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"We stand helpless before the corporate onslaught. There is no way to vote against corporate power. Citizens have no way to bring about the prosecution of Wall Street bankers and financiers for fraud, military and intelligence officials for torture and war crimes, or security and surveillance officers for human rights abuses. The Federal Reserve is reduced to printing money for banks and financiers and lending it to them at almost zero percent interest; corporate officers then lend it to us at usurious rates as high as 30 percent. I do not know what to call this system. It is certainly not capitalism. Extortion might be a better word. The fossil fuel industry, meanwhile, relentlessly trashes the ecosystem for profit. The melting of 40 percent of the summer Arctic sea ice is, to corporations, a business opportunity. Companies rush to the Arctic and extract the last vestiges of oil, natural gas, minerals and fish stocks, indifferent to the death pangs of the planet. The same corporate forces that give us endless soap operas that pass for news, from the latest court proceedings surrounding O.J. Simpson to the tawdry details of the Jodi Arias murder trial, also give us atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide that surpass 400 parts per million. They entrance us with their electronic hallucinations as we waiver, as paralyzed with fear as Odysseus’ sailors, between Scylla and Charybdis."

— Chris Hedges

(via cognitivedissonance)

May 22, 2013
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zeroing: nick veasey

zeroing:

nick veasey

May 22, 2013
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nevver: Peanuts

nevver:

Peanuts

May 22, 2013
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"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them."

— Bill Watterson

(Source: mikekarnell, via wilwheaton)

May 21, 2013
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theonion: OKLAHOMA CITY—In the wake of yesterday’s devastating tornado that has so far left 24 dead and hundreds injured in the Oklahoma City area, citizens around the country reportedly dredged up what little remained of the nation’s rapidly diminishing grief reserves. According to sources nationwide, the American people, still reeling from a recent spate of horrific tragedies that have included mass shootings, domestic terrorism, and, now, a deadly cyclone, were forced to draw on the very last of their available supplies of grief, leaving them with virtually no remaining provisions of despair and helplessness for the foreseeable future.

theonion:

OKLAHOMA CITY—In the wake of yesterday’s devastating tornado that has so far left 24 dead and hundreds injured in the Oklahoma City area, citizens around the country reportedly dredged up what little remained of the nation’s rapidly diminishing grief reserves.

According to sources nationwide, the American people, still reeling from a recent spate of horrific tragedies that have included mass shootings, domestic terrorism, and, now, a deadly cyclone, were forced to draw on the very last of their available supplies of grief, leaving them with virtually no remaining provisions of despair and helplessness for the foreseeable future.

May 21, 2013
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"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."

— Cormac McCarthy (via grief-observed)

May 21, 2013
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May 20, 2013
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colchrishadfield: Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.

colchrishadfield:

Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it’s a new dawn.

May 20, 2013
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(via Drawing Mental Illness: Artist Bobby Baker’s Visual Diary | Brain Pickings)

(via Drawing Mental Illness: Artist Bobby Baker’s Visual Diary | Brain Pickings)

May 20, 2013
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joshsternberg: WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion deal — in cash — to purchase Tumblr. Tumblr has become very important to me over the past year; gawd knows it’s not perfect — and I say this as someone who knows a thing or two about creating imperfect platforms — but I’ve found it by far the easiest to get comfortable with. It’s served me very well as a showcase for my work, as a casual outlet and scrapbook, and as a nice way of keeping up with other friends that use it (other platforms might excel at any one of those things, but for my tastes, Tumblr’s the only one that does well at all three), without artificial limitations or the feeling of trying to fit myself into someone else’s box. But perhaps most importantly, as someone for whom social interaction issues tie in deeply with my mental illness, Tumblr’s helped make a bit more of a real connection to the outside world feel possible for me (which was a big part of why I came here in the first place, after nearly 20 years of doing it all on my own in my handmade bubble), while giving me an easy way to both express my everyday interests and focus on my mental illness issues as casually/indirectly or as deeply as I want to… all in my own way, and FAR more on my own terms, than ever felt possible on something like Facebook. Everything I’ve tried to do on the web for the past 20 years has probably been the best self-therapy I’ve ever had — so I could never afford to take for granted having something like Tumblr to do it with. So Yahoo, please don’t fuck this up.

joshsternberg:

WSJ reports Yahoo board has approved a $1.1 billion deal — in cash — to purchase Tumblr.

Tumblr has become very important to me over the past year; gawd knows it’s not perfect — and I say this as someone who knows a thing or two about creating imperfect platforms — but I’ve found it by far the easiest to get comfortable with. It’s served me very well as a showcase for my work, as a casual outlet and scrapbook, and as a nice way of keeping up with other friends that use it (other platforms might excel at any one of those things, but for my tastes, Tumblr’s the only one that does well at all three), without artificial limitations or the feeling of trying to fit myself into someone else’s box.

But perhaps most importantly, as someone for whom social interaction issues tie in deeply with my mental illness, Tumblr’s helped make a bit more of a real connection to the outside world feel possible for me (which was a big part of why I came here in the first place, after nearly 20 years of doing it all on my own in my handmade bubble), while giving me an easy way to both express my everyday interests and focus on my mental illness issues as casually/indirectly or as deeply as I want to… all in my own way, and FAR more on my own terms, than ever felt possible on something like Facebook. Everything I’ve tried to do on the web for the past 20 years has probably been the best self-therapy I’ve ever had — so I could never afford to take for granted having something like Tumblr to do it with.

So Yahoo, please don’t fuck this up.

May 19, 2013
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