let's all become Dinosaurs

just because.

[deanlaurentis]

“i wasn’t hiding in my room, i was investing in myself.”

- krystal from the bachelor, aka my new motto

[theartofanimation]

Robson Borges  -  https://robsonborges.threadless.com  -  https://society6.com/robsonborges  -  https://twitter.com/robsonborgesx  -  https://www.behance.net/robsonborges  -  https://www.redbubble.com/es/shop/robson+borges  -  https://www.instagram.com/robsonborgesx  -  https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/robson_borges

[mcpunchkittens]

The arc of history bends towards justice…but it won’t bend on its own.

Jason Hickel

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

well, well, well, if it isn’t the feelings i’ve been trying to avoid 

[anarcho-smarmyism]

Why has woman’s work never been of any account? Why in every family are the mother and three or four servants obliged to spend so much time at what pertains to cooking? Because those who want to emancipate mankind have not included woman in their dream of emancipation, and consider it beneath their superior masculine dignity to think “of those kitchen arrangements,” which they have rayed on the shoulders of that drudge-woman. To emancipate woman is not only to open the gates of the university, the law courts, or the parliaments, for her, for the “emancipated” woman will always throw domestic toil on to another woman. To emancipate woman is to free her from the brutalizing toil of kitchen and washhouse; it is to organize your household in such a way as to enable her to rear her children, if she be so minded, while still retaining sufficient leisure to take her share of social life. It will come to pass. As we have said, things are already improving. Only let us fully understand that a revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words Liberty, Equality, Solidarity would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half.

The Conquest of Bread, Pëtr Kropotkin (via smarmyanarchist)

I always think of this passage whenever people are making the ‘he was a product of his time’ excuse for “revolutionary” men who ignored patriarchy, this was written in the 1880s

(via voelliglosgeloest)

[mcpunchkittens]

The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justifies "severe" measures - as well as strongly reinforcing the wiseapreas notion that the disease is necessarily fatal. The concept of disease is never innocent. But it could be argued that the cancer metaphors are in themselves implicitly genocidal.

Susan Sontag [Illness as a Metaphor, 1977]

[mcpunchkittens]

Shall I be fatalistic, And find that everything, Has a definite purpose? And drawing on that, Argument, See that everything, That does not, Should not exist? Or can I argue, That things evolve, Evolve for reasons, Rooted, In History. And are archaic, Not due to to logic, For logic will fault anything, And prove anything; Depending on prevalent culture, But due to time. The conclusion, May be the same, But the argument, Is slightly different. And there, Lies my pessimism, Against the optimism, Of this wonderful book

Noam Chomsky [Democracy and Power]

[niramish]

Sabse Khatarnak hota hai...- by Pash

(My favourite part of the poem)

“सबसे खतरनाक होता है मुर्दा शान्ति से भर जाना, न होना तडप का सब कुछ सहन कर जाना, घर से निकलना काम पर और काम से लौट कर घर आना, सबसे खतरनाक होता है, हमारे सपनों का मर जाना । सबसे खतरनाक होती है, कलाई पर चलती घडी, जो वर्षों से स्थिर है। सबसे खतरनाक होती है वो आंखें जो सब कुछ देख कर भी पथराई सी है, वो आंखें जो संसार को प्यार से निहारना भूल गयी है, वो आंखें जो भौतिक संसार के कोहरे के धुंध में खो गयी हो, जो भूल गयी हो दिखने वाली वस्तुओं के सामान्य अर्थ और खो गयी हो व्यर्थ के खेल के वापसी में ।” “Most dangerous is To be dead inside and think you are at peace Not to feel the agony of others and bear it all without care When life becomes leaving home for work And from work returning home Most dangerous is the death of our dreams Most dangerous is that watch Which runs on your wrist But stands still for your eyes so you may believe you have time Most dangerous is that eye Which sees all but remains frost like and frozen The eye that forgets to kiss the world with love The eye lost in the blinding mist of the material world That loses the simple meaning of visible things”

[gemini]

My phone: *incoming call* Me: 🔫👀

[mcpunchkittens]

Yes.

[mcpunchkittens]

Kashmir Ki Kahani: Part 1

The dummies guide to a conflict as old as India - “the Kashmir Issue”

Part 2- http://www.newslaundry.com/2012/09/04/kashmir-ki-kahani-part-2/

Part 3- http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/04/08/kashmir-ki-kahani-part-3/

Part 4- http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/05/29/kashmir-ki-kahani-part-4/

Kashmir, for the uninitiated. I’d recommend settling in with some ice-cream and reading it all in one go (it’s okay if you don’t. the site navigation is pretty annoying)

[mcpunchkittens]

Does this imply that U.S. CEOs are more than 300 times smarter than the average employee? An EPI report concluded that CEO compensation growth does not, in fact, reflect the market for talent, but rather the presence of economic rents. In other words, the pay doesn’t reflect the productivity of the CEO, nor the demand for skills in a particular sector, but rather “the power of CEOs to extract concessions.” The report’s authors suggest that, if CEOs earned less or were taxed more, there would be no adverse impact on either output or employment.

What's (Still) Wrong with Executive Compensation in America | JSTOR Daily

[mcpunchkittens]

What one should mourn is the perversion of the souls of the "witnesses" of lynching. The cousins, family friends, and fellow Indians who treat these killings as retribution – payback time for communities who, according to them, had enjoyed free rein under earlier political regimes. People who capitalise on these killings to strengthen and bind the majoritarian community across class, generational and regional divisions. Those who righteously ask why a death of a Hindu did not create such a furore. Those who decry the selective outrage of litterateurs and public intellectuals. Above all, the Indians who abet and sanctify these lynching with their silence.

The majoritarian victims: The history of lynching black Americans as a parable of our times

[mcpunchkittens]

So they will continue to throw stones, and get fired upon, and die. There won’t be a singer in India who will ask, “How many deaths will it take to know that too many people have died?” – and for something to be done to alleviate their plight. There will not be such a song because all of us can hear the wind howl the answer – Kashmir’s future will be like its past. There cannot be a tragedy greater than that.

The real tragedy: There will never be a solution to the Kashmir problem

Who sings the nation-state? Everyone. 

[zenpencils]

Celebrating International Women’s Day:

PHENOMENAL WOMAN by Maya Angelou

[yvaeltel]

me: i want to die

me: oh no what if my friends get worried

me: i want to die™

me: that’s better ,, now it’s ‘ironic’

[footieridiculosity]

[quotedojo-deactivated20161103]

“Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.”

-Anita Brookner (via quotedojo)