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they were separated at birth

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what hyperfixation was this about someone decipher this for me

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DONT NAME YOUR FARM DILF FARM

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wassup my hot sigma baddie 😝😝😝

im gonna make out w/ u (ignore the fact i havent been on tumblr in like a month)

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your yearly reminder that especially around this time of year, do not immediately hate the svastika symbol, bc it was a hindu symbol first!!!

how to tell them apart???

the hindu svastika (su=good and asti=to be, meaning something like "wellwisher") is aligned with the floor, has a slight outward bend at the tips, and has dots in the squares

the nazi appropriation of the svastika (theres an actual name for it but i dont remember) is usially at a 45 degree angle and has no bend or dots

leave the hindu svastikas alone but please graffiti the nazi hate symbols

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you know the drill, op disabled reblogs etc etc etc

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Not to be an anarchist on main but we should all have free time and space to make things and be creative

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Night before the art portfolio hand-in

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punk's not dead, just freezing

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herbert west voice: so when "Jesus Christ" raises the dead it's a "miracle" but when I, Herbert West...

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Today I'm going to talk about a form of radical resistance that anyone, no matter their situation, can engage in: cultivating hope.

Are you filled with hopelessness and despair at the state of the world? I have some good news and some bad news.

The bad news is you've fallen for a tool of the status quo. Despair freezes us. It keeps us from imagining and working towards a better world. Despair is easy, because it means we have no reason to take action to make things better. Capitalism? Our oppressors? They want you hopeless for a reason. Because you're easier to control that way.

The good news is! There's a lot of very real reasons for hope. However, hope is something you have to cultivate. It takes work. It is a radical act. It is looking at the status quo and going "actually, no. I refuse."

Maybe you can't risk losing your job to unionize your workplace. Or maybe you're an oppressed minority who can't risk going to protests because our criminal justice system is racist. But cultivating hope in yourself is just as radical an act of resistance as those two things. It is another form of imagining and working towards a better world.

It's not as flashy as starting a union or going to a protest, true. Maybe it feels selfish, like you're only helping yourself. But that's not true. It's a lot harder to help others when you, yourself, are frozen by despair. By working on yourself, you are making it easier for you to help others, in whatever form that takes for you.

For me, since I started my hopepunk practice I have been more able to engage in activism, even if I no longer post about it. Before calls to action froze me. I was so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of our problems that I was unable to address any of them.

Since I've started cultivating hope in myself, I've unfrozen enough that I was able to choose the causes that matter to me and put my energy there. I engage in more charitable donations and political actions now than I did before. I am happier and also helping others more than I did before.

Cultivating hope in yourself is hard at first. You feel defeated before you even start. But you start putting work in and you find a little hope. And then a little more. And a little more. And then, suddenly. It snowballs and you're doing better than you have in years, and hope comes easier to you now.

If you don't know where to start, go follow @hopepunk-humanity @hope-for-the-planet @afeelgoodblog and @reasonsforhope or follow the hopepunk tag

There's also things like the good news network, who have a daily email they send out with a handful of positive news stories. Some of them I find kinda dumb and shallow like "lost dog returned after 3 years" type stories. But there's also a lot about scientific advancments in green energy, medical care, etc that I find helpful for cultivating hope. Did you know about the CRISPR gene editing tool that's being used to cure incurable illnesses? I didn't! And now I do! afeelgoodblog also runs a substack "best news of last week" newsletter every Monday that I find has stories with more substance, tho it is US focused.

Despair isn't helping anyone, especially not you. Engage in a radical act and start cultivating hope in yourself. You deserve to leave that despair behind, and in the process, you are directly going against the powers that have decided we are easier to control if we are miserable.

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not amab, not afab, but a secret third thing (afag)

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acab (all crabs are bastards)

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