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monetizeyourcat: abuse victims often ‘overreact’ because part of being in an abusive situation is...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:22:00 -0400

abuse victims often ‘overreact’ because part of being in an abusive situation is being constantly told your justifiable anger or fear or anxiety is unjustifiable by both the people abusing you and people knowingly or unknowingly supporting them! abusive systems create people whose ability to ‘react’ ‘appropriately’ has been deliberately taken from them as a means of control! you’re not helping by being just another person telling them to shut up! here’s a picture of a cube!!

rabioheab: what do you mean navy seals aren’t actual seals

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:13:59 -0400

rabioheab:

what do you mean navy seals aren’t actual seals

if there is one thing radicals/progressives/liberals have failed to get right in the new age

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:09:09 -0400

navigatethestream:

its the notion of boycotts

you wanna know why the bus boycotts of the civil rights movement were so successful?

because an alternative black run transportation system was created for those who couldn’t walk to work or whatever they had to go

they didn’t just tell people “oh the bus enforces racist policies so don’t take it and FUCK if you can’t get to work on time or where you need to be!”

they said “hey you’re paying to get on the bus and not even being given a seat let alone being ejected if a white passenger needs your seat. here’s a potentially better alternative where you pay to sit down and get to where you need to go”

all this “boycott Target, Walmart, Monsanto owned companies” comes from a notion of boycott located in the politic of privileged white people

and that’s why they are largely unsuccessful

its why Obama just gave Monsanto the green light to commit even more fuckery to your food

its the reason why corporations are considered people

its the reason why Walmart is allowed to usurp safety and labor regulations in their factories, and underpay their American workers

because you say “don’t spend your money there” and that’s the end of the story

you expect people to locate their survival in a politic of “abstaining from unethical choices”

and then from there those unethical choices are somehow supposed to magically disappear. when really only a small percentage of people are able to boycott so many things

there wouldn’t be a movement located around the “99%” if 99% of people could really afford to stop shopping at the unethical places and stop buying the unethical brands

good luck with your hocus pocus activist logic

hamdoullahcava: Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:40:52 -0400

hamdoullahcava:

Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft

orbsteeb: HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA ARE MELTING RIGHT THRU THE EARTHS CRUST AND FUSING WITH THE...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:01:23 -0400

orbsteeb:

HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA ARE MELTING RIGHT THRU THE EARTHS CRUST AND FUSING WITH THE MOLTEN CORE OF OUR CORRUPT PLANET!! TO HEAR THEIR MAGNETIC DIRGE IS TO YEARN TO JOIN THEM

reblog if your existence as flesh is a nightmare from which you can never wake

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:58:17 -0400

bebroom: a woman’s body is not for you. if she wants to cover it she should feel free and safe in...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:26:21 -0400

bebroom:

a woman’s body is not for you. if she wants to cover it she should feel free and safe in doing so. if she wants to expose it she should feel free and safe in doing so. it is not an indication of her self-respect but an indication of her preferences for whatever reasons she chooses — none of which are your business or concern.

pdbird: Granola bars are starting to become one of...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:56:38 -0400

pdbird:

Granola bars are starting to become one of my favorite snacks! I should do commercials or something.

Man am I one lucky bird!

The best.

"I don’t think there’s anything wrong with today’s music or that it lacks anything. There has always..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:14:13 -0400

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with today’s music or that it lacks anything. There has always been, and there will always be, a profound and humbling surplus of great music being made by human beings. Sometimes you have to look harder, sometimes it’s right there in the charts. But “it was better when” is not a look I flex, because people have (literally: read the Greeks) always been saying “music/art/literature/life was better back in the old days.” Sometimes they say the problem’s that it’s gotten cruder, or less grand, or too commercial or whatever. But none of that’s true. People are always making awesome music. Not always in the same genres, so you can’t always be looking for awesome present-day rock music, or awesome classical music, or awesome Western swing. But music itself is a vast eternal conversation and there’s always amazing stuff to be heard. Whether it’s honest or not, I don’t know, that’s not really where my head’s at — many of the great classical composers who wrote deathless pieces of profound feeling were literally Doing It For The Money, but the music they wrote will endure forever, because the artist’s motivation in practicing his/her craft is really not the issue. The only thing that matters is The Stuff They Make and whether I can feel it when it hits. Shout out to my man Wolfgang Amadeus, working on commission for strangers and breaking hearts forever.”

- John Darnielle, in response to “Do you think there’s a lack of sincerity in a lot of today’s music?” (via annaverity)

duosion: A Cruel Angel’s Thesis a cappella

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:25:03 -0400

duosion:

A Cruel Angel’s Thesis a cappella

"You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life."

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:32:12 -0400

“You hold an absence
at your center,
as if it were a life.”

- Richard Brostoff, from “Grief” (via ellesugars)

libraryadvocates: Yesterday I said that bookmobiles are an...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:56:29 -0400

libraryadvocates:

Yesterday I said that bookmobiles are an instant reblog. Today, I learned that rule also applies to book donkeys.

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Wed, 01 May 2013 13:35:59 -0400

crookedindifference: Dust Band Around the Nucleus of “Black Eye...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:52:13 -0400

crookedindifference:

Dust Band Around the Nucleus of “Black Eye Galaxy” M64

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:24:21 -0400

cashewmonster: BLUHAHE

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:33:34 -0400

cashewmonster:

BLUHAHE

"All visionary male thinkers challenging male domination insist that men can return to love only by..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:48:00 -0400

“All visionary male thinkers challenging male domination insist that men can return to love only by repudiating the will to dominate.”

- bell hooks, all about love: new visions (via ellesugars)

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:46:10 -0400

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:38:18 -0400

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”

- Edward W. Said, Orientalism (via sunrec)

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:31:05 -0400