hangin' 'round

iragray:

I know it seems obvious to say that, and I know it’s not an incredibly radical idea. However, it’s becoming more and more apparent that the rest of the US, specifically the queerphobic religious right, does not agree that the right to be safe while at school should exist.

That being said, we need…

A friend and I are in the process starting a GSA at our school. These kids’ suicides are four more reasons why we need to do this.

New York (CNN) — On the evening of September 19, Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is believed to have sent a message by Twitter about his roommate, Tyler Clementi.

“Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.”

Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, surreptitiously placed the camera in their dorm room and broadcast video of Clementi’s sexual encounter on the internet, the Middlesex County prosecutor’s office said. Ravi tried to use the webcam again two days later, on September 21.

“Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it’s happening again,” Ravi is believed to have tweeted.

The next day, Clementi was dead.

Authorities said the 18-year-old freshman committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York. A law enforcement source told CNN that Clementi’s wallet and cell phone were found on the bridge.

HOW and WHY do people think that doing something like this is acceptable?

I can’t think of anything else to say.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian chemist and photographer. In the early 1900s, Prokudin-Gorskii was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II to travel around Russia and take color photographs of the people, places, and things he encountered. In a span of 10 years, he took at least 10,000 photos.

These photos are just amazing. The colors are rich and vibrant. Prokudin-Gorskii’s work illuminates the past in a way I’ve never seen before.

Just look at the photos before I get pretentious, OK?

thrashmatics:

It’s nice to know that in college your grade isn’t determined by your understanding of a subject but whether or not you can afford the technology to fake an understanding. I just failed 50% of my first calculus exam (primarily trig review, logarithms and limits) because I don’t have a graphing…

Aren’t you supposed to always use fractions from pre-cal on?

I think you should have gotten extra credit for doing it without a calculator. Maybe it’s because math isn’t my thing, but that’s awesome and shows that you’re putting in a lot of effort.

Yup, that’s a direct quote. Bambang Bayu Suseno, a legislator in Jambi, a province of Indonesia, is floating an idea among his colleagues and constituents that all girls would have to pass a virginity test in order to attend state-funded schools.

brave-slut:

This will be the first woman to be executed in the USA in five years. She’s from my hometown of Danville, VA.

Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a…