January 2012
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LEGENDARY FAT BITCH
francesbabyhouseman:
on my tombstone please
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“Kindness covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I...”
– Roger Ebert
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Have I ever had “ANY unwanted/undesired physical... →
face-down-asgard-up:
moniquill:
thebaddominicana:
Earlier in this pregnancy, I filled out my “Initial Health History” form for prenatal and birth care. You know: check the box if you’ve experienced severe headaches, diabetes, all sorts of things. After the usual “Emotional abuse,” “Physical abuse,” “Sexual abuse,” I got to this very interesting item: ”ANY unwanted/undesired physical or...
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isabelthespy:
karnythia:
Indian couple have children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they fed them with their hands, slept in same bed
notyourkinddear:
mehreenkasana:
mynameisjuthika:
fumblingtowardshappiness:
jonathan-cunningham:
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and...
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“Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for...”
– PIRATE BAY, PRESS RELEASE (18 JANUARY 2012). (Found via pipperipembo.) BOOM! (via tobia)
Verrrry interesting.
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kelsium:
Bitches be paying lots of money to look like they don’t give a shit and the New York Times is ON IT.
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SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
meghanalefae:
aprilstar-dance:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com...
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alexandraerinr: sylviasybil: alexandraerin:... →
isabelthespy:
ironstring:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
alexandraerin:
ashleyfullstop:
sylviasybil:
alexandraerin:
fallingaparttocuttime:
no okay but here’s the thing about language.
it’s one thing to police spelling and grammar; it’s a douchebag thing to do, especially if you’re using it as a means of refuting an argument (“you spelled that word wrong, therefore…
and yet, I cannot...
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“Hi, my name is Seth Rogen and I’m currently trying to conceal a massive...”
– Seth Rogen standing next to Kate Beckinsale. (via popculturebrain)
Rape culture, exhibit #930,312,300,222,304,878,223.
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November 2011
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TW: Rape
wolfenisa:
If I was to steal a chocolate bar because it was sitting at the counter looking all tasty, it’d be theft. Nobody would say but oh, look at the creamy picture on the packaging. It was taunting him. He had no choice. It was instinct. Impulse. Drives and desires beyond his control.
If I walked into some person’s home and said I lived there, I’d be arrested. Nobody would say...
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Do you think that you're in some way empowering...
marxisforbros:
When you make every platonic male relationship gay? This fanshipping thing is getting offensive, I mean people are doing it with the brothers in Supernatural. Saw one the other day that was Luke and Han. Why? Why do they need to be gay? Is homosexuality just a cuter version of friendship, and are you simply belittling homosexual relationships to a kawaii thing where boys cuddle?...
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“I’m half German and half Greek. I am SO furious at myself right now.”
– Tina Fey on Rock Center (via scoldylox)
Tina really brought it to B. Williams’s silly little living room interview. (Is Williams scared to interview someone who ISN’T a friendly comedian? ‘Cause really.)
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Recap: The Walking Dead S02E04 - "Cherokee Rose" →
So starting this week I’m gonna recap The Walking Dead. Something came over me and I just want to do it.
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And then Brian Williams used the term “anchor babies.” Unironically.
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I’m watching the premiere of Brian Williams’s new prime-time newsmagazine show. The first story was about how any able-bodied American willing to move to North Dakota can get in on the oil boom economic action.
At the end of the story, the correspondent mentions that the oil is being extracted through hydrofracking. SMALL DETAIL. Great! So all those Americans can pick up and move to...
October 2011
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Ohio, Ontario, same difference
The day that the horrific exotic animal tragedy in Ohio happened also happened (not coincidentally) to be the day I decided to read the current issue of Maisonneuve magazine, the cover story of which is how Ontario is basically an unregulated free-for-all when it comes to the purchase and possession of non-native species like lions, tigers, venomous snakes, cougars, etc.
So if you, like me, were...
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PSA
jaded16india:
Mainly dedicated to dude who decided to e-mail to say “what does reproductive justice have to do with anyone but females”, but can go out to other people too.
Woman =/= vagina.
Uterus =/= woman.
Fetus in a uterus =/= mother.
Repeat as necessary till it filters in.
Reblogging because it still needs to be said.
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Aqua Books Rises Again
aquabooks:
So a more laconic* and compact Winnipeg’s Cultural City Hall lives on, as a new, non-profit entity. We will maintain our theatre, meeting room and keep a smaller stock of about ten or fifteen thousand books. (Hence the big book sale. Buy something.) The new leaner and meaner (I know people think I’m mean enough) version of Aqua will be even more focused on artist development and...
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knitting
isabelthespy:
oldtobegin:
i’d like to go to michaels this week and get some beginner’s knitting supplies.
i know a few of you out there are into the yarn arts - can anyone make some recommendations of the right needles to start with/a good book to teach me what i’m doing?
seconding most of the replies — size 8 is good (not small enough to be finicky, not big enough to be clumsy), bamboo all...
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thecranium:
It’s a shame pigs get associated with bankers and cops, since pigs are intelligent, sweet animals.
