January 2011
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“NSW Police said it would support laws banning the use of iPods, mobile phones...”
– ‘La-la land’ law: call to ban iPods and phones while crossing roads (via indefensible)
Look, if you want to raise revenue, fine - admit it and we’ll move on. HOWEVER, if this is an actual call to improve safety? STOP IT! We can’t advance the human race if we stop natural evolution from occurring!!
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What's Happening in Egypt Explained. (UPDATED)
promotingpeace:
The basics: Egypt is a large, mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country. At around 80 million people, it has the largest population in the Middle East and the third-largest in Africa. Most of Egypt is in North Africa, although the part of the country that borders Israel, the Sinai peninsula, is in Asia. Its other neighbors are Sudan (to the South), Libya (to the West), and Saudi Arabia...
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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
hitrecordjoe:
We Americans are giving the Egyptian government shit for trying to block information. Meanwhile, American cable companies refuse to offer this world-renowned news source, which would be the best place on TV for us to see what’s going on over there.
Damn for the Yanks.
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“What is my perfect crime?
I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for...”
– Dwight Schrute, The Office, season 5, Frame Toby
I want to go on a date.
overboredandoverboard:
Like a real, get dressed up, go out to dinner, maybe to a movie, with a really cute boy date. Seriously. That would be amazing.
Me too! That would be nice :) I’m out of practice too.
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“Our purpose is to make life easier for other people around us no matter what...”
– Pastor Ted Haggard, 4 years on from being excommunicated from his Colorado church for having sex with a man and taking drugs. If more people thought like this, religion would create less problems for itself. (via nhac)
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“Basic “female” skills are becoming endangered with fewer young women able to...”
– Generation Y women losing ‘female’ skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing | News.com.au
Oh, fuck off.
(via buyhercandy)
This is too good.
(via withabang)
I’ve found my least favourite article of January. Fucking News Ltd. Sexist, hypocritical prats.
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That's what it is
It’s not that he’s only left me feeling I could never find love again, but that I’ll never find enough.
Babushka Printing
teeje:
A gorgeous idea, Xavier Antin has created Just in Time, A Short History of Production:
“A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history.”
link via Make Magazine
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
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The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape →
squintyoureyes:
“This bill takes us backwards to a time when just saying no wasn’t enough to qualify as rape.”
Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes.
As for the incest exception, the bill would only allow...