February 2011
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a more honest cover letter
synthpapacy:
To Whom It May Concern: I am applying for for your summer internship position, which I found through hours of Googling after waking up in a cold sweat terrified that I didn’t have any idea of what to do for next summer. Therefore I am very good at The Internet. I believe I am particularly qualified for your position because I am mostly unemployable in more “productive” occupations,...
WesComplaint #40
wescomplaints:
Not sure how to fit in “Excellent ability to explain how anything is a social construction” onto my resume.
Watchboner-ranch:
click the squares
This nonsense fills me with joy.
EASILY THE BEST PART OF MY DAY
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig
(Sandi Toksvig is the one who pointed out to me that the Bayeaux Tapestry was made by women. She is incredibly awesome.)
(via ladiesmakingcomics, learninglog)
Sandi Toksvig is one of my favourite guest panelists on Q.I. She absolutely is awesome. (I just watched the ‘History’...
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SWAG dept. t-shirts:
“We love slippage.”
January 2011
After not seriously crying for months, I just...
autostraddle:
no that’s not ridiculous. spaghetti is serious. you should go to the olive garden or maybe carraba’s. they’ll understand you there.
Ask Laneia something brand new
I feel like this is important/relevant
This is my 2000 post on my 20th birthday
Dope yo
Whenever I watch Sex and the City I start thinking that I want an answering machine and that I like Twizzlers.
#DearJohn
for those of you who don’t know, Tiger Beatdown and Sady Doyle have a good description of the Twitter hashtag #DearJohn and the protest behind it and the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” which seeks to redefine rape as only rape if there is force involved.
I’ll be tweeting @johnboehner with the #DearJohn tag off and on throughout the day. Join me?
If you know anyone in Egypt, please pass this on...
via stfucapitalists
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My...”
– Audre Lorde (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
if she loves ani difranco, is a feminist and gay...
autostraddle:
99%
Ask Riese anything except anything you already asked Laneia
Guys, someone has a crush on me
#DearJohn: Prep Time
champagnecandy:
sadydoyle:
Okay. So, for those unaware of context, here is what is going on. In the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which is reprehensible on its surface, there’s a special surprise clause that seeks to limit the definition of rape and incest. In order to qualify for the exception to rape and incest cases, all rapes must be “forcible” and all incest cases must involve...
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“Rule number one: Don’t fuck with librarians.”
– Neil Gaiman (via rennyradical)
“I WILL NEVER EVER GO TO A DICTIONARY! You know, I spent most of my formative...”
– Jaded r00lz
Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics: Biden:... →
newsflick:
Vice President Biden, issuing the Obama administration’s most definitive statement to date on the turmoil in Egypt, said President Hosni Mubarak should not step down and downplayed the protests spreading across the Mideast as generally unconnected.
He described the unrest as…
NYtimes archive search
partythighs:
psychotropicpolitics:
Past 30 days:
Egypt: 186 results
Tunisia: 146 results
Lebanon: 82 results
Tunisia has been without a government, without any money, without any food for about 3 weeks now, and Lebanon has been without a government for about a month. i’m not saying that any one country’s crisis is more important that another, but go to CNN’s homepage and see if you can...
I want Romney to get the Republican nomination so... →
Or maybe I don’t? I think he’d lose. Badly. But there are candidates who’d lose harder. I don’t know. I just have this thing for Massachusetts Republicans, you know, taking them to the national stage and then having them publicly confront their irrelevance.
NYtimes archive search
Past 30 days:
Egypt: 186 results
Tunisia: 146 results
Lebanon: 82 results
“Because I’m a woman, and I have accordingly been taught my entire life to view...”
– Sady fucking Doyle (via splatterdick)