Why #FitchtheHomeless Backfires
Here’s what homeless men and women really think of #FitchtheHomeless—in their own words.
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
I'm currently a 23-year-old library science grad student and library assistant. These are some of my interests: libraries, books, libertarianism, not wearing pants, knitting, biology/ecology, anthropology, beards, Latin, Lord of the Rings, hiking, and making and/or listening to music.
Ask me anything
May202013
May192013
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate endings and watch them panic again as they all try to find the last ending.
This is perfect.
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7PM
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You need to get lost to cross the ocean… build your own ship’s compass and chose your destiny mile by mile. The shore is so comfortable but who knows what brings the future…
(via soulmindbodyartemis)
7PM
(Source: we-are-star-stuff, via thinksquad)
7PM
The longer I stare at this photo the longer I marvel at the fact that this tornado represents every essence of the term “Horrifying beauty”.
(via laboratoryequipment)
May162013
- student: can i borrow a pencil
- teacher: i don't know, CAN you?
- student: yes, also colloquial irregularities occur frequently in any language and since you and the rest of our present company understood my intended meaning being particular about the distinctions between "can" and "may" is purely pedantic and arguably pretentious
May152013
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Three awful things you learn as you get older — and while they don’t define life (which is overwhelming grand) they sure can put barriers in the way of individual and social progress. This is just some stuff you need to know:
One — No one is ever wrong. People will defend an opinion or an action until the end, even if every bit of logic and evidence runs contrary. Sincere apologies and genuine admissions of error and wrongdoing are the rarest things in this world. Meanwhile, there is no reward for being right. On the contrary, people will resent you and try to take you down, which leads to point two.
Two — Excellence makes you a target of envy and can often harm your prospects for success. Meritocracy exists, and even prevails, but it is realized through your own initiative, and it is never just granted freely by some individual or institution. All progress comes about because you alone push through the attempts of everyone around you to stop it.
Three — Average people will sacrifice every principle and every truth for the sake of security. This is because people, with very few exceptions, fear the uncertainty of a free and unknown future more than the seeming security of a known and unfree status quo. They will give up every right and every bit of their soul for the promise of security, even to the point of obeying wicked despots. You can break free of this tendency but it takes courage, risk taking, and a conscious act of defying the convention.
” Jeffrey Tucker (via anarchei)(Source: timlebsack, via soulmindbodyartemis)
2PM
Doug Perrine captured these stunning photographs in the Maldives. The particular location (Vaadhoo Island) has a concentrated population of bioluminescent phytoplankton. Bioluminescence is a natural chemical reaction which occurs when a micro-organism in the water reacts with oxygen. When washed ashore by the tides, the phytoplankton’s chemical energy is turned into light energy, illuminating the waves.
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9AM
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.” – Kurt Vonnegut,”
http://qwiklit.com/2013/04/16/25-rare-photos-of-famous-authors/ (via neil-gaiman)
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