May 2012
unaguerrasinfondo:
last week a white supremacist in AZ murdered 4 people (including a 2 year old) and then killed himself. law enforcement has found weapons, chemicals, and military grade explosives on his property. this dude had connections with mainstream republican politicians and was known for making public threats against people of color/advocating illegal activity/terrorism/etc… so how in...
its me
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“Credit profiling continues a tradition of corporate and state use of social...”
– Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling | NewAmerica.net
this is such an excellent article—it’s long but there’s SO much good in it—i highly rec book marking and coming back to it when you have time. this sentence alone—i *love* that phrase—“social sorting techniques”—it is SO helpful to me in...
marshmallowmegamama:
i’ve been struggling to come up with something to say all day about the death of maurice sendak. i’ve been saddened or even grief stricken by the death of a famous person before—but this is so personal to me, i can’t stop crying. that is the only thing i can write, is that i can’t stop crying.
mr. toast tried to comfort me earlier and pointed out that maurice was 83 and so...
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Lady Treatment( surprise and shock !!)
blackamazon:
This is why I says ith no compunction when it comes to my personal/emotional/work life?
I would rather be slightly condescended to by being “spoiled” and ” babied”
than left out there swinging for being ” respected” and ” admired for my strength”
I have kept company with conscious dudes, liberal dudes, cops, slight chauvinists, southern boys, obvious racists ,pretty boys....
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4 translations of Sappho's "Poem of Jealousy"
microphoneheartbeats:
doomsdaymachine:
[the last 4 lines, rendered by different translators]
“Sweat runs down in rivers, a tremor seizes All my limbs, and paler than grass in autumn, Caught by pains of menacing death, I falter, Lost in the love trance.”
— John Addington Symonds, 1883
“Limbs are pierced with fire and the heavy tongue fails, Ears resound with noise of distant storms...
frontofbook:
As late as 1993, bagels were the hot young thing of the food industry. In a New York Times article on the fast-food potential of the bagel, Molly O’Neill writes: “Buoyed by its healthful, low-fat, high-carbohydrate nature, as well as its accessibility and relatively low cost, the bagel is poised for its own Horatio Alger story.” The gist is this: Move over muffins, take a seat...
Manohla Dargis on MCA and Oscilloscope
durgapolashi:
“Later in 2009, when my colleague A.O. Scott and I asked him about the momentous change that were rocking this world, and whether independent cinema had any kind of future to speak of, Mr. Yauch wrote another e-mail: “I believe that there is some middle ground. That you can make interesting, creative, informative films that will appeal to a wide audience. Maybe I’m an idealist, but...
‘Black Widow’ movie will focus on the heroine’s... →
isabelthespy:
indigodel:
noshipnoshore:
After a standalone film for Black Widow has been confirmed post “The Avengers”, lead actress Scarlett Johansson says it will be a prequel.
The 27-year-old actress, who played the gun-wielding hero in the film, said she and Marvel Studios have ‘spoken a lot’ about developing a film that follows the heroine’s origin in Russia, reported Ace Showbiz.
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