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Me, eating Apple slices with my rats in the dark: were a lot alike you and i. We eat we sleep we live trapped in our comfort zones never doing anything more than the usual. Your cage is physical you have an excuse but me? What stops me from getting up and leaving all that I know? Nothing but social obligation. But you seem satisfied in your space, to climb your walls and rest and shit and eat. Perhaps there is wisdom in that.

My rats, eating apples with me in the dark : crunchcrunchcrunch crunchcrumch crunchcrunchcrunch

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i’ve said it before i’ll say it again there’s a difference between lady gaga singing born this way in 2011 and taylor swift singing “shade never made anyone less gay” (whatever the fuck that means) to profit off of it in 2019

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Why is this cat judging me so hard she and I are both perfect

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No offence but oh my god

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Let’s say your matrilineal line is fairly consistent and everyone has their daughter at 25. So four women in your matrilineal line are born every hundred years. In a thousand years, that’s only 40 women. Like the math is so simple and yet ? You don’t think about it. So in 2000 years, 80 women. So basically, 0 AD started roughly about 80 mothers ago. That’s it.

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Johnny cash is kind of a thot huh

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“are you wearing th-“

“the chanel boots? yeah, i am.”

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i’d like to draw everyone’s attention to this portrait of a dog that’s in bella swans bedroom

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Just a reminder that Vincent van Gogh did not eat yellow paint to make himself feel happy, he ate paint, and drank different chemicals because he was suicidal and this is why he was not allowed in his studio while having breakdowns. He also did not paint starry night and his other great works because he was depressed, he painted most of them while he was in recovery and demonstrated his hopefulness and love of the world through this. Most of his great works were painted from his room at a hospital. Van Gogh’s depression should not be glorified. His hope and effort toward a better life, as well as his recovery from depression should be glorified.

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Lana Condor giving princess vibes at The Met Ball 2019 - Giambattista Valli

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bonding with your houseplants by watering them from a water bottle you’ve already drank from

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So, there’s a lot of discourse about whether people should donate to Notre Dame fundraisers or not.

Personally, I would never tell anyone what to, or not to, give money to, but I wanted to put out some facts which might help people make their decision.

The biggest one is The Catholic Church does not own Notre Dame.

You heard that right.

Notre Dame does not, in any way, legally “belong” to the church. Like many French medieval churches, Notre Dame belongs to the people of France. Who graciously permit the Catholic church to use it as a place of worship.

The financial responsibility for repairing and restoring the church thus falls to the government of France. Not the church. The state. The building was not insured, which is fairly common for government-owned buildings. The Federal government tends to self-insure a lot too. Also, no insurer will cover it.

The construction companies working on the restoration may be found responsible, but their liability insurance will be a drop in the water.

So.

If not enough money is donated, then the balance of the cost will come out of the French treasury.

The tl;dr - the people actually on hook for repairing Notre Dame, ultimately, are the French taxpayers. If you donate to help repair Notre Dame, you’re really donating to arts and culture and history funding in France in general.

Make your decision based off of that. The fact is, the church will be rebuilt regardless of how much money comes in in donations, but other parts of the French arts budget may suffer as a result.

Choose based off of your personal priorities. And don’t let anyone on the internet guilt trip you one way or the other.

However if you do decide to donate, please, please send your money to the Friends of Notre Dame. This is the organization that pays for most of Notre Dame’s repair budget. They are registered as a 501c3 in the United States.

Do not donate to random GoFundMes. Some of them will be scams.

If you would rather donate to the black congregations in Louisiana, who admittedly probably do need the money more, this GoFundMe appears to be legitimate and is hosted by a religious non-profit. They’re about 60% from their goal.

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it’s friday i’m in love