June 2012
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Patting myself on the back
Because I have curated my newsfeed such that there were only two “ugh healthcare was upheld comments” that showed up, they were basically innocuous, and from middle school era friends (i.e. That Time I Lived in The Bible Belt And Loved Jesus A Whole Lot [but was still a liberal don’t worry]), so it was expected, and kind of adorable.
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neil-gaiman:
mizzkatonic:
What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change?
abaldwin360:
big thanks to reddit user CaspianX2 for typing all this out!
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, people were calling it “Obamacare” before everyone even hammered out what it would be. It’s a term mostly used by people who don’t like the...
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Anxious Attachments: Scattered Thoughts on "People...
lowendtheory:
Part I: Critical Habits
I recalled Jimmy Boggs’ insistence that “blacks are locked in the concept of racism.” It’s “the most devastating thing that ever happened to us,” he used to say. Instead of seeing it as “a challenge to take us to another plateau, it has become an excuse for why we can’t do anything.” - Grace Lee Boggs
Today, we have to take a step forward…and ask: Who is...
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bookbat:
In fairness, I have known a lot of girls who would tell you all about how bright they are, but they all had the decency to be nervous insecure self-loathing wrecks whenever they weren’t doing that.
Young Manhattanite: (highlight + delete) →
emilygould:
I just cut this out of a book review because … because. but, seriously:
“I would prefer to spend the rest of my life without reading another male-written female narrator lovingly describe her own full-yet-pert breasts – their bounce and sway as she walks, the way her lovers…
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skepticalorangutan replied to your post: susiebird replied to your post: susiebird replied…
I know I missed the fun, but just commenting to say I love you both? Cool.
<3
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susiebird replied to your post: susiebird replied to your link: OMG you guys—…
i’m so glad we’re on tumblr at the same time but unfortunately i don’t think i can explain the UK to you. alternately, i don’t think there is any explanation for this.
<3.
Capitalism. It’s a pretty good answer for everything, and it’s usually right or like, not inaccurate.
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susiebird replied to your link: OMG you guys— Little Rooster
i mean also nothing about it makes any sense. but maybe especially “GQ Magazine’s Top Ten Valentine’s Day gift of 2012”—really?? what (MEN’S) magazine editor thought, yes, THIS is what we will tell everyone their girlfriends want for valentines! ???
Someone who doesn’t know any women? Or like women who said “haha YES...
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susiebird replied to your link: OMG you guys— Little Rooster
i’m stuck on the fact that they’ve chosen to coin the term “snorgasm”. i—wait, what?
RIGHT? Like, someone said that in a meeting and everyone else was like “that is a great word, we shall use this word frequently.”
Is it because they’re from the UK? Susan explain the UK to me, why would they make this.
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OMG you guys— Little Rooster →
YOU GUYS. SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHO THE MARKET FOR THIS IS.
And also how you use it. Do you just…keep it there? All night? How.
Ok, the website promises that it will stay there. Something about your pubic bone and underwear. I scoff at this. Some of us are like violent sociopaths in bed (heh), which is to say, maybe one time I ripped a sheet in my sleep, but it was an old sheet and I was having...
“I am afraid too. I am frightened all the time, but I do not let the fears...”
– -Sarah Schulman interviewed by Carlos Motto for We Who Feel Differently.
yes and yes: On Feeling Afraid, But Doing It Anyway
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“The fasting body is a body made of telephone wires; messages spark and are...”
– The Bookbat: —inspiration
on the aesthetics of thinspo. I don’t know much of anything about this person and I forget what originally led me to her (her?) blog. I’m glad something did because, holy shit, what a good writer. (via emilygould)
mirroringlight asked: Can we create a post-grad book group/club thing? All the cool UChicago grads are in it? Please? Cause I think I'd love that.
Summer Crush:
Activate.
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jonbershad:
Sorry, to post so much work stuff today but this video is hilarious.
Basically, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith just completely derailed a story about Lance Armstrong to instead talk about how everyone needs to watch the new season of True Blood.
So fucking funny. I was watching this live and when he subtly changed the subject by...
Someone finally kicked Chris Brown’s ass (and that... →
LOL
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“Do as much as you have time to do. Do more than you have time to do. Make...”
– Molly F., Class of 2012, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (via uchicagoadmissions)
HAAAAI ROOMMATE!!!!!!! I almost typed WOMBMATE haha oh god.
We totally should have bought that cage for the tiny russian who was sleeping on our couch, I miss his tiny russian self already.
“Equal parts blue-eyed soul shouter and wild-eyed poet-sorcerer, Van Morrison is...”
– Pandora’s description of Van Morrison. Poet-sorcerer indeed. (via snowmanoclock)
Anonymous asked: look at tumblrstaff(.)com right now.. wow
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It didn't slip through my fingers, because I never...
None of my regrets have anything to do with school, all with me and things I couldn’t bring myself to do or stop, but last evening, there was one point when I finally came to terms with something that had been bothering me for years, and I thought “I don’t care anymore, I don’t need this thing” and that meant a lot more to me than crossing the stage.
It was so...
Anonymous asked: The future. Tell me about it.
“If you’re gonna have pizza with someone else, what do you have to do? You gotta...”
– NY Times: Teaching Good Sex (via ffolkthepainaway)
(the whole article is worth a read. also, is that the Friends school in Philly that a bunch of my friends went to, I wonder?)
This was what we sang/cried to on the quad when we...
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bluelightseven replied to your post: YEEAAAAA BUDDY.. did you go to TUMBLRMARKETING(.)COM yet? FREE STUFF YEEAAAAAA
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YEEAAAAAAAAA BUDDY I APPREEEEEEEECAITEEE IT
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