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Transgender synth pioneer, Wendy Carlos (1939). She composed the TRON soundtrack—one of my favorites actually, with its unusual love theme and perfectly placed electronic action beats. She also composed music for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE SHINING. Much more commercially successful though was SWITCHED-ON BACH (1968).

On the topic of her gender transition, she said,

“The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life.”

There’s a lesson to be learned there. How many times do we put off or abandon doing something because of what other people might think? And how often does it turn out that these other people have their own problems to worry about and don’t really care anyway? We’re always performing for a highly-critical, invisible audience it seems—or not even performing, just waiting anxiously in the dressing room.

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Attend the tale of Gunilla Ulfstadder.

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naturaekos

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.

Nina Simone (via naturaekos)

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Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”

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Lot more people around the world are going to watch this now than if it actually aired. Speaking truth to power is the best viral content!

mundosdepapel

I encourage everyone to have a look at his TED talk about basic income because he’s great.

He also has a book were he talks in length about the different experiments that were done in the states and Canada. Its called Utopia For Realists I’m finishing it right now and I think everyone should read it

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erinomaista

Is your landlord a piece of shit and refusing to fix stuff around your place? If you’re living in the US, most cities have a section on their website for building code enforcement. Find the contact information for the department and tell them what’s happening. Make bureaucracy work for you! The government will contact your landlord and if they don’t comply they will be fined! The threat of losing money is a mighty motivator and they’ll most likely get their shit together within a day or two.

My ceiling was leaking for two weeks without me hearing anything from management besides “we’ll get to it”. Literally the DAY after I emailed the code enforcement department, management came by with a contractor to give me estimates on when my roof would be fixed. This shit works y’all

thearthistorygeekau

I don’t normally post or reblog about this on my Tumblr, but this is important. I tried this and it made our landlord so mad that they accused us of not letting them in to fix the apartment, told code enforcement these lies, and threatened to evict us. If you do this, make sure you document EVERYTHING.

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The team that revolutionized the sport of skateboarding in the 1970s may have been known as the Z-Boys, but they had one girl member: Peggy Oki. Her skating

“The team that revolutionized the sport of skateboarding in the 1970s may have been known as the Z-Boys, but they had one girl member: Peggy Oki. Her skating style, and that of the Z-Boys as a whole, was graceful, powerful, and unprecedented, emulating the effortless flow of a surfer on a wave.

The lone girl on the Z-Boys’ team stood out as she skated to first place in women’s freestyle at the 1975 Del Mar Nationals, where the Z-Boys made their competitive debut. Peggy Oki was a trailblazer on a team that was already changing the sport irrevocably, but that legacy, and her particular hand in it, wasn’t at the forefront of her mind. At the Vans Black Rainbows exhibition in LA, Peggy told POPSUGAR that, simply, “I was doing something that I really loved doing. I didn’t really think about, ‘gee, I’m the only girl on the team, where are my girlfriends,’ or anything like that. I was just doing it.”

Still a teenager when she joined the Z-Boys, Peggy was used to making her way in a sports landscape mostly devoid of girls. “I was riding Schwinn bicycles over dirt mounds back then,” she said. “For me to be in a male-dominated sport, it wasn’t really that new to me.”

Read the full piece and check out the photo slideshow here