June 2011
“The pushback and the guttural reaction from women against the Republicans agenda...”
– Planned Parenthood as 2012 football - The Fix - The Washington Post
This is an important article, and you should read it and be aware of the issues involved.
When you put together a “gut” reaction and a “visceral” reaction, you do not get a “guttural” reaction....
100 facts #38: I believe there's life on other...
femaelstrom:
…There’s no way to say that that doesn’t make me come across as totally unhinged.
But seriously, not in a crazy way! I don’t think they’ve visited us or anything! (Except Time Lords. They visit all the time.)
I just think the universe is unbelievably huge (“You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space”) and we don’t know that much...
Google+: A strange omission in an otherwise very... →
horrorwine:
practicalandrogyny:
Google’s new privacy-focused social network Google+ nonetheless *forces* you to expose your gender (Female, Male or Other) to everyone. If Google thinks outing people as trans* doesn’t potentially risk their relationships, jobs and safety, they are extremely naive.
Update: Google devs discussing the gender field situation - I am very unhappy with the idea that...
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The inner-workings of Joss Whedon's mind
fuckyeahfirefly:
yellow-umbrellas:
Not strictly Firefly, but too wonderful not to share :D
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Disclosure and Dating
clapifyoulikeme:
jwisser:
Disclosure and Dating
unnomjuste:
A very worthwhile rant, as rants go.
For some strange reason, however, there is never any onus on cis people to list “being trans” as one of the dealbreakers for a relationship. If every cis person would explicitly indicate whether or not they were willing to have relationships with trans people, this would not be an issue and no...
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Can't figure out why my permalinks aren't working.
Or rather, I can’t figure out why they’re doing what they’re doing that prevents them from working properly.
I’m going to bother Tumblr about it later today, assuming I can get a response from support this time.
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Disclosure and Dating →
unnomjuste:
A very worthwhile rant, as rants go.
For some strange reason, however, there is never any onus on cis people to list “being trans” as one of the dealbreakers for a relationship. If every cis person would explicitly indicate whether or not they were willing to have relationships with trans people, this would not be an issue and no one would ever argue for mandatory, forced...
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Haisai!
nailswheels:
Heya! Assuming I’ve got internet access, this is where I’ll post writing and photos from my 80 days in Okinawa, July to September 2011. I’ll be volunteering on a horse farm through the WWOOF program for the first two months or so, then hopefully couch surfing (through CouchSurfing) for the last few weeks. I’ll explore the island by skateboard, foot and bus as much as possible in...
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“So when Mike Diana was prosecuted — and, in 1996, found guilty — of...”
– Neil Gaiman’s Journal: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
Neil Gaiman is a badass. What’s more, he’s absolutely right.
“Sonic is described as a character who is “like the wind”: a drifter...”
– Sonic the Hedgehog (character) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GPOYDL (desired lifestyle).
“I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.”
– Desiderius Erasmus - Wikiquote
More appropriate than ever in the age of the internet. He has some other excellent quotations; I think I would have liked him rather more than most other Catholic priests of his time.
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WatchFor the Whovians in the audience, here’s another winner from Steven “Trollface” Moffat.
“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via robot-heart)
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American Civic Literacy Quiz →
(via femaelstrom)
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
I’d be curious to know how my fellow Tumblrs do—especially folks from other countries who’ve visited or studied in the United States. I have a worrying suspicion that international visitors are likely to score better than United States citizens on average.
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TO ALL GIRLS, PLEASE BE AWARE!
thislostlegacy:
This message is for every girl who goes to work, school, or home alone.
If you find a child crying on the road showing his/her address & asking you to take him/her to that address, immediately take that child to the police station and ABSOLUTELY NOT to the address.
This is a new way to gang rape girls.
Please reblog this message in order to help make girls aware of this...
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So tired of bumblefucks making up their own...
squee-gee:
downlo:
They’re always SO sure that they’re right, but it’s always blindingly clear that they’ve never actually read the Constitution.
The text of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people...
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An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
asleeporawakealwaysinthought:
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son? Student: Yes, sir.
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That student was Albert Einstein. Brilliant.
I assure you, that student really was not Albert Einstein. Let’s see who can be the first to tell me why.
(If you’re curious, you can find the whole science-bashing conversation—in which our “Einstein” produces several...
“HELLO WOULD YOU LIKE TO CHANGE RELIGIONS I HAVE A FREE BOOK WRITTEN BY JESUS”
– Elder Cunningham, in The Book of Mormon
The whole show cracks me up, but every time I hear Cunningham belt this out in Hello!, I can’t stop laughing.
“In August 1993, Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993,...”
– Bill Clinton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And for the last three years of the Clinton administration, we had a budget surplus. But remember, kids, Democrats are fiscally irresponsible and bad for small business.
“No one is illegal. The people you call illegal are human beings, whose only...”
– Tim Wise, anti-racism author, essayist, and educator (via captainzoe)
Illegal immigrants today likely have exactly the same sort of motivations your family had for coming to the United States. The only difference between them is a few pieces of extremely hard to get paper. Remember that.
If Ned Stark was in Middle Earth and Boromir was...
robot-heart:
winteriscomingbitch:toldmethatmyhairwasred:
things would have totally worked out.
Ned would get his ass kicked in Middle Earth, it would be quite entertaining tbh.
Ahahahaha!
Not gonna lie, as soon as I found out Sean Bean was playing Eddard, I started thinking about this. Boromir would just be like, “Haha, no, I should be king.” and kill all the...
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“We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the...”
– NY’s top Catholic officials seek to halt Senate vote on legalizing gay marriage
Archbishop, I believe you said something in a previous paragraph about the government not redefining marriage. Perhaps you should consider why you feel it’s appropriate for you to redefine the word...
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“Although individual members of Congress have every right to express their views...”
– Bankruptcy Court Declares DOMA Unconstitutional - Bankruptcy Beat - WSJ
DOMA? GTFO.
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Four hours to bury the cat?/Soldier Girl/Pretty...
I woke up with three audio tracks running in my head this morning:
The “four hours to bury the cat?” sketch by Monty Python.
Soldier Girl by The Polyphonic Spree.
The four seconds of Pretty Boy Swag by Soulja Boy that I know from Girl Talk.
This is what happens when I get ~4 hours of sleep and wake up when my body thinks it’s still 4:30am.
P.S. - I also woke up believing...
