February 2012
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For women, heart attacks look different. →
elfgrove:
distractedbyshinyobjects:
Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves health-wise, than men...
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A brief retrospect on twenty one years
You’ll have to forgive any odd wording here (I’m really tired!), but with ten minutes until I am legally considered 21 years old, I figured I’d write something.
I’m currently lying in a bed in a hotel in Dunedin, bathing in the glorious warmth of this electric blanket (I’m really a cat at heart), listening to the rain & Amanda Palmer playing from Alex’s...
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This is a humble apology for the spam of Lemongrab/Choose Goose gifs this morning. Apparently some people take “yes, you can borrow my laptop” to mean “yes, you can troll my Tumblr account”. :P Looking at no one in particular, of course *cough jahs and incendiarism*. (On a plus side, it could have been much, much worse.)
“I’ve played a poor black teenager (in GTA: San Andreas), an Asian female lab rat...”
– John Maddening on why homosexual protagonists in video games should be no big deal. (via chifuyu)
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“What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re...”
– Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
(via avid)