Sunday Snippets: Anniversary

Yesterday was my 6th wedding anniversary!

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Great idea from Erin Boyle

Babies and Puppies!

Ugh, white men

White people

Neighbors stunned by San Jose couple's murder

A wonderful idea

We will miss you Prince

Beautiful poem

A powerful look at how right-wing calls for profiling hurt real people.

Sunday Snippets: VOTE

GET THEE TO THE NEAREST POLLING PLACE AND VOTE YOUR FACE OFF.

Located in an isolated and economically languishing area of North Dakota, Spirit Lake is a Sioux Indian reservation home to some 6,200 inhabitants.

Obstetric Violence

My heart just broke reading these stories. Yes, a healthy baby is a great outcome, but what about the mental and physical needs of the person giving birth?

Expensive as fuck to be poor

FEELS Puppies are the best.

Why I'm Returning to My Maiden Name

Women's own identities were disappearing. In fact, the concept of removing a maiden name from your public identity is so engrained in our culture, it's the top contender for a secure password reminder at banks and in online forms. When I came to better understand our own history, as recently as the 1970's, state laws in the U.S. still mandated that a married woman needed to use her husband's name to vote, open a bank account, or get a passport.

'[It] is the equivalent of a bomb going off outside Debenhams on the Drapery in Northampton, or on New street in Birmingham, or Piccadilly Circus in London'

Ellen Page looks like she could set that man on fire with her eyes

And there it is

To the Strangers in Whole Foods Who Surrounded Me After News of My Father’s Suicide This is beautiful.

Sent Home From Middle School After Reporting A Rape (TW)

Navajo Water Supply is More Horrific than Flint, But No One Cares Because they’re Native American

Exactly!

Sunday Snippets: 2016

I hope and pray that 2016 is better than 2015. There was a lot of personal pain as well as the disgusting display of the "justice" system murdering people.

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Maybe he'll think twice before assaulting a woman again

#BelikeDarsh

Heck yeah JK Rowling

10,000

Snowflakes up close

Faith in humanity

The doctor said that the 91-year-old had been listening to the radio show and though she didn't know who Trump is, she felt the presidential candidate's ideas were hurtful. So when the patient, who happened to have an appointment with the doctor that day, arrived to the office, she gave him the five stuffed animals and also offered him some words of support.

Aww!

The minimum wage needs an increase bad. That is all

11 Accomplishments by BLM

Texas cuts off funding for Planned Parenthood’s HIV prevention program

Crime Myths Debunked

#TamirRice A sweet boy who was murdered. End of story.

A chuckle for your day

Horrible

Sunday Snippets: I'm old

Went to my 10th high school reunion last night....and I'm two years away from 30.

I would like to say I'm shocked by this but not really

A silent protest in Love Park, downtown Philadelphia orchestrated by performance artists protesting the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The onslaught of passerby’s wanting to take photos with the LOVE statue exemplifies the disconnect in American society. Simply frame out the dead body, and it doesn’t exist. In this event, artist activists staged a scene where Kieth A. Wallace, an Actor, pretended to be dead for an hour in front of the statue while others took turns holding a sign with “Call Us By Our Names” written on it.

Beautiful, striking photo

I'm really trying to take the time to enjoy each season as it is around, so now I'm gearing up for fall. And colors like those.

The hell? Again, really wish I could be surprised.

While at the station, Mr. Davis agreed to give a blood sample as well, to prove he was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. The results would later come back 100% negative. Davis’ attorney, Daniel Betts, told KVUE, “My reaction was just shock that this happened.”
TW-Heartbreaking

Bless you, Jon Oliver

He and John Stewart went in, but again, it's the same problem of once the white man says it, people pay attention.

Fucking preach

I wanna go play with them.

GAH

One of the cutest fucking things I've ever seen.

File under surprised, not surprised

Aww, damn

I really like this photo

GODDAMMIT, I WANT IT. THE FLUFF

#Ferguson Updates

Sunday Snippets: Vacation!

I have a beach vacation coming up; the first vacation since my husband and I's very simple honeymoon more than four years ago. And I need it. Car broke down and we realized I'm going to need a new transmission by the end of the year. Ugh.

Welp, there you go & More on the Hobby Lobby mess & Counterprotests

If a store brags of their discount merchandise brought to you with this primary goal in mind:

Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles,

…it makes you wonder which Biblical principles they are referencing. You would think they would produce their goods in a state or country with the strictest adherence to “Biblical Principles.” This is far from the case. Most of their merchandise is imported from China: where female infanticide and forcedabortion is the highest in the world. China truly is the most egregious abuser of this form of population control.

Bless you, RBG

Have died from cuteness & Typing from...the grave

Great website for those across the pond Ten thousand percent agree, I can't begin to imagine how terrifying it would be to have an abusive caregiver as a disabled woman.

Well, damn. Someone had their Wheaties that morning.

Supremely cool

Beautiful way to think about thunderstorms

Fuck this, fuck that, NOPE

Boom. Done.

Because puppies

Wanderlust I love pictures of roads like this.

This needs to be known. He was a creepy ass motherfucker when I saw him on campus and his response is disgusting. #HumanityAgainstSexualAssault

In case you need to vomit today.... #jadacounterpose

Boost and donate if you can

The Eagle Bull- Oxendine family is being sued by their child’s school for defamation, because they asked the school to permanently change their offensive and culturally insensitive Thanksgiving curriculum and to honor a two-year scholarship taken from their daughter after they voiced their concern over Native appropriation there.

Some happy pictures of books I need some happy after this week.

Sunday Snippets: Happy Mother's Day!

