May 2013
5 posts
Fairphone - Fairphone Shop →
“The first-ever Fairphone combines social values with smart, radically open design that considers the full lifecycle of the product. Worker welfare initiatives and conflict-free minerals put people first every step of the way. Transparency is paramount, from materials and production to pricing.”
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Porn Studies →
“Porn Studies is the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic and their cultural, economic, historical, institutional, legal and social contexts. Porn Studies will publish innovative work examining specifically sexual and explicit media forms, their connections to wider media landscapes and...
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“It’s embarrassing that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—Amnesty...”
– Julian Assange: Wikileaks Has the Goods on the Deaths of Innocent Iraqis Killed by the US | Alternet
April 2013
17 posts
Noam Chomsky: Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties... →
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Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal →
… Aku No Hana
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i finished the anime From the New World, and i’m not sure what to think about it. it’s really disturbing portrayal of humanity, under the assumption that they’ve developed the power of telekinesis, and have become a dogmatic speciesist society. There is not a single critical or reflected character in the story. And when the things are somewhat “critically thought...
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Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette →
equalityandthecity:
This demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure’s death is not just misguided but dangerous. That one should not speak ill of the dead is arguably appropriate when a private person dies, but it is wildly inappropriate for the death of a controversial public figure, particularly one who wielded significant influence and political power. “Respecting the grief”...
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trankillement:
Walter van Beirendonck, Inge...
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March 2013
35 posts
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and that was that with sz.
for those who know me from sz as rilu, the reason i’ve deleted my profile, together with all of my posts, is the forum moderation practices that have been employed by the forum owner throughout the last couple of weeks. the discrepancy between the rules that applied to the forum owner and his posts, and to the rest of the forum members, were, from my point of...
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goodbye, sz
if anyone knows how you can delete an account on there, please let me know.
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fashionology.org →
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Watch
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the extent to which opportunism is entrenched into nowadays culture is fascinating. the best is, it’s not even a matter of shame anymore, people feel fine by openly expressing their opportunism, shying away from critical thinking as if there is nothing wrong with that.
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The UN declares drone strikes in Pakistan illegal. →
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Obama's secrecy fixation causing Sunshine Week... →
… [H]ere we have not Republicans but the most loyal establishment Democrats denouncing Obama’s secrecy obsession in the harshest of terms. “President Obama is ignoring the system of checks and balances that has governed our country from its earliest days.” He is “acting in opposition to the democratic principles we hold most important”. “The administration clammed up again and went directly back...
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“I think we’ll always be into punk music, but personally I hope I won’t always be...”
– Growing young fast: Danish punks Iceage talk You’re Nothing and a music “completely stripped of politics” – FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
whatthefuck… this is the dumbest thing i’ve read in a while.
i’m not gonna listen to them anymore, this level of stupidity makes me...
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