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Art by Robert Drews

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SO SOMEHOW MY YAOI SHIRT ENDED UP IN MY DAD’S LAUNDRY BASKET HELP I CAN’T BREATHE

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Songs of Death I & II by Clematis-Grata

This artist on Instagram

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Pro tip: mess up your wool pants in the laundry.

Ass: checkered

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You massive over editors

The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.

legendaryjay_ on TikTok

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I read "BDSM hamsters" and my sides must be somewhere between the ionosphere and Venus

I need to see BDSM haters go on rants about the evils of capsaicin

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Yeah but did you read it more than once ?

having short-term memory is like. this book profoundly affected me. that show bared my soul. i don’t remember a single thing about it. but it did

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Relatable

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Ireland and Spain are actively advocating against Israel, not all hope is lost

Palestinian liberation leads to everyone's liberation.

Western imperialism is lashing out with its dying breaths, and would sooner destroy the world and everyone in it, than give up the endless pursuit of profit growth.

Humanity has future under capitalism, and the imperialism that props it up must end.

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Starting to read "A short history of Bulgaria" because I found the book in the street, gonna fight my terrible attention span and try and read it till the end, cheers

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Please tell me there's an audiobook somewhere

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.

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We should just put the idiot in his next SpaceD and have him leave orbit for good. I wonder though, we always talk about this obnoxious knobhead of a silver spoon fed deadbeat brat but who ACTUALLY controls his company.ies ?

The fact that Tesla autopilots abort self driving 1 second before a crash so the company can state “self driving wasn’t active during the collision” should be grounds to dismantle the entire company.

Like, seriously, if you’re making 4000 pound death machines, and you program this shit to work on a technicality? Your company should be dismantled. Gone. No recourse. Just terrible shit dude

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if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it, if I already made a decision I shouldn't overthink it

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That hits waaaay closer to home than it should

the true girlhood experience (fighting the urge to fall to your knees in the middle of a grocery shopping aisle because of a sudden wave of grief that hit you out of nowhere)

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"yeah but it's irreversible", every choice is fam. Every single one

psst. hey

people who are legal adults who want their tubes tied or top surgery etc etc should be able to do so full stop.

"oh but what if they regret it for the rest of their lives"

okay. so what.

Adults make decisions about our lives, that's what being an adult is. We may decide to get a face tattoo, or quit a promising job, or join the army, or move to another country.

That's practically all we do as adults. We make decisions that effect the rest of our life, and then we live, or sometimes die, accordingly. Maybe i'll spend the rest of my life regretting telling my influential boss he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, but, as an adult, that's the kind of life decision i am allowed to make for myself. And after all, it might be the best thing i ever did. It's my life, and i get to do all the fucking around and all the finding out i want to.

surgical transition, or sterilization, or whatever... is exactly the same. If you aren't going to let a legally adult person decide for themself about that stuff, then you can't let them get a tattoo or move to Florida either

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I wouldn't say no to some rest and a handful of pills

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Gotta get up and face it everyday though... Truth be told if I didn't have to struggle with my own mind I'd probably take this gruesome nightmare a lil better

I'm just a minuscule creature that spends her time shaking hidden in the dark away from the big and scary world