October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
3 tags
August 2011
12 posts
wewearblackcouk asked: Of course I see that! Of course I understand the offence. I actually did find your comment to be belittling, whether you meant to or not. It's just I'm not the kind of person to immediately see the bad in something, whether you want to be offended or not is a little bit of a choice. I'm african myself and there are plenty of "get tribal" or "afro prints" etc type...
“Let me tell you some things.
I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I...”
– STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life…
This is perfect.
(via mis-anthrop-ologie)
And I mean, I believe in stuff like this.
(via freudianflips)
Well, this made me tear up this morning.
(via tastiejam)
THIS
and I quote...
“Sustainability is the key to any lifestyle. Sure, I could sell my phone and my laptop for the price of a few hamburgers. But, then, the hamburgers would soon be gone, and so would my phone and my laptop. I would have absolutely no phone, so an employer could contact me. And without a laptop, I would only be able to search and apply for work online during the hours that the public library...
2 tags
Once again, I'm cutting and pasting...
Remember, on Tumblr, you can’t reblog someone’s message box. Darn it.
So, @custerdiedforyoursins always answers people’s questions with these great answers, and I always want to reblog her whole “Q&A” thing, but I can’t. So, I’m cutting and pasting it here for you:
Question:
Why do people react so strongly if people who pass for ‘white’...
wewearblackcouk asked: Hello there,
I'm just looking through my posts, I do enjoy the commentary and banter that goes on and it's all part of the community. However, I do wish you're not tearing your hair out at a simple fickle post of which I just wanted to express my feelings towards a story I passed me one morning. I do not run a political or culture analyzing blog, I run a fickle and simple...
I'm just looking through my posts, I do enjoy the commentary and banter that goes on and it's all part of the community. However, I do wish you're not tearing your hair out at a simple fickle post of which I just wanted to express my feelings towards a story I passed me one morning. I do not run a political or culture analyzing blog, I run a fickle and simple...
Scary
Just in case you didn’t unfriend me YESTERDAY for my financial rant.
Here are the links:
The article (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/06/139027615/a-national-debt-of-14-trillion-try-211-trillion
and the data to back it up (I did the research, FYI: y’all know I don’t trust people…)
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=12253
Sigh..straight off of the Congressional Budget...
Why did our country get downgraded by S&P? Here... →
combattant-de-la-liberte:
[…] Why are today’s politicians, journalists and economists so complicit in deliberately misleading the public about the current and future state of U.S. finances? Why do they speak of “cuts” in future federal spending when the CBO routinely projects increases in the range of +30% to +65%? Check those numbers again, dear citizen: they’re positive, not...
July 2011
17 posts
Reblogged from @custerdiedforyoursins
This came off @custerdiedforyoursins ask/answer box, so I couldn’t reblog it the usual way.
I quote:
I’ve always heard it {the word “squaw”} was a word for female genitalia in some Native language, though I’ve since learned that is incorrect. It wasn’t something I heard very often, except when being mentioned as offensive. As I understand it, most people think it is a word...
Hungry
Recently, someone commented on another friend’s FB stream that humans are physiologically built to be herbivores. One of her arguments was that if you put a 2 yr old in a crib with a bunny rabbit and an apple, the child would eat the apple.
Really?
Ok, let’s all have a good chuckle at THAT logic (and then let’s all admit that if you put a very young child in a crib with...
Mohawk reserve is a no-vote zone →
kahsennanoron:
Non-participation is ‘better option’; Many aboriginals believe voting weakens native sovereignty claims
Gilles Paquin, a Montreal-based spokesperson for Elections Canada, said advertising material aimed at aboriginal voters, like the television, radio and print public service announcements, including ones on APTN, the aboriginal television network, is costing the federal ...
Reblogged from sugary-oblivion and answers changed →
sugary-oblivion:
1. One thing I want to say to someone I hate I don’t really HATE anyone. I dislike a lot of people, but hate…? Nope. 2. One of my insecurities. Love. The whole notion of there being someone for everyone and that you will find your perfect match. I’m scared that I won’t. 3. Something I think…
I’m pretty bored too, right now. Allegedly, I’m supposed to be...
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism....”
– bell hooks: Racism and Feminism (via itsjusttracey)
Native Voices: An Open Letter to All Appropriators →
adailyriot:
thesadnessofpencils:
Specific details are desi-centric, but otherwise generally applicable.
