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"I’m (expletive deleted) starving."

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Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)

He’s not the first chef to do this — I wrote about Karl Wilder doing the same experiment last year. But yeah. Food stamps are not a luxury item that our nation’s poor people are using to buy steaks and bottles of champagne. Though food stamps are designed to be supplemental, for many, they’re the only source of food. 

-Jess

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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

- Henry David Thoreau (via themadeshop)

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Nothing Is The Same

It’s a new world. Everything just turned into backwards-day.

If we look at the oligarchy, the upper-echelon, the elite, the wealthy, the dictators, those that seek to oppress via the technologies we have created in support of humanity (apps aside … let’s take for example the entire system of nodes that create this internet).

One has to dig at the root. The tap root. Let’s look at where the power was, in comparison to where the power is

Centuries ago freemasons flexed their collective and undeniable importance. Against tyranny they held faster than any uprising or riot and shook things into a different dynamic.

The fancies fucked it up, they recruited deep pockets and shallow brains, and sought to hold us all by some imagined collective ballsack.

They lost and they’re losing again this time. They don’t know it yet but they forgot history. They forgot that subversives transact and wager against them until they fail or collapse or perform treasonous action and that they have waged war/conflict against us. Do they think that we do not read the teachings of B. Franklin, or T. Jefferson? Do they think us illiterate or ill minded or ill informed nincompoops?

Guess who makes the internet? Guess who manipulates it? Guess who toils and spends countless hours coding the inner network that comprises the tools/trolls/technology used to organize revolutions against those that seek to silence the voice?

Who fleshes IS-IS or OSPF protocols? Who rewrote the whole thing to facilitate Shortest Path Bridging of PSLB ethernet connections? Let alone the introduction of optimized link state networks for wireless mesh networks. Who penned this hot shit?

Us.

We did.

Once it was a collective energy to preserve secrets, it is now a larger organization focused on exposing, not reality, but fact. This network, this internet, was conceived of and developed by and nurtured by people hellbent on one thing and one thing alone: the free and accessible dissemination of knowledge; across borders, across walls, across castes, across classes, across economic barriers, across socio-political constructs, across definitions, and across all the judgements of their willy-nilly crap. 

Fuck you.

And your mother too. 

Hard.

This is the age of anonymous. The revolution was not televised. It was never gonna be. Get over yourself.

They have stated that they are legion already, expect them.

Run for your lives.

Fast.

PS. y’all asshats anyway, never really liked the stuff you sold us anyhow.

mollycrabapple:

Raise a glass to Marie Colvin (just killed in Syria) and war reporters, some of the last true badasses of the world. 

Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. 

"If we’re willing to spend $750 billion (so far) to make democracy in Iraq possible, we should be willing to spend one-twenty-fifth of that to make democracy in America work."

-  - Lawrence Lessig (Republic, Lost p. 269)

I love warm rain, but even in rain I do not love, I do not have an umbrella.
I love the sun, and do not worry about the wrinkles, because really - who knows how many tomorrows there are.
I love the wind so much I spent half of my life on the back of a horse, trying to feel more across my face.
I say “I love you,” often, passionately, to many people of different colors, relations, shapes and sizes; and I mean it fiercely, deeply and for a wide array of valuable reasons.
These things, I know to be the keys to a fulfilled life.

I love warm rain, but even in rain I do not love, I do not have an umbrella.

I love the sun, and do not worry about the wrinkles, because really - who knows how many tomorrows there are.

I love the wind so much I spent half of my life on the back of a horse, trying to feel more across my face.

I say “I love you,” often, passionately, to many people of different colors, relations, shapes and sizes; and I mean it fiercely, deeply and for a wide array of valuable reasons.

These things, I know to be the keys to a fulfilled life.

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"Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent."

- V for Vendetta (via poortaste)

truth.

Don’t die wondering. 
Don’t.

Don’t die wondering. 

Don’t.

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abaldwin360:

MSNBC reporter loses it and tells the truth! - This is from back in October but it needs more attention.