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Crush

filigree:

For starters, it was all
an accident, you cut
the right branch
and a sort of light
woke up underneath,
and the inedible fruit
grew dark and needy.
Think crucial hanging.
Think crayon orange.
There is one low, leaning
heart-shaped globe left
and dearest, can you
tell, I am trying
to love you less.

Ada Limón

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“i would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, ‘oh my god! that looks so comfortable!’ that’s not what i want to project. but i’m not a sadist. i don’t believe suffering makes you beautiful. but comfort is not part of my creative process.“
—

christian louboutin (via sarazucker)

This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Beauty and comfort don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

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“If you ask girls and women how they would feel about encountering a group of guys while they’re alone in a deserted area, I bet the fear of gang rape and assault would be quite tangible, even if the men did not harass them. Why? Because even if we don’t know terms like “homosociality” or “hegemonic masculinity” and haven’t read the theories behind such terms, we know that most men are less like to stop or to listen to women when they are in groups. We know they want to impress their friends and many of them will do that at all costs. We know it’s best to book it out of there as fast as we can before they decide to do anything. And guess what, even if this isn’t true of all men, we don’t know which ones it will be true for. Our safety is not worth the risk of trusting a group of male strangers. (and if you say that’s unfair to boys and men who don’t hurt women, I agree, let’s do something about it!)“
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The cost of living in a patriarchal society « Stop Street Harassment! (via clingtomymouth)

Yes.  For more on this (especially for the dudes out there in the audience), please oh please read the Shapely Prose article on Schrödinger’s Rapist.

(via thepoliticalpartygirl / robot-heart-politics / thecurvature / katoleary / alohanico / jgh)

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thommo: Win? Fail? I like the moment you’ve captured, and the compsition’s really nice, too. The only problem I have with it, is that it looks a bit like an ad for the car!

thommo:

Win? Fail?

I like the moment you’ve captured, and the compsition’s really nice, too. The only problem I have with it, is that it looks a bit like an ad for the car!

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Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll

(via artistspaid)

Finally! Someone realised!

People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of £77 a year on music – £33 more than those who claim that they never download music dishonestly.

…

“The people who file-share are the ones who are interested in music,” said Mark Mulligan of Forrester Research. “They use file-sharing as a discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don’t have any concept of music as a paid-for commodity,” he continued. “You need to have it at a price point you won’t notice.”

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BBC NEWS | Health | 'Younger wife' for marital bliss

cankerbloxxom:

The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts.

Awesome, I can’t wait to marry some old guy who is a fucking idiot. Jesus, who comes up with this shit?

“Experts”.

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5¢ piece guilt

ninefruits:

What I really feel like now is some chips from the fish and chip shop just up the road. I have the exact change for some, but 30¢ of the change is made up of 5¢ pieces. For some reason I feel like a dick giving people 5¢ pieces. It makes me feel like I’m giving people the usless junk that I don’t want. It’s pretty much the equivalent of pissing on the cash-register. The dude there already hates me because I never order anything other than chips. I won’t be surprised if he throws my 5¢ pieces back in my face and tells me to go fuck myself. I would if I was him*

*I wouldn’t.

Incorrect. Working in a shop myself, I usually appreciate people paying in shrapnel*. We often run short, actually. So don’t worry about it, especially if it’s only 30 cents.

*The one exception is when people haven’t counted their change out beforehand.

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home-made lemonade (via my flickr) #radsummer enters its second week.

home-made lemonade (via my flickr)

#radsummer enters its second week.

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“It is common place to read a text message like this - ‘Hey. I’m on my way bak 4m de cine. B round 15mins. Gav’. For some, this is hard to decipher. For those in the know it reads, ‘Hello there, kind and friendly gentleman. I am on my way back from the picture house and will be home in approximately 15 minutes. Gavin.’“
— BBC - h2g2 - Neologisms (via semisetadrift)
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Christian group banned from schools - ABC News

A Christian group has been banned from ACT schools while allegations about its practices are investigated by the Education Department.

Focus on the Family has been accused of vilifying homosexuality, and preaching religion to students without parental consent.

A spokesman for Education Minister Andrew Barr says the government launched the investigation after a complaint made by a parent at a Canberra high school.

The spokesman says the group had also run programs in five other schools, although no other complaints have been made.

The Australian Christian Lobby has attacked the investigation saying there is a place for a values-based program in schools, which covers issues like marriage and abstinence, as well as the dangers of pornography.

Ah yes, those traditional dangers of pornography and homosexuality.