May 2013
38 posts
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happyhealthyhopeful:
vastderp:
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kayleemb:
Severus Snape Does Not Deserve Your Pity
This!
Holy crap, all of this and then some.
“And that’s not real love—caring for someone without considering their happiness is the exact opposite of love, in point of fact.”
absolutely this. I’m so sick of people treating Lily like she had two...
wtfsexism:
wheretheoscarwildethingsare:
thenewwomensmovement:
trashprincesss:
trashprincesss:
I want nothing to do with a feminism that excludes trans* women. Go be a cisterhood without me.
135 notes and counting. Faith in world semi-restored ♥.
Feminism must be intersectional and inclusive or it is bullshit.
dismantle the patriarchy, don’t create a new one
commentary ^
So this morning I woke up to mixed news. Bad news: a young woman at my alma mater was murdered by a home intruder. Good news: a friend currently deployed overseas saved two children after a car crash. And the world spins on.
Ever have one of those moments where you sit back...
Me neither. But I’m at the point where I have like 51% of my shit together and I am taking that as a win.
6 Tips on How to Avoid Being Screwed by a...
stfuconservatives:
youngist:
By Jade(d)
So you’ve just graduated from college and you want to change the world. Good for you. The non-profit sector seems like a natural place for a justice-minded person such as yourself, and nonprofits are almost always hiring because the turnover rate is so high. But you may find the social justice industry to be… a little unjust. Here are a few tips and...
“I rang the literary editors of a few ‘respected’ papers and asked them how much...”
– Dale Spender, correspondence, in Dale and Lynne Spender, Scribbling Sisters (Camden Press, 1986), pp. 31-32 (via radtransfem)
Further proof that outspoken women are not compared to outspoken men - we are compared to silence.
I really hate it when people are negative towards...
soultired:
One big reason I really hate it when people are negative towards psych meds (as a generality) is that the majority of the mentally ill people I’ve talked to have had their lives fucked up by either putting off trying meds for way too long, or worse, going off their meds for a really bad reason.
I don’t mean that the side effects sucked, or that they couldn’t afford the meds, or that...
“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...”
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
NAILED IT.
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“If you think that the nice guy ranting only happens on the internet, you’ve...”
– It’s Not Just the Internet. It Never Has Been.
(via loveyourrebellion)
Today’s workout: breaking down wooden pallets so I can build a new composting bin.
Entitled Generation: ME ME ME
ishouldbewhat:
This is something I wrote a long time ago, but it coincides with that post going around Tumblr with the TIME cover. This phrase, this “entitled twenty something” moniker being thrust upon pretty much everyone in my peer group is getting out of fucking hand. At this point I’ve heard people who are barely thirty something use it, and that’s just sort of the straw that broke the...
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I love Facebook. It lets me know that my cousin found out the sex of her baby, my parents’ next-door-neighbor’s oldest daughter is engaged (which is effed up because she’s three years younger than me) and one of the girls from my old Girl Scout Troop is now a professional lumberjacking competitor.
brett--c asked: and that was from me, I definitely didnt mean to be anonymous bitch
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Right now my pinterest home page has turned into Battle of the Wedding Planners because I think half the girls I went to high school with are getting married this year.
You know what’s awesome? Surrounding yourself with thoughtful people with whom you can have really in-depth conversations.
(PS If you like this post, you are probably one of those people. Stay awesome.)
“She argues there’s another way to fight crime. “We ought to invest a lot more in...”
– County board prez: Why are we closing schools and packing the jail? | Bleader
that first paragraph up there—the stuff about investing in after school activities and keeping the schools open until 9pm, etc. —I’m thinking about that in context to of the Emergency Managers in Michigan. And how if they...
I have a love-hate relationship with Pinterest. I love learning how to make stuff. I hate when I browse through the DIY tag and see things like “Oh, I’d love to make a jewelry display out of a coat hanger!” Lady, that’s a picture of a fucking rake. And you’re an idiot.
I’ve been on a weird cleaning spree lately. Weird because I normally hate cleaning. But I think this is mainly spurred on by spring allergies and my own fed-up-ness and saying to myself that if I’m going to be miserable I’m going to at least make sure that I’ve done everything in my power to make my environment as un-miserable-making as possible.
And now I want to...
Bestie gets home from Uganda in just under a month. I’m stupid excited, and I don’t even live in PA any more.
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Spring unfucking
This weekend, so far, I have
Cleaned the dishwasher (which was looking and smelling pretty gross)
Wiped down the window frames in our room with a diluted bleach solution (because I have to do this every couple weeks to kill mold)
Taken apart and cleaned the fan (which has never been cleaned before and was caked with dust.)
Dusted alllllll the flat surfaces in our room, including our collection...
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Happy Nerd Double Dip Day
May the fourth be with you on Free Comic Book Day.
A Day in the Life of a Sexologist: A Productive,... →
sexologist:
I’m kind of obsessed with facebook, and that’s because while for some people facebook exists as a venue for drama and narcissism, I’ve used it to create a space that is productive, nurturing, and affirming. I’ve been working on it for years, and I’m happy to say, I feel successful that I have…
AKA why Dr. Jill is totally awesome. If you like sex, read her blog! She’s...
No Weigh May: Not pictured is the pulled pork sandwich I just inhaled.
“Riding bikes everywhere? Using recyclable diapers? Carpooling? We’ve been doing...”
– My uncle, upon learning about America’s “new Green Movement”. Obviously, he’s not impressed. (via eastafrodite)
April 2013
53 posts
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It’s a beautiful day and I want to sit on the porch and paint. So I will.
youarefuckingmajestic:
DON’T EVER ASK ANYONE IF YOU LOOK OKAY BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS LOOK FUCKING MAJESTIC. EVEN AT 5AM WHEN YOU GET UP TO PEE AND CATCH SIGHT OF YOURSELF IN THE BATHROOM MIRROR AND YOUR HAIR IS EVERYWHERE AND YOU’VE GOT PILLOW CREASES ON YOUR FACE, EVEN WHEN YOU’RE OUT AND YOUR TOP IS DIRTY AND DOESN’T MATCH YOUR PANTS, EVEN WHEN YOUR DRINK IS DOWN YOUR TOP AND YOUR MAKE UP ACROSS...
“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
It’s too nice out today. I don’t want to go to the gym, I want to go work in the garden. That counts, right? I mean, today is one of those days where I miss being in school because it’s not like I can ask my boss to have work outside after lunch.
Sometimes I just want a really crispy piece of bacon.
