Ello, I'm Kinney
I'm a little crazy and I say things without thinking.
"When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro"
Kids In Space
Pixelated Wood Chip Sculptures by Shawn Smith
Sculptor Shawn Smith sees the world through pixel-tinted glasses, citing objects and animals he’s never seen in real life and conjuring them forth through carefully arranged, dyed wood blocks; the result a blurry abstraction of an item you know feels familiar, but you simply can’t squint hard enough to bring it into focus.
Artist: Website (via: Ignant / Visual News)
A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.
The bravest woman on Earth.
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This year’s Broadway Bares, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, features Broadway’s hottest stars recreating fairy tales with their very own happy endings. ;)
See? Eye-candy isn’t always frivolous!
I will never not reblog this
is that first one supposed to be Goldilocks and the three bears„, omg
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Meanwhile in Asia of the Day
This is a picture from a “potato party,” the latest weird craze that’s been sweeping across Korea and Japan which involves going to a McDonald’s restaurant and feasting on an absurd amount of french fries right then and there. Earlier last week, several South Korean adolescents were reportedly booted from the fast food restaurant after purchasing more than $250 USD worth of the fried potatoes, but not before snapping several photos that subsequently went viral online.
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NYC Cops Will Arrest You for Carrying Condoms
The woman asked Officer Hill why he was stopping her.
She wore jean shorts and a tight red shirt and had stood outdoors for half an hour. She’d had a conversation with a passing man. When Officer Hill searched her bag, he found a condom and $1.25.
He arrested her for “loitering for the purpose of prostitution.” On the supporting deposition, he filled in the blanks for what she was wearing and how many condoms she had.
When I read over the deposition in the PROS Network’s Public Health Crisis (PDF), a study of how the NYPD arrests folks for carrying condoms, I thought of all the tight shirts I’d worn while idling outside on delicious spring days. I thought, She sounds like me. She sounds like my friends.
The NYPD will arrest you for carrying condoms, but that depends entirely on who you are. If you’re a middle-class white girl like me, you’re probably safe. But say you’re a sex worker or a queer kid kicked out of your home. Say you’re a trans woman out for dinner with your boyfriend. Maybe you’ve been arrested as a sex worker before. Maybe some quota-filling cop thinks you look like a whore.
Then you’re not safe at all.
Like most laughably cruel tricks of the justice system, you probably wouldn’t know that you could be arrested for carrying condoms until it happened to you. Monica Gonzalez is a nurse and a grandmother. In 2008, Officer Sean Spencer arrested her for prostitution while she was on the way to the ER with an asthma attack. The condom he found on her turned out to be imaginary. Gonzalez sued the city after the charges were dropped. But if the condom were real, why should she have even been arrested at all?
are you fucking kidding me?
jesus fucking christ
So if you’re a woman and you’re waiting outside while wearing shorts and you happen to carry a condom, you can be arrested? I think almost every single one of my female friends and acquaintances has at one moment fit that description.
What a bunch of slut-shaming. If you seem what society deems a slutty woman, you’re not only negatively judged by strangers, but there are also enforced laws to have you risk getting arrested. Wow. They really hate woman who look like they might engage in casual sex, don’t they?
If this really was about wanting to stop prostitution, they’d go after pimps who exploit women, not after women who might or might not be prostitutes, but seem slutty enough to somehow justify arresting them.
As if they’d ever arrest a (white) man waiting outside in a tight shirt (or even topless) and shorts, starting a conversation with a woman and *gasp* carrying a condom in his wallet. That’s a 100% normal image in our society. But if it’s a woman, she’s obviously up to something illegal or at least casual sex so we better arrest her.
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