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He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

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august

that oil canvas august dances over chaste apple skin and breaks it into leaves that lilt like wracked instruments

cinnamon is, too, a spice ; on our tongues it tastes sweet opened by your wry canines, my wild gnashing teeth

gold and brown : blue and green you sing them into me my august that i so adore and nip beneath our sheets

shivers of august

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panic attack @ 3:30am . bon appétit

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Hello My Freind 🌹

I want your support My house was destroyed and I am currently living in a tent with my children 😞

My Mom and Dad who suffer from chronic diseases, They need urgent medical care and medications that are not available 💔

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Mohammed-alhabil-Family

Please help my family by donating or reblog my campaign is going very slowly 🙏🍉

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Hello, please donate anything you can. A person’s life and safety is worth the cost of a few dollars. If you can’t donate, please share so that it may reach those who can.

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I love it when people try to claim representation in fiction is being taken “too far” to the point where it’s no believable. They’re like: 

“What’s next, a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum?” Hi, my name is Rachel, also known as Rachna, and I’m a mixed-race immigrant on the autism spectrum. 

“What’s next, a transgender Latino man with chronic pain?” What, you mean my former colleague, Marco? 

“What’s next, a Black Jewish lesbian?” Bitch, I know I three Black Jewish lesbians, WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING POINT?

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people think they shouldn't vote as a protest or whatever because they've been raised on boycotts. which do sometimes work.

boycotts deprive the target of money.

not voting does not deprive the government of money.

it does, however, deprive you of power.

it's not like a boycott.

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Additionally additionally it would be lovely for us to remember that, yes, despite being fat and hairy ! bears are not the stoic / dominant /masculine alternative to sassy / submissive / feminine twinks and otters. The terms twink, otter, and bear are not meant to be a sliding scale from traditional femininity to masculinity as it pertains to heteronormative archetypes.

There are feminine bears, disabled bears, squeamish bears, gnc bears, sassy bears, regressing bears, completely submissive bears that will not top their partners, asexual/aromantic bears, transgender bears, bears who don’t want to be your stoic dom daddy; there is more diversity than I could have enough time to detail. All of them are vital to our community, and all of them matter.

here since none of you know what a bear is

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When sorrow and difficulties strike hard, hope becomes the lone star in the dark sky. This is the story of Amira, a 23-year-old girl who found herself bearing the burden of her family after her father's death three years ago due to the coronavirus.

After my father's passing, I found myself taking care of my family, consisting of my mother, sister Noor, and brother Abdulrahman. My mother, suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, faces health problems that further complicate their situation. But courage and determination drive Amira forward.

I worked as a teaching assistant at the university while pursuing a master's degree in data science, and also worked as a programmer in a company. My life was going smoothly until war came and destroyed everything.

My university, workplace, and home were completely destroyed, forcing them to flee south in search of a safe haven. Now, I and my family live in tents for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, where they suffer from water shortages and the spread of diseases, posing an additional challenge, especially for my immunocompromised mother.

This is a brief about our daily suffering.

Please help me, my mother, my sister and my brother to go out to treat my mother because she suffers from widespread diseases because her immunity is weak and help us to complete our educational journey, me and my brother

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the news coming from gaza every single day is heartbreaking on levels that keep getting more and more. a boy with autism and down syndrome in gaza was killed by a zionist dog.

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Doctors should snark at each other more, be a bit mean. Not for no reason, mind you. But if five doctors blow me off about symptoms and doctor number six FINALLY runs actual tests and gets a diagnosis, I think it should be Doctor Six's right to call up the other five and tell them they're lazy pieces of shit. That should be socially encouraged. Those first five doctors clearly can't listen to patients, but maybe another doctor might finally get to them.

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sometimes when i miss my loved ones i talk about them. anything to breathe more of you into the world

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happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

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i love how we say ‘these kids are on their ipads so much they can’t learn or read anymore. they can’t regulate emotions because of screentime, they are entitled. these kids are helpless, and can’t follow simple instructions. they are making teachers and parents miserable, our generation is doomed’

instead of ‘Multi Billion dollar profiteers Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Evan Spiegal, Bobby Murphy, Zhang Yiming, Vanguard Group Inc., Blackrock Group Inc., and Meta continue to fail in protecting children in a meaningful way from their products that have proven time and time again in scientific studies to cause debilitating cognitive harm and withdrawal symptoms in child and adolescent users. They have the technology and resources, but will choose not to as long as it remains legal because protecting children from their product means losing the revenue they generate. They are using children for profit despite the epidemic of its negative impact. They are raising our children to be socially inept consumers addicted to online escapism.’

we have this habit of being so nasty to the people impacted by the outcome of the problem rather than its direct cause cause.

we will find a way to be patient with you, because you deserve our patience. i’m sorry we noticed what happened before we noticed how

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sometimes i feel like im gonna die and then i pile blankets down on the floor in my room and lay with my little brothers to take turns on their switch with music in the background and my star light on and it’s suddenly not as heavy u know

i love them so bad forever, cheers to the ones that make things gentler