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Instagram

But wait, isn’t that how to be popular...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m29xhbzt7g1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/20848880498/instagram"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/entry.php?entryID=1793"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;But wait, isn’t that how to be popular everywhere?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/20850095979</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/20850095979</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:48:30 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>I made a sounds.</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="100" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=709645686/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I made a sounds.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/20821381943</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/20821381943</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:48:31 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>huerca zafada: When I say I'm pro-life...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://desliz.tumblr.com/post/8944082875"&gt;huerca zafada: When I say I'm pro-life...&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Of course not. Their BMWs need waxing.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, &lt;em&gt;because the child was born!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19960573826</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19960573826</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:06:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>nevver:

Don’t shoot</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ehor1Yad1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/19843468064/dont-shoot" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2012/03/trayvon-martin-inspired-facebook-photo.html"&gt;Don’t shoot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19846603519</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19846603519</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:53:47 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>One of 1997’s best tracks.</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/19735024291/tumblr_m1aofaDoEj1qzq1s3&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of 1997’s best tracks.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19735024291</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19735024291</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:28:22 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>myedol:

Gregory Thielker captures the beauty of rain in his...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1973lbeoY1qh0usho3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1973lbeoY1qh0usho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1973lbeoY1qh0usho2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1973lbeoY1qh0usho8_r1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1973lbeoY1qh0usho4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://myedol.tumblr.com/post/19695071516" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;myedol&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gregory Thielker&lt;/strong&gt; captures the beauty of rain in his photorealistic oil painting series entitled “&lt;em&gt;Under the Unminding Sky&lt;/em&gt;”. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19733587440</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19733587440</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:38:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"I love a good party. I am in this to make party. But I think we might be getting a bit confused..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;I love a good party. I am in this to make party. But I think we might be getting a bit confused about what it means to launch a product or start a company, and what it means to be on a reality game show.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am still excited, and I still marvel at what a weird thing we have all built together. I worry about how all of this money seems to corrupt it, turning a festival originally about independent creators into a branded hellscape of VIP-only, RSVP-only partypocalypse.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Ben Brown on &lt;a href="http://ilovebenbrown.com/post/19006549825/dear-internet-sxsw-starts-today-here-in-austin"&gt;what’s wrong with SxSW&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://jimray.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;jimray&lt;/a&gt;)

&lt;p&gt;This this this this this this. #sxsworst&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19102997030</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19102997030</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:09:52 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>natashavc:

BRET EASTON ELLIS IS CRIBBING NOTES FOR AN AMERICAN...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0p2iuIXbm1qzot6ao1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://natashavc.tumblr.com/post/19087544217/bret-easton-ellis-is-cribbing-notes-for-an" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;natashavc&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;BRET EASTON ELLIS IS CRIBBING NOTES FOR AN AMERICAN PSYCHO FOLLOW UP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I HOPE THIS LAUNCHES A THOUSAND THINK PIECES, EACH ONE DUMBER THAN THE NEXT. TWITTER IS HIS BEST MEDIUM. I HOPE BRET EASTON ELLIS OUTLIVES US ALL!!! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Profile?oid=2147917"&gt;jacob&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I watched this happen live and nearly shitted myself.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19101390618</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/19101390618</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:37:39 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>laughingsquid:

Television Taboos, 1949

She mustn’t...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0exciRq9l1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/18797272684/television-taboos-1949" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;laughingsquid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.retronaut.co/2012/03/television-taboos-1949/"&gt;Television Taboos, 1949&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She mustn’t swoon.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18821335892</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18821335892</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:18:05 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>emersunn:

biglyre:


soxiam:

