February 2011
Hey, you know what's great? →
etrehumain:
Click on the link to read a bill that’s in the Hawaii Legislature right now. It’s adding “gender identity or expression” to a list of things people can’t discriminate against. It passed a Committee with all voting aye with 3 ayes with reservations.
Today may be a good year for civil rights in Hawaii (especially for trans* folk). :D
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
“If Western leaders, who have backed the dictator Mubarak for 30 years, cannot...”
– Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian democracy leader and Nobel laureate
vruz: obama’s turn now.
(via vruz)
January 2011
“I don’t want to be tolerated. That offends my love of life and liberty.”
– Jean Cocteau (via pansexualpride)
“It’s not my job to make you a better man, and I don’t give a shit if I’ve made...”
– Jenny (The L Word)
(via madamethursday)
“I’m tired of hiding who I am to feel comfortable around my own family members.”
– genderfork (via cassket)
“**TRIGGER WARNING**
Meanwhile, Roethlisberger’s lawyer is telling journalists,...”
– Kate Harding (via stfusexists) (via thehumorlessfeminist) (via ginger-gal) (via greaterthanlapsed)
The Tweets Must Flow →
vruz:
Twitter Blog
Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of users. We don’t always agree with the things people choose to tweet, but we keep...
3 Projects to Create a Government-less Internet →
vruz:
The OLPC’s XO has meshnetworking capabilities. And some gaming systems, such as the Nintendo DS, have mesh networking built in. But we want to look at projects that are specifically aimed at replacing or augmenting the public Internet. - Klint Finley, ReadWriteWeb
vruz: if corporatism can’t get their shit together, people will make an internet of their own.
WikiLeaks: The Guardian's role in the biggest leak... →
vruz:
vruz: you know, it’s infantile to pretend you can close your eyes and it will go away. solution: get fucking real. yesterday.
In an extract from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s war on secrecy, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief explains why Assange remains such an important figure – and why the story is destined to run and run.
In Britain the Guardian was, for many months, the only...
“Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican...”
– And, yes, this is going on.
Let’s outline, one more time, the reasons why requiring “force” as a part of legally defined rape is a bad idea, hey? Because there are many. And let’s skip right past the part where many rapes would no longer be defined as such (I’m… really not sure how you redefine...
UK ISPs Moot Anonymous Internet Solution to... →
A Swedish ISP that is also responsible for hosting WikiLeaks, Bahnhof, has this week triggered a fresh debate into internet privacy by announcing its intention to avoid the new European Data Retention Directive and stick all of its customers behind an effectively anonymous Virtual Private Network (VPN). Most VPN’s act as private networks that piggyback the public internet and are traditionally...
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the...”
– Desmond Tutu
vruz: there, conservatives and neocentrists…
(via vruz)
theyearwas91:
I just really want to hug you and never let go
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into...”
– Albert Schweitzer (via 117elevenseven)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via quote-book)
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a...”
– Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)
danielaarchbold:
your heart doesn’t give you breaks it just keeps wanting more, and more
“More than 1,500 people in this predominantly Latino community took part in the...”
– California Latinos protest Arizona push to end birthright citizenship - By the CNN Wire staff
You have got to be kidding me.
From the first two paragraphs of the wikipedia page for Sí se puede.:
Sí, se puede (Spanish for “Yes, it is possible” or, roughly, “Yes, it can be done”[1]) is the motto of...
