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drziggystardust: blackfemalecoders: “Without Women, Computing...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:36:02 -0400

drziggystardust:

blackfemalecoders:

“Without Women, Computing as We Know It Would Not Exist.”

Re-Blog Forever!

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:08:49 -0400

polojetson: ill

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:07:54 -0400

polojetson:

ill

darksilenceinsuburbia: Judy Onofrio. Hydrangea, 2009. Mixed...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:23:51 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Judy Onofrio.

Hydrangea, 2009. Mixed media.

Hydrangea (detail).

Reveal, 2012. Mixed media. Wall sculpture.

Twist, 2012. Mixed media. Wall sculpture.

Wrap, 2012. Mixed media.

Website

koripxo: the prettiest

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:22:53 -0400

koripxo:

the prettiest

Kind of want to get this just out of my love for Will Graham

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:11:48 -0400

Kind of want to get this just out of my love for Will Graham

zacdibble: seiranima: alliartist: edwardspoonhands: tyleroakl...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:00:22 -0400

zacdibble:

seiranima:

alliartist:

edwardspoonhands:

tyleroakley:

Russell Brand Destroys MSNBC Talk Show Host for Treating Him Like ****

“Casual objectification” is an excellent term for not only what these people were doing to him, but for pretty much the entire institution of “celebrity.”

Also, Russell Brand is very funny. These people have no idea how to handle intelligent discourse blended with humor. They are speaking very different cultural languages. It’s a fascinating thing to watch.

Russell is incredibly intelligent and confident in himself, so he can easily bring self-doubting people on their heads, confused and anxious, because he calls them on their crap.

Casual Objectification is the problem I have with reading tabloids and watching reality TV. I dislike turning real people into characters to be judged harshly, yet lightly, where their actions are treated as pretend. They are brutally labeled and either ostracized forever, or excused from all bad manners.

I am aware that I objectify celebrities. Just look at my blog and all of the reblogged pictures of Daft Punk, men with nice hair, and Lee Pace. I admire their physical nature, and make it a focal point for the moment of reblogging. But, then, what I am reblogging is intended to objectify them in that moment, and they presented it to be objectified. Gif set, photo shoot, music clip—THAT is when they intend us to objectify them. But to turn their genuine selves into a object to discuss and make light of.. I do not reblog photos taken by paparazzi of them in their personal lives. I do not look up photos of Thomas and Guy out of their helmets and suits since they do not present themselves to the public that way.

Russell is there as himself, to promote his work, but as himself, and rather than objectifying his WORK (as was supposed to go down) they can’t leave off his looks and accent. I can see why he is frustrated out of his wits.

This was incredible. ‘Destroyed’ was right. Completely turned their little media show on its head. I didn’t know just how smart this man was, but now I know. God damn.

Commentary above is awesome, I can’t really add much. I just love it when celebrities don’t take the shit that they’re supposed to nod and reply to.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:39 -0400

gingerhaze: jakewyattriot: Test Number Three. Necropolis will...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:10:51 -0400

gingerhaze:

jakewyattriot:

Test Number Three.

Necropolis will launch at the end of August as an ongoing weekly webcomic. Stay tuned!

-Jake Wyatt

ugh I love this! Can’t wait for it to be a webcomic! :3

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:04:47 -0400

ishouldbebritish: #god I just love this scene so much #because...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:50:52 -0400

ishouldbebritish:

#god I just love this scene so much #because natasha is trying really hard to keep her cover when he asks if she’s ever boxed #like of course I have peasant #and then he pulls the ‘booty boot camp’ line and you can just see her patience thinning #she even looks over at Tony and Pepper like #will they notice if I break his neck #and then he goes to hit her and instinct just takes over and she fucking owns his ass #if you don’t love natasha we can’t be friends (via stereobone)

tio-trile: The only thing that made me feel anything that’s...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:41:24 -0400

tio-trile:

The only thing that made me feel anything that’s relatively close to being happy is the bickering big hound/little wolf duo

spookychan: tinydragongina: sweetdreamr: chezamanda: thenita:...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:28:36 -0400

spookychan:

tinydragongina:

sweetdreamr:

chezamanda:

thenita:

carry-on-my-wayward-butt:

buggerygrips:

nagayeva:

Do we really have to take this?

A friend of mine was moving from her apartment. She asked me to look after some of her things. I agreed and not too long after she asked if her daughter Frances can come pick it up. I agreed and she came over with her boyfriend, who was also the father of her baby. I helped them carry the stuff down to the car, and during the whole visit exchanged possibly 10 words.

Next day I received these texts. I had to created a fiancee I didn’t really have in order for him to stop.

I never told my friend what her daughter’s boyfriend did. Now they are expecting a second child, so as you all see, there was no break up.

So Do we women really have to take this kind of attitude?

Do we have to invent things and people in order to be left alone.

I don’t want to have my titties banged.

I am not an easy lay.

I don’t deserve this.

Why do I go from being called “cute” “smart” and “pretty” in the beginning of the conversation, to “fatty” “bitch” and “ugly” in the end?

Reblog if you are against sexual harassment.

how do people like this actually exist what the fuck

boiling rage of one thousand white hot suns

Much nicer person than me. I would have published his name.

Jeez, what an insecure tool. He doesn’t deserve the courtesy of a polite answer.

If we could somehow manage to duplicate the speed with which a guy goes from ‘hey you’re sexy’ to ‘YOU FUCKING BITCH HOW DARE YOU BE A PERSON AND SHIT WITH PREFERENCES AND STANDARDS LIKE ANYONE ELSE, DON’T YOU KNOW WOMEN ARE SUPPOSED TO BE POLITE AND ACCOMODATING AT ALL TIMES AND GRATEFUL FOR ALL MALE ATTENTION HOWEVER PRESUMPTUOUS OR DOUCHEY’, we’d probably beat the speed of light.

