1. Do Diversify Your Portfolio Of Token Muslims. Different Muslim Superheroes Have Different Superpowers.

Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness

Andrew Solomon on Robin Williams:

“He played an alien so well because he was an alien in his own mind, permanently auditioning to be one of us. Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.”

Above: Robin Williams, September 14, 1978. Photograph by Jim Britt/Getty

The triskellion is my favorite symbol. I doodle them everywhere.

The Berlin Celebration Concert - Beethoven, Symphony No 9 Bernstein 1989

- Nichelle Nichols

VisioNys

what Old Married Spirk really is

Spock and Jim growing old together. Spock getting more lines in his face, Jim getting a tummy. graying hair, walking more slowly, taking more time to have sex, Spock getting cold more easily, Jim forgetting where he set his house keys. numerous kisses with familiar lips, celebrating anniversaries quietly, hands aging, muscles fading, planting gardens and stargazing together, attending the funerals of enemies and friends, becoming distant to the action of the world, spooning in bed for hours, new and different forms of sadness, new and different forms of happiness, same smiles, same hearts, same minds. 

your daily reminder that Cyntoia Brown has to spend the holidays in prison because she defended herself from being raped at age 16. a petition was created that needs about 20k more signatures in order to bring more attention regarding a clemency to the Senator of Tennessee (where she is currently imprisoned). CYNTOIA BROWN NEEDS TO BE FREED. 

What makes it even worse is that the competition is held at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C.

SubmissionFriday: 

Giles Clarke

‘The Recyclers of Port-Au-Prince’ is an image that is emblematic of man’s current struggle in dealing with the hundreds of millions of tons of waste created annually. The men in the image live in the vast un-regulated waste dump on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince. Thousands of these ’re-cyclers’ pick through everything from discarded electronic goods to disease-ridden medical waste. On a good day, these men will earn $12-15 a day collecting then re-selling plastics, aluminum and other recyclable products. Many of the dump inhabitants live in crude tin shacks that line the smokey landscape. 

(photograph taken in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Jan2015)