It is a boring song but it works every time.

Work and lack thereof

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:42:13 -0400

Work and lack thereof

I blame work for 95% of loneliness

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:38:38 -0400

I blame work for 95% of loneliness

You probably only hate something if you think it has power

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:39:33 -0400

You probably only hate something if you think it has power

"If social revolution comes to America, it will not come from New York, San Francisco or other cities..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:10:43 -0400

“If social revolution comes to America, it will not come from New York, San Francisco or other cities where the middle class has been obliterated or is struggling to survive. It will come from St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Orleans — cities where you can afford to fail. When success is a stranglehold, true freedom is failure. The freedom to fail is the freedom to innovate, to experiment, to challenge.

Fear inhibits innovation. In expensive cities, people live in constant fear. A small wrong move can upend everything, so they conform, terrified of losing their jobs, apartments, health insurance. They conform intellectually, and they conform in behavior. They cling to a career ladder with a drop-off to hell. I don’t judge them. People do what they need to do to survive. But when survival is an aspiration, society has failed.

”

- Sarah Kendzior, Why You Should Never Have Taken That Prestigious Internship (via bookofgenesis)

King and Quean

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:20:31 -0400

badkidsjokes:

what did 1 direction sing to the King and Quean

you suck at your job

Mans

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:20:04 -0400

badkidsjokes:

man: you are evil
other man: i am not
man:yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
[both mans die]

hahhaahaha

highfemmelowbrow: If you love something let it scab.

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:21:16 -0400

highfemmelowbrow:

If you love something let it scab.

thefuuuucomics: im still laughing at this

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:06:57 -0400

thefuuuucomics:

im still laughing at this

err surgery june 14th, i am having it

Thu, 30 May 2013 02:42:19 -0400

err surgery june 14th, i am having it

googlepoet: www.googlepoetics.com i can’t stop i love...

Wed, 29 May 2013 20:18:08 -0400

googlepoet:

www.googlepoetics.com

i can’t stop i love these

googlepoet: www.googlepoetics.com

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:48:15 -0400

googlepoet:

www.googlepoetics.com

the giles of my job came into my job to give a presentation and now i know that psychology research...

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:42:17 -0400

the giles of my job came into my job to give a presentation and now i know that psychology research is bullshit, randomized control trials are an obsession that proves not so much and second-generation antipsychotics were never proven to be effective?

googlepoet: www.googlepoetics.com

Wed, 29 May 2013 19:34:09 -0400

googlepoet:

www.googlepoetics.com

once i told my dad he’d been a pretty good mom at times all things considered, he was very...

Sun, 26 May 2013 17:08:42 -0400

once i told my dad he’d been a pretty good mom at times all things considered, he was very excited

Finally asked my anarchobro coworker why he was spending a lot of time alone with a certain resident...

Sun, 26 May 2013 15:47:08 -0400

Finally asked my anarchobro coworker why he was spending a lot of time alone with a certain resident who was a youngish woman ex-model. He said he’d given it some thought and that you had to be sensitive that people in crises aren’t necessarily looking to make friends, they’re looking for support. I was like, good, because there’s no way to tell someone who comes here for support that you’re interested in them without it being a huge violation. I was relieved I brought it up, I didn’t want to be scared or resentful, and that he was more or less on the same page. I know I’m paranoid because of my old therapist anyway

thepeoplesrecord: Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to...

Sun, 26 May 2013 01:02:54 -0400

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

fuck this also fuck that the article had to use the rhetoric of “right in this country!!” “not even outsourced to people you don’t care about!”

Wait I still have heroes but actions speak louder than words, like slipping poems under doors maybe...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:42:40 -0400

Wait I still have heroes but actions speak louder than words, like slipping poems under doors maybe loud poems

remember when eileen myles lived in the same building as my old boss who was an abusive weirdo and...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:35:39 -0400

remember when eileen myles lived in the same building as my old boss who was an abusive weirdo and she still let him watch her dog

malformalady: Iceberg, St. John’s, North Atlantic. The bluish...

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:37:26 -0400

malformalady:

Iceberg, St. John’s, North Atlantic. The bluish streaks in some Icebergs are caused by the the refreezing of meltwater which fills crevasses formed in the glacier(that creates the Iceberg. In other cases, the crevasses or holes (full of air) turn a deep blue.

praying for bodies

Sat, 25 May 2013 19:17:39 -0400

praying for bodies