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sammaggs

Grab your very own Geek Girl’s Litany for Feminism!! Now available in all different forms over on Zazzle!!

And don’t forget to pre-order The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy, out with quirkbooks May 12, 2015!!

sammaggs

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wilwheaton

In several crime categories, for example, gun owners would have to protect themselves more than 100 percent of the time for Kleck and Getz’s estimates to make sense. For example, guns were allegedly used in self-defense in 845,000 burglaries, according to Kleck and Getz. However, from reliable victimization surveys, we know that there were fewer than 1.3 million burglaries where someone was in the home at the time of the crime, and only 33 percent of these had occupants who weren’t sleeping. From surveys on firearm ownership, we also know that 42 percent of U.S. households owned firearms at the time of the survey. Even if burglars only rob houses of gun owners, and those gun owners use their weapons in self-defense every single time they are awake, the 845,000 statistic cited in Kleck and Gertz’s paper is simply mathematically impossible.

The Myth Behind Defensive Gun Ownership. (via wilwheaton)

rstevens

Don’t ever #pizza say I don’t #pizza reveal my deepest #pizza emotions in my #pizza comics.

humansofnewyork

"Let me tell you what’s happening to me. I’m on the PTA at my child’s school, the Secondary School of Journalism in Park Slope. I’m currently advocating on behalf of my child, and seventeen other children whose parents don’t speak English. These kids are from Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, everywhere. These kids have all done very well on their Regent’s exams— I’m talking 90/95th percentile. Very smart kids. They were on their way toward qualifying for an Advanced Regents government scholarship,that would give their parents badly needed money to help in their education. But the fine print of that scholarship says the children need three full years of a foreign language.

And the principal at the school FIRED the Spanish teacher. She is not hiring another foreign language teacher for an entire year, effectively disqualifying all these kids from that scholarship they need. When we try to talk with her about it, she acts like she doesn’t owe us an explanation. When we try to call the Board of Education, they tell us to put it in writing. They get us all excited. They have us think if we write a nice letter, and use good grammar, and use all the correct punctuation, something will happen. Meanwhile another year passes, and nothing. And the kids don’t get their scholarship. You know something like this would never happen at a nice Manhattan school like Stuyvesant.

We’ve got a new mayor and a new chancellor. So we aren’t blaming them. But they need to know how impossible they’ve made it to help our kids. Trying to get something fixed in these schools is like praying to some false God. You call and email hoping that God is listening, and nothing happens. Meanwhile the kids suffer. All these parents that I’m representing are good, simple people. They say: ‘Don’t worry Annette, God is going to fix it. God will make it right.’ I love them. And I love God. But I tell them: ‘God won’t fix it! We’ve got to fix it!’”

thevisualhag

‘12 SHOES for 12 LOVERS‘

by Chilean-born, New York-based designer Sebastian Errazuriz.

The pieces reflects on the recollection of the artist’s personal and sexual relationships with former lovers, each of whom became the influence for a series of shoe sculptures. Each day, Errazuriz released one image of a new heeled design, completed by an accompanying photo of the footwear’s muse and a small, often explicit story about the duo’s escapades together.

’12 shoes for 12 shoes’ will exhibit at the pop-up shop of Brazilian shoe brand Melissa from December 6th, 2013 to January 6th, 2014 for Art Basel Miami Beach 2013.

ejacutastic

this guy is a literal man child idiot but the shoes are cool

mydrunkhelbig-deactivated201504

Hannah, please sing this!!

jacksterja

Never met a cheese I didn't like!

MS Megaswim 2013 - Part 2 - Disaster Strikes

You can read Part 1 of this story before continuing along here….

The TLDR version is:

4 teams

60…

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#ankle #charity #fracture #fractured ankle #Friends #fundraising #injury #megaswim #motorbike accident #MS MegaSwim

MS Megaswim 2013 - Part 1 - Where it all began.

“From little things, big things grow”.

It’s a very Australian lyric, and a very Australian sentiment.

I’m not at all suggesting that what we did compares, but in terms of things I’ve done in my little life, the Megaswim ranks up there as a pretty amazing…

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#charity #Friends #fundraising #megaswim #MS MegaSwim

Drugs in Sport

I blame the drugs.

I cannot believe I haven’t posted about the Megaswim here!!!!

In my defense I did break my ankle the day before the event and I was on some pretty heavy-duty painkillers for the duration.

I even actually started writing the review of…

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#charity #Friends #fundraising #megaswim #MS MegaSwim

Sunday Swim - 13th October

Whew, it’s been unseasonably hot this spring, and Sunday continued the trend by being crazy hot.

I…

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#Bonnie Vale #Bundeena #Friends #Heat #motorbike ride #spring #swimming #swimming for fun

Saturday Training - 12th October

I’m not going to get tooooo ambitious and start making proclamations about summer having arrived. I will, however, go out on a limb and say that it looks as though winter is definitely over.

10 signs winter is over at Bondi:

The car park is full.

There…

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#body surfing #bondi #Garmin #ocean #photography #training