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Sun, 19 May 2013 20:10:40 -0400

brandnewswastikas: I guess my ideal woman is the newly married, kind of ugly girl who is in every...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:47:06 -0400

I guess my ideal woman is the newly married, kind of ugly girl who is in every class at every community college who always tries to talk about how her husband is in Iraq. After mentioning him twice to the class within the first day, she feels comfortable enough to refer to him by first his name. If the teacher is talking about economics, she will interrupt to say something like, “Travis had a really good book about economics. I think he took it with him to Iraq. I’ll call him over Skype tonight and ask.” The teacher will continue the lecture without comment and the married girl will wait like a rat trap in extreme anticipation for the next time she will be able to talk about her husband who is in Iraq.

She is my ideal woman because I want to be her husband so I can die in Iraq and never have to see her again.

jhameia: bitchouttahell: cleophatrajones: yannickbrouwer: Thi...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:34:15 -0400

jhameia:

bitchouttahell:

cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…

I have a couple bracelets made from the same stuff! yay

The company’s name is Ocean Sole: http://www.ocean-sole.com/

"Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:03:23 -0400

“Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.”

- William Carlos Williams (via seabois)

i’m probably being stupid

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:47:00 -0400

i’m probably being stupid

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Sat, 18 May 2013 17:24:15 -0400

kamounke: “If you’re an adivasi [tribal Indian] living in a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:24:31 -0400

kamounke:

“If you’re an adivasi [tribal Indian] living in a forest village and 800 CRP [Central Reserve Police] come and surround your village and start burning it, what are you supposed to do? Are you supposed to go on hunger strike? Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” - Arundhati Roy

grateful for many things in life, but especially for a baby...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:58:06 -0400

grateful for many things in life, but especially for a ~~baby~~ bruddah

:)

mohandasgandhi: mediamattersforamerica: Fox News turns to Dick...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:09:22 -0400

mohandasgandhi:

mediamattersforamerica:

Fox News turns to Dick Cheney, who may have overlooked some things in his own past…

Nah, Dick. We’re not doing this.

"It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem."

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:59:58 -0400

““It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem.””

- The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

Read: Carbon Dioxide Level Passes Long-Feared Milestone - NYTimes

(via brooklynmutt)

Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering.

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Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said.

(via mohandasgandhi)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 16:43:44 -0400

likechipanddale: nydotr: White Privilege seemore- I admire...

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:36:00 -0400

likechipanddale:

nydotr:

White Privilege
seemore-

I admire Macklemore for shedding light on the issue of white privilege, thank you for checking that privilege. However, I wish that artists of color who speak about the same issue of white privilege get as much exposure and recognition as well. It’s frustrating sometimes when people of color have been addressing their issue through their scholar, music, poetry, art, etc. for years and they never get a lot of exposure but a “white savior” comes and addresses the same issue and they get receive a ton of recognition. Nevertheless, I admire Macklemore for creating a beautiful piece. Progress, one step at a time.

homoarigato: nydotr: White Privilege - Macklemore Now...

Fri, 17 May 2013 04:34:14 -0400

homoarigato:

nydotr:

White Privilege - Macklemore

Now nod your head and wake up.

I see so many people lost who really try to pretend.
But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend?
When I take a step to the mic is hip hop closer to the end?
‘Cause when I go to shows the majority have white skin.
They marketed the windmill, the air flair, and head spin.
And white rappers’ albums really get the most spins.
The face of hip hop has changed a lot since Eminem,
And if he’s taking away black artists’ profits, I look just like him.
Claimed a culture that wasn’t mine, the way of the American.
Hip hop is gentrified and where will all the people live?
It’s like the central district, Beacon Hill to the South End.
Being pushed further away because of what white people did, now…
Where’s my place in a music that’s been taken by my race.
Cultural appropriated by the white face.
And we don’t want to admit that this is existing.
So scared to acknowledge the benefits of our white privilege.
‘Cause it’s human nature to want to be part of something different.
Especially when your ancestors are European Christians.
And most whites don’t want to acknowledge this is occurring.
‘Cause we got the best deal: the music without the burden.
Of being Black in a system that really wants you to rock.
‘Cause all you need is a program and you can go and make hip hop.
And we hate the mainstream cause we’re the ones that took it.
Now we listen to Aesop Rock and wear t-shirts that say Brooklyn.
But it’s not about Black and white, right?
I mean good music is good music regardless of what you look like.
But when you don’t give them props isn’t that selfish?
That’s like saying rock was actually started by Elvis.
So where does this leave me?
I feel like I pay dues but I’ll always be a white MC.
I give everything I have when I write a rhyme.
But that doesn’t change the fact that this culture’s not mine.
But I’m gonna be me so please be who you are.
This is something that’s effortless and it shouldn’t be hard.
I said I’m gonna be me so please be who you are.
But we still owe ‘em 40 acres now we’ve stolen their 16 bars.
Hip hop started off in a block that I’ve never been to.
To counteract a struggle that I’ve never even been through.
If I think I understand just because I flow too,
That means I’m not keeping it true, nope.
Hip hop started off in a block that I’ve never been to.
To counteract a struggle that I’ve never even been through.
If I think I understand just because I flow too,
That means I’m not keeping it true, I’m not keeping it true.
Now I don’t rap about guns so they label me conscious.
But I don’t rap about guns ‘cause I wasn’t forced into the projects.
See, I was put in the position where I could choose my options,
Blessed with the privilege that my parents could send me to college.
Now who’s going to shows the kids on the block starving…
Or the white people with dough that can relate to my content?
Marketed the music, now adapted to the lifestyle.
What happened to jazz and rock and roll is happening right now.
Where’s my place in the music that’s been taken by the media?
With white corporations controlling what their feeding ya?
I brought up Aesop Rock but I’m not even dissing dude.
We love hip hop and what do you think that Caucasians are listening to?
And I speak freely when I write this.
If a Black MC examined race, there goes half their fan base: white kids.
And this is so true.
And we didn’t even have to fight the system.
We just went and picked up the microphone too.
And we got good at it so we should be rapping.
But only supporting them is like burning Jimmy and buying Clapton.
Now Clapton’s incredible, but no Jimmy, no foundation.
So here comes history and the cultural appropriation.
White kids with do-rags trying to practice their accents.
From the suburbs to the upper-class mastering a language.
But hip hop is not just memorizing words.
It’s rooted in authenticity, something you literally can’t learn.
But I’m gonna be me so please be who you are.
This is something that’s effortless and shouldn’t be hard.
I said I’m gonna be me so please be who you are.
But as I’m blessed with the privilege, they’re still left with the scars.

Holy.

Fuck.

dammit macklemore

shaquille0nihilism: if you are rich and you dress bad I am mad at you

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:02:50 -0400

shaquille0nihilism:

if you are rich and you dress bad I am mad at you

My mom's reason to why she wants me to get married

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:43:09 -0400

mom: i want you to make babies so i can be a grandmother, goddamit

haveyouevercriedwolf: Skater girls seen in Vanak Square in...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:36:28 -0400

haveyouevercriedwolf:

Skater girls seen in Vanak Square in Tehran, Iran. [photo cred: Nooshafarin, Humans of Tehran]

Cities Aviv- Coastin’

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:20:26 -0400

Cities Aviv- Coastin’

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Thu, 16 May 2013 03:18:27 -0400

moles are pretty gnarly there are nine on my face alone

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:59:12 -0400

moles are pretty gnarly

there are nine on my face alone

isurviVED???

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:49:25 -0400

isurviVED???