Vasty Nothingness

eric and donna #forever

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:08 -0400

eric and donna #forever

fuckyeahparksandrec: true. #drinks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:01:15 -0400

fuckyeahparksandrec:

true.

#drinks

darthcubby: America sucks at a lot of things. let’s take...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:53 -0400

darthcubby:

America sucks at a lot of things.

let’s take this and use it. for the future.

What do network executives consistently get wrong in comedy?...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:01:13 -0400

What do network executives consistently get wrong in comedy? (x)

okay. #theroom

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:00:49 -0400

okay. #theroom

katskinx: perfect response

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:01:03 -0400

katskinx:

perfect response

theparisreview: “Grammar cops are rarely good writers....

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:01:01 -0400

theparisreview:

“Grammar cops are rarely good writers. Imagination always disobeys.” Sherman Alexie starts a Tweet storm.

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

“i was never meant to be without you”

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:01:12 -0400

“i was never meant to be without you”

theofmoviestills: ~~~~~GREAT CINEMATIC VILLAINS: LOKI IN THE...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:00:53 -0400

theofmoviestills:

~~~~~GREAT CINEMATIC VILLAINS: LOKI IN THE AVENGERS~~~~~

The Avengers | Joss Whedon | 2012

bohemea: Couldn’t it be that if someone took care of you, very...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:01:05 -0400

bohemea:

Couldn’t it be that if someone took care of you, very good care of you, if this person would do anything for you, if your well being was his only thought, is it impossible that you might begin to feel something for him? When there’s true love it doesn’t matter who it is.

pete can’t handle himself. but really, the other guy’s face is PERFECT.

"I’m sick of your tattoos and the way you always criticise The Smiths and Morrissey."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:01:15 -0400

“I’m sick of your tattoos and the way you always criticise The Smiths and Morrissey.”

- Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)

Photo

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:01:09 -0400

nevver: Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:00:49 -0400

nevver:

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Can I get a book deal already?"

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:01:07 -0400

“Can I get a book deal already?”

- Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:10:34 -0400

"The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:00:45 -0400

“The thing that sucks about Girls and Seinfeld and Sex and the City and every other TV show like them isn’t that they don’t include strong characters focusing on the problems facing blacks and Latinos in America today. The thing that sucks about those shows is that millions of black people look at them and can relate on so many levels to Hannah Horvath and Charlotte York and George Costanza, and yet those characters never look like us. The guys begging for money look like us. The mad black chicks telling white ladies to stay away from their families look like us. Always a gangster, never a rich kid whose parents are both college professors. After a while, the disparity between our affinity for these shows and their lack of affinity towards us puts reality into stark relief: When we look at Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, we see people with whom we have a lot in common. When they look at us, they see strangers.”

- Hipster Racism Runoff And The Search for The Black Costanza by Cord Jefferson @ Gawker

When they look at us, they see strangers.

(via darkdarkgirlvashti)

I was trying to find this quote recently. I don’t think most white people understand how it feels to be thought of as only as a dehumanized stereotype or a token. Never as someone like you who can be relatable and have things in common with you. It’s always a surprise to people online and offline when people find out that I like things that they do, too ; that I’m not just some angry activism-obsessed woman. When people like Lena Dunham say they don’t know how to write Black people, it’s pretty much saying that she doesn’t think that Black people are also fully complex human beings like her. Sure, there are cultural considerations to be made, but it’s ignoring the fact that people of color are diverse and not a monolith, so it’s not like the only girls who are like her are white.

(via wretchedoftheearth)

kateordie: Kill me now

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:01:17 -0400

kateordie:

Kill me now

"Listen, how your heart pounds inside me."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:01:08 -0400

“Listen, how your heart pounds inside me.”

- Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet, essayist, translator and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1923-2012)

Fracking debris considered too radioactive even for waste site

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:00:51 -0400

Fracking debris considered too radioactive even for waste site:

crookedthinking95:

A truck carrying drill cuttings from a fracking site set off a radiation alarm at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Emitting gamma radiation ten times higher than the permitted level, the waste was rejected by the landfill.

After the alarm went off, the MAX Environmental Technologies truck was immediately quarantined and sent back to the Marcellus Shale fracking site it had come from in Greene County, Va. The 159-acre Pennsylvania landfill site accepts residual and hazardous waste, but the cuttings were too radioactive for the site to safely dispose.

The Pennsylvania landfill, located in South Huntingdon, rejects waste that emits more than 10 microerm per hour of radiation. The fracking materials were found to emit 96 microerm per hour of Radium 226 – a rate that is 84 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s air-pollution standard and ten times higher than the landfill’s permitted level, Forbes reports.

Exposure to the materials taken from the fracking site can have serious health consequences, including the risk of developing cancer. The high level of radiation emitted by the materials serves as alarming news for environmentalists and residents located near hydraulic fracturing sites across the US.

“Long-term exposure to radium increases the risk of developing several diseases,” the EPA writes.“Inhaled or ingested radium increases the risk of developing such diseases as lymphoma, bone cancer and diseases that affect the formation of blood, such as leukemia and aplastic anemia… External exposure to radium’s gamma radiation increases the risk of cancer to varying degrees in all tissues and organs.”

The drill cuttings have been sent back to the well pad where they were extracted. The production company, Rice Energy, must now apply to have the waste discarded at other landfill sites that accept materials with higher levels of radiation.

DEP spokesperson Jon Poister told The Tribune-Review that the cuttings emitted “low-level radiation, but we don’t want any radiation in South Huntingdon.” He said it was not typical for the landfill to reject waste based on radiation levels, but this case provides reassurance that the radiation detection system functions properly.

“It’s not too frequent that this occurs, but it’s not totally infrequent either,” he told the local newspaper.“There are all kinds of sources for that type of material, including medical materials, and this is a huge safeguard we have in place.”

But environmentalists remain concerned about the effects of the radiation produced by hydraulic fracturing sites. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) this year began analyzing wastewater from fracking sites and testing waste products for radioactivity. The investigation is ongoing.

“We are sampling the wastewater and wastes, the treatment equipment used to treat it, the trucks used to transport it, the tanks and pits used to store it and the landfills or treatment plants used to dispose of it,”DEP spokesman Kevin Sunday told shalereporter.com.

The consequences of long-term exposure to Radium 226 are known, but the effects of specially formulated chemicals used at US fracking sites still remain widely unknown. With the Obama administration overlooking environmental concerns and distributing oil drilling rights without a comprehensive review of fracking, it is difficult to know just how much radiation the sites produce.

But with landfill sites rejecting drill cuttings based on high levels of radiation, the waste produced is not an insignificant matter.

When my coworker leaves for vacation

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:01:16 -0400

whatshouldwecallme: