hark

pay me no mind

[dodezielen]

I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. It is simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...

Ursula K. Le Guin

[dodezielen]

I'm tired of being called a radical. I don't think I'm radical. I don't think you're radical. I don't think we're radical. What's so radical about what we want? We want peace. We want economic justice. We want civil rights. We want jobs. We want hope. We want public transportation. I'm a radical? No, I'm not a radical. I don't have 400,000 troops assembled in a desert wearing scuba diving suits to bring me more oil than I'm already choking to death on. That's radical.

Barry Crimmins

[fullpraxisnow]

“To me the important thing is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live. It is that inertia that allows the institutions of injustice to continue unquestioned. The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”

– Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible

[howieabel]

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Dispossessed (via myanarchistproseandpoetry)

[dodezielen]

Brain: you're really socially inept.

Me: why!?

Brain: because you're googling the appropriate response to someone showing you affection.

Me: o, yeah, I guess I am.

[dodezielen]

If you fear for your security because immigrants come into the country, you’re considered perfectly sane, yet the concept of safe spaces is openly mocked. Someone please explain.

[fullpraxisnow]

Many people with severe anxiety and/or depression are also anti-authoritarians. Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.

Bruce Levine, Ph.D. | Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (via fullpraxisnow)

[silversarcasm]

i just fucking hate this culture we’ve created where its a bad thing to help people

like why stress “a hand-up not a hand-out!” whats wrong with a hand-out? whats wrong with sharing and giving and loving? 

we are a social species, we thrive when we work together and help each other, this fucking capitalist hellscape we live in is not natural or good or the only way

[dodezielen]

It is better to stumble than to not walk at all

Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

[animalplace]

Only Male US Weightlifter in Olympics is Vegan

Vegan athlete Kendrick Yahcob Farris will represent the United States at the Rio games.

The only male weightlifter at this year’s Olympic games, Kendrick Yahcob Farris, happens to be a record breaker. And vegan. 

[mikkyalie]

Stuff like this makes people find vegans annoying..why couldn’t you focus on the fact that he broke a record?

[acti-veg]

Every vegan I have ever met is told constantly that vegans don’t get enough protein and are weak, but when when we hold up examples of people who clearly demonstrate that isn’t the case, we’re the annoying ones. We are celebrating the fact that this man is someone we can relate to and has achieved something great. Literally just leave us alone?

[dodezielen]

Vegan mountainclimber dies: “Well this proves it, vegans are weak!” Vegan weightlifter breaks record: “His veganism is irrelevant! Why can’t you just focus on the record?”

[dodezielen]

Actual person: It's a shame people aren't more loving. We need to be more kind to eachother.

Me: I know! That's exactly how I feel.

Actual person: Also, all muslims should be killed. They are irrelevant and we need to kill them to stop terrorism.

Me: Wait, what the fuck?

[changan-moon]

Traditional Chinese painting, 江南春晓 by 宋文治Song Wenzhi(1919—1999).

[dodezielen]

Utrecht gets gender neutral toilets

The municipality of Utrecht will start with gender neutral toilets in its city hall and gradually expand to other public, municipal buildings. The backlash this is receiving on Twitter is incompre-fucking-hensible. Never underestimate privileged people’s power to portray themselves as victims, I guess.

http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/4286340/gemeente-utrecht-krijgt-genderneutrale-toiletten-.html

https://twitter.com/Annemarijke/status/748617509960617985

(both links in Dutch)

[positivedoodles]

[drawing of a white cow saying “You’re allowed to decide the size of your dreams. It’s not up to others to decide whether your dreams are too big or too small.” in a blue speech bubble.]

[dodezielen]

<3

[badlydrawneverything]

[relatablepicturesofwaddles]

[dodezielen]

Got a card from my mom in the mail and it said: “thinking about you, love.” I thought ‘aw, that’s so sweet’, then I realized it wasn’t actually addressed to me, but to a friend of mine whose address she doesn’t have. ._.