[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, Sunday, 10 September 1939)

[itscolossal]

Serendipitous Shots Capture the Unexpected Everyday Humor of New York City’s Streets

[headspace-hotel]

"Asteroid," poem assembled from quotations from Wikipedia articles

[oatmilkcore]

"Greetings to the Universe in 55 Different Languages", a poem compiled out of messages from the Voyager spacecraft

[modern-politics111]

[fantodsdhrit]

since i don't know you i can fabricate thoroughly visualise breathe life into your art installations. you can behead me climb walls with my head my body has a force of it's own it's busy scratching the lottery ticket when you lose dialectic you can call out poverty narrow gully lanes satisfaction has pneumatophores it survives underwater boston harbour. in passing i can picture rain outside wet devices our ivory furniture mangroves under which you look for your embroidery needle it's stuck in my throat. as if prompts will turn our life around sequenced words? what? question as blank as the page you have set aside to make contact with the unspoken.

[bostonpoetryslam]

Little soul, you and I will become the memory of a memory of a memory. A horse released of the traces forgets the weight of the wagon.

Jane Hirshfield, “Harness,” published in Poetry (via bostonpoetryslam)

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Here's to the disabled people who aren't inspirations. Who aren't "overcoming their diagnosis" and achieving incredible things "despite their disability." Here's to the people struggling in school. Here's to the people on sick leave. Here's to the dropouts. The unemployed. The ones on welfare and disability. The ones who are economically dependent on others. The ones in the hospitals and the group homes. Here's to the ones whose struggles aren't lessened by extraordinary abilities and achievements. Here's to the ones struggling - and failing - to be average. I see you, and I hope you know that you are just as worthy of respect, support and compassion as anybody else - cause you are! Not being able to do certain things doesn't make you less of a person.

[yukika-moved-deactivated2022010]

b-blue no matter who.... 😞

[yukika-moved-deactivated2022010]

can y'all losers shut the fuck up with this "well trump would've been no better!!!" shit. it's getting old.

i think it's really interesting how any criticism directed towards democrats gets immediately shut down because ~republicans are worse~ and if you voice any negativity towards democrats you're somehow aligning yourself with trump. i think you people need to grow a spine. and a brain.

[quotemadness]

One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire (via quotemadness)

[wordrummager]

A mind full I’ve traded small ideas about sidewalks and wildflowers for larger concerns like finding peace in sorting laundry and the quiet of midnight when day is done. When the dark becomes too much, I listen to my breath, imagining the mechanics are similar behind movement and storytelling. I try to be still but wander with my eyes and find little rest because even air moves and with it, untold dances I want to try.

[soracities]

Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them.

Clarice Lispector, from “The Disasters of Sofia”, Collected Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

[shitacademicswrite]

One-Star Reviews from Goodreads

[The opinions expressed by reviewers do not reflect the opinions of this blogger, who hasn’t even read many of the books mentioned herein]

The Bible:

Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment:

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics:

Of Mice and Men:

Rousseau, The Social Contract:

Moby Dick:

Plato, Phaedrus:

Kafka’s Metamorphosis:

Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained:

Proust, Swann’s Way:

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil:

Žižek, The Sublime Object Of Ideology:

Herbert Marcuse, “One-Dimensional Man: Studies In The Ideology Of Advanced Industrial Society”:

Foucault, Madness and Civilization:

Nietzsche, The Gay Science:

Hemmingway, The Old Man and the Sea:

The Cloud of Unknowing:

Samuel Richardson, Pamela:

Plato, Parmenides:

JG Ballard:

Hobbes, Leviathan:

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time:

[whatbigotspost]

Derek W. Black on Twitter

“Couldn’t believe this was true, so I read the bill myself. Sure enough, TX Senate just passed a bill to remove Frederick Douglass, MLK, Ces

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More dispatches from the front lines of the culture war aka Texas. The rage is never ending and exhausting

[note-a-bear]

I'm not trying to be a shit about this but like we *need* solidarity over this because the alarm was being sounded almost 20 years ago when W let Texas (and other southwestern states) start cutting out Mexican and Chicano history.

As a reminder, Texas constitutes one of the largest textbook markets. Whatever they remove, smaller and/or poorer states will struggle to put back or compensate for when they make their textbook purchases.

That means how Texas goes a disproportionate amount of school resources go.

[whatbigotspost]

This is an extremely, extremely important addition ^ Texas has an enormous sway on textbooks everywhere. When it comes to almost any issue...Texas isn't "just Texas." The people in the notes that are like "Texas should just secede" or "can we just get rid of Texas already" are missing a critical point here. (And throwing the community activists who are trying to combat this stuff under the bus, but I digress.)

As I (and many others for longer and better than me) have tried to explain: Texas is a state of 29 million, and very powerful. The state government is NOT acting in the interests of the majority of the people, they are trying to maintain their decades long stranglehold on power, by doing everything they can, including miseducating youth with propaganda.

Even in the best of voter turnout years, only 52% of the eligible voting population casts a ballot in Texas. Communities of color, low income communities, disabled voters and all kinds of other marginalized folks have had their voting access nearly strangled to death. What happens in Texas is coming for everywhere. We should be talking about national policies to curb this shit.

[pluckyredhead]

I worked in textbook publishing for ten years, and I cannot overemphasize how important Texas is to the textbook market. What Texas decides should be taught affects what the rest of the US teaches.

[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[furbearingbrick]

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screenshots

[wordrummager]

let the beetles have the beans looking at grass from above there’s a lack of perspective for smaller delights folded wings spell out an impossible origami would we choose a different dance if we had more legs?

[heartofmuse]

There is a melancholic sweetness in having eyes that see too much, eyes of rain that see the heart of night.

e.v.e.