January 2011
234 posts
So I actually have another tumblr, where I mostly blog about book-related stuff, novels I’ve read, authors I like, etc. Feel free to follow me if you’re interested!
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We don’t ask for much, just broadcast what is...
soupsoup:
To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even the phone landlines will be cut tomorrow, to prevent any...
I'm starting to get really wary of language...
krona:
junkmanchoir:
Pretty much in agreement with krona’s response. People make mistakes, or people just don’t realize the impact of what they’re saying, and it’s important not to demonize them just for that. But at the same time, as is the popular phrase around here, words mean things. I will not apologize for making a fuss over the word “crazy”, for instance, because it does genuinely hurt...
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Juan Cole: Mubarak’s Response to Demand for end of... →
dominickbrady:
I’ve been in class all day so I have no idea what’s going on in the news but I’m reading 3Quarks and Juan Cole to get caught up.
via Juan Cole’s Informed Comment:
Gen. Hosni Mubarak’s response to a mass uprising demanding an end to military rule in Egypt?
He appoints the former head of Egyptian military intelligence (Omar Suleiman) his vice president (and therefore likely...
Revolution Porn
radicallyhottoff:
spiegelman:
I get a sense that there’s a lot of rah-rah revolution going on by American observers of the Egyptian protests and the Tunisian overthrow, with a lot of knee-jerk criticism of the United States for supporting the “wrong” side in the conflict. It all seems very Tea Partyesque to me, salivating over the spectacle of radical change without any real thought whether...
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Honestly, that's why I fight so hard about words...
genderbitch:
Most of the time it doesn’t offend me. I don’t take a lot of things personally. Conflict freaks me out more than words offend me, so if it was about offense, I’d never talk about words cuz everyone seems to wanna fight me on it.
No, words have a real and serious effect on how we think and how we think has a real and serious effect on how we act. I have literally watched the flow of...
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radicallyhottoff:
URGENT: Egypt has shut off the internet
I just received a call from a friend in Cairo (I won’t say who it is now because he’s a prominent activist) telling me neither his DSL nor his USB internet service is working. I’ve just checked with two other friends in different parts of Cairo and their internet is not working either.
This just happened 10 minutes ago — and...
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48 hours to save Brenda
afterthecurtain:
http://allout.org/en/brenda/
Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian in the UK, faces deportation THIS WEEK (tomorrow, on Friday 28th) back to the life-threatening persecution she fled eight years ago.
With David Bahati, the Ugandan politician and author of the notorious “Kill the Gays” legislation, taking an interest in her case, Brenda faces clear and present danger if she’s...
I hate that it’s so easy for anyone or anything to hurt me. Why can’t I be made of steel and not let anything hurt me and have an influence over my emotions?
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Want to help Kelley Williams-Bolar?
radicallyhottoff:
thecranium:
She is the black mother who was convicted of a felony and sentenced to jail time and probation for sending her two daughters to a school in a different district. As you have probably guessed, the school they attended is safer and whiter than the one in the girls’ neighborhood. The school hired a private detective to catch this woman.
She’s in need of donations to...
Dorianisms: Dear Tumblr →
msfeasance:
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
Image Description: On…
Things that will make me judge the person saying...
inautumn-inkashmir:
Using the word ‘Nazi’ for things that have nothing to do with Nazism, especially when talking about a) grammar and b) politicians you don’t agree with.
Using the term ‘genocide’ or ‘genocidal’ for things that have nothing to do with genocide or eliminationism.
Using the term rape inappropriately or for the lulz.
To a lesser extent, describing everything not conservative as...
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ATTEMPTING TO RESURRECT FUCKYEAHTHAICUTIES
haterina:
FUCK YEAH THAI CUTIES
It is pretty hard to find pictures of Thai people who aren’t young, thin, pinkywhite and with pointy noses. Not saying they are ugly or shouldn’t be seen, but there is so much more to us. We are dark, we are fat, our noses are broad — and we are wonderfully, gloriously Thai. We also deserve visibility. I would like submissions from everyone:
of all kinds of...