Kaleidoscope

Whoa!!! This takes...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzrxqzRe8r1qz4axuo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://emersunn.com/post/18224527838/biglyre-soxiam-kaleidoscope-whoa-this" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;emersunn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://biglyre.tumblr.com/post/18049920697/soxiam-kaleidoscope-whoa-this-takes-me"&gt;biglyre&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://soxiam.com/post/18049497700/kaleidoscope"&gt;soxiam&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kaleidoscope&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whoa!!! This takes me back. This and A-Dock. Makes me want to bust out the old Snow iMac hiding out in my basement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So appealing at the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There was a NeXTSTEP Kaleidoscope skin I used for years.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18257425614</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18257425614</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:33:33 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"…I think we are terrible animals. And I think our planet’s immune system is trying to get rid of us..."</title><description>“…I think we are terrible animals. And I think our planet’s immune system is trying to get rid of us and should.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Kurt Vonnegut, &lt;a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/20/kurt-vonnegut-the-daily-show-jon-stewart-2005/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20brainpickings/rss%20(Brain%20Pickings)"&gt; on The Daily Show&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18055785018</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18055785018</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:47:13 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>frakintosh:

The part where you worry about everything in your life coming unhinged and falling...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://frakintosh.com/post/18013558750" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;frakintosh&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The part where you worry about everything in your life coming unhinged and falling apart. All of the time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hey yeah this.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18055524708</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/18055524708</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:41:54 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>laughingsquid:

First Flickr Photo in Honor of Flickr’s Eighth...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc6pbzsTE1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/17551942306/first-flickr-photo-in-honor-of-flickrs-eighth" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;laughingsquid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://laughingsquid.com/first-flickr-photo-in-honor-of-flickrs-eighth-annivesary/"&gt;First Flickr Photo in Honor of Flickr’s Eighth Annivesary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I thought that looked like a young Matt.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17558862132</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17558862132</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:23:04 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>laughingsquid:

RePress, An Internet Censorship Defeating Plugin...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqfggjTIP1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/16878327065/repress-an-internet-censorship-defeating-plugin"&gt;laughingsquid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://laughingsquid.com/repress-an-internet-censorship-defeating-plugin-for-wordpress/"&gt;RePress, An Internet Censorship Defeating Plugin For WordPress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17010688606</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17010688606</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:30:24 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Gulp.
nevver:

Giants Fan
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lysvzn82UZ1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gulp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/16961711347/giants-fan"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://slyoyster.com/"&gt;Giants Fan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17009584805</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/17009584805</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:09:50 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>nevver:

Endless Summer
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymlfoEp9R1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/16770392295/endless-summer"&gt;nevver&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://thethinkingtank.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/california/"&gt;Endless Summer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16784690004</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16784690004</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:26:34 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>goodoldvalves:

Aguzzoli Condor (1964)
Built from an Alfa Romeo...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lycsebasoH1qaakzyo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lycsebasoH1qaakzyo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lycsebasoH1qaakzyo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lycsebasoH1qaakzyo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://goodoldvalves.tumblr.com/post/16483033079/aguzzoli-condor-1964-built-from-an-alfa-romeo" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;goodoldvalves&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aguzzoli Condor&lt;/strong&gt; (1964)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Built from an Alfa Romeo TZ and powered by the Giulietta SZ 1600 engine (although the first Condor was mounted with the 1300 engine).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its body was designed by Franco Reggiani.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;:O&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16494213872</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16494213872</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:07:26 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydl5wPZlE1ql2g28o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16494091558</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16494091558</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:05:38 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>laughingsquid:

Shit Silicon Valley Says

Oh this is pretty...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BR8zFANeBGQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.laughingsquid.com/post/16469806310/shit-silicon-valley-says" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;laughingsquid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://laughingsquid.com/shit-silicon-valley-says/"&gt;Shit Silicon Valley Says&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oh this is pretty good.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16493973382</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16493973382</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:03:50 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Neck tattoo in a way that’s I’d describe as literal....</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly47kgdi6T1qzq1s3o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Neck tattoo in a way that’s I’d describe as literal. (Taken with &lt;a href="http://instagr.am"&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt; at Diabolical Boardshp)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16185399957</link><guid>http://alternatekev.tumblr.com/post/16185399957</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:57:52 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

