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Life by a certain eye, captured by uncertain hands for unknown ends--though still she'll try

Bullhead - Trailer (by trailersnclips)

Outstanding trailer. Cannot wait to see this.

thedailywhat: Follow Up of the Day: Crafty hackers last night managed to hijack the official website of embattled breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and express their dismay at the organization’s politically expedient decision to pull Planned Parenthood grants funding breast-cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured low-income patients. The switch was simple, but the message was clear: A banner previously calling women to join a run aimed at ridding the world of breast cancer now read “help us run over poor women on our way to the bank.” The hack, which briefly redirected www.komen.org visitors to ww5.komen.org, was only the first in a series of notable developments that have taken place since the charity announced its controversial grant withdrawal on Tuesday. Planned Parenthood, which called out Komen for bowing to “political pressure,” has managed to raise nearly $1 million from online donations and generous contributions from deep-pocketed supporters such as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. That number, which is continuing to rise, is nearly as much as Komen gave the nonprofit in 2010 and 2011 combined. Pressure on Komen to reverse its decision is also mounting. 22 Democratic Senators have reportedly signed a strongly worded letter calling on Komen to resume its partnership with Planned Parenthood. Additionally, Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, has resigned to protest her employer’s defunding decision. The executive director of Komen’s Los Angeles County chapter has also stated her intention to resign. For its part, Komen continues to deny anti-abortion links to its decision, despite their anti-choice SVP Karen Handel’s well-established goal to defund Planned Parenthood. (Handel recently retweeted a remark critical of Planned Parenthood that concluded with the phrase “cry me a freaking river.” The retweet was soon deleted.) The organization is further denying its deletion of pro-Planned Parenthood comments from its Facebook page and message board, claiming it only removes comments for profanity. One poignant comment Komen couldn’t delete was left by award-winning author Judy Blume on her Twitter feed: ”Susan Komen would not give in to bullies or to fear. Too bad the foundation bearing her name did. Support @PPact. Save lives.” When even Judy Blume is calling you out, you should probably stop and listen. [image: atlanticwire.]

thedailywhat:

Follow Up of the Day: Crafty hackers last night managed to hijack the official website of embattled breast-cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and express their dismay at the organization’s politically expedient decision to pull Planned Parenthood grants funding breast-cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured low-income patients.

The switch was simple, but the message was clear: A banner previously calling women to join a run aimed at ridding the world of breast cancer now read “help us run over poor women on our way to the bank.”

The hack, which briefly redirected www.komen.org visitors to ww5.komen.org, was only the first in a series of notable developments that have taken place since the charity announced its controversial grant withdrawal on Tuesday.

Planned Parenthood, which called out Komen for bowing to “political pressure,” has managed to raise nearly $1 million from online donations and generous contributions from deep-pocketed supporters such as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

That number, which is continuing to rise, is nearly as much as Komen gave the nonprofit in 2010 and 2011 combined.

Pressure on Komen to reverse its decision is also mounting. 22 Democratic Senators have reportedly signed a strongly worded letter calling on Komen to resume its partnership with Planned Parenthood.

Additionally, Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, has resigned to protest her employer’s defunding decision. The executive director of Komen’s Los Angeles County chapter has also stated her intention to resign.

For its part, Komen continues to deny anti-abortion links to its decision, despite their anti-choice SVP Karen Handel’s well-established goal to defund Planned Parenthood. (Handel recently retweeted a remark critical of Planned Parenthood that concluded with the phrase “cry me a freaking river.” The retweet was soon deleted.)

The organization is further denying its deletion of pro-Planned Parenthood comments from its Facebook page and message board, claiming it only removes comments for profanity.

One poignant comment Komen couldn’t delete was left by award-winning author Judy Blume on her Twitter feed: ”Susan Komen would not give in to bullies or to fear. Too bad the foundation bearing her name did. Support @PPact. Save lives.”

When even Judy Blume is calling you out, you should probably stop and listen.

[image: atlanticwire.]

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Everything about this idea is beautiful. The reading. The color. The re-purposing of an archaic and unnecessary space. But mostly, just the idea of so many lives connected by chance.  thisbigcity: Ideas for cities? Book sharing in public space. 公共空間的書籍分享構想。

Everything about this idea is beautiful. The reading. The color. The re-purposing of an archaic and unnecessary space. But mostly, just the idea of so many lives connected by chance. 

thisbigcity:

Ideas for cities? Book sharing in public space.

公共空間的書籍分享構想。

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Decisions I Came to Today: This, in Letter Form

Screw it.

Boy I Like? If you were doing what you were doing with anyone else, I would suspect you were into that person. I need to stop assuming that just because your behavior is directed at me that you could mean a million things that are not being into me, just because it’s me. I can’t ask you out for a while, but when I can, I will.

Unless something happens that definitively suggests I shouldn’t.

But even then? Whatever. For now, screw the mind games. Screw all of the sneaking around and questioning. Overthinking’s never done a girl good and has never done this one any better.

I like you; do you like me? Don’t check yes or no.

I’ll find out when I ask you out.

God Bless America - Official RED BAND Trailer (2012) (by evilferris)

The blackest of black humor. Cannot wait.

You can’t explain why you like something. The bigger question for me was always to the people asking me to explain. [I’d say], ‘Why don’t you want to hear this?’ I love finding out why people don’t love things. And if you ask people why they don’t like things, particularly when they get into this sort of culture box, you find out that they’re not liking things because of what people are going to think about them, and not because of what the things actually sound like.

—Stew, on how people like music or don’t like music because they think other people think they should like or dislike it. (via nprfreshair)

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