“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can’t afford to be with them. It’s not worth the price, even though, just like the Tiffany catalog, no one tells you what the price is. You set it yourself, and if you’re lucky it’s reasonable. You have a sense of when you’re about to go bankrupt. Your own sense of self-worth takes the wheel and says, “Enough of this shit. Stop making excuses. No one’s that busy at work. No one’s allergic to whipped cream. There are too cell phones in Sweden.” But most people don’t get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to pay for this one thing. This relationship is an impulse buy, and you’ll figure out if it’s worth it later.”
—Sloane Crosley (How Did You Get This Number)
June 2012
Did you know?
White American males constitute only 33% of the population. Yet, they occupy approximately:
- 80% of tenured positions in higher education
- 80% of the House of Representatives
- 80-85% of the U.S. Senate
- 92%of Forbes 400 executive CEO-level positions
- 90% of athletic team owners
- 97.7% of U.S. presidents
And then they flip out when they’re not allowed in the Women’s Tent.
May 2012
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rebecca is perfect, go forth and observe
Sufjan Stevens Renames Kitchen Appliances
Perishables! Come Congregate in the Cold!
Little Hot Waves, Or, Let’s Get Brain Cancer While We Wait For The Popcorn
Mix Your Drinks! (Stir! Whip! Purée!)
A Configuration of Whisks Which, When Activated, Allow Sufjan Stevens to Cook a Fluffier Omelette
Toaster (For the Toastless)
“After listening to Paul play, John recalled, “I had thought to myself, ‘He’s as good as me.’ Now, I thought, if I take him on, what will happen? It went through my head that I’d have to keep him in line if I let him join [the band]. But he was good, so he was worth having. He also looked like Elvis. I dug him.”
—Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (via sevenpercent)
if there is actually going to be a zombie apocalypse i will:
- take car
- go to mum’s
- kill phil
- grab liz
- go to the winchester
- have a nice cold pint
- and wait for all this to blow over
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
translate.google.com
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 friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
A Response to Recent Attacks on Social Science →
socialsciencespace.com
Despite their clear and widespread relevance social scientists often have a problem getting their messages heard. As Lord Giddens said last year, in a speech to the Academy of Social Sciences, “most people in politics and the media do not know where they get their ideas from.”
Social science is often ignorantly disparaged or marginalised because the impact of such work is often diffuse or long term. Social science is not a poor cousin to the natural sciences suffering from a version of physics envy. Its problem domain is different, and so must be the way it justifies itself. It is publicly engaged and owes as much to history and philosophy as it does to natural science.
Social science represents a very wide ranging set of approaches to what are known as ‘wicked problems’. These are social problems which are messy and ill structured such as: poverty, inequality, consumer behaviour, social cohesion, behaviour change, security, the causes of crime and social determinants of health.
Part of the problem comes from the wide-ranging nature of the disciplines, subject matter and problem domains. Social science can encompass everything from psychology to international relations, from social theory to wellbeing. But while the methods of study used and subjects vary, there is also a strong common thread: explaining our social world.
All of these wicked problems and more are major national and international priorities. They don’t tend to have right or wrong answers but often have better or worse answers. Often the research will cross over from facts to values, from description to explanation and back again, and will not be reliably predictive. In the UK, when the Queen visited the London School of Economics during the economic meltdown and asked why no one predicted this, she had a point. (Though Gillian Tett on the Financial Times who did predict it, gave the credit to her holistic understanding to her PhD in social anthropology!). Social science is not a watertight exercise. As a Nobel prize-winning physicist once said ‘understanding physics is child’s play, but understanding child’s play is a nightmare.’
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Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.
There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”
” —Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as the Candle in The Dark (via ironfleet)writing tip #1
get a feel for your pov character by eating some or all of their favorite desserts
“Diamond and Sigmundson advocate use of the terms ‘atypical’, ‘unusual’ or ‘less frequent’ rather than ‘abnormal’, maintaining that it is possible – at least symbolically – to include all bodies, intersexed or otherwise, in the expanded language of ‘normality’. They argue for intersex conditions to be considered ‘biological varieties’ (1997a: 1,046), anticipated products of natural biodiversity, and therefore part of biological and anatomical science. Their argument relates to that of Harry Benjamin who, as early as 1925, proposed that the sexual binary had ‘no accurate scientific meaning’, and urged the cultural ingestion of the idea of a sex continuum with ‘many “in between”’ (1966: 44).”
—Catherine Harper, Intersex (via sociologique)
Twist And Shout
The Beatles
The Beatles live at the Star Club - Twist and Shout
Rainbow in the Dark
Das Racist
Rainbow In the Dark - Das Racist
