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Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

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Oh I’m in agony

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EXTREMELY rare w from the uk media

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The Bird Place That Was is redeeming itself a bit more today.

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stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

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I just saw someone say the percy jackson show should’ve done a 4th wall break type thing to compensate for the first person pov in the book instead of having so many odd conversations and exposition and someone said they should’ve done an enola holmes or fleabag type narrating/4th wall break. and now I’ll never stop thinking about the potential they had with percy giving looks directly to the camera. how much funnier the show would have been. how we would’ve seen his goofy personality and sarcasm so much more

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And nine years on I’m scheduled for meetings on his birthday. This is the way of the world, this is what it means to go on. I am living. I am putting one foot forward, in front of the other. I will not fall back for a step on the calendar. I am continuing the life that did not end.

And I wish it would stop. No morning coffees, close the shops. I say “stop the clocks” and I am held by the stretch of life before me that knows as I do, that the world carries on, that this is what binds us if nothing else. Lives are marked by mortality and this is their power, to hold the fleeting moment and know it may not come again. You will not come again. A short life, a gap on a grave fixed between two dates, and how much can be crammed into the space under a line. There are 9-5s and reports to be finished. I cannot rewrite your life. I miss you in every breath.

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Ella Purnell as Lucy MacLean in Fallout (2024 -) Season 1 | Episode 5 "The Past"

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Nothing like finishing a show, going on tumblr, and realising everyone ships the pairing you thought was strictly found family

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Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun

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Source

CDC Wastewater Viral Activity Monitoring

BreatheTeq

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It's unfathomable, even more so when you realize this isn't the first time Israel has done this. She was a baby. The men were so obviously red crescent medics, and still, Israeli soldiers shot and killed them.

It wasn't a misfired bomb. It was guns. They knew what they were targeting.

Anyone who defends this, for whatever religion you believe in, even if you believe in nothing at all, I can only hope the afterlife brings you your deserved suffering on a platter. You're disgusting, vile creatures, who must've snuck onto the Earth because there is no way in nature that you are human. Die.

نَّا ِلِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

Save the children of Palestine. Protect the medics. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