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deliciouskaek: sanityscraps: colourmeclassy: Hey everyone,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:41:39 +0200

sanityscraps:

colourmeclassy:

Hey everyone, remember the nightmare that was SOPA and PIPA? IT’S NOT OVER!

Reports say that lawmakers will vote on the bill as early as Wednesday, April 25th or Thursday, April 26th. It isn’t looking very good. It is of utmost importance that you contact your local representatives to tell them that you do not agree with this bill and they shouldn’t either. Make your voice heard. Don’t let this happen.

Want to learn more about CISPA? Check out the EFF’s Cybersecurity Bill FAQ.

Don’t know who your representatives are? Just use this.

It takes maybe five minutes of your time to do this — make the effort. It will certainly be worth it.

GUYS. WE REALLY SHOULD CARE ABOUT THIS. LET’S GET ON THIS SHIT.

ugh

hahamagartconnect: KARIN MILLER South African Artist, Karin...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:58 +0200

hahamagartconnect:

KARIN MILLER

South African Artist, Karin Miller’s work is thought provoking with an eclectic sense of cultural study.

In Miller’s own words her work is “a visual play between beauty and tragedy, rhythm and interruption – searching for a sense of order in the overwhelming chaos of life. Two main metaphors I use are those of disguise and pattern. Apart from the obvious masks, I play games of hide and seek with the viewer. Issues are veiled; in the discovery of detail, deceit is revealed and absurdly inverted.”

via two wonderful blogs ArtsyForager, EscapeintoLife

Adulting: Step 274: Write good professional thank-you notes

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:05:51 +0200

Adulting: Step 274: Write good professional thank-you notes:

adulting:

After the guide to regular, personal thank-you notes in this entry, someone asked how business thank-you notes should be different. EXCELLENT QUESTION!

Obviously, the tone of a letter you write to someone who may or may not want to give you a job is different than the tone you use to write to…

nina-in-technicolor: thehuckleberry: Just found THIS AWESOME...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:03:06 +0200

nina-in-technicolor:

thehuckleberry:

Just found THIS AWESOME LIST of 34 recipes requiring only 2 ingredients and pretty basic instructions. Some are fantastic alone, and some inspire other basic recipes. Had to share this with you guys.

THANK YOU FOR THIS, PERSON I REBLOGGED FROM.

I’m lactose intolerant too.

particleb0red: Robert Montgomery.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:14 +0200

particleb0red:

Robert Montgomery.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:34:12 +0200

soft as tissue, tough as nails: Questions actually worth answering.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:31:58 +0200

soft as tissue, tough as nails: Questions actually worth answering. :

1: Apart from tumblr, what do you like to do in your spare time?
2: Name a favorite of each: food, drink, color.
3: If you married rich and your spouse gave you $100,000 a week, what would you spend it on?
4: Name a favorite of each: book, movie, tv show.
5: If you were given the opportunity…

nights-in: Creative style

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:30:26 +0200

nights-in:

Creative style

"Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:29:35 +0200

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Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men — friends, coworkers, strangers — giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them.

”

- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (via geographysucks)

thewomanofkleenex: misterhoneybee: explore-blog: Excerpt from...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:29 +0200

thewomanofkleenex:

misterhoneybee:

explore-blog:

Excerpt from a larger infographic guide to getting more out of your Google searches

Wonderful.

"“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:03:39 +0200

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“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.

It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.”

”

- EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS.

Depression is not a synonym for being sad or having a bad day/bad week.

(via stuck-in-the-labyrinth)

My clinical depression is and was impossible to explain to someone because i struggle to change my thoughts in to words like these. But now, this post has made sense of it all and i will ALWAYS reblog this.

(via criesofinsanity)

For those who STILL don’t get it

(via balanos)

Wow this, a million times this.

(via amyunicorn001)

karaj: what's the difference btw performance and performativity

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:53:55 +0200

karaj: what's the difference btw performance and performativity:

karaj:

waxfloetic:

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this is such a good question. it should be really easy for me to answer and it’s not. this is partly because there are different genealogies for the concept of performativity. one is from speech act theory: in how to do things with words, j.l. austin famously asserts that…

nevver: To-do list, Benjamin Franklin

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:52:53 +0200

nevver:

To-do list, Benjamin Franklin

Adulting: Step 274: Write good professional thank-you notes

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:51:10 +0200

Adulting: Step 274: Write good professional thank-you notes:

adulting:

After the guide to regular, personal thank-you notes in this entry, someone asked how business thank-you notes should be different. EXCELLENT QUESTION!

