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: thentheysaidburnher: When I say ‘free all women’, this is what I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:12:35 +0200

: thentheysaidburnher: When I say ‘free all women’, this is what I...:

When I say ‘free all women’, this is what I mean:

Every woman must be in complete control of her person (right to bodily sanctity and complete reproductive control from birth until death)

Every woman must be free to pursue education (literacy)

Every woman must…

CWL: Bill Nye the Science Guy

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:10:01 +0200

CWL: Bill Nye the Science Guy:

bvix:

-Season 1

1. Flight
2. The Earth’s Crust
3. Dinosaurs
4. Skin
5. Buoyancy
6. Gravity
7. Digestion
8. Phases of Matter
9. Biodiversity
10. Simple Machines
11. The Moon
12. Sound
13. Garbage
14. Structures
15. Earth’s Seasons
16. Light and Colour
17. Cells
18. Electricity
19. Outer Space
20. Eyeballs

-Season 2

1. Magnetism
2. Wind
3. Blood and Circulation
4. Chemical Reactions
5. Static Electricity
6. Food Web
7. Light Optics
8. Bones and Muscles
9. Ocean Currents
10. Heat
11. Insects
12. Balance
13. The Sun
14. The Brain
15. Forests
16. Communication
17. Momentum
18. Reptiles
19. Atmosphere
20. Respiration

-Season 3

1. Planets and Moon
2. Pressure
3. Plants
4. Rocks and Soil
5. Energy
6. Evolution
7. Water Cycle
8. Friction
9. Germs
10. Climates
11. Waves
12. Ocean Life
13. Mammals
14. Spinning Things
15. Fish
16. Human Transportation
17. Wetlands
18. Birds
19. Populations
20. Animal Locomotion

-Season 4

1. Rivers and Streams
2. Nutrition
3. Marine Mammals
4. Earthquakes
5. NTV Top 11 Video Countdown
6. Spiders
7. Pollution Solutions
8. Probability
9. Pseudoscience
10. Flowers
11. Archaeology
12. Deserts
13. Amphibians
14. Volcanoes
15. Invertebrates
16. Heart
17. Inventions
18. Computers
19. Fossils
20. Time

-Season 5

1. Forensics
2. Space Exploration
3. Genes
4. Architecture
5. Farming
6. Life Cycles
7. Do-It-Yourself Science
8. Atoms and Molecules
9. Ocean Exploration
10. Lakes and Ponds
11. Smell
12. Caves
13. Fluids
14. Erosion
15. Comets and Meteors
16. Storms
17. Measurement
18. Patterns
19. Science of Music
20. Motion

we-are-star-stuff: applepiesfromscratch: Fight The...

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:51 +0200

we-are-star-stuff:

applepiesfromscratch:

Fight The Power!

Happy National Masturbation Month

Look Jason you made it into the science tag

"At MacKinnon’s (1987) request, and based on a random selection of 930 San Francisco households,..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:40 +0200

“At MacKinnon’s (1987) request, and based on a random selection of 930 San Francisco households, Russell calculated the likelihood of a woman not being sexually assaulted or harassed in her lifetime. It was only 7.8 percent.”

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Dee Graham, Edna Rawlings & Roberta Rigsby. Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men’s violence, and women’s lives. NYU Press. July 1 1994. (p. 16)

Christ. I reckon most girls have been assaulted or harassed before they turn 16.

(via thatqueerchick)

Read that again and let that sink in, folks.

“[T]he likelihood of a woman NOT being sexually assaulted or harassed in her lifetime. It was only 7.8 percent.”

Shit needs fixed.
(via abaldwin360)

abaldwin360: A letter about depression. [x]

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:00:32 +0200

abaldwin360:

A letter about depression.

[x]

thenewenlightenmentage: Complex Brain Function Depends on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:25 +0200

thenewenlightenmentage:

Complex Brain Function Depends on Flexibility

Neurons that can multitask greatly enhance the brain’s computational power, study finds.

Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the location or color of an object.

Continue Reading

faqueers: atheist-god: Swedish Politician tweets about...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:00 +0200

faqueers:

atheist-god:

Swedish Politician tweets about Christianity.

want more atheism?

Perfect reblog from atheist-god.

mychemcalromance: thespacegoat: • Accidentally close a tab?...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:41:44 +0200

mychemcalromance:

thespacegoat:

• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria.
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, print it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread for going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times.

LIFE HACKS

radastheyscum: maymay: “Repeat Rape: How do they get away with...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:38:00 +0200

It turns out that if you ask the right questions in just the right way, some men will actually tell you that they're rapists. They'll just…admit it.

The key is, don't use the word rape. Just ask them what they've done.

Researchers asked 1,882 men: "Have you ever tried to have oral sex with someone by using (or threatening to use) physical force—twisting their arm, holding them down, etc.—if they did not cooperate?"

and: "Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone, even though they didn't want to, because they were too intoxicated to resist your advances?"

120 answered yes.

(That's rape.)

1,882 men…

120 rapists.

They admitted to a total of 483 rapes and attempted rapes. 483!