Funny how “I’m not interested” is never a good enough answer for these assholes, and any “reason” we might invent won’t be good enough either. Until we perhaps mention that we’re already in a relationship with another man. Then suddenly our boundaries deserve respect where they didn’t before, when it was only our clear and definitive “no” standing in the way.

Fucking pions.

Life Ruiners In No Particular Order |The Silver Foxes of GoT...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:04:39 -0400

Life Ruiners In No Particular Order |
The Silver Foxes of GoT (Evolution: You’re Doing It Right)

Black Obsidian skull. The skull is 5.3 inches long from front...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:13:39 -0400

Black Obsidian skull. The skull is 5.3 inches long from front to back, it has a moveable jaw, and all the teeth are made of Australia opal.

Who wants to knit?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:25 -0400

Who wants to knit?:

twiin:

How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts:

In late 2009, Lynn Zwerling stood in front of 600 male prisoners at the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup, Maryland. “Who wants to knit?” she asked the burly crowd. They looked at her like she was crazy.

Yet almost two years later, Zwerling and her associates have taught more than 100 prisoners to knit, while dozens more are on a waiting list to take her weekly class. “I have guys that have never missed one time in two years,” Zwerling says. “Some reported to us that they miss dinner to come to class.”

Zwerling, 67, retired in 2005 after 18 years of selling cars in Columbia, Maryland. She didn’t know what to do with her time, so she followed her passion and started a knitting group in her town. No one came to the first meeting, but the group quickly grew to 500 members. “I looked around the room one day and I saw a zen quality about it,” Zwerling says. “Here were people who didn’t know each other, had nothing in common, sitting together peacefully like little lambs knitting. I thought, ‘It makes me and these people feel so good. What would happen if I took knitting to a population that never experienced this before?’”

Her first thought was to bring knitting to a men’s prison, but she was turned down repeatedly. Wardens assumed the men wouldn’t be interested in a traditionally feminine hobby and worried about freely handing out knitting needles to prisoners who had been convicted of violent crimes. Five years passed before the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup accepted her, and Knitting Behind Bars was born. “I [wanted to teach] them something that I love that I really believe will make them focus and happy,” Zwerling says. “I really believe that it’s more than a craft. This has the ability to transform you.”

The men were reluctant at first, complaining that knitting was too girly or too difficult. But Zwerling assured them men had invented the craft, then gave them a five-minute knitting lesson she swears can teach anyone. Suddenly, Zwerling says, the men “found the zen,” and got hooked. Now, every Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m., they come to class, leaving their crimes and the hierarchies of prison life behind.

They started by knitting comfort dolls, which they gave to children removed from their homes because of domestic issues. Then they moved on to hats for kids at the inner-city elementary school many of the prisoners attended, Zwerling says. “If you look at them, they’re covered with tattoos, they’re rough looking, and many of the young guys don’t have all their teeth,” she says. “But it doesn’t feel rough. They’re very respectful and grateful and very happy to knit.”

The prison’s assistant warden, Margaret Chippendale, believes the men involved with KBB get into trouble less often. “It’s very positive because you can see when you go into the room, the dynamics of their conversation; very calm, very soothing,” Chippendale says. “It radiates even when they leave the room and go out into the institution.”

Richy Horton, 38, served almost four years at the Pre-Release Unit and reluctantly joined KBB about 6 months before he was released. “I was like, I’m not going to that thing,” Horton says. “And then I went, and you were actually speaking to real people. People can’t really understand [that in prison] you’re completely separated from anything normal or real in the world. You’re always told what to do and when to do it, so to have people come in and treat you like a human being means so much. They came in and they were like my mom.”

Horton and the other men formed deep friendships with Zwerling and her fellow volunteers, Sheila Rovelstad, 61, and Lea Heirs, 58. “They tell us their stories and dreams,” Zwerling says. “And some of them lie to us. They don’t want us to know the really terrible things they did.”

Each week the men eagerly await the women’s arrival, then promptly get to work. “It takes you away a little,” Horton says. “You have to watch what you’re doing, otherwise your stitches will become loose or tight or you’ll skip stitches. It almost makes you feel like you don’t have to be anything. You’re all sitting there knitting. You can just be yourself.”

Horton was released from prison last December and now works in construction. He believes his involvement with KBB helped him get out of jail and onto parole, showing the parole interviewers his small but positive effort to help the outside community. He continues to keep in touch with the women of KBB and is currently knitting a beaded scarf. “They’re not normal people,” Horton says of Zwerling, Rovelstad, and Heirs. “They’re almost like saints.”

To donate to Knitting Behind Bars, visit their Etsy shop, or contact Lynn Zwerling at lynnzwerling@verizon.net.

Photos courtesy of Lynn Zwerling

Via the Baltimore Sun

(Via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)

"It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:27:50 -0400

““It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.””

- Violet Rose (via c-icatrix)

Talk about cognitive dissonance

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My dear Will, you must be healed by now… on the outside at...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:27:12 -0400

My dear Will, you must be healed by now… on the outside at least, I hope you’re not too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Never forget who gave you the best of them, and be grateful, our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. We live in a primitive time, don’t we, Will? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures of the curse of it, any rational society will either kill me or put me to some use. Do you dream much, Will? I think of you often. Your old friend, Hannibal Lecter.

- Hannibal’s final letter to Will

cwnerd12: lizjamesbitch: This is awesome. WHY CAN’T MORE ALL...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:16:27 -0400

cwnerd12:

lizjamesbitch:

This is awesome.

WHY CAN’T ~~MORE~~ ALL FITNESS PEOPLE BE LIKE THIS?!

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:27:54 -0400