Latest Posts by seorsam - Page 7
Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.
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So true, sadly about so few for me. But when it happens it makes life so much better.
Well there is at least one perk to helping the old folks with their medical stuff. #BMW #209 #StocktonCA #PhotoToaster
Feeling a bit like Harry Potter living under the stairs.#harrypotter #PhotoToaster
A lovely fall day in #Stocktonca #209 #SOA #therealstocktonwaterfront #PhotoToaster
I was drawn in by one if your photos, I saw this and am glad you are taking it seriously! There are a few tough things about getting diagnosed:1-ADHD is often misdiagnosed. 2- a lot of people have strong, uninformed beliefs about ADHD.3-there are a lot of good things about ADHD. It is best to have a psychiatrist that is an expert in adult ADHD. I did not get diagnosed until I was 48. I relate to a lot of what you said,just decades of that and I am not an artist, though I love artists and my daughter one. I have many similar symptoms as you described. I tend to Hyperfocus on the wrong thing. I only got help because work was falling apart. If I was not the CEO I would have been fired. Don't be afraid to try different things, don't be afraid of meds, and be kind to yourself. Message me any time for encouragement or just for someone to listen. I wish I had figured it out when I was young. George
If there is anyone on my blog who has adult ADHD? I’ve had the subject broached to me a couple of times now and now I am becoming more curious. After doing a bit of research I can definitely say I see a lot of the symptoms in my every day life. I hadn’t really thought about them much until...
My first tattoo at 52: zombie portrait of my kids. I had no idea what it would look like and am so happy.
via PhotoToaster, using these settings.
Breakfast AND Lunch! #vegan #detox #greenjuice #organic #PhotoToaster
Covering Texas politics as a feminist journalist, one of the things I hear a lot is: Why don’t you leave? What else do you expect … it’s Texas? To those people, I say this: I see your smugness. It is a sign of passivity and privilege. And it is dangerous.
Andrea Grimes, An Open Letter to Anyone Ready to Write Off Texas: Don’t, Because it’s *Your* Future at Stake (via rhrealitycheck)
Seems so true. Certainly we need to do more than hope it is not our future.
Basil the Lhasa finds a good book induces sleep as well. #bookporn #puppy #books
It breaks my heart when anyone feels like killing themselves, especially in my family, and especially young people...
The story of my life.
“man i am so tired” stays up for 3 more hours doing absolutely nothing
what you said was: "i don't respect women who don't respect themselves"
what you meant was: "i and society as a whole hold women up to ridiculous respectability standards directly relating to the "purity" of said women while hypersexualizing them at the same time and if you are a woman and don't fit my awkward monolith of criteria then i refuse to acknowledge your humanity"
what i heard was: "hi i'm a misogynist piece of shit, please punch me in my face"
So true. Maybe on some level we worry we would not get involved, so we laugh our doubt away.
The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person May 7, 2013
Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.
Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”
Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.
It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.
Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”
The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.
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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.
Great shot! You survived the heat wave too.
Thanks for a great week, San Francisco.
I suppose this would make sense of jesus was real....I like it as a modern anti-christian image. Satanist or not, it works that way.
true…
I love the honesty about his youthful choice.
“It’s symbolizes my family tree.” “So do the clocks represent the finite nature of life?” “I don’t know, dude. I got it when I was 18.”
(San Francisco, CA)
Wow!
The student argued that the school should focus less resources on developing a new mascot, and more on addressing the potentially frightening culture within the school’s athletic program. UConn’s athletics aren’t alone in that regard.
Nothing proves that someone is wrong about a misogynist culture on campus like sending rape threats.
Someday the world will be a place were the doubts about our differences will be gone, replaced with certainty about our humanity.
My sister made this sign.
Love this, cool but fun too.
My new tattoo ♥ if anyone doesn’t know I absolutely looooove Halloween. My decorations stay up year round lol. Gonna add some ghost, grave stones, and more creepy stuff.
“I just built a Death Star out of legos!” Awesome kid....
History Chanel Obama-Devil has nothing on my puppy. Basil is the devil!
Love this! Been missing my border collie. We raised a family together, and he died the weekend my daughter graduated high school.
Ozzy, my dog!
US averaged more than 18 gun deaths every day since Newtown January 3, 2013
There have been more than 400 guns deaths since the Newtown massacre on December 14, according to a new interactive project between Slate.com and the anonymous twitter user @gundeaths.
The two launched the project because, as Slate writes, there are few real-time chronicles of daily gun deaths in the United States, despite the daily mention of firearms and gun politics in the media since the shooting. In fact, the onslaught of reporting on guns has been so intense, The Huffington Post published an article this morning with the headline “So You’re Bored of the Newtown Massacre?”
Gun deaths have been a daily reality since the Newtown massacre less than three weeks ago, with an average of 18 people dying each day as a result of a fatal shooting, according to the data compiled by @gundeaths. Six of those deaths have been children under the age of 13, and another 21 were youths under the age of 17.
The vast majority of people who have died as a result of gun violence since Newtown were men. Out of the 406 fatal shootings in @gundeaths compilation, only 49 of the victims were women. For teenagers, the gender gap is even starker: 19 boys and only 2 girls have died of gun-related violence since Newtown.
The anonymous twitter user @gundeaths began reporting every instance of a fatal shooting he could find after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting on July 20. His data set is incomplete, meaning that the number of gun deaths since Newtown likely exceeds 406.
The Huffington Post recently undertook a similar project, chronicling the first 100 gun deaths since the Sandy Hook massacre. According to their count, the United States surpassed 100 gun deaths on December 21, exactly one week after Newtown.
Other nations have experienced similar mass shootings in their histories. But nearly all have passed considerable gun safety legislation in the wake of their tragedies, which has dramatically reduced the number of future gun-related deaths.
The United States leads the world in having the most number of guns per person.
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These stats are presented as incomplete; they don’t include gun violence deaths at the hands of police officers, which are a vital part of the discussion about guns.
I love this!
ee cummings. It’s my sister’s handwriting on the left and my brother’s on the right. Someday I’ll have my husband’s handwriting finish the poem. “i carry it in my heart”
I love this love story! This never would have happened when I was in high school so many decades ago.
LGBTQ* Stories of High School Sweethearts You May Have Missed
Following from DailyMail (& additonal video link):
(trigger warning: language, definitions, confusion of sex and gender terms in article)
How a pageant princess and colonel’s son fell in love…
By SUZANNAH HILLS
PUBLISHED: 19:09 EST, 9 November 2012 | UPDATED: 09:39 EST, 10 November 2012
To the casual observer, this young couple look just like any other teenagers in love.
But pretty Katie Hill and her boyfriend Arin Andrews share a unique bond - they were both born as the opposite sex.
Katie, 18, spent the first 15 years of her life as Luke, son of a Marine colonel, while Arin, 16, was born a girl called Emerald who excelled at ballet dancing and won beauty contests.
Both struggled with their sexuality all through their childhoods and were teased and bullied but their lives were changed when they both began hormone therapy and later met at a trans support group in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and instantly fell in love.
Katie said: ‘All I saw was a handsome guy. We’re perfect for each other because we both had the same troubles growing up.
‘We’re both size five, so we even swap our old clothes our mum’s bought us but we hated.
‘We look so convincing as a boy and a girl, nobody even notices now. We secretly feel so good about it because it’s the way we’ve always wanted to be seen.’
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Awwww....
Love love love Giraffes…..
So wrong....
Israeli activists hold signs against the siege on Gaza as they stand on a beach near the Ashdod Port, waiting for the Israeli navy to escort the Finnish ship SV Estelle into the port. Read more here.
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