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librarylinknj: Via the great Gwyneth Jones (aka The Daring...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:34:47 -0400

Via the great Gwyneth Jones (aka The Daring Librarian), whose post on where this image came from you should read in full ASAP.

SO MANY FEELINGS. (I may have been singing Gaudeamus Igitur in...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:22:42 -0400

SO MANY FEELINGS.

(I may have been singing Gaudeamus Igitur in my living room this morning.)

veroushka: Macchu Picchu - Cusco, Perú Photo by Xaviera Jaras

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:31 -0400

veroushka:

Macchu Picchu - Cusco, Perú

Photo by Xaviera Jaras

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:43:48 -0400

“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.”

- When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

221cbakerstreet: ablipintime: imgoverdose: The animal...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:37:18 -0400

221cbakerstreet:

ablipintime:

imgoverdose:

The animal handlers at the oregon zoo took chendra around to meet some of the other animals one day before the zoo opened. the sea lions were her favorite!

That is the happiest fucking elephant ever shit.

SHE’S SO HAPPY

BEST EVER.

sesamestreet: Happy Children’s Book Week! And after you’re done...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:38:14 -0400

sesamestreet:

Happy Children’s Book Week! And after you’re done reading with your children, print this!

I really want this. Can I have this? #motivation

motherjones: nickbaumann: Awesome icons of the Female Saints...

Thu, 16 May 2013 10:39:42 -0400

motherjones:

nickbaumann:

Awesome icons of the Female Saints of Television, by Spencer Salberg. Prints are available here.

“Our Lady of Having it All”

I HAVE THIS! The Leslie Knope one! Thanks reaganing!

Rewatching the highlights during the ESPNU Abby Wambach thing...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:15:28 -0400

Rewatching the highlights during the ESPNU Abby Wambach thing was SO. STRESSFUL.

Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:26:01 -0400

Why isn't New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting a 'national tragedy'?:

redefiningbodyimage:

legitimatehypnotist:

supbreaux:

David Dennis: The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can’t easily relate to

“Now take a moment and imagine a Mother’s Day Parade in the suburbs of Denver, a neighborhood in Edina or a plaza in Austin where bullets rain down on civilians and even hit children. I can’t help but imagine the around-the-clock news coverage. And I can’t help but think it’s because most of America can identify with the fear of being bombarded with gunfire while just enjoying a parade in the middle of town. But America can’t identify with being at a parade in the “inner city” where “gang violence” erupts. The “oh my God, that could happen to me” factor isn’t present with a story about New Orleans or the Chicago southside.”

I didn’t even hear about it ONCE on the news, that is saying something.

think-progress: A message from the fans of Major League...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:23:54 -0400

think-progress:

A message from the fans of Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers.

sPortland pride

colchrishadfield: Boston, you’re a beautiful harbor...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:19:44 -0400

colchrishadfield:

Boston, you’re a beautiful harbor city.

fuck yeah, hard femme!: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:43:56 -0400

fuck yeah, hard femme!: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like...:

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet

I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions

White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism

More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are

Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs

Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly

White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects

Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy

Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown

Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism

NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t

White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism

Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism

Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism

Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!

Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.

Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana

Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

dylanmeconis: To say I looked up to Ramona Quimby would be, in...

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:28:08 -0400

dylanmeconis:

To say I looked up to Ramona Quimby would be, in fact, incorrect. I did not look up to Ramona. I looked directly at Ramona, square in the eyeholes, and saw myself. She was fiesty and independent, curious, tomboyish, always getting into trouble, always not understanding the elements of the adult world that were closed off to her, or the tiring etiquette of everyday life. She cried too, and felt left out, and had crushes and got grossed out and smashed an egg on her head. I didn’t want to be Ramona Quimby. I already was Ramona Quimby. And still am, I think.

Riese and Laneia have a lovely post over at Autostraddle talking about some of the girls from classic YA and children’s lit that we all looked up to, wished we could be, or felt we were.

I think this description of Ramona Quimby perfectly captures my own feelings about that character. Ramona was eager (often over-eager), curious, frustrated, anxious, caring, and overall real.

When I read Beverly Cleary’s childhood memoir, A Girl From Yamhill, a few years ago I was not surprised to learn that much of what Ramona experiences was drawn directly from Cleary’s own girlhood.

A Girl From Yamhill was the first memoir I ever read, and I loved it SO. MUCH. And reread it over and over and over again.

npr: Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:40:41 -0400

npr:

Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some mystical and convoluted ritual, Ina Garten (The Barefoot Countessa) approaches each dish with the nonchalance of someone who could be doing something else. That’s because she could be. Between 1974 and 1978, Garten worked in the Office of Management and Budget at the White House; starting in 1976, she was responsible for the budget of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for part of the Department of Energy’s. How Garten went from analyzing nuclear policy to overseeing her own cooking empire is one of the unlikelier stories of American reinvention.

