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Mon, 20 May 2013 01:54:06 -0400

"Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:38:24 -0400

“Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.”

- Ali Ibn Abi Talib (via diamondsunbursts)

College Graduation/Senior Week: "Peace Bitches!"

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:07:16 -0400

Wow I am really tired of all these basic bitches blaming me for their problems. I am also really tired of all the unhealthy or weird relationships I have chosen to put energy into over the past few years that have really done very little for me or for anyone. This past week and the approaching Senior Week seems to be shaping up to be a purging from my life of all the bullshit. I was hoping that everyone could just let the past be the past and let bygones be bygones and I’d have a nice drama-free ending of my college years but apparently that’s just not in the cards.

I can’t wait to be done with all this, and be on my way home and then to Berlin. I was hoping I could have fun during this time, and I am to some extent, but mostly all the things that I have hated about college seem bent on continuing to fuck with me to the very end.

Well, I’m not going to let it get to me too much. I have worked my ass off for the past four years and nothing is going to ruin the fun that I damn deserve to have this week. Haters are gonna hate, but in a week, I’m just gonna be like…

PEACE BITCHES!

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Sat, 18 May 2013 18:46:34 -0400

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Fri, 17 May 2013 00:17:29 -0400

the-curee: please

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:12:10 -0400

the-curee:

please

razorshapes: Austin Kleon

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:35:27 -0400

razorshapes:

Austin Kleon

cordisre: Paintings by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:43:01 -0400

cordisre:

Paintings by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili

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Tue, 14 May 2013 23:26:02 -0400

theuppitynegras: norttron: fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Philadelph...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:25:35 -0400

theuppitynegras:

norttron:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.

The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:

Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.

Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.

Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay. There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.

There would be no limit on class size

The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”

Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.

There’s more here.

notice most of the posters are children of color

I just want you to notice

maymay: “Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:24:33 -0400

It turns out that if you ask the right questions in just the right way, some men will actually tell you that they're rapists. They'll just…admit it.

The key is, don't use the word rape. Just ask them what they've done.

Researchers asked 1,882 men: "Have you ever tried to have oral sex with someone by using (or threatening to use) physical force—twisting their arm, holding them down, etc.—if they did not cooperate?"

and: "Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone, even though they didn't want to, because they were too intoxicated to resist your advances?"

120 answered yes.

(That's rape.)

1,882 men…

120 rapists.

They admitted to a total of 483 rapes and attempted rapes. 483!

Whoa.

maymay:

“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

Sources:

College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]

Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

"I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone."

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:24:28 -0400

“I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone.”

- Bill Cosby (via quote-book)

anarcho-queer: Environmental activists Holly and Bailey have...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:22:03 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Environmental activists Holly and Bailey have been detained by police in Holdenville, Oklahoma while resisting the Keystone XL.

The Fire Department is on scene and wielding axes and shielding their activities by holding up a tarp to block the view. The second photo shows a deputy from the Hughes Co Sheriffs department swinging a sledgehammer at one of Holly and Bailey’s lockdown devices at full-force. Moments later they use a jack hammer to extract the activists who are now in police custody.

Show Holly and Bailey some love by donating to the bail fund.

wrivol: letsbuildahome-fr: New Orleans Nightscapes I (part 1)...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:22:16 -0400

wrivol:

letsbuildahome-fr:

New Orleans Nightscapes I (part 1) by Frank Relle

!!!!!!! of course it’s where i’m from! i knew it :)

brettkingery: Anatomy of plant cells

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:50:15 -0400

brettkingery:

Anatomy of plant cells

julia-lavigne: “Moving Forward!”Serigraph and Mono print2 WEEKS...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:58:30 -0400

julia-lavigne:

“Moving Forward!”
Serigraph and Mono print

2 WEEKS UNTIL GRADUATION

Ms. Lauryn Hill - Open Letter

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:02:10 -0400

Ms. Lauryn Hill - Open Letter:

mslaurynhill:

It was reported yesterday that Ms. Lauryn Hill has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor failure to file taxes. These charges were incurred for the years of 2005-2007, during a time in which Ms. Hill had removed herself and her family from society, in order to keep them safe, healthy,…

turecepcja: Streets: Phlegm (London)

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:38:28 -0400

turecepcja:

Streets: Phlegm (London)

"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:42:04 -0400

““Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening…Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.””

- by Alice Walker (via creativeinspiration)

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