July 2011
“A BP (BP) refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into...”
– BP gets OK to dump mercury into Lake Michigan - USATODAY.com (via radicallyhottoff)
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“Male Guests: Students are asked not to visit their male guests upstairs. The...”
– Agnes Scott - Anna I. Young Alumnae House
WTF is this guideline for the Agnes’s alumnae house? My hypothetical boyfriend would be paying cold hard cash to stay there, and I can’t “visit” him in George Washington Scott’s bed?
people assumed that anxiety is a strict progression from nervousness to inability to deal with life, but actually—from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view—it’s more like a big ball of angsty-wangsty…tiredy-wiredy…stuff
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“Sanders-McMurtry said the college does not track gender identity and...”
– News: Women’s Colleges and Ex-Women - Inside Higher Ed
oh god if you click through they linked a terrible facebook group that cory and i made a long time ago
“ex-women?”
i wonder if they’ll send a campus wide email about this article (haha)
idk how i feel about any of...
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shaving my legs because i'd rather wear shorts at...
but ugh my leg hair is so thick i can only do one half a leg at a time
i stopped shaving my first semester of undergrad…it’s like i’m time travelling to high school.
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“Following through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday...”
– California Dream Act: Brown expands education options for undocumented students - latimes.com
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“Nelson said she and her children crossed Austell Road outside a crosswalk...”
– Mom whose son killed by hit-run driver asks compassion in her sentencing | ajc.com
fuck this whole thing is so fucking awful
emilygrim:
I start my new job tomorrow morning, and I have been sick as a dog all weekend. I haven’t gotten really sick in almost a year, so I guess I’m grateful, but the timing is always just terrible.
If any of y’all have good cold remedies, they would be MUCH appreciated
raw garlic (don’t chew it)
throat coat was the only thing that made my throat feel better the last few months...
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exciting events on the horizon
capitulating to my mom’s requests about “not dressing like a man” while at home
going to my mom’s therapist with her (oh dear)
possibly also visiting my grandparents at some point in the next two weeks
going on so many hikes/day trips in tennessee
starting my name change process as soon as financially possible in wisconsin
taking a trip to chicago to go to howard...
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drunk tumblin'
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““I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a...”
– ‘Haboobs’ Cause a Storm of Complaints in Arizona - NYTimes.com
everyday irritating racism
everyone's tumblr spam posts are cracking me up
adventures in hearing loss
i was at a campy gay bar really late the other night, and it was karaoke night so neither the bartender nor me could hear what the other person was saying. i was driving home so i just wanted a coke, but the bartender thought i wanted a jack and coke. he kept yelling coke and shaking his open fist. it took me too long to realize what he was indicating.
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S.O.N.G. » All LGBTQ in Virginia, Alabama, North... →
Please take a few minutes and do it TODAY and encourage other LGBTQ people in Alabama, South & North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia to do it TODAY as well…we need you to take this opportunity to fill us in on what is most important to you, your community, your families, and your state. There are so FEW opportunities that LGBTQ folks of color, rural people, immigrants, people with...
4-year-old hit by drunk driver. Drunk driver...
mewmewfoucault:
radicallyhottoff:
sheelzebub:
[Raquel]Nelson, 30 and African-American, was convicted on the charge this week by six jurors who were not her peers: All were middle-class whites, and none had ever taken a bus in metro Atlanta. In other words, none had ever been in Nelson’s shoes:
They had never taken two buses to go grocery shopping at Wal-Mart with three kids in tow. They...
good things clarified at the disability caucus at...
mewmewfoucault:
better, more critical, and more honest independence begets better, more critical, and more honest interdepenence
it’s ok - and necessary - to pursue both (‘as individuals’ and ‘as communities’)
you don’t have to hate on or write off interdependence and weakness and vulnerability to retain independence as a value or goal
this thing where ‘interdependence’ gets used in fucked...
oh my tiny heart keeps breaking
i just watched this episode of doctor who where he’s a human and falls in love and then sees his possible future with his love interest and really doesn’t want to be a time lord again
that’s how i feel about leaving the south and going to grad school
“it’s 100 degrees and all i can do when it’s 100 degrees is research top surgery”
– Yo
me too
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The Tender Gravity of Kindness: I need to take... →
thetendergravityofkindness:
wrongaudience:
thetendergravityofkindness:
And don’t know if I can afford it. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions?
Sorry if this is gross:
All I know is that they were born in a barn on a farm. So I’m not sure if they’ve been dewormed or vaccinated. They’re vomiting what looks like foamy saliva and their stool looks really…
I approach this with as much...
N*SYNC totally ripped off Boyz II Men
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mimas in march
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besttumblr and i went to wisconsin last winter and...
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my roommate went on a walk last night in oakhurst...
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my cat vest never stops
