love without regrets.

Oh, spring, I see you have arrived. #Texas

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:35:09 -0400

Oh, spring, I see you have arrived. #Texas

dem-queer-animals: awesome-everyday: shorterexcerpts: thecallu...

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:08:19 -0400

awesome-everyday:

shorterexcerpts:

thecallus:

theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding

Buy a house

Buy a new car

PLAN to have children

Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

read the commentary above ^^

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Fri, 10 May 2013 01:04:13 -0400

psychology-terms: Sternberg’s Love Theory

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:43:21 -0400

psychology-terms:

Sternberg’s Love Theory

rpgmaker: thatbatterisaspy: hairandbeardkommando: punks not...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:38:51 -0400

rpgmaker:

thatbatterisaspy:

hairandbeardkommando:

punks not dead

Heosemys spinosa is an endangered species.

punks almost dead

melodiesintheair: crystalzelda: ameliaelizabeth: TIME’s new...

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:35:40 -0400

melodiesintheair:

crystalzelda:

ameliaelizabeth:

TIME’s new cover makes me so mad I could write essays about it, but instead I’m going to keep job hunting since in today’s world a university degree means nothing and therefore like much of my generation, I’m stuck choosing between minimum wage jobs and internships that I can’t afford to accept in an attempt to pay off my tens of thousands of dollars worth of student debt.

I’d be interested in reading this article to see exactly what makes us entitled and lazy. Are we lazy because more of us are completing high school and going to college than ever before? Are we entitled because our standard of living is declining? Do we live with our parents because we’re too slothful to leave or is because our education costs are getting steeper and steeper while we’re getting less and less aid?

Tell us, Time Magazine, about how we’re narcissistic little slugs when we’re faced with an economic crisis that resulted in a lowering of our standard of living, an increase in tuition costs and how when we get out of our very expensive schools, more and more of us are going to end up working minimum wage jobs.

Is everyone purposefully ignoring the “why they’ll save us all” part?

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Thu, 09 May 2013 18:49:18 -0400

melodiesintheair: “nope.”

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:46:19 -0400

melodiesintheair:

“nope.”

dallonsmiles: LADIES AND GENTLEMAN THE KING OF SASS AND...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:02:59 -0400

dallonsmiles:

LADIES AND GENTLEMAN THE KING OF SASS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

andrewsoup: fuckyeahpop-punk: SOTD: Passing Through A Screen...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:39:36 -0400

andrewsoup:

fuckyeahpop-punk:

SOTD: Passing Through A Screen Door - The Wonder Years

Jesus Christ. I’m 26. All the people I graduated with all have kids, all have wives, all have people who care if they come home at night. Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?

“I was born to run away from anything good, an escape artists son, sun-drenched pavement in my blood. The first thing that I do when I walk in is find a way out for when shit gets bad.”

^I reblog this all the time. One of my favorite Wonder Years lyrics.
One week!!!

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Tue, 07 May 2013 20:37:42 -0400

allisonthenerdmachine: On a scale of 1 to the War of the Worlds broadcast how misunderstood is your...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:32:06 -0400

allisonthenerdmachine:

On a scale of 1 to the War of the Worlds broadcast how misunderstood is your joke.

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Tue, 07 May 2013 20:31:03 -0400

niladhevan: So you have a merry bunch of French dudes dancing...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:27:33 -0400

niladhevan:

So you have a merry bunch of French dudes dancing on a Macklemore’s song in a Japanese street. No reason to scroll past that.

hermione-j-e-a-n-granger: sweeterin: sistahmamaqueen: chronica...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:22:31 -0400

hermione-j-e-a-n-granger:

sweeterin:

sistahmamaqueen:

chronicallyqueer:

geeksgamesguys:

sassy-fox:

spastasmagoria:

oh my crap

the greatest

And that is how mariokart is played.

I know people like this.

basically me.

really captain america, really?

steve

recoveryofabrokenteen: frostyjackk: iliekmudkipss: glampora: ...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:16:47 -0400

recoveryofabrokenteen:

frostyjackk:

iliekmudkipss:

glampora:

heytheresuckyq:

findinglady:

PLEASE PASS THIS ON!

I want to make sure every one knows about this and what it can do to your pets

this is what has happened to my sisters cat after she wore a hartz flea and tick collar and now has a burn like wound on her neck. please pass this on and do not buy hartz’s products! they use poison in their products pets have died because of this!!

http://www.hartzvictims.org/

Yes this is my cat she is doing fine at the moment but I’m so sorry for the people who’s pets are not so lucky

oh my god

PLEASE REBLOG THIS PEOPLE

save pets!

scary

(( signal boost because if anything like this happened to snickers i would burst out in tears ))

(via

TumbleOn)

Have you ever met someone And theyre so fucking perfect in every way. And maybe they arent...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:15:43 -0400

Have you ever met someone

And theyre so fucking perfect in every way.

And maybe they arent perfect to everybody, but to you theyre just absolutely amazing.

The way they laugh and smile and talk and think and look and just everything about them and everything they do just keeps amazing you.

friendlycloud: little-trouble-grrrl: kali—ma: new-creatures: ...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:14:23 -0400

friendlycloud:

little-trouble-grrrl:

kali—ma:

new-creatures:

lipgloss-in-my-veins:

kill me. kill me right now.

This makes me really angry

Lewis’s law is an observation she made in 2012 that states “the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.” Lewis has written frequently about misogynist hate directed at women online.^[8]

Fine. Those whiners hate her, but now I’ll support her. And I guess more of us Tumblerettes will.

Notice also the guy who says we are not innocent bystanders because he doesn’t get laid. Not giving him sex is a crime in his eyes. Idiot.

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Tue, 07 May 2013 20:10:18 -0400

garden-of-vegan: raspberry soy yogurt with strawberries and...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:02:06 -0400

garden-of-vegan:

raspberry soy yogurt with strawberries and sunflower seeds, a whole wheat english muffin, and orange juice