January 2012
253 posts
oh, and also.
dear followers,
in 2012, I would like to get to know you better! I feel like I see so many of your posts and I am like “fuck yea” but then I am like I do not even know who this person is. :( inbox me! with anything! questions, comments, concerns, nude photos… I WANT IT ALL.
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2011-2012.
2011 was a long hard road. It was my last year of undergrad, it was the year I went through the terrible process of applying to med school, reconnected with my best friend from high school, went back to the west coast for a couple months, came back, graduated college, got accepted to med school, and had a very merry christmas indeed. And you know, I still get scared sometimes. Hell, a lot more...
December 2011
114 posts
No Excuses - Help me fight sexism in the atheist... →
religiousragings:
Posted in Christina says…
December 30, 2011 at 10:00 am - Christina
Up until now, this lady has stayed completely out of any discussion of the atheist/skeptical community and misogyny/sexism.
I didn’t want to get involved. I felt that people wrote enough words, discussing sexism to the point of overwhelming inanity. I stayed out of elevatorgate, convinced that other people...
You guys remember the puppy we found on Christmas...
baaconnn:
This one:
Well, I took him to the vet yesterday. Got his first shots, looked for a microchip (none), and we were on our way. Last night though, he got sick a couple of times and then wouldn’t eat this morning so I took him back to the vet. She felt a lump in his stomach so she took an x-ray and found that his intestines had flipped and he needed emergency surgery or he would have...
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a post about looking for a roommate
On craigslist “Single white straight male…”
instant trust level: 0%
“Gay female with dog”
instant trust level: 100000000000%
“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history,
she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker (via jesteractivist)
arrinwoof:
attack-of-the-wolf-king:
ninefoldgoddess:
A Letter from a Shelter Manager - anonymous in North Carolina I think our society needs a huge “Wake-up” call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all…a view from the inside if you will. First off, all of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the “back” of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe...
“No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger,...”
– Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that the only way...
ili-ili asked: tipsy tow is nationwide!!! :)
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About that Tipsy Tow thing I posted
They only run it in Northern California, Nevada and Utah, not everywhere, fyi.
Partying on New Year's Eve?
Don’t drink and drive-and don’t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: you don’t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Years Eve/day, they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number… 1-800-222-4357. Please reblog this if you don’t mind.
“It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire for there to be an unalterable,...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via hitch-22)
Because y'all liked my abortion mega bible list,...
stfuprolife:
andnonefornonsensebye:
TRIGGER FOR MISCARRIAGE, STILL BIRTH, ABORTION DUE TO FETAL ABNORMALITIES. THERE’S ALSO SOME CIS-SEXISM IN SOME OF THE LINKS.
On abortion an mental health:
So the fact that [people are] more like to feel postpartum depression from actually having a child than post abortion stress syndrome means nothing? [In fact studies show that abortion doesn’t...
11 Facts From 2011
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
5. Wall Street’s recession cost 1.5 million times more than securing Occupy Wall Street...
When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
-periodic-meltdowns-:
alyson-noele:
rapisoffensive:
This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.
By Marion Brady
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests...
“It was a widely misinterpreted movie, I think…. People tend to say, “Why didn’t...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) Days of Summer (via theshadowofyoursong)