January 2012
136 posts
Happy Arbitrarily Chosen Date Upon Which We Have...
December 2011
81 posts
Unpopular opinion that's going to cost me...
bebinn:
teachthecontroversy:
I don’t think that if you’re under 18, you should have sex.
I think there is a lot of responsibility in having sex, between the emotional aspects, the pregnancy issues, and sexually transmitted diseases.
I think that some teenagers have the ability to handle it, and most don’t. Most of the teenagers I have ever met have been so horribly uneducated about sex and...
thekindthorn:
Aficionado of the Underrated and Unconventional: If I’m gonna be serious about learning about Wicca, I gotta make some…
loveoflopt:
yamino:
If I’m gonna be serious about learning about Wicca, I gotta make some runes. I’m having a really hard time deciding what to make them out of, though.
My books suggest making them from wood that has associations with what you wish to...
Random whining, please ignore.
Ugh, fuck everything. The internet has been slow here for a couple days, but it’s working fine at the moment - on my laptop, anyway. The PS3, on the other hand, can’t seem to dig its head out of its ass long enough to bother connecting. Given that the main use for that thing - at least for me, all my games are either for 360 or on my computer - is as...
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That awkward moment when you *want* to like...
…because A: at least they’re trying, which is more than you can say for yourself, B: it’s still better than the stick figures that are the best you could manage if you were in their place, and C: you love the fandom and love to see people caring enough to make fanart.
But it’s just…bad, and all you can think is “Nononono, that is NOT the character I know and...
thefremen:
Republican Presidential Dictatorship
sanityscraps:
politicalprof:
So it turns out that most of the Republican presidential candidates this year utterly loathe the notion of Constitutional democracy. They—and apparently their supporters—prefer presidential dictatorship.
Think about it. The heart of the theory of the Constitution is the system of checks and balances. Congress...
crill asked: I just wanted to ask, whats wrong...
face-down-asgard-up:
iamateenagefeminist:
Because it disfranchises low-income, urban, elderly, rural, or young voters.
Although it is possible to get a photo-ID that is not a drivers licence in most states, it is not done very often because they are simply not needed in most circumstances. The most common form of photo ID in the US is a drivers license, something that not everyone has access...
thefremen:
ancestryinprogress:
anticapitalist:
phredosophy:
A multinational oil company will be coming to the Supreme Court this winter to argue that corporations are not “natural persons” and therefore cannot be held liable for committing international human rights violations such as torture, extrajudicial killings and crimes against humanity.
Hahahaha
oh wow
Damn you I was about...
In the future, history classes will be told that...
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yukidama:
thoughts & clippings: Regarding the Salvation Army
pickedscab:
notyourkinddear:
polerin:
notyourkinddear:
dreammerchant:
kenmorethompson:
There’s been a bit of stuff going around on Twitter and Tumblr tonight about how the Salvation Army is not an organization you should be giving your money to. As someone who grew up in a family connected to the Salvation Army, and as...
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GoDaddy Faces Boycott Over SOPA Support →
bluntlyblue:
paxvalkyrie:
Because GoDaddy hasn’t revealed itself to be disgusting enough already, now they’re pissing off all the Internet forever.
Will this be what finally shuts them down? God, I wish.
Adding my wish as well - go daddy makes me want to wash
Good that they might finally go down in flames over it…going to roll my eyes clear across the room, though, that THIS is what...
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Cats really do crawl into cars. Please check yours...
k-fiend:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/cat-survives-3-hour-trip-under-hood-of-car/?lkjkljkl%3Bj
Miracle cat here~
There are so many cats in our neighborhood - fuck all of these people who let their cats out ALL THE GODDAMN TIME, seriously, how do you sleep at night? - and I’m always worried about this, but how exactly am I supposed to check, short of actually opening the...
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So, here's the thing...[TW: Talk of abortion,...
madamethursday:
If someone you’re in a relationship with - whether that’s a romantic or sexual or platonic friendship or a relative, whatever - becomes pregnant and then expresses that they want to have an abortion and end the pregnancy?
The only correct response is: “Of course. It’s your decision and I will support you totally.” That’s it. You stop there. When a pregnant person expresses their...
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(TW: Abuse of a child with autism) Petition to... →
goldenheartedrose:
candycast1e:
In Mercer County, Kentucky, nine year old Chris Baker, an Autistic student, was told by his special education aide to climb inside a gym ball bag for punishment to “control his autistic behavior” in mid-December 2011. He was placed in the bag with the drawstring tightened and left in the hallway in the school. When his mother, Sandra Baker, was called to the...
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One of the more perverse ironies of depression
Is that when it begins to encroach on you, one of the first things it steals is the will/motivation/ability/desire for doing the very things that would help you cope with it better.
For me, it’s my morning yoga and stretching and prayer. It’s my daily freewriting. It’s my contact with those few people who understand what I’m dealing with. It’s my tea-drinking and...
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I hate the new gmail.
jhameia:
thecurvature:
jhameia:
thecurvature:
Less screen space. A tiny little draft box that doesn’t automatically expand as the text gets longer. The static sidebar that doesn’t also continue/move as the page scrolls down and therefore hides all of your chat contacts. The way that I’m always now being clicked into emails when I actually wanted to click the “select” box next to a post so...
Reblog if you sneak food into movie theaters.
thefremen:
sourcedumal:
breeziieb:
nicoosuxx:
$4 for a pack of skittles my ass.
It’s a sin not to.
LOL! Totally have done this! I regret nothing at all about it either.
This should have more notes, I’m pretty sure everyone does this.
Also drinks; gigantic purses are pretty awesome.
Whining crying self-pity ahead, you have been warned. Need to ramble about cats and affection and rejection. Probably ought to make a personal-crap blog at some point. Sorry.
So I’ve just spent the past twenty minutes crying. I’m still tearing up thinking about this.
Remember I’ve talked about Not-Our-Kitty, the grey floofly cat who belonged to the people next door but...
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summoner-controller-kel replied to your post: My dad is such an ass, part whatever
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’ve spent enough time around children to know that I don’t want children.
Amen to that. My mom taught preschool when I was in middle and high school, and I used to go help out. And I learned that I do not want kids around me in any way where I can’t hand them...
My dad is such an ass, part whatever
Behind the cut for rambly family whatever
We’re emailing back and forth right now - I needed people’s addresses for sending Xmas cards and it turned into a sorta-conversation - and I told him about his new grandcat in my last email, purely to annoy him because he HATES cats with a flaming passion and I knew it’d bug the shit out of him to have me talk about my new cat like...
SO Twitter pulled "#GodisNotGreat" because...
abaldwin360:
sageoflogic:
Stay classy Twitter, stay classy.
Nice way to prove the Hitch’s point though.
When are we going to stop bowing to this kind of bullying and pressure from the religious, seriously, twitter should tell them to fuck off.
I understand there are public image concerns, but this shit is just too much.
When are christians going to learn to deal with criticism of their...
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“Feminist marriage is a three-way contract between two women and government. ...”
– The Center for Marriage Policy : Why Same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
I don’t think I ever got this memo, you guys. I can’t believe you would plan something like this without telling me.
(via greaterthanlapsed)
This reminds me of the people who are convinced there are cities on the...
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maevele replied to your post: whatfreshhellisthis replied to your post: Would it…
X and All y’all?
Lol, I like this. I foresee a lot of head-scratching and “all y’all? When did she start talking like that?!” if I use it. ^_^
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whatfreshhellisthis replied to your post: Would it be considered “awkwardly academic” or “endearingly quirky” to begin the notes inside my Xmas cards “Dear X et al,”?
I normally do “Hello everyone!” >_> *most awful person award*
I wonder if there’s like a Secret Adulthood Manual that everyone else has that explains how you are supposed to do things...
Would it be considered "awkwardly academic" or...
Because I’m writing them right now and trying to remember who all lives in whose house and who I should address individually (“Dear X, Y, and Z”) or if I should just address it to the main recipient (or would that be rude? Can “and everyone else in your family” just be implied?) or what, and I keep coming back to “et al” as useful “and all the other...
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wesmonster:
Saying that all people of all nations need to be taught the Gospel is not a compliment.
“Come, you must learn of my religion” is not doing someone a favor; it is the expression of an elitist, manifest-destiny type concept driven by a need to bring others into a certain way of thinking.
Back when I was sort of half-assedly attending church - I was involved in the music program...
I'm freeeee!
I applied for hardship dismissal based on my anxiety - because a: I’d been having to try to control an ongoing heightened state of anxiety all morning, shakes, nausea, etc, and b: the fact that it’s specifically social anxiety would’ve made interacting with other jurors really difficult for me. Oh, also because coping w/my anxiety on an ongoing basis like that would’ve made...