Lacy Green on Why the BMI scale is BullSH!%!
“ Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.
Staceyann Chin (via shakethecobwebs)
Dear Tumblr, I don’t really watch TV, but this is my best friend and she’s competing on The Voice Season 2, and you guys should probably watch out for her if you’ll be tuning in, and if you’re not tuning in… Maybe reconsider.
Aaaahahhghsjghjhsfkjgjk so so so proud of her!
ACTA petition. Sign and reblog like crazy.
ACTA has already been signed by several countries, but if we can get the European Parliament to vote no, it can be dismantled and sent back.
REBLOG! REBLOG! REBLOG!
We got this. Keep it circulating!
signed and boosting
(Facebook) What the Actual Fuck?
“I ordered some video-editing software from Hitfilm in the UK which also comes with some instructional videos. So a few days later I get a call from FedEx saying that the DVDs were being held at U.S. Customs until I filled out a Video Declaration Form, which she said was now standard practice. Now, I’d never heard of this before, so I called back to ensure that this was indeed FedEx and not someone phishing for information. Had them email me the form.
This is what the form said: “I/we declare the the films/videos contain no obscene or immoral matter, nor any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, nor any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States.”
Now, the first clause I can kinda see, though “immoral” is weird and there’s no standard definition of obscenity in the US, but let that go…what made my eyebrows go up my forehead and down the other side was clause two. So I called back the nice lady at FedEx — who was only following instructions given to her by Customs — and asked what this was all about.
Apparently — and this is only her understanding of the situation — this is a new thing being done by Customs and Homeland Security with FedEx, UPS, and other carriers to make sure that films and videos with ideas or stories that were at odds with the United States Government didn’t get into the country, as it was a form of terrorism (as further elaborated upon in the third and final clause.) She added that some DVDs showing Occupy events in London and elsewhere had gotten bounced because of the concern that these were being used to coordinate activities here (as if with the internet people actually need physical DVDs for that sort of thing but that’s neither here nor there).
Under this new stipulation, if V for Vendetta had, for instance, been produced in the UK (instead of just filmed there), importing it into the US would be considered subject matter “advocating or urging treason or insurrection.” And if you lied about it on the form, you could be held liable for this.
So there are now very literally guardians at the gate ensuring that the wrong sorts of ideas, movies or DVDs are not allowed into the country without investigation and/or prosecution. And most pernicious of all, they don’t actually define what they mean by advocating treason or insurrection, any more than they define what “immoral” means, it’s whatever they decide it means, so you could be breaking the law without knowing you’re doing it, until they decide you’re doing it.
Thoughts?”
Weird ass shit.
How long has this “standard practice” been in effect? This concerns me.
this is fucking ridiculous…..1984 is…..here.
— So wait. Above and beyond all this: they MUST be opening the mailboxes.
Ok… what the ACTUAL fuck? Did my country seriously enforce this? That’s scary in a real sense. I’m pretty sure no one inside the US (other than anyone associated with those carriers and their friends/relatives) knows about this.
When murder is a slap on the wrist and piracy is a death-worthy offense then we have lost our sense of what is truly important.This is and equal to, modern book burning.
what what what
The media/politicians on Occupy Wall Street.
“ Every person in this chamber can point to a teacher who changed the trajectory of their lives. Most teachers work tirelessly, with modest pay — sometimes digging into their own pocket for school supplies, just to make a difference. Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal: give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job and keep the best ones. And in return, grant schools flexibility to teach with creativity and passion, and stop teaching to the test — and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn. That’s a bargain worth making.
OBAMA (via l1feisbeaut1ful)
Amazing, so so amazing. As someone who is planning to go into education, I can’t agree enough. Republicans are working so hard to tell us that education doesn’t matter. At least it doesn’t matter enough for the government to support. But I literally cannot think of anything more important. It’s a cliche, but children really are our future. It is our job to make sure that those kids can go out into the world as educated individuals, ready to make the differences that their parents could not.
The republicans often argue that throwing money at the problem will not help. There is some truth to that. But only because all too often the money is either not enough or misused by corrupted public officials (such as in the case of Mayor Street here in Philly). How can we make sure kids are probably prepared for college, let alone the world at large, when too many schools are teaching from textbooks that are over a decade out of date, when they don’t even have enough pencils for their students and if they are lucky there is one computer in the library, and it was made in 1995. How can we teach kids how to solve real world problems when in order for us to keep our jobs, it is more important to teach them that on most standardized tests, an unanswered question is worth more than an incorrect question and therefore if they really don’t know the answer they should leave it blank? Or teaching them how to properly skim the reading portion so that they can save time when answering the questions?
(via name-em-shame-em)
Just have to hope that these aren’t just words and that these ideas become reality.
(Source: inothernews)
‘kabuto’ doesn’t even sound like ‘kampf’
i enjoy ‘lapras shrugged’, though, that’s a funny one i’ve never seen before
(Source: asapmarky)
“ If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.
Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
yo one time we filled a pinata with bagels and brought it to a birthday party and no one laughed when it broke open and the first bagel fell out like it was dead silent
untitled by eros turannos on Flickr.
(Source: smited)
Black March!
P.S: If you think this doesn’t concern you, Megaupload’s owners are from New Zealand, today (1.19.2012) they were deported to USE and will be prosecuted under a crime that DOESN’T EXIST IN THEIR COUNTRY, under a law that HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED YET.
That’s….really fucking awful.
It’s sad that this is now cliche:
>don’t download any song illegally
wut?
but I agree with the rest of this.
no clue why this has an Anonymous symbol since Anonymous didn’t actually start this. But they will likely co-opt this, so whatever.
Anonymous isn’t an organization. We don’t collectively decide to start things. Someone makes something, puts it out there, if it generates talk and action it becomes the collective work of Anonymous.
Ethiopian girl guarded from gang rape & assault by three lions.
“The girl had been taken by seven men who wanted to force her to marry one of them. She was beaten repeatedly. Then the lions chased off her captors. The three lions guarded her for about half a day. They stood guard until we found her and then they just left her like a gift and went back into the forest.”
BADASS LIONS
holy
