August 2012
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sahulana:
I love curry!
I think I’m going to get up really early to eat the curry leftovers before anyone else can.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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“For 4 years, Koreans enacted increasingly stiff real-name commenting laws, first...”
– Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments | TechCrunch (via onthemedia)
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“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked, try approving...”
– Louise L. Hay (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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FACT CHECK: Romney on Polish Economy, Gov't Role...
abaldwin360:
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney hailed Poland’s economy Tuesday as something akin to a Republican dream: a place of small government, individual empowerment and free enterprise.
While it’s true that Poland is one of Europe’s fastest-growing economies and boasts dynamic entrepreneurs, Romney’s depiction of Poland as a place of small government is debatable. Even 23...
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"Mixed Signals" Are NOT an Excuse for Rape
iamateenagefeminist:
A Canadian judge recently ruled in favor of a rapist because both parties were drinking and the survivor was “giving out mixed signals”.
Now let’s get a couple of things straight, here. If someone is giving you mixed signals that means no. Period. End of story.
The only thing that ever means is yes is yes. Everything else means no.
No is the default position until you...
July 2012
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“Women constantly finds themselves apologizing for their non-conformity to...”
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(via angrywomanistcritic)
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Congress Wants to See Obama's "License to Kill" →
socialuprooting:
Congress is finally standing up to President Barack Obama on targeted killing. Almost a year after three American citizens were killed in US drone strikes, legislators are pushing the administration to explain why it believes it’s legal to kill American terror suspects overseas.
Congress is considering two measures that would compel the Obama administration to show members of...
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via moonfullofstarsastralcars)
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde (via simplicitybegatcomplexity)
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“Thanks to anti-abortion lawmakers’ efforts, starting Thursday, mothers of babies with fatal fetal birth defects will be forced to carry their pregnancies to term, give birth, and then watch their babies die. See? Republicans are job creators, after all.
Earlier this year, Arizona governor/ terrible person Jan Brewer signed into law a measure that would ban abortions in the state...
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"No Homo"
sonofbaldwin:
For those individuals—queer or straight—who feel compelled to defend Chris Brown in this matter (because he’s “talented” or “cute” or “because They defend Charlie Sheen” or “because if we don’t defend him, then white people win” or because “there are worse instances of homophobia”), suddenly becoming linguists who follow the letter of the law, but couldn’t understand the...
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how to interact with trans* individuals
tattooeddicks:
i understand that cisgender people often have trouble communicating with trans* individuals. it’s okay that you don’t understand how to go about this, as you’ve grown up in a society which treats you as the default, and trans* individuals as a sort of exotic creature.
the good news is you can overcome this! you can learn to have meaningful relationships with trans* people, and to...
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“I am telling women to not be afraid to go out wearing their veils. And by paying...”
– Rachid Nekkaz has set up a million euro fund to pay fines for women who choose to wear the full Islamic veil in countries, like France, where it is against the law to do so in public.
old news via Alt Muslimah’s Facebook page
(via muslimwomeninhistory)
Shame on you, France.
(via str8nochaser)
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“I think that’s the beauty of being human. Human error.”
– Teter (via fonsecadelsur)
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Enemy of the StⒶte: Undocumented vs. Illegal →
ernestsewell:
First off, no human being is illegal. Never has been, never will be.
Second, a person entering another country “undocumented” is different. However, my bigger question is - why does anyone have to be documented? Aside from a general population count or something, why are people so willing to be…
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The majority of Latinos support gay marriage
univisionnews:
Hispanics support gay marriage at higher rates than blacks or whites.
By EMILY DERUY
Democrats worried that President Obama might alienate minorities, especially Latino voters, when he announced his support of gay marriage need not have worried.
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, two-thirds of Democrats now support gay marriage, and 51 percent of Hispanics...
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“In Latin America, or at least in many parts of Latin America, feminism is a very...”
– Flavia Dzodan (x)
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“There was a unanimous decision in the drafting committee to include it in the...”
– Retiring Rep. Barney Frank • On the inclusion of gay marriage as part of the official Democratic Party platform. The 15-member Democratic Party platform draft committee unanimously approved language supporting marriage equality, and according to Frank, a member of the committee, the vote wasn’t even...
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On Having Figured Out the Twist
fishingboatproceeds:
“Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. Look at a point of land over which the sun is certain to rise, Coleridge said. If the moon rises there, so what? The senses are startled, that’s all. But...
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“When women of colour have argued that feminist politics need to be professed...”
– Mridula Nath Chakraborty, ‘Wa(i)ving it all Away: Producing Subject and Knowledge in Feminisms of Colour’, 207 (via feministquotes)
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“A Brit, a Jew, and a Polish guy all walk into the bar and say, ‘Holy crap,...”
– Andy Borowitz
(via cognitivedissonance)
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“But why would a writer as accomplished as Lehrer become this much of a...”
– Jonah Lehrer, staff writer for The New Yorker, resigned from the magazine after a story in Tablet Magazine exposed fabricated Bob Dylan quotes in his book, Imagine. The above quotation is excerpted from this Slate article discussing an earlier exposition of his self-plagiarizing habits in a number...
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“Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous...”
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This was a — wait for it — Koch-funded study that finally reached the same conclusion as 97 percent of the scientific community.
Actually, it even found the the current findings underestimatedthe rate of warming.
Remember that time the Koch brothers funded a study to disprove man-made climate...
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“Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and...”
– John Scalzi, who is a national fucking treasure I swear to god. (via knitmeapony)
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“Sexuality is both fixed and fluid; genetic and environmental; ordered and...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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“Are there men who demand that their women wear a hijab? I am sure there are;...”
– Inge Rombaut in an IPS News interview about the Muslim headscarf.
(via abudai)
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“While STD and unintended pregnancy rates are the result of complex factors, the...”
– Perry refuses ACA: How will this affect sexual health outcomes? (via becauseiamawoman)
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“If you live in America, you are four times more likely to be murdered than if...”
– Guns don’t kill crowds of innocent people, explain our leader writers. Maniacs with easy access to military-grade weapons do. (via theeconomist) 