“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
– (via ordinarywonder)
Bulletproof Whiteboards and the Marketing of School Safety | NPR
Because an individual 18-by-20-inch ‘shield’ is better protection than revised gun safety laws.
Because American ‘solutions’ must always involve commerce.
Because our national persona is a superhero.
New Artworks by Ed Fairburn
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
– Stephen Jay Gould (via likeafieldmouse)
friendship?
lesbianism?
“To come home from another home is a weird feeling, because people expect you to be the person you were when you left, and that’s impossible. You expect things to be exactly the same as when you left, and that’s impossible. Maybe it’s impossible to even truly come home once you’ve gone away because of those changes. Coming home is strange, because now that place is just a tiny bit less of a home.”
– Alex Brueckner, How To Come Home (via thenyes-inblue)
life:
Unsettling photographs taken inside a psychiatric hospital in 1938.
Caption from LIFE. “Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming excited mental cases. With their bodies greased, the patients can remain in the baths for hours, gradually fall asleep.”
(Alfred Eisenstaedt—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Dunno about you but that sounds good to me
Rooney Mara arrives at the Costume Institute Gala.
Ugh such a goddess
Islamic Calligraphy retelling the story of Ali’s ( r.a.) death~ 15th Century Ottomans
so i was looking up stuff about birth control throughout history and
May the farts be with you.
