March 2012
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“I’m not fazed when the needle first goes in, and then when she finds it,...”
– John Fram (“Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner,” The Atlantic)
Holy fucking hell. This gave me chills. This entire thing. Read it.
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This is a break-up story for the ages.
A: once i bought these pickles
A: and left them at T's
A: and never opened them
A: and they expired
S: this is like a hemingway six-word story
S: for trash: pickles jar, never opened.
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Praise Is Fleeting, but Brickbats We Recall |... →
“And Professor Nass offered another interesting point: we tend to see people who say negative things as smarter than those who are positive.”
Well, so, if I were a queen I’d probably just be the queen of all the vaguely depressing articles in the New York Times.
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“Like a Tao Lin novel, filled with a billion affectless references to things in...”
– Pitchfork (via heheheheheheheeheheheehehe)
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...On the 3rd wave. Or something.
S: i am deeply suspicious of 3rd wave feminism though
S: like really how can you have your bikini wax AND your social activism sticker at the same time?
M: well, just use your social activism sticker to rip off unwanted hair
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Internalized Racism | The Good Men Project →
aahousecourse:
“So, yes, I’m racist. And so are you. And if that pisses you off, allow me to elucidate.
Much of the problem, to my mind, comes from the fact that we tend to identify people as racist, making it an adjective, or worse, as a racist, turning the adjective into a noun. By saying “that guy’s a racist” we implicitly wall-off the racism, imprison it in his flesh, and by implication...
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Briefly.
It really pisses me off when people have only one agenda item in terms of social injustice, and that agenda item is “the time I didn’t get into Princeton because I was Asian.”
Wake up, do some reading, and learn some context for your complaints. (Which are valid, but ugh, why is the only injustice that you admit into your worldview still one that affects only privileged people of...
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if (!good) then {stop thinking about it;}
S: i also think A1 avoids criticism of people. he doesn't like to think about negative things.
A2: he is like the logical negation of the emergent monster called you and I.
S: haha yeah. he's always just like "well is it productive to think about this? if not stop thinking about it."
A2: that's a shitty way to think about it too.
S: he's an if-then statement that negates negativity.
A2: i hate utility optimizers. TO HELL WITH ENGINEERS.
S: engineers already live in hell. they just like to call it ciemas.
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Banana slugs/onions.
S: there are so many layers of irony here. there are onion layers of it.
E: im gonna peel them--hey. screw you and your stealing of my metaphors.
S: onion layers is like literally everyone's metaphor. it is the banana slug of metaphors.
E: no it's not literally everyone's metaphor. it is metaphorically speaking, everyone's metaphor.
S: lol i remember in high school someone called quartz the banana slug of minerals. and i loved it. which is why i still remember it.
E: banana slugs are the banana slugs of the it.
S: banana slugs are the bananas of slugs.
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Jonathan Haidt on Thought Catalog! Moral intuition...
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“Let us begin our activism right here: with the money-driven villainy at the...”
– Teju Cole (“The White Savior Industrial Complex,” The Atlantic)
Excellent article. You should read the whole thing.
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“ Over the course of the next three days, I worked piecemeal on the painting,...”
– Brad Pike (“Pretending to be a Real Person Who Does Real People Things,” Thought Catalog)
Brad Pike, I think I love you. Thank you for verbalizing so many of the feelings that were unlucky enough to live in my poor can’t-write-to-save-my-life soul.
(via like-a-tea-tray-in-the-sky)
Yes, this quote...
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DIFFERENT RACISMS: On Jeremy Lin and How the Rules... →
“[F]or a long time, I wrote only about white characters….The breakthrough came when I started to be able to read my own stories objectively. Something was not making sense. Why were my characters who they were? I inserted plenty of flashbacks and backstory to try to “explain” them. But in the end, I realized that what they were missing…was a crucial piece of me that had gone into...
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I hate my thesis.
A: Don't give up!
S: It's raining outside.
A: It's raining inside--
S: --my soul.
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“…just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I...”
– Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping)
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This American Life Retraction Transcript for... →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Ira Glass, This American Life:
I should say, I am not happy to have to come to you and tell you that something that we presented on the radio as factual is not factual. All of us in public radio stand together and I have friends and colleagues on lots of other shows who – like us here at This American Life – work hard to do accurate, independent reporting week in,...
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In which a Goldman Sachs executive director... →
section9:
inothernews:
This is incredible. Please go read it.
Wow. I was not expecting that.
Actually, then I thought, Wait are we actually surprised by this? I kind of feel as though everyone … should do this? Too much faith in humanity on my part, I guess. :<
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“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
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4th grade science class.
J: Mrs. Tramel is really mean. She almost never smiles.
S: Maybe her face is broken.
J: Her knees were.
S: What?
J: She had metal put into both her knees.
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Subject for Debate: Are Women People? | TIME →
“You see, like most women, I was born with the chromosome abnormality known as “XX,” a deviation of the normative “XY” pattern. Symptoms of XX, which affects slightly more than half of the American population, include breasts, ovaries, a uterus, a menstrual cycle, and the potential to bear and nurse children. Now, many would argue even today that the lack of a Y chromosome should not affect...
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“my favorite emotions include ‘brief calmness
in good weather’ and ‘i am the...”
– Tao Lin (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) (via faisceau)
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Theory destroys lives.
S: i mean i don't think he's RIGHT about everything, but he's not completely wrong
E: i dont think right or wrong matters!
E: ZING.
S: ...
E: postmodernist in da house.
E: what is truth? baby dont hurt me
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Two phrases I never want to hear again (but that I...
“The personal is political.” “The medium is the message.”
Literally almost every single thing I read for feminist theory or media theory class includes some superfluous, offhanded, half-baked reference to one of these statements.
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W. W. Norton: Why do you think “consumed” is an... →
wwnorton:
I think it’s an ugly term when applied to information. When you talk about consuming information you are talking about information as a commodity, rather than information as the substance of our thoughts and our communications with other people. To talk about consuming it, I think you lose a…
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from Amy Gerstler, "Dearest Creature,"
Remember when you said, after we’d camped near Crater Lake for a week, that I looked like the sort of tree one sees in a dream? I made fun of you all day. Called you loony. But now, with your tangerine tree, the one you planted and fed fireplace ash all its first winter, covered with hummingbirds I know exactly what you were trying to say that precious day. Dearheart: a single word would be...
