July 2010
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FacePainting →
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As some of you may know, Paramount commissioned (in)famous director M. Night Shyamalan to adapt the popular Nickelodian series “Avatar: The Last Airbender” into a movie trilogy. The TV series revolves a fantasical, Hayao Miyazaki-inspired universe that deals with individuals capable of controlling and manipulating (aka “bending”) one or several of the...
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June 2010
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Reblog if you did not cry at the Deathly Hallows...
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Let's talk consent and power
ilykadamen:
I admit it, I looked some more—and, Isabel, you can’t even because I saw you over there! It was as usual an excellent point and I am going to lean on it heavily because frankly it tops anything I can say here, but I can’t NOT say anything at this point:
The irony of seeing some of the same women featured in Yes Means Yes, an anthology of essays exploring and promoting the...
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Reconcilate: What happened at the end of Flesh and... →
isabelthespy:
also, i wish i had remembered this post earlier, and thought to link it Elsewhere before threads got closed with a thanks for giving the poster a lot to think over, but: one time quixotess (she has a tumblr also!) explained that some girl character in doctor who sexually assaulted some boy character, i don’t watch the show but the post is still really, really good at making the...
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Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck →
kateoplis:
Lara Logan, come on down! You’re the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010!
I thought I’d seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael...
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“While sci fi fans don’t mind (and often excel at) criticizing their sci fi...”
– Courtney Stoker, interviewed by Amanda Hess at The Sexist
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read the whole interview, it’s quite good.
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“Representations colonize the mind and the imagination.”
– bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
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Amy Miller & G20 arrests
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neutresex:
“Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her. “I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being...
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“Something called Geekosystem asked me if I was on Team Edward or Team Jacob. Not...”
– Warren Ellis » Drive-By
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In which I take issue with Twilight
ilykadamen:
starsgowaltzing:
Not because of the shitty writing, ridiculous plot, Mary Sueisms, abusive psychotic characters, gaslighting, or any of the usual (legitimate) complaints but because I have issue with the Cullens hunting animals.
Especially Mr Sparkle himself. Your favourite meal is mountain lion? Really?
WHY WOULD YOU HUNT AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, YOU KNOBJOCKEY?
Just eat the...
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“There is a feeling on the streets that this could be the most expensive and...”
– Violence mars G20 protests - Americas - Al Jazeera English (via illegalsoul) (via thecurvature)
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“The larger problem is that most British readers don’t care about...”
– Marbury: american telegraph
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Warren Ellis » Just When You Thought Nature Had... →
“…BP drill site is directly over a massive underground reservoir of methane that could result in a huge explosion that would create “a supersonic tsunami” that “would literally sweep away everything from Miami to the panhandle in a matter of minutes. Loss of human life would be virtually instantaneous and measured in the millions.””.
No, these people are serious:
If the huge methane...
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Reblog with: WHAT DISNEY CHARACTER WOULD YOU FUCK?
isabelthespy:
i asked this question a bazillionty years ago in the infancy of this toddler of a blog when i had like 15 followers or something. i have a bunch more than that now! and i think it would be neat if several of them took me up on this challenge! death is not an option, and neither are bullshit non-disney animated movies (dmitri from anastasia is not an acceptable answer, for...
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Top 10 Myths About Immigration — Center for... →
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jerseyjezebel:
1. Immigrants don’t pay taxes. Immigrants pay taxes, in the form of income, property, sales, and taxes at the federal and state level. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in federal, state, and local taxes. Undocumented immigrants pay income taxes as...
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AS @ the USSF
Boggs: Ideas matter. Activism without ideas becomes mindless activism that can't challenge systems.
Wallerstein: Capitalism is not forever. It is a system, and systems don't go on forever. It has moved into structural crisis, and is coming to and end. What's new is not that it is oppressive because it has always been. But it is losing its ability to work on its own terms. The struggle now is over what will replace it.
Boggs: Revolution is seen as this "radical" idea. But in fact, the current system is destroying the earth and is unsustainable. Thus, revolution is really about survival of the planet.
Wallerstein: Another world is possible, but it is not certain. It's up to us. Boggs: Revolution is not to prove our analysis is correct. It is actually a process of uncertainty. But in uncertainty, there is hope. Revolution is a beginning; it is not an end point.
