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sorry to grief post on main, but i would trade ever speaking to my mother again for one more day with windy.

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The reason why I prefer mutts over purebred dogs is because they're just like me. Abandoned and lonely for reasons we don't understand. Living in a place that gives us food but will never be our home. People looking at our sad eyes and feeling bad for us, but never enough to take care of us. Loving everyone who gives us affection with our whole heart, but never getting the same kind of love reciprocated. Promising to stay by our owners' side even if they betray us. Praying that someone will take us home before we get put to sleep.

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

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Joined by Republicans from the state legislature in a highly publicized ceremony, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a law Thursday banning consensual sex. “I’m proud to sign this bill into law today making all consensual sexual acts punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison,” said Abbott, who was applauded by religious and other right-wing interest groups for standing up for traditional family values.

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are we not feeling very pious today, brother lionel

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The Blues Brothers (1980) // Dir. John Landis

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liberals be like he bombed a country…. without congress approval

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at the insane stage of character obsession where i start getting the urge to post pngs of them every five seconds like im showing ppl a picture of my stupid ass boyfriend that nobody likes but me

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“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

damn you must suck at cooking. check out some youtube tutorials man. i believe in you.

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GOP leaders want to vote this week to pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act, so call your Senators NOW.

The bill, if passed, would cause widespread harm by making massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, gut climate protections and open public land to fossil fuel exploitation, restrict states from regulating AI for the next TEN YEARS, end gender-affirming care under Medicaid & CHIP, increase taxes on those who make less than $157k while giving massive tax cuts to the richest, tax breaks on gun silencers, defund planned parenthood, adds trillions to the national debt and billions to defense spending.

Call now! Spread the word.

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Listening to Hotel California on the store radio and they muted the word "kill" when he says "but they just can't kill the beast" like what are we doing here has humanity not suffered enough

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A couple of weeks ago, my dad and I were driving home after I got off work, and we got a flat tire on the highway. It was after nine at night, getting into the late hours.

We made it down to a local gas station. A total stranger helped us get the busted tire off and get the spare on -- we were kind of struggling with it in the dark, and Dad and I were both angry and frustrated and snapping at each other. This guy came in, tapped Dad on the shoulder, and jumped in to help. We got through the language barrier -- Spanish was his first language, and Dad and I neither one speak it -- with gestures and charades. Between the three of us, we got the whole thing done. It was ten o'clock by now.

The spare tire needed air. We wheeled over to the air pump -- and a guy there flagged us down to warn us the air hose was broken. Another total stranger, who didn't know us from Adam, doing what he could to help.

I found us another gas station in the same chain (they always have a free tire pump) about a mile away, and we crawled over to it. It's 10:30. After twenty minutes of trial and error, we realized the spare tire wouldn't hold air. It's the middle of the night, and we're stranded twenty miles from home. I have the next day off, but Dad has work in the morning. The people at the gas station said we could leave our car there overnight.

Again, total strangers. Trying to help.

I called a Lyft to get us home. It's eleven. The driver shows up -- and tells us he's a mechanic. He has a patch kit in his trunk. He patches both our busted tire and the spare, and helps get us on the road again. He told us his story, coming over from Africa -- he'd been more specific about what country, but I don't remember what he said right now, unfortunately -- and coming over to the US and trying to build a new life.

We got home safely, entirely because a series of people decided to put some good out into the world. To make things better for people they didn't even know. Because that's just... What you do. You make things better for the people around you. Whenever, wherever, and however you can.

There's hope. There's good people out there. There's people who want to make things better. I know things seem bad right now, but... Don't give up.

Please.

We can make things better.

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It would be nice to be genuinely optimistic for once

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