January 2011
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Stop the Deportation of Brenda Namigadde →
“In Uganda, I have nobody there. If I am sent back, I’ll be tortured, maybe killed. It’s very dangerous for me.”
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan woman living in the UK, faces deportation within the next 24 hours. Because of her sexual orientation, returning to Uganda would put her life at risk; only a day ago, prominant gay activist David Kato was murdered in his own home.
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin (via rebeccam)
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Fineness & Accuracy: I Don't Care If You're... →
The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s...
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“The fact that mental illness is so often used to explain violent acts despite...”
– Crazy Talk: We’re Too Quick To Use “Mental Illness” As An Excuse For Violence, Vaughn Bell (at slate.com)
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Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass,... →
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass Thursday night, offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. …
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first...
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“You know what we call gay marriage in Canada? Marriage.”
– some guy I met the other night at a bar (via girl-detective)
November 2010
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“Bisexuality is a disappointing, suspect, utterly chaotic identity. It seems to...”
– ‘Come As You Are’, Neal Medlyn
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(via earlyfrost, sciencefiction)
PLAYBOY: In some of your books— especially The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five— there’s serious notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously, which implies that the future can’t be changed by an act of will in the present. How does a desire to improve things fit with that? KURT VONNEGUT: You understand, of course, that everything I say is...
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov (via ronmarks)
redhead bouquet (beautiful bodies.) →
redhead-bouquet:
reblogging(ish) myself because this is still relevant.
reblogging this because it absolutely is.
October 2010
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dfwforever replied to your post: Use IE for the first time in a year.
I’m of the view that you can say something nice about anything. W/r/t IE: you can always expect an almost exact replica of the kind of frustrastion that you experienced using it one, two or five years before. That’s product consistency. Haha
Lol. Well, that is one way of looking at it. Extreme annoyance with a side of...
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Use IE for the first time in a year.
Remember why you don’t use IE, under any circumstances, ever.
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Will G20 Police Succeed In Covering Up Reports of... →
lipstick-feminists:
“I was told I was going to be gang banged. I was told that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again by making sure I was going to be repeatedly raped while I was in jail,” she said.
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Bird. Singing. Outside my bedroom window. At 2am.
2AM. SERIOUSLY.
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coven:
Matthew Gray Gubler reading Annabel Lee...
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“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important...”
– David Foster Wallace
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sisforspace replied to your post: Drinking vodka with diet raspberry cordial,
Drink Jack Daniels with ginger ale. It is surprisingly tasty!
You know, I think we actually have some ginger ale somewhere in this house. I will definitely try it next time I have Jack’s. Thank you! :)
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On purple.
dearcoketalk:
Did the background just change or are the drugs I’m on really spectacular?
Both, I hope.
I’m purple today. Here, and over at the blog. It’s in support of Spirit Day.
Normally, I’m not one for colored ribbons and raising awareness bullshit. You won’t catch me wearing a pink ribbon or opting for the pink bucket of chicken in support of breast cancer, not because I’m...
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Drinking vodka with diet raspberry cordial,
because I’m trying to overcome my diet coke addiction… It tastes three parts quite nice, one part kind-of disgusting. I change my mind with every sip.
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“There’s a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about...”
– David Foster Wallace
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Things I Don't Have To Think About Today →
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“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk;...”
– Charles Baudelaire
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