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i'm so excited!! these pins came out so cute! starry nonbinary dragon enamel pins now available in my etsy shop! ✨

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If you can't think of anything to say, this might be the time to generate a comment if it means you'll post! The character limit is 5000 so plug that in if you use an LLM.

Deadline is tonight 11:59pm EST

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Happy Juneteenth!

Take some time to rest, be with family, or anything you want really. Happy Free-ish day ✨

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Juneteenth Celebrations in Milwaukee, MN from 1988 to 2006.

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It's Juneteenth, I'm a Black Texan, descendant of enslaved Black Texans. Texas is the only state that fought two different wars to protect slavery and chattel slavery ended the last for it. Juneteenth to me is to celebrate that part of overt white supremacy coming to an end, but it was not the end of white supremacy. It did not stop, with the lynching, the police violence, the redlining, the environmental racism, the segregation. Juneteenth represents a good win aganist the fight against white supremacy, but it's not over.

And for this Juneteenth, I ask for help for my friends that are the victims of this same US white supremacy. Not just today, but everyday Gazans deserve any type of help that you can give them. The technology that is used to segregate and attack and police and destroy Palestinians is the same technology that is sold to Texas to be used for the border patrol and to harass and control immigrants and border communities. This is one, connected fight aganist white supremacy and US control and destruction of Black and Brown bodies. So I ask today if you could donate this, or share, to help provide for a mother and her 2 now fatherless children in Gaza, or anyone else in Gaza who needs help. Like this family with a sick baby. Just do something, especially if you got the day off.

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Well!

So first, let's clear a common misconception: no, President Abraham Lincoln did not love Black people nor see them as human equals. At best he was centrist about it (though, even his implication that 'exceptional' Black men ought to vote got him assassinated).

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do, it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."

The "freeing of slaves" after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 was meant to kneecap the economic and military powers of the seceded South. Lettuce stop making a white savior figure out of Lincoln, or thinking that my people's shackles were unchained via anything other than desperate war strategy and extreme violence. Think on that, for a moment.

That being said!

But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control. As a result, in the westernmost Confederate state of Texas, enslaved people would not be free until much later. Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.

Consider going through the Smithsonian website to learn about Juneteenth! Recognize why it's an actual day of freedom, versus July 4th and the independence of a select few.

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The PT baby when they hear me open the door for the 45th time

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I specifically don't let my dates in the restroom so they never have to see the fetus, only hear it.

could you imagine bringing a date home and when they ask to use your restroom they walk in and see it's the PT fetus sink bathroom

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Once you fell out of love Our love couldn't carry you And I didn't even notice For our love kept me safe from death

You doubted the light And the shelter it can give For in love we are immortal Eternal and safe from death

If I regret us I'm denying my soul to grow Don't remove my pain It is my chance to heal

We carry the same wound But have different cures Similar injuries But opposite remedies

After our love ended Your arms don't carry me Without love I feel the abyss Understand your fear of death

I will not forget This notget Will you not regret Having love let go?

After our love ended Your spirit entered me Now we are the guardians We'll keep her safe from death

Love will keep us safe from death Love will keep us safe from death Love will keep us safe from death Safe, safe from... Love will keep us safe from death Love will keep us safe from death Love will keep us safe from death Love will keep us safe from death

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so ummm welcome to my jar:) lemme show you around! theres some holes poked in the top so i can breathe, theres some leaves to munch on, and ive even got a twig! #mytwig

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I'll forever be upset that Silent Hill PT never became a thing :(( the game play was my absolute favourite for ages

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Nell Tiger Free credits the performance of Isabelle Adjani in Andrzej Żuławski's Possession as inspiration for her physical acting in The First Omen [2024].

We didn’t have a choreographer, we didn’t have any rehearsal—we didn’t actually know what the fuck was going to happen. Nobody really know, most of all me! All I had was this reference from this one movie, [Andrzej Żuławski 1981 horror classic] Possession. I watched that clip. It was maybe two minutes long. It was somewhere in Northern Italy, and honestly—I wish I had a more interesting answer—but I truly just did it and hoped for the best! We had two takes. It was weird, this feminist rage took over me. We spend so much time being told to look pretty, perfect, beautiful, put-together, attractive. To be asked to do the exact opposite, to be as free with your body as you possibly can… I mean, I was barking, at one point! All the rage in my body came out. Funnily enough, the only people that walked off set were the men. Scaring grown men has become a bit of kink of mine. [Laughs.]

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Time well spent.

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Missing PT like a motherfucker. I didn't get it because I was only like 9 at the time, but that game would have been a master piece. It had Del Toro and Hideo Kojima working on the narrative, Junji Ito on monster design, Norman Reedus as a main character, a banger fucking plot, but noooo. Konami had to put Metal Gear Solid first. Don't get me wrong I like MGS and no hate to that franchise but the game they put on priority turned out to be utter dogshit. Those guys fucked up bad. PT could have been a game changer, and I miss it so bad. Really excited for this new Kojima project. The trailer was so unnerving.

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The standard experience, honestly

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drawn traditionally in ink 🐛 but they kind of look digital here, that's neat!