“ Justice 4 Trayvon Martin: Fish and Slaw $4.99

A sign in Brooklyn (via thenewephemera)

Glad someone finally quantified it. Resting easy now.

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posted : Saturday, April 14th, 2012

reblogged from : d/o/l/a/n/ // m/o/r/g/a/n////

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“ Act 13 does many things to elevate the rights of gas companies above the civil rights of people and communities. To start, it revokes local zoning authority to discourage oil and gas development, stating, “this section pre-empts and supersedes the local regulation of oil and gas operations” (page 162). Municipalities can adopt some rules on how drilling is to be done, but they cannot say no to drilling.

The law also gives the industry the power to seize private property for any part of a drilling operation. On page 65, it states, “a corporation empowered to transport, sell or store natural gas or manufactured gas in the Commonwealth may appropriate an interest in real property” for “injection, storage and removal” of hydrocarbons. However, it does not require the industry to notify any town government of leases it has acquired or of a future interest in using any property—for say, a pipeline or processing facility. Neither homeowners nor other businessmen seeking to develop property are protected if the gas industry intends to use their land.

The law also prevents heath professionals from discussing medical impacts. On page 99, it requires oil and gas companies to tell medical professionals what chemicals are used in drilling fluids—but only after they sign “a statement of need and a confidentiality agreement.” However those details—the chemicals in drilling fluid and medical significance—it states a page later, are secret and “shall not be a public record.

Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania’s Act 13 May Be the Nation’s Worst Corporate Giveaway

1. Sorry, Pennsylvania, but you’re fucked.
2. How, exactly, can you be a politician in favor of this and not realize you are truly fucking your constituents who you, allegedly, serve? How is it not painfully obvious  to all who might say something (ANY other politician, the news, the law/courts, their own fucking consciences if there is such a thing) that by signing something like this you’ve obviously been bought by these companies?
3. If you’re the sort of asshole who defends this sort of thing (“Jobs! It’ll create jobs!” I can hear such shitheels saying already), like whoever that dumbfuck was arguing with OneFootInTheGrave over this sort of thing, you can go take a long walk into a fracking hole and disappear forever. 

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posted : Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

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Mandala (A Musical Palindrome), by Daniel Starr-Tambor

Monday Morning Metaphor: Bach is music is the entire solar system is Bach

me: the shit at the end with Bach… You’re fuckin’ with me, right?  
like all our lives are insignificant and worthless and stupid except Bach

Dolan: he is the solar system

me: right everyone else is a fucking mote of dust but Bach… is all fucking 9 planets, fuck you

Dolan: shh, he can hear you he invented a new type of music that is only listening
its music that hears you and judges you

me: that can’t be true, if the music were judging me it would have killed itself by now

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“ The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all Harvard librarians were essentially given pink slips, asked to participate in a website that has tips on rewriting your resume and changing your career, and also asked to basically re-apply for their jobs. You can read updates on twitter at #hlth

So this just happened. (Twitter channel.)

Well, this is alarming.

(via towerofsleep)

… I was saying boo-urns.

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So much worse than this quote indicates. Why? Because it was apparent at the #hlth meeting that the senior administrators did not have a damned clue as to what was even going on. They didn’t have answers to at least half of the questions and concerns that came from the library staff. Obviously it was a good idea for them to call that meeting then, right? So, I must ask, who deserves to have their jobs on the line, the librarians or the administrators being paid to not know anything? 

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posted : Friday, January 20th, 2012

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“ So while millions of Greeks wallow in poverty, unemployment, and squalor, a bunch of hedge fund jackasses will be suing them in the European Court of Human Rights, hoping to squeeze a little bit more blood from the stone.

John Cole.

This is the world we live in, where a murder that will never seem to come is a death too kind for Finance Capital.

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posted : Thursday, January 19th, 2012

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THIS IS NOT A DREAM

that Cinefamily/Everything Is Terrible screened this on the day/night that I took and passed my Wing Tsun Primary Technician test is probably a good omen. (also, who wants to send me that French version of Paint It Black?)

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