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They hate me for my redundancies. And also for my tendency to say the same thing but in slightly different ways. And for my repetition of phrases. And for my redundancies.

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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Seeing that Tucker Carlson clip going around and being reminded of conversations a year ago, so just a reminder. When Neo Nazis and White Supremacists say things that make sense politically, they're not coming at it from the same angle as you.

When David Duke expresses support for Palestine, it's not because he cares about Palestinians, it's because he hates Jews, and he wants to use Israel to harm diaspora Jews.

Neo Nazis see the justified opposition to Israel and its actions as a path into new crowds they can radicalize, or a way to launder their rhetoric and their politics.

They don't care about Iran and Iranians, they have a goal, and it's just as horrible as any White Supremacist goal. Especially when it's political figures and not some random bigot you know in your life that can be deradicalized because he's having some epiphany. To right wing figures, everything is a hunting ground.

Don't spread their words as if "even that horrible person sees how bad this is." Fascists have been stealing leftist ideas and talking points since the beginning. He doesn't suddenly care about people of color. He's seeing an opening for something and he's grabbing at it.

You have people you can platform that don't spread rhetoric that enables hate crimes on a regular basis.

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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in conversations about sex education for children many people fall back on teaching children to recognize and, hopefully, report predatory behavior as the primary reason why this education is good, and obviously I don't disagree with that! when I educate my 4th-6th students, we spend a significant amount of time talking about boundaries and consent and drilling in to the kids' brains that they do NOT need to tolerate inappropriate touching or other behavior from anyone, not even adults who might try to pressure them into thinking otherwise.

BUT! but but but! I think it's also really important to remember that preparing for the worst case scenario isn't the only reason to educate kids about sexuality and their bodies! kids deserve to enter puberty understanding all of the changes they'll experience, and not just the growing and sweating. it's good for kids to understand the new desires they might start experiencing! it's good to know about intense new crushes and erections and wet dreams and sexual fantasies and masturbation! those things can be really, really scary and confusing for young people who don't have any framework to understand them, and it's really easy to feel like you're doing something dirty and inappropriate if no one has told you that sexual pleasure and curiosity is normal, healthy, and good.

good sex ed should help students feel comfortable and safe expressing their sexuality! that's crucial!

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by @beetlemoses

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Sometimes I regret that a lot of French books were never translated in English.

For example, in the fantasy genre: Right now I am re-reading, for perhaps the third time, Le Sentier des Astres series by Stefan Platteau. It is really good, modern epic fantasy. It is not cliche, in fact it purposefully avoids cliche by A) embracing the actual structure and feel of Norse and Greek and Celtic epics while B) feeding off Platteau's formation as a historian and C) basing itself on cultures not much explored in fiction such as the Kalevala and the mythologies of India to create this wonderful, epic, terrifying and unique world of solar and lunar giants, of eldritch dead gods, of sentient stars and rivers, of skaldic wizards and spirit-battling brahmins and shaman-queens - while the protagonists travel through a great Northern forest filled with paths of masks, cursed immortal bears, murderous granny-goddesses, ghost frogs and birch-sorcerers...

It is already four books (of five planned) plus an entire collection of half-a-dozen short stories and novellas. And yet people who don't speak French will NEVER (so far) have any taste of this.

(On my very selfish, cynical, malevolent part I am evil-ly laughing at the idea that we, people of France, have things that the rest of the world shall never have - and I slumber on my hoard of books like a dragon on its pile of gold)

But yeah I wonder why the rare fantasy series of France that were translated in English are the most... basic, generic, unoticeable ones when our actual treasures and weird stuff and cool novels never cross the seas...

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Thoughts on Pope Francis?

I would rather have a woke pope than a nonwoke pope but there will never be a pope woke enough to un-genocide the Americas.

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hash brown…. with sunny side up eggs and two type hot sauce…..

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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Shrek 2 (2004) dir. Andrew Adamson, Conrad Vernon and Kelly Asbury

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15 year old monk whispering "do i lust for men?" and then flipping to a random page in the bible to see what it says = medieval equivalent of modern "am i gay quiz"

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one man, one lord, one faith, one baptism, two nunchucks

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My edo period samurai roommate keeps telling me how i’ll bring shame and dishonor to our apartment if I keep forgetting to wash the dishes. Like whatever dude, I’m not the one carrying on a passionate yet illicit affair with the daimyo’s daughter whose hand has already been promised to another.

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This is what I imagine happens every time they argue-