“Denying gay people the right to get married; that’s easy. But justifying it to our grandchildren; that is going to be hard.”
—Stephen Colbert (via thebarbwire)
March 2011
19 posts
If your website opens with music of any kind and I can’t instantly find the “FUCKING SHUT UP” button, I’m never visiting your site, buying any of your products or uttering your name ever again. Just so ya know.
What I want my main street to look like →
wired.com
This is awesome the way it is, but just imagine if every building down a street was like this?? Imagine the wildlife you’d get on a main street. This should be seriously considered as part of a council’s built environment plan. It’d cost a fortune but I’m not a ratepayer so ha!
Oh god I'm far too new at this.
So Tumblr isn’t saving the changes I’m making to my profile so it looks the way I want it to look? And really, despite all the typing, I don’t know anything about computers and shouldn’t be here at all, in fact, I should go back to the typewriter/morse code.
Unless someone can help me?
“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny.”
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(via moonlitstreets)
This feels like the first definition that I could use as a retort, mid-argument. Finally.
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*TRIGGER WARNING*
If the fact that there are people who will argue with a straight fucking face that an 11-year-old child “didn’t do enough” to stop eighteen young men from raping her doesn’t convince everyone with a capacity for reason and any trace of decency that we live in a culture that supports and condones rape, I can’t imagine what possibly could.
Melissa McEwan of Shakesville (via aboyscoutandabrownie)
*TRIGGER WARNING* when describing victim blaming please :)
Schrödinger’s Rapist →
kateharding.net
This remains one of the truest and best things I have read: on this topic, on the net, ever.
Highly recommend you read every. single. word.
Twice.
That awkward moment when you take a shower in the middle of the day and you're not sure if you should put on normal clothes or pajamas
Reblogged from mylifesdream
To The Experts!: How to Fuck Up →
totheexperts.tumblr.com
“How to Fuck Up” — and how to clean up when you fuck up.
I have a little tool that I call “The Four A’s” (I learned it from an absolutely fantastic teacher) and it has helped me through numerous fuck-ups in my life.
When you “Fuck Up” (whether the fuck-up is minor…
“(On how the world is too PC) - no, it’s not. don’t fucking whine because it’s getting harder and harder to be an asshole. just don’t be an asshole.”
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I actually love this.
(via lasocialista)
“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration—courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.”
—H. L. Mencken (via approximatelyqueenjane)
Why intent is not magical →
ayries.tumblr.com
Because this is coming up repeatedly on my dash.Say you’re walking down the street. Not really paying attention. Maybe rushing because you’re late. And you accidentally walk into somebody. And yes, you should have been paying attention, but you didn’t mean it!
Do you get to say ‘I didn’t mean…
