February 2012
138 posts
STFU, Sexists.: If y'all want to tell trans people... →
stfusexists:
saynathespiffy:
stfusexists:
…..You’re doing the same shit that people do to me when they tell me I “take things to seriously” and am bad for the feminist movement….
I’ve never seen a feminist* tell men to die.
*(save for Valerie Solanas, and that may have been satire and even if it’s not she’s kinda… unwell.)
Really? You’ve never seen a woman after hours of debating...
“It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work....”
– Barack Obama
Notice he’s not talking about just four-year college. What a snob.
(via soupsoup)
Excellent. If it’s people’s patriotic duty to get a post high school education/job training, guess who will end up on the line for the bill?
If you guess “The Taxypayer,” well done.
(via huskerred)
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4000 Years of Medicine
cozmoxandre:
-2000 BC:Here,eat this root. -1000 AD:That root is heathen!Here,say this prayer. -1865 AD:That prayer is superstition!Here,drink this potion. -1935 AD:That potion is snake oil!Here,swallow this pill. -1975 AD:That pill is ineffective!Here take this antibiotic. -2000 AD:That antibiotic is poison!Here,eat this root.
“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
– Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
(via sophiologist)
EVERYONE should read Elaine Brown’s autobiography. EVERYONE. (via farahjoon)
“Furthermore, as freelancer you know that the routine for payments is this:...”
– a client’s reply to an inquiry about an unpaid bill (via clientsfromhell)
“Large-scale education was not developed to motivate kids or to create scholars....”
– Seth Godin, from his new manifesto on education “Stop Stealing Dreams” (via liberalsarecool)
People Without Anxiety Don't Understand Anxiety. →
egregiously:
yesthatdana:
bubbleteacup:
fuckyeahwodao:
bluepineappleplate:
I’ve had this horrible message I received on facebook, saying horrible things about someone I care a lot about, floating around in my head for the past week or so.
Apparently, there’s this notion that having…
Something about this is off but I can’t place it.
I definitely agree with the list. People with...
marrypotter:
I love Oscars night more than my own birthday.
“Sex is not spiritual. There is no god present when I kiss someone, no goddess...”
– Why Sex Is Not Spiritual - San Francisco Arts - The Exhibitionist (via fetters)
“Vegan alternatives are not inherently better for animals or the planet. Pleather...”
– Vegans miss the larger point (via voorwaarts)
/YOUR SOY- AND CORN-BASED PRODUCTS ARE GIANT MONOCROPS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DECLINE OF SMALL FARMERS, SOIL EROSION, FERTILIZER-RUNOFF-INDUCED OCEANIC DEADZONES, AND/OR THE CLEARCUTTING OF THE AMAZON, among lots of other fun environmental devastations
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Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
teagan:
bencrowther:
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries;...
Anonymous asked: what do i do if she won’t lemme...
gifmovie:
New biological studies reconfirm that “human... →
cloneboy:
satans-advocate:
In a world filled with mostly well intentioned people and tons of senseless violence its completely natural for those people to develop an assortment of justifications and rationalizations for the horror that is taking place around them. One of the most popular of these rationalizations is what I like to call “the human nature cop out”. This is basically the notion...
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
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I had to unfollow a blog I quite liked when they accused trans* people of trying to “derail” a reproductive rights discussion by having the nerve to ask to be included in the language of a poster. (via cloneboy)
“Time stands still, yet everything turns to dust.”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via executions)
Anonymous asked: I am so unamused by this racist...
yoisthisracist:
Oh, word, that is just fucking criminal that there aren’t more roles for White actors on BET shows. Producers, I urge you to do the right thing: next time you’re casting your BET shows and there’s a role for a murderer, a gang member, or a janitor who exists solely to give advice to your main character, to the exclusion of any personal motivation, please, won’t you consider...
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
yesysabella:
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your property.
You have the right to refuse random police searches anywhere and anytime, so...