So I’ve been on this big country music kick this past month, which makes sense to me because it’s all I listened to as a child but I’m sure it’s weird to anybody else. This song came on Pandora and it totally floored me because 1) the arrangement is really beautiful and 2) this is a song by the one of the most famous male country singers in the world right now and it’s about abortion (in part) and not the regretful kind! The narrator and his girlfriend have an abortion and it’s unfortunate but that’s just how it goes! No rending of garments! No ululation! People give country music (and people from the South) a lot of shit because they assume that they’re backwards and conservative, but I’ve yet to hear a pop song approach this. This is some progressive stuff.

veiledisis: I think I’m obsessed with the mere concept of post-Ren faire Joanna Newsom in tramp heels. GOD, CAITLIN, some of us are trying to get stuff done.

veiledisis:

I think I’m obsessed with the mere concept of post-Ren faire Joanna Newsom in tramp heels.

GOD, CAITLIN, some of us are trying to get stuff done.

banked: this is all i want in my life

banked:

this is all i want in my life

the Marquee: The Rodarte Sisters List Their Favorite Buffy Episodes

Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte have listed their favorite episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, whom they call “one of the most powerful female characters ever developed.” Included are Season 2’s “Passion,” and “Becoming” (the one where she kills Angel), Season 3’s “Consequences” and…

OHHHH PLEASE DO A BUFFY COLLECTION

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sugarmeows: Edward Gorey and a giant teddy bear For Danielle and Galina.

sugarmeows:

Edward Gorey and a giant teddy bear

For Danielle and Galina.

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Sometimes when I’m feeling sad about so-called progressive dudes who don’t care about feminism I go back and re-watch everything Tina Fey put out during the 2008 election season and feel a little better.

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Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.

MSF general director Christopher Stokes. MSF is suspending operations in detention centers in Misrata, Libya, because detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care. (via doctorswithoutborders)

selchieproductions: Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian. child ‘burned alive’ © Survival International Loggers have invaded the Amazon home of uncontacted Awá Indians, one of whom has reportedly been ‘burned alive’. Members of the Guajajara tribe, which also inhabits the area, have said that they came across the burned remains of an Awá child in the forest, following an attack by loggers, according to Brazilian NGOCIMI. Clovis Guajajara, who sometimes sees the Awá in the forest whilst hunting, has reportedly said that he has not seen them since the alleged attack, and he believes they have fled. The Brazilian government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, has told Survival that it is conducting an investigation into the reports, and that the child’s death has not been confirmed. At least 60 uncontacted Awá Indians are thought to live in this part of the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon – they are one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil. The Awá rely on their forest to survive, but vast numbers of loggers are illegally invading their land, which now suffers one of the highest deforestation rates in the Amazon. More than 30% of one of the Awá’s territories has already been destroyed. Luis Carlos Guajajara told Survival today, ‘There are uncontacted Awá in the area and the loggers are pressurising them. The loggers’ presence is very dangerous. Indians in the area are scared.’ The Awá have recently suffered a series of brutal attacks, and loggers have warned that the Indians will be killed if they go into their forest.  Survival is lobbying the Brazilian authorities to evict the invaders from the Awá’s land before the devastation puts the Indians’ lives further at risk. 

selchieproductions:

Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian. child ‘burned alive’ 
© Survival International

Loggers have invaded the Amazon home of uncontacted Awá Indians, one of whom has reportedly been ‘burned alive’.

Members of the Guajajara tribe, which also inhabits the area, have said that they came across the burned remains of an Awá child in the forest, following an attack by loggers, according to Brazilian NGOCIMI.

Clovis Guajajara, who sometimes sees the Awá in the forest whilst hunting, has reportedly said that he has not seen them since the alleged attack, and he believes they have fled.

The Brazilian government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, has told Survival that it is conducting an investigation into the reports, and that the child’s death has not been confirmed.

At least 60 uncontacted Awá Indians are thought to live in this part of the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon – they are one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil. The Awá rely on their forest to survive, but vast numbers of loggers are illegally invading their land, which now suffers one of the highest deforestation rates in the Amazon.

More than 30% of one of the Awá’s territories has already been destroyed.

Luis Carlos Guajajara told Survival today, ‘There are uncontacted Awá in the area and the loggers are pressurising them. The loggers’ presence is very dangerous. Indians in the area are scared.’

The Awá have recently suffered a series of brutal attacks, and loggers have warned that the Indians will be killed if they go into their forest.

 Survival is lobbying the Brazilian authorities to evict the invaders from the Awá’s land before the devastation puts the Indians’ lives further at risk. 

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WE DID IT! LOOK UPON IT AND DESPAIR! Detroit Cleveland Portland It just fits.

WE DID IT! LOOK UPON IT AND DESPAIR!

  1. Detroit
  2. Cleveland
  3. Portland

It just fits.

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todaysdocument: Eureka! On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. The mine pictured here is unidentified, but was probably located in California’s Sierra Nevada gold mining district. 

todaysdocument:

Eureka!

On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. The mine pictured here is unidentified, but was probably located in California’s Sierra Nevada gold mining district. 

oh man

oh man

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Lapham's Quarterly: John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive!

laphamsquarterly:

Shut UP, history! You are so crazy!

mentalflossr:

Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died.

FAVORITE HISTORICAL PIECE OF TRIVIA. I have repeated this fact to people while drunk at least three times, possibly all to Karen. Sorry, Karen. Wait, sorry I’m not sorry. This is amazing.

youmightfindyourself: 7x7’s Big Eat Checklist for 2012. Hope Boba Guys can make it in the 2013 edition. I’ve only had 12 of these so far. GOALSETTING.

youmightfindyourself:

7x7’s Big Eat Checklist for 2012. Hope Boba Guys can make it in the 2013 edition.

I’ve only had 12 of these so far. GOALSETTING.

petites-choses: tersaudades: The hardest part of adopting a new dog is keeping up with her. Look at this ball of energy. Wake up Lucia! God she is so cute! Denise says she’s deaf? :( Denise met the first dog we brought home, Isabel. She was deaf and unfortunately, hyperactive to the max. We ended up bringing her back to the rescue group the next day and brought home Lucia instead (who I was gunning for the whole time!). Lucia is fully able to hear you, though she will often choose not to. She is sweet and extremely cuddly and would love nothing more than to sleep in your lap. Come over and meet her soon! Maybe Thursday after work? Karen will be here.

petites-choses:

tersaudades:

The hardest part of adopting a new dog is keeping up with her. Look at this ball of energy. Wake up Lucia!

God she is so cute! Denise says she’s deaf? :(

Denise met the first dog we brought home, Isabel. She was deaf and unfortunately, hyperactive to the max. We ended up bringing her back to the rescue group the next day and brought home Lucia instead (who I was gunning for the whole time!). Lucia is fully able to hear you, though she will often choose not to. She is sweet and extremely cuddly and would love nothing more than to sleep in your lap. Come over and meet her soon! Maybe Thursday after work? Karen will be here.

The hardest part of adopting a new dog is keeping up with her. Look at this ball of energy. Wake up Lucia!

The hardest part of adopting a new dog is keeping up with her. Look at this ball of energy. Wake up Lucia!

jewelless and all, and as full of safety pins as ever