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Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:52:52 -0500

fingerprintripples: and I’ll be in denmark in a week!...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:33:41 -0500

and I’ll be in denmark in a week! awesome.

Another reason to move to Denmark. If only it were warm. Tell me, is there a socialist country that values equality that is warm most of the year? If so, I want to go to there.

withlovethelavendermenace: mamamantis: astrakiseki: thesylverl...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:16:55 -0500

withlovethelavendermenace:

mamamantis:

astrakiseki:

thesylverlining:

frumiouslychimerical:

How to Live with Introverts, explained and illustrated perfectly by Schroeder Veidt !

This is so perfect. ;-; Yes. except I have a bunny ball.

Just stay out of my room and I will be happy.

we’re like cats

don’t go over to a cat and pick them up and hold them forcefully in your lap, trying to stroke them until they “calm down”

if you just sit there long enough the cat is eventually going to come over and jump in your lap

unless you’re an asshole or something

Accurate.

This! This! This! I want a make a poster of this and hang it on the outside of my door, so everyone has to read it before entering.

lacigreen: emilianadarling: Because instantly alienating a...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:31:46 -0500

lacigreen:

emilianadarling:

Because instantly alienating a huge chunk of your demographic through offensive humour is the best way to sell soda pop. (x)

hank and john are two of my faaaaaaavorite youtubers. i plan to give them humongo hugs at vidcon in a few weeks X)

lezgolezgo: kiewis: “Girls shouldn’t have short hair. It doesn’t look right.” “You look better...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:13:00 -0500

lezgolezgo:

kiewis:

“Girls shouldn’t have short hair. It doesn’t look right.”

“You look better with long hair.”

“Why’d you cut your hair so short?”

“I don’t like it when girls have short hair.”

“You really should grow your hair out.”

YES

So much love. My favorite reaction to cutting all my hair off was when this sexist guy who had for some reason been hitting on me for weeks saw it and started stammering, trying to contain his disappointment: “Holy…holy shit. You just…you just cut it all off and now you look like a b….I mean. Holy shit.” Note to girls everywhere: want to get the materialistic assholes off your trail? Do something disgusting to them like cut off your hair (or stop cutting off your other hair, wink, wink)

"When will misogynistic and homophobic ranting and raving result in meaningful repercussions in the..."

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:51:23 -0500

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When will misogynistic and homophobic ranting and raving result in meaningful repercussions in the entertainment industry? When will they be treated with the same seriousness as racist and anti-Semitic offenses? While an artist who can barely get a fragment sentence out without using homophobic slurs is celebrated on the cover of every magazine, blog and newspaper,

I’m disheartened that any self-respecting human being could stand in support with a message so vile.

”

- Sara Quin (via myyouthisslippin)
All the more reason to love Sara Quin.

"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a..."

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:10:00 -0500

“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””

- Mary Dickson, A Woman’s Worst Nightmare (via thenewwomensmovement)

Ahhh. Yeah. This is why sexist jokes aren’t funny: because for some women, if they do stray out of the kitchen, or if they do fail to make their husband a sandwich, they are beaten. So. Let’s not joke about it, okay?

tastefullyoffensive: [via] Read: which one do you want to...

Tue, 22 May 2012 16:58:36 -0500

tastefullyoffensive:

[via]

Read: which one do you want to teach your kids/students how to use?

lady-aquata: His shirt reads “They gave me a medal for killing...

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:45:57 -0500

lady-aquata:

His shirt reads “They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.”

You are a bad-ass.

keepitnegative: flapjackstate: [image: a circle with neutrois...

Sun, 13 May 2012 23:48:40 -0500

keepitnegative:

flapjackstate:

[image: a circle with neutrois in the middle and androgyne at the bottom. From androgyne goes male on one side and female on the other, then genderqueer male and female meeting in genderqueer at the top. The white edge of the circle is pangender, while the black outside space is genderless].

artoftransliness:

transissues101:

To me this depiction of gender is much more accurate, and allows us to label ourselves anywhere on an infinite spectrum. Instead of putting ourselves on fine lines whilst calling anything off the line abnormal, we can be labeled anything therefor allowing any form of gender expression to be considered normal.

Interesting model for viewing gender.

cool

Jokes jokes jokes

Sun, 13 May 2012 23:47:14 -0500

flyingscotsman:

An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are all standing watching a street performer do some excellent juggling. The juggler notices that the four gentlemen have a very poor view, so he stands up on a large wooden box and calls out, “Can you all see me now?”

