I think my cat is reading my diary...

cooledskin: If I ever have a dog, this will be it.

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:00:43 -0400

If I ever have a dog, this will be it.

"In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:31 -0400

“In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000 characters in these films, 75% overall were male, 83% of characters in crowds were male, 83% of narrators were male, and 72% of speaking were male. When the American Psychological Association commented on this research, they said, ‘This gross under-representation of women or girls in films with family-friendly content reflects a missed opportunity to present a broad spectrum of girls and women in roles that are non-sexualised.’”

- Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010. (via bitemebeautiful)

Bringing this back as people have started reblogging this again and EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS.

(via bitemebeautiful)

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Sun, 19 May 2013 06:00:18 -0400

Windows 98 Screensavers

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:00:17 -0400

Windows 98 Screensavers

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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:00:38 -0400

Being a Fan of Something Does Not Mean That

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:00:38 -0400

ughfandoms-in-general:

you have to love it unconditionally

you cannot say that there are things wrong with it

you have to quantify your love for it

you cannot live without it

your entire existence revolves around it

you have to be in a fandom

if you like something, you like it. if you love something, you love it.
thassit.
you ain’t gotta prove anything to anyone.

"So far in the history of capitalism, with important exceptions, capitalist preferences have governed..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:00:34 -0400

“So far in the history of capitalism, with important exceptions, capitalist preferences have governed what politicians do. So capitalists leave Detroit for China and then China for Bangladesh. Capitalists’ relocation decisions were never about ‘efficiency.’ No one ever could or did count all of the social costs and benefits associated with those decisions. No one knows or could know whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Efficiency claims are fiction used to disguise the victory of some social interests over others as if society as a whole had gained. The Detroits of the world, past, present and future, stand as powerful wake-up calls about the costs of capitalist freedoms and the injustice governing who bears them.”

- Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, UMass-Amherst (via prshnth)

I wish I had taken an Econ class..

shaqshock: MMM MAH

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:00:48 -0400

shaqshock:

MMM

MAH

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:00:53 -0400

cat :) by Alina Rustamova on 500px

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:00:43 -0400

cat :) by Alina Rustamova on 500px

allcreatures: Lambs wearing coats in Herefordshire as they...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:00:46 -0400

allcreatures:

Lambs wearing coats in Herefordshire as they were struggling with the Spring cold weather.

Picture: Newsteam (via Animal pictures of the week - Telegraph)

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:50 -0400

firehouselight: blah-blahs: doityourselfproject: Paint...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:00:34 -0400

firehouselight:

blah-blahs:

doityourselfproject:

Paint primary colors on fan wings

BRILLIANT

Did we just discover how to paint with all the colors of the wind?

ianbrooks: Hidden Architecture As part of an advertising...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:00:40 -0400

Hidden Architecture by Saatchi & Saatchi / posted by ianbrooks.me

Hidden Architecture by Saatchi & Saatchi / posted by ianbrooks.me

Hidden Architecture by Saatchi & Saatchi / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Hidden Architecture

As part of an advertising campaign for the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, Saatchi & Saatchi Russia put together a creative team to assemble the deep, labyrinthine roots of some iconic buildings; the shoulders of giants that all current architecture stands atop of. You can see many more WIP shots over at Design You Trust

Artists: Behance

"I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:00:38 -0400

“I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.

Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.”

- Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)

"I do have to denounce this hegemonic feminist discourse that promotes success without questioning..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:00:22 -0400

“I do have to denounce this hegemonic feminist discourse that promotes success without questioning the very context in which said success is supposed to take place. I do have to protest the increasing promotion of corporate participation as a measure of “feminist achievement” and women’s prosperity. Because for as long as we do not question at whose expense we are succeeding, we are going to continue creating a deeper gap between those women who are allowed to succeed and those who never stood a chance to begin with. We are not meant to have it all in our current set up. Moreover, we are supposed to always aspire to more. This is a model based on some nonsensical idea of permanent growth and the exploitation of more and more resources and people to uphold it. The perversity of it all is that we hardly have the chance to even consider alternatives. Who has the luxury of time for debate or political/ social organization when it is necessary to work two jobs, take care of children, family, social life and some scarce leisure time in order to barely survive? We cannot have it all, in part, because we are forced to participate in the illusion that we can have it all. And a growing portion of feminism has taken to the sidelines, in this role of reactive respondent to the news cycle, barely fighting so that what we have so far achieved cannot be taken away.”

- Flavia Dzodan, ’We cannot have it all because we no longer have dreams’
http://tigerbeatdown.com/2012/06/27/we-cannot-have-it-all-because-we-no-longer-have-dreams/ (via queerintersectional)

likeafieldmouse: Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth - Tiger &...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:00:31 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth - Tiger & Turtle (2011) - A walk-along “roller coaster”

How do you walk along the upside down parts?!

girlargueswithtree: catsdoingsillythings: [Image: A longhaired...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:00:35 -0400

girlargueswithtree:

catsdoingsillythings:

[Image: A longhaired brown tabby cat in the process of being brushed, only instead of the person brushing the cat, the cat is pushing its face and neck against the brush and grabbing onto the person’s hand with its paws.]

ouououououo

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 06:00:33 -0400

kidsm0ke: Aside // The Weakerthans I’m unconsoled,I’m lonely,I...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:00:44 -0400

kidsm0ke:

Aside // The Weakerthans

I’m unconsoled,
I’m lonely,
I am so much better than I used to be.
Terrified of telephones
and shopping malls and knives.
Drowning in the pools of other lives.
Rely a bit too heavily
on alcohol and irony.
Get clobbered on by courtesy.
In love with love and lousy poetry.

And I’m leaning on this broken fence, between past and present tense