Whoa.

radastheyscum:

maymay:

“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

Sources:

College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]

Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 12:22:54 +0200

radastheyscum: blua: Erik Johansson painted this amazing...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:34:20 +0200

radastheyscum:

blua:

Erik Johansson painted this amazing optical illusion of height on the street of Stockholm.

eff u

When was this? Sometimes you miss the fun things.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 20:23:24 +0200

Audio

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:50:08 +0200

On Saying Goodbye To Toxic People

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:58:18 +0200

deepwithfuture:

I think every person has let someone into their life that has seemed perfectly fit for it at the start but slowly revealed that their presence wasn’t all altruistic. Most people take time to get to know someone and likewise, they take time shutting people out of their lives too. It’s a hard thing to do and it becomes even harder when the “dementor” isn’t someone you let into your life but someone whose life you were born into. Regardless, every kind person wants to hand out a second chance, a third chance, and so on and so forth. When should being forgiving end and self care begin?

If a person pretends to be good for you, if they seem to have your best interest at heart but their words never match their actions….it may be time for you to take control. If they make promises that they know they can never keep just to get you close to them, it may be time to take control. If they do you favors just to have something to hang over your head, it might be time to take control. If they engage in behaviors that are harmful to themselves and by proxy, harmful to you…..it just might to time to take control.

You see, people are allowed to be wrong. They are allowed to make mistakes and break others hearts and be 100% human. What they aren’t allowed to do is purposefully disregard how their actions affect you as a person. If someone really loves you or cares about you, they would be thinking about their actions and how they affect you at some point in their day. They should be living and learning from their past mistakes and trying to make themselves into better people. But some folks get stuck in the past or in a personal rut, perhaps they’ve been living the same way for 10 years….perhaps they haven’t had a personal epiphany in over 22. What can you do?

People don’t change because you want them to. You can’t hold someones eyes open and say, “LOOK! This doesn’t make you happy” or “LOOK! You really need to see a professional.” People have to reach these conclusions all on their own and sometimes you have to reach they conclusion that they never ever will.

Some people are destined to force themselves into a life that makes them miserable. Some people are destined to try to push their stress, hate, misery and anxiety onto others.

And just like them, you have a choice to make as well. You can choose to pine after something that will never happen, you can choose to wait around for people to wake up and be honest with themselves. You can choose to forgive the people who don’t care how their wildly unpredictable behavior affects you. You can let people make you sick in the head and they will…people will try to drive you crazy so that they can have control over you.

Or you can choose to let them go. Let them make their choices far away from you and yours so that you can try to be peaceful and calm. Let them ruin their own lives and their own relationships and maintain what is important to you.

People who bring tears and shame and pain into your life at every turn and interaction are not going to turn things around and magically bring you joy, love, and happiness. The reason they fill your life with such pain is because that is all that they have. They chose a hard life and they don’t want to be alone.

They dug their own grave, let them lie in it while you go play in the sun. You still have that option, don’t let them pull you down with them.

My dog makes this face when he wants attention.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:44:00 +0200

My dog makes this face when he wants attention.

Good Reason News: Parenting

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:07:02 +0200

Good Reason News: Parenting:

themomerath:

Those who know me know I don’t like my parents all that much because of the restrictions they place on me. I understand if some people think this is just a teen being angst-y.

But I’m going to quote one of the Christian magazines my family received yesterday. (This is from the…

thatsnotvery-yolo-ofyou: quantumsiren: brodingershat: slutgrrr...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:30:28 +0200

thatsnotvery-yolo-ofyou:

quantumsiren:

brodingershat:

slutgrrrlinternational:

killyou-kissyou-orbeyou:

moreglamthanyou:

chininini:

syntonism:

Holy shit. Did I just see a piece of art on the #sexism tag that actually promotes actual equality?

This poster is available here

GENDER EQUALITY FROM BOTH SIDES FOR ONCE.

This poster hung in every room of my high school.

I don’t normally reblog much, but fucking thank you.

The oppressions of sexism are varied, but they are a universal, inherently human condition.

this is hung up in one of the classrooms at my school!

this is feminism okay? everyone who thinks it’s all this man-hating bullshit, it’s not. male privilege and sexism work in both directions and are detrimental to both sexes.

fuck gender norms.

jhameia: youngbadmanbrown: pugsies: PLEASE READ. WILL NOT...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:45:26 +0200

jhameia:

youngbadmanbrown:

pugsies:

PLEASE READ. WILL NOT HURT TO AND FORWARD.

Kids are putting Drano, tin foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles
and capping it up - leaving it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on
driveways etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the
rubbish, but you’ll never make it!!!
If the bottle is picked up, and the bottle is shaken even just a little - in
about 30 seconds or less it builds up enough gas which then explodes with
enough force to remove some your extremities. The liquid that comes out is
boiling hot as well.

Don’t pick up any plastic bottles that may be lying in your yards or in the
gutter, etc.

Pay attention to this. A plastic bottle with a cap. A little Drano. A little
water. A small piece of foil.
Disturb it by moving it; and BOOM!!

No fingers left and other serious effects to your face, eyes, etc.

Please ensure that everyone that may not have email access are also informed
of this.

Ah fuck

Looks legit too: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:47:23 +0200

tastysynapse: Zen Pencils Comic: 49. KURT VONNEGUT: The life of...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:50:41 +0200

tastysynapse:

Zen Pencils Comic: 49. KURT VONNEGUT: The life of art