we all have that one friend who is probably secretly a magical girl.
June 2013
my favourite kind of friendship is one where there’s a mutual understanding of the fact that we both have our own lives so we won’t be able to talk or hang out all the time but when we do talk or hang out it’s like picking up right where we left off
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I do not trust [Obama]; I don’t trust a single word from him. Osama bin Laden has been killed, so what does he want more?
Convey my message to Americans: The CIA and America have to stop … they’re just creating more enemies and this will last for hundreds of years.
” —Jalal Manzar Khail, a Pakistani man whose friends and family were targeted in a U.S. drone strike responsible for the death of as many as 42 people, a maximum of four of whom had any Taliban associations. (via hipsterlibertarian)
“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.”
—Joan Bauer; Rules of the Road (via wordpainting)
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What do you say to readers who are upset about the scene?
It depends on what they say. What can you say to someone who says they’ll never read your book again? People read books for different reasons. I respect that. Some read for comfort. And some of my former readers have said their life is hard, their mother is sick, their dog died, and they read fiction to escape. They don’t want to get hit in the mouth with something horrible. And you read that certain kind of fiction where the guy will always get the girl and the good guys win and it reaffirms to you that life is fair. We all want that at times. There’s a certain vicarious release to that. So I’m not dismissive of people who want that. But that’s not the kind of fiction I write, in most cases. It’s certainly not what Ice and Fire is. It tries to be more realistic about what life is. It has joy, but it also had pain and fear. I think the best fiction captures life in all its light and darkness.
” —‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding | Inside TV | EW.com (via lixstormbornx)a friendly reminder:
don’t hang out with people that make you feel bad about yourself
The Supreme Court Decided Your Silence Can Be Used Against You →
theatlanticwire.com
Here’s what that means.
Basically, if you’re ever in any trouble with police (no, we don’t condone breaking laws) and want to keep your mouth shut, you will need to announce that you’re invoking your Fifth Amendment right instead of, you know, just keeping your mouth shut.
So what’s next? Will we have to announce, “I’m exercising my First Amendment right” before we go to church? Blog? Have a club meeting? And if you post on Facebook, should you make note of your right to free speech in the status itself, or do you say it out to your living room?
Or should we say, “I’m using my Second Amendment right” every time we touch a gun?
Or what about the Third Amendment? If I don’t mention it each time I leave my house, should I expect to find soldiers bunking down in my kitchen when I get home?
The point of a right is that it’s yours, and it’s yours independent of any law, and you don’t have to make an announcement about it when you want to exercise it.
“Thanks to everyone for their support, and remember that just because you are not the target of a surveillance program does not make it okay. The US Person / foreigner distinction is not a reasonable substitute for individualized suspicion, and is only applied to improve support for the program. This is the precise reason that NSA provides Congress with a special immunity to its surveillance.”
—Edward Snowden during his live Q&A with Glenn Greenwald and pretty much all of twitter. (via stopprism)
i don’t want a boyfriend i just want multiple attractive boys to constantly give me attention
Break an expensive vase
kiss kiss fall in love
“This country is worth dying for.”
—Edward Snowden when asked what he would say to others who are in a position to leak classified information which could benefit the public. (via stopprism)
“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.”
—Edward Snowden (via stopprism)
“Sometimes bridges burning isn’t a bad thing. It prevents you from going back to a place you should never have been to begin with.”
—(via sanguine-spiraling)
Former Bank of America workers allege it lied to home owners →
reuters.com
For example, an employee who placed 10 or more accounts into foreclosure a month could get a $500 bonus. At the same time, the bank punished those who did not make the numbers or objected to its tactics with discipline, including firing.
About twice a month, the bank cleaned out its HAMP backlog in an operation called “blitz,” where it declined thousands of loan modification requests just because the documents were more than 60 months old, the court documents say.
The testimony from the former employees also alleges the bank falsified information it gave the government, saying it had given out HAMP loan modifications when it had not.
Rick Simon, a Bank of America Home Loans spokesman, said the bank had successfully completed more modifications than any other servicer under HAMP.
“We continue to demonstrate our commitment to assisting customers who are at risk of foreclosure and, at best, these attorneys are painting a false picture of the bank’s practices and the dedication of our employees,” Simon said in a email, adding the declarations were “rife with factual inaccuracies.”
Bank of America is evil.
i saw a chameleon today so i guess it was a pretty shitty chameleon
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”
—Edmund Lee (via emotional-algebra)
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
—Josephine Hart (via quote-book)
With Father’s day fast approaching, I would like to send a shout out to the people typically ignored on days like this:
- To the people with abusive fathers
- To the people absentee fathers
- To the people who don’t know their fathers
- To the people who cut their fathers out of their lives
- To the people with conflicting feelings about father’s day because their own father was a piece of shit but other men they know and love are awesome dads
- To the people who learned how not to be a shitty dad by not doing what their father did
- To the people whose fathers are deceased
- To the people whose fathers are locked up or deployed and/or can’t come home
- To the people trying to mend broken relationships with their fathers
You are not alone. If you don’t want to celebrate father’s day or you don’t want to talk to your father, that’s perfectly fine. Do whatever it takes to make sure you are healthy and happy.