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This is the highest diversion rate of any major city in North America. San Francisco has set the goal of achieving zero waste, or sending nothing to the landfill or incineration, by the year 2020.

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This girl is insane, I think

> It gets stranger and stranger as it goes.

> Her neighbors must hate her.

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“If babies had guns…”

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My 5-year-old insists that Bilbo Baggins is a girl. The first time she made this claim, I protested. Part of the fun of reading to your kids, after all, is in sharing the stories you loved as a child. And in the story I knew, Bilbo was a boy. A boy hobbit. (Whatever that entails.) But my daughter was determined. She liked the story pretty well so far, but Bilbo was definitely a girl. So would I please start reading the book the right way? I hesitated. I imagined Tolkien spinning in his grave. I imagined mean letters from his testy estate. I imagined the story getting as lost in gender distinctions as dwarves in the Mirkwood. Then I thought: What the hell, it’s just a pronoun. My daughter wants Bilbo to be a girl, so a girl she will be. And you know what? The switch was easy. Bilbo, it turns out, makes a terrific heroine. She’s tough, resourceful, humble, funny, and uses her wits to make off with a spectacular piece of jewelry. Perhaps most importantly, she never makes an issue of her gender—and neither does anyone else.

Bilbo Baggins is a girl: Until children’s books catch up to our daughters, rewrite them. (via daxsymbiont)

I’ll reblog this for forever

(via memymarie)

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Haunting words from Mark, aged 7. Haunting words, indeed.

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Boris Johnson is actually mayor

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"People are perfectly happy to see women as sex objects, but the actual biologic of our bodies is apparently gross and unmentionable."

- Our Bodies, Ourselves.

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I don’t usually share graphics but this one is spot on and too good to miss

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Alberto Giacometti - The Chariot, 1950

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Grace Kelly in Alfred Hitchcock’s 'To Catch a Thief' (1955)

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liza minelli ran into the aisle and forced this hug on lupita nyong’o seconds after she won an oscar and its my favorite oscars moment