… Joe, Hillary and Michelle were all ORANGE MOCHA FRAPUCCINOS???
“Now go buy a cold can of Dr. Pepper and jam it up your butt.” — Quit Complaining About Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban, Fatsos
… Joe, Hillary and Michelle were all ORANGE MOCHA FRAPUCCINOS???
[video]
“You will build a body of work, but you will also build a body of affection, with the people you’ve helped who’ve helped you back. This is the era of Friends in Low Places.” —
Advice from Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich
THIS. IS. EVERYTHING.
(via jennydeluxe)
(Source: , via jennydeluxe)
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.’” —
Susan Sontag, quoted by Brendan Berg. She’s right, precisely and exactly.
It’s not the first element of her argument that’s arresting; any idiot knows that intelligence is overrated in all sorts of ways. But the insight that when we are real and human with each other we produce ‘intelligence’ —as an outcome, not as an attribute— is profound, true, and an explanation I’d never encountered for why I prefer the company of the real and dull to erudite performers distracted by their own brilliance. It is not merely a question of taste: the former converse collaboratively, build meanings with you, surprise you; the latter are not so open to discovery because the dialectic process is for them both a pleasure and a competition, and their intelligence is too precious to them to be risked on banal inquiries, dumb guesses, the fatal utterance “I don’t know.”
(via mills)
(via mills)
“Don’t look at people who are crying on the subway. You might one day do it yourself, and will want the same graciousness extended to you.” — The expert’s guide to NYC
Knight News Challenge: ThinkUp -
Laying out ThinkUp’s future plans in a Knight News Challenge application. Please <3 and reblog.
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Build an information network that connects to today’s social networks, but isn’t centralized and dependent on a company or investors.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Others from Diaspora to…
(Source: newschallenge1)
we are not alone. seriously. #universe #galaxies
(Source: jamespoynton)
[video]
[video]
[video]
[video]
(Source: choire)
“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her. This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television. I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.
I love this picture, I love this woman, I love that Gene took a stand against the network, and I love that Nichelle had the courage to stick around, and inspire a generation of women (of color and otherwise) to believe in themselves.
