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dressesandyarn: artisticpessimistic: Sue Lillian Brown, better...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:24:32 -0400

artisticpessimistic:

Sue Lillian Brown, better known as Betty Broadbent, was only 18 years old in 1927 when she joined the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus as the youngest professional tattooed woman in the U.S.

I am completely fine with chest tattoos turning out like hers. This woman is BADASS.

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:03:11 -0400

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

- Stephen R. Covey (via unknownvariables)

Grown-Up Calvin and Hobbes, by Craig Mahoney

Wed, 29 May 2013 14:05:00 -0400

Grown-Up Calvin and Hobbes, by Craig Mahoney

wnycradiolab: canadian-space-agency: Col. Chris Hadfield:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:05:04 -0400

wnycradiolab:

canadian-space-agency:

Col. Chris Hadfield: “Safely home - back on Earth, happily readapting to the heavy pull of gravity. Wonderful to smell and feel Spring.”

Read about Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield’s return to Earth following historic five-month mission here: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2013/0513.asp

Photo credits: Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian/space-pics/NASA

Just awesome. Just plain awesome.

“This is ground control to Major Tom…”

bohemea: Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:44:50 -0400

bohemea:

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

Well this is goddamn heartbreaking. The little guy wandered...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:38:03 -0400

Well this is goddamn heartbreaking.

The little guy wandered back to his home in New South Wales, Australia last week only to find it had been cut down and chipped by logging operations. A volunteer with WIRES, a rescue operation licensed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, said the koala had been sitting on top of the wood pile for over an hour looking confused, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Happy Monday

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:16:02 -0400

Happy Monday

Someone did a number on my bus stop last night

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:32:33 -0400

Someone did a number on my bus stop last night

-hoodwink: best show EVER

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:20:07 -0400

-hoodwink:

best show EVER

generic1: Ask Ackerman Anything: What Do You Hate About Beltway...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:38:57 -0400

generic1:

Ask Ackerman Anything: What Do You Hate About Beltway Culture?

I hate everything.

I hate everything about this place that isn’t directly related to the friends that I’ve made here, the family that I’ve started here.

D.C. itself is a wonderful place.

The culture of this business we’re in [journalism] is just soul-crushing.

The self-importance, the humorlessness, the bad sense of humor, the fact that people deliberately take things out of context, the feigned outrage, the dedicated lack of real-keeping, the almost aggressive insulting of one’s intelligence that marks successful political discourse and combat and media discourse…. the relentless self-importance.

The unhealthy offense taken at basic profanity.

The decided lack of creativity.

The class politics that never get acknowledged as class politics.

The disdain for poor people.

The aggressive refusal to recognize that there’s such a thing as white privilege.

The aggressive refusal to recognize that the media in Washington is relentlessly just white and rich and unchanging and self-satisfied about all of these things.

The traffic.

The inability to know how to operate on a subway. The inability to call the Metro a subway. The aggressiveness with which people take offense when you call the Metro a subway because you grew up in a real city with a mother fucking subway.

The restaurant culture is good. You know, people do like to cook here.

I made the mistake of telling an acquaintance about how I’d just moved to an “up-and-coming” neighborhood of DC at a bar a couple weekends back. Her mouth literally dropped open, and she dramatically inquired, “Why?” “How do you cope?” She asked.

[How I wish the conversation actually continued] Cope? How do I cope? I’m thrilled to return home to my home and my warm bed after this pricey, disingenuous night of drinking, and grateful to have a job that allows me to live anywhere near this city. Coping is how I’d describe this conversation we’re having.

nevver: Scratch the sky

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:39:25 -0400

Matt Molloy

Matt Molloy

Matt Molloy

Matt Molloy

nevver:

Scratch the sky

Perspective. (Stole this from Reddit)

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:51:31 -0400

Perspective.

(Stole this from Reddit)

aesthetic-dissonance: sagihairius: My mom just informed me that my first word was “quote” so I’m...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:38:37 -0400

aesthetic-dissonance:

sagihairius:

My mom just informed me that my first word was “quote” so I’m going to make sure my last word before I die will be “unquote”

you have been blessed with a rare and epic opportunity

buzzfeedmusic: This is every Mumford & Sons song...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:00:06 -0400

buzzfeedmusic:

This is every Mumford & Sons song ever.

This gif ruined/drastically improved Mumford & Sons for me.

newserdotcom: New Zealand Has Another Wayward Penguin ‘Happy...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:12:44 -0500

newserdotcom:

New Zealand Has Another Wayward Penguin

‘Happy Feet JR.’ is in rough shape after long journey

Another penguin has managed the amazing feat of washing up on the shore of New Zealand, reports AFP. This one has been named “Happy Feet Jr.” after the original wayward penguin who captivated the nation in 2011. The juvenile royal penguin is in bad shape, unfortunately, though for good reason—vets think he traveled more than 1,200 miles from his Antarctic home over the last year, probably after getting caught in a current. Read More»

AP Photo/NZ Herald, Mark Mitchell, File

Dinner :)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:09:29 -0500

Dinner :)

nevver: Tread softly

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:08:39 -0500

nevver:

Tread softly

I actually don’t mind hugs.

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:01:07 -0500

I actually don’t mind hugs.

inothernews: This is the President shooting a rifle at a clay...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:56:14 -0500

inothernews:

This is the President shooting a rifle at a clay disc.

The rifle doesn’t fire up to 30 rounds a minute.

The clay disc isn’t a bunch of children trapped in classrooms or a kid being held inside an underground bunker or a student outside a school in Chicago.

Fuck you if you’re shitting your pants over this fucking picture and get a fucking life, you God-damned fucking prick.

danmeth: Your friday way to feel

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:39:46 -0500

danmeth:

Your friday way to feel