July 2012
“When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. When we praise brave Eagle Scouts who give up their badges in protest of the Boy Scouts of America’s prejudice, it’s not about scoring political points; it’s because there are kids in dens who are being taught to believe that they are less than equal. When we rant about the pastor who preaches that gays should be thrown into a concentration camp, we scream out of fear. And our fears are justified — in the last seven days, a lesbian in Nebraska was carved with a knife, a gay man in Oklahoma was firebombed, and a girl in Kentucky was kicked and beaten — her jaw broken and her teeth knocked out — while her assailants allegedly hurled anti-gay slurs at her.”
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Conor Gaughan - “We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken” (Huffington Post)
^ This
This right here
(via thefingerfuckingfemalefury)
Yes. This.
(via dontbearuiner)
The answer to the question “why do you have to take this so seriously?” in this case, is “because this shit is fucking serious.”
(via oddwritesstuff)
“The thing I hate the most, if you’ve noticed on the news, ‘Oh, Comic Con is happening in San Diego, all the weirdness that’s going on!’ You know what, fuck you, it’s not weird.”
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John Barrowman on The Nerdist (via usapotterfan)
I’ll be honest, I just heard John Barrowman saying something about fucking me and then I zoned out.
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
translate.google.com
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
To think, people still ask why I seem so disgusted by humanity.
BLOG THIS SHIT!RIGHT NOW!
The Roma who lost their homes to make way for the Olympics
The construction of the athletes’ village broke up a community that had been on the site legally since 1972.
As athletes settle in to the Olympic Village in East London, a “home away from home” for officials and competitors, some may wonder who lived there before them. The complex now is studded with luxury flats for the 17,000 Olympic athletes and the 4,500 Paralympians who will follow them. With karaoke facilities, an on-site gym with more than 50 treadmills and a 5,000-seat dining room, the architecture has a watery theme “accentuating the closeness of the River Lea”.
The site’s previous inhabitants also prized the proximity of the Lea, as well as the meadows where they used to graze horses, the cycle track where the kids played and the hill where the older residents sat watching the horizon. More than 15 families of Gypsies had lived here legally – on land no one else wanted – since 1972, paying rent to the council and for all their utilities.
“Clays Lane weren’t much to look at,” says Esther Smith, 31, a mother of four whose extended family had lived on the site for over three decades. “But it was home. There was a strong sense of community. You had room to think.” Her cousin Lisa Smith, 36, nods. “It wasn’t like living in London. It felt very safe.”
For the Clays Lane families, the journey since London won the Olympic bid on July 6th 2005, has been one long nightmare. “The first thing we knew about it was a big notice stuck on the gate,” says Tracie Giles, a mother from Clays Lane who became a campaigner for the families evicted by the Olympics. “It was a compulsory purchase order from the London Development Agency.”
Alternative sites proposed by Newham Council horrified the residents. “They wanted to put us on Jenkins Lane, a terrible place underneath the A406 by a sewage gully and facing Burger King,” Tracie remembers. “Another one was directly under the flight path for City Airport.” For a while, the families were poised to move to Chobham Farm, next to Westfield Shopping Centre. But after months of consultation, the offer was withdrawn.
“Meanwhile, Clays Lane was getting worse,” Tracie says. “Demolition was going on all around. We were fenced in, choking with dust, surrounded by massive machinery. There was nowhere safe for the kids to play.
Backed by the London Gypsy and Traveller Unit, Tracie and the other families fought the closure of Clays Lane with a legal challenge in the high court and a judicial review. “I really thought we’d win,” Tracie says. “But we didn’t. They said we were moving to Parkway Crescent.” In July 2007, five months after the building work had begun, families were given a month’s notice to move. “We packed up all our belongings,” Tracie says. “The council cut off the street lighting and stopped the postman coming. But still we didn’t move.” Their leaving date was postponed 11 times. “The new site wasn’t ready. We were prisoners on a building site.”
