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There is nothing creepy about this song or this video…
… it is also opposite day…
John Mayer Gets Woman Behind Prancercise To Star in His Latest Music Video
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EDWARD SNOWDEN, WE NEED TO TALK
First things first: Thank you, Edward Snowden. You made a few more people care that we pawned away some valuable shit that might be tough to get back. (There was some panic buying on Feeling Safer, can you blame us?) Now, maybe our rights, our privacy, and the abuse of secrecy will become, gasp, issues debated in Congress. Anything’s possible!
Now then: Fuck you, Edward Snowden, ur doing it wrong. Yr Wonkette can think of between several and a lot of ways you could have revealed how the NSA is involved in some stuff that all citizens deserve to be informed about, but are not. For example: If we were you, we would have left out your latest “revelation” about how the US is doing spy things in China (cyberly) to gain “access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers.”
Because seriously Edward Snowden, were you born yesterday? Of what possible use is this information to the civil libertarians you have so righteously stoked, especially considering that “we spy on China” is the most laughable corruption of the word “secret” we can think of this instant? It’s even less surprising than “The NSA is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with all the electronic metadata.”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/519473/edward-snowden-we-need-to-talk#jkQUTqbZfkVOlTem.99(via jasencomstock)
Posted on June 13, 2013 via Wonkette * with 9 notes
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OHH HEY LOOK! A NOTICE ABOUT SHARP OBJECTS HURTING TREES, ATTACHED BY SOME SHARP OBJECTS IN THE TREE!
It seems to me that some thought could have gone into this…And again, if a worker tries to cut into the tree with a chainsaw, without knowing it’s spiked, the chainsaw will break and could seriously injured them, which has happened before, and could even be potentially fatal.
Yeah but it definitely had its uses in the 80s
It was useful for harming the tree and putting a worker’s life and job on the line.
Tree spiking has never and will never be a good thing.
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Posted on June 11, 2013 via our own sense of time with 22,269 notes
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Circle tree. Seth Kent took this picture.
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Can we all agree that Carl Kasell’s grumpy face is the best part of OK Go’s Tiny Desk Concert?
Yes, I think we can.
Posted on June 4, 2013 via NPR Music with 328 notes
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“I’m talking about restoring to indigenous peoples what obviously they’re entitled to and they have a legitimate claim to in a way that is not devisive but restorative. That’s the idea behind reconciliation” -James Anaya, UN
US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk
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Posted on May 23, 2013 via Sociologr with 253 notes
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…mixing faith and politics can be like mixing ice cream and horse manure—it may not mess up the manure, but it sure will mess up the ice cream. One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope. The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down. When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with Obama’s image with the word “hope” under it, something in me cringes—our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand. On the other hand, there are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.
Posted on May 23, 2013 via AZspot with 10 notes
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Nice
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Posted on May 23, 2013 via TINY HOUSE PORN with 234 notes
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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.
Posted on May 21, 2013 via AZspot with 360 notes
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Valley, China, 2007 (by deSingel International Arts Campus)
Posted on May 16, 2013 via with 5,379 notes
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Climate Adaptation: Shale Gas Drilling Hasn't Harmed Water in Arkansas
A new study by scientists at Duke Univ. and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas.
“Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater quality in areas associated with natural gas…Hummnnnn… Not sure what I think…
Posted on May 16, 2013 via Laboratory Equipment with 20 notes
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Umm, want.
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Posted on May 15, 2013 via ANIMATED GIFs with 13,723 notes
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This, all day.
Astronaut Performs David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” While Floating in Space
Before he returns to Earth after five months aboard the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield recorded this amazing cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”
This isn’t Hadfield’s first foray into the world of YouTube. During his time in space he picked up quite the following here on Earth with his videos explaining what it’s like living for an extended period in space.
Ed note: We think this video should play on a loop in the National Air and Space Museum. What do you think of Hadfield’s cover?
h/t Mashable
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Posted on May 13, 2013 via Smithsonian Magazine with 473 notes
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