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“‘The small amount of oil and gas that can be extracted from that site pales in comparison to the nightmare that contaminating the water supply for over 131,000 residents in your community would cause.’”

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Excerpt from my letter against fracking in Woodburn Forest, Protesters campaigning against Woodburn Forest drilling start crowd-funding drive to help pay for expert help and legal costs

Help Northern Ireland defend it’s water against the environmental tyranny of Natural Gas! http://ow.ly/YL47t

(via markruffalo)

“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know that there’s nothing but light when I see you.”

— Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being (via wordsnquotes)

I’m tired of the doom and gloom “bernie is losing, we’re failing him!” posts so listen up

ohmysmokeythebear:

A polical science lesson for y’all:

  • Bernie is not “falling behind” and we’re not “failing him”
  • In fact, posts like those are MORE likely to discourage voters and kill his momentum than encourage them
  • At this point in the race, it is NOT ABOUT THE DELEGATE COUNT, IT’S ABOUT MOMENTUM
  • who has a lot of momentum right now?? BERNIE. He has done FAR BETTER THAN EXPECTED while Hillary has done much WORSE than expected
  • like i said delegate counts don’t really matter much right now
  • BUT just so everyone knows, as of 2/24 Bernie and Hillary are TIED
  • They both have 51 delegates each
  • lots of news sites are saying hillary has a huge lead on bernie with delegates because they are assuming the superdelegates are with her but that’s all just speculation Not. Fact.
  • Super Tuesday (on March 1st) has a lot of southern states who will most likely favor Hillary but that’s ok because
  • ALL DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES AND CAUCUSES ARE PROPORTIONAL
  • YOUR VOTE ABSOLUTELY HAS IMPACT
  • even if hillary “wins” some states bernie will still get delegates and THAT’s what’s important!!!!
  • YES get out there and vote because it’s Super Important I Cannot Stress That Enough
  • but also know that it’s NOT doom and gloom, bernie ISN’T DOING BADLY AT ALL and we aren’t “failing him”

crystalsoulslayer:

I always hate it when people are all “so do you go to school, or are you working, or” and I either have to

  • make up some lie, or
  • eventually get around to “I am not working because of depression/anxiety,” and subsequently have to deal with whatever bullshit-riddled and completely unsolicited opinions on mental illness this stranger feels obligated to share with me.

So my therapist was like, “You don’t have to do either. You can just say you haven’t worked in a while because you’re recovering from an illness.”

I tried it when the home inspector was here today, and it fucking worked. He was like, “oh, I’m sorry, are you doing better now,” and I’m like yeah, and don’t worry, it’s not contagious, awkward laugh, and we moved on.

MY THERAPIST. IS A GENIUS. Because it is an illness, so it’s not a lie to say that, and it’s also none of his business to know specifically what it is, and I clearly don’t want to give more details, so we should move on from this topic. MY THERAPIST IS A GODDAMN GENIUS.

“You don’t need a Ph.D. in economics to remember the history of the last quarter-century. Bill Clinton raised taxes, and Republicans said the country would plunge into recession and the deficit would balloon; instead we had one of the best periods of growth in American history and we actually got to federal budget surplus. Then George W. Bush cut taxes, and Republicans said we’d enter economic nirvana; instead there was incredibly weak job growth culminating in the Great Recession. Barack Obama raised taxes, and Republicans said it would produce economic disaster; instead the deficit was slashed and millions of jobs were created.”

— We don’t actually have to argue about whether the Republican tax plan will increase the deficit, because the theory behind it has been tested again and again, and the results are obvious.
(via wilwheaton)

adrasteiax:

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.“

–Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles