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Part me says that space exploration is the irresponsible escapism of people who aren’t even paying attention to their own planet’s issues. And part of me says it is inspiring and meaningful.

#NASA #space shuttle #don't get me started on moon mining

The background noise to my whole life is a handful of powerful memories, so potent that they underpin everything that I presently do and think and feel.

#RL

acebarduil

random Bard and Thranduil gifs [1/?]

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Or perhaps an eighties metal band

#fabuloushair

fuckgrandma

if you didnt have an avril lavigne phase youre a liar

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Truer words

#damncoldnight

I love music that builds up layers like this.

#dotan #home #okay okay i heard it on the 100

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Iceland is the strangest place.

#iceland #design

myrosecolouredgirl

number one pet peeve of all academia related to literature:

when men are characters but women are symbols

bakasara

Wait a minute

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:(

#literature #genderstudies

tastefullyoffensive

by Andy Marlette

#prosper

lesfressange89

#gilt #photography #architecture

Fiat, the saucy Italian soccer player to Chevy’s sturdy, possibly concussed American quarterback...

Sophie Gilbert

via The Atlantic

#Fiat #Chevy #car commericials #Super Bowl 49

The theatre of terror

"Once in a while the political storm created by counterterrorist campaigns does benefit the terrorists, which is why the gamble makes sense. A terrorist is akin to a gambler holding a particularly bad hand, who tries to convince his rivals to reshuffle the cards. He cannot lose anything, but he may win everything…

...Why are they so sensitive to terrorist provocations? Because the legitimacy of the modern state is based on its promise to keep the public sphere free of political violence. A regime can withstand terrible catastrophes, and even ignore them, provided its legitimacy is not based on preventing them…

...Today, a government may turn a blind eye to high levels of domestic and sexual violence, because they do not undermine its legitimacy. In France, for example, more than 1,000 rape cases are reported to the authorities each year, with thousands more unreported cases. Rapists and abusive husbands, however, are not perceived as an existential threat to the state, because, historically, the state did not build itself on the promise to eliminate sexual violence. In contrast, the much rarer cases of terrorism are viewed as a deadly threat, because over the last few centuries modern western states have gradually built their legitimacy on the explicit promise to maintain zero political violence within their borders."

— Yuval Noah Harari: "the theatre of terror"

via The Guardian

#The Guardian #terrorism #sociology #Yaval Noah Harari

Writer and Moth Storyteller Etgar Keret reads his short story "Pipes". This extra goes with The Moth Radio Hour episode "Family, Friendship, and Mother Nature." To hear the full episode, go to PRX:

"Maybe there would be kids there,without ears, sitting on mounds of marbles. Could be."

#The Moth #Etar Keret #short story