Posts tagged astationaryjew
fact: you eat 28 spiders in your lifetime. always 28. if you are about to die and you have only eaten 3 then 25 spiders arrive at once
STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!
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Like all conspiracy theories, the idea that language is a prisonhouse denigrates its subject by overestimating its power. Language is the magnificent faculty that we use to get thoughts from one head to another, and we can co-opt it in many ways to help our thoughts along. But it is not the same as thought, not the only thing that separates humans from other animals, not the basis of all culture, and not an inescapable prisonhouse, an obligatory agreement, the limits of our world, or the determiner of what is imaginable.
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate, p. 208 (via astationaryjew)
AWESOME QUOTE!
101 Books To Read This Summer Instead of ‘50 Shades of Grey’
Listen, 50 Shades of Grey is not my cup of tea, but can’t we encourage people to read without shaming them for their reading choices? I am not thrilled with the offhand use of the phrase “trashy erotica” in this article. You can read erotica and great literature—as it turns, sometimes they are one and the same.
I don’t want to defend a book that I couldn’t even finish, but shaming people (lbr mostly women) for reading erotica is not cool.
I concur. My problem with 50 Shades wasn’t the erotica; it was that it was so poorly written. But to each her own.
astrophe
n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head—a crisp analysis, a cathartic dialogue, a devastating comeback—which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage where you can connect more deeply with people than in the small ball of everyday life, which is a game of change-up pitches, sacrifice bunts, and intentional walks.
Thank you! I am glad I now know what my obsessive inner dialogue is formally called.
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Bomb Exploded Outside Planned Parenthood Clinic in Wisconsin
No one was inside the building when the homemade device exploded, and no injuries were reported.
Oh my God.
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In honor of a Tumblr friend’s birthday, because I have enjoyed every single post of a certain poor Creature.
Descriptivists of the world, feel free to use this as a response to language criticism whenever you see fit!
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IT IS DISTURBINGLY EASY TO BUY BOOKS ON THE KINDLE
I think my Kindle is a model of restraint, considering it has wifi and I’ve stored my CC# with Amazon. I mean, I’ve finished books at 1am and then studiously NOT bought the sequel.
Your restraint is impressive! I… can’t say the same for myself.
Borrow books from your library instead! Check and see if your local library has an Overdrive app that you can download onto your Kindle to check out books. I love it, and it’s much cheaper!
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This is an amazing gif. Not only does Luke’s high-kick not even make contact with that dude’s head, but check out Boba Fett flailing across the sky in the background.
Boba Fett is killing me.
The timing of the extra’s reaction is also pretty off and emphasizes the fact that Luke’s kick doesn’t connect. Pretty awesome.
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