February 2012
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Watchrosalarian:
emmyc:
jessfink:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
Double Fine has started a kickstarter campaign to make a traditional adventure game. Tim Schafer is the guy behind Grim Fandango which is pretty much my favorite game ever (we have the original box from when Eric got it in high school sitting on our mantle) so I am loosing all of my cool over...
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null-set asked: I guess I didn't answer your...
alexandraerin:
First of all, the connection between the two statements is way more tenuous than your hypothetical example.
That was the point of me asking you about General Washington. When you hear about him “getting shit done”, even in terms of military conflicts in the revolutionary war, you don’t hear “killing white people”. You hear “winning battles.”
Now, the Nat Turner statement you’ve...
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New Report: Muslim-American Terrorism on Decline →
rcabbasi:
A new study released today (Feb. 8) by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security documents that concerns of counterterrorism officials about a potential wave of homegrown violent extremism have not materialized over the past two years. The study, “Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11,” reports that 20 Muslim-Americans committed or were arrested for terrorist...
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“How many times have people taunted me because of a color that I had on or how...”
– Kanye West
(via joshishollywood)
Never change.
(via desertmar)
never not reblog.
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Processes
blackamazon:
So after cursing my fool head off for a moment
I wanna love all up on MMM about the foolishness I perceive about who we address isms and change
It’s resources as MMM puts it
but it’s
also processes
and it’s the kid on a sugar inability to want to talk about PROCESSES and resources
Kormen’s VP resigned?
Awesome ..
but what was the PROCESS in which she got that job?
What...
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“In the slums of Port Louis, they are waiting to return. The Chagossians lost...”
– -from ‘Diego Garcia’, from Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I have Never Set Foot on and Never Will, translated from the German by Christine Lo and published by Penguin Books, 2010
this book is one of my favorites.
see also the wikipedia article on the depopulation of...
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numol:
rapunzel’s mother (white lady + dark hair) - I bet you fellas can’t find one POC in this whole //film//!
stabbington brother a (white guy + red hair) - She’s right; like with many magical fantasy worlds not specific to any time in real history, POC are completely absent!
fisticuffsandadventure:
thesavagesalad:
feministdisney:
“Are you sure this movie was...
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“When I ask Hayes what possessed him to engage with Syngenta in this particular...”
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motherjones:
“Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science.”
Truth in advertising: Your bedtime reading for Monday is Dashka Slater’s #longread on what happened when a biologist discovered that a top-selling herbicide can cause frogs to change gender. (Yes,...
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“My advice is not just for comic artists or animators, but for people in any...”
– Masamune Shirow
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jsmooth995:
OKAY SERIOUSLY THOUGH I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS NEW VIDEO PLEASE WATCH IT.
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“There’s a push to make people ashamed of being offended by anything, as if it...”
– The 7 Stupidest Things That Make People Proud | Cracked.com
(via upshot)
“Someone who offends you hasn’t ‘got’ you or ‘won’. What they said, and why, matters. They don’t get a free pass on being scrutinized on any of that just because they got a certain reaction.”
(via erikawithac)
I like the...
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“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones, “I’m Sorry M.I.A Apologized”
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