February 2012
What Happens to the Coke in Coca-Cola? →
In 1886, the city of Atlanta passed a short-lived law prohibiting the sale and/or manufacture of alcohol. In response, a pharmacist named John Pemberton created a faux wine, mixing together fruit flavors with extracts from kola nuts (caffeine) and coca leaves (cocaine). He dispensed it via soda fountains—at the time, carbonated water was believed to have medicinal benefit—and with that,...
Really,
leftlibertarian:
sinidentidades:
my dream is to start a Marxist dance studio that specializes in twerking.
I want everyone to twerk it for Marx.
“shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic. Anyone who has ever...”
– http://www.xojane.com/issues/whats-wrong-fat-shaming (via thechocolatebrigade)
thank god someone said this
(via thisismymoon)
THIS (via thesexuneducated)
Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
teagan:
bencrowther:
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries;...
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Anonymous asked: what do i do if she won’t lemme...
gifmovie:
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New biological studies reconfirm that “human... →
satans-advocate:
In a world filled with mostly well intentioned people and tons of senseless violence its completely natural for those people to develop an assortment of justifications and rationalizations for the horror that is taking place around them. One of the most popular of these rationalizations is what I like to call “the human nature cop out”. This is basically the notion that violence...
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice
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I had to unfollow a blog I quite liked when they accused trans* people of trying to “derail” a reproductive rights discussion by having the nerve to ask to be included in the language of a poster.
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thisgingersnapsback:
cuntycuntycunty:
werocksocks:
cuntycuntycunty:
Yoni and I like to oppress white people in our spare time.
I’m not racist dude, my maid is white.
#Fuckwhitey
I’m not racist man.
My uncles fathers stepbrothers cousin 4 times removed is white. I love white people.
#fuckwhitey
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5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police... →
yesysabella:
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your property.
You have the right to refuse random police searches anywhere and anytime, so...
Anonymous asked: I am so unamused by this racist...
yoisthisracist:
Oh, word, that is just fucking criminal that there aren’t more roles for White actors on BET shows. Producers, I urge you to do the right thing: next time you’re casting your BET shows and there’s a role for a murderer, a gang member, or a janitor who exists solely to give advice to your main character, to the exclusion of any personal motivation, please, won’t you consider...
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I had a horrible nightmare. It involved cops. I’m sure I could just stop there and get sympathy from a lot of folks, but it gets worse.
I was driving down the highway on my way to pick someone up when my windows started fogging up. In the dream, I had also just eaten a fast food breakfast sandwich, so I was feeling somewhat drowsy, on top of it. I saw the flashing lights of a police siren behind...
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medic278 replied to your video: Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax - Part 1 of 2 (by m7a7b725) …
I’ve been taught in several biology classes that ~92% of the oxygen we breath comes from diatoms and other cells in the ocean and that trees don’t do much for our skies. They are beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but the most they do is prevent erosion
Cyanobacteria and phytoplankton may be responsible for...
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via theprospectofvanishingforever)
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“A recent study by Kaiser and Miller (2001) obtained findings consistent with...”
– Czopp & Monteith, Confronting Prejudice (Literally): Reactions
to Confrontations of Racial and Gender Bias.
Also, the sky is blue. (via angrywomenoftumblr)
I wanna see Christopher Walken and William Shatner...
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For a Growing Number of College Students,... →
emergentfutures:
Paul Higgins: Great Idea - Stop complaining about the dark and light a candle
infoneer-pulse:
Wikipedia doesn’t have a stellar reputation for scholarly accuracy, but its staggering collection of 20 million articles in 283 languages has nonetheless made it the go-to reference for the world’s students—it’s even the most plagiarized source on college campuses. Now, a growing...
Angela Davis on violence
when she was in the California State Prison - 1972
Interviewer: a year ago the black panthers were much more active. We heard much more about that type of struggle. Is the time of the black panthers past?
Angela davis: the black panthers still exist, and the black panthers are still extremely active in the Oakland community and communities all over the country. I’m not sure whether or not you are aware of what is now happening in the black panther party and the kinds of things that the members of that party are doing now.
Interviewer: no but tell me.
Angela davis: first of all, if you’re gonna talk about a revolutionary situation, you have to have people who are physically able to wage revolution, who are physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done.
Interviewer: but the question is more, how do you get there? Do you get there by confrontation, violence?
Angela davis: oh, is that the question you were asking? yeah see, that’s another thing. When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society’s organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. If you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you… when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance, long before the situation in L.A ever occurred, I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn’t know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be “militant.” And when you live under a situation like that constantly, and then you ask me, you know, whether I approve of violence. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Whether I approve of guns. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by racists. I remember, form the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street. Our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns at his disposal at all times, because of the fact that, at any moment, we might expect to be attacked. The man who was, at that time, in complete control of the city government, his name was Bull Connor, would often get on the radio and make statements like, “niggers have moved into a white neighborhood. We better expect some bloodshed tonight.” And sure enough, there would be bloodshed. After the four young girls who lived, one of them lived next door to me…I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class. My mother—in fact, when the bombing occurred, one of the mothers of one of the young girls called my mother and said, “can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol? We heard about the bombing and I don’t have my car.” And they went down and what did they find? They found limbs and heads strewn all over the place. And then, after that, in my neighborhood, all the men organized themselves into an armed patrol. They had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Anonymous asked: Yo, what would be the top-rated...
yoisthisracist:
Yo, could be 2 Broke Girls.