JSYK: Just So You Know

My name is Julian Marasco. I'm a small town university kid from Ontario, Canada. I'm an avid social networker and a huge internet junkie, and I try to stay tuned in to everything from pop-culture to politics. Thanks for visiting my page. Come back if you like what you see.

[julianmarasco]

Sunset at the locks yesterday :) #pretty #sunset #summer #ontario #canada #beautiful

[kisu-no-hi]

[glitterweave]

what th efuck 

[coolurl-deactivated20250710]

watch this please you will not regret it

[sad-face]

It’s to late for this kind of bullshit.

[nebulawebula-blog]

I feel violated 

[king-bandit]

I thoroughly enjoy this.

[thegiggles]

i feel the above comments could not fully prepare me for the contents of this video

[ilyagerner]

The best book ever written about totalitarianism isn’t actually 1984. It’s A Tale of Two Cities. And in that book, the most commonly repeated image, the central symbol, is of a giant eye. What Charles Dickens understood, and what the book argues, is that there is no such thing as freedom without privacy, that being truly free means being free to do things that you don’t want other people to know about. And what I insist is that all the people who are busily denying that these revelations really mean anything recognize: if we give up these rights, we are choosing to do it. Every aspect of this is a product of human choice. We might be trapped in systems. But those systems are made up of human beings, and they are choosing to erode our basic freedom. Nothing can be chalked up to slogans or “the arc of history” or technology or Just the Way Things Are Going to Be. If our rights are getting eroded, it’s because we’re choosing to let them. Tell that to the defeatists and the apathetic alike.

Freddie DeBoer (via ilyagerner)

[ccindecision-blog]

When we have a queen who is a lesbian and she marries another lady and then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?

Former Conservative Party chairman/disgruntled old person Norman Tebbit, speaking in opposition to the British marriage equality bill.

Artificially inseminated lesbian queen. Band name. Called it.

(via ccindecision)

Best response to this quote:

An artificially inseminated lesbian Queen would make a mockery of our current system of handing power down based on magic blood.

— Nick Doody (@NickDoody) May 21, 2013

(via ilyagerner)

[ilyagerner]

I decided to break the law to provide a necessary medical service because women were dying at the hands of butchers and incompetent quacks, and there was no one there to help them. The law was barbarous, cruel and unjust. I had been in a concentration camp, and I knew what suffering was. If I can ease suffering, I feel perfectly justified in doing so.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian doctor who was arrested four times for performing abortions, but whose arrests eventually led to the 1988 Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the country. He died this week at the age of 90. Good obit in the NY Times.

[julianmarasco]

(via ilyagerner)

[kriskardashian]

[foreverbritney]

[whatshouldwecallme]

When I hear someone mention my favorite TV show

[julianmarasco]

Hahah

[julianmarasco]

#throwbackthursday #tbt #family #brothers

[julianmarasco]

My babies #ihaveaproblem #addiction #cardigans #fashion #wardrobe #clothes #help

[julianmarasco]

Charlie's gonna help me with my homework.. Got his reading glasses on and everything #puppy #cute #dog #funny

[julianmarasco]

I had to.. :) gotta rep my girl

[whatshouldwecallme]

When my boyfriend gets mad at another guy for flirting with me

On the outside: 

On the inside:

[julianmarasco]

Procrastination

Every semester in school seems the same to me. I start out enthused, motivated, and excited about the courses I'm taking. For about the first month, I wake up early, go to class, do my homework & my readings. But then eventually I lose my focus, underestimate how much work needs to be done, and start putting it off. I spend a lot more time going out with my friends and give in to other distractions. I start sleeping in, missing classes, and just not feeling motivated or interested in my studies. Then, towards the end of the semester, I try to make a comeback and put in enough effort to make up for the whole thing, but its usually too late and I can never get everything done in time. The result is that I end up repeatedly unhappy with my performance and I never feel like I've done myself justice or that my grades represent my potential.

I'm writing this post because I have already started procrastinating again this semester, and the past 2 weeks have been less than productive. I want this year to be different though... Its not yet too late in the semester for me to rearrange my priorities and get motivated again. Spring break is next week and since I'm not going anywhere or really doing much of anything (sigh...), it would be a great time to get caught up on some of the readings I've missed and get my assignments done. 

- Julian

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[julianmarasco]

HAHAHAHAHA some of the google suggestions are random as fuck

[audrenamarie]

[julianmarasco]

the cuteness is killing me

[unusualcaramel]

[julianmarasco]

this made me giggle in class