Lindar. @lindarrr - Tumblr Blog

Zaha Hadid was a woman who had dared to enter a man’s world, and took no shit from anybody, though plenty was offered. She had to be twice as smart and three times as tough as her male counterparts in order to get anything built.

John Seabrook, “Postscript: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016″ (via newyorker)

wanderlog

Glacier View

wilwheaton

I would say that arguing that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying that you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. Rights exist and have value for more than just the individual in the current moment. Rights are both individual and collective. And when you think about the value of a free press, we’re not all journalists, but we still derive value from them. Moreover, rights are not really intended, rights are not really designed for use by the elites, for people who are leading our debates, because these are the people who are least threatened with the abrogation of their rights. The system exists to serve and protect these people. Rights are almost always needed on a regular, continual basis by those who are vulnerable, by those who are not protected by the system, by those who are not protected by their communities, by the people who are different, by the people who are ahead of everyone else because of a new idea, or people who are simply minorities, who don’t have access to the same resources, don’t have access to the same ability to compete.

Edward Snowden

and just in case you’re keeping score:

Snowden thinks Bernie is more credible than Hillary on foreign policy

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deeplifequotes

Find someone who wants to invest in you, learn from you, see you win, support your visions and fall in love with you daily.

and then in return do the same for them. (via thatkindofwoman)

kateoplis

It doesn’t take much.

speciesbarocus

Jorge Méndez Blake - The Impact of a Book.

chasinghighlines

kateoplis

One of the things that I have always believed is that, in terms of education, we have to break our dependency on the property tax, because what happens is the wealthiest suburbs can in fact have great schools but poor, inner-city schools cannot. So I think we need equality in terms of how we fund education, and to make sure the federal government plays an active role to make sure that those schools that need it the most get the funds that they deserve.

Bernie Sanders (via kateoplis)

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A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Universe | Pablo Carlos Budassi

panatmansam

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Hermann Hesse

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a-joyfuljourney

gymaholic4

MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian, came second in his class of 1,002 students; his ACT score was 36, the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration;...