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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:31:47 +0100

i ruin conversations. and i cockblock. oops.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:26:00 +0100

i ruin conversations. and i cockblock. oops.

"Anyone tuning into Al Jazeera’s new American channel coming this summer shouldn’t expect too much..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:57 +0100

““Anyone tuning into Al Jazeera’s new American channel coming this summer shouldn’t expect too much coverage of celebrities or other tabloid fodder typically found on U.S. television news. Instead Al Jazeera America hopes to stand out with a diet heavy on ‘fact-based, in-depth, long-format news.’””

- The Wall Street Journal (via azmatzahra)

Azmat is a good person to know and follow online in her new digital role at Al Jazeera America on “America Tonight.” Glad she’s part of AJ now. - KT

(via ajfaultlines)

Recycled Sunlight Pieces by Robert Montgomery

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:27:45 +0100

Recycled Sunlight Pieces by Robert Montgomery

"Brown people straight up owned the National Spelling Bee this year. Did you see how many contestants..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:17:13 +0100

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Brown people straight up owned the National Spelling Bee this year. Did you see how many contestants in the top 10 were Indian? I thought I was looking at ten 7th grade pictures of me. I think one of them might have been wearing the same tucked in black jeans I had too.

But this beautiful moment goes beyond just brown people winning a contest. Brown people, whether they be Indian, Pakistani, Bengali, Arab, whatever (we’re all the same yo, in this together) - were colonized by people who INVENTED ENGLISH. Then we immigrated to their countries and got mocked and ridiculed for how we speak it. And here we are in 2013, at the highest level of competition, ON PRIMETIME ESPN, straight up dunking on these fools.

”

- Aman Ali, Muslim American stand-up comedian, storyteller, journalist and writer of Indian descent. (via faineemae)

And then, and then they had the nerve to suggest that since brown people were so fucking good at spelling and whipping white children left and right at Spelling Bees everywhere, they want to change the rules so you have to know what the words mean as well. They’re hoping that would give white kids an edge over brown kids because brown learning is more focused on memorization than understanding but they’re wrong. If they changed the rules, brown kids would still be winning. I spelt “refrigerator” for relatives when I was 4 and I knew what “fallacious” meant when I was 7. They’re just mad we’re better at their language than they are.

(via seulementpourlesamoureux)

"If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:13:45 +0100

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”

- ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)

"In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat,..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:09:02 +0100

“In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat, he told me he had only one fear. It was that the disclosures he was making, momentous though they were, would fail to trigger a worldwide debate because the public had already been taught to accept that they have no right to privacy in the digital age.”

- Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:50:34 +0100

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:31:48 +0100

Do you know? The speed at which cherry blossoms fall… 5...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:08:48 +0100

Do you know? The speed at which cherry blossoms fall…
5 centimeters per second.
At what speed must I live… to be able to see you again?

I watched 秒速5センチメートル or 5 Centimeters Per Second like a year or two ago, and it still remains at least one of my all-time favourite short animated films. Makoto Shinkai is an absolute genius. The art direction and the animation in particular was stunning, the best in the world. The plot may not be to everyone’s taste, but trust me, it’s a lovely film. Highly recommended. (GIFs are not mine).

"Allowing the United States government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:24:54 +0100

“Allowing the United States government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”

- Admitted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden • In an interview with The Washington Post, the other publication he worked with when leaking information. (He previously spoke to The Guardian.) Snowden says he has no plans to hide from the federal government, and will remain in Hong Kong for the time being. He suggests that, by arresting him, the federal government will only prove his point on the leaks issue. “I’m not going to hide,” he told the newspaper. (via shortformblog)

"I would not urge you simply to get off the PlayStation. I would urge you to understand who made the..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:45:31 +0100

“I would not urge you simply to get off the PlayStation. I would urge you to understand who made the game. I would not urge you to take down your King James poster. I would urge you to think about the business that makes him possible. Perhaps you’d like to be part of that business some day. I would urge you think about what Kendrick is doing in his lyrics, to think about music. Do you know how to read music? Have you learned an instrument? Would that interest you? How about poetry? Have you ever read any? Would you consider trying to write some of your own?”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)

johngoodwin225: Pangea (a supercontinent that formed roughly...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:56:19 +0100

johngoodwin225:

Pangea (a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.

Map by Massimo Pietrobon

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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:32:36 +0100

ragingpeacock: fuckyeahsouthasia: A Day In India - A short...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:10:33 +0100

ragingpeacock:

fuckyeahsouthasia:

A Day In India - A short film that combines three weeks of eating, and travelling in India into one “day”.

This film made me very hungry.

lustambitions: Powerful. And true.

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:09:48 +0100

lustambitions:

Powerful.
And true.

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Tue, 28 May 2013 12:59:42 +0100

She was stunning in Guru. <3

Mon, 27 May 2013 10:33:51 +0100

She was stunning in Guru. <3

CNN Reporter: "You were quite rude to the President"

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:17:49 +0100

CNN Reporter: "You were quite rude to the President"
Medea Benjamin: "I think killing innocent people with drones is rude."

"The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:42 +0100

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The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,

“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”

This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.

Women are not possessions.

Women are people.

”

- The Believer Logger: I am not your wife, sister or daughter (via sonicy0uth)