There is no such thing as ‘just words’. When looking at language & saying it is ‘just words’, is like saying the economy is ‘just trade’. So much of the contextualisation & recontextualisation of space comes from the connotations of words, and it is context that gives words the...
poor, poor Violette
You all know my alter-ego, Violette? Well, she has her own tumblr. It’s boring, ignore it. It’s has two posts, and it will probably be a total whine fest about diet and exercise and carbs and diabetes with a little burlesque thrown in.
However, Violette has her own FB page now. Because I intend to have a “real” job when I finish my master’s degree and stuff, and I...
“You can’t be a full tranny every day of the week,” Katy Perry says in this...”
– This is why I absolutely fucking hate Katy Perry. Didn’t she recently claim to be an ally to the gay community? Yet at the same time, she not only uses the slur “tranny” but uses it to describe herself in costume mode. Because trans people don’t face constant oppression and can just take a day off...
ignore due to ignor-ance
All anyone has wanted to talk about blog about tweet about trend about is the Kaylee/Kacee thing and I don’t know anything about it.
I realize this makes me a very bad American, and I should be transfixed in front of the TV or fused to social media threads breathlessly waiting for every lurid detail of this tragedy until the verdict was given…but I just couldn’t sum up the...
June 2011
17 posts
LadyofleisureDC: Off my Chest →
ladyofleisuredc:
This is something I’m trying to wrap my mind around. People who post pictures of random strangers to make fun of them. Or even people who talk about random strangers assuming all kinds of shit.
I mean, you go out of your way to whip out your camera, take a picture of someone you don’t know, with…
And this is why I like this woman more and more every time she blogs...
Violette Gets Fit
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/violettegetsfit
I’ve started a second blog. Right, because I’m SO GOOD at keeping up with this one.
The point of Violette Gets Fit is to help me keep track of my blood sugar, exercise habits, and to help me get back in the habit of eating healthy. In the blog it says it’s because I have routines for Burlesque I want to do that require me to be...
People of Mc Donald's
I have a real issue when I break down and go to a fast food place and have to wait…and wait…and wait…because the people in front of me are all obsessed with “having it their way”. You know what? The thing that makes fast food, well, FAST, is that people stick to the menu! If you want a fucking pick and choose gourmet dining experience? Don’t go to Mcdonalds! And...
exceptions to the rant
Here’s what happened: The staff was 90% Spanish speaking, and probably 50% trainees from the way the managers were treating them. There was an older woman in line when I got there and she had ordered a cheeseburger with no ketchup. When her order arrived, she checked it, whipped out her receipt, and made a fuss: she said she KNEW they were doing it wrong but she waited until the served her...
Surviving opening night and I NEED MY OWN CAR!!
Right now I’m supposed to be in downtown Wichita participating in a Flash Mob. I even know the entire routine.
I don’t have a working car.
This business of sharing a car has worked for us for almost 5 years, but it’s an era that needs to come to a close. So we’re on the lookout for a decent used car. Know anyone? Let me know! We really want a small truck, or a small SUV...
Truthful Tuesday
My 20 yr year reunion is in two weeks.
TWENTY YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION
Do you know how very, very OLD that makes me feel? Seriously effing old, that’s right. Like, I want to get my boobs inflated, my cellulite massaged into smoothness, my wrinkles plumped and botoxed, and the rest of my face “peeled”, and my droopy underarm muscles magically firmed up.
The reality is I...
Obama's Health Reform bill
jayparkinsonmd:
1,990 pages
400,000 words
Print version weighs 19 lbs and stands 9 inches high
An estimated 10 year cost of $894 billion means each word is worth $2.24 million
Awesome truth for truthful tuesday.
Truthful Tuesday
mamannani:
I finally found plain, white, skinny jeans that aren’t practically translucent and don’t suffer from heavy bedazzling or embellishment. They’re very simple and very basic.
Last night, I wrapped myself up in my comforter and woke up looking like a burrito.
I’m drinking hot coffee on a 100 degree day, because I’m out of energy drinks at work.
Maria, it only counts as...
did I sign up for THIS?? a rant about physical...
bite me where the bullet did, but DAMN! my shoulder HURTS!
For all of my dear followers who are still young and lead an existence where they are adverse to things like pain, risk-taking, and near death experiences: y’all are the SMART cookies. That’s all I’m saying. Now I’m a few years shy of 40 and I’m realizing that I’m going to spend the next 50 years in...