ALRIGHT LISTEN UP!
SERIOUS BUSINESS RIGHT HERE!
CISPA just passed and is going to destroy everything!
Go to SitesNotSpies.org to sign up to join the protest and for further details.
It’s time to get pissed. The U.S. law that would turn Google, Facebook, and Twitter into legally immune government spies just passed the House.
This bill affects everyone — not just U.S. citizens. Anyone with a Facebook account could now have their data shipped directly to the U.S. government. That’s why Internet users overwhelmingly oppose this bill. Over 1.5 million people signed petitions against it. But Congress didn’t listen.
Does this remind you of something? Yep, this is the exact position we were in with SOPA last year. Then the Internet rose up and we made history with the SOPA strike.
CISPA threatens our most basic rights. Privacy is important not just for our security but for our rights to freedom of expression. The giant tech companies that stood with Internet users against SOPA are not going to help us this time (but some of the large sites like Mozilla, Imgur, and Reddit are all against CISPA and we love them).
Share this flyer, and tell everyone you know to sign up to join the protest!
(via dontsmellherflowers)
Dear Rochelle,
At Pride, I led a trans discussion based on current issues. One of which is Calliope Wong, a 17-year-old transgender woman who was denied from Smith College because her FAFSA had to stay as ‘male’. I don’t know if you’ve heard of Lucy Meadows in the UK (…
beautifully worded letter regarding smith college’s exclusionary policies towards transwomen. please take a look.
So when I was walking around earlier, I came upon this “Little Free Library” in front of a house.
This is a “Take a book, leave a book” kind of project done by the 7 year old kid who lives in the house. Inside was a note written by the kid saying that he created the little library because “people should never not have a book with them”.
This is probably the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
this is somewhere in new orleans!
“I am appalled by Bridezillas. I should make it clear that I have never seen an episode of the reality show. I hate Bridezillas for one simple reason: Bride does not rhyme with god. Ergo, Bridezillas is not a functioning pun.
The point is significant because bridezilla…
Who exactly claimed that any of these were puns? Why is this on my dashboard
notes found in the girls bathroom on my campus
Maybe I’ll make a few to leave in the men’s bathrooms.
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No seriously America, read this.
And they put these in women’s bathrooms instead of somewhere men will see them.
(via skylark11)
This is an entry for Chronicle Books’ search for the next great blog-based humor book.
Synopsis: How do we use clothes? As shields? As rapier? As art? As form signifying content? As mere necessity? As bourgeois aspiration, or as a refusal of such? A mysterious artist known only as…
Forest Cemeteries: Become a Tree
“Bios Urn is a funerary urn made from biodegradable materials: coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose. The interior contains a seed of a tree that can be replaced with another seed, bud or plant suitable to the chosen place. When the urn is planted the seed germinates and begins to grow.”
My primary interest is becoming a tree.
God can you imagine actually burying a person in this? The structure and iconography of a Starbucks cup.
(via befrecktaling)
just found this clip from a 40s radio show where zora neale hurston is talking about her research on zombies. never knew she had such a great voice; wish she could read me a bedtime story.
baffling interactions i won't miss after leaving barista job
- customer: what is that?
- me: a scone
- her: what kind of cone?
- me: ....blueberry scone
- her: does blueberry mean cone?
- me: um, it's a blueberry scone
- her: that ain't a muffin
