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Link reblogged from Filigree and Flowers
A “gate to hell” has emerged from ruins in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists have announced.
Known as Pluto’s Gate — Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin — the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition.
Historic sources located the site in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis, now called Pamukkale, and described the opening as filled with lethal mephitic vapors.
“This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death,” the Greek geographer Strabo (64/63 BC — about 24 AD) wrote.
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Photo reblogged from Veruca Assault
Here are 11 things the 1% could buy for Americans that we can’t afford for ourselves via United for a Fair Economy
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Link reblogged from Veruca Assault
1. $2.13 per hour vs. $3,000,000.00 per hour
A comparison of top and bottom salaries within large corporations is much less severe, but a lot more common. For CEOs and minimum-wage workers, the difference is $5,000.00 per hour vs. $7.25 per hour.
2. A single top income could buy housing…
(Source: alternet.org)
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Quote reblogged from Baffledking
But are we really that surprised that these two young men didn’t think their actions were wrong?
Videos of men running up to women they don’t know just to grab their ass or stomach and run away are played for laughs on shows like Tosh.0. (The show is run by a comedian who garnered tremendous support after he “joked” about a woman in his audience being gang raped.) A “funny” montage of women’s breasts shown at the Oscars included rape scenes. We have handfuls of qualifiers—date, legitimate, forcible, gray—that we throw in front of “rape” because we want to know if an assault was a “real” rape or one of those non-rapes Republican politicians keep talking about.
And it’s not just rape that’s the joke—it’s women. Our very existence is presented to young men as fodder for sex and laughs, our humiliation and pain as goalposts for their masculinity. While mainstream culture fools itself into thinking that Americans take rape seriously, most women know better. We get the joke. We’re just tired of being the punchline.
What’s So Funny About Steubenville, my latest at The Nation (via jessicavalenti) -
Photoset reblogged from Alex Dally MacFarlane
Hello, my name is Yvonne, I’m a college-aged cis-female who has a love for photography, and I have hirsutism. Basically, I grow thick hair where normally only males grow such hair, which includes my face. It’s made me feel insecure and “man-ish” for a lot of my life, so I took on this project. I did this to explore what the widely-accepted gender ideals are and how I might fit in them, mostly, so I can accept that I don’t.
If you’d like to see the other photos in better quality, check out the flickr set, and I’m always open to messages!
WOW you are absolutely gorgeous. This is such a wonderful project, and just- gyah you are so very lovely. :>
A+++ gold stars most wonderful human award goes to you, girl. it takes massive amounts of courage and self confidence to rise above the degradation women recieve over their body hair, and i will forever applaud anyone who can. also, you are beautiful.
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Photo reblogged from Shady Oaks
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Post reblogged from Just A Blog
sonicthejavelinerisfuckingdead:
think about the concept of a library. that’s one thing that humanity didn’t fuck up. we did a good thing when we made libraries
(Source: tinyjavs)
