May 2012
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“there is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected...”
– ‘the charioteer,’ mary renault (via anovelbyremiel)
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“The mountains are not fair or unfair—
they are just dangerous.”
– Reinhold Messner (via booksaboutthesame)
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“Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.”
– James Norwood Pratt
(via peaceful-wanderer)
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“Almost every tow we did contained plastic, regardless of the depth.”
– Giora Proskurowski, a University of Washington researcher. His new research has found that natural ocean processes such as wind, drag, turbulence and wave height can push the plastic deep down, where it floats along, suspended underwater and unobserved by people examining the ocean’s surface. The...
White feminists:
dank-potion:
split-the-coast:
When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.
Intersectionality matters.
And men of color make less than white women.
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Watchbarackobama:
jessicavalenti:
Rachel Maddow owns Republican pundit who says women don’t actually make less money than men.
This was pretty beautiful. (If you’re wondering what the president’s done for equal pay, Lilly Ledbetter can tell you.)
A bunch of students walked out of their Detroit... →
bohemianarthouse:
This is beyond awesome. Fight the power.
And FYI they have a Tumblr. Go and follow it.
April 2012
“I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still...”
– An Addendum, On Rape Jokes. (via transformfeminism)
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Fixed voting machines: The forensic study of...
abaldwin360:
Late last year The BRAD BLOG reported in detail on the Interim Board of Elections (two Republicans, one Democrat) in Venango County, PA, who bucked their own County Commissioners and legal threats from ES&S, the nation’s largest e-voting company, to have their 100% unverifiable touch-screen systems independently investigated after failures in several recent elections. The...
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