The families finally moved in mid-October 2007. “I remember waking up the last morning,” Tracie says. I just felt this huge sense of loss, looking at all the empty pitches.” The new site was next to the athlete’s entrance to the Olympic complex, surrounded by busy roads. Each family had a pitch with space to put a caravan and a ‘shed’ – a prefabricated block with a bathroom and kitchen.
“The water comes in the windows when it rains, the rain was coming in the front door,” Esther Smith says. “The boiler went, I had a water leak that went on for months. Plug sockets were held on by an elastic band. Baths aren’t sealed properly. There’s no privacy. The tube runs underneath – it’s so loud!”
Tracie’s sister Lisa shakes her head. “We’ve been four and a half years now living on Europe’s biggest building site. I’m 36, and I feel 100. I’m out of breath. Two minutes after you’ve cleaned it’s dusty again. Kids round here have developed asthma. The stress has been unbelievable. Just for two weeks of sport.
“I was happy about London getting the Olympics, but we haven’t been treated right as a community. They wouldn’t have done it to any other people. No-one’s even offered us a free ticket.”
Once the Olympics and Paralympics end, Parkway Crescent will be prime land for legacy development. “We’ve never been given a permanent licence, they’ve just kept renewing a temporary one for four and a half years,” Tracie says. “Will we get moved somewhere even worse?”
Newham Council declined to comment on the families’ future at the site or their experiences since being forced to move from Clays Lane. Elsewhere, speaking about the Athletes’ Village, British Olympic medallist Colin Jackson called it “the heart and soul of everything… a place that you feel comfortable, where you feel there’s a sense of belonging.” Five years after London won the bid for the Olympic Games, the Clays Lane Gypsies can still only dream of such a place.
This Kristen Stewart Cheating Thing....
I’m just getting caught up due to a mention on Twitter. I just poked my head into some Twilight tags and… well, if you need to laugh, the Twihards are losing their shit. Still, some stuff about this bothers me.
Kristen Stewart is caught “cheating” on Robert with a MARRIED man (the Snow White directer) yet she is the only one called out on it by fans? Typical misogynist bullshit, I know.
Doesn’t him being older and a director set off alarm bells and make anyone think that that there might have been some coercion here, and not from Kristen’s side? I could be wrong, she seems to be enjoying herself in the pics. Still…
I have no reason to defend the girl as I’m not a fan, but: come on, people. I find Rupert Sanders’ conduct WAY more suspicious.
I also find it highly ironic that Twilight fans — the people who find it dreamy and romantic for a man to stalk and abuse a woman — are so up in arms about this. No one who calls themselves a Twilight fan unironically is allowed to have anything to say to Kristen Stewart about her sexual conduct. EVER. (Not that anyone has a right in egneral, but Twihards especially need to take a damn seat and shut up.)
I can’t tell you why this specifically makes me so angry since I’m not a celebrity news follower or all that into Twilight. It’s just something about them jumping on the girl the way they do that suddenly has my hackles up.
Say what.
Is KStew even dating RPatz?
And also
if SHE’S the one not married
and the guy she’s seeing is the one married
SHE’S the one under fire … why?
Who
wha
I don’t understand
WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE SUCH WRONG PRIORITIES?
Because sexism.
ANCIENT LIFE-SIZE LION STATUES BAFFLE SCIENTISTS →
news.discovery.com
nypl:
Two sculptures of life-size lions, each weighing about 5 tons in antiquity, have been discovered in what is now Turkey, with archaeologists perplexed over what the granite cats were used for.
They were guarding an ancient library, clearly.
Did Sherman Hemsley have an LSD lab in his house?
In recently deceased celebrity news that I didn’t expect to hear, apparently actor Sherman Hemsley, best known for his manic comedic roles on television was quite a fan of the LSD. So much so that he apparently had an LSD lab in his basement at one point.
Awesome.
I appreciate him even more now.
