May 2012
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“Bury me when I die
beneath a wine barrel
in a tavern.
With luck
the cask...”
– death poem of Moriya Sen’an, who died in 1838
from Japanese Death Poems, edited by Yoel Hoffmann
(via awritersruminations)
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“Hey, handsome stranger
Saw your pic in the archives
Too bad you’re dead now”
– by Rebecca Goldman The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies: Archival Haiku 2011
via plenilune (via redheadbouquet)
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your...
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Anxiety-Ridden Man Rightly Ashamed Of Every Single... →
‘We Are All Silently Judging Him At Every Moment, Just As He Suspects,’ Acquaintances Say
OAKLAND, CA—Friends and colleagues of copywriter Timothy Gibula confirmed Wednesday that the anxiety-ridden 36-year-old is right to feel ashamed of every single thing he does, considering that all his acquaintances are, exactly as he fears, actively judging him at all times.
Validating every...
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational...”
– Federico Fellini (via lokisilvertongue)
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Intelligent, Condescending Life Discovered In... →
HOUSTON—Marking a momentous leap forward in humankind’s understanding of the universe, NASA scientists announced today they had received a radio transmission confirming the existence of intelligent, extremely condescending life in a galaxy nearly 13.8 billion light-years away.
According to officials at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, the message arrived several days after researchers...
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“Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and...”
– Grant Morrison, The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution
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Where's Walden: just like Where's Waldo except...
pale-fire:
actinoutloud:
#the challenge is finding himself
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“I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more...”
– Stephen Dunn, Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry
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“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like...”
– Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
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Income inequality, as seen from space | Per Square... →
buypositively:
May 24, 2012 by Tim De Chant
Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality. After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see income inequality from space? It turned out to be easier than I expected.
Below are satellite images from Google Earth that show two neighborhoods from a selection of cities around the world. In...
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"Congratulations, you have arrived at the...
Well, hardly. But thank you. Now, in all your numerous orientation booklets and study guide downloads, where is the section titled how to interact with peers and lecturers without first dousing yourself in a sea of bourbon?
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“The most useful step I’ve taken in the battle against my anxiety is to share my...”
– Young Peter Salter wrote a very good piece about social anxiety and panic attacks. The best part, however, is the thread that follows. Loads of advice, links, encouragement, and readers sharing their experiences. Go read it. (via guardiancomment)
It’s irksome to me though that EVEN though anxiety...
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Where does a (fairly unsocialised) dog learn to stamp her paw in impatience? No one in this household stamps their feet. I don’t understand it.
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“There are no saints in this world, and I am glad for it. It takes a certain kind...”
– Everything In The Medicine Cabinet Has Expired: Activist, Know Thyself (via greaterthanlapsed)
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“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via earlyfrost)
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Currently enrolling in online studies yet again in the vague hope that this will be the time I don’t fall to pieces at the prospect of interacting with other people on a fixed schedule and participating in an (albeit virtual) academic environment.
If my application goes through, I will have officially racked up my first piece of debt to the government. How exciting.
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“People get really irritated by mental illness. ‘Just fucking get it together!...”
– Maria Bamford (via yeshairy)
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Withdrawal is terrible. Even the ran out of pills for a couple of days, but went to the doctors and received a new script kind. The symptoms begin with dizziness, nausea and shaking, and steadily get worse. I dread the process of coming off the medication permanently, though I will probably have to go through it at some point. It could be in a year’s time, or five, I don’t know. Or...
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“When This Book Comes Out I Am A Dead Man” by Steve Scafidi
So many thousands just like me full of good intentions sit down now to write all of us together by a spidered window cracked, by the Great Pyramids, by a man eating peanuts on a Greyhound bus looking over at us occasionally to smile wondering what we are doing and often I think it is nothing and dusk falls like a curtain...
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“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul?
How can I...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via sleepinginthesnow)
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“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from...”
– Delalorm Semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (via varys)
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Self-Defense and the Criminalization of Survival
transfeminism:
It was just announced that CeCe McDonald, who was being charged with two counts of second-degree murder in an incident of self-defense, has just taken a plea-deal—second degree manslaughter with a recommended 41 month sentence. CeCe McDonald’s sentencing hearing will be in a month.
But Ms. McDonald isn’t the first young Black trans woman to be thrown in jail and aggressively...
April 2012
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“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in...”
– Eugène Delacroix (via apoetreflects)
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kairosclerosis
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.