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Linkspam #119 (compiled in 2014)
- How Ferguson's Rotting Suburbia Helped Create a Powder Keg, by Jim Dalrymple II at BuzzFeed News
- Jane Lynch Wrote A Book About Bullies Because She Used To Be One, by Ashley C. Ford at BuzzFeed.
- Patrick Stewart Says He And Other Victims Of Domestic Violence Have Been "Failed" By Police, by Cate Sevilla at BuzzFeed. Here is Sir Patrick's article.
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Linkspam #118 (compiled in 2013)
- What is the best horror story you can come with in two sentences, from Reddit. THe winner is justaAnotherMuffledVo:
I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody ( Read more... )
- What is the best horror story you can come with in two sentences, from Reddit. THe winner is justaAnotherMuffledVo:
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Linkspam #117 (compiled in 2013)
- Fifty Shades of Grey and the Twilight Pro-Fic Phenomenon, by Aja Romano at The Mary Sue. [I'm not a fan of either, but I am a fan of filing off the serial number and of starting fan-run publishing houses.]
- NY Times to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly, by Aja Romano at The Mary Sue. [More well-rounded female main characters, please, not less!]
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Linkspam #116
- From @nytimes, Bomber Strikes Near Hotel in Kabul.
- Also from @nytimes, 3 Sites Hit by Bombs in Baghdad.
- OMFSM. From @laraaine, 20Q: Keith Olberman. An article from 1998 in Playboy UK. XD
- Interesting! From @8C, Zombible: Mark, Luke, and Zombies: Introducing the Zombible project.
- From @MODwife, Evening of Poetry Gives Deployed an Outlet for Self ( Read more... )
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Linkspam #115
- This locked, awesome anonymous quote from zevshir's LJ:
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - From someone on Twitter, Twelve Men Face Execution for Sodomy in Iran. They were members of a student gay rights organization. (from gaycitynews.com)
- I was just sent this link in an email: Some Resoruces re: the Vegemite ( Read more... )
- This locked, awesome anonymous quote from zevshir's LJ:
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Linkspam #114
- From ThinkProgress Green, Fox News: 'Facts Are Certainly' On The Side Of Global Warming, But 'It Doesn’t Matter' Reality has a well known liberal bias, yanno. :P
- From Web Urbanist, Don't Call it Knitting: Olek's Crazy Crocheted World. No, really. Don't call it knitting. I will fucking cut you.
- From msnbc.com, Perry says no to 'Obamacare,' but what's ( Read more... )
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Linkspam #113
- From ontd_political, Grief Beyond Belief. I'm so glad this organization is out there now.
- Flickr's SIX BILLIONTH photo. Wow.
- From SBS.com.au, No backing down on Malaysia deal: Bowen.
- From ontd_political, TSA at LAX to get transgender training. Now if only she'd just been treated fairly to begin with. Oh, and don't read the comments at the source. Just...trust me.
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Linkspam #112
- From Slate.com, Lessons of the Crisis: The debt-ceiling debacle revealed that politics is broken in every possible way and there's no point in explaining complicated matters to the American people.
- From The New Yorker, God's Blog. XD
- From io9.com, 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Original Star Trek. Even I didn't know them! :)
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Linkspam #111
- From the NY Times, Wichita Doctor Takes Up Fight for Abortions. About Dr. Mila Means.
- From the NY Times Sunday Review, IN Defense of Antidepressants. Interesting!
- From CNN, Warren Jeffs found guilty of sexual assault. About damn time!
- From Wonkette, Hero Veteran Gets Court Permission To Sue The Pants Off Donald Rumsfeld. AWESOME.
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Linkspam #110
- HuffPost headline misses point. In other news, water is wet. :P
- From the LA Times, U.S. Supreme Court orders massive inmate release to relieve California's crowded prisons.
- From the New York Times, Court Orders New Jersey to Increase Aid to Schools. Lordy fuck, Chris Christie is self-vilifying.
- Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts. From truthdig.com.
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