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fyeahlilbitoeverything: youarenotyou: lavender-labia: ...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:00:05 +0800

fyeahlilbitoeverything:

youarenotyou:

lavender-labia:

dsfjdsfjdsm

OH MY GOD WHAT IS AIR.

cyxnide: D’AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW <3

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:07 +0800

cyxnide:

D’AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW <3

differentplanet: Wonders of the Solar System, episode 2

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:00:05 +0800

differentplanet:

Wonders of the Solar System, episode 2

Full moon in London

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:04:28 +0800

Full moon in London

the difference between "gamer girls" and girls who actually play video games

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:55:48 +0800

gamer girl: omgggg modern warfare 4 lyfeee<3 lolz wait how do you even do this? oh no i think i just died lol cuteee. omgg im sooo sexy cuz i play video games that boyzzz lykee lolll im like the kewlestt gurl evaarrr
girls who play video games: GOD DAMN IT MARIO. IS IT THAT FUCKING HARD TO STAY ON RAINBOW ROAD FOR MAYBE TEN SECONDS. OH MY FUCKING GOD PEACH YOU FUCKING WHORE. YOU REALLY HAD TO USE THE THUNDER CLOUD AND FUCKING SHRINK ME. REALLY. THIRD. I'M IN THIRD PLACE OH MY GOD YES THANK JESUS LORD ABOVE IN THE HEAVENS. FUCK. NO. I FELL OFF. I SWEAR TO GOD MARIO I'M GOING TO MURDER YOUR ITALIAN PLUMBER MOTHER FUCKING ASS. i hate my life.

A.: You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:06 +0800

A.: You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral:

thereisafish:

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of…

Yes. I’d like my funeral to be like that.

Photo

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:44:32 +0800

fuckyeahprettyplaces: Ettal Abbey Monastery, Bavaria,...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:37:32 +0800

fuckyeahprettyplaces:

Ettal Abbey Monastery, Bavaria, Germany.

FFFFFFFFF

adailyriot: leadingtosomewhere: deluxvivens: Treaty Day...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:07 +0800

adailyriot:

leadingtosomewhere:

deluxvivens:

Treaty Day Warbonnet Dance, White Swan, WA.

These are the folks who do get to wear feather bonnets.

hipster assholes, get a fucking clue. this is what’s up.

all the respect to the the dancers in this video. all the respect.

awesomespaces: handa: Geometric Progression Photo |...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:59:54 +0800

awesomespaces:

handa:

Geometric Progression Photo | TrekEarth

"I am a woman going mad. I am a woman hallucinating. I imagine I am huge, raw, a giant. When I am a..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:56:00 +0800

“

I am a woman going mad. I am a woman hallucinating. I imagine I am huge, raw, a giant. When I am a giant I go out with my sleeves rolled up and my skirts swirling around me like a whirlpool. I have a sack such as kittens are drowned in and I stop off all over the world filling it up. Men shoot at me, but I take the bullets out of my cleavage and I chew them up. Then I laugh and laugh and break their guns between my fingers the way you would a wish-bone.

First stop: the World Bank.

I go straight to the boardroom. There’s a long hardwood table surrounded by comfortable chairs. Men in suits are discussing how to deal with the problem of the Third World. They want to build dams, clear the rain forests, finance huge Coca-Cola plants and exploit the rubber potential.

They say, ‘This is a private meeting.’

I start at the top end and I pick them up one by one by the scruff of their necks. Their legs wriggle in their Gucci suits; I’ve got nothing against the suits, lovely material. I drop them into my sack, all screaming at once about calling their lawyers and who do I think I am and what about free speech and civil liberties.

When they’re all in the bag, I leave the room tidy, throw in a few calculators so they won’t be bored, and off we go.

Next stop: the Pentagon.

