February 2012
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Women’s College Problems #440
womenscollegeproblems:
When your professors put “no knitting/crocheting in class” in their syllabus
lul
this however is just the best. →
In an attempt to “even things up” while the Virginia senate debated a controversial and upsetting anti-choice bill that would require abortion providers to force women to undergo a vaginal sonogram (an invasive procedure) before going through with the procedure, State Senator Janet Howell proposed an amendment — before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs, men would be...
this article is cute but kind of preachy and i... →
but still cute:
Since that day, any time the word “gay” has come into conversation, he has happily announced to those around him, “I’m gay!” He says this very naturally and happily, the same way he announces other things that he likes about himself. Mention that a person is tall and he’ll quickly add, “I’m tall!” If he hears the word...
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i'm in a thin mints loop
that’s when you open a box of thin mints, start eating them absentmindedly, and get to the point where you’re still chewing and swallowing while reaching for the next one. and then the box is gone.
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st johns wort hippy tea
you taste shitty enough to work via placebo effect
which is good enough for me
homage to my hips
schistbambisays:
djdoll:
these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips. i have known them to put a spell on a man and ...
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oh thesis:
you are coming together, you are interesting and important, and you have a lot to say, but you are forever too disorganized and too interconnected. A tangled mess. How do I structure you?
it doesn’t help that i’m not even halfway through my fieldwork/reading
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too exhausted from cooking all day (and full of...
i was going to be really good tonight
and then the internet
Ecce Homo
frenenzacxevalo:
Ja, ich weiß, woher ich stamme,
Ungesättigt gleich der Flamme
Glühe und verzehr’ ich mich.
Licht wird alles was ich fasse,
Kohle alles, was ich lasse,
Flamme bin ich sicherlich!
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Translation:
Yes, I know from whence I come,
Insatiable like the flame
I smolder and consume myself.
All that I touch becomes light,
All that I leave becomes coal,
...
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I am finding the lack of gender-neutral pronouns...
Oho!:
Isn’t it painful to see “they” used in the singular?
You should not feel any pain from the use of “they” as a singular pronoun, for instance to refer to a person of unknown or unspecified sex, since it is perfectly correct English.
Not only is this use very natural and common in spoken English, but in written English it is acknowledged by the OED. Singular...
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i think the devacurl is making my scalp itch
but maybe it’s just dandruff
or maybe it itches a normal amount but i’m just hyper aware of my scalp right now