Wallerstein: Capitalism is a system based on the idea that there should be endless accumulation. It is a system on a treadmill, where we accumulate capital in order to accumulate capital in order to accumulate more capital. It requires endless growth. We don't question the need for constant growth. To live well is not to endlessly consume. Living well requires restraint as well as growth.
Wallerstein: Capitalism is based on hierarchy and polarization between the 20% who do reasonably well and the 80% who do badly. The powers that be are also thinking of alternatives to capitalism since capitalism is at a crisis, but it could be a system even worse than capitalism. We need to find a system better than this one.
Boggs: I used to think the "system" was something that you could erase. People had created the system because in a world of scarcity, a system based on growth made sense. In the 1980s, there were all these vacant lots in Detroit. So a group of African American women so these lots and places to develop urban agriculture. Our needs can be a place to develop new visions of how to live together.
Wallerstein: Since capitalism is running out of spaces to grow, it must begin to commodify everything; education, water, etc. Our struggle can be for decommodification to stop the madness, but also to practice what it is like to live in a decommodified society.
Andy Smith: My side note: This is what I notice is the problem with activists in the academy. People strive for reform in the academy. But we don't challenge the fact that the academy is already based on thet idea that knowledge is a commodity that should be bought and sold on the academic market place. Where is our vision for truly decommodified education?
Wallerstein: What is unique about this current crisis? First of all, we are not in a recession; we are in a depression. People don't want to use the word as if not using it will mean we are not in one.
Wallerstein: Congress already recognizes that the next bubble is going to be the collapse of the student loan program. Market fluctuations are so extreme people can't make rational short-term decisions so they panic.
Wallerstein: Everyone knows the US is losing the war in Afghanistan. I think McChyrstal was not stupid. He knows he can't win the war, and doesn't want to be blamed for it.
Wallerstein: Government and electoral instability because government's don't have positive options. If they expand the budget, they are spendthrift liberals. If they cut the budget, they close off possibilities for economic growth.
Boggs: We look at the movements in the 1960s in terms of identity politics, and miss that they we were trying to create new worlds for everyone.
Boggs: Folks on the right and the left focus on Obama. But the problem is not Obama. The problem is the system is itself dysfunctional. Are we going to keep protesting and hoping that the system will somehow become functional? Or are we going to create alternative systems that actually work?
Wallerstein: The global movements prior to World Social Fora tended to focus on party politics that presumed that the party had to be in charge and everyone else had to follow. After the revolution, everything would be better. Now, the WSF brings together movements that doesn't presume one being prioritized over the other.
Andy Smith: My side note: A big difference though between the WSF and USSF is that the WSF brings together movements; where as the USSF is more a meeting of organizations. To quote someone on the escalator: "The USSF is a meeting for professional activists. It's like the academic conferences I go to, but less free food."
Boggs: people who talk about revolution are often stuck in 1917. When we seize the state; we get captured by the state. We need to think less of capturing the state but imagining new ways of living together that replace the state. Go beyond oppositional thinking to creative thinking.
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Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the... →
kateoplis:
Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan. They’ve always been a dangerous mission - the Soviets reportedly spent most of their occupation in the 1980s fighting off attacks. The U.S. has chosen another method - ...
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“Before that, though, you steal cars a lot, and anyone who says these games...”
– Ilyka Damen: Grand Gross-out
it is impossible to not notice, walking through my neighborhood in the morning in the winter, how many cars left running ‘to warm up’ i could have just hopped into and driven off with before the owners were able to run back outside.
i wouldn’t ever do...
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what will suffice: Canadiansplaining. →
ilykadamen:
Okay, see, look. For me, in fact, all of this unemployment benefit stuff doesn’t really matter. Because I can afford COBRA for the time being, and then by August my university health plan will cover me along with, eventually, my provincial health plan. And then I will be fine, forever.
It does suck that as an immigrant - on a legal work visa! who paid into UI the whole time! -...
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Bad Vibrations →
TRIGGER WARNING - make that trigger warning a mile high written in flames. i don’t even know where to start here. this article will make you want to burn down a university. WHAT THE HELL SCIENCE.
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“When Krystal was 13 or 14, the bullying and violence became so bad that staff...”
– ‘I Was Scared to Sleep’: LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind Bars | The Nation