November 2011
253 posts
“I would do it again.”
—Kansas teen Emma Sullivan • Rejecting a demand by her high school principal that she apologize to the governor of the state, Sam Brownback, over a tweet she wrote to her friends that said, verbatim, this: “Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” Sullivan, who disagrees with Brownback’s stance on paying for the arts, got reprimanded by her school over the tweet (at the request of the governor’s office), a move that backfired and earned her thousands of followers on Twitter. Stand up for your rights, Emma! (via shortformblog)
A Baptist church in North Carolina has voted to stop legally marrying anyone until homosexuals have marriage equality. →
newsobserver.com
“As people of faith, affirming the Christian teaching that before God all people are equal, we will no longer participate in this discrimination,” the church’s statement says.
The vote was unanimous and brought tears to the eyes of some of the 100 or so members who stood to vote in favor of the “statement on marriage ceremonies.”
Try imagining Tumblr as a giant house where every fandom has a room to themselves, but can visit the others whenever they want. Each fanroom has its own supply closet full of whatever that particular fandom needs. In this giant house, you all eat in a great hall, similar to that of Hogwarts. You sleep where you drop, wake when you want, and do whatever the hell you feel like. Oh, and there's free Wifi.
That…
that must be what Heaven’s like.
If that is heaven, I want to die now.
free wifi you say? I’m there.
48 years ago today, the BBC televised a daft little show about a man with a flying box. They didn't expect much; it was suppose to be an educational family show. It relied on string and staples for it's special effects. It's main villain had a sink plunger attached to it. Yet, almost half a decade later, the show has become a national institution for Britain, an international phenomenon, and along with it has produced a fandom that spans three generations. 48 years ago today, the BBC televised Doctor Who, a daft old show, and probably the most loved too.
Every fan of Chuck
Know disarm a bomb with fruit juice, or with a computer virus
Want to have a supercomputer in the brain (The Intersect)
Never stay in the car
Knows that the agents of the F.B.I are dumb, not deaf.
Knows that the window of the Chuck’s bedroom is the Morgan’s door
Already snarled as Casey
“For a lot of the folks who have been in New York and all across the country in the Occupy movement, there is a profound sense of frustration about the fact that the essence of the American dream, which is if you work hard, if you stick to it that, you can make it, feels like that’s slipping away. And that’s not the way things are supposed to be. Not here. Not in America.”
—President Obama • Responding to an interruption by Occupy protesters during a jobs speech in New Hampshire. After protesters “human-mic’d” themselves into the President’s attention (“Mr. President, more than 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested…”), he gave the above response, which seems both significant and somewhat lacking. That the President would directly address the protesters and cast himself on their side, in a way, speaks to the now nearly unstoppable influence the Occupy movement is having on the public discourse. At the same time, though, what Obama chose to say was fairly customary “American dream” rhetoric that didn’t address their specifically stated concern over the arrests of their comrades. source (via • follow)
Tumblr vs Facebook: David Tennant Edition
Someone I don’t know adds me on Facebook:
Someone I don’t know follows me on Tumblr:
Someone writes on my Facebook wall:
Someone writes in my Tumblr ask:
Lose a friend on Facebook:
Lose a follower on Tumblr:
Error on Facebook:
Error on Tumblr:
GPOY GPOY GPOY!!!
