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I wish I’d known sooner that the careless is the enemy of the good. Sex doesn’t need love, or permanence, or even much talking, in order to be a healthy and satisfying. But sex without care is toxic. Sex without care leads to violated boundaries, injured bodies and unequally distributed pleasure. At best, sex without care is awkward and unsatisfying. At worst, sex without care is humiliating, traumatizing and painful.

Ella Dawson, “Stop Calling It ‘Casual Sex’” (via brosandprose)

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Omddd tá áthas an domhain orm. Is ea go díreach a ghá mé (???), an post sin. Tá orainn Gaeilge a chaint, gan dabht!!!

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FFFCfcffffccFfff this is amazing

Or, “How to fuck up your racist sentiment when trying to translate it into Irish.”

Priceless what happens to it, too.

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Remember when I said I wasn’t going to make a comic about food?

I lied.

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http://annabellioncourt.tumblr.com/post/167717794695/blood-test-to-personalise-depression-treatment-for

How accurate is this?

It looks very promising but the article does overstate a little. The blood test is merely a potential tool to weed out people who won’t respond to ‘weaker’ antidepressants from the start, allowing them to skip part of the trial and error phase of finding the right medication.

The study is also not without it’s flaws (there are some issues with n for certain control groups, imo) but overall it looks like an interesting lead, especially in the way they use absolute gene expression, making results more repeatable

(which leads to another problem: practical usage. The method they use to determine the cutoff is relatively novel yet and not widely available in many places) 

so the verdict is ‘cautious optimism’

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Hey - thanks so much for your reply. This is a really good and succint explanation!

anyways the reason that it’s nasty to act like race = skin colour goes way beyond “some nonwhite people are pale” and more into, race is an oppressive institution built on categories that are projected onto the body, including basically every part and aspect of the body, so a white person reducing race to ‘skin colour’ is

1) reaffirming the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside

and 2) ignoring the ways in which racism categorises every aspect of the body (and the mind for that matter), not just skin colour–think of how scientific racism went on and on about how different races had different physical builds and skeletal structures and skull shapes and facial features and proclivities and personalities and mental strengths and weaknesses etc. etc. etc.

so when white people (including white ‘allies’) call race “skin colour” or call racism “hatred based on skin colour” in order to make racism seem pointless or irrational it seems extremely disingenuous to me because it’s ignoring all of this theory and history that I really doubt they’re aware of. and it trivialises racism in a way that I’m not fond of

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apologize to najia. it's okay to be wrong and learn from it, but you need to acknowledge that.

Hey - yeah you’re right? Not sure who najia is Im guessing its to do with the post on racialisation that i commented on? But like first i acrually do need to figure out what i did wrong and learn from it, which i have not done (Not as in i havent done anything wrong, but as in idk what it is) Someone wrote a response though and im going through it now

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So you cant read

Hmm interesting anon

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holy fuck this is a nightmare

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This post is not accurate. No one in the comments has a clue whats going on and clearly no one has read the article. So!

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-for-busses-startup-launches-ico-to-end-tipping-altogether-2017-11

This is a SIDE PROJECT by Skedaddle, who do the uber for buses thing.

It states in the article that the rating will only follow workers if they allow it. So no, mistakes will not follow workers around for the rest of their lives as you said.

Its a database that will use cryptocurrency - i dont know shit about that but other people have said it decentralises power and is a good thing for working class people??? Dont know if thats true though no source

It then has this note at the bottom -

"Note: This story has been updated to reflect Skedaddle's average monthly ridership of 50,000 passengers as well as calrify the Kudos "reward" is on top of a living wage and any perofrmance-based tip a customer might normally give."

So go and find out about it and give some actual feedback instead of...saying its some nefarious plot to destroy the working class omh

holy fuck this is a nightmare

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Well, despite the ominous and slightly post-structuralist title this artblr advice post won’t be big news in the studyblr community.  But it can be a big news to art students and artists in general.

There’s this weird idea that artists are supposed to behave in some sort of chaotic way, only working when inspired at inane hours and spending the rest of the time doing drugs and alcohol and behaving like a bohemian artist.

Ok beside the fact that bohemian artists died mostly young, ill and poor only a really small percentage of them actually accomplished something significant art-wise.

The point is simple: if you spend your energy trying to live fast and furious there will be no energy left for your art (or writing, or whatever).

One of my favorite quotes by Flaubert is: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

To be truthful I don’t even know myself that many artists that live their lives the way the public at large imagine it to be… At least not artists who are out of artschool and do art professionally for a living. At most those that are disorganized messes spend their time at the drawing table in pajamas with a herb tea and their cat to keep them company. It’s unbeliavable how many illustrators I know that live the life I just depicted.

I’ve never known anyone who actually get up at every hour of the night because they had sudden inspiration and they had to act on it…? That sounds really weird, I only know messy artists who at most pull off an all-nighter with their bodies full of caffeine because they have to finish the last 6 pages by tomorrow or they won’t meet the editor’s deadline. Or nocturnal people who consistently wake up late and go to bed late because they are more productive at night. They still need to meet deadlines and live their own life organized. Those who don’t manage that either learn or don’t last on the job. And I’m not talking about only commercial artists such as designers and illustrators, a painter who can’t get its paintings finished before the exhibition is a painter that galleries probably won’t call again.

The artist who spend their life driven by divine inspiration in a total chaos is a myth. And when it’s not a myth it’s rare that they manage to accomplish anything. If you go and skim the blog Daily Routines (that later became a book Daily Rituals: How artists work) you’ll notice how most of famous artists actually have a really rigid routine to get their work done.

Creating is exhausting stuff. If you’re already exhausted by how you live your life it will be 10 times much harder to create.

I know a few people who keep rigid office hours. They set in front of the table drawing at a set time and they stop at a set time. That’s not for everyone of course but a few months of such an experiment is worth a try because it’s something that can teach you a lot of things about yourself and your workflow even if you don’t stick to it.

Resources:

Steal like an artist by Austen Kleon

Making ideas happen by Scott Belsky

The 99u community is a creative-people community based on the concept that creativity is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

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名所江戸百景 浅草田圃酉の町詣|Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige, Asian Art

Medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Rogers Fund, 1914 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36539

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Ok but the real question is: why do potato sticks taste infinitely better than regular potato chips even tho they’re literally the exact same thing minus the shape

someone wake up bill nye

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suicidal people deserve a space to talk about their suicidal feelings without risking hospitalization/institutionalization or being accused of being manipulative or attention seeking

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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly NOW. Love mercy NOW. Walk humbly NOW. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.

From the Talmud

Pirkei Avos (Ethics/Chapters of the Fathers) 2:16 

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That last bit –

Lo Alecha haM’lacha Ligmor, veLo Atah Ben-Chorin leHivatel Memenah / לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמוֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה / It is not your duty to complete the task, but nor it is your freedom to withdraw from it

– is something which is not shared nearly enough, something which is not repeated nearly enough, something with is not SHOUTED FROM THE FREAKING ROOFTOPS nearly enough.

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I think if I had to describe Jewish ethics, I would start with this quote.

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