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i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls

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Pastel spread again :)

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here’s to every girl working so so hard to reach her goal. i see you. you can do it.

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[ may 17, wednesday ]

🌿decided to put a motivation spread in my art journal so whenever i’m not feeling good about myself i can just pick a note out of these pockets and read something like “it’s okay! we all have our off days.” or “stay focused, girl!”

🌿i just think it’s a great way to build self-esteem and confidence and that it’s never wrong to be proud of yourself.

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I hate that some people are so dense that they need disclaimers for every single thing, like when women say “men are…” you know good and goddamn well they aren’t referring to every single man. It’s billions of us, how the fuck would they know all of us?

Whenever I hear these statements, I interpret it as “Not all men, but enough men to make this a prominent issue amongst men”

Same shit with “white people are…” Get the fuck out your feelings and actually listen so you can address the concerns of these people instead of defending people that ain’t shit.

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ig: studylustre

use my code “LUSTRE10” on messybunny at storeenvy! psst - they have free international shipping ✨

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what do we want? 
improved foreign language education in English speaking countries

when do we want it? 
when we’re younger and have better neuroplasticity

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[07 • 04 •2017] 🏖 10/ 100 Days of Productivity

Finally starting off July with my first monthly habit tracker! Hope I can fill more boxes soon…

I really loved this one lay out I saw on a youtube video by teaandtwigs! I’d love to tag her, but I don’t think she’s on tumblr? If any of you know her or follow her, please let her know that I’ve borrowed her spread design 😂

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01.16.16 // Back to school shopping from Muji! Some of the pens were a Christmas gift from my brother (one of my favourite gifts!).

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Yay!

I've had my Leuchtturm1917 for almost a week now and it's so so nice! I got the dotted grid A5 size btw. If you're ordering a notebook or whatever, I'd definitely check J.B. Welly first! They packaged it in such a lovely way and it definitely wasn't going to get bent in the mail! They actually sent me a free pencil that I believe that recently got back in stock. It's a Palomino Blackwing and it's such a good quality! jbwelly.com

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cute + cheap stationery !!

HEY KIDDOS

I haven’t made a big ol’ post in 254389 years i tried to make this post a month ago but none of the links worked but,, here i am!!

studyblr seems to be way too aesthetic based n quite frankly not all of us can afford stationery that costs $5324528 but i found some cheap (+ v cute) stuff so i thought i’d share it with you all !!!! most of these things should be under £5 (with some exceptions) and i think the websites ship to most countries !!

POST-ITS / STICKY NOTES

cute lil books

cats n pigs n doggos n buns!!!!

THEYRE FREAKIN ALPACAS I LOVE THESE

could be cute for language learners ??

these are basic but so cute

3D fruit !!

russian doll page markers !!!!!

pretty standard page markers

POSSIBLY MY FAVOURITE THESE ARE SO CUTE

v cute for specific things to remember

a lil cartoony girl

so that u don’t LEAF IT til the last minute 

tiny daily planners !!

a phone?

travelly ones

lil kawaii finger face things

books w sweet animal covers

more animals!

so many animals (n i love the penguins)

theyre CATS in BOXES

bandaid plaster things

speech bubbles w lil kawaii faces !!

sticky roll,, could be v helpful

a lotta patterns

more LEAVES

PLANETS SO YOU CAN PLAN-IT

SHEEP N PANDAS

for all u aesthetic nerds

marble aesthetic shizz

lil tabs which could b useful

ITS THE LUCKY CAT

PENS

simple but nice ykno

they have lil crowns ??

its GRASS

smiley faces n milkshake themed!!!

lowkey give me muji vibes??!

pastely gel pens

weve all needed a white pen at some point dont lie

SPACE PENS SPACE PENS

BAMBOO????

v basic but v nice

cacti !!!

4 when u wanna bone

lil diddy highlighters!!

for u pastel nerds

kool katz

t o t o r o

moooooore cats

they have MOUSTACHES

cats again

PENCIL CASES

rollout ones for u art nerds

cute rectangley ones

that sweary cat

another squarey design

cute diddy tins

v basic + pastely

reeally basic aestheticy, kinda like the muji ones but cheap so

vintagey lookin

v flowery

big n neony n see through n cool

this is so cute ????

“my pencil case”

smol but lots of colours!!

MY FAVOURITE I LOVE THESE

basic but heroes!

simple n pastely

more vintagey stuffs

noice

ERASERS

fruit !!

THEYRE BANANAS OMG

THEYRE LIL MACARONS THESE ARE SO CUTE

lil matchboxes !!

can u tell i like cacti

why are there so many food themed erasers

catch these hands

BEARS N FROGS N PIGS N CATS

PEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAANUTS

aesthetic stick things

MISC.

SMILEY CLIPS

patterned clips??

these cat rulers !!

pretty rulers

FOREST RULERS

lil pig sharpeners

MILK BOX SHARPENERS

adorable stickers

cute notebooks!

a truly amazing usb

v cute correction tape

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people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

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New silver haired maiden for my upcoming solo show at @futuregallerymi on May 13th 💖 #wip #oilpainting

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{14.08.16} 

 My favourite bullet journal supplies!

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my earth-day spread full of plants :)

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Another flatlay – am I getting better? :’D featuring my movie journal with the film Le Bal (1983)