December 2010
Dec 31st
“Yeah, you say that Seán but globalisation isn’t a bad thing. It just hasn’t gone...”
– These words, uttered by a lazy, bullying, insensitive* woman I’m unfortunate enough to have to spend my working day close to, bring to mind Schiller’s Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. *In response to a distraught member of...
Dec 29th
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“$10,676,998,737”
– Search | USAspending.gov The numbers by dollar that the U.S. Government has in contracts with BP. (via dxo)
Dec 29th
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Teach your 6 year old about social construction
At the next event where you might be expected to take photographs (a national holiday, a family event, a vacation), don’t take photographs when you would normally do so. Take them rigorously at predetermined times (every hour, the same time every day, etc) no matter what is going on. Instead of smiling groups or shots of individuals posing before a landmark or scenery, you will have photos...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
Keynes on the 'Psychology of Society' →
Europe was so organized socially and economically as to secure the maximum accumulation of capital.  While there were some continuous improvements in the daily conditions of life of the mass of the population, Society was so framed to throw a great part of the increased income into the control of the class least likely to consume it.  The new rich of the 19th century were not brought up to large...
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“Laurie Penny has no conception of how doggedly traditional and hierarchical her...”
– Qlipoth
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Dec 25th
Michele Pfeiffer. Michael Keaton. Him off of...
UPDATE: It’s Batman Returns. I tip my hat to Vruz.
Dec 25th
No snow. No Twitter. No Xmas.
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Listenfirelily: theswingingsixties: The Standells:...
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“While the new age of virtual money has only just begun and the long term...”
– David Graeber (via Instapaper)
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Dec 18th
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres...”
– Terry Eagleton (via Instapaper)
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If you are not paying for it, you're not the...
SING IT LOUD AND LONG SISTER
Dec 15th
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Agreeing to Have a Gay Roommate
bringtheruckuss: mybiggestregretever: My biggest regret ever is agreeing to have a gay roommate.  We don’t get along at all and we have nothing in common.  I try to avoid being in the room at the same time he is.  It’s ruining my first year of college.  He’s gotten drunk and tried to touch me twice.  He said he just wants to blow me and nobody else will ever find out.  It’s weird, and I hate...
Dec 15th
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Masturbation = (friends + benefits) - friends
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“Throughout the afternoon and evening when watching events unfold via websites...”
– The Return of King Mob | The Next Layer (via Instapaper)
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“A government that declares a state of emergency against fifteen-year-old kids. A...”
– The Coming Insurrection (2007) (via Instapaper)
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mercurypdx asked: Wow. After reading your democracy post I should be asking if YOU are ok.
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