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Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

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“You know there’s nothing casual about a guy muttering ‘casual’ to himself over and over again, right?”

Kate Bishop and Clint Barton in Hawkeye (2012) #2

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ʞɔɒd bnɘd ƨmɿɒ γm ƨɘmiɟɘmoƨ

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Happy birthday Miku

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Don't really go here but I've been meaning to finish up this Miku for a while! 👏💕💕💖✨

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mossy bones

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Vintage Halloween Cat Masks from Happy Kitty Bunny Pony: A Saccharine Mouthful of Super Cute, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005.

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MIKE FAIST as RIFF in WEST SIDE STORY

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i just think that mike faist

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idk if you've made a post about it yet, but the African Peoples' Socialist Party had both its STL and Tampa offices raided by the FBI, as well as had multiple residences raided too.

They battering-rammed the doors, broke windows, used flash bangs, and took members out of their homes at gunpoint. It was all for having an association with a Russian national being indicted. They took phones, laptops, and physical archives going back to the 70s

Jesus christ yeah I heard about someone getting raided over trumped up Russia connections but I didn't know the specifics. This was always the logical end point to the endless liberal hysteria over Russian agents, using any connection no matter how flimsy or insignificant as an excuse to crack down on and discredit black radical movements, the US never changes.

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desperately searching thru my blog for extremely specific infographics, dont mind my self reblogging

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“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”

— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin

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I have been thinking of the ways we tell people things. My father's hands shake, but he holds the phone up so I can watch the video from six feet away. My mother emails me the recipe of her beef stroganoff at 6 in the morning with the comment - woke up and didn't want to forget to do this! On the highway, we sing so loudly my voice grows hoarse; on the beach I sneak nice rocks into people's hands so they have something to hold, on the floor we all sit quietly in the same agreeable silence. We are all saying the same thing.

My friends say "Oh you know, keeping busy." This means they are having a hard time but making themselves survive it. I ask them to help me walk me dog; this is me telling them it's okay sometimes to just be present and talk about young adult fiction. When I cancel again because I can't get out of bed, she tells me she's on her way with cookies.

I point out the sunset. She shares her fork before I ask for it. He calls me at 1 AM just because I'm on the road alone, we talk about stupid shit. She waits for me to get indoors safely before driving away. He says - nah, forget it, I'm happy to do it for free.

People are saying it, you know? They say it often and loudly. Sometimes, you know - you just have to be listening.

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bonus blinkie: they used to beat the shit out of me on clump penguin.

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Paris Hilton, 2001