February 2012
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someone is wrong on the internet: Reframing the... →
ninety9:
You will see lots of hand-wringing and justification for Apple not being directly involved in the management of its largest employee pool (Foxconn). The various rationales are all varying degrees of bullshit, and here’s one easy way to think of it.
Foxconn is roughly 1,000,000 employees (not…
Forever reblog.
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Things can be sometimes lonely
Things can be sometimes lonely, when everything in life feels ill-defined and at the straining point of a break. When the pause is pregnant, but we don’t talk about it. When I care too much, apparently, and the passion that got me to this place becomes a liability rather than a selling feature.
You can be sometimes fickle, when I come directly at you. Messy, predictably needy, somewhere...
January 2012
6 posts
Just a thought... →
UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre spent months infiltrating the Pantheon, the grand structure in Paris that houses the remains of France’s most cherished citizens. Eight restorers built their own secret workshop in a storeroom, which they wired for electricity and Internet access and outfitted with armchairs, tools, a fridge, and a hot...
“But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two...”
– “The Irrational Season” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
“”You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as bitches and...”
– -Dr.Boyce Watkins (Speaking on Jay-z’s decision to stop using the word bitch)
Best post of the day in my book.
(via jumpstart-therevolution)
Okay. So I agree with this. But. Can we also acknowledge that people do grow? That sometimes it takes a personal situation/major life event to make that...
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December 2011
5 posts
Preachy Practice: Oh MORE RANTS yay. →
barwen:
I’ve seen the below quote (in italics) floating around Tumblr recently, and per usual, I’ve got some opinions. It seems like most people are popping all sorts of e-boners over it, but every time I see it I can’t help but shake my head.
I’m a little tired of people acting like the be-all, end-all…
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feminism, duh: 10 things you should know about... →
confessionsofcunts:
1. One in three women die or are seriously injured as a result of gender-based violence. Violence against women results in more deaths among women ages 15 to 44 than the total number of women who die because of war, malaria, and cancer.
2. An estimated four million…
November 2011
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I want a gif, of the raptor from Jurassic Park, wearing hipster glasses falling over its eyes like the “Deal With It” dog. The caption should say: “Clever Girl…”
“I still think it’s important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of...”
– bell hooks (via kdhume)
bell hooks on marriage
(via jassonhiramperez)
I think about this all the time, lately. Being married isn’t a glorious, mindless, celebration. It’s a tireless reexamination of values held up against the harsh light of traditions. Working through it, that’s...
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What I'm Zoning Out To, Currently →
http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2011/11/03/convicted-sta... →
Read the comments. Here, I’ll start you off:
CopybassCollapseWow. This is why geeks shouldn’t marry non-geeks. Seriously, had he married a good geeky girl; she would NEVER have touched those. Hell, she’d probably have THREATENED to open one or two, but he’d have called the bluff. Especially if it was the Fett-man. Nobody touches the Fett-man. Hell, I bet this guy’s...
October 2011
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When you pine for a "simpler" time, I want to...
Sometimes I overhear/read women discussing a “simpler” time when “all they had to do” was housework, child-rearing, and wifely duties*, and it makes me want to scream.
Maybe this pining partially happens because this country has still maintained a deeply patriarchal relationship between women and “women’s work,” despite creating a climate by which women...
Police pepper spray Haka dancers →
The group reportedly was trying to boost Union’s morale with the Haka as the players left the field.
Spectators, coaches and players told police that everything was fine and they should let the men perform, Jessica Rasmussen said, but officers asked them to make room and started using pepper spray.
Rasmussen said she and other bystanders also got spray in their eyes, ears and mouths.
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Top 3 Dream Writing* Jobs
1. NY Post headline writer
2. Skymall copywriter
3. Museum exhibit placard writer**
* For dream editing jobs, replace “writer” in above with “editor”
** Honorable mention: writer of scripts for product commercials that air between the hours of 2am and 4am on Lifetime Network for Ladies
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Roster of Congresspeople Who Believe A Person... →
paxamericana:
mohandasgandhi:
stfuconservatives:
Yea FL-24 Adams, Sandy [R] Yea AL-4 Aderholt, Robert [R] Yea MO-2 Akin, W. [R] Yea LA-5 Alexander, Rodney [R] Yea PA-4 Altmire, Jason [D] Yea MI-3 Amash, Justin [R] Yea NV-2 Amodei, Mark [R] Yea OH-7 Austria, Steve [R] Yea AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R] Yea PA-11 Barletta, Lou [R] Yea ...
Watchsharvondaphotog:
Kai’s “controversial” poem. This topic I can definitely relate to as someone who was told in high school that I “act white” because I got straight A’s, and in college, “I thought you were stupid until you spoke” because I’m black. (Had to compress it all crazy to get it to upload to Tumblr. It had to be removed from “other outlets” due to verbal content. But what happens on...