April 2012
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“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday...”
– Jack Kerouac (via misswallflower)
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Writing style is linked to suicide risk
sadness-is-a-place:
Creativity, depression, and suicide have long been linked, so it may come as no surprise that some of history’s most creative individuals suffered from a mental illness. Depression affected great minds such as Charles Dickens, John Keats, and Tennessee Williams. Several famous writers have committed suicide, including Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and David Foster Wallace....
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“I don’t like that quotations are now in bold.”
– Me
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gaydreaming
Haha no, it’s not a typo. I know listening/reading other people’s dreams can be boring so here’s a ‘read more’.[[MORE]]
I was in a stationary car with a guy, he was in the front passenger seat and I was in the back. He was leaning around the seat to face me and we were talking. It was clear there was something going on from the way we were looking at each other. I...
onlymrgodknowswhy replied to your post: I almost died today!
I wish this happened during my POLS1201 tutes… :(
Hehe, it’s always the dream. We had over an hour left of a two-hour class to go when the alarm went off, so as we were leaving I was like yayayayayayayayayaya!
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I almost died today!
ok, not really. But I could have! ok, not really. We had a fire drill in the Menzies building today. After the alarm went off it took a good minute for the tutor to dismiss us. That’s crucial time dammit!!! By the time we left (we were on the third level) everyone else on our level had already gone and the fire curtains were going down on the main stairway, which we stupidly tried to go...
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French translation
Tutor: How would you say 'they came with their wives' in French?
Person next to me: *laughs*
Me (thinking): So immature!
Me: *laughs*
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Listen
“Pourquoi déclamer contre les passions ? Ne sont-elles pas la seule belle...”
– Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
“Why declaim against passions ? Aren’t they the only beautiful thing that there is on earth, the source of heroism, of enthusiasm, of poetry, of music, of arts, of everything finally ?“
(via killingthewaiter)
Fatalism
becausewordsmatter:
Everything happens for a reason,
Simple sentence to keep people from thinking.
Fatalism is not source of personal growth,
Lessons are.
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There’s no such thing as justice in the world. Only power. Money.
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Sarkozy lost the French "primary."
luxetveritas94:
He is the first incumbent to do so since the late ’50s.
He will still continue on against the Socialist party candidate, Hollande, in the second round.
Sarkozy had 25.5% of the vote to Hollande’s 28.4%.
Marine Le Pen, of the National Front party, placed third with 20+%.
I haven’t been following the French election campaign very closely but it does seem concerning...
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Proof 1=2
anticapitalist:
Set a=b
Thus a^2=ab
Add a^2 to both sides: a^2+a^2=ab+a^2
Simplify: 2a^2=ab+a^2
Subtract 2ab from both sides: 2a^2-2ab=a^2=ab-2ab
Factor out (a^2-ab) from both sides: 2(a^2-ab)=1(a^2-ab)
Divide (a^2-ab) from both sides to get 2=1
a^2 - ab = 0 so no.
huh, so I nearly broke into tears in front of my friends today. and then again in front of my mum, but I managed to hold or hide them. if they had have seen then they might see how I can’t
there really is nothing to do
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“It must be awful, being a homophobe. Having to spend all that time obsessing...”
– Charlie Brooker, Some people are gay in space. Get over it (via aleatoire)
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oh that’s right, I’m meant to be studying!
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t...”
– David Foster Wallace
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“I read so many short, easy things. I read the label on the shampoo bottle, I...”
– Miranda July on books. (via somethingchanged)
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Bandt elected deputy Greens leader →
The Bandtstinator!
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“Twenty years ago I could not go up the street without getting abused. Quite a...”
– Bob Brown in his press conference today, from Bob Brown: Most successful third party politician of his generation | Crikey (via leonrw)
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onlymrgodknowswhy:
Look who’s on the right!
Adam Bandt’s face is like “I know I’m awesome.”
Haha! Gotta love Bandt-y. This is how I found out about Brown’s resignation. Hmmm, things are sure to happen some time now. Things will definitely happen.
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I kind of feel sorry to people of the left in...
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theworldoflamb:
I have notice week by week the closer we are coming to a election how much people on the left are trying to pull out anything to attack tony Abbott and the coalition but its not working most polls have the 2PP vote around 43 to 57 and its been like that for months now the ALP has not been within 4 points of the coalition for about a year. Now in a election...
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Hmm, looks like it’s going to be a veggie burger dinner tonight.
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Maybe I shouldn't have had so many of these...
EXCESS CONSUMPTION OF THIS PRODUCT MAY HAVE A LAXATIVE EFFECT.
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Tony Abbott's love for his gay sister
breakfastatparliament:
When I was in year 5, I saw my teacher, Miss Hansford in the supermarket carpark. I was befuddled. She buys groceries? She DRIVES a CAR? She wears JEANS? It was so disconcerting to see her out of her natural habitat. I didn’t like it one bit.
I feel similarly discombobulated when I get a glimpse at the real life of politicians. The idea of them sitting around a dinner table...
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Adults Who Only Read Adult Books Should Shut Up...
imitationeuropean:
I interrupt this blog for a moment of outrage.
Okay, maybe “outrage” is too strong a word, but when I saw the title of this New York Times opinion piece—“Adults Should Read Adult Books”—my first reaction was something like this. It’s no secret that I love young adult fiction and I fully intend to read it until the day I die. After reading the full article, though, it’s clear...
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Gah! We had a problem contacting SoundCloud....
God dammit! CONTACT THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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huh
What kind of person dislikes someone just because they’re happy?
