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my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

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on death row for having an earnest heart

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Luisa Saldanha - Dogs will be dogs, 2025 - Acrylic on canvas

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how have I never seen this one before??

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Rough animation test with everyones favourite panting dog

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I like when little kids lie not to be malicious but because they’re literally figuring out how true/false conditions work. Like they learn to talk and then they’re like wait… I can just say ANY words, huh.

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a duty of an honest eastern european is to expose and condemn anti-romani racism at every opportunity

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what can we even do now? i mean this seriously, i've been donating every month, i've boosted, i've tried to share the truth, but it just doesn't stop. what can we do? this is madness it's always been madness, it's inhumane, it's demonic. how can we save them?

you keep doing it. i know it's tough because what you're doing is long-term work in a short-term emergency. but it matters regardless. now is not the time to stop anything, it's the time to do as much as you can. i shared this screenshot before, but here it is again:

from the new yorker interview with james elder UNICEF chief. key part of this sentence: there is big international pressure and israel loosens controls

there has to be big international pressure. you are part of this. israel has spent 75 years becoming as resilient as possible to big international pressure. it takes an international outcry to let in a paltry can of baby formula. but without you doing what you've been doing, there won't be the pressure even for that. and i know you feel like you've been as present as possible, but actually i have noticed many people clocking out of thinking about palestine. i used to get 30, 40, 50k notes on posts about palestine. now i get around ten times less even though arguably far less people defend what israel is doing. that's less pressure on israel, and this is easy goals. bring those people back. keep palestine the topic of conversation.

so anything you do now to increase pressure is the most important thing you'll do today. and for everyone else reading this, don't forget to donate to the sameer project.

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SOOOO hard to talk about body issues with teens because it’s like “how your body looks doesn’t matter well I mean it may matter to society/others but it SHOULDN’T matter to them so it shouldn’t matter to you but I realize that right now it does matter to you because it affects how others/society treats you and it’s hard to just convince yourself that doesn’t matter”

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Something I always like to see in media is men and women just being drinking buddies. No sexual tension or anything. Just getting drunk and singing karaoke or starting bar fights or something. Maybe complaining about their exes and eating pizza too.

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nobody is faking POTS, fibromyalgia or ME/CFS for attention because nobody gives a fuck if you have POTS, fibromyalgia or ME/CFS. these are three conditions people are always accused of faking online (largely because they’re common chronic illnesses and young women are disproportionately effected by them 😃) and it’s like…..look around bitch. when was the last time you saw a fund for a cure CFS walkathon? you ever see a Google banner for fibromyalgia? these are illnesses that suck to have and that you are often treated like absolute dogshit by the medical community and pop culture at large if you do have them. you don’t get positive attention, or any attention at all, if you’re at home laying down 85% of your life.

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Museums not giving stolen artifacts and bodies back is bonkers. Like what if someone from China went into Arlington cemetery and dug up JFK’s dead body and took him and his eternal flame back to China and refused to give him back like that would be pretty messed up and kind of weird right like put John back that’s not where he goes but that’s basically what the British museum does every day

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It’s more comforting to convince yourself that all men are assholes then it is to face reality which is that your ex boyfriend wasn’t destined to become an asshole but for a variety of complicated societal and personal reasons he ended up that way anyways even though he could’ve chosen to not be an asshole

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Ok ok I can't stop thinking about it so I'm gonna write it out but there is something so deeply compelling to me about Van and Maxwell's dynamic because by every rule of proper society they shouldn't even be interacting but somehow. Out of the whole crew she's so often the one who includes him? From the first "Hey kid wanna climb the rigging?" To egging him on into the fight pit it's so....

Van and Max are societal opposites but classwise she's also the most similar to him out of the whole crew and out of the whole crew she admits she might also be cursed to him and....

Idk something something the level of distance Max has been trained to maintain between himself and everything else vs the level of distance Van keeps between herself and everyone else by keeping her secret(s) I dunno they compel me

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