December 2011
So I'm watching this old Shirley McLane movie,...
I’m not sure I like it. There’s too much appropriation and white saviour ideas and confused ideas about old philosophers.
Not to mention I really really hate the idea that everything that happens to you is your own fault. Thank you for telling me that because of things that I did in my past life it is my fault that I was raped at 6 years old.
No.
Fuck you.
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I really feel that the idea aliens built/aided in...
Honestly that idea really just irks me. Maybe it’s because I have such a vivid imagination that I can see how people can come up with seemingly impossible ideas and figure out how to get them to work without extraplanetary help
I hope everyone is surviving!
After a week with my family I came down with a cold. I’m sure spending all of Boxing Day flying didn’t help out my immune system any. But since arriving at B’s place I’ve been only getting better (with the exception of my face. I really really hate cold sores)
I got a coupld cool presents, like all 8 Harry Potter DVDs in a set and the Lion King DVD.
When we got here Anna...
“Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is...”
– Laurie Helgoe (via creatingaquietmind)
EXACTLY. YES. I need to be alone to process. Extroverts don’t always understand what that means.
(via pompadoursandpincurls)
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Also, I feel like my mom thinks I shoudl know...
Seriously mom. It’s not like we have meetings or conventions where I would meet every queer person on TV.
UGH TV YOU ARE TERRIBLE
Actually terrible.
50% of the commercials are for charities that talk about how prosperous Canada is and won’t we help out those poor starving POC childrens?
And then there is the Heart & Stroke foundation commercial about how Heart and stroke is the number one killer of women and ALL women ever put their family first and worry about their husband’s health.
And please...
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Unfollow Monday: "Animals Talking In All Caps"
raccooncat:
ethanology:
garlandgrey:
[Trigger warning: This blog post describes graphic imagery, touches on reproductive coercion, and includes a dude being really cruel and ignorant about trigger warnings and anxiety.]
Last night the Tumblr account “Animals Talking in All Caps” posted a graphic image of a man being mauled by a bear, accompanied by text that made it seem as it the man had...
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Sometimes my thoughts are terribly arrogant and...
My co-worker at the library asked what I was listening to.
I answered The Divine Comedy by Dante Aligheri.
“Never heard of it” was the answer.
I had to mentally remind myself that I should just let it go.
Watching 9 for the first time
I’m unsure…
I feel like I've been at work forever
It’s only been 5.5 hours
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I think I’m going to start a commune for Rogue Scholars… anyone want in?
One day
I would like to go to a very dark spot, far from cities with their lights and look up at the night sky.
I what I remember most about the 2003 black-out was spending the night looking up at the sky and just staring at all the stars there and even being able to pick out the many satellites making their way across the sky.
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There was a group speaking French in the sitting...
And now my brain seems slightly confused as to whether it should be thinking in French or English.
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OOOOO a whole paragraph about the KJV and...
“***content note: rape, jury trial***
Jurors accepted defense attorney Terry...”
– Muskegon jury acquits Eugene Oakes of sexual assault, home invasion | MLive.com
:/
the man broke into this woman’s home. she woke up to find him on top of her. and there’s a question of if it was consensual or not.
(via midwestmountainmama)
I just… can’t…. even….
brb...
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Apparently there exists a Bible printed in 1631...
Wicked due to the following errors:
Instead of praising God’s “greatnesse” Deuteronomy 5.24 read “And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory, and his great asse”
And Exodus 20:14 read “Thou shall commit adultery”
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So this article has yet to mention
That for all its beautiful imagery and iconic turns of phrase the KJV translation is actually woefully inaccurate.
I once heard a saying of translation that “[sexist comment omitted]… if it is beautiful it cannot be faithful, if faithful it cannot be beautiful”
“Scientia means “knowledge:” science, it seems to me, is not about facts; it is...”
– The science of poetry, the poetry of science | Books | The Guardian (via myserendipities)
Sounds legit. Especially that last quote within the quote - so damn true.
(via crankyskirt)
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Dear National Geographic,
The King James Bible and its influence on the English language is an appropriate thing to write about. (Though I wonder if you will discuss its influence on, and underpinning of, the imperialism, colonialism and general holier than thou attitude of the nation that produced it of….)
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Men Get Raped Too- A response. (TW) →
stfusexists:
This is an incredible piece of writing on the phenomenon that has become a meme of sorts, “What about teh menz?”. I really enjoyed this, instant follow.
sexistculture:
You know, I just checked back in on this post, and something about this last response rubbed me the wrong way. Not because I disagree with anything it said on its own, just because I think it ignored a very real...
Most times I really really dispise National...
But sometimes it has really good articles.
I'm gonna get myself a neoprene sleeve for my...
so my pretty new laptop doesn’t get scratched and stuff when I have to put it through the scan-y thing at the airport
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“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
Also, I've got a coulple things in the mail the...
And now I have like 30 of those sealed air filler things.
What the heck do I do with them?
It feels needlessly wasteful to just chuck them.
And I just got my g/f's christmas present in the...
I’m going to take it to her, even though it’s large. Not gonna wrap it though. Last thing I need is to have the TSA unwrapping my stuff to be able to see it. And some of my clothes might take a backseat to the gift.
For the Holidays
So for this Christmas I am spending it with my family (ugh… hopefully next year I won’t have to.. but that’s just how things worked out this year) and then on Boxing Day I’m getting on a plane and going to visit my g/f.
I’m going to try to just take a duffle bag and my computer bag on the plane. I’m flying out of Buffalo so while I have to go through TSA...
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thehallsofknowledge:
I really, really despise the announcement that the war in Iraq is over. The air of self satisfaction, like somehow we won something, is nauseating and I’m actually quite glad that I have a place where people don’t buy that shit for an instant and where people critique the back-patting rhetoric of the government and the media.
What have we accomplished? Further insurgencies...
If you think vaccines cause autism, please shut...