heretic pride: Archive

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Apr 1st

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so I used to be a frontranger

But now I am a lollard. You know how it is. You’re reading the Wikipedia article about the Wife of Bath at work because you don’t have anything better to do. You run across a reference to lollardy and you’ve maybe been listening to the Mountain Goats way too much lately and you are like, ‘yep, that’s me, let’s give in to some heretic pride’, and all of a...

Apr 1st

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Mar 31st

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technologically unsound: Dear news media: the... →

notaneffingbarbie: Dear news media: the three advisors pushing most strongly for U.S. intervention in Libya all happened to be women. Get over it. I don’t mean the articles that just point out the simple facts that hey, these three powerful figures advocated for military intervention, and hey, they’re women; I… YESSS. AND. AND. THE MAJOR-GENERAL WHO IS RUNNING THE LIBYA AIR STRIKES? ...

Mar 31st

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Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

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Body Politics: Protecting women on the sidewalk →

body-politics: I volunteer at Planned Parenthood a few weekends every month as an escort. Every Saturday morning, Planned Parenthood has clinic hours, and every Saturday, anti-abortion protesters picket the building. They line the sidewalk, carrying giant signs of dead babies and slogans: “YOU CAN STOP THE…

Mar 30th

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Mar 28th

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Mar 27th

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Mar 26th

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fffff

There is a thing on April 4 in Boston that I would like to go to. I cannot go, despite already being on vacation. I cannot go because the cheapest roundtrip airfare I have seen is $492. Which I cannot do. I am complaining about this to Tumblr because Tumblr is the appropriate repository for the nerdy stuff you don’t care enough to put elsewhere. And this is pretty nerdy. It’s so nerdy...

Mar 26th

Mar 25th

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Mar 25th

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“It’s hard even now to critically break down the songs and sounds of Back to...”

– BILLY BRAGG « Darren Hanlon There are not words for how much I love this man, and how sorry I am I’ve only been able to catch him live once since that first time in 2004, during finals, on an hour’s sleep and a bad attitude. He was opening for the Magnetic Fields. Despite the...

Mar 21st