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i know people make these kinds of posts with fictional characters a lot but like. hank green truly is one of The Most Guys Ever. like. he's one of the earliest youtubers who is still on there. he's a 43-year-old tiktok star. he's a science educator. he got cancer and his response was to make a tier list of the press's coverage of his cancer announcement. the president of the united states sent him a message of support and he told the president that he was pissing out the cancer. years earlier he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and his response was to write a polka song about it. he created vidcon. he's the ceo of a company that produces a shitton of educational series (well, not acting ceo at the moment due to the aforementioned cancer). his guitar says "this machine pwns n00bs" on it. he invented 2D glasses. one of his earliest videos to get popular was about animal sex. between him and his brother, he was known as "the science one" (or "the music one") while his brother was "the writer one," and then he wrote two new york times bestselling novels. his most controversial opinion is that butt is legs. he's done so many things that there is a website dedicated to counting the number of days since he started a new thing. he and his brother use their internet following to (among other things) fight maternal/infant mortality in sierra leone. he has a baked bean furby. hes even bisexual

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One of the weird things about 21st century life is that in every majority-christian nation, the system is set up so that people with the most resources receive the most care and support. So, like, if you go to a hospital and you have a lot of money, you get treated first.

But in the Christian sacred texts, God is extremely clear about how social orders should be set up, which is that the last should be first to care and support. So the poor and marginalized should have access to the best care and support, and whatever resources are left after the poor are well-supported should be used in service of those who aren’t poor.

I think it is weird that God is so unambiguous about this, and people are so unambiguously into God and God’s will for us, and yet we don’t do much to amend these systems.

(We ARE better at providing care for the poor than we used to be, which is why there is so much less poverty today than there was 30 or 50 years ago. But it’s utterly obvious that we do NOT have a system that offers preferential care and support for the poor. Instead we offer preferential care to the rich–which feels so natural and inevitable to us that I often can’t see past the confines of this injustice. But it isn’t natural or inevitable. There was a time when monarchy felt inevitable, after all.)

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Dear Unpaid Intern,

They really should be paying you.

Even if we know you'd donate all of it to fighting maternal mortality in Sierra Leone.

<3

Have you seen the shit that rich people spend money on? I pay to have dftba's logo on the uniform of England's 88th best professional soccer team, and you think I should be entrusted with MORE MONEY?!?!?!

Lavender-cherry-pie, with all due respect from one person whose blog name was randomly generated by tumblr to another person whose blog name was randomly generated by tumblr, I am and shall remain the world's only ethically sourced unpaid intern.

But, I mean, just look at those patches in the liminal space between left thigh and buttock. HOW COULD I NOT?!?!??!

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Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work

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i have 3 moods:

skips every song on my ipod

lets the music play without interruption

plays the same song on repeat for days

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hey folks,,,,,... glad 2 b here on tubblr . here's a little self-portrait of me,, a human male

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waters so amazing because you can drink it really sloppy style and like spill it all over yourself and it doesnt even leave a stain. you dont even have to wash it out/ . because its already washed

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hes waiting by the microwave

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From the archives

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Unmute !

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[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]

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“how could you have forgotten that” i forget Everything. unless i remember

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