May 2013
52 posts
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Homophobia means No Happy Endings →
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Reblogging partly for the link to own blog, which I’ve neglected to pimp on here. Hop Against Homophobia And Transphobia! Awareness and prizes! What has occurred to me since writing this, though, is that when people talk about Dumbledore’s belated outing as an example of queerbaiting, it’s worth bearing in mind Section 28 was still in effect when the Harry Potter books began...
Chris Hadfield's 30 Best Photos From Space →
Incredible shots tweeted by the rock-star astronaut from the International Space Station
Red Kite's Notes: Don't hang your legitimacy on... →
realsocialskills:
This dynamic happens a lot with autistic or otherwise socially-marginalized people:
You’re not treated as fully real, for your whole life
And you don’t even realize it, because it’s pervasive. You don’t know that it’s possible to be treated as real. You don’t know this…
“At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best...”
– Tobias Buckell on “The fate of today’s book bloggers”
The C.C. Finlay quote: “A novel doesn’t excite readers because you took all the bad stuff out of it, it excites them because of all the good stuff that’s in it, regardless of the bad.”
(via malindalo)
I had not heard this quote before, it...
A Spaceman, They Say I Am.: 6 Weird Facts About... →
astrodidact:
Here on Earth, we take gravity so for granted that it took an apple falling from a tree to trigger Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation. But gravity, which draws objects together in proportion to their mass, is about much more than fallen fruit. Read on for some of the strangest facts about this…
Follow Karen Nyberg on Twitter →
fuckyeahfemaleastronauts:
Astronaut Karen Nyberg is planned for launch on the 28th of May. Keep yourself up to date by following her twitter.
