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you kind of have to be genuinely insanely isolated from even thinking about real world racism to be seeing these ""slurs for robots/AI users 🤪"" and not have alarm bells going off about how clearly they're based on real world violent slurs for people of color. the fact that you didn't think about it is itself a problem, not a defense!!

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Black people in the U.S. are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime like murder than white people, according to a new report published Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations. The finding is based on an analysis of exonerations for serious crimes in the U.S. over the last four decades, which found that Black people make up less than 14% of the U.S. population but account for 53% of exonerations in the country.

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me when i reach out first: ewww they hate me im annoying i should leave them alone

when people reach out to me first: YAYY THEY REMEBER I EXIST I AM KNOWN AND I AM LOVED

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My baby is 13 months old.

I no longer search for milk or baby food.

All I want now… is a piece of bread.

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maisy! (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) + view here

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panel redraw 💔

original:

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This website is like a hazy fog out of which all kinds of strange pictures and words appear

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starting late, so I'm doing these at my own pace!

My goal is finishing all prompts before the month end, somehow

Smaugust day 1: Queen glory from wings of fire, drawn w/purple ink in a fountain pen

Smaugust day 2: random ass Drake on a fly agaric mushroom, using some random swirly pencil

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a lot of the time when people single out tumblr staff I don't think it's super coherent since every social media is Like This but I really can't think of any other website whose official ads and publications are so consistently full of typos including in The Actual Name of the Brand

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some keys to happiness:

having (and making / planning) things to look forward to

altruism / generosity / purpose (I lump these together into / working and spending effort on helping whoever/whatever you WANT to help)

recognizing that you will sometimes suffer and sometimes things are unfair

realizing how much luck and history control things

internalizing just how MUCH agency you have to control your present actions and your future circumstances

making things

looking for the good in others and working hard to understand your own flaws / harm you've caused

recognizing the bad things others have done, telling them that, and enforcing your own boundaries YOURSELF

having self compassion and seeing how you are kind, generous, resilient, smart, creative, etc

practicing - and I do mean practicing - gratitude

exercise that you like and a little exercise you don't like

socializing

not expecting perfection

rest - and knowing the difference between resting vs. rotting

going outside

understanding yourself about 85%

accepting that the last 15% is probably not worth the time and self obsession

as a neurodivergent person - understand your limitations and respect them. AND push them a little; we deserve full, rich lives, and we don't have that much time to experience the earth.

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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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Today was one of the happiest days for me and my children.

Today, I withdrew what was left of the donations I received thanks to your support and kindness to finally buy some food for my children. A few supply trucks were allowed in, with high prices, but it was still a chance we couldn't miss.

I was able to buy some flour, vegetable oil, cheese, and sugar.

These may seem like ordinary things to you, but to us, they are dreams come true.

I woke up early to bake each of my children a piece of bread half to eat at the start of the day, and the other half at the end. I filled them with that delicious cheese we’ve missed for so long.

I made them sweet tea with sugar something we hadn’t tasted in a long time.

My little one, Youssef, who still doesn’t speak, pointed to the tea and said, “Me… me…”trying to say he wanted some too.

And Hussein looked at me and said, “Mama, I feel like I’m dreaming…”

They sat together and enjoyed the moment as if they had entered another world.

I don’t know how to express to you what I felt, or the joy I saw on their faces.

But I do know this: none of it would’ve been possible without your compassion.

You were the ones who raised our voices when the world turned away.

I can’t say that the famine is over but today, for just a moment, it stepped back.

Today, I seized what felt like our last chance to live a happy day.

I trust that you won’t leave us alone.

Please, keep supporting us. Help us bring a little joy into our children’s lives.

Your donations are not just support they are life itself.

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I know that the UK censorship laws are evils and fucked up on the face of them but I feel like we kinda blew past the part where it uses a phrenology machine to check your age.

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nearly fucking choked in my gender clinic appointment today when asked “what would you do if you had thoughts of suicide or self harm now?” and all i could think to say was “i would get out there and vote”

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[goes back in time to caveman times but a neolithic hunter-gatherer very clearly recognizes the sound of a grindr notification on my phone]