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So. One of my friends from the outskirts of the Boise reform synagogue died by suicide a couple weeks ago, leaving a two-year-old daughter to whom she was a single parent. I have some info for supporting my friend’s mom who’s now raising her granddaughter in the wake of this loss, hit me up if you want a link.

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I mean this with love and understanding that things are terrible, reliable news is in short supply, and we are all on edge but you guys gotta stop finding incendiary tweet exchanges between two absolutely insane people as fuel for the point you want to make

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And Eric Adams is gonna— I’m sorry guys I’m speedrunning this shitshow right now. Didn’t Adams already get indicted

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Who the fuck is this guy

Congratulations to whoever the Republican nominee for mayor of New York ends up being

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Congratulations to whoever the Republican nominee for mayor of New York ends up being

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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Uh oh you guys. I caught the attention of an extremely real 100% American activist of color. They definitely live north of the Mason-Dixon and have very strong and fully decipherable opinions on many issues

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well I mean. okay. that's probably true. but I feel like quite a lot of things would be different if John Lennon had become romantically involved with, and very loudly and conspicuously rebuilt his life around his love affair with, a male conceptual artist in 1968

if yoko Ono had been a man they would sing his praises as the yaoi king that destroyed those infidel Beatles

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watching a steller's jay make repeated attempts to dine at a bird feeder that is 1) for much smaller birds and 2) empty

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big spike in ghost notes which I assume is from some small handful of the astonishing number of people I've blocked over the past 19 months

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TFW you wanna know what’s going on but the head of state of a world superpower is still a senile psychopath who just makes up whatever he feels like saying from one moment to the next

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I think what really makes this post a classic is that the OP is making a great point re: the destiel meme but then when you look at their blog it turns out they think that America bombed Iranian civilians so they clearly get all their news from tumblr too

i am legitimately so frustrated by the stupid unfunny destiel confession news thing u losers r still doing. destiel “the us has bombed iran” do u ppl not understand how obnoxious this is? the bit has run its course and been unfunny for years now anyways but doing this shit is so fucking offensive and irreverent

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If parties worked like that in America, we wouldn’t have had a psychopathic reality TV guy with no political experience end up as president

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I just sent an email reply to a really wonderful old prof who’s providing me with a reference and it went like (almost verbatim, but in real sentences)

- thanks again

- yes you’re correct about those dates

- my pronouns are she/her

- sadly I took U Manchester off my list because of all the antisemitism

- thanks again

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The Happy Turtle by Tzahi Finkelstein. turtle appears to smile as a dragonfly alights on its nose. Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Israeli photographer Tzahi Finkelstein largely ignored this Balkan pond turtle when he first saw it while taking pictures of birds in Israel’s Jezreel Valley. The turtle walked alone in the shallow water for a while, but then, a northern banded dragonfly flitted past Finkelstein’s lens and paused on the reptile’s nose.

Rather than consuming the insect, the turtle tipped its head upward and opened its mouth in what looked to the photographer to be a pleasured grin. Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine

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I think if someone’s old enough to remember how the war in Iraq started and they’re still saying “this is just like Iraq” they have got to be dealing with unresolved trauma from the Bush years

"This is just like Iraq war propaganda in 2001!"

These people are all so stupid. The UN identified uranium enriched up to 60%, which has no civilian use and can be enriched to weapons-grade percentages within months. The Iranian regime has said they want a bomb. They have said they want to destroy Israel and the US and others. Like.