December 2011
1 post
November 2011
6 posts
Esoterica: On the flipside. The best police... →
nudiemuse:
So on the flip side of my previous post I will tell you about the nicest most wonderful cop I’ve ever met.
A few years ago due to my partner being hospitalized/having some financial difficulties we had to move in with a friend on Bainbridge Island which is wealthy and very -very-…
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl (1921-1943). Anti-nazi activist, and one of the members of Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose).
(via landofwrongness)
The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More... →
strugglingtobeheard:
JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food stamps, the more profits JP Morgan makes. Yes, you read that correctly. When the...
October 2011
23 posts
Writer/Artist/Fangirl: Reblog this if you've ever... →
karnythia:
ouyangdan:
magesmagesmages:
notdoingmywork:
However you define this. I want to see the numbers, and I want to see if there’s any solidarity here, male and female, because this happens to both.
I hope no one’s too ashamed to reblog this, because you shouldn’t be ashamed. You didn’t ask for it. So you shouldn’t be the…
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I’ve been harassed by strangers on trains and buses,...
“Next winter when the cold blasts are creeping through the rents in your seedy...”
– Lucy Gonzalez Parsons. “To Tramps”, 1884. (via rosesforstalin)
What’s old is new again.
Esoterica: This shit is fucked up though. →
i-ate-jims-crow-with-hot-sauce:
They’re hiring all these seasonal people, and a lot of people hired seasonally are usually offered a permanent position, but…the age of the people they’re hiring…it’s just sad. These people shouldn’t be working.
Nobody in their late sixties or early seventies…
Makes me wanna holler.
Esoterica: unquietmindofamy: Update on this... →
unquietmindofamy:
Update on this post.
Yesterday I posted an image that showed my husband, Sam being compared to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by his coworker on the Cheezburger website. His coworker had posted the link to Sam’s FB wall and that’s how we were made aware of this “joke.”
I posted…
Here’s another example of privilege. Sam is concerned about his co-worker getting fired and...
Esoterica: soydulcedeleche: soydulcedeleche: so my... →
soydulcedeleche:
soydulcedeleche:
so my granny the other day …
we’re talmbout molestation, the catholic church, camp counselors, all the ways people hide to try and find easy access and ways to hurt children, both girls and boys (even though girls more often than not.)
and she says…
I have seen this again and again, the way this cycle refuses to die infuriates me. Generations of...
“Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: it is single mothers who run...”
– Rick Santorum, suggesting that if you just get single women husbands, they won’t vote for Democrats.
Why do I get the feeling that his idea of making a joke is to chuckle and say, “Haha, you know, women…”
(via cognitivedissonance)
Wow. I just…wow.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Ugh.
Is this kind...
“At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, an...”
– Malcolm X (via notyourkinddear)
And they played that reaction somewhat, too.
so the other day i sat in on an #occupybronx...
some white dude (passing out his business cards): so my organization is making the bronx a destination location and redoing the bronx's image from the outside so we can attract more people.
me (with the mean side-eye): that sounds like gentrification to me. as a member of the south bronx, that is worrisome. i don't want to be anyone's destination. this is my home.
*the said white dude sat there angrily as the rest of the table silently laughed and gave me a nod.
“I want you to root for me. Everybody in Germany roots for Siemens. Everybody in...”
– General Electric Chairman Jeffrey Immelt, acting stunned that people might be a titch pissed off at Wall Street and corporations like GE. After hearing his answer, Leslie Stahl is nearly unable to form a complete question. He’s also Chairperson of the White House’s Council on Jobs and...
A couple adopts an Ethiopian child then locks the... →
karnythia:
spastasmagoria:
thetatteredendsofautumn:
shotgunsunday:
therikeone:
Make her story heard.
Reblog
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This is disgusting, and reminded me of this story as well.
Fucking privileged bullshit.
what the motherfucking fuck
What the ever living fuck?
I’m not surprised to see that they are white conservative Christians who were abusing adopted black children....
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September 2011
1 post
Esoterica: brainingdaily: Our weekly food bill now... →
brainingdaily:
Our weekly food bill now takes more than 25% of our weekly income and it’s been doing so for a few months, now. There is no food bank or discount grocery in this county, where a loaf of cheap bread is now a little less than $3. The nearest Angel Food program point is about an…
Rand Paul says the poor are richer these days.
August 2011
4 posts
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“Bachmann says that European immigrants “did not come here for the promise of a...”
– Leaning Right: How Conservative Myths Stoke Racial Fear (via robot-heart-politics)
This is why I get so sick of white people claiming their ancestors never benefited from slavery or racism. Pick up a damned history book or three and read, or kindly shut the entire fuck up when we talk about white...
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World-Renowned Chef Karl Wilder Tries Living on... →
karnythia:
stfuconservatives:
Still think people on food stamps have it too good? Chef Karl Wilder is trying to feed his family on the budget equivalent of what they would receive on food stamps. He’s been documenting his meals on his blog as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank.
He just finished his two months on a food stamp budget, and he says, “I admit to being...
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A police commission has concluded that Mark Duggan...
July 2011
6 posts
Holy Ankonian!!!!!!! →
I don’t even drive and I want this thing. It’s like the Batmobile and Mad Max’s “the last of the V-8 Interceptors” had a baby!
elonjames:
katchin05:
It’s a fucking Batmobile *cries real tears*
Yeah. That’s a batmobile. I need to be rich #ASAP.
“I shouldn’t say this, but I’d be more comfortable with 13 year olds having sex...”
– Have I told you all how awesome my pop culture professor is? (via lostgrrrls)
I really agree. When I gave “the talk” to my younger cousins this was basically my version: if you don’t orgasm then don’t have sex. When you figure that few teenage boys (or young adult men or old men or men at all) can...
My daughter was miserable this morning, talking about how she is different from people she knows and how she’s “tired of being [thought of as] a freak.” Adolescence sucks.
I talked to her about different minds and how everyone’s mind has different strengths and weaknesses, and that there tends to be a trade off. We talked about neurotypicality and the Autistic Spectrum....
June 2011
6 posts
Esoterica: Marriage Equality & Why it Won't Hurt... →
karnythia:
Can someone explain how marriage equality harms marriage? Will equality cut it? Set it on fire? Is there’s a Jets vs. Sharks thing happening? I’m just wondering because I see all of these impassioned defenses of “traditional” marriage and I’m confused. My marriage has yet to catch fire because two…
WatchThe mix is called Cure All, and it works as advertised.
How are things going in the small dark movie of...
Ever have a piece of fiction leave you feeling poleaxed? I just did. It’s part of this serial and must be read in order.
Now all I’m fit for this evening is sitting in the gloaming listening to this song.
Beginnings are hard.
I have never been good at them. Or maybe it’s sustaining them that’s the larger struggle for me. I’m not sure.
Regardless here I am now. Welcome. We’ll see what happens together I guess. I’ll be the one muttering, “You make the path by walking it” over and over.