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I'm a guy in a chair on a computer.   　　 Philosophy . Muse . Art . Lifestyle . Activism

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We’re up to 170 million blogs. Whatever, nbd. But the bigger we get, the more government requests for account data we receive. And since there may be a day when it’s your information they want, it’s important you know what they’re asking for.

Starting today, we’ll be publishing a biannual Transparency Report detailing the number of requests we get from different sources, why we receive those requests, and how we respond to them.

If the report is TL;DR, here’s the upshot: Tumblr received a total of 462 requests for user data in 2013, and responded with account data (e.g., email and IP address) 76% of the time. A small subset of those responses also included content of blog posts (e.g., text, audio, images, or video).

The remaining requests (24%) were illegal, vague, or inaccurate—so we refused to provide any data at all.

Striking the right balance between privacy and legal responsibilities is no small task, but we hope this report demonstrates our ongoing commitment to this community.

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goldise:

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This economic model is at war with life on Earth

-Naomi Klien

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its sad that the only objective news/politcs shows that exist today air on comedy central.

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Weston Doty

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entry II

when we look at where we are we're moved by the beauty- yet our suspicion that the place would just as happily kill us as let us walk on it fills us with a strange sense of dread. as we take our first steps into the unknown we feel a rush that comes from the frictional heat of two conflicting ideas - the desire to turn around, and the yearning to continue.

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Falling in love for the first time is a completely transcendent experience. It’s like eating pizza-flavored ice cream. Your brain can’t even process that level of joy. Love makes people do crazy things like kill other people or shop at Crate & Barrel. I think on some level it makes us all delusional. Deep down, our whole lives, no matter how low our self-esteem gets, we think, I have a secret special skill that no one knows about and if they knew they’d be amazed. And then eventually we meet someone who says, ‘You have a secret special skill.’ And you’re like, ‘I know! So do you!’ And they’re like, ‘I know!’ And then you’re like, ‘We should eat pizza ice cream together.’ And that’s what love is. It’s this giant mound of pizza-flavored ice cream and delusion.

- Mike Birbiglia, Sleepwalk with Me

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"It was a great day for animal activists around the world when India's Ministry of Environment and Forests agreed to ban the use of dolphins and whales as well as porpoises for public entertainment, forbidding them from being held captive anywhere in india"

The Declaration:

1. Every individual cetacean has the right to life. 2. No cetacean should be held in captivity or servitude; be subject to cruel treatment; or be removed from their natural environment. 3. All cetaceans have the right to freedom of movement and residence within their natural environment. 4. No cetacean is the property of any State, corporation, human group or individual. 5. Cetaceans have the right to the protection of their natural environment. 6. Cetaceans have the right not to be subject to the disruption of their cultures. 7. The rights, freedoms and norms set forth in this Declaration should be protected under international and domestic law.

Source: http://www.collective-evolution.com/

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in quotejunction

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." -- Business Week, August 2, 1968

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." -- Albert Einstein, 1932

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873

"There is a young madman proposing to light the streets of London—with what do you suppose—with smoke!" -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) [On a proposal to light cities with gaslight.

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." -- Peter Ustinov

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      a symbol of captivity and freedom, extinction and salvation, greediness and generosity, a frontier forgotten and frontier remembered.

      how can you claim to love the very thing you kill? i think its complicated: there is an open dialogue with nature, thats not easily explained -we have to learn the nature of paradox, you can stand in the rain and look toward the sun.

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I'm the hero of this story I don't need to be saved

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This song the equivalent of turning a zombie human. again.

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“He said, ‘No, you’re gonna tell me something today, tough guy.’ I said, ‘All right, I’ll tell you something: go fuck your mother.’”

tommy devito

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(don't read) this blog

this blog is more or less for me. this blog is chaos. the thoughts sparking in my brain like a torn telephone wire whipping against a puddle.