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i love when fragrantica reviews feel like someone just started talking to me while we wait for the bus and then when it comes it turns out they weren't even getting on the bus and they just walk away

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https://x.com/misteryurifag/status/1783586717246619736

This video

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kabru letting unbridled unfriendly rage show through when he realized marcille and shuro i guess only care about protecting falin even if others are killed.!

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laios’s only real crush on this show being on a guy who hates his guts and is in love with his sister L after L

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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

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from the columbia sjp instagram. they did not ask for her to be there

AOC is at the Columbia encampment. The students need to wise up fast and kick her ass out.

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While police around the country are raiding campuses and brutalizing student protesters, the authorities are once again trotting out narratives about "outside agitators."

They do this whenever a movement gets out of their control. It is one of the most basic tactics in their playbook, and they employ it indiscriminately.

As we wrote in 2014, during the demonstrations in Ferguson in response to the murder of Michael Brown,

"Rhetoric about 'outside agitators' is a military operation intended to isolate and target an enemy: divide and conquer. The enemy that the authorities are aiming at is predominantly black and brown, but it is not just a specific social body; it is also an aspect of our humanity, a part of all of us. The ultimate goal of the police is not so much to brutalize and pacify specific individuals as it is to extract rebelliousness itself from the social fabric. They seek to externalize agitation, so anyone who stands up for herself will be seen as an outsider."

http://crimethinc.com/texts/agitators

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A word from Bisan to the students of the U.S. in their campus solidarity encampments.

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a video call for help from @haya-orouq19 who is in gaza

[Transcript: Please don't scroll if you want to help a family in Gaza. Hey everyone, this is Haya Orouq, I am 18 years old from Gaza City. Today is the 167th day of the war in Gaza City. And through this war we lost our house, my university was bombed. My whole childhood neighborhood area was completely damaged. We have been displaced to three different places in search of a safer place but unfortunately there's no safer place in Gaza. Everywhere there's bombing, everywhere is dangerous, so we are now displaced in Deir al-Balah. And me and my family lost everything, we have nothing left here in Gaza.

And my mom is very sick also, she is suffering from Lupus and because she has Lupus, she is a kidney failure patient in need of an urgent treatment and care outside of Gaza. The hospitals here is so poor and bad and the quality of her treatment is getting worse and worse because the quality of the hospitals is bad, because of the conditions of the war. So please guys, help my family, we deserve to- we deserve a decent life, we deserve to start a new beginning and deserve a new life.

So, here's the link in the bio and you can help me by sharing the video, repost, comment, like, whatever you can do can help. Every one dollar can make a difference. You can make life-changing difference to my family, you can save my family, you can save my mom. I am also trying to reach out to as many celebrities who are interested in helping people like me by making videos about the family that needs help in Gaza, like me. So I will mention them in the comment and please go to them, ask them to share my videos, and to make a video about my campaign and ask them to share my link. This is so urgent, I need your help guys because my account is prevented from receiving and sending messages so I can't reach out with them. I will mention them so please help me, and help my family.

I can't bear seeing my mom struggling with death because she has a dangerous disease which is Lupus and she is a kidney failure patient and I can't bear seeing my older sister suffering from hunger. So please guys, you can do it and please make #HelpHayasFamily. Share this video, whatever you can do can help. You can share the link as widely as possible, you can share the video. End of transcript.]

you can donate to her campaign here!

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Messages of support and strength from Rafah, Palestine to the US student movement.

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desirability is such a distraction and as long as we are consistently invested in our own identity solely through the lens of desirability we will literally never progress ….the self objectification has to end at some point. like the denial of how much i truly have to offer outside of my own perceived desirability (which fluctuates anyway) is so disrespectful to myself tbh..i am so much more than this. we all are. i feel like the world is dead set on not ever cracking through the surface of things

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Emmy magazine Carol Cutshall interview

“It was such a drastic change going into season two,” says Cutshall of the drama, returning May 12 to AMC and AMC+. “We went from the height of glamour, which we last saw during a Mardi Gras party, to the polar opposite in the premiere. When you look at Louis and Claudia in their shearling coats in Romania and the amount of mud and blood on them, those looks are built for surviving and searching and starting over.”

But glamour returns to their lives as the pair forge ahead in Paris. In short order, they are welcomed into a theatrical coven of thespians operating out of the Théâtre des Vampires. Seduced by their habit of living loudly and proudly — at least at night — Louis relaxes into his post-Lestat life, taking up photography and exploring his sexuality in subtle ways.

“The look I landed on for him was that of artists and café society, and French workwear with a little bit of a blue-collar look,” Cutshall says. “It’s not the finery that we are used to for Louis, but his fastidiousness in how he wears it — tucked and belted — is still there.”

There is a visual hierarchy among these old-world vampires. Louis wears the costume of the common man, placing him below the coven’s creative director, Armand (Assad Zaman), the so-called love of his life who was unmasked as an ancient vampire in season one. When they meet, Armand is dressed in warm colors and loosely draped outfits with open collars, fearlessly baring the neck — a vulnerable point for humans and vampires alike.

“We want to break away from the disguise he had in season one, because he is the mega predator,” Cutshall says. “He’s not threatened by anyone. So, in everything he does and wears, he can be like an animal who is not afraid to lie on their back and bare their belly.”

Claudia, meanwhile, sees kindred spirits in the coven’s distinctive personalities. She has grown intellectually beyond her eternally teenage shell and now uses vibrant clothes — like the dress she wears for their first theater outing — to grasp at an intangible womanhood. That signature dress and cape were scripted as lavender and white, but Cutshall dyed the fabric an orchid color and added a gray crosshatched cape that glows onscreen; the ensemble stands out against the make-do fashion of a post-war world.

“For Claudia to have this pristine dress made for her, and because she is seeing who she is for the first time, she needs to be the freshest flower there,” Cutshall says.

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nothing beats halal blood [wip]

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: ctpalestinesolidaritycoalition@gmail.com cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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Sketches by Gustav Gaudernack, 1910

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Can I please have a cappuccino but with oat milk and a big pump of sugarfree chocolate syrup and... Lol I remember your stupid ass from 2,300 years ago. We were living in seleucis on the tigris river during the same span of summers... do you rememver a red ibis bird with beautiful plumes? Yeah U were a sort of dull brown goat that didn't train and dint make milk or kids. Yeah? No? Eventually the Zoroastrian homesteaders who owned you started feeding you contaminated barley to try and kill you lol. Maybe you remember the ergotism? Anyway. also I want one of these 🫵stupid little breads in the case