I Turned You Into Me

This'll Show Abercrombie & Fitch

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:19 -0400

In response to Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries not wanting “not so cool” kids or women who wear size large to wear his company’s clothes, Greg Karber has come up with a funny and creative way to readjust the Abercrombie & Fitch brand.

Yeahhhh… I have some serious issues with this #FitchtheHomeless thing. I get the idea: stick it to Abercrombie! But the method for sticking it is to say, “You want cool people to wear your clothes, so HAHAHA look at all the gross and uncool homeless people wearing them!” That’s the message you’re trying to send with this, right? That is exploitation. I am pro-giving clothes to the homeless and pro-telling Abercrombie to shove it, but this particular combination is flat-out wrong.

Instead, start giving Abercrombie clothes to the parents of teenagers. Kids are one polo-shirt-wearing soccer mom away from never going near that stank store ever again.

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:53:08 -0400

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment:

stfuconservatives:

aka14kgold:

onebigpear:

fuckyeahfeminists:

This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.

She was doing a science experiment

She’s being charged as an ADULT

She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination, employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

There is a petition up … spread the word.

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot

Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition.

Unreal that we’re doing this to the next generation of scientists. Sign it, folks!

dqdbpb: we’re halfway thru april, u know what tht means?

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:45:33 -0400

dqdbpb:

we’re halfway thru april, u know what tht means?

travelhighlights: Keleti Train Station by Ian Brewer Budapest,...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:30:15 -0400

travelhighlights:

Keleti Train Station by Ian Brewer

Budapest, Hungary

bestmovieever: Watch Stephan Colbert’s moving tribute to...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:16:33 -0400

bestmovieever:

Watch Stephan Colbert’s moving tribute to Boston’s “toughness”

"But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York,..."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:46:40 -0400

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But I do love this city. I love its atrocious accent, its inferiority complex in terms of New York, its nut-job drivers, the insane logic of its street system. I get a perverse pleasure every time I take the T in the winter and the air-conditioning is on in the subway car, or when I take it in the summer and the heat is blasting. Bostonians don’t love easy things, they love hard things — blizzards, the bleachers in Fenway Park, a good brawl over a contested parking space. Two different friends texted me the identical message yesterday: They messed with the wrong city. This wasn’t a macho sentiment. It wasn’t “Bring it on” or a similarly insipid bit of posturing. The point wasn’t how we were going to mass in the coffee shops of the South End to figure out how to retaliate. Law enforcement will take care of that, thank you. No, what a Bostonian means when he or she says “They messed with the wrong city” is “You don’t think this changes anything, do you?”

Trust me, we won’t be giving up any civil liberties to keep ourselves safe because of this. We won’t cancel next year’s marathon. We won’t drive to New Hampshire and stockpile weapons. When the authorities find the weak and terminally maladjusted culprit or culprits, we’ll roll our eyes at whatever backward ideology they embrace and move on with our lives….

….The little man or men who did this will, I have faith, be arrested, jailed and forgotten. Whatever hate movement they belong to will ultimately go the way of the anarchist assassination movements of the early 20th century or the Symbionese Liberation Army of the 1970s. Those killed and maimed, starting with 8-year-old Martin Richard of my neighborhood, Dorchester, and his injured sister and mother, will be remembered. The community will eulogize the dead and provide care and solace for the injured. And, no, we’ll never forget. But what we’ll cling tightest to is what the city was built on — resilience, respect and an adoration for civility and intellect.

Boston took a punch on Monday — two of them, actually — that left it staggering for a bit. Flesh proved vulnerable, as flesh is wont to do, but the spirit merely trembled before recasting itself into something stronger than any bomb or rage.

”

- Messing With the Wrong City, Dennis Lehane, NYT (via youvegotbeauty)

edwardspoonhands: Whenever I see this GIFset on my dash, I know...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:32:49 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

Whenever I see this GIFset on my dash, I know it’s a bad day. But I’m glad to remind myself that I feel this way on days like today.

"Just a note to all people planning on giving blood, remember it only has a shelf life of 42 days...."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:14:39 -0400

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Just a note to all people planning on giving blood, remember it only has a shelf life of 42 days. After 9/11, so many people donated that there was a glut of blood in the system and much of it expired on the shelves, unused, because there was more than needed. ALso, if you donate right now, you will not be eligible to donate again for 8 weeks, so about a month after 9/11 there was a bit of a shortage, because many people couldn’t donate again for several weeks.

Consider delaying your donation for a week or two to insure a good steady flow of blood that will allow blood banks to replenish their inventory. Most blood banks in the United States are part of an emergency sharing system and will be shipping ready to transfuse products to Boston if they are needed. Spacing out donations insures everyone will have blood to provide their community in the coming weeks.

