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lightspeedsound: thecakebar: Homemade Samoas Girl Scout...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:17:55 -0500

lightspeedsound:

thecakebar:

Homemade Samoas Girl Scout Cookies Tutorial {click link for full tutorial}

OH HOLY FUCK

pieto: television commercial for communism via

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:58:21 -0500

pieto:

television commercial for communism

via

fattyforever: Ermahgerd.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:29:20 -0500

fattyforever:

Ermahgerd.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:32:42 -0500

fuckyeahfatpositive: I am my own superhero, The Carb...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:33:30 -0500

fuckyeahfatpositive:

I am my own superhero, The Carb Crusader!

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….oral germ whore?

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:04:45 -0500

….oral germ whore?

murphysbride: harrytheahlizard: zacheser: And this is why...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:35:20 -0500

murphysbride:

harrytheahlizard:

zacheser:

And this is why Nine is my Doctor.

Suddenly I understand what one of my huge issues has been with the latest Doctor Who episodes

The Doctor has been reacting with horror rather than wonder, and running rather than communicating

Thanks 9 you’ve helped me come to a point of clarity

^^^nailed it^^^

God: I love all my children equally.

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:37:21 -0500

God: I love all my children equally.
[Earlier in the Bible]
God: I don't care for Gob.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:37 -0500

Actually helpful tips on how to get through the day with depression

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:25:32 -0500

Actually helpful tips on how to get through the day with depression:

mentalillnessmouse:

“It’s bad enough without people ramming Happy Tips at you through facebook. There is no miracle behaviour change that will flip that switch for you. I know, I’ve tried.

A friend of mine suggested that I write something from my point of view because, surprisingly, I manage to give an outwards impression of having my shit together. I was shocked to hear this. And I find this comical, but I see her point. I’m functioning. I’ve adapted. I’m surprisingly okay. I think the medical term is “resilient”.

So, here it is.”

This is great! Thank you! I’m gonna post it for our followers to read!

nitanahkohe: honestly i’ve always been what obnoxious misogynistic people describe as a “girly...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:17:18 -0500

nitanahkohe:

honestly i’ve always been what obnoxious misogynistic people describe as a “girly girl” because my mother banned me from leaving the house without makeup when i turned 10 and raised me to take dressing well very seriously…for her it was cultural (being Southern) but it was also a class thing—she married down when she married my dad, and it was really important to her to convey to the general populace that she was still a “respectable lady”; she taught me to over-invest in clothing & accessories because even when people have no idea that the lights are off at home, they’ll think you are of a higher class than you are when they see you dressed well. hate on it as much as we like (and i do), dressing up (as in, dressing “stylishly” but also dressing UP a class than you are) gets you places—potential employers take you more seriously, you get treated better at school and at service institutions, and people who are higher up than you on the social ladder are more likely to befriend you (one of my mother’s cardinal rules: never underestimate the power of a friendship of convenience—social connections can get you almost anything if you work them right). i realize it sounds like some dumb period film about a poor servant girl working her way up the pyramid or whatever, but it’s the truth—people treat you better when you don’t have holes in your clothes and carry yourself well.

all that said, i was never particularly fashion-obsessed. that all changed when i started getting noticed in academia, because i realized that literally everyone was reading something into my body and my backstory. i’m one of those “underrepresented” students and i have a curvy figure, which pretty much sealed my fate. i’m “too hood for grad school” if i wear big earrings, i’m “militant” if i wear anything in a muted forest green, i’m a “drug dealer” if i wear nice jewelry, i’m “too rez for grad school” if i wear anything beaded, i’m “too sexy” if i wear anything fitted, i’m “too matronly” if i wear anything dowdy, i’m “lazy and unprofessional” if i wear loose-fitting comfortable clothes, etc etc etc. most of those are comments i’ve actually received. in the midst of all that, i’m also trying to find my way and assert my identity in what is a very hostile environment, where i see a lot of my “underrepresented” peers being swallowed up and spat back out into conveniently brown carbon copies of the same people that are attacking all of us. i’m determined to not let myself be a part of that, and i’m also trying to work thru all the internalized misogyny i learned as a child/young adult re: what a put-together woman is supposed to look like, as well as grow into myself and my own style.

it’s fucking exhausting.

so that’s how i got into fashion. i realized people are gonna read into me whatever the fuck they want, so i might as well wear what makes me feel happy and good about myself. i get nasty comments and harassment on the regular, but that’s just part of being me in this place, and i’m learning to be a bitch about it (in a good way). if you take a look around university campuses, you’ll see that overwhelmingly, the faculty of color (particularly women) are pretty much always dressed on point, and usually have managed to work in day-to-day stylistic elements that represent their cultural identity. so that’s who i’ve decided to take my cue from, and one of the major reasons why i love Native fashion so much—i feel like in order to just survive this institution and the soul-grinding that is being a Native woman in academia, i *have* to dress well for others, but i’m not gonna sacrifice my personal style or cultural heritage in the process. gross comments aside, i AM too militant, too sexy, too rez, for grad school, and i’m proud of it! :)

squidpyjamas: octopusenvy: herplove: The Western Painted...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:32:55 -0500

squidpyjamas:

octopusenvy:

herplove:

The Western Painted Turtle can survive the whole winter without breathing, and now researchers know why.

When researchers recently sequenced the turtle’s genome, they found that its ability to withstand complete oxygen deprivation (anoxia) and partial freezing is associated with networks of genes common to vertebrates.

Transcriptomic analysis revealed 19 genes in the brain and 23 in the heart in which expression is significant increased in low-oxygen conditions, including one that was expressed almost 128 times as much as normal. “This is a back-door route for turtles to evolve,” coauthor Patrick Minx of The Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis said in a press release. “Rather than evolve new genes, they adapted existing genes for new uses.”

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Dude. Genes.

Wat.

[TW fat shaming] An open letter to 3 loud young men going to a party who got off at my stop

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:07:00 -0500

“Whale hunting!” That’s a clever one! Did you come up with it all by yourselves?

My initial thought was to hope you got hit by a bus; however, there aren’t many in this neighborhood this time of night. Then I realized, no, my hopes for you are threefold and quite different:

1. I hope any fat person you put the moves on sees through your bullshit and shuts you down.

2.I hope you gain empathy. I hope you have a flash of insight— something that should be an obvious realization to any human being, but would apparently be insight to you— that your fellow human beings are not worthy of your objectification and ridicule due to their physical appearance, for any social identity that might assign.

3. I hope you come to love and admire a fat person someday, think about tonight (or, one might assume, other nights when you’ve openly displayed such tedious and deplorable behavior), and realize that they deserve more than what you have to offer.

And that’s it. This experience has been given as much time as it deserves from me. Done.

wehadfacesthen: Marcello Mastroianni in 8½ (Federico Fellini,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:37:12 -0500

wehadfacesthen:

Marcello Mastroianni in 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1962)

via cinyma

general psa:

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:08:09 -0500

jcatgrl:

freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up. it doesn’t mean that i am not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:39:08 -0500

tastefullyoffensive: Jessica has updated her relationship...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:10:42 -0500

tastefullyoffensive:

Jessica has updated her relationship status.

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semen-debeauvoir: queencardigan: i could do with some tall as...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:41:05 -0500

semen-debeauvoir:

queencardigan:

i could do with some tall as counter myself tbh

iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud

samiholloway: The internet is so gloriously weird.

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:12:01 -0500

samiholloway:

The internet is so gloriously weird.

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:42:55 -0500

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

- Søren Kierkegaard (via eibmorb)