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This will make you cry.

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My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

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at what point do I have to call it and email the course coordinator to say I can't teach on Monday

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hopefully I'll be feeling better by Monday, but I also ended up on a coughing spree for like half an hour last night until I gave up and got a cough drop, and I've been on cough drops all day today. I'm not allowed to eat/drink in lab, and most of the time I forget to even try to step out for some water. And this lab is epidemiology (the study of the spread of diseases...). I can't go on a hacking spree in the middle of an epidemiology lab, that's setting a terrible example.

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Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

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EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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The building of rage

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Currently on page 18 (plus four pages of references) and still going.

The worst part of this is, once I finish with the paper for this class, I then have to make a 20-minute presentation based off of it, and then I have to start work on the final exam (also for the same class).... and the midterm for this class ended up being 21 single-spaced pages.

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My professor said that our write-up has to be minimum 7 pages (double-spaced)....I'm currently on 14 and counting.

....it is possible that I'm going a little too hard on this, but seriously, I am going off of almost nothing in terms of directions and she says that her expectations are high, so going hard it is.

(also I am not happy with Past Me apparently deciding to stick (put source here) throughout the paragraphs that I pre-wrote for the last sections instead of coming up with actual sources. I did this on my proposal, too, and you would think that I would have learned, but no such luck)

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the seal at the bottom of 瓷器 ciqi/chinese porcelain is handwritten

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The unfortunate thing about my cold progressing to 'congestion' stage is that while I can get the general sense that maybe I didn't fully manage to seal off the leak (HOW????), my sense of smell is off enough that I can't pinpoint the exact where.

aaaand the fucking smokestack is at it again..... I would like to be able to have my freaking window open for more than, like, five minutes at a time, but apparently sooooomeone just really wants to destroy her lungs.

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Hey New York people!

The city’s libraries have already had to cut Sunday service and limit hours. The new budget being put forward is even worse for libraries and may require the loss of another day of service.

Please contact City Council and the Mayor asking for budget restoration

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Never forget your vote counts. End MAGA.

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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

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