Snyder Than You

"Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:39:45 -0400

“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”

- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (via soo-rin)

Meh, I don’t listen more than I talk. I think that might be the ADHD taking over. But other than that, this is accurate.

(via notemily)

I remember enjoying deep discussions. Now I just avoid talking. It’s quieter that way.

Write a Letter to a Teacher

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:06 -0400

Write a Letter to a Teacher:

gjmueller:

Perfect sentiment for Teacher Appreciation Week here on tumblr #education!

Think of a teacher that made a difference in your life; helped you succeed, or got you through something difficult. Take a few minutes to go to the school’s website and send them an email. Nothing means more to a teacher than knowing they made a positive difference in a student’s life.

explore-blog: 19 emotions for which English has no words, in an...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:01:18 -0400

explore-blog:

19 emotions for which English has no words, in an infographic by design studen Pei-Ying Lin.

Among the most beautiful is toska.

English, meanwhile, has plenty of unusual words of its own.

mentalflossr: This week on the mental_floss List Show: 38...

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:56:50 -0400

mentalflossr:

This week on the mental_floss List Show: 38 Common Grammar and Spelling Mistakes

inothernews: WORTH THE WAIT Time magazine, NASA and the US...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:14:23 -0400

inothernews:

WORTH THE WAIT Time magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey have collaborated on something truly awesome, sifting through trillions of LANDSAT satellite images, culled from the past 30 years, to create “the world’s first multi-decade animated timelapse of the Earth.” Click on the image for the complete series; you will be blown away.

"You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:21:09 -0400

“You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!”

- According to a new study, those 23 words mean the same thing, and sound roughly the same, as they did nearly 150 centuries ago. (via fastcompany)

"So what are millennials known for, so far? Well, to start with the obvious, we’re ****ed..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:06:39 -0400

““So what are millennials known for, so far? Well, to start with the obvious, we’re ****ed financially. Anecdotes abound of millennials slaving away as unpaid interns and underpaid assistants, or slacking off as overqualified retail reps and baristas….We were born into the fast-paced optimism of the money-happy ’80s and ’90s, only to come of age as a drawn-out, indefensible war and crippling financial crisis exposed our leaders as self-serving, untrustworthy ****ups. In this world they’ve left us with, we’re not sharing shabby apartments and living on coffee-shop tips out of some blithe desire to experiment…What we’re experiencing now isn’t rebellion, it’s reality — just not the reality we thought we’d be rewarded with for playing by the rules.””

- Millenial Medium Chill: What the screwed generation can teach us about happiness (via agirlcalledchris)

"Now I’m not saying you have to like ABC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN—I really don’t care whether you do or..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:48:52 -0400

“

Now I’m not saying you have to like ABC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN—I really don’t care whether you do or not. But Fox News is on a whole other level when it comes to worthless news coverage.

Because where CNN or MSNBC might sing the praises of how great a blue sky is—Fox News tries to convince you the sky isn’t actually blue. And millions of people believe it.

”

- Allen Clifton in Why Fox News if Total Garbage (via reallyfoxnews)

I'm an introvert

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:58:55 -0400

tweetface:

This means, for your big fat information, that I can’t sit in meetings all day and then come home and talk on the phone for another hour.

I like people.

I just can’t listen to them non stop for hours.

If you’re looking for me I’ll be hiding under the covers.

Yep.

My wife, a much more extroverted preacher’s kid who has always been “on stage,” sometimes has a hard time understanding why I shy away from social interaction. She alwlays says, “But you always talked to people [while working the bookstore at the camp where we met].

I’m always reminding her that that’s easy :You answer a couple questions, retrieve a couple items, exchange money, and they leave. While the storefront isn’t open, it’s me and the books, clothes, foodstuff, money and computer. At night, most others hung out and did things while I stayed in the store working or enjoying the quiet. Or I’d hang out, but only listen or even just be present.

The irony is that my current job is answering phones all day in customer service and I am trained as a high school English teacher.

agirlcalledchris: feministpixie: atticusatticus: sunshinekindl...

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:37:04 -0400

agirlcalledchris:

feministpixie:

atticusatticus:

sunshinekindlyhere:

I will never shop at that store ever!!!

i thought this was a joke but

no

and even if it were

it still wouldn’t matter

It’s not a joke. Incredible.

Well.

"Some people say that we can’t afford to help our kids through school by keeping student loan..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 08:34:28 -0400

“Some people say that we can’t afford to help our kids through school by keeping student loan interest rates low. But right now, as I speak, the federal government offers far lower interest rates on loans, every single day–they just don’t do it for everyone. Right now, a big bank can get a loan through the Federal Reserve discount window at a rate of about 0.75%. But this summer a student who is trying to get a loan to go to college will pay almost 7%. In other words, the federal government is going to charge students interest rates that are nine times higher than the rates for the biggest banks–the same banks that destroyed millions of jobs and nearly broke this economy. That isn’t right. And that is why I’m introducing legislation today to give students the same deal that we give to the big banks.”

- Elizabeth Warren: Students should get the same loan rate as big banks (via robot-heart-politics)

Church cancels Leroy Butler speech over Jason Collins tweet

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:20 -0400

Church cancels Leroy Butler speech over Jason Collins tweet:

allisonunsupervised:

apoplecticskeptic:

ariverisariver:

Former Packers safety Leroy Butler was supposed to give a speech at a Wisconsin church this week. But that speech was canceled when Butler had the temerity to say something nice about NBA player Jason Collins on Twitter. When Collins came out as gay on Tuesday, Butler tweeted, “Congrats to Jason Collins.” Those four words were enough to make the church decide that Butler lacks the morals to speak to its congregation.

