February 2012
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
fuckyeahlanguage:
Lord, I do fear Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year; My soul is all but out of me,—let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.
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vrai-lean-uh: Cooking Dinner: Change the Way You... →
vrai-lean-uh:
A few years ago I started noticing a bunch of cooking books and articles exhorting me to stop cooking from recipes. It was no longer enough to cook, you had to cook freely! with improvisation! and not be one of those awfully uncool and un-free people who cook with recipes all the time.
Right,…
This is several good points. Probably the greater half of my cooking (simple) is...
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my dad got me a set of "green" nonstick pots and...
Dad: Organic. Non toxic. Non residue non stick. The future is in your hands.
me: You're the best, Dad.
Dad: Yep.
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Woman: Can I have birth control?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Republicans: No.
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“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
#this guy i never let get very close to me once tried to ask me what the point of women’s history was because quote #it’s not like people teach men’s history for the sake of teaching men’s history #and i was...
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A few words on perfectionism
unfuckyourhabitat:
Perfectionism is pretty much the enemy of unfucking your habitat. Perfectionism gives you a ready excuse to not do things. Perfectionism expects 100%, and will not accept anything less.
Here’s the thing. 15%, while not 100%, is still better than 0%. Doing something is better than doing nothing. It’s easy to say, “Well, if I can’t do everything, and do it completely and...
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
thingsidontunderstandand:
“Here’s the thing,” she said, “I’m a catch.”
“That’s the thing,” he said, “so am I.”
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Deb Talan and the Weepies until further notice.
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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither...”
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera (via juliettegold)
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GAPJC upholds Spahr rebuke for performing... →
I cannot wait for the General Assembly this year, when my denomination—which ratified language allowing the ordination of gay ministers—has the chance to change the definition of “marriage” in the Book of Order.
It is my firm opinion—aside from what I see as the necessity of the church to represent the love and acceptance our government and citizens in large groups...
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McDonnell rejects mandatory invasive ultrasound... →
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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repeatedly forgetting that there are ashes and oil on my forehead, swiping at an itch and getting black under my nails in return, suggests itself as a neat analogy to our resistance to remembering that we are dust.
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“…only some times do sin and immorality converge.”
– Nadia Bolz Weber
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mitcho: ew, a study on ideophones in Japanese.
me: what's an ideophone?
mitcho: they mean onomatopoeic phrases.
me: oh, got it.
mitcho: EW. GROSS, that's disgusting.
me: what is?
mitcho: the first half of the book is description, and the second half is a lexicon with a bunch of translations into German.
: that's what kind of crap passes for a dissertation at places that aren't formal.
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you guys the organic/free range eggs are LYING TO... →
but now we can know
also
these scorecards are really really detailed and you can basically pick whichever egg-production things bother you to see how your eggs of choice are doing
THANK YOU INTERNET
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“先週起こった出来事をチェックしよう”
– I think you’re overstating things here, LinkedIn App.
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“[The left wants] to impose [that] on everybody else while they insist and...”
– Rick Santorum.
Santorum, stick a sock in it. This schtick is disgusting. Rick, let’s be blunt. You’re a Republican Catholic. That’s a lot like a Roman Catholic—except that the political needs of the Republican Party call the ultimate shots instead of Rome. You do not represent “people of Judeo...
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Santorum is in a very good position to win the...
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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s defection is significant. DeWine isn’t a fringe character or a guy who wants to register a protest endorsement as his political future washes away. His flip may be the beginning of a broader, anti-Romney defection by establishment Republicans.
this is simultaneously horrifying because WHAT ARE YOU THINKING but also maybe okay because at least he...
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The Star
tsuginojibun:
There was once a star who did not know he was a star. And he was very lonely.
Surrounded by the infinite darkness of the sky, he knew no other stars or even people. He did not even know any planets. But one day an astronaut came from a planet so far away he could not find his way back.
The star was astonished, for all he had ever known was the darkness and the sky and himself....
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@capnmidori
have I mentioned The Callus to you? He’s conservative, works in banking, and not rull stupid. I am glad I follow him, and I thought maybe you’d appreciate him?
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who is to rule, that is all.: On niceness in YA... →
This is why Beth needn’t worry that her protagonist(s) is/are too smart and sassy.
whoistorule:
If you’re like me and you read a lot of YA fiction aimed at girls, you can recognize the tendency of YA authors to appeal to (what they consider to be) their base with so-called “average,” “nice,” and “relatable” protagonists.
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kelsium:
Sometimes my rage is like this nebulous floating sticky mass that ends up attaching itself to things like macros with poor grammar. I know that isn’t what it’s about, but I just can’t help myself getting worked up about it. The rage has attached.
currently: poor stapling decisions made by others.
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“A woman’s individual preoccupation with weight often serves as a mask for other,...”
– Appetites by Caroline Knapp (via skirtingtheline)
This feels really relevant right now.
(via riotsnotdiets)
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“Anyway as you know I’m not into politics at all and I normally like to keep it...”
– My very best friend, just now, in the only political statement I have ever heard her make in her entire life. (via reallyfoxnews)
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“If we, indeed, tell ourselves stories to live, the children of immigrants find...”
– Jay Caspian King, “Jeremy and Jin” (via jonyang)
read this.
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Hey Parents Television Council,
inkdot:
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If I were a parent I’d rather my children see a chorus of M.I.A. holograms giving the finger while Lil Kim performed “How Many Licks?” in Janet Jackson’s nipple plates and Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of Tim Tebow than ever see another commercial comparing women to shitty Italian cars.
THAT COMMERCIAL ABOUT PUSHED ME OVER THE EDGE
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Let's stop blaming the victims of predatory...
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This is important.
The primary cause of the subprime collapse—which heralded in the Great Recession was bad loans not bad borrowers. At the peak of the subprime boom lenders structured loans in a way that virtually guaranteed that those loans would fail because it was profitable. Borrowers—particularly minority borrowers—were steered toward these designed-to-fail loans even when they...
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kelsium:
Would I comment on Ayn Rand’s writing style without having read her prose? No. Would I comment on her ideas and the way they are propagated and by whom without having read her prose? Yes. These are two different concepts.
For the record, her prose isn’t bad. Clean. Except her dialogue is clunky because her characters are ideas. And sometimes she sermonizes for five pages at a...
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