August 2011
130 posts
“For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but...”
– Matthew 25:29 (English Revised Version)
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Babe, now you’re a stone white flag that I never even see at all Caught out in a one way drag like a ride crashed in a wall I knew you’d take it back, but it seemed a good call Abby-Lee, your turn.
She’s forty-five with those cold white eyes, she’s fifteen with that wispy hair Plays guitar like a radio star, plays your heart like debonair Trades knives with a glittering...
“The infinite possibility of existence, its limitless potential, is the proof...”
– Daniel Kitson, The World is Too Big
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For mentally ill people, there is a constant reminder that you are not good enough for relationships, you don’t deserve them, and thus you need to cling to what you’ve got. You should stay with an abusive partner because it’s better than nothing and you may not be able to find another relationship. And often, such relationships cultivate dependency, as well. People may be...
“The absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.”
– A. S. Neill
“I went downstairs all by myself and looked out through the windows of the...”
– Anne Frank
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope they use.”
– Joseph Stalin
A question for people not on the autism spectrum:
Would you feel less comfortable going into a relatively familiar social situation if you were blindfolded? Or if the background noise was so loud that you could barely discern what anyone was saying?
I have full faculty of my senses, but I’m trying to find a good analogy for why I get extremely tense about socialising on account of my greatly reduced ability to read tone and body language....
acronyms:
The Bruce Effect
First noted in 1959 by Hilda M. Bruce, the Bruce Effect is a phenomenon in which certain scents induce abortions in pregnant rodents. Such effect has been observed in deer-mice, meadow voles, and collared lemmings. If a female’s mate disappears after conception and an unfamiliar male starts loitering around, the new male’s smell will inhibit the production...
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More and more these days I’m thinking that ‘true love’ is another myth created by elite society to subdue the masses.
I believe that you can love more than one person in your life, either at the same time or in succession.
Collective nouns for selected bird species:
A peep of chickens. A brood of hens. A clattering of choughs. A covert of coots. A murder of crows. A trip of dotterel. A flight of doves. A badling of ducks. A charm of goldfinches. A gaggle of geese. A rasp of guinea fowl. A cast of hawks. A siege of herons. A clattering of jackdaws. A desert of lapwings. An exaltation of larks. A musket of lyrebirds. A tidings of magpies. A watch of...
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I love reading, but as one of the millions of people who aren’t privileged enough to be able to read ‘normally’, the elitist attitude that I often see towards books on Tumblr annoys the living crap out of me.
To say that people who don’t read are inferior to you is incredibly ableist.
To say that people who don’t read are somehow wasting their time is judgemental...
“I want to create wilderness out of empire.”
– Gary Snyder
Ignorant Douchewad of the Week: Carol McGiffin.
Here’s what the minor British TV presenter has to say about the UK riots:
From where I was standing on holiday in peaceful Croatia, the UK looked to me like a chaotic, anarchic, lawless third world country.
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Law and order has truly broken down. This is partly due to the awarding of too many rights to children, soft sentences being given because of prison overcrowding and the...
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Patterns. Patterns beyond patterns. Me, the human mind, making patterns where no patterns exist.
You, the other, the ethereal. You need no grids, no boxes, no lines. If I am geometric, then you are a dazzling shoot of plumes and radiance and colours all twisting and melding, lingering for a moment, then dissolving in the summer wind.
I still trace your flight in my bones.
“If you’re not part of the freaks, you’re part of the boredom.”
– Perry Farrell
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At best, all we know of another person is a shade, a flavour. An illusion.
“The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of...”
– Pentti Linkola
“For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is...”
– Margaret Cho
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Often the best way to get something you desire is to stop wanting it.
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I got into university!
My reaction to this was approximately: alksjdhvkabskd jksdgkaj iuoiauheig