”

- SA forums goon Epiphyte (via vastderp)

Useful information! Please consider spacing out your donations! (and if you can, please donate)

polygl0t: thedailywhat: Single Topic Blog of the Day: Reasons...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:30:21 -0400

polygl0t:

thedailywhat:

Single Topic Blog of the Day: Reasons Why My Son is Crying

Check out “Reasons My Son is Crying,” an anonymous dad’s daily Tumblr blog featuring photographs of his bawling toddler with captions describing all the inane reasons that made him upset, including (from top left, clockwise):

He wasn’t allowed to drink bath water

He was asked to play with his trains

He wasn’t allowed to spill his ice water

He was forbidden from drowning in a pond

This was on the front page of reddit yesterday and if you haven’t seen it, you should. I laughed until I cried and then cassy wanted to know what was the matter.

Children are such little shits

petrichoriousparalian: swingsetindecember: peterlydia: queeron...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:16:00 -0400

petrichoriousparalian:

swingsetindecember:

peterlydia:

queerone:

My body is ready and waiting for you

uhm. excuse me. but please tag your porn

i thought this was tyler hoechin *headdesks*

I’m actually turned on enough for this to be embarrassing…

ᏗᎦᏘᏍᏗ: for the americans who dont know much about thatcher

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:22:00 -0400

ᏗᎦᏘᏍᏗ: for the americans who dont know much about thatcher:

soviet-princess:

called Mandela a terrorist

supported apartheid

helped give aid to pol pot

privatized almost everything

left millions unemployed

supported pinochet and thanked him for (IM NOT MAKING THIS UP) “bringing democracy to Chile”

falklands war

used the literal military in police uniform to break up protests and strikes

destroyed unions

infamous poll tax, where instead of paying tax based on value of your house you paid according to heads in your house, fucking over large poor families

above lead to huge riots which caused it to get scrapped and she was then ousted by her own party because everyone hated her

edwardspoonhands: effyeahnerdfighters: North Korea:...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:24:00 -0400

edwardspoonhands:

effyeahnerdfighters:

North Korea: Explained

Is North Korea going to bomb us? Is North Korea a Threat? Is North Korea Communist? Why does North Korea Hate us?

These (according to my extremely imprecise research) are the most common questions people in the world have about North Korea…I have done my best to answer these questions using mostly knowledge that I stole from a variety of sources around the internet over the course of a couple days of research.

TL:DW - North Korea is terrifying and terrible, they are a threat to global stability and even more of a threat to their own people. But, no, they are not going to nuke anybody…unless they really want to destroy themselves.

Hey! I made a video so you can stop worrying about North Korea! (maybe)

allthingseurope: Sighisoara, Romania (by carpí) 4 weeks. I...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:30:00 -0400

allthingseurope:

Sighisoara, Romania (by carpí)

4 weeks.

I will be here in 4 weeks.

unhistorical: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:50:00 -0500

unhistorical:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published.

Jane Austen’s most famous work, a satire of society and manners, was published 200 years ago today. Like all of her works, Pride and Prejudice was published anonymously - Austen was identified on the title page only as “the author of Sense and Sensibility”. Austen completed the original version in 1797. at which point it was entitled First Impressions, but this version was rejected for publication. By 1812 she had apparently revised the manuscript significantly, and it was this version that was eventually published, though under the (equally appropriate) title Pride and Prejudice, so named as to avoid confusion with other novels.

For historical context - Pride and Prejudice was written during the late Georgian era and is typically associated (along with Austen herself) with the Regency era, during which the future king George IV ruled as Prince Regent in his father’s stead. Although this was a time of great political and social change, both at home and abroad, Pride and Prejudice touches sparingly on these issues and instead focuses on the lives of the landed gentry and the not-quite-aristocrats. In addition, the novel cannot be neatly classified into one or the other of the major literary movements of the time; although Austen wrote during the Romantic period, her writing had little in common with the movement. In fact, Charlotte Brontë was a notable critic of the book, citing a lack of passion and emotion as her main complaint:

I had not seen “Pride and Prejudice,” till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

Perhaps the main difference between the two was that Austen saw the world as a comedy rather than a tragedy (“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”).

Full novel online.

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onewhositswiththeturtles: disordinanceandpride: morphadite: Oh...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:30:26 -0500

onewhositswiththeturtles:

disordinanceandpride:

morphadite:

Oh good lord! LOL, the resemblance.

{I laughed so hard at this.}

Reblogging again because perfection