Talking Knots

"We are pessimists…but we are ardent optimists"--Lenin

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Mokato Aida, “Blender”, 2001, Acrylic on canvas

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#Ferguson #MikeBrown

Mike Brown’s Mom Is Taking Her Son’s Case to the UN in Geneva

Lesley McSpadden, the mother of the 18-year-old boy whose death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer in August sparked weeks of protests, is going to Geneva, Switzerland next month to speak about her son and other victims of police brutality in front of the United Nations.

The trip — which was recently made public by organizers and promoted under the tagline “Ferguson to Geneva” — is meant to make a case, to as wide an audience as possible, that both Brown’s killing and the militarized police response to protesters demanding justice for him, are a matter of human rights.

(Read more here)

(11/01)

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On the Shelves in Oxford this week we have two Oxford World’s Classics, both written by Anthony Trollope. Framley Parsonage is a compelling novel about temptation, ambition, and pride in which money and love play an equal part. Doctor Thorne is a novel in which economic pressures clash with human relationships, namely the central love story of Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne.

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lol this makes me think of reading the warden

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im looking at the tags about the election and lol people are acting like a slight majority in the senate changes absoltuely everything like no it doesnt it changes some stuff but ppl seem to think that a simple majority in both houses is enough to get obama impeached and make it so that sarah palin is the new president for life

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like every midterm election ever, this one was the most important election in all of us history

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I wanna see pictures of your lowest moment from 2013 go

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I was in a Toy Story play.

And I loved it.

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You’re an inspiration to us all

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please explain how this was your lowest point

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Ethiopian Mountain Adder - Bitis parviocula by HGHjim on Flickr.

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Look at the Pudgy DangerNoodle!

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IT’S SO FAT

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FANTASTIC BABY

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Tom Steyer: Hello, I'm a billionaire who accreted their stupendous wealth through fossil fuel investments, and now I'm going to buy several elections around the US for the Democrats in order to go to heaven as a climate-change champion.

Tom Steyer: I'm better than the Koch brothers.

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me today

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My buddy James found more unnecessarily gendered food products

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me: *looks at my bank account* me: ‘there are no facts, only interpretations’ - nietzsche

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i can't lie, last post was mostly for the jeff goldblum cameo

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