August 2011
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June 2011
3 posts
lippykid asked: I just realised (by lurking your old tumblr which I saw linked via Matt's page) that we started out on the internets in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY (i.e. X-Files fandom). ARE YOU ME?!?!?!?!
“How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome that’s been...”
– Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
May 2011
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Four Brief Critiques of SlutWalk’s Whiteness,... →
Imma respond to this properly laterz, but just quickly—while I get the point about “how useful has using ‘nigger’ been for black people”, please note that this post was written by a brown MAN.
The argument that Hispanic/Asian mothers will not want their daughter going around calling themselves ‘sluts’ firstly misses the point that many WHITE mothers...
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Should Menstruating Women Use the Internet? →
“Written in an era before computer technology, the Bible speaks much about the contamination a female can spread when suffering through the intense surge of estrogen and mucosal pain during the menstrual cycle. She is considered unclean and many parts of the Old Testament instruct us to avoid contact with her pollution. The Bible makes clear that the menstruating woman poses a danger to...
“The economy we have today will let you chow down on a supersize McBurger, check...”
– If you don’t read Umair Haque you’re doing it wrong.
Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything? - Umair Haque - HBR (via cammacrae)
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“He marked the page with a match
and fell asleep in mid-kiss,
while I, a queen...”
– Vera Pavlova (translated by Steven Seymour)
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April 2011
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Silent Treatment
dearoldlove:
I hate that you’re punishing me with your silence, and I hate that it’s working.
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TRICKY — Overcome
You sure you want to be with...
“- and besides, one thing that has become very clear in the last few terrible...”
– Satoshi Kitamura: Postcard from Japan (via electronicalrattlebag)
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel (via mohandasgandhi)
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“Great courts need formal, predictable and unerringly polite judges with quiet...”
– Michael Kirby on Mary Gaudron, in the foreword to From Moree to Mabo
Anonymous asked: Ok, I will.
Why do you think it is OK to slander and misrepresent people?
Thanks.
Melinda Tankard Reist
Why do you think it is OK to slander and misrepresent people?
Thanks.
Melinda Tankard Reist
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“I tell people it’s like being dead. It feels like being a ghost, maybe. You...”
– Deborah Gray, Reflections on Depression knockturn merricat (via funeral & robot-heart).
You should go check out CAPRIL - a cool project supporting Beyond Blue.
March 2011
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Book Club for Life. "I'm 30. Each year until I'm... →
Cool. According to http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/ Ken Kasey wrote ‘One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest’ at 26 so that’s my book this year.
February 2011
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“All I want is a new beginning. No, not with you. Just new.”
– Dear Old Love
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Some Lesson
dearoldlove:
My mom always told me to stay with someone who loves you more than you love them. I’m guessing your mom didn’t teach you that lesson.
I guess she didn’t. I’m sorry.
Watch Do What You Love, lovely.
I refuse to compromise in my life. I’m going go out, and whatever I want to do I’m going to do it.
When I made the decision to leave my #oldjob last year, it was because I realised there were parts of it I loved, and parts of it I hated. So I looked at the parts of it I loved — the pro bono, the Charity Committee, the Reconciliation Action Plan...
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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WatchFacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions (via @TEDwomen and @craigcomrie).
This is epically amazing.
“It seems like we live in a world where women lawyers who refuse to indulge...”
– via @lawyerist
November 2010
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“It’s rare that a career path will be laid out for you…so you have to...”
– @rosettathurman
Thoughts on meritocracy, aspiration and privilege →
rachelhills:
Some manifestations of privilege are obvious: how much money you have, how many influential people your parents know. Others are a little more subtle: access to books, computers, travel and art.
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I’ve also observed the ways in which the pursuit of these accomplishments can grow fictitious and perverse. Particularly in my early 20s, I observed amongst my peers what...
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June 2010
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Note to self: you're not that brilliant. Yet. →
Taking the road less traveled is not enough. You also need experience & competence /via @the99percent