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thesmithian: …up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:58:06 -0400

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

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"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:40:07 -0400

“Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches.”

- (via grizzlytales)

gaywrites: Hey. This is important.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:38:23 -0400

gaywrites:

Hey. This is important.

When people post pictures of their healthy meals

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:13:31 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

"People shouldn’t have to appear always, you know, stable and content, because people aren’t always..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:24:24 -0400

“People shouldn’t have to appear always, you know, stable and content, because people aren’t always stable and content. And it makes it harder, and it makes us as a majority more unstable and more discontented because we don’t have the freedom to express all of these darker sides of our emotions. Because we’re supposed to keep everything very, you know, friendly and polite and appropriate all the time. And I think that every emotion is appropriate whenever it arises.”

- Fiona Apple (via themostradicalthing)

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:13:34 -0400

"Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and..."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:18:16 -0400

“

Love is a funny thing. You expect it to be easy. You expect it to be a world of roses and laughs and perfect moments that you find only in movies. You expect her to always say the right thing, and always know exactly how you feel, or exactly how to react to it. You expect her to calm you down when you’re yelling or to chase you when you run away. You expect so much that you feel entirely, and utterly defeated when something doesn’t exactly match up with all your plans. But that’s the thing. Love isn’t a plan. It doesn’t have a certain beginning and it certainly has no end or visible finish line to those deeply in it.

Love happens; it is so incredibly messy. People around you can’t comprehend why you do the things you do, or why you fight so hard for something that seems to cause you so much pain, because simply, they can’t see. They can’t see the invisible ring of insanity that surrounds you when you’re in love. It’s inconvenient and painful and devastating at times, but we can’t live without it. What you don’t learn is how hard love is. How much work it takes. How much of ourselves we have to put into it. How it isn’t worth it until we are complete and utter idiots about it.

Love isn’t her calming you down when you yell. It’s her yelling, just as loud, just as hard, right back at you, right in your face to wake you up and to keep you grounded. It isn’t her/him bringing you roses everyday or cute things that make your relationship appear more presentable.

It’s after a long fight, that drains the life and bones right out of you both, and yet her showing up at your door the next morning anyway. It’s not her saying all the right things or knowing exactly how to handle you. So no, it’s not her caressing your hair and telling you everything is going to be alright. It’s her standing there, admitting she’s just as scared as you are. You have to remember that with love, you’re not the only one involved. You’ve unknowingly put your life, your heart into the palms of another persons hands and said, here. Do what you will. Mash it into mince meat. Or forget I ever handed it to you. As long as you have it.

It makes us crazy. It makes reality invisible and it erases all the lines that we shouldn’t cross. Because love isn’t about fencing ourselves in; feeling safe, feeling sure about the future. It’s about scaring the shit out of every nerve in our body, but pushing forward anyway. Because all the fighting and all the tears and all the uncertainty is worth it. And it’s a hell of a lot better, than being 100% happy without someone to show us that there is a world of a difference between feeling ‘happy’ and feeling whole

”

- Definition of Love - Andrew Landon (via sayyestotreats, redrumot) (via embraceyourhumanity)

raw-r-evolution: maskdeuh: Indonesian Police shave Punks...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:09:04 -0400

raw-r-evolution:

maskdeuh:

Indonesian Police shave Punks mohawks.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/71977/hard-line-indonesian-police-shave-punkers-mohawks/

Assimilation

Wow

Friendship Between Grey Kitty and German Shepherd

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:02:04 -0400

Friendship Between Grey Kitty and German Shepherd

npr: (via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:59:44 -0400

npr:

(via 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America)

Joshua Katz, a Ph. D student in statistics at North Carolina State University, just published a group of awesome visualizations of a linguistic survey that looked at how Americans pronounce words.

Among the words he maps are crawfish, syrup, caramel, lawyer, mayonnaise and pecan. He also maps regions by how they refer to a carbonated beverage (the age-old soda or pop question) and how people address groups of two or more people — though as someone who spent time in Pittsburgh, yinz seems to be conspicuously absent. — heidi

fotojournalismus: Today in Istanbul 1. A woman walks by a wall...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:56:30 -0400

fotojournalismus:

Today in Istanbul

1. A woman walks by a wall covered in graffiti near Taksim Square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

2. An art group preforms in support of protesters at Taksim Square on June 5, 2013 in Istanbul. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

3. Protesters clash with Turkish riot policemen on the way to Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 5, 2013. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)

4. An anti-government protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask walks past a burnt public bus used as a barricade, at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

5. People stick messages on a damaged vehicle at Taksim square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

6. A mask is placed on a pole at Taksim square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

7. An anti-government protester reads inside a damaged public bus used as barricade, at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

8. A street vendor sells helmets and scarves at Taksim square in Istanbul June 5, 2013. (Murad Sezer/Reuters)

9. Protestors wake early morning at the Gezi park in Taksim Square on June 5, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

10. A whirling dervish holding a gas mask performs in Taksim Square of Istanbul on June 5, 2013. (Kostas Tsironis/AP)

Yehudia Waterfall #refreshing! #somanyfish #freshwater

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:55:51 -0400

Yehudia Waterfall #refreshing! #somanyfish #freshwater

"JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will..."

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:57:19 -0400

““JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever””

- -Stephen King (via howtedmethiswife)

#this was really sweet until i thought about the fact that if that were true she would have had to kill a person to create each one -Skyedestiny

How else do you explain Dumbledore, Snape, Fred, Lupid, Tonks, Hedwig, and Dobby?

(via vikingplumb)

I just fucking lost my shit.

(via connor-sexonlegswithahat-temple)
WTF
(via shaimonster)

"Was gonna hold your heart to my ear like a seashell ‘til I could hear the tides of every tear you’ve..."

Fri, 31 May 2013 09:25:07 -0400

“Was gonna hold your heart to my ear like a seashell
‘til I could hear the tides of every tear you’ve ever cried,
then build islands in the seas of your eyes
so you’d see there’s land to swim to.
Hold your hand and say, ” Storms are born
from the same sky we write hymns to when the sun shines.
Sometimes it takes tempests to wake rainbows
that will wind our pain into halos.””

- Andrea Gibson (via winterkristall)

wittlewufflies: oh leo.

Thu, 30 May 2013 02:31:34 -0400

wittlewufflies:

oh leo.

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Wed, 29 May 2013 14:53:52 -0400

stmadri: “Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits language and...

Mon, 27 May 2013 08:28:51 -0400

stmadri:

“Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought.
Thought inhabits language and language is its body.”

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, from Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language (northwestern University Press, 1974)

When someone says they don't like chocolate

Mon, 27 May 2013 06:26:03 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

"When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get..."

Sun, 26 May 2013 03:16:53 -0400

“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”

- Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (via simply-quotes)

blogwoodtree: ahhhhhhh i’m crying insiiiideeeeeeee

Sun, 26 May 2013 02:44:28 -0400

blogwoodtree:

ahhhhhhh i’m crying insiiiideeeeeeee