overhearing people talking about something u like
hearing that they talkin shit
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(Reblogged from coloredmondays)
I loathe when people think that I’m shy rather than introverted. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being shy, I’m just not, and they are two separate things. People cajoling me into social situations try to assure me that I “don’t have to talk to everyone” or that “everyone will love me.” Bitch, of course they will like me. I am delightful. I just find prolonged social interactions to be extremely exhausting.
Comment by popculturemulcher in the article I’m Not a Miserable Bitch, I’m Just an Introvert (via loveyourchaos)
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(Reblogged from myserendipities)
Computer scientists have discovered a way to number-crunch an individual’s own preferences to recommend content from others with opposing views. The goal? To burst the “filter bubble” that surrounds us with people we like and content that we agree with.
Their idea that although people may have opposing views on sensitive topics, they may also share interests in other areas. And they’ve built a recommendation engine that points these kinds of people towards each other based on their own preferences.
The result is that individuals are exposed to a much wider range of opinions, ideas and people than they would otherwise experience. And because this is done using their own interests, they end up being equally satisfied with the results (although not without a period of acclimitisation). “We nudge users to read content from people who may have opposite views, or high view gaps, in those issues, while still being relevant according to their preferences,” say Graells-Garrido and co.
They also say that challenging people with new ideas makes them generally more receptive to change. That has important implications for social media sites. There is good evidence that users can sometimes become so resistant to change than any form of redesign dramatically reduces the popularity of the service. Giving them a greater range of content could change that.
HBO’s “Girls” synopsis
Awkward white girls having bad sex with asshole “quirky” guys and this is why Brooklyn has been going through gentrification.
Detrimental Romanticism
I get pretty worried when I see people in their late teens and their early twenties romanticize literature with complex and abusive relationships (i.e Lolita, Anna Karenina, Romeo and Juliet, Layla and Mujnun, etc).
Like if you can’t see how the writer proportions the themes in their books (for example, the lovers high is short compared to the consequences and despairs of such love, which actually takes up 2/3 of a story) then you’re not seeing a book as a book but rather a wet dream.
Ten Dicta For Young Women Who Are Artists by Hazel Dooney
(I can’t quite read it all but she recites a little of it in this write up in The Age.)
Fox • Box: Further.
It’s the delicate wind that passes by.
I am the reflection of the rain drop,
and me is not of this.
Why in forming perspective,
am I most primitive and simple-minded?
Is it the vanquish of the night?
The fumes of the galaxy?
My mother calling out for everyone,
instead of me?
What…
it’s very frustrating that i understand and know this feeling too well at this point in life
(via thedailywhat)
2456. Same-Sex Union in Taiwan. ”Their union may not be legal, but Yu Ya-ting and Huang Mei-yu on Saturday became Taiwan’s first lesbian couple to be married in a Buddhist ceremony. Huang said the couple hoped that a wedding blessed by a Buddhist master would encourage more Taiwanese, 80 percent of whom are Buddhist, to support same-sex marriage.”“I remember when I told my parents that we would get married, their first question was, ‘Is this legal?’” Huang said. “I could only say to them that it would soon, but I didn’t know when would be considered soon. So we hope it will become legal.”
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(Source: thedailywhat)