November 2011
25 posts
Last member of 65,000-year-old tribe dies, taking... →
fyeahblackhistory:
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world’s earliest languages to the grave.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo.
Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans...
I believe that if you see or hear something you feel is stupid, you’re contributing to it if you choose to stay silent. I have a tendency to just not shut up when it comes to issues I feel strongly about. If I hear something I believe to be ignorant and harmful, I’ll argue against it regardless of the setting or person. They’re never appropriate moments to be so mouthy, and it...
If I had one day left to live,
presuming I could get the emotional goodbyes out of the way early enough, and I’d have a choice when it came to how to spend the day, I think I would eat all of my favourite foods. Just sit on the sofa in the dining room, eating everything I love in front of the television. And then I’d go up for a nap when I had fifteen or so minutes left.
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I have a 2000 word essay due in for 12pm today. Everybody who takes The Enlightenment has to do it, but the essay titles differ between classes because each class leader chooses a small selection to pick from for his/her students. This is what happens when you get set awful ones:
Pick easiest looking question and start writing.
Realise the most you can write only gets you to around half the...
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I’ve never been able to place why I love Jeff Buckley’s songs. I dislike quite a few of his lyrics and I find myself rolling my eyes more often than not at some tracks, but I still think of him instantly when the topic of favourite singers comes up. I could brush him off so easily as another pretty white boy with a guitar and unnecessarily romanticised death, but it wouldn’t be...
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My Society, Culture & Politics in Early Modern Europe seminar leader said she’d e-mail me about the coursework within the next half hour. She said that two hours ago. Surely this is reason enough to just not bother with the assignment at all?
I have an assignment due in on Friday. Jeff Buckley would have turned 45 tomorrow, and the only thing pushing me to complete every last detail of that essay is the fact I’ll have tomorrow free to Buckley spam like nothing else.
Anonymous asked: Not only do I like your blog (haha I found it) but I also am OBSESSED with you secretly. Ok here we go.. I got this idea from a Tumblr spam I got once lol.. I think you like me too and you were always too shy to admit it :3 go to crushmatches(dòt)com (wtf it wont let me link regular) and make an account there. Then look up the profile 'gottagetme19' (me obviously) I left body...
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aces-muse asked: Hello I am from the US and I want to study abroad in Colchester. How do you like it??
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It's been one month since I moved to Colchester to...
This time last month - minus a few hours - Shemsa, Laura and I piled into each others’ rooms tentatively, pointing out books and DVDs we all liked and have. We’d known each other for around half an hour.
We had a little one month anniversary a few hours ago. It involved having what must have been our one millionth girly chat since October 2nd around the kitchen table (covered in...
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“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The...”
– Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
H/T The Rumpus
FUCKING READ THIS SHIT. NEXT TIME ANYONE THINKS IT’S OKAY TO RAG ON TRANS* PEOPLE (BECAUSE LOLOL THEIR EXISTENCE IS JUST SO FUNNY, ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT...
“For all the girls who think tradition should be continued, go back to the...”
– Rebecca Arrellano to the girls who were against her getting crowned homecoming king (her girlfriend was crowned homecoming queen) because it went against tradition (via feministfairytale)
“Your life is not an episode of Skins. Things will never look quite as good as...”
– (via wethreefossils, tothemoonandbackagain) (via wandering-eyes) (via pertainingtotheimagination) (via remember-that-feeling) (via twinkletwinklelittlecunt) (via differencebetweenus) (via darlingisthislove) (via joedoesnumbers) (via thefrozenground) (via no-hopeintheair) (via allthejaibirds) 