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I should ☝️ go to sleep cause I have camping tomorrow. However. The excitement.

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We have enough to share

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Another @jrwi-art-exchange thang for @atomicraft ‼️ You gave me many options but I decided to do some Kianbecky because I never see anything of them ever </3 the photograph referenced for the pose will be under the cut along with a differently colored version I didn’t end up finishing lolol

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"Oh, time won't let this heal so I guess I'm stuck here."

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This is the most devastatingly accurate birding meme I've ever seen, bar none

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The family Channichthyidae are more commonly known as icefish, and they are the only known vertebrates that lack hemoglobin in their blood as adults. As a result their blood is white and their skin appears translucent.

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Yea 💜

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Curled up on three couch watching my movie #mymovie

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Princesscaptain

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im gonna thrup. chap 38 of the silt verses got hands.

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I also have a weird restless energy thats making it hard to sleep

Blehhhh I want to draw but it's late and I have other things to do tomorrow but also artfight refs...

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Blehhhh I want to draw but it's late and I have other things to do tomorrow but also artfight refs...

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HA GET RORSCHACH TESTED DUMBASS, WHAT DOES THIS MAKE YOU THINK OF

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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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reminder that gazafunds is a great website.

each time you load the site, it shows one randomly selected, verified fundraiser that's low on funds.

extremely straightforward, & an easy to remember url. it's my go-to when I'm able to give; removes any room for procrastination or overthinking.

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being 15 is normal but being born in 2010 is not hope this helps

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time