Obviously, the tone of a letter you write to someone who may or may not want to give you a job is different than the tone you use to write to…

room42: Mulberry Street in Little Italy, New York, c1900....

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:14 +0200

room42:

Mulberry Street in Little Italy, New York, c1900.

MEDIUM: 100% cotton rag photo paper with a satin finish w/ archival pigment inks

"Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:19 +0200

“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

- Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell (via landlockedmermaid)

♡ ♡ ♡: Panic and anxiety information and resources master post

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:47:13 +0200

♡ ♡ ♡: Panic and anxiety information and resources master post:

lapocketrocket:

disintegratedsanity:

PTSD explained

PTSD and dissociation

Anxiety disorders explained

What anxious racing thoughts are like for me

Using a thought diary

Coping with triggers

Comfort box

Managing stress

Meditation tips

Distractions

Glitter jar

Grounding techniques / More grounding techniques / Even more grounding techniques

Mindfulness

Belly breathing

Mood diary

Help Guide - A site containing articles to help understand, help numbers, “tool kits”, and self help

Living with anxiety - information and self help advice

Explanation of anxiety and self help tips

Muscle Relaxation

Social anxiety disorder self help tips.

Exploring and coping with panic attacks

How to handle panic attacks

Mood Gym

Mood chart

Panic attack workbook

Coping with flashbacks

Calming GIF

Coping rules

Coping tips

Job interviews and social anxiety

Dealing with anxiety

Coping with panic attacks workbook

Calming manatee

Rules for coping with panic

Coping with test anxiety

Tips for flying anxiety

General trigger warning for the following (wonderful) blogs:

Anxiety cat

PTSD puma

Social anxiety mouse

Survivor rat

PTSD elephant

-Kat

Oh whoever made this, you are an angel.

bigfatcherrybomb: bumsquash: fatstrawberries: snapadoo: south...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:34:16 +0200

bigfatcherrybomb:

bumsquash:

fatstrawberries:

snapadoo:

southerncharmm:

The Times- My Big Fat Fashion Statement.

Love this!!

Reblogging to read later

Fab!

Enjoyed this.

THIS ARTICLE IS EVERYTHING! guhhhh :3:3

beingblog: From our senior editor trentgilliss: “Darkness...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:41 +0200

beingblog:

From our senior editor trentgilliss:

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s the enterprising, creative minds of this world who provide the most exquisite examples of solidarity when adversity confronts us as a people. I’m loving these illuminated messages of hope projected on the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

More are featured on Fast Company’s Co.Exist blog.

Evil Asks. - These are pretty fucking interesting

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:03 +0200

A. If you could get away with one murder in your lifetime without any legal, social, or emotional repercussions, would you kill someone?
B. What is your first thought when you receive a message on Tumblr, are you excited for the idea of someone from potentially the other side of the world wanting to talk to you or fearful that someone will criticize you?
C. Have you ever looked down on someone because you thought your religious views were superior?
D. Would you rather know everything the universe has to offer but in exchange lose all emotions or remain the way you are now?
E. If you could live and be healthy without sleeping or eating/drinking, which would you cut out of your life?
F. If you could take on the exact body and form of anyone else on Earth, who would it be?
G. Would you rather burn or freeze to death?
H. If it meant it would solve all world hunger, war, disease and bigotry, would you spend the rest of eternity in Hell?
I. Was the first crush in your life something you had or something someone had on you?
J. Could you live without having sex ever (again) in exchange for eternal youth?
K. Have you ever watched a full length pornographic movie?
L. The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
M. If you could have the ability to manipulate matter or energy, which would you choose?
N. What was the worst nightmare you ever had?
O. Would you rather spend one year with your one true love just to never see them again or the rest of your life with second best?
P. All the sequels/remakes/adaptations/rip-offs in movies nowadays, good or bad?
Q. Would you rather be dirt poor and emotionally fulfilled in life or be rich beyond imagination and emotionally dissatisfied for life?
R. Do you have any (secret) feelings of bigotry to any group of people?
S. Would you rather be the only person in the world that can read minds or have everyone else in the world be able to read minds except for your own?
T. If everyone in the world would automatically only know one language, which language would you choose?
U. If you were old enough and not in a situation where it would be inappropriate, would you sleep with one of your (past) school teachers/professors?
V. A world without religion, good, bad, neutral?
W. The men's rights movement, legitimate cause or laughable, and why?
X. You can eliminate one of your five senses to substantially strengthen the others, which one and would you do it?
Y. Do looks mean anything to you? Don't lie, could you fall in love with someone you thought was ugly?
Z. Can you understand the mindset and logic used by the opposite spiritual opinion? An atheist understanding the belief in a higher power and vice versa.