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see and be seen

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my summer plans consist of unclenching my jaw + forgiving myself

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Saw an old lady today that looked like an old lady and was dressed like an old lady except she was wearing big goth stomping boots like this

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[said with increasing amount of distress] i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this i got this

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"Youre the quietest gemini ive ever met"

Thanks I learned at an early age from both my peers and my family that I was too loud and my presence was unwanted. So after a lifetime of making myself as small and quiet as possible in order to avoid being a target -to varying degrees of success- im having to unlearn these behaviors -also to varying levels of sucess- but i swear im trying!

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a comic i started in november 2023, then didn't know how to finish as the numbers kept growing higher and higher. then they grew too high not to finish it

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not to get all sad for no reason but something nobody tells you about growing up is that a part of you is just a little girl who is yelling ‘please like me please love me please tell me i am good’ at everyone you meet and most of your day is just trying to ignore her

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Can people understand that’s i’m like them I don’t get donations and not the one who make people donate…

Sometimes I feel I’m going crazy because of what’s happening and overthinking stressing about my brother and my responsibilities

Every time i say i want to stop sharing and helping i go back and a lot of scammers even people of gaza some of them are scamming and do more than one campaign.

I’m sorry for anyone I didn’t respond to and shared i have been doing that for one year

I’m not good at speaking and speak out how i feel and what i think.

Tumblr is a family for me .. I still need your help for my brother because isarel weaponized hunger against the people of gaza you need fortune to buy some food like canned food if you found it and there’s no flour.

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i love hearing about the declining birth rate like yesss that is a major problem considering our dominant economic model. a problem i plan on contributing to 👍 joining the war on declining birth rates on the side of declining birth rates

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Genuinely trying not to crash out rn bc i just tested positive for covid

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i hope every ice agent fucking dies tbh

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“Not Asking for Much… Just a Chance to Live”

I’m not asking for much… just a chance to survive.

Today, my mother went to sleep in pain—we couldn’t afford her heart meds. My little brother cried for bread… we had nothing.

We’ve lost everything. Even trying to get food is dangerous—my family was injured near an aid truck. The UN said 613 people were killed in Gaza while seeking food. 20 of them… just yesterday.

I’m not a number. I’m a girl from Gaza. I had dreams. Now I have ruins.

Gaza is dying slowly. Survival is a miracle.

Every donation = food, medicine, hope. If you can’t donate, please share. Maybe it’ll reach someone who still cares.

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for this fourth of july I just wanna say: fuck this stupid ass racist ableist classist piece of shit country. fuck this bill that will kill MILLIONS of people and will kill the planet. fuck the oligarchy. fuck the military. fuck “border protection.” fuck the billionaires. fuck anyone who feels “patriotic” to be american.

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I fucking hate the United States moodboard

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trump's big beautiful bill, which just passed congress, expands ICE's budget from $9.6 billion to over $170 billion, of which $45 billion is appropriated for new detention centers. not only is this budget bigger than the budget of the federal bureau of prisons, but it's greater than the military expenditure of all countries besides america and china ($246 billion), giving more money to ICE than the russian military receives ($129 billion). it will completely remake american society

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“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.