“Yes.”
“Oui.”
“Sí.”
“Ja.”

think-progress: From the North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer....

Wed, 09 May 2012 22:25:33 -0500

think-progress:

From the North Carolina’s Charlotte Observer. The last time North Carolina amended its constitution on marriage, it was to ban interracial marriage.

ritual-madness: WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?!?! Well hi!...

Sun, 06 May 2012 17:18:50 -0500

ritual-madness:

WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?!?!

Well hi! We’re coming from New Orleans! Haha, no but we saw one of your GIFs reblogged and then saw how awesome your blog is.

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Sun, 06 May 2012 16:57:56 -0500

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Sun, 06 May 2012 16:51:59 -0500

This. Is. What. I've. Been. Saying. All. Along.

Wed, 02 May 2012 08:01:00 -0500

safeword:

there is no biological point at which a person loses their virginity. it doesn’t work like that. everyone has a different moment that they think “counts” because virginity is a social construct- most people have a series of increasingly intimate sexual experiences, not one life-changing moment. you learn a lot from the first time you give or recieve head, too.

who’s the “real” virgin:

a man who’s given a girl anal sex but not vaginal

or a man who’s received anal sex from another man?

who’s the “real” virgin?:

a girl who’s comfortable with herself sexually, understands her own pleasure and her partners’, has had many sexual experiences for five years (giving and receiving head, been fingered/has given handjobs/fingered other people) but has never had a penis in her vagina

or a girl who has been with one boy for a month, tried to have sex with him but it hurt too much so she asked him to pull out after only four or five thrusts?

or here:

a woman who’s had penetrative sex once

or a woman who’s had mutually fulfilling sexual experiences for decades, understands her own pleasure and her partners’, masturbates regularly but has never been penetrated by a penis because she’s a lesbian who likes oral?

thoughts:

if a dildo counts for the lesbian, how come penetrative masturbation doesn’t count for the straight girl?

if anal counts for a man giving it and and a man receiving it, how come if doesn’t count for a girl receiving it?

what matters about virginity besides that it’s a new experience, if being sexually active has already been achieved? why don’t we talk about first time getting head the same way?

virginity is a social construct.

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How many times have I tried to explain this, to no avail?

auraheart: gkinnamon: strtrknaxdunivrs: a-forest-grew: edgarn...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:38:23 -0500

auraheart:

gkinnamon:

strtrknaxdunivrs:

a-forest-grew:

edgarnight:

purewanderlust:

there-llbepeacewhenyouaredone:

inkorstardust:

squiddleymcinkypants:

“Sweeny fought without style, without science, with nothing but enthusiasm for the fight itself: huge, barreling roundhouse blows that missed as often as they connected.”

“‘Shit,’ said Shadow.”

“I feel an anxiety I can’t explain”

lol i don’t know what this means.

“Language duly arrived.” - I, Lucifer

“He’d decided he would be a lord, and not a lawman, but that didn’t mean he was going to go about unarmed.”

“What do I care about his reputation?”

Oh dear.

A rare success in the world of vanishing species, the American alligator has responded to captive breeding and habitat protection and is thriving.

“What a wonderful invention, so modern, so new.”

“Do I think that what I’ve done is ten times better than ‘NSync? Yes, I do. But I’m a cocky bastard.”

“I should head home actually,” I said. “I’m kinda tired.”

These are the kinds of silly things that I never do, but John Green’s the Fault in Our Stars was closest to me so I was curious, and then the line was too perfect not to post. And too accurate, unfortunately.

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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:52:39 -0500

ieithoedd: Why Bilinguals Are Smarter Speaking two languages...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:47:10 -0500

ieithoedd:

Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development.

They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.

Bilinguals, for instance, seem to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. In a 2004 study by the psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual and monolingual preschoolers were asked to sort blue circles and red squares presented on a computer screen into two digital bins — one marked with a blue square and the other marked with a red circle.

In the first task, the children had to sort the shapes by color, placing blue circles in the bin marked with the blue square and red squares in the bin marked with the red circle. Both groups did this with comparable ease. Next, the children were asked to sort by shape, which was more challenging because it required placing the images in a bin marked with a conflicting color. The bilinguals were quicker at performing this task.

The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving.

Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems improve these aspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts. But that explanation increasingly appears to be inadequate, since studies have shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals even at tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series of numbers scattered randomly on a page.

The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompea Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it.

I read this the other day via facebook.