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'Aro people aren't against love' I am. Break up with your boyfriend

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Tirau, New Zealand

created by Steven Clothier in the 1990s.

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growing up I was always afraid of being Found Out. not sure what I was hiding. just my whole self I guess

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mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

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man with loophole fetish facing criminal charges gets off on a technicality

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once you start saying yippee you can never go back

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unstoppable force (desire to write) vs immovable object (tired)

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May 17, 2025 - Protesters against the participation of the genocidal state of Israel, and in solidarity with Palestine, clashed with riot police protecting the Eurovision song contest venue in Basel, Switzerland. [video]

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SATURNINO HERRÁN

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"It was always awful, in the old sense. Awe-inspiring. I want to cup this feeling in my hands and lift them to your lips to drink, let the cool awe trickle down your throat. It might satisfy a craving you did not know you had, if only for a moment; when the craving hits again you will know for the first time what it feels like to be me.

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Do you feel the craving now? Do you understand the awe? Does it sit cold in your stomach, leave you shivering? I want to explain this to you because I am afraid it does not. I am afraid it goes warm too quickly on your tongue. I want to explain it to you because I think you deserve to feel it, and I want to believe that you can, though I know it is not likely. Please, wait. Close your eyes, slap yourself hard, spin in a circle. Can you feel the air on your skin? Can you feel the air in your lungs? Listen to the cacophony of nerve endings. It can be awful if you allow yourself to experience it that way. It can be awful if you want it to be."

White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

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let’s lay flat on our ovoidal mama

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A Palestinian protestor uses a tennis racket to return a teargas canister, May 2018. Israeli forces shot and killed at least 55 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,200 during mass protests on May 14 along the Gaza border, while just a few miles away Israel and the U.S. held a festive inauguration ceremony for the new American Embassy in contested Jerusalem. Source: Getty

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theres this one interaction i keep seeing where some random conservative twitter account is like "i can't believe the art establishment thinks a bunch of planks on the floor constitutes a great work of art" and then someone epicly dunks on them like "hmm but don't you know that this was actually made as a protest against the edgrfdjkgdt;h" and i hate it. it bloodlusts me, like can u advocate for the worth of conceptual art without implying that they're just written works that have a weird object on a plinth arbitrarily attached to them? can u speak to the aesthetic value of the planks on the ground & how they actually evoke the thing they're supposed to be communicating? why do u treat art as just a container for takes

every time i see this its just like, ok, what if there wasn't a story? what if it was actually just a canvas that someone scribbled on bc they thought it would be beautiful? or does that give you less ground to pretend you're smarter than people for getting the ~true meaning.~

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if grug honest grug a bit of a faggot.

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does this on your dash

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There's a cop just walking around the store, are they allowed to do that? I think they shouldn't be allowed indoors with people who could get hurt. It's fine if they want to be cops in private, but children shouldn't be exposed to their lifestyle choices.