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captain-ray-assbutt: biohazardgirl: dave-wants-the-dirk: I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:05:07 -0400

biohazardgirl:

dave-wants-the-dirk:

I READ THIS BOOK ITS SERIOUSLY THE BEST SHIT EVER

LIKE FOR REAL

EVERYONE GO READ THIS RIGHT THE FUCK NOW

Her book is finally out? Hooray!

For those not in the know she has a blog and it is the bees knees: http://thebloggess.com/

it’s a pretty great book

my friend got the ebook last summer but i never finished reading it

nakedbeast: faineemae: oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings: Spotted...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:07:39 -0400

nakedbeast:

faineemae:

oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:

Spotted: An extremely oppressed brown woman skating her way to Oppressedville.

Let me tell you about this oppressed girl though, she started her own international Hijab company online called Vela Scarves.

Marwa Atik was born and raised in the California to Syrian parents. Her passion for the veil (hijab), combined with her eye for fashion and design expertise, is apparent in her exclusive creations. Vela was born in 2009, when Marwa simply began incorporating her favorite accents, such as ruffles and zippers, into otherwise bland veils and advertising via word of mouth. Marwa also extended her creativity to designing actual techniques of how to wear the veils, based on their respective designs and style.

In 2010, Marwa and her sister, Tasneem Atik Sabri, partnered to officially launch their company and website to bring beautiful, elegant, and affordable veils to women globally.

Badass.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 20:30:49 -0400

stellar-indulgence: The combination of Titan’s low gravity and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:25:17 -0400

stellar-indulgence:

The combination of Titan’s low gravity and thick atmosphere would allow a human to fly by strapping “fake wings” to their arms.

The second-largest moon in the solar system, Saturn’s Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, which is much deeper than Earth’s. It’s so thick and the gravity so weak, in fact, that you could strap wings on your arms and flap them like a bird to fly. The air is mostly nitrogen, but the rest is mostly hydrocarbons, giving Titan’s atmosphere a thick orange smoggy haze that is opaque to visible light. Cassini studies Titan in infrared light (which can penetrate the haze) and with radar — and in 2004, via the Huygens Probe, an atmosphere probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from the surface of a moon other than our own. Titan is remarkably earthlike, apart from being so cold that water is as hard as rock; in addition to the atmosphere, it is the only place other than Earth known to have bodies of liquid on the surface — lakes as large as the Great Lakes, except that it’s not water: it’s probably methane or ethane. The climate is probably similar to some of our deserts, with gigantic monsoons perhaps once a decade or more, and long droughts between. NASA scientists are working on a mission called Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) specifically to study the lakes of Titan.

Read the full text here: http://mentalfloss.com/ It’s Raining on Titan! Illustration Credit & Copyright: David A. Hardy (AstroArt)

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:24:07 -0400

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:34:38 -0400

stay-human: UTH OYE is a Pakistani brand which designs t-shirts...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:24:49 -0400

stay-human:

UTH OYE is a Pakistani brand which designs t-shirts with witty but relevant social and political messages. You can order their stuff here.

“Uth Oye!’s t-shirts are socially relevant and the business does social work, so this is really fashion for bringing about a meaningful social change,” he added, referring to the project’s involvement in several charities.

Designer Nilofar Shahid also appreciated the brand’s effort to revolutionize fashion trends by incorporating indigenous idiom and design.

“I tell fashion students that they should be proud of their identity and they should make sure that they represent Pakistan,” said Shahid. The designer added that Uth Oye! is a trendsetter because it incorporates local design and craft.

Tribune

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:23:51 -0400

tyflowsion: ATTENTION: i refreshed my dashboard and saw...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:11:06 -0400

tyflowsion:

ATTENTION: i refreshed my dashboard and saw this. yahoo.com is already making changes. i cant believe this. how could daddy do this to us :/

mpdrolet: Julia Fullerton-Batten

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:26:50 -0400

mpdrolet:

Julia Fullerton-Batten

kyogra: elvishprincess: HAAAAAAAA but

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:47:02 -0400

kyogra:

elvishprincess:

HAAAAAAAA

but

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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:41:28 -0400

High schooler arrested, expelled for same-sex relationship

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:40:34 -0400

High schooler arrested, expelled for same-sex relationship:

gaywrites:

A teenager in Florida has been expelled from school and charged with two felonies simply because her girlfriend’s parents disapprove of their relationship. She now faces two years of house arrest and a year of probation.

Kaitlyn Hunt was a popular student at Sebastian River High School, participating in everything from cheerleading to basketball. Hunt began dating another female student and the latter girl’s parents became enraged, according to Hunt’s parents. Kaitlyn was 17 at the time the relationship began, while her girlfriend was 15. Upon Kaitlyn’s 18th birthday, her girlfriend’s parents sent the police to the Hunt home and the teenager was arrested.

Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. Then, weeks before her graduation, Hunt was expelled from school.

“[The girlfriend’s parents] are out to destroy my daughter,” Hunt’s mother told the Examiner, “because they feel like she ‘made’ their daughter gay. They see being gay as wrong and they blame my daughter. Of course, I see it 100% differently. I don’t see or label these girls as gay. They are teenagers in high school experimenting with their sexuality — with mutual consent. And even if their daughter is gay, who cares? She is still their daughter.”

Infuriating. So many things wrong with this.

First, this is a case of homophobic parents blackmailing a girl they don’t like in a slimy, roundabout way that serves to mask their bigotry. I can’t believe what a cheap shot they took. Absolutely disgusting.

Second, “I don’t see these girls as gay”? Cool, thanks, Mom. Thank goodness she’s not disowning her daughter, but I don’t totally see this as being supportive either.

Third, there’s a petition circulating to drop or lessen the charges against Kaitlyn. Go sign it. And try not to lose faith in humanity, even though people like this exist.

sayhi-charlene: lmaooo

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:34:48 -0400

sayhi-charlene:

lmaooo

nickholmes: This may be the filthiest thing I have ever seen.

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:20:35 -0400

nickholmes:

This may be the filthiest thing I have ever seen.

the-adequate-gatsby: the-adequate-gatsby: the-adequate-gatsby: My sister keeps asking me if I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:48:35 -0400

the-adequate-gatsby:

the-adequate-gatsby:

the-adequate-gatsby:

My sister keeps asking me if I want to go see The Great Cosby with her and I don’t have it in my heart to correct her.

christinetheastrophysicist: NASA Probe Counts Space Rock...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:05:08 -0400

christinetheastrophysicist:

NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars

Scientists using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across.

Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade, using images from the spacecraft to determine when the craters appeared. The 200-per-year planetwide estimate is a calculation based on the number found in a systematic survey of a portion of the planet.

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