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J. 20. I'm not posting on this blog anymore, but feel free to send me a message or something.

[-frabjousday]

HEY ELEMENTARY FANS

Did you like the music on the pilot screener? One of the main repeated tracks is Optimist by Zoe Keating. She’s a supercool independent musician who layers her cello by using a loop pedal and a computer. I’ve seen her do it live and it’s pretty amazeballs.

You know what’s less cool? The fact that CBS used her music in the screener without a license. Which means she didn’t get paid for it being in the screener. (And in fact didn’t know it had been used at all until it got tweeted at her.)

Keep in mind Zoe releases all her music independently, ie. isn’t signed onto any label. This is super sad because if she were signed onto a major label I feel like they’d be all over that. 

You should tweet/email CBS about keeping Zoe’s music for the Elementary premier if you liked it! At the very least I thought I should drum up some publicity on her behalf for having her music in the screener, and get her some more fans because she wasn’t paid anything for the music she provided.

[ellielivesinluxury-deactivated2]

Racism is not in your intent. Your intent is immaterial in how racist your actions are. This isn’t about you BEING a racist. It’s about you DOING A THING that is racist. Your intent doesn’t change it. Your ignorance of its meaning doesn’t change it. It’s got nothing to do with you as a person and everything to do with the meaning of your action in the context of sociocultural history.

- moniquill (on red face & cultural appropriation)

I’m just going to reblog this again, since some people apparently need reminding. 

(via darkjez)

[frankoceano]

No one just gets as good as you do. *Especially* you. Start talking! Are you training with someone?

[mehreenkasana]

This guy literally arms himself to the teeth by mail order without anyone pointing a finger and saying, ‘What’s going on?’ If my name is Ibrahim or Mohammed and I order a gun or that much ammunition on the Internet, I think within a few hours of the delivery, the FBI and CIA is at my house.

Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni - Colorado Muslims wonder if theater shooter might have been noticed [had he been Muslim].

Exactly.

James Eagan Holmes had regular deliveries of ammunition for a military-style AR-15 rifle, two handguns and a shotgun he purchased over the course of 60 days. There were about 6,000 rounds in all, another 300 shotgun shells and a high-capacity drum for the rifle. In all, it amounted to more than 200 pounds of ordnance.

(via mehreenkasana)

[livef4stdiey0ung]

[petty-thief]

“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity—and the infinite variations between—without criticism or ridicule.”

Leslie Feinberg (via ellielamothe)

[caterinasforzas-deactivated2014]

Part 1

THE TRIO

harry potter

hermione granger

ron weasley

(click the read more for the rest)

THE STUDENTS

neville longbottom

ginny weasley

luna lovegood

cedric diggory

fleur delacour

viktor krum

lavender brown

colin creevey

THE VILLAINS/SUSPECTED BADDIES/MORALLY GREYER CHARACTERS

lord voldemort

severus snape

bellatrix lestrange

draco malfoy

lucius malfoy

narcissa malfoy

peter pettigrew

dolores umbridge

pansy parkinson

quirinus quirrell

igor karkaroff

rita skeeter

THE FAMILIES

sirius black

james potter

lily evans

dudley dursley

arthur weasley

molly weasley

fred and george weasley

THE PROFESSORS

albus dumbledore

minerva mcgonagall

rubeus hagrid

remus lupin

sybill trelawney

mad-eye moody

gilderoy lockhart

horace slughorn

MISC.

nymphadora tonks

garrick ollivander

moaning myrtle

peeves

cornelius fudge

rufus scrimgeour

[msnyx]

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Margaret Atwood (via msnyx)

[noneofthismatters-deactivated20]

“I spent 33 years & four months in active military service & during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street & the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico… safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti & Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys… I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House…. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests… I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies… In China… I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

-Smedley Butler

[pigeonskiss]

[darkgirlswirl-deactivated201611]

[garconniere]

ricardo darin in xxy (2007) directed by lucia puenzo

this is from one of my favourite films, xxy (2007) directed by lucia puenzo and it is a SHAME these screencaps are going around without credit.

