Pluto effin Madness

"Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground."

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Kyoko Escamilla (via narcotic)

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"Please always know that behind all of my human behaviors
behind the best of me and the worst of me,
behind the ego struggling to survive -
is my soul, longing to mingle with yours."

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Elizabeth Lesser as spoken by Ram Dass from Broken Open. Courtesy of The Beauty We Love. (via broptimus-prime)

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inbonobo:

The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Among other forms of intelligence-gathering, the NSA secretly collects the phone records of millions of Americans, using data provided by telecom firms AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. Photograph: NSA/Getty Images
Three targeted Americans: a career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker. None of these US citizens was charged with a crime, but they have been tracked, surveilled, detained – sometimes at gunpoint – and interrogated, with no access to a lawyer. Each remains resolute in standing up to the increasing government crackdown on dissent. (via How the National Security Agency has gone rogue | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
Throughout the 1990s, the NSA developed a massive eavesdropping system codenamed ThinThread, which, Binney says, maintained crucial protections on the privacy of US citizens demanded by the US constitution. He recalled, “After 9/11, all the wraps came off for NSA,” as massive domestic spying became the norm. He resigned on 31 October 2001. Along with several other NSA officials, Binney reported his concerns to Congress and to the Department of Defense.
Then, in 2007, as then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was being questioned on Capitol Hill about the very domestic spying to which Binney objected, a dozen FBI agents charged into his house, guns drawn. They forced aside his son and found Binney, a diabetic amputee, in the shower. They pointed their guns at his head, then led him to his back porch and interrogated him. Three others were raided that morning. Binney called the FBI raid “retribution and intimidation so we didn’t go to the judiciary committee in the Senate and tell them, ‘Well, here’s what Gonzales didn’t tell you, OK.’” Binney was never charged with any crime.
The filmmaker: Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, whose recent films include My Country, My Country, about the US occupation of Iraq, and The Oath, which was filmed in Yemen. Since 2006, Poitras has been detained and questioned at airports at least 40 times. She has had her computer and reporter’s notebooks confiscated and presumably copied, without a warrant. The most recent time, 5 April, she took notes during her detention. The agents told her to stop, as they considered her pen a weapon.

Appelbaum has volunteered for WikiLeaks, leading to intense US government surveillance. Appelbaum spoke in place of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, at a conference called Hackers on Planet Earth, or Hope, as people feared Assange would be arrested. He started his talk by saying:

“Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic and international surveillance. I’m here today because I believe that we can make a better world.”

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. ~William B. Yeats

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wellandrando:

Sex a million times with a million of the best lovers in the world will never be as satisfying as your soul sighing after it meets its better half.

Politicalprof: Women's Work

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politicalprof:

So as the Ann Romney v Hillary Rosen “debate” continues, and as the “Mitt is cruel to dogs while Obama eats dogs” inanity occupies our attention during this silly season of politicsless politics and a campaignless campaign, I find myself struck by the language that suffuses the issue of women in…

When you piss yourself

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You can only stay warm for so long.