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My favorite thing about the new year is that everyone has entered 2019 ready to start swinging at the first thing that moves. We’re all out here, not taking any shit, ready to fight, beautiful

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Wendy Carlos

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For people who might not know - Wendy Carlos is a trans woman who was deeply influential in early electronic music and hugely involved with the push to have synthesizers seen as real instruments.

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Some of the movies Wendy Carlos did the soundtracks for, that you may know:

A Clockwork Orange

The Shining

Tron

She has three Grammys, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

Oh and she also takes photos of eclipses that are so good Nasa uses them.

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Her discography is here!

And here is a more recent photo of her with her cat, Pandora:

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The Kansas City Gazette, Kansas, September 12, 1907

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This newspaper headline has traveled 110 years into the future just to call us all out for having this many open AO3 tabs.

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on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism

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Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.

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1. we are right to criticize the many problems in higher education

2. fascists manipulate people into hating anyone involved in higher education for supposedly looking down on them and being worthless to the “real world.” as a result, funding for education is cut, especially for the arts, no one listens to historians who point out that history is repeating itself or speak out against the regime, freedom of speech is lost in favor of the party line, and/or climate change kills us all since no one listens to scientists.

3. therefore, when we criticize higher education, we should be careful not to contribute to fascist tropes that claim that having knowledge is bad/smug/out of touch/useless to society.

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i hate it when men make fun of women for being vain. like you’ve structured society in such a way that we spend our entire lives chasing after the fleeting moments where we really and truly feel good about our appearances and then have the audacity to mock us for trying to “look pretty” like you’re constantly telling us to? shut the fuck up.

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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 reclaiming our time

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I just noticed that’s a hand with a glove around her neck not a scarf

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katniss in book 3: my childrens playground is built on dead bodies and bones, i never wanted children but peeta convinced me, i will never heal from what happened to me. the end

me reading that shit at 15:

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#Flintstones #meme

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#Flintstones #meme

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Ya Ba do!

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Not what he says

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Ya Ba do!

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why

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LET HER SPEAK

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i knew working 500 jobs and getting 3,000 masters degrees wasnt the healthiest way to live

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Hey calm down. It’s incredible. Barbie talks about feeling pressure to be happy all the time but she isn’t and she gives the little kids watching this reassurance that their feelings are valid. It’s really really cool.

She also addresses other important things in her vlogs like the reflex lots of girls have to apologize for things even when they aren’t your fault and her sister Stacie’s trouble with shyness and a bully and how maybe sometimes it’s best to just walk away from bullies and standing up for your dreams and the dream gap and the harm that “it was just a joke” does.

She also does silly things and food challenges and stuff but she also talks about more serious topics and it’s wonderful.

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We do not disrespect Barbie in this house.

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Imagine how many less abusive mothers there’d be if society didn’t make sure that, unless she’s rich, her life is over once she has children, or if so many women weren’t pressured or even forced to have children they never wanted, so then less mothers would resent their children.

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Also if men as a whole actually contributed to parenting so that not all the parenting falls on the hands of one single person, meaning that a child is playing a spinning wheel twice as big on whether they get to have a decent or abusive parent.

And so that, again, less mothers resented their children.

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I actually genuinely love dealing with angry and aggressive customers because it’s SO funny. They always come in with a specific level of energy and they expect whoever they deal with to be scared of them and then when I’m clearly not physically or emotionally intimidated they get SO flustered and start doing the weirdest shit to regain power in the situation. Like there’s absolutely nothing you could do to me in this coffee shop that would ever even make my Top 10 Scariest Interactions With People but by all means, keep faking that phone call to your boss who apparently knows the Starbucks mermaid personally.

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I also love doing it because I know all my coworkers can get really upset when people treat them like that, which is totally understandable. So instead because they know I don’t mind they’ll just call me in and then gather round to watch like it’s a boxing match