[queerencia-deactivated20130103]

Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth. The world already produces more than 1 ½ times enough food to feed everyone on the planet. That’s enough to feed 10 billion people, the population peak we expect by 2050. But the people making less than $2 a day — most of whom are resource-poor farmers cultivating unviably small plots of land — can’t afford to buy this food. In reality, the bulk of industrially-produced grain crops goes to biofuels and confined animal feedlots rather than food for the 1 billion hungry. The call to double food production by 2050 only applies if we continue to prioritize the growing population of livestock and automobiles over hungry people.

Eric Holt Gimenez, We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People — and Still Can’t End Hunger  (via theyoungradical)

[slut-shaming]

You want to show solidarity with women? Acknowledge their right to be sexual beings without being sexual objects. That’s a start.

Unknown. (via blackerotica)

Something radfems would do well to remember as well.

(via inflateablefilth)

[syntaxsynapse-deactivated201302]

The notion that a vast gulf exists between “criminals” and those of us who have never served time in prison is a fiction created by the racial ideology that birthed mass incarceration, namely that there is something fundamentally wrong and morally inferior about “them.” The reality, though, is that all of us have done wrong. [Studies] suggest that most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime. Indeed, most of us break the law not once but repeatedly throughout our lives. Yet only some of us will be arrested, charged, convicted of a crime, branded a criminal or felon, and ushered into a permanent undercaste. Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed. Who is more blameworthy: the young black kid who hustles on the street corner, selling weed to help his momma pay the rent? Or the college kid who deals drugs out of his dorm room to finance his spring break? Who should we fear? The kid in the ‘hood who joined a gang and now carries a gun for security, because his neighborhood is frightening and unsafe? Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? Our racially biased system of mass incarceration exploits the fact that all people break the law and make mistakes at various points in their lives and with varying degrees of justification. Screwing up—failing to live by one’s highest ideals and values—is part of what makes us human.

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (via sosaidthechildren)

[strippr]

A Message to Tumblr Posters:

If you do not have the permission of a sex worker (stripper, prostitute, cam girl, escort, porn performer, and others working in the sex industry) — DO NOT POST THE PHOTO.

You could be endangering the person’s safety. Sex workers often have problems with stalkers, and putting an image of them on the internet that may show details about which club they’re working in, where they are in their off hours, or other private details can cause him/her serious issues.

You might be “outing” the sex worker to friends, family, colleagues (some have multiple jobs), and future employers. 

We don’t take or post pictures of you getting a lapdance or enjoying yourself in a hotel on your wife’s Facebook. Please don’t put our images online.

It is against the rules of most clubs to photograph the dancers, and you can be thrown out (sometimes with much force, or after breaking your phone!) for doing so in many places. It’s also illegal, in many states, to record an encounter without all parties knowing. Bottom line: this isn’t in your best interest, either.

If you’d like to take a photo of the person, ask if you can and if you can post that photo to an online blog, just like you’d do in any other situation. It’s that simple.

Feel free to add to this as you see fit. I’ve been seeing far too many photos under the “stripper” tag that appear to be photos taken in clubs without the dancers’ consent.

[strugglingtobeheard]

relevant as another reason why i don’t need this shit.

[fyeahcarlsagan]

Egyptian Aisha Mustafa, 19, has dazzled the physics world with a new invention that could launch spacecraft off the Earth’s surface and soaring through space without any fuel. Space is filled with a billowing sea of quantum particles that jump in and out of existence, and Aisha Mustafa proposes using thin silicon panels, spaced closely together, to trap these particles and then move against them, creating a propelling force. This innovation would make space exploration lighter, safer and cheaper than the traditional “blast off” method. Mustafa still has some design work to do, but unfortunately her research is currently limited by lack of state funding for space science departments at the university level, though her school’s science club did help fund her application for a patent.

What a woman.

[oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings]

nah lies all oppression

[gop-circus-blog]

“All we have to do is replace Obama. We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”

Grover Norquist, calling for conservatives to elect a weak President they can use as a puppet, CPAC, February 2012 (via gop-circus)

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