The Rare and Ferocious Swamp Rabbit
A friend just sent me several different GIFs (GAH-IFFS) of Harry Styles getting hit in the crotch with shoes. And then I found the still images, and they’re even better.
The first bionic hand that allows an amputee to feel what they are touching will be transplanted later this year in a pioneering operation that could introduce a new generation of artificial limbs with sensory perception.
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AWWWWW yeah.
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You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
fucking COOL
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westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)
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I suppose it would be like deciding to eat a giant piece of banana and then changing your mind a bunch of times.
First you peel it, then you bite off a huge hunk and let it hang out of your mouth while you try not to gag?
None of that photoshoot had anything to do with any native cultures. It was a spread that was based on The Lord of the Flies. You certainly tried your hardest to get offended but I urge you to at least step back and view it from an open perspective before spouting more repeated social justice…
Check out the guy’s blog to see the photos mentioned.
Here’s the issue I have with this: when an artist unintentionally plagiarizes another work, regurgitates old ideas thinking he’s got something great, or re-invents something that already exists in that permutation, I’d like to think that he’d take the criticism, say “sorry, I didn’t know about that, now that I know I won’t do it anymore.” If doesn’t, he’s choosing to be a stroppy child over advancing his work. He’s choosing to plagiarize, be lazy and complacent.
But when people “accidentally” culturally appropriate elements in their art, there is no apology. There is no “sorry, I didn’t know about that, now that I know I won’t do it anymore.” And once again we have a stroppy, childish response to a legitimate critique of his art. He’s choosing to be lazy and complacent.
In addition to people having the right to defend against the use of their culture (or someone else’s culture, if they’re acting as an ally) as nothing but an prop or costume choice, saying that your work is guilty of cultural appropriation, using racial stereotypes, depicting sacred or significant objects out of the appropriately respectful context IS A LEGITIMATE ARTISTIC CRITICISM. Your ignorance is not a defence for your unintentional bigotry in your personal or creative life.
EDIT: People don’t try to get offended. And for all Burton’s earnest pleas to have people see things from his side, he doesn’t seem to have a lot of interest in doing the same.
Janelle Monae
From her speech on “Black Girls Rock”:
“When I started my music career, I was a maid. I used to clean houses. My mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trashman. They all wore uniforms and that’s why I stand here today, in my black and white, and I wear my uniform to honor them.
This is a reminder that I have work to do. I have people to uplift. I have people to inspire. And today, I wear my uniform proudly as a Cover Girl. I want to be clear, young girls, I didn’t have to change who I was to become a Cover Girl. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.
Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.”- Janelle Monáe
I love this woman so much. She is so talented, so smart, and so on point with everything she does. <3
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This week, in honor ofArrested Development , we recommend a reading list for everyone’s favorite family, the Bluths.
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I think my first selfie on Tumblr (and bf too!)
AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE
FUCKING NAILED IT
A+ commentary!
THANK YOU
I had seen the original making the rounds. Glad to see it got a proper rebuttal.
Being sick with an ear infection (glue ears? wtf is that shit), a sinus infection and still feeling like shit about not being able to go work the temp job you got, because it’ll be the last time anyone will ever want to hire you for anything, you’re not smart, you’re not skilled, you’re fat, you dress funny and your rabbit keeps peeing on your bed and you keep letting your rabbit up onto the bed anyway because you’re lonely and sick all day.
A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona’s ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme Court rulings starting with Roe v. Wade that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion before a fetus is able to survive outside the womb. That’s generally considered to be about 24 weeks. Normal pregnancies run about 40 weeks
:)
The relief I feel is not proportionate to how much this actually effected me, but I’m okay with that.
