May 27th, 2012 at 9:15PM
Why is it, do you think, that children are always too young to hear the truth but never too young to be lied to, systematically, conscientiously, in the name of ‘education’? — Ward Churchill on Perpetual War and State-Sponsored Terrorism (via mutualaddiction)

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May 27th, 2012 at 9:14PM
fyeahnoamchomsky: Noam Chomsky, What We Say Goes, Lebanon and the Crisis in the Middle East, page 25

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Noam Chomsky, What We Say Goes, Lebanon and the Crisis in the Middle East, page 25

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May 27th, 2012 at 9:13PM
cosmicwolfgirl: Chernobyl. frosty as fuck (Taken with instagram)

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Chernobyl. frosty as fuck (Taken with instagram)

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May 27th, 2012 at 9:13PM
We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives. —

Will Smith (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)

Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com

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May 27th, 2012 at 9:12PM
blackbeatnik: villa-kulla: Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made? And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing? Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question? The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning. owned

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villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?


The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

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May 27th, 2012 at 9:11PM
mothernaturenetwork: Cavemen’s musical instruments date back 40,000 yearsThe instruments, along with other signs of artistic creativity, date back to 42,000 to 43,000 years ago, during the upper Paleolithic period.

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Cavemen’s musical instruments date back 40,000 years
The instruments, along with other signs of artistic creativity, date back to 42,000 to 43,000 years ago, during the upper Paleolithic period.

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May 27th, 2012 at 5:09PM

sodamnalive:

Grundy and I are smoking the fattest pineapple express/strawberry kush fruit salad bowl and then I’m gonna go buy a bunch of fruit and make so many popsicles!!  It’s so damn hot out. 

too hot for life.

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May 27th, 2012 at 5:08PM
cawlie: Texts from my brother.

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Texts from my brother.

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May 27th, 2012 at 5:05PM
Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.

It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one. —

The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)

These laws (and accompanying social norms) become even more ridiculous when you think about the fact that there are men who, for whatever reason, have incredibly large chests and faab people (like myself) who have almost no chest, and yet it’s legal (and socially acceptable) for him to be topless and not me. Why? It’s by virtue of the fact that he (presumably) has a penis in his pants and I have a “vagina” in mine. Even though neither of us wants to go around town bottomless it’s still the determining factor and it effectively genders the tissue on my chest no matter what it actually looks like. 

Also, notice the cissexism inherent in these laws. What exactly is a “male chest” or a “female chest.” And what happens to trans* people in the grey area of transition or partial transition who have had top surgery (adding or removing tissue) but their id markers don’t necessarily match? 

Honestly, ridiculous is the only word to describe such laws.

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May 27th, 2012 at 5:04PM

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a set of screencaps from ‘dys4ia’ an amazing flash game by anna anthropy, based on her experiences with hormone replacement therapy. you can play dys4ia here this is a link.

the gameplay of dys4ia is incredibly simple, but dys4ia tells a really really really personal story, particularly for a flash game. obviously i’m biased, but anna anthropy touches on things with dys4ia that i would struggle to discuss, even with close friends.

at one point, i stopped playing right in the middle of one of the final ‘mini-games’ of dys4ia to watch the sun set and reflect on what some of it meant to me personally. imo, it’s probably some of the most strangely “honest” media depicting transition i have personally experienced.

that said, the game isn’t like, a perfect masterpiece. but it’s VERY COOL IMO idk i am extremely biased just ignore me k wutever. here is what anna had to say on the night she released dys4ia

dys4ia is the story of the last six months of my life: when i made the decision to start hormone replacement therapy and began taking estrogen. i wanted to catalog all the frustrations of the experience and maybe create an “it gets better” for other trans women. when i started working on the game, though, i didn’t know whether it did get better. i was in the middle of the shit detailed in level 3 of the game, and at the time i had no idea what the ending would be; it was hard to envision a happy ending.

this was amazing. there’s also a great interview with anna anthropy at prettyqueer.com at the moment

HEY TRANS BROTHERS N SISTERS / PLAY THIS GAME / IT IS / MINDBLOWING / PERFECTION

this looks pretty neat.  bookmarking to check out l8r.

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May 27th, 2012 at 4:51PM

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May 23rd, 2012 at 11:13PM
LGBT Laughs: The Safe Space Network

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May 23rd, 2012 at 1:07PM

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Douglas Coupland-created ‘V-Pole’ may take high tech to the streets in Vancouver
To clear its streets of cellphone towers, parking meters, Wi-Fi terminals, streetlights and even community message boards, the city of Vancouver is pushing forward with a scheme to compress all the technologies together into specialized “Vancouver poles” planted throughout the city.

“Meet your inevitable future,” wrote novelist Douglas Coupland, the technology’s creator, in an introductory Tweet.

The device, no larger than a telephone pole, would manage cell signals for multiple carriers, as well as wireless Internet for the surrounding neighbourhood. In-ground pads plugged into the pole would provide inductive charging for parked electric cars. An integrated touch screen would display maps, ads or payment interfaces, and an LED street light would be perched at the top of the pole. (Photo: Martin Tessler/Mathew Bulford; Illustration: Andrew Barr)

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May 22nd, 2012 at 8:23PM
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Anonymous asked: are you going to the beatles: the lost concert" movie when it comes out next month?

p5rolly not

May 22nd, 2012 at 8:06PM

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