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Batteries

Rain pounded against my window. I blinked my eyes open. What time was it? I sat up and yawned, glancing at my watch. It was 2:15 am. My back cracked. Ouch. I grimaced- that was what I got for falling asleep while doing math homework.

I looked down at my paper. Drool was smeared across the graph paper. Oops. I shook my head and frowned. Searching, I rubbed my eyes. Where was my calculator? I…

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Revolution

[a tape recorder; crinkling and crackling static; then a voice]

. . . .

not capitalizing words is more than breaking grammar rules…it is anarchy.

anarchy…a dangerous thing when you do not know what it is.

i do not know how it happened but it did. the unthinkable.

anarchy happened.

and all it took was a little push.

a little creativity.

this is the story. may it revolutionize you.

. . . .

[a…

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thehonestauthor

Writers getting a new idea for a story like...

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I can’t express enough my love for this.

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OMG i couldn’t figure out why Eugene was hiding and then it hit me.

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Playground (2009)

Directed by Libby Spears, this documentary film exposes the failures of the United States legal system and the foster care systems implemented to protect children from the growing child sex trade in their own backyards. Spears scrutinizes these elements as well as family life and mainstream media that normalize violent sexual behaviors against children. Playground gives an up-close look into the raw reality of the sexual exploration of children in the Unites States for an unwary audience.

Illustrations by Yoshitomo Nara in collaboration with animator Heather Bursch

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this was such a sad thing to watch.

thatdiabolicalfeminist

10 July 2018

Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.

Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.

Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.

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Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.

knitmeapony

This is tomorrow!

Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.

Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow

Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.

For one day, please, avoid it.

honestlyvan

As a worker-for-rent who’s worked during strikes or demonstrations – PLEASE, if there’s a strike DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THAT COMPANY ON THAT DAY IF THERE’S ANY WAY TO AVOID IT. Not only do folks like me get an easy day, it’s also a powerful act of class solidarity.

Also, if you’re a social media type of person, please tweet and comment at the company that you’re choosing not to use their services, in solidarity of the strike. Make sure they know.

beedablogs

“Amazon owns over 40 subsidiaries, including Zappos, Shopbop, Diapers.com, Kiva Systems (now Amazon Robotics), Audible, Goodreads, Teachstreet and IMDb.”

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have i told you guys about the time that i classically conditioned my kindergarten class

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I got like 4 anons asking about this so I guess I didn’t:

omg. okay, so basically, I was a “gifted kid” which was code for fucken nerd ass bitch, so i would constantly just stare off into space during class while everyone else was tryna figure out what the fuck our teacher was tryna say. Anyway, I was learning about chemistry and biology outside of school(i know what a fucking nerd amirite ladies), and my dad got me a book that talked about all these famous psychological experiments.

So chapter one was, would you have guessed it, Pavlov’s dog. I thought it my be fun to try something to that extent with my classmates. Now, keep in mind, being a nerdy ass brown kid in a school full of white ppl meant that I wasn’t exactly popular, and no one really talked to me in class or cared what I was doing.

Everyday, at 9:45 am, our teacher would announce that it was snacktime, and everyone would fucking sprint to their cubbies to grab their lunchboxes like it was the goddamn hunger games. Kindergarten kids didn’t really have a concept of time, so i used this to my advantage. At 9:45 as my teacher would walk up to announce snacktime, I would knock on my desk really quickly three times. It was rly subtle, and I wasn’t sure that it would work.

So after two or three weeks, I decided to have some fun. Thirty minutes after school began at like 8:30 or something, I tapped knocked on the desk. Half the class turned their heads and looked straight at the cubbies. 3 boys got up and were about to run to get their lunchbox. One girls stomach started growling REALLY loudly. The teacher had to take 5 minutes to get everyone to calm down and one kid started crying because he thought it was snacktime and he was so shocked and destroyed.

Realizing that I had basically dog trained the whole class, I burst out laughing so hard I fell out of my chair and cut my head on the tile floor and got sent home early because I was laughing so hard they thought I had a concussion or something. When I explained what happened to my dad he left the room, but I could hear him losing it in the hallway.

So everytime now that I learn about classical conditioning in my Neuroscience classes, I have to fight to keep a straight face

booklovertwilight

This was wild from start to finish

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damarshen

I hate this

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Trans people who DIY hormones: You don’t have to rely on sketchy information on Tumblr or Reddit regarding your trans health care. Granted, there can be some tidbits that might be useful for the DIY’er that you simply can’t get from medical resources but you absolutely should read and have access to peer-reviewed, medical literature on transgender health care.

This is a guide detailing the use of feminizing hormones, written by the University of California San Fransisco’s gender clinic.

This is the same guide for people who are seeking masculinizing hormones.