Life Is A Hoot

skullumbia: This should be our place’s motto.

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:44:39 -0400

skullumbia:

This should be our place’s motto.

iceepr1ncess: literally nothing feels better than being loved by someone who hates everyone

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:43:39 -0400

iceepr1ncess:

literally nothing feels better than being loved by someone who hates everyone

frosty-butt: qima: jonnovstheinternet: Cats stuck in...

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:42:36 -0400

frosty-butt:

qima:

jonnovstheinternet:

Cats stuck in things

Thank you.

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anarcho-queer: NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:21:56 -0400

anarcho-queer:

NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino

During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.

White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.

• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.

It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”

In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.

bankston: argonauticos: sturtle:(via sissydudeomen2)

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:20:23 -0400

bankston:

argonauticos:

sturtle:(via sissydudeomen2)

chrisvpeace: the#Mcnay #courtyard #portal

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:17:10 -0400

chrisvpeace:

the#Mcnay #courtyard #portal

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Fri, 24 May 2013 02:33:42 -0400

adventuresonpaper: I’ll come back for you I whisper as I caress the books I can’t afford.

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:32:32 -0400

adventuresonpaper:

I’ll come back for you I whisper as I caress the books I can’t afford.

I feel liKe summer from 500 days of summer

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:58:51 -0400

I feel liKe summer from 500 days of summer

Looking for a place to rent in Asheville?

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:50:04 -0400

Looking for a place to rent in Asheville?

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:31 -0400

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:48:44 -0400

ramzyfatale: Modest Mouse - “Bukowski”

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:07:16 -0400

ramzyfatale:

Modest Mouse - “Bukowski”

"Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:06:22 -0400

“Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”

- Charles Bukowski (via empathicawareness)

juliansayshii: “One day I will find the right words, and they...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:57:11 -0400

juliansayshii:

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple” - Jack Kerouac

foolish-mind: Allen Ginsberg - Song

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:50:48 -0400

foolish-mind:

Allen Ginsberg - Song

"I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:35:59 -0400

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved. Nobody was paying any attention to me up there.”

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road. (via destroyingangels)

"I had my home to go to, my place to lay my head down and figure the losses and figure the gain that..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:32:58 -0400

“I had my home to go to, my place to lay my head down and figure the losses and figure the gain that I knew was in there somewhere too.”

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road. (via destroyingangels)

"So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long,..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:57 -0400

“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think
of Dean Moriarty.”

- Jack Kerouac, On the road (via rogerhache)

Dealing with student loans just wrecks my whole day

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:31:14 -0400

Dealing with student loans just wrecks my whole day