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ONTD_Political: How Voter ID Laws Further Disenfranchise the Transgendered
DancesWithFat: What’s With Weight Bullying?
Guardian: Iceland's volcanoes may power UK
The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy
ONTD_Political: UK: 32 die a week after failing test for new incapacity benefit
ONTD_Political: Bro-Choice - The Daily Show
Al Madrigal reports on location from Oklahoma, where a proposed amendment to its "personhood" bill would effectively outlaw male masturbation.
"I think the Johnsons amendment is an outragous attack on personal liberty from the government. One, it would be a huge free choice issue. Basically, the government is telling a man what he can and cannot do with his body." -- absolutely obtuse anti-choice republican politician
ONTD_Political: Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; 'Clean' National Intranet In Pipeline
ONTD_Political: James O’Keefe is still being taken semi-seriously for some reason
ONTD_Political: (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights.
ONTD_Political: Iowa Republican State Senator Proposes Drug Testing Child Support Recipients -- It didn't go anywhere this time, but given the creeping way in which drug testing has been showing up more and more places, I'm not confident this idea is going to stay in the back of some asshole congressperson's mind and not show up again.
ONTD_Political: Howard Morgan, Off-Duty Black Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers, Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison
Feministe: Nude Photos as a Revolutionary Act
“When a tool of oppression can be turned in to an assertion of power, it is a beautiful thing. Nudity when celebrated harms no one, and when made shameful and barbaric harms everyone.”
Feministing: Trans rights are reproductive rights
Ebony: Joyce Banda Becomes Malawi's First Woman President
NYTimes: A Man. A Woman. Just Friends? -- Not a bad piece. My particular hatred for this "men and women can't be friends" crap found new fuel when I came out as bi. If am attracted to men and women (and many people in between), am I not allowed to actually have "friends" of _any_ gender? That certainly seems the logical conclusion from that bullshit argument.
PolyInTheMedia: "Open relationships: The people making it work"
PolyInTheMedia: A lesbian triad comes out in print
Body_Impolitic: The Small, Small World of Classroom Seating
Body_Impolitic: An Italian artist named Utopia ( Anna Giordano) has modified classic paintings to recreate the women so that they conform to the societal beauty standards of the 2000′s. (classic nudes on site, probably not SFW)
Jezebel: Your Vagina Isn’t Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy-It’s Also Too Brown
See? It makes perfect sense. We just want our vaginas to reflect more light-is that so wrong? I mean, WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA? Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (they keep saying vagina, but I really do think they mean vulva, just for clarification)
Discover: In March, I wrote about a dust devil on Mars spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It was 800 meters high, which I said was "huge".
Yeah. A week later, MRO spotted another dust devil… that was 20 kilometers high!
Inhabit: The next time you're in New Orleans, you might want to skip Bourbon Street and head for this incredible shanty town that doubles as a giant musical instrument. Built by Brooklyn artist Swoon and the New Orleans Airlift, Dithyrambalina is a fantastical series of structures made from reclaimed materials that work together as a larger-than-life music box. The amazing sound laboratory opens to the public on April 14th and visitors can even meet the artists and musicians who create work in this extraordinary place.
WFS: Printable Houses and the Future Opportunity Therein
BU.edu: What if, asks Corkey, obesity isn’t simply about eating too much and exercising too little? What if there’s something more subtle at work? Maybe it isn’t extra calories that make us fat, she says, but food additives like saccharin and emulsifiers.
Buzzfeed: 12 Problems That Only Busty Girls Have
Buzzfeed: 6 Perks Of Being A Busty Girl -- Emphatic agreement on all the problems, and all but the last of the perks.
DancesWithFat: What’s With Weight Bullying?
Guardian: Iceland's volcanoes may power UK
The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy
ONTD_Political: UK: 32 die a week after failing test for new incapacity benefit
ONTD_Political: Bro-Choice - The Daily Show
Al Madrigal reports on location from Oklahoma, where a proposed amendment to its "personhood" bill would effectively outlaw male masturbation.
"I think the Johnsons amendment is an outragous attack on personal liberty from the government. One, it would be a huge free choice issue. Basically, the government is telling a man what he can and cannot do with his body." -- absolutely obtuse anti-choice republican politician
ONTD_Political: Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; 'Clean' National Intranet In Pipeline
ONTD_Political: James O’Keefe is still being taken semi-seriously for some reason
ONTD_Political: (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights.
ONTD_Political: Iowa Republican State Senator Proposes Drug Testing Child Support Recipients -- It didn't go anywhere this time, but given the creeping way in which drug testing has been showing up more and more places, I'm not confident this idea is going to stay in the back of some asshole congressperson's mind and not show up again.
ONTD_Political: Howard Morgan, Off-Duty Black Cop Shot 28 Times By White Officers, Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison
Feministe: Nude Photos as a Revolutionary Act
“When a tool of oppression can be turned in to an assertion of power, it is a beautiful thing. Nudity when celebrated harms no one, and when made shameful and barbaric harms everyone.”
Feministing: Trans rights are reproductive rights
Ebony: Joyce Banda Becomes Malawi's First Woman President
NYTimes: A Man. A Woman. Just Friends? -- Not a bad piece. My particular hatred for this "men and women can't be friends" crap found new fuel when I came out as bi. If am attracted to men and women (and many people in between), am I not allowed to actually have "friends" of _any_ gender? That certainly seems the logical conclusion from that bullshit argument.
PolyInTheMedia: "Open relationships: The people making it work"
PolyInTheMedia: A lesbian triad comes out in print
Body_Impolitic: The Small, Small World of Classroom Seating
Body_Impolitic: An Italian artist named Utopia ( Anna Giordano) has modified classic paintings to recreate the women so that they conform to the societal beauty standards of the 2000′s. (classic nudes on site, probably not SFW)
Jezebel: Your Vagina Isn’t Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy-It’s Also Too Brown
See? It makes perfect sense. We just want our vaginas to reflect more light-is that so wrong? I mean, WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA? Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (they keep saying vagina, but I really do think they mean vulva, just for clarification)
Discover: In March, I wrote about a dust devil on Mars spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It was 800 meters high, which I said was "huge".
Yeah. A week later, MRO spotted another dust devil… that was 20 kilometers high!
Inhabit: The next time you're in New Orleans, you might want to skip Bourbon Street and head for this incredible shanty town that doubles as a giant musical instrument. Built by Brooklyn artist Swoon and the New Orleans Airlift, Dithyrambalina is a fantastical series of structures made from reclaimed materials that work together as a larger-than-life music box. The amazing sound laboratory opens to the public on April 14th and visitors can even meet the artists and musicians who create work in this extraordinary place.
WFS: Printable Houses and the Future Opportunity Therein
BU.edu: What if, asks Corkey, obesity isn’t simply about eating too much and exercising too little? What if there’s something more subtle at work? Maybe it isn’t extra calories that make us fat, she says, but food additives like saccharin and emulsifiers.
Buzzfeed: 12 Problems That Only Busty Girls Have
Buzzfeed: 6 Perks Of Being A Busty Girl -- Emphatic agreement on all the problems, and all but the last of the perks.