Cadillac Mountain (Taken with instagram)

Souvenir from my two hour stay in Portland (Taken with instagram)

Ladybug outside work

nprmusic:

theswingingsixties:

The Beatles, ‘She Loves You’ - gif

That last harmony… gets me every time.

Belfast, ME (Taken with instagram)

theatlantic:

Pride in the Face of Death: A Clandestine Gay Rights Rally in Tehran

It’s not easy to be gay in the Islamic Republic of Iran. A recent United Nations report decried ”harassment, persecution, cruel punishment and even the death penalty.” Because Islamic law requires four adult male witnesses to prosecute sodomy, Iranian police typically seek confessions, often through torture. Women, easier to convict, are given 100 lashes for each case. Outside of the legal system, LGBT Iranians face widespread and socially accepted discrimination, bullying, and an elevated risk of suicide, according to a UK-based study. “Loneliness is killing me,” a 27-year-old man from Qazvin told researchers.

So it was an act of special significance when a small group of young people gathered in a hilly park overlooking Tehran to show, for a few brief but public moments, their support for Iranian gay rights. It was far from the biggest LGBT rights rally on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia commemorating the World Health Organization’s 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its catalog of mental diseases, but it carried its own significance.

Read more. [Images: fa.news.joopea.com]

#real talk realness

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misswynn:

Kinda like The Life Aquatic with ninjas.

Agreed! I watched a farcical/satirical Norwegian movie tonight and ended up learning more about the Cold War. Hurray for Netflix. And Norway.

surisburnbook:

Here is a story about Jaden Smith, as told by Will Smith, about a visit to the White House Situation Room:

“Barack is talking about the Situation Room, and Jaden says, ‘Excuse me, Mr. President?’ And Barack said, ‘Don’t tell me,’ and in perfect form—like, this is why he’s the President—he stopped and looked at Jaden and said, ‘The aliens, right?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, shoot!’ And he said, ‘I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of extraterrestrials, but I can tell you if there had been a top secret meeting and if there would have had to have been a discussion about it, it would have taken place in this room.’”

What is wrong with this family thinking they are on a first-name basis with everyone? First Willow calls Madame Oprah Winfrey “Girl” and now you’re telling me you called the President Barack? Are you being a serious person right now?

I’m all for a good story about a precocious tween, but these Smith kids have to be stopped. Do you think Kiernan Shipka or I would have introduced such banality into a conversation with the leader of the free world? Of course not. All I would want to discuss with the President is equal pay for equal work, and the ridiculously high tariffs on French cheeses.

Lunch time walk:
Distance: 1.0 miles
Saw: a swarm of seagulls following a lobster boat.

I found my old Livejournal.

I made dinner, and ate it on the front porch because it’s perfect out. (Taken with instagram)

A consequence of day drinking (Taken with instagram)

mustard oil!

This sums me up right now.