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makemestfu: So relatable blog :)

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:59:16 -0400

So relatable blog :)

dynamicafrica: Paintings by Austrian artist Ludwig Deutsch ...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:54:35 -0400

The philosopher, 1897

The Scribe, 1894

The Sahleb Vendor, Cairo

The smoker

The Emir

The Emir

The musician

The Hour of Prayer, 1887

The Fortune Teller, 1927

The news from Sudan, 1885

dynamicafrica:

Paintings by Austrian artist Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935).

I believe these paintings show images of life in Cairo, Egypt.

Click on the pictures for their dates and titles.

I straight up almost blew my own ear out when I screamed at that ending. Now I can rest up all...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:21:19 -0400

I straight up almost blew my own ear out when I screamed at that ending. Now I can rest up all summer and be fresh for the fall. lol

bryankonietzko: Ummmm… My day is complete.

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:01:54 -0400

bryankonietzko:

Ummmm…

My day is complete.

comicbookcovers: House Of Mystery #253, August 1977, cover by...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:17:50 -0400

comicbookcovers:

House Of Mystery #253, August 1977, cover by Neal Adams

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Sun, 12 May 2013 01:38:32 -0400

geekscoutcookies: hazeleyed1: thetoolazytothinkupacoolnameblog:...

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:44:45 -0400

geekscoutcookies:

hazeleyed1:

thetoolazytothinkupacoolnameblog:

justshy:

blacknoonajade:

dootzy:

this video will make your day better

It will.

i laughed hysterically the whole video and more, roflmao

Lmaoooo

Yooooooooo

GOODNIGHT

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:33:28 -0400

thepeoplesrecord: informagician: thepeoplesrecord: Via...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:51:42 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

informagician:

thepeoplesrecord:

Via pipperipembo:

something to think about when you catch yourself worrying about how messy your room is. looks like we need to shift our perceptions if we’re going to stick around here on earth.

i heard an interesting talk about global warming, too. remember an inconvenient truth? and how the data went back a couple hundred years? well, some scientists got together to gather climate data from the deepest ice, before it melts. their data shows co2 and temperature levels from thousands of years ago. so, while an inconvenient truth did a great job of bringing the fact that we need to change our habits into people’s living rooms, it pinned the cause of warming on human activity. the ice tells a different story: we’re entering a cyclical period of warming. sure, humans have destroyed much of our habitat. but we didn’t make the oceans rise. we need to get over trying to “stop” global warming, and start working together to survive global warming.

I reposted instead of reblogged (from pipperipembo) to format the infograph to make the images & text readable/aesthetically approachable from the dashboard.

Whoa whoa whoa. Except right there in the infographic it says that reducing carbon emissions will slow down rises in sea levels. So NO we can’t just stop trying to prevent and focus on surviving global warming. Not to mention the link to that “talk” mentioned above isn’t even a talk given by a climate scientist. It’s some new age guy and ex-computer programmer. This Gregg Braden guy is a fraud with no academic credentials.

People’s Record, you should have just reposted without the ignorant commentary.

Well, I think she is getting at something in the commentary that’s important, although perhaps it isn’t being communicated as effectively as intended.

Basically, regardless of how certain we are that climate change is man-made (and I think most of us are pretty certain) - the focus of our conversation should include a discussion about how we are going to survive the coming years of continued climate crisis. I think it would have been more appropriate to say, it is not enough to just slow the rate at which our climate is changing, but also to discuss in a serious way, how we might survive these ever-more-real (at least in the way we experience them) changes to our environment, including, rising sea levels. Because there are moneyed interests that keep us arguing about the source of climate change (and of course big business deserves blame and should be stopped), there seems to be a void in the conversation about practical survival pressures.

It seems like there is this underlying presumption that because we still have to fight the corporate powers to slow their destruction, that we’re immobilized to think about practical, crisis-management solutions. That isn’t the whole conversation, but it should be part of it, and I think it is refreshing that pipper brought it into the conversation.

Because, with the exception of revolution overturning the corporate interests(and perhaps even if that were to happen) I don’t see us totally stopping climate change.

"Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding."

Mon, 06 May 2013 01:20:30 -0400

“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”

- Christopher Barzak

(via the-healing-nest)

Queen of Making You Feel Awkward During Conversations? That's Me!

