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“Sexy And I Know It”. Deranged genius of sexual kitsch, via xkcd.com.

Seriously: this is not exactly NSFW (depending on where you work - in a Burlesque nightclub you should be fine; administrative wing of the Vatican, probably not so much) but it may cause blindness of several kinds. You have been warned.

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via io9 - absolutely, positively adorable: a snoring dormouse. So cute it’s actually dangerous to your health. Turn on the sound.

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I love Twitter. Actually, this evening I love everyone :)

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Yes, it is a tiger. I took this picture at London Zoo the other day (my daughter looooves the penguins.) This picture is actually a test, because I’ve been messing with my tumblr and Facebook settings and all manner of other tedious malarky. But, dude, it’s a TIGER. That’s never bad. Also, I once leaned on the cage containing the Esso Tigers when I was working at Shepperton. I have never been so convinced I was going to die as I was when one of them stole my bacon sandwich. With its tongue.

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Not so much a secret space as an unseen one; the view upwards from a tiny alley near my home.

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iheartclassics:

This is both beautiful and sad at the same time.

Nice :)

(Source: verbivore)

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My walk to the shops is always so reassuringly gothic :)

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Democracy:

A form of rulership buttressed by the twin pillars of popularity and pedantry. Rulers are put in place when they win a popularity contest, during which they will say and do things they have no intention of repeating subsequently. It is acceptable and indeed expected that candidates should lie, kiss babies, and promise things which are mathematically, economically, and physically impossible. They should also freely pledge mutually contradictory things to interest groups.
The second pillar, pedantry, becomes apparent after the ruler has been appointed, and is mostly composed of careful parsing of the statements made during the first. This parsing inevitably reveals that what appeared to be promises to do something amount to assurances to maintain the status quo, and that solemn undertakings given as part of the popularity contest were in fact merely hopeful speculations. Some statements will be revealed as meaning the converse of what they appeared to mean when they were uttered, and these will be the object of particular derision by those who applauded them at the time and particular approbation by those who did not.
On the whole, Democracy yields a society which is moderately capable of seeing to the needs of the citizenry by a tacit policy of paternalism (that style of social governance in which a ruler acts in an entirely selfish fashion while asserting a common good) and neglect. It is therefore one of the fairer and freer forms of rulership, but also one of the most frustrating.

Harkaway’s True Definitions :)

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