June 2012
Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
– John Green (via loveyourchaos)
Those victims who were slaughtered are people that I knew well. These children I...
– Senior Syrian military officer Major Jihad Raslan, who has defected from Assad’s forces after witnessing the Houla massacre. He spoke to the Guardian. The full article is here. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
It’s a pleasure to share one’s memories. Everything remembered is dear,...
– Susan Sontag (via larmoyante)
Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable....
– Unknown (via grrl-meat)
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings...
– “The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald (via narcosis)
Pitifully paid workers, weak environmental... →
futurejournalismproject:
Via PC Pro UK:
In the past, when people have voiced ethical concerns surrounding technology, it’s typically been centred on environmental issues. Such issues, as we’ll see, are still relevant, but it’s increasingly the human consequences of manufacturing technology that are coming under the microscope.
How is the end user supposed to know just how their shiny new...
May 2012
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via blua)
I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to...
– Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg (via blua)
privileged kids go to counseling, poor kids go to jail.
– judge mathis, speaking the truth (via thatprettyoddfeminist)
I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As...
– An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind
and when it did, it scattered a...
– Andrea Gibson (via feministpizza)