Butler recounted on his verified Twitter account (@leap36 because he wore No. 36 and invented the Lambeau Leap) that he was informed he’s no longer welcome at the church because he dared to congratulate Collins.

“Wow, I was scheduled to speak at a church in WI, and a member said that the pastor wants to cancel my event. I said ok why? Then I was told, because I said congrats to Jason Collins on Twitter,” Butler wrote. “I said really? we have a contract, he said check the moral cause, FYI the fee was $8,500, then I was told if I removed the tweet, and apologize and ask god forgiveness, I can have the event. I said no, only god can judge.”

Awesome. Just awesome.

Awesomest.

Let me get this straight: $8500?

Because Jesus said, what, exactly?

Good on ya, LeRoy, as far as that goes, and Go Pack, but sheesh.

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:12:39 -0400

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”

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— Charlotte Brontë, in the Preface to Jane Eyre (via thewham) (via my-ear-trumpet) (via tobia)

(via earlyfrost, earlyfrost)

(via cocoku, cocoku)

(via agirlcalledchris, agirlcalledchris)

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:12:28 -0400

The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen charged with felony for science experiment:

agirlcalledchris:

kylegreggy:

stfuconservatives:

aka14kgold:

onebigpear:

f***yeahfeminists:

This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth criminalized.

She was doing a science experiment

She’s being charged as an ADULT

She’s being charged with a FELONY

If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing discrimination, employment discrimination (as if getting a job while black isn’t hard enough), etc. etc.

There is a petition up … spread the word.

http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot

Hey, remember this from yesterday? Go ahead and hit up the petition.

Unreal that we’re doing this to the next generation of scientists. Sign it, folks!

This is so awful, my word.

Ugh.

The petition is still open! Sign and share!

fastcodesign: A new app called Moves could be the simplest...

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:24:58 -0400

fastcodesign:

A new app called Moves could be the simplest fitness app ever.

It lives in your iPhone and tracks your activity in the background, so there’s no separate device to learn how to use or remember to carry (you already have your phone on you at all times).

There’s no setup: You install it, turn it on, and that’s it.

And there’s no management, syncing, or any other “interactive” bulls*** to forget to do or get bored of and stop doing altogether. You don’t even have to launch it—Moves will simply ding a little summary of your physical activity into your Notifications Center every day, where you’ll end up seeing it regardless of what you’re doing with your phone.

Essentially, Moves gives you no more excuses.

I really like this app, but it counts half the steps another app does. They are both inaccurate, though.

"We are not built for this. We are not designed, at our core, to be able to absorb, at a glance and a..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:20:24 -0400

“

We are not built for this. We are not designed, at our core, to be able to absorb, at a glance and a click, a tweet and a ruthless video feed, all the ills and horrors of the world, all at once, all manner of chaos and destruction in a nonstop bloody flood over which we are powerless to influence and impotent to stop.

The Boston bombings have forced us, once again, to ask: Are we in an age of miracles or misery? Unhindered magic or cruel dystopia? Is it both? How can it possibly be both? This tech-enabled onslaught of violence and pain the likes of which our ancestors, even as recently as 50 years ago, never had to deal with and could not possibly imagine? It is not within our emotional capacity. Not without serious scarring, anyway.

[…]

The answer is almost always the same, but increasingly lost in the modern bedlam of technology: In times of violent, faraway tragedy, you do the only thing possible: You gather in, hold tight, and take care of those close to you. As feeble as it sounds, as meek as you feel, this is the only way. This is also the best way. To help. To be a part. To avoid shutting down, hardening, adding more suspicion and mistrust to the world.

”

- More than half a century after Henry Miller’s meditation on war and the meaning of life, SFGate’s Mark Morford explores the challenge of exploding your emotional bandwidth at times of violence. (via explore-blog)

"You had mentioned that day you voted, owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:18:42 -0400

““You had mentioned that day you voted, owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would be harmed. I am just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the halls of her elementary school isn’t more important than that.””

- Erica Lafferty, daughter of Newtown victim Dawn Hochsprung, confronts Senator Kelly Ayotte for voting against expanding background checks: http://on.msnbc.com/12YgSZHtblr (via msnbc)

Because they pray at the feet of capitalism and have learned not to care about others more than their own privilege.

agirlcalledchris: “That the powerful play goes on, and that we...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:14:11 -0400

agirlcalledchris:

“That the powerful play goes on, and that we might contribute a verse…what will your verse be?”

"What is it about lists that we find so irresistible? As far as I can tell, no one has tried to..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:19:24 -0400

“What is it about lists that we find so irresistible? As far as I can tell, no one has tried to figure it out (though it’s possible there are psychologists who have solved the mystery, and I just haven’t seen their work). Maybe it has to do with the promise of something both finite and complete, distilling the world down to something you can manage and then be done with. The world is full of photos of cute corgis, but these 37 are the cutest, and once you’ve seen them not only will your day be a little sweeter but you need search no more for cute corgi photos. It could also be the attraction of something easy to read—because it’s broken into small pieces, you know it won’t require too much work to read, you’ll be able to skim it easily, and if you want to read part of it and then stop, you’ll be able to.”

- Why we love lists. Better yet, Susan Sontag on the allure of lists. (via explore-blog)

pipud: ut4ps: Race matters. Must reblog.

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:16:58 -0400

pipud:

ut4ps:

Race matters.

Must reblog.