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:44:24 -0400

Me (while on the phone): Arghh!!! I hate that stupid tweet!
Friend: Which one?
Me: The one where they tweet, "List the Top 10 Things about Black Women" and all they have are the numbers with nothing next to them. Sometimes, they even put like "food stamps" or something next to 7 and 8.
Friend: Man...that tweet cracks me up every time I see it.
Me: Really? Why?
Friend: Cuz it's funny! Man...you just need a sense of humor.
Me: Okay! How about this for funny? You ready?
Friend: Uh..yeah. (pauses) Sure.
Me: Okay. "I wanted to know what it felt like to be society's lowest. So I asked a Black Man." Ha!
Friend: But that's not funny.
Me: What? I'm cracking the fuck up! What about this one? "I wanted to ask Tyrone about income taxes but everyone knows black men don't work."
Friend: But...(pauses)
Me: You don't find that funny??? WAIT! Okay. This one --- "What do you get a Black man for Father's Day? NOTHING! They don't care of their kids!"
Friend: (pauses) I...... get your point
Me: Yeah. I really hate those jokes.

imgoverdose: The animal handlers at the oregon zoo took chendra...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:49:42 -0400

imgoverdose:

The animal handlers at the oregon zoo took chendra around to meet some of the other animals one day before the zoo opened. the sea lions were her favorite!

imgonnamakeachange: OMG IT’S FOZZI

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:08:13 -0400

imgonnamakeachange:

OMG IT’S FOZZI

thefluffingtonpost: PHOTO OP: At the Ewok Day Spa Fact: If you...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:23:34 -0400

thefluffingtonpost:

PHOTO OP: At the Ewok Day Spa

Fact: If you want a dog that looks like an Ewok, the Brussels Griffon is the breed for you.

Via sunita_b.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Garment workers protest outside...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:06:47 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Garment workers protest outside collapsed factory building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 25, 2013.

Hundreds of thousands of workers at garment sweatshops walked out on strike over the latest safety disaster in the industry, which primarily services low-wage U.S. retailers like Walmart and Sears.

dynamicafrica: Select artworks from Nigerian artist Njideka...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:00:04 -0400

dynamicafrica:

Select artworks from Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili:

“Nigeria is almost a third character in my work,” she said. “A lot of my work is about investigating my love for Nigeria and my life in America.

“I met my husband at college and there was some anxiety that if I married outside my culture I would lose my identity, but there is a space in my work where these things come together.”

Akunyili is hoping to help change attitudes to art in Nigeria, where she said appreciation is growing slowly.

“If I hadn’t left Nigeria, I wouldn’t be an artist, I would be a doctor,” she said. “When I told my parents I wanted to be an artist, they couldn’t get their heads around why an educated person who went to college in America would want to be an artist.

“If people think of artists, it’s somebody by the side of the road painting signs.”

[…]

“When I was young, the less Nigerian you were the cooler you were, but now we have gone back to tradition,” said Akunyili. “There’s a nice energy about the country that’s finally coming into its own.”

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eatcakey: what were they listening to? i MUST know!

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:16:05 -0400

eatcakey:

what were they listening to? i MUST know!

humansofnewyork: “If you could be one age forever, what would...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:07:02 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“If you could be one age forever, what would it be?”

“Thirty or forty. Old enough to know who you are, but young enough that you still have plenty of mountains to climb.”

(Cambridge, MA)

thepeoplesrecord: Guantanamo detainees’ hunger strike enters...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:31:49 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

Guantanamo detainees’ hunger strike enters third month
April 13, 2013

A hunger strike by detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has entered its third month. The Department of Defense said 43 detainees were striking, and 11 were being fed forcibly through a tube inserted through the nose to the stomach.

Lawyers for the detainees say the number of hunger strikers is much higher.

The Department of Defense classifies hunger strikers as those, who have missed nine consecutive meals, and says the forced-feedings are not part of a policy specific to Guantanamo detainees, but are part of the Federal Bureau of Prisons guidelines.

Cori Crider, the lawyer who represents, Samir Moqbel, a Yemeni detainee, who has joined the hunger strike, says she recently talked to her client.

Crider described how Moqbel was forcibly fed.

“They chained his arms to the bed, chained his legs to the bed. He was left like that, he said, for 26 hours. He was not allowed to use the restroom; they just put a catheter in. They didn’t allow him to pray and while he was chained to the bed they forcibly fed him.”

While the strike began as a protest against the way the guards searched copies of the Quran inside the detainees’ cells, it has transformed into a bigger protest, the lawyer adds.

“Now it’s about eleven years of indefinite detention, two administrations, one of which claimed it was going to close this prison within a year. I think these people are just trying to remind the world, ‘hey we’re still here, half of us are cleared. Please, please demand that the United States do something about this.’”

Crider says her client discussed an attempted suicide by another one of the detainees, howqever, U.S. authorities denied the incident.

U.S. Army Captain Jason Wright, who represents Obaydallah, an Afghan detainee, who is also a hunger striker, visited his client recently and says Obaydallah has lost over 40 pounds.

“Obaydallah described the detention camp as a village decimated by an attack. The detainees are weak, the don’t move, they have no energy and everyone has the face of death and despair.”

Wright says over 50 detainees have been moved from camp six, a communal living facility, to camp five, where there are solitary cells usually reserved for detainees that are deemed to be troublemakers.

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:10:10 -0400