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congress also sat on its hands for 7 months, preventing aid from reaching ukraine, causing innocent civilians to die under russian bombs and artillery, quite possibly throwing the whole war into russia's favor because republicans and putin are berries plucked from the same field; that aid instead reached israel almost immediately, causing innocent civilians to die under israeli-american bombs and artillery. then those same people show up to columbia uninvited and try to call the national guard on students while looking them in the eyes

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Sunset picnic at Lake Mary, south of Flagstaff, Arizona. 28 April 2023.

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“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it's hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”

—Woodie Guthrie

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even congress said it's antisemitic but you do you

my word!... even congress, that polestar of morality..

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my horny ass could not be a forest ranger

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Forever trying to reconcile a hopelessly romantic heart, and a fiercely independent soul.

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the sensual world. louise glück

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No souls from start to finish: Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Utah. 15 April 2023.

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The constant temptation and promise of everything and nothing in the odyssey. The sirens promise odysseus to know, and the lotus eaters promise him to forget. He could be an immortal, and he could be a beggar. Be known, and be a stranger. He could be alive, and he could be dead. He could be odysseus, and he could be nobody. And the man of many ways tries to be a little bit of everything.

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Splendid isolation: hiking into and out of the roadless Rainbow Bridge National Monument through Arizona and Utah across the Navajo Nation. 14-15 April 2023.

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Campsite either in Arizona or Utah, outside of Redbud Canyon, night of 14 August 2023.

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i have friends who will fantasize about owning a house with a large land parcel and ill be like 'can i live in a tent in your yard' and they'll be like 'you dont gotta live in a tent!!!' and i gotta explain like no no you dont understand. i love tent

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“May the shadow of the moon fall on a world at peace”

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but I know the seasons come into it, and wars, and the shape of a particular landscape we try to call our own, and the sea with all that space and distance, and fellow travellers we meet on the road, and the dead of course who were here before us and the millions more who have yet to arrive. --Peter Bland, "Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself..."

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The crash of the Lady Be Good is fascinating to me. cursed ass plane

This is a B-24 Liberator in desert paint much like the B-24D Liberator Lady Be Good.

On April 4, 1943, the Lady Be Good took off with 25 other B-24s from Soluch, Libya to bomb Naples, Italy. 24 returned - Lady Be Good did not.

In November 1958, an air survey by British geologists sighted a crashed WWII-era bomber from the air.

Four months later, a ground search party found the plane and identified her as a B-24 Liberator, the Lady Be Good.

The nine crewmembers aboard had bailed out when the plane ran low on fuel, and they all perished in the desert. Eight bodies have been discovered; the ninth has never been found.

Much of the Lady Be Good was salvaged, some for study, some for museum use, and others were reused in other planes. Most of these planes proceeded to have faults and crashed of their own. A C-47 in which a Lady Be Good radio was installed crashed in the Mediterranean; an de Havilland Otter with an armrest from Lady Be Good crashed into the Gulf of Sidra killing all ten aboard, and one of the few pieces that washed ashore from the wreck was the armrest; and a C-54 with several transmitters from Lady Be Good only avoided crashing by dumping all of its cargo overboard.

An episode of the original Twilight Zone that aired in 1960, the first of the second season named King Nine Will Not Return, is based on the Lady Be Good. It's the first episode where Rod Serling appears on screen as the narrator instead of just a voice (or getting poof'd in the first season finale).

Last but not least there's a painting I adore related to Lady Be Good:

"The Lady Be Good Dies Alone" painted by Willard Fleming

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"Part of the tremendously broad traction of the concept, I suspect, has to do with the fact that gaslighting is adjacent to so many common relationship dynamics: not only disagreeing on a shared version of reality but feeling that you are in a contest over which version prevails. It would be nearly impossible to find someone who hasn’t experienced the pain and frustration—utterly ordinary, but often unbearable—that comes when your own sense of reality diverges from someone else’s. Because this gap can feel so maddening and wounding, it can be a relief to attribute it to villainy." --Leslie Jamison, So You Think You've Been Gaslit