TRUTH. Also, for the record, they don’t sweat.
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On Umbridge and the centaurs (tw: rape)
quixotess:
itsinthetrees:
People are arguing about this again, so lemme whip out the book.
First of all, let me just say that historically, every single myth about centaurs, apart from myths about Chiron (a scholar who is basically “the good one”, and who is echoed in HP in the character Firenze), is about them raping women. They were born from Ixion’s attempt to kidnap and rape the goddess...
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“[tw: sexist slur, ableism]
No, my problem is that the word “slut” has never...”
– Thoughts on Slutwalk from a Wheelchair
This. is. brilliant.
(via flutterflyinvasion)
This is super important! READ IT!
(via quelola)
and im gonna write more about this later
zuky:
readnfight:
youre-not-salinger:
so-treu:
but at this point i am convinced: Occupy Wall Street is not a revolutionary movement. SlutWalk is not a revolutionary movement. There might be revolutionary elements, but fundamentally, these movements are about retaining and returning to unchallenged white supremacy. In as much as the current power structure makes them uncomfortable,...
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“Hangers-on. A word of curiously macabre derivation. Before the introduction in...”
– Where Queen Elizabeth Slept & What the Butler Saw: A Treasury of Historical Terms From the Sixteenth Century to the Present by David N. Durant (via novazembla)
Whaaaaaaat.
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Screenwriting Tip #779
screenwritingtips:
“The Dark Lord” is not an acceptable name for a dark lord. It just looks like you gave up halfway through character creation. See also: “the Master”, “the Creature” and “the Others”.
Not gonna lie, this is something that bugged me about Davies-era Doctor Who. As for the Moffat era — “Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All” is still a great name for a baby.
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I watched the 2-hour pilot of Beverly Hills, 90210 due to its availability on Canadian Netflix. Why wasn’t I previously aware that West Beverly High is also Sunnydale High? With the archways and the stairs and such? Which has pop culture supremacy, 90210 or Buffy? In terms Nielsen ratings the answer would be the former, but is Buffy actually a more pervasive influence overall? Can someone...
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I just baked a batch of savoury curryish-type muffins with lentil flour (for gluten-free purposes). I’d post the recipe, but it needs further refinement before I’ll feel comfortable doing that. I’m not the sort who lets unrefined recipes loose on the internet. That’s just irresponsible.
The reason I was baking with lentil flour was because of my friend Melissa. She is a...
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Storage Wars is good and all, but it really bums me out when they buy storage lockers that clearly contain the contemporary contents of people’s lives. A lot of the storage lockers are clearly overflow of personal possessions and detritus, but sometimes they’re not weird antiques and ephemera. Sometimes they’re neatly packed with Rubbermaid totes, lamps and sofas. I just imagine...
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I'm BACK!
July 2011
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"Ghetto" as an Adjective?
tranquality:
iamabutchsolo:
Okay, so I am getting very uncomfortable with people using “ghetto” as an adjective for something they perceive as trashy or considered to be very “urban” or stereotypically “black.”
I mean, do you actually know what a ghetto is?
In 1500s Venice and subsequently other areas in Europe, they were designated areas where the authorities forced Jews to live.
The most...
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Tim Bousquet at The Coast: Cornwallis renaming is... →
The issue is straight-forward: children, of all ethnicities, are attending or interacting with (via sports teams, for example) a school named in honour of a person who promoted racially based genocide. This is simply wrong. It’s wrong to subject Mi’kmaq children to this—-honouring the murderer of their forebears is necessarily an emotional and, yes, oppressive act; it undermines their self-worth...
June 2011
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francesbabyhouseman replied to your post: francesbabyhouseman replied to your post:…
i’ve had about 4 or 5 done now. the last one was in the same spot you are talking about, and i dont have money for the cap. it’s broken once already, and had a second one done on that tooth. i wish i had it pulled out, and regret it now.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience!
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francesbabyhouseman replied to your post: Questions
every time i get a root canal, the doctor says that i should now get a vaneer, which is like $5000 (or maybe less, but way more than a root canal) b/c my tooth is now ‘weak’. i vote on pulling it out.
This is the thing! A root canal is essentially destroying the tooth and leaving it a dead husk in your mouth. I never actually knew what a root...
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jonathanbogart:
andrewtsks:
hardcorefornerds:
Maybe this is the fault of the Times, but why are there so many damn commas in this?
“Unlike the Hüsker Dü bassist, Greg Norton, now thriving as a restaurateur in Minnesota, or the band’s drummer and co-leader, Grant Hart, still scuffling in the Twin Cities, however valiantly Earles praises his negligible solo music, Mould, at 50, remains a...
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Questions
-When is Bridesmaids coming out on DVD? I’m going to Google it after I post this because it’s important information. That’s going to be a great day, whenever it is. [Internet says: no release date yet announced.]
-Which fate should I choose for my left second molar: $1100 for a root canal or $100 to pull it out? Note: I cannot afford $100. That said, my dentist (totally legit,...
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