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A poignant, heartfelt response to the recent devastating fire in Oakland

And yet for many of us, these spaces are what have kept us alive. In a world that demands its inhabitants to be a certain way, think a certain way, or live a certain way, we gravitate to the spaces that say: Welcome. Be yourself. For the tormented queer, the bullied punk, the ( Read more... )

"When you’re designed against, you know it," says Ocean Howell, who teaches architectural history at the University of Oregon. [...] "Other people might not see it, but you will. The message is clear: you are not a member of the public, at least not of the public that is welcome here." The same is true of all defensive architecture. The ( Read more... )

Kate McKinnon sings Hallelujah in character as Hillary Clinton

I've by and large stuck to my resolve to post political stuff to facebook (where you're welcome to follow me if you aren't already) and twitter ( likewise), but this is a really beautiful piece, and more moving than political.http://www.

10 great leonard cohen covers

lj gets a like button!

http://news.livejournal.com/151114.html

edit: i cannot actually see it anywhere, perhaps because i am not using an s2 style. but i'm still abstractly happy it exists.

But in this contentious election season, the extreme right has a problem with Chobani: In its view, too many of those employees are refugees ( Read more... )

In 2013, researchers first revealed evidence that the water has been cut off from the surface for as long as 2.7 billion years. Now, they’ve taken the next crucial step, showing that the water comes with its own self-sustaining life-support system, like a space capsule that has been out of contact with Earth for eons but is still perfectly livable ( Read more... )

While San Franciscans argue over how much warning the city should give to homeless people before clearing tent encampments, Oakland is trying another strategy entirely: Keep the camps in place for weeks or months and make them move livable ( Read more... )