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styro:

calmmanning:

“So perhaps it just speaks to the heartiness of women, that put on
your boots and put your hat on and get out, slog through the mess that
is out there.” – Senator Lisa Murkowski (R – AK)

On January 26, 2016, two days after a large blizzard in DC, something was different in the US Senate. No men showed up. For the first time ever, the entire present Senate staff was female. (video)

More of this, please.

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travelgurus:

Underwater image : Water Lilies    by   Alex Dawson  (

Gothenburg, Sweden

)

Travel Gurus – Follow for more Nature Photographies!

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yulinisworking:

secret project | coming soon

I’m working on something new! Starring pretentious youths because they are my favorite kind of youths. I can’t quite talk about this project just yet but I’m quite excited to share it when it comes out on my channel (in March? April?) So stay tuned for:

a new microseries created & directed by Yulin Kuang

written by Yulin Kuang & Rachel Kiley
produced by Tiffany Gray

I for one look forward our pretentious youth overlords.

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hartandgrace:

shipwreckedcomedy:

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee…

Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, coming to very soon to Kickstarter.

Join our dinner party, if you dare. 

Annabel Lee is coming you guys…now it’s a party!

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It’s not the kind of thing I would normally post, but I had just decided that I had a new favorite lyric from a certain fannish obsession when I came across this.

There are other favorites (so many of them). But there’s a breathtaking quality to that moment, and having it isolated and looped like that is just… I don’t know. Hilarious? Disturbing? Some of each, I guess.

In context, both in the scene and in the larger meta-conversation that the whole endeavor represents, it’s an amazing moment. And I guess I worry it might be trivializing/devaluing to treat it like that.

But still.

Okay. Thanks. You did not see this. I was not here.

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hypable:

‘Hamilton’ is coming to Los Angeles for 2016 – 2017 season

Good news for those of us on the West Coast who want to see Hamilton but don’t want to fly across America to do so: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s beloved show is coming to Los Angeles!

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of-a-toast-and-tea:

They took small fish, to observe
the effects of weightlessness in water.

Goldfish, ordinary on earth, were now
miraculous, their glitter precious currency,
their tiny mouths’ O and O a greeting.

So that when they died some men wept,
feeling, as if for the first time,
how grave a life is. Any life at all.

-Carole Satyamurti

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alwayspapadouche:

Working in a pet store is so weird, like you end up invested in these people’s pet’s lives and they somehow learn about your life little bits at a time and then one day they’re asking you to babysit their Guinea pig because their kid might be allergic and the allergy test isn’t until next week and you’re the only person they trust.

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pawntakesqueen:

WOMEN CINEMATOGRAPHERS APPRECIATION WEEK⁴

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | DP – Ellen Kuras

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sixpenceee:

Tadpoles swim through a jungle of lily stalks in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island, Canada. (Source)

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unicornvamp3z:

Has there ever been anything cuter

Vive la renaissance

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the-garden-of-delights:

“The Empress Eugénie” (1854) (detail) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873).

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purelintrash:

Lin-Manuel Miranda onstage in the role of Hamilton, Chris Jackson bringing it as Washington and Sydney Harcourt being excellent performing “One Last Time” at the 2015 George Washington Prize Dinner, where Lin received the Washington Prize Special Achievement Award

Lin’s acceptance speech | Ron Chernow’s speech

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mission-creep:

Coot

Hollow Ponds, Leyton Flats, East London

@anonsally

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“

To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

”

– Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796

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