December 2011
“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via ambitioussurvival)
The death perpetuated by these fucking wars is going to haunt the U.S. for generations - as it should. Anyone who doesn’t feel...
morethanprinceofcats:
tw: internalized racism, racism in general
I am outrageously depressed over what feels like the stupidest and smallest of things, which is currently my inability to make any of the makeup looks I want to wear look good on me because it’s so damn impossible to try to find colors that translate to an equal effect on me. To me, currently, white privilege means looking at...
tahlalaliaaa:
notyourkinddear:
Undercover police cleared ‘to have sex with activists’
tahlalaliaaa:
thesexualintellectual:
anarchyagogo:
Sex was a tool to help officers blend in, the officer claimed, and was widely used as a technique to glean intelligence. His comments contradict claims last week from the Association of Chief Police Officers that operatives were absolutely forbidden to...
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I’m having quite a bad anxiety/depression time at the moment, so I won’t be around for a while (as you might have already noticed, although probably not =p)
Hope everyone had good christmases or holidays or just weeks and have a good new years eve!
tahlalaliaaa:
notyourkinddear:
Undercover police cleared ‘to have sex with activists’
tahlalaliaaa:
thesexualintellectual:
anarchyagogo:
Sex was a tool to help officers blend in, the officer claimed, and was widely used as a technique to glean intelligence. His comments contradict claims last week from the Association of Chief Police Officers that operatives were absolutely forbidden to...
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Everyone: You were so pretty with long hair. Why did you cut it?!
Me: Because fuck you.
tahlalaliaaa:
witchybutter:
i hate men and i don’t feel bad about it
;)
^ And I don’t think you should feel bad about it because you are a female-read person living in a society that hates people who aren’t cis men. “Man hating feminists” don’t want to do to cis men what they have done to us for hundreds of years, we don’t want them to suffer, we don’t want to rule over them - we’re just...
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Tumblr's Support Problem with 'Missing e'
joshishollywood:
missing-e:
As many users have observed, Tumblr has recently given users a choice to uninstall Missing e or revoke support for your account.
The reasons they give for suggesting that you uninstall Missing e are the worst-case scenario for installing browser extensions or browser modifications of any kind. However, Missing e is not a source of these kinds of problems.
At...
witchnymph:
anyone else get that tumblr message about missing-e? fuck off tumblr.
what message?
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How to find textbooks online for free: a post.
obsessionfull:
Textbooks are fucking expensive, and if your professor doesn’t require a physical copy (most don’t - they just want you to have the book at hand. Or maybe even not. Some professors literally give no fucks about whether you have the book or not) and you don’t mind having your copy as an electronic copy - this is the post for you!
Most textbook companies put out new editions every...
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Eating disorders and Skins with Cassie and Mini
TW: Eating disorders, suicide, depression
thesavagesalad:
thenoobporker:
So I definitely want to make a preface to this post by saying that I know people have different experiences and that though I do relate more with Mini in terms of how she treats her weight (long story short: I lost 15-20 pounds in a span of maybe 2/3 months that was not healthy at all and kind of drastic. I’ve had...
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If You Had Not Heard
garlandgrey:
The Atheism subreddit proved that Richard Dawkins is so full of shit he’s legally a septic tank by launching rape and kidnapping threats at a 15-year-old girl when she posted a picture of herself with a book by Carl Sagan. Rebecca Watson wrote about it on Skepchick, “Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists” which prompted Kate Harding’s “You Are Awful Too.”
First of all, I’ve never read a...
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“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via soupsoup)
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Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
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Going to rant further about that "privileges which...
tahlalaliaaa:
And this is also more generally a rant about monosexism I’ve seen in the past too.
I’m sorry but the amount of times I’ve heard from various people that they can accept people having attaraction to one gender, but they think bi/pan/queer people are confused and greedy and damaged and hypersexual, leads me to believe there is definitely something very ingrained into society which...