I smash through the maximum security doors, past the computers, the secrets, the army of secretaries, and burst into a band of generals and lesser lights talking about defence and peace and how to eliminate the nuclear threat by ordering more weapons. I listen carefully while they tell me with the patience of a mother to a defective child that if we don’t have enough force to blow up the world fifty times over, we’re not safe. If we do, we are.

I say, ‘Your own statistics show that, if three percent of the Defence Budget were spent on the poverty problem in the United States over the next ten years, there would be no problem, you’d wipe it out.’

They look at one another and give little indulgent chuckles and turn back to work. I have no choice. I grab them by their medals and drop them in the bag. One of them pokes his head out of the top and says, ‘You should be arrested. What you’re doing is dangerous!’

And then…

I snatch world leaders from the motorcades, from mansion house dinners, from embassies and private parties. I throw them all in the bag and we go on foot to the butter mountains and waine lakes and grain silos and deserts and cracked earth and starving children and arms dealers in guarded palaces.

I force all the fat ones to go on a diet, and all the men line up for compulsory training in feminism and ecology.Then they start on the food surpluses, packing it with their own hands, distributing it in a great human chain of what used to be power and is now co-operation.

We change the world, and on the seventh day we have a party at the wine lake and make pancakes with the butter mountain and the peoples of the earth keep coming in waves and being fed and being clean and being well. And when the rivers sparkle, it’s not with mercury…

”

- Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry. pp. 121 - 123.

She wrote this in 1989, but Jeanette Winterson was way ahead of her time. Love this passage from Sexing the Cherry, an altogether wonderful, amazing book.

(via anewcolour)

"逝者逝矣，來者可追。就像喝茶一樣，喝了這一泡，它為你提神醒腦，它讓你精神加倍，可是這些茶葉經過茶水的沖泡之後，一次兩次三次，數次以後，就泡不出茶味了，想再喝的話，就必須丟掉這些無味的茶渣，再換上新的茶葉..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:04:00 +0800

“逝者逝矣，來者可追。就像喝茶一樣，喝了這一泡，它為你提神醒腦，它讓你精神加倍，可是這些茶葉經過茶水的沖泡之後，一次兩次三次，數次以後，就泡不出茶味了，想再喝的話，就必須丟掉這些無味的茶渣，再換上新的茶葉，凡事不是同樣嗎？放棄不愉快的過去，重新面對未來，才能活出新的滋味、新的人生。”

- 一頁書

jrocknyc: NYTimes: …the storage sites 4shared, VideoBB and...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:34:43 +0800

jrocknyc:

NYTimes:

…the storage sites 4shared, VideoBB and VideoZer have all closed… UploadBox and x7.to are closing… Filesonic, Fileserve, FileJungle and UploadStation now forbid users from downloading any content they did not upload themselves…

Holy crap!

Torrent sites have been pretty resilient over the years but these direct-download sites (most of which I’d never even heard of) are dying like flies!

"This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:06 +0800

“

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

”

- Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)

(via comingouttothechurch)

laughingsquid: Cloth Skull Cube, 2011 by Scott Campbell

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:00:05 +0800

laughingsquid:

Cloth Skull Cube, 2011 by Scott Campbell

youranonnews: ACTA in a Nutshell – What is ACTA? ACTA is the...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:30 +0800

youranonnews:

ACTA in a Nutshell –

What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.

Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”

What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.

Essential ACTA Resources -

Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet

Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text

Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history

Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response

Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video

Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video

Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.

thedailymeme: Condescending Fox

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:11:54 +0800

thedailymeme:

Condescending Fox

"When I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth..."

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:31:43 +0800

“When I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself, and take my fill of ambrosia.”

- “Almagest” by Ptolemy, as quoted by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Up and down we go.: Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother,

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:22:11 +0800

Up and down we go.: Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother,:

sweetupndown:

you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you. Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The…

jalwhite: rissaroni: Google knows what’s up. you know i...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:12:33 +0800

jalwhite:

rissaroni:

Google knows what’s up.

you know i immediately had to try this for myself.