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Flughumor by Magnus Muhr, 2009

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:17 -0700

Flughumor by Magnus Muhr, 2009

weknowmemes: Tumblr summed up in one gif

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:40:16 -0700

weknowmemes:

Tumblr summed up in one gif

"Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:20:16 -0700

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”

- ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art (via misscastlerock)

babylonfalling: for the hell of it

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:17 -0700

babylonfalling:

for the hell of it

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Thu, 23 May 2013 00:40:16 -0700

utnereader: Urban Zapatismo It’s easy to feel isolated against...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:20:16 -0700

utnereader:

Urban Zapatismo

It’s easy to feel isolated against a force as powerful as gentrification, particularly in Manhattan, where the new average rent of $3,418 would require a 118-hour workweek for those earning minimum wage. But the activists behind the Movement for Justice in El Barrio were not about to feel isolated. So in 2004, a small number of Spanish-speaking tenants decided to organize and fight back against slumlords and the displacement wrought from gentrification in New York City’s East Harlem. Keep reading …

animetimsutton: vaspim: If you think your life sucks, just...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:40:25 -0700

animetimsutton:

vaspim:

If you think your life sucks, just look at this picture and think “it could be worse.”

palms are sweaty
knees weak, arms are heavy
it’s fallen out of my hands already
mom’s spaghetti

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: thepeoplesrecord: Prison Labor...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:20:25 -0700

setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain:

thepeoplesrecord:

Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom
May 21, 2013

Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.

The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”

And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”

Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.

In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.

A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”

Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.

Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)

On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for GOP congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.

Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.

Full article

AND THIS

IS WHY

THE WAR ON DRUGS

AND REAGAN

CAN FUCKING BURN FOREVER

FOR FUCKING EVER

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Wed, 22 May 2013 03:00:25 -0700

buttlid: kymherz: ippinka: Try out a cool way to separate egg...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:40:24 -0700

buttlid:

kymherz:

ippinka:

Try out a cool way to separate egg yolks from egg whites!

this is genius.

this is actually lifechanging

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Wed, 22 May 2013 02:20:24 -0700

The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives | Crooks and Liars

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:00:25 -0700

The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives | Crooks and Liars

Under Mayor Bloomberg: inequality widened, rents rose, the homeless population exploded, every major public union contract expired and the rich got richer.

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:40:24 -0700

Under Mayor Bloomberg: inequality widened, rents rose, the homeless population exploded, every major public union contract expired and the rich got richer.:

thenationmagazine:

Bloomberg by the numbers.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:20:28 -0700

brucesterling: Estonia

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:29 -0700

brucesterling:

Estonia

singularsociety: TURNING INTO GODS - ‘Concept Teaser’

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:40:28 -0700

singularsociety:

TURNING INTO GODS - ‘Concept Teaser’

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Wed, 22 May 2013 00:20:28 -0700

Vos steelt camera - De Nieuwe Wildernis (by NieuweWildernis)

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:48 -0700

Vos steelt camera - De Nieuwe Wildernis (by NieuweWildernis)

myampgoesto11: Stargazing At The Elqui Domos Hotel In Chile |...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:40:12 -0700

myampgoesto11:

Stargazing At The Elqui Domos Hotel In Chile | Designed by RDM Arquitectura | Photos by James Florio

In the heart of the mythical Elqui Valley in Pisco, surrounded by the Andes Mountains, 500km north of Santiago in central Chile, lies a magical place that allows for star-spangled dreams beneath the clear pure sky. Combining stargazing and specialized astronomic tours with night-time horseback riding, meditation and even tarot readings, Elqui Domos is a hotel quite like no other.

It was completed in 2005 to fulfil its owners’ desire to observe and enjoy the grandeur of the one of the world’s most star-filled skies. It is one of only seven astronomic hotels around the world and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere, offering breathtaking views of the magic skies draped over the Elqui Valley (the valley is renowned for its sharp, clear skies, as it happens to sit under one of the clearest atmospheres in the world). The lack of rain and pleasant weather all year round set the perfect conditions for astronomic tourism, where guests can gather to enjoy a unique chance to liaise with the stars.

(via Yatzer)

foto-maniac2: George Griefy

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:16 -0700

foto-maniac2:

George Griefy