Zephaniah →
narinda’s got a hard on!
narindaism:
Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It’s not censors or dictators that are cutting up our art. The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society Is damping creativity and eating at our heart. The ancestors would turn in graves Those poor black folk that once were…
Anti-Establishment Poetry: Western Child →
“Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian...”
– Haiti: where aid failed | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Some Good Morning Anti-Colonial Poetry →
I Had A Dream Just Now
wherein someone became President, found out the harsh truths of what the options were and decided the best thing ze could do was tell all of us the truth, whatever it meant for hir career.
Glenn Beck Edges Out Dalai Lama In Dumb ‘Most... →
dont believe the hype no body is free yet →
what i am interested in is what will happen, how will we survive, how will we build community, after this empire falls. some folks are predicting that china or india will create the new empire. i say, no. i say, i dearly hope no.
was sitting at the bar with a few kids, economics majors, and we get on the topic of palestine. i can still see them pulling out the old cards, like, you have...
“What are you, anyway? You have a nice Canadian accent, but you never know.”
– When I worked in a call centre. (via microaggressions)
“En cinco siglos no nos ha dado amor, ni paz, ni justicia. Por favor tome su...”
– -Un grupo de indigenas peruanos al devolverle una biblia al papa Juan Pablo II- (via bituperio)
(“In five centuries it has given us neither love, nor peace, nor justice. Please take your bible and return it to our oppressors, because they are in more need of their moral rules than us”—A group of...
Women and Revolutionary Transformation in... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Yoly Fernandez lives in a barrio in the city of Valencia in Venezuela. She has been involved in community politics all her life and is a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), headed by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. Fernandez works in Mission MERCAL, the government agency that sells subsidised food to the population. I interviewed her in May...
“YOU CAN’T BE BISEXUAL, THERE’S NO SUCH THING. YOU’RE EITHER STRAIGHT OR GAY. BI...”
– my ex-girlfriend (via microaggressions)
Nice Day for a Green Wedding! Ireland Okays... →
“How many teacher’s salaries does it take to change a lightbulb?”
– EPA, N.Y. Department of Education Battle Over Costs To Clean Up Toxic Schools
Recordings of Jackie Robinson TV Show Unearthed -... →
Recording: An Ex-Slave on Freedom and Slavery →
“Below are some audio excerpts of interview conducted with freedman and ex-slave, Fountain Hughes. He was born in Charlottesville in 1848, and claims his grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson.”
“You know, Obama may have black skin, but he was basically raised white.”
– A manager at my company, discussing President Obama with several of my coworkers. (via microaggressions)
“Those who speak of revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to...”
– <3 this!
Raoul Vaneigem (via clubjacobin)
“I’m … I’m not exactly for the use of drugs, don’t get me wrong, but I just...”
– Yeah, you know something is wrong with a law when even Pat Robertson agrees with you about it. And makes a cogent argument for your case!
Pat Robertson wants to legalize it!
via Gawker
(via eventualghost)
Federal Government Seeks Computer Firewall to... →
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...”
– James A. Baldwin (via quelowat)
In Defense Of Therapy | Wired Science | Wired.com →
Therapy lasts longer than pills in many cases. Of course, pills are often covered by health insurance at a better rate than therapy. Sigh.
“You’re buying people. When I describe to you what we’re buying,...”
– Glad to see that Google doesn’t recognize its fangs for what they are … or thinks we won’t. Google growing through aggressive buying spree - San Jose Mercury News
“According to a new study of sexual assault on the George Washington University...”
– Sexual assault at GWU: What college students think about rape - Amanda Hess | TBD.com
AWESOME: Chrome for a Cause →
I already have 20 gazillion tabs open anyway. Too bad I found out about this so late …
“The fact that anyone can be labeled a slut, at any time, with any level of...”
– from “‘slut panel’ postmortem: shame, shame, go away” on feministing. the whole piece is very good, but this section was especially good. (via 63words) (via skirtonfire) (via definatalie) (via drugz) (via xdny) (via albinwonderland) (via bettychantel) (via thefeeloffree) (via dancingonembers) (via...
“Dismissed by his supporters as a smear campaign, the case against Assange now...”
– Agreed — people are focusing on the man when they should be focusing on the Wikileaks. Julian Assange furore deepens as new details emerge of sex crime allegations | Media | guardian.co.uk
Gay and Lesbian College Presidents Go Public With... →
“While we cannot comment on the allegations against Mr Assange since we do not...”
– Finally, Women Against Rape says something I can agree with. Their letter to the Guardian last week was infuriating and personally offensive. Additional statement from Women Against Rape regarding rape allegations against Julian Assange | Against Rape
“If more people shared my enthusiasm for what I’m doing, I would more...”
– I am tempted to say something snarky about how whiney this sounds, but I’ll let it stand for itself. Breakthrough of the Year: Bridging the Quantum and the Classical Worlds - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers
“Is my car gonna be okay?”
– White visitors to my house in the city (via microaggressions)
chanda's addendum to shit I'm sick of hearing
I’m really really really really really tired of people in my family (who should know better) and friends thinking that I haven’t read enough of the press to know why people are skeptical about the Assange rape charges. You know what skepticism is for? The freaking court room. Able to create reasonable doubt? Become Assange’s trial lawyer and stop trying to convince me that a...