February 2012
5 posts
Concerning the Violent People-Police: An Open... →
untitled12988:
I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York.
I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I have…
“ATTACK THE BLOCK IS TECHNICALLY A FILM ABOUT “BIG GORRILA-WOLF-MOTHERFUCKERS”...”
– Film Critic Hulk, you complete me. (via dansolomon)
January 2012
7 posts
Coilhouse: Compare and Contrast: Teen Girls... →
coilhouse:
Two very different videos of teenage girls airing our their grievances on YouTube have gone viral in the past two days. Here they are. Compare and contrast:
On the uplifting side, we have a 13-year-old vlogger named astrorice articulating the concepts of slut shaming…
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor...”
– Frederick Douglass
Katie West: Can we just talk about this one more... →
therealkatiewest:
Because they’re nice to you, doesn’t mean they want you. Because they don’t notice when you touch them, doesn’t mean they’re encouraging you to. Because they laugh at your jokes, doesn’t mean they think you’re funny; many people laugh when they’re uncomfortable. Because they said no with a smile…
this really shouldn’t need repeating, but for all you guys out...
December 2011
10 posts
Watch the Pilot for 17th Precinct by Ronald D... →
evaporites:
All I can say that isn’t said in the article is that the world is a poorer place for not having this on TV.
I miss imaginative world building like this.
“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via theremina)
It is this same quality that I love Kurt’s work for; the looking back when one shouldn’t, and the turning to salt.
Bankers are the dictators of the West →
Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as I have about the world financial crisis.
But I will not hold my fire. It seems to me that the reporting of the collapse of capitalism has reached a new low which even the Middle East...
"Things fall apart. Something fundamental has... →
claytoncubitt:
Laurie Penny
Clayton is always reading the things I should be reading. The bastard.
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither...”
– T.S. Eliot (via theremina)
November 2011
20 posts
Updates
hiveminedblog:
Sorry for my silence. jJob work has been crazy busy, but that’s no excuse. I just have bad communication skills.
Have had some time to work on hive and have a nice long weekend coming up.
New things added
-like 90% there but instead of polling (going and asking if your blog have new stuff), I’ve added pubsubhubbub. This means that 90% of your feeds (all wordpres, tumblr,...
Rant Tiem!
atomhjarta:
Dammit, I am SO sick of people taking the attitude that anyone who doesn’t study business, engineering or design doesn’t deserve to make any living at all. While it’s true that there are a lot of jobs to be had for people who either innovate new products, make those products look good, and/or boss the engineers and designers around, without art and music for art and music’s sake,...
pomegranate, peacock, pride
deathofthenewgods:
So Hera.
Ancient Greek goddess, one of the six children of Cronus, sister and wife to Zeus, queen of the gods of Olympus.
The lady gets a seriously bad rap.
I know, I KNOW. She did a lot of batshit crazy things. She turned Io into a cow and sent a giant gadfly to sting her ass all the way to Egypt. She tried to kill most of Zeus’s illegitimate children while they were...
death of the new gods: passenger side →
deathofthenewgods:
Yesterday, I was at a bus stop at around 10.30pm, waiting for a bus I wasn’t sure was coming. I was going to a gig, I was already pretty late.
A taxi stops at the lights. It is full of young men. The young man in the front seat rolls down the window and yells, “HEY! HEY!”
So I look at him….
Such weaksauce. I’d have totally made fun of him.
“So what of bartering lives for exploration? Here’s the thing about humans: there...”
– The Final Frontier… for your Dead Body. | The Order of The Good Death
Go read the whole thing! It is great. This is always my issue when Science Friday decides to Talk Space. I just want to shake them and yell, “Some of us are okay with not coming back.”
(via bzedan)
I have made similar points,...
ISSUE 06 IS ALMOST HERE. PLEASE STAND BY.
coilhouse:
*pantpantpantpantpant*
O HAI COILHAUSERZ. Lots of lovely folks tuggin’ on the line this morning, wondering “WHUR IZZIT?”
Eeeeee! Almost ready. We’re still sussing out some last min. backline details, but Issue Six will be on sale IMMINENTLY. Check back in an hour or two. Sooooo close!
Wow. Also, Ignmar Superstar!
Watchtheremina:
silentinfinite:
Instead of a daily image today, have some moving images! Keith and I shot these videos at Coilhouse’s Black & White & Red All Over Ball back in August. A few words about Coilhouse and why it is special to me…
Receiving the very first issue of Coilhouse magazine in the mail in 2008 was complete magic. I was still living in repressive ol’ Singapore then, and I...
Bad Decision Dinosaur: Now working for Google! http://catandgirl.com/archive/2008-10-31-cg0671treat.gif
Great track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xICkR5IgO8g
October 2011
27 posts
The Sharebros Are Building a Google Reader... →
hiveminedblog:
The atlantic wrote about hivemined. Click that link
This is a beautiful piece of music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBLhnkVDk0
willow bl00 : Brainmeats : Occupy Everything - http://blog.bl00cyb.org/2011/10/brainmeats-occupy-everything/
The inaugural episode of the BrainMeats podcast is devoted to the Occupy movement and what hackers and makers can do to support the protesters on the ground. Willow spoke over Skype to Ari, Ella, Matt, Ruben, and Smári about the history of OWS, the meaning of illegibility within...
Watchtherealkatiewest:
Can this happen?
8 tracks I’d like to hear when I go out dancing, but probably never will. Sadly.
This is Katie West demonstrating her excellent taste in booty shaking music.