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Mary Gaitskill, from Lost Cat as featured in Granta [ID’d]

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when kaveh akbar said "im sorry. im sorry. this might be me at my best" .... Yeah

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genuine question — how is donating money going to help Palestinians if no food is going in? What is the money for?

Medicine, water, supplies, food, fuel (much of it black market being upsold at egregious prices) — these all cost money and pretty much all Palestinians in Gaza have no source of income now. It’s drops in the bucket compared to ending the siege and occupation but it’s one way to do at least something small to help. Others are in need of money to evacuate when the border opens again (which hopefully is asap…), tuition and supplies for school to continue studies despite it all. Another fund is focused on trying to rebuild farmlands in Gaza to get food again that way.

I can’t tell anyone what to do with their money but I don’t think this mindset of “well nothings going in so we can’t help” is helpful for people on the ground who are the ones saying that donations can and do help them survive.

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At the River Clarion, Mary Oliver

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice, July 13, 1913

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agnostic is lowkey the funniest belief system it's just like yeah idk it's none of my business

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also the sunset light was back at it again in my apartment last night

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hey everything that has ever left me, can you return back to me one final time

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hi hello remember that the plum you are going to eat next summer is growing just for you 🤍

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August (08) assortment

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body / Mary Oliver, from The Pond / poem titled An August Longing by Amber Khanzadeh / August by Taylor Swift.

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virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

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Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems; "Words"

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from the isaac chotiner new yorker interview with james elder, UNICEF chief, a horrifying admission that the entire world sees how israel is starving children in plain sight but has not stopped it. i can't wrap my mind around it. this monstrous entity is what they call the only democracy in the middle east

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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give me a world you have taken the world i was tuesday

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Anne Carson, from Red Doc> [ID in alt text]