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Leonard Cohen in Miami Vice

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Octavia Butler’s list of concepts that are sexy, via LA Review.

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I love this portrait of Toni

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ANDREW GARFIELD interview with BBC Radio 1 (25.02.2022)

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Thinking about my boy chris today 💕💕

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biggest green flag abt the person youre rbing from. 3 2 1 go

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anyways it’s a great day to donate to abortion funds! :)

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damon albarn of blur, 1991.

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al aqsa mosque this morning, one of the holiest sites of islam, and during the holiest month

western news sources are calling what took place here “clashes”

tell me - do you see a clash of equal forces? or do you see israeli soldiers pushing elderly grandparents down stairs, beating women unprovoked, firing live ammunition and grenades inside a place of worship, and worshippers ducking for cover as soldiers indiscriminately fire at them?

may the occupation and it’s lies and evils come to an end.

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Mateusz Jaśko is organizing help with transport and organising polish people willing to transport people over the border, gas prices are growing and so is the need for people willing to give up their cars to transport refugees over the border of Ukraine and give them shelter and care. You can donate to their initiative here:

https://pomagam.pl/3kyrk6

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i think we should keep in mind that not only is russia oppressive to the countries bordering it, it is actively oppressive towards its own people too and there are countless brave russians risking their lives daily to fight that oppressive regime…. it helps no one to demonize an entire nation of people

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Russia's aggression against Ukraine is only 'unprecedented' and 'unimaginable in the 21st century' if you casually ignore the fact that this century was inaugurated by the West's criminal invasion and destruction of Iraq. Our states set the precedent for treating international law and the principle of non-intervention as nothing more than mere paper obstacles to conquest and pillage.

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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: “Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

Kurt Vonnegut

Nimbus Publishing and Vagrant Press Goose Lane Editions Breakwater Books Ltd. The Acorn Press Bouton d'or Acadie Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

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Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa in Yellowjackets Season One

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... Amid news of the demolition and footage of the aftermath of the house in ruins, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called the expulsion of the Salhiyas and the destruction of their home a “war crime”. 

“The Saliyehs were expelled from their home in Ein Karem during the Nakba in 1948 & are barred under Israeli law from reclaiming it,” HRW’s Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir said in a statement shared on Twitter. 

“These cruel acts turn the Salhiyehs into two-time refugees. This is what apartheid and persecution look like."

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Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling the power the of dog.

Kodi Smit-Mcphee as Peter Gorden in THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) | dir. Jane Campion