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We’re going to need an HGTV Love It Or List It episode for the White House, aren’t we.

Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise

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The band formerly known as The Dixie Chicks (now The Chicks) were essentially blacklisted by the country music scene for taking a decisive stand against the imminent invasion of Iraq in 2003 when they criticized George W Bush at their concert in London, a week before the invasion, announcing they were ashamed that he was from their home state of Texas.

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Absolute Murder Mittens.

i hate when top wildlife predators are just lil babies teeny tiny babies

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This is the plot of “Zack & Miri Make a Porno”

There aren’t enough GIFs of this film out there.

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What’s Left Standing

There is a tree in the middle of it all that no one walks through anymore.

It has outlived names, outlasted maps. Whatever once claimed this land has gone quiet.

And still, it stands.

Not out of will— not really. Will fades. This is something older. Something beneath choice.

The tree does not ask why it was left behind. It has let go of questions that don’t change the weather.

It remembers the years it was not alone, but memory softens at the edges— like bark around a scar. The shape remains. The pain does not.

It has been struck by lightning more than once. And yet it reaches upward, not with hope, but with something gentler: acceptance.

It does not measure time in seasons, but in absences— the weight of snow, the return of birds, the ache of drought.

No one sees the roots still moving through the earth like slow, patient hands searching for something they don’t expect to find.

And maybe that’s what faith is— not belief in return, but the refusal to stop growing, even when no one is watching.

To remain, without witness, without reward, and still call it living.

Still call it enough.

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Your Character has only been built if the scenario you lived through radicalized you to the point that you want to make sure it never happens to anyone else again. Otherwise all you did was internalize, normalize, and excuse abuse and poverty.

"when i was your age, i was working three jobs to help support my family" and "when i was in college i was sleeping on a mattress on the floor and living off of soup"

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO DO THAT. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THIS ISN'T A CHARACTER-BUILDING LESSON, IT'S JUST BAD

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RIP Little Bit.

It’s not even Tuesday 😓

I’m counting on you to protect her. Till the end of the world. Even if that happens to be tonight.

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There’s a corner of my brain that needs to be held hostage and away from the other bits for a significant portion of each day. Like give it a Rubik’s Cube for a few hours and put on some jazz to distract it from what I need to do and want to accomplish. Lemme get shit done without it blowing things up.

SO much about doing well is just not even giving your brain the time to sabotage you. Like deciding to just get started on a task before your brain could conjure up thoughts like “but there’s always tomorrow” “ruminate on this pointless thing instead” like sometimes you genuinely just have to put pen to paper and do

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Last one there was the nicest person

🖤🔮🎴🏆🗡️🌊🔥💨🗼💚

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Look, I’m just saying what we’re all thinking:

Señor Scratchy should’ve been carried out with Billy to the Subaru after the final battle to go live with the Kaplans forever.

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Proof that when you get out from under hate filled parents and their rhetoric, you discover the world and learn to love Others different from you.

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my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me

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it’s just fucking insane to exist as a person now like everyone is mean and cruel and traumatised and everything costs way more than it did even a decade ago and there is no way to self actualise and the world is on fire and people are dying needlessly all the time and the rich keep getting richer and the air is different than it was pre pandemic and i am sick of being advertised to and i don’t think this is how any of it is supposed to be

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Let's Get Smart Again

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They missed a great opportunity in S5 to have Lorne read Spike through song*.

Lorne would read him as honest and good and everyone at W&H would be swooning over his voice, pissing Angel off to no end.

*songs that spring to mind include: I Wanna Be Sedated, or more likely a sweet old English lullaby (but not the one his mum sang!)

2.01 Judgment | 2.18 Dead End Angel [1999 - 2004]

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To anyone considering not voting because of the Palestinian genocide, I have this to ask:

How many Palestinian people do you think you're helping by laying back and inviting the GOP to crush you under foot? Self flagellation didn't cure The Plague, and it won't fix this situation either.

If you don't like the idea of voting for Harris, I doubt I'll be able to change your mind, but consider this: 468 congressional seats out of a total 535 are up for re-election THIS NOVEMBER. You want to make the government start actually representing the will of the people? Start there.

We're living in frightening times, and apathy is a very comfortable state of being, but you need to act. If you don't, who will?