My mom and I are getting pedicures. We roll hard.

Abortion rights

The researchers found that “a year after being denied an abortion, 7 percent reported an incident of domestic violence in the last six months,” compared to 3 percent of the women who received abortions. The researchers concluded that this “wasn’t because the turnaways were more likely to get into abusive relationships,” but that “getting abortions allowed women to get out of such relationships more easily.”

Shut up and take my money

Because puppies

Happiest picture indeed

Sad but even more sadly, not surprising

In 2002, Iraqi officials asked for the return of the Gate, to no avail. A year later, the U.S. invaded the country.

Holy shit, that's awesome Bill Nye the Science Guy = one of my favorite people ever

Haven't tried this method, but plenty others

I used the sea sponge for awhile (you want to inspire awkward looks in a public restroom, try washing one in the sink sometime) but now I use cloth pads. I do have a few disposables at work, in case of emergencies, but I rather enjoy not having to literally throw my money away.

Names are important These women's names deserved to be told and remembered and they need to be found. & More Information

*headdesk* Yes please, let's pink-ify everything that has female attached to it. And people wonder why I don't want to reveal any future squidlets' gender ahead of time.

Truth

Oof, in the feels

It felt like buying a house meant buying the cultural narrative that came with it.

This. Right freaking here. I feel like this with all of the adult decisions I've made in the past five years.

*pets* I need to go exploring with my camera more.

Exactly. There are so many children lost.

That's terrifying

Because cats

Sunday Snippets: All the Things edition

Combined with my job needing more attention starting at the end of January and then every single weekend in April being booked, I'm ready for a nap. If all prevails, I will have downtime again starting in July. Oof.

Right, about that post racial America? Reading Shanesha Taylor's story broke my heart into pieces. But there is some good news.

To file under adorable I love puppies.

Shut up and take my money There may have been a time sophomore year of college where I skipped an evening class to watch this movie. And then proceeded to sob like a two year old.

Sobbing. So beautiful to read, but bring the tissues.

Beautiful artwork to remember a beautiful man I read Love in the Time of Cholera when I spent three weeks in Prague. I loved that book.

Can't wait to read her book

An appreciated honest approach to spawning tiny ones

I can't tell you whether having kids will be worth it for you. And that whole, "We are waiting until we're ready" thing? Right. You are never ready for this. When the tiny human cometh, all bets are off. And from then on, the question is never again whether or not it's worth it. The question is how you make it worth it for them.

This is disgusting (TW) I have been reading on this case as soon as Cecily McMillan came forward. Utterly awful.

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Welp, somebody better tell my partner this I've been doing it all wrong.

Since a woman prefers to marry a man who makes more money than she does, Schlafly argued, decreasing the gender pay gap would leave women unable to secure a husband.

Sunday Snippets: Posted on Monday Edition

All the things happened this weekend, including prepping for yet another snowstorm! I think Mother Nature is just trying to shake us all off like fleas.

How friggin adorable is this dog?

*grabby hands* Want! Those photos are intense.

Because cats win at everything

All the truth

Just today it decided to snow. Naturally this led to poor visibility. While dodging folks doing 30 with flashers on and idiots doing 75 in all lanes, I noticed one very distinct thing. Nobody bothered to have lights on in these conditions. Flashers? Sure. Go wild! But the set of headlights that come as a no cost option?

Beautiful reminder & Oof, anxiety

Give yourself the gift of a new start. Forgive yourself, let go of the past, and with confidence move on with your life.

The look of betrayal & With Further Death Glares

Love this photo

Beautiful obit

Mrs. Herz-Sommer, who died in London on Sunday at 110, and who was widely described as the oldest known Holocaust survivor, had been a distinguished pianist in Europe before the war. But it was only after the Nazi occupation of her homeland, Czechoslovakia, in 1939 that she began a deep study of Chopin’s Études, the set of 27 solo pieces that are some of the most technically demanding and emotionally impassioned works in the piano repertory.

brb, dying of all things cute Especially puppies

*drool*

LOL. I love it. I get so sick of seeing trite couple photos, so this is hysterical, if not heterocentric.

Holy shit, I need to do this.

I just see rage whenever I read about this.

“It’s unimaginable that a woman acting in self-defense, who injured no one, can be given what amounts to a life sentence,” said Free Marissa Now spokeswoman Helen Gilbert. “This must send chills down the spine of every woman and everyone who cares about women and every woman in an abusive relationship.”

Can. Not. Wait. For. This

Sunday Snippets: I'm waving the official white flag edition

So very very tired of snow. Yes, it's pretty. But this winter jacked up my heating bill and I'm very tired of being cold, stepping in mucky puddles of melted snow and wearing seventeen different layers of clothing to stay even remotely warm.

Shit I definitely didn't learn in college Really wish I had learned more than just the surface in my women studies classes.

Lol Really and truly have no problem if you choose to practice any religion, be it Christianity or Islam or Wiccan, etc. But be truthful and honest.

OMG PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I had a bigger house, I'd have a Saint Bernard. I have always loved them, the adorable big giant slobber monsters.

Monkey's face is priceless

Recess = classic kid's show

I'm such a sap for small fuzzy critters Especially ones that make cute noises like this. And these kitties.

Really interesting way of looking at purchases I could not imagine having to catalog every purchase I made and I think that would be a good way of cutting down on misc spending.

AAAAAAAAnd new favorite person Preach Jesse Williams.

Exactly! I love my job to pieces but we don't have paid family leave. We get FMLA, which is something, but dammit, if we got paid leave, I could probably be that much closer to tiny overlords. Three months of leave is nice, but my bills still need to paid during those three months.