My name escapes their minds: I'm increasingly... →
greaterthanlapsed:
Which is not to downplay the marginalization of atheists, which is very real, but it does create a problem, especially for women. The outright hostility and blatant misogyny I see among (predominantly white, male) atheists is disheartening, and the internalized misogyny…
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sententiola:
Summary: I butt in on a conversation about the character Shane McCutcheon in the television series The L word. Spoilers up to about the end of season four. Press J to skip down or K to skip up.
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silentpunk:
step by step by step: silentpunk replied to your post: I think: Bette’s going to cheat with…
wishingthehoursaway:
silentpunk:
wishingthehoursaway:
[Earlier...
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spoiler alert - l word
wait…has Tom just left?! Has Tom abandoned Max?!
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Angelica is so adorable
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Spoiler Alert - L word
Jeez, Jenny, what the fuck is wrong with you?! Why did you think changing Shane’s room into an office without asking was ok?! Shane, note warning signs!
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shut-it-off replied to your post: shut-it-off replied to your post: shut-it-off…
definitely missing carmen…
I hated how suddenly she left and then you never hear about her again (as far as I know/remember anyway)
I’m taggin my moaning about the l word as ‘the l word’ - if you have missing e/tumblr saviour you could block it? I’ll try to remember to spoiler warn too...
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shut-it-off replied to your post: shut-it-off replied to your post: Fuck Jenny’s…
AHHH NO I’M NOT THAT FAR!!!!!! I’m on season 3 or 4 haha x
Ah crap! I’d ignore my posts for the next week or so - I’m aiming to finish the last series by then =p I lost interest midway through and now I’m watching again! What do you think of it? I can’t remember what happens in thos...
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shut-it-off replied to your post: Fuck Jenny’s such a bitch! Misgendering max and…
Which epp are you on?
Series 6 ep 4 - where Tina and Bette go to Nevada and Max has ante natal classes
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Fuck Jenny’s such a bitch! Misgendering max and being so cissexist - why’s she being like this when she used to be so supportive?!
feeling a bit defeated. people really are shit
parsingthoughts:
Does anyone know of any UK-based politics blogs, on tumblr? I know there are loads out there on like wordpress or whatever but I’ll visit once then forget about them so let us stick to tumblr ok. Here is a question mark so you can answer?
Signal boost!
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Why is Jenny being such an arse to Alice?!
On Hugo Schwyzer
stfusexists:
unknowablewoman:
stfusexists:
dr—grumbles:
Out of all the men that have ever abused/raped me, many of them were addicted to one thing or another. It didn’t mean a damn thing when it came down to it. A lot of people in my life have been addicted to things and even more have had mental illnesses. However, none of those other people addicted to things have ever hurt me. I cannot...
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step by step by step: silentpunk replied to your... →
silentpunk:
wishingthehoursaway:
silentpunk replied to your post: I think: Bette’s going to cheat with the blonde…
Jenny and Shane… I just…can’t. They both don’t have consistent personalities i just have no reason to care.
I like Shane for some reason (although it does annoy me that she doesn’t make sense- like…
tbh I know that loads of people love Shane but I think people love her for the...
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Aaaaand I win. Shane and Jenny are happening. Which means Shane and Molly aren’t =( And is a bit annoying because I liked them as friends and it seems like they’ve got this thing where the closer friends you are the more likely it is that you’re going to get together (see Alice and Dana). It’s like in all books and films ever where the guy and the girl are just friends and...
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silentpunk replied to your post: I think: Bette’s going to cheat with the blonde…
Jenny and Shane… I just…can’t. They both don’t have consistent personalities i just have no reason to care.
I like Shane for some reason (although it does annoy me that she doesn’t make sense- like the dumping Carmen at the alter just didn’t seem to fit with who she was - I’d get breaking up...
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YOU WERE TOO FLIRTING, BETTE!
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Alice and Tasha’s list making as actually really really cute…
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I think:
Bette’s going to cheat with the blonde gallery girl/former roommate
Jenny and Shane will (maybe) get together
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Hey, the person who plays Kyle’s mum in CSI Miami is in The L word as a gallery colletor thingy
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Oh no, Tom and Max! IS NO COUPLE SAFE?!?!