— How Ina Garten went from nuclear policy analyst to beloved chef. Mark Joseph Stern - Second Acts - Slate Hive

Photo: Therealbs2002/Wikipedia

In case you need some career change inspiration.

team-joebama: theuppitynegras: norttron: fuckyeahmarxismlenini...

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:33:58 -0400

team-joebama:

theuppitynegras:

norttron:

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.

The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:

Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.

Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.

Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay. There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.

There would be no limit on class size

The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”

Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.

There’s more here.

notice most of the posters are children of color

I just want you to notice

not just teens protesting terrible school systems in philly and chicago

teens of color completely and unambiguously undermining the notion that they don’t want to be educated or that they’re just lazy

ikenbot: cultural appropriate 101

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:53:35 -0400

ikenbot:

cultural appropriate 101

extremelylimptulip: necrophilofthefuture: BIP BOP BAM LOOK AT THIS LAMB I think it might...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:42:53 -0400

extremelylimptulip:

necrophilofthefuture:

BIP BOP BAM LOOK AT THIS LAMB

I think it might actually be a kid

Eep!

we-are-star-stuff: Who says North is up? Upside Down maps (also...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:06:10 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

Who says North is up?

Upside Down maps (also known as South-Up or Reversed maps) offer a completely different perspective of the world we live in.

Technically speaking, even referring to the earth with words like “up” or “down” or comparing places with words “above” or “below” is flawed, considering that the earth is a spherical body (it’s actually slightly “fatter” at the equator) and flying through 3 dimensional space with no reference of up or down. However, the issue of “up” and “down” does become an issue when viewing the surface of the earth projected onto a flat piece of paper (a map). And the effect of the orientation of a map is more significant than you might realize.

As all maps require orientation for reference, the issue of how to layout the map orientation is as old as maps themselves. As map orientation is completely arbitrary, it is not surprising that they differed throughout time periods and regions.

The convention of North-up is usually attributed to the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). Justifications for his north-up approach vary. In the middle ages, East was often placed at top. This is the origin of the term “The Orient” to refer to East Asia. During the age of exploration, European cartographers again followed the north-up convention…perhaps because the North Star was their fixed reference point for navigation, or because they wanted (subconsciously or otherwise) to ensure Europe’s claim at the top of the world.

In modern times, reversed maps are made as a learning device or to illustrate Northern Hemisphere bias. Different from simply turning a north-up map upside down, a reversed map has the text oriented to be read with south up.

The famous “Blue Marble” photograph of the Earth taken from on board Apollo 17 was originally oriented with the south pole at the top, with the island of Madagascar visible just left of center, and the continent of Africa at its right. However, the image was turned upside-down to fit the traditional view.

While the orientation of a map might seem harmless, it can have a significant effect on one’s perception of the world, and the relative importance of the different place in it.

In speech, we often refer to places being “above” or “below” others. Think of how you would say you’re about to travel to the state or country to your north or south (to go “down” to Kentucky from Indiana, or “up” to Canada from the US). Without even mentioning geography, ask any grade school student whether Mexico is “above” or “below” the United States. We’re all familiar with the “land down under”. As we often correlate importance to relative height (think how a citizens of a country will fly their flag higher than all other flags), the north-up convention reinforces the idea that northern bodies are more important than their southern neighbors. Suddenly, traveling “down” to the South might have an inference much deeper than geographic location.

After looking at the map more closely, you may realize that the South-Up orientation may change your perception of the relative status of different places. For example, South America suddenly looks to have more prominence, and Africa and the Middle East completely dwarf Europe. Likewise, tucking Northern Europe, Canada, and Russia away at the bottom of the map, subconsciously takes away their status.

To summarize, unconditionally accepting the north-up map convention without at least appreciating the effect stands at odds with viewing all people and places within the world equally. x x

"While every disabled person will have their own take on this for themselves, i am not “differently..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:01:06 -0400

“

While every disabled person will have their own take on this for themselves, i am not “differently abled” and i kindly ask that you not insist on calling me that. It may seem like a trivial thing, but it’s not.

When you call me “differently abled” (in most cases this is regarding your perceptions and interpretations of my body), you are obscuring (however intentional or not) the reality that what is actually going on is in part just an ableist social construction made architectural: some people are actively ENabled to be part of their communities/ neighbourhoods/ spaces/ etc, and some of us are actively DISabled from doing so specifically because in general those who are ENabled to do so are the ones making the decisions about how and when and where the constructed environment is created and DISabled folks just have to suck it up because, yknow, ableism.

”

- Building Radical Accessible Communities Everywhere, dis/diss/differently/abled by Sprinkles McGillicuddy (via fabianromero)

hermionejg: accurate

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:49:22 -0400

hermionejg:

accurate