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Y'all still blaming disabled people for choosing survival and quality of life while corporations are causing climate change.

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"cascarilla" 🤝🏼 "smudging" 🤝🏼 "road opener"

terms that keep being appropriated within witchy and pagan circles because people don't realize they refer to specific things and are not just generic terms

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i speak for the trees and the trees fucking hate the US government

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Saw this on Reddit today. Things just keep getting worse.

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UPG Chit Chat: Persephone

What are some of y'alls UPGs regarding Lady Persephone?

For me, it's that she's very helpful at finding lost items if you ask/pray to her about it.

(Pls don't bully others for their UPGs)

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The death of Orpheus- Metamorphoses, Ovid (trans. David Raeburn)

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What are y'alls UPGs with Hestia? I'll go first:

Hestia loves cherry flavored sparkling water as a libation offering

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Some hellenic polytheists: nooo you have to be traditional in the way you practice!! you can't just bring modern crap to the gods!!

Me: hey Persephone do you want a Pringle?

Persephone: oh damn y'all were onto something with sour cream and onion--

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Hades: Hey. Hey. Hey. HEY. HEY. HEY!!

Me: gimme a few minutes

*the next day a relative passes*

Me: how could I have seen this coming??

Hades: ...

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Just got three awesome books! Got a physical copy of Greek Religion by Walter Burkert and also got physical copies of the Illiad and the Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson!

Expect a storm of posts soon 👀

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by the way, quietly bottling your discomfort with someone and just hoping they'll "get the hint" until you can't take it anymore and then taking it to the nearest moderator isn't "setting a boundary" or "being victimized," it's actually called "being a huge piece of shit" and "expecting people to read your mind."

Sorry about your conflict aversion, but you actually need to tell people when they're making you uncomfortable. like, with explicit, clear, unmistakeable words that don't give you a safe cover of plausible deniability with which you can back out and "still be the good guy." It is kinder to let someone down face-to-face so they can hurt and move on knowing what went wrong than it is to lead someone on and then stab them in the fucking back, you know?

Also, I cannot stress this enough, it is not actually someone else's fault for making you uncomfortable when you literally make a point to lie to them about how much you like them by pretending you're enjoying their company more than you are. That's your fault. That's called making a bed to lie in. Maybe just desperately hoping someone who has already misinterpreted how close they are to you will just happen to pick up on the subtle signs of you desperately hiding your discomfort is, frankly, fucking stupid, and you need to get over yourself and say real words to them instead of getting some third party to punish them for your own inability to communicate.

Sorry this one isn't as nice as my other posts, but some of you need a wake-up slap. Stop fucking burning autistic people and trans women one-by-one because being a coward is easier than being a villain. It's not fucking nice, it's not cute, and the more I see it happen, the less forgivable it gets. Grow the fuck up and change in the scary but necessary ways.

Because it's kinder to tell someone when they're fucking up than it is to let them make the same mistakes in ignorance until you've secretly tallied enough transgressions to safely write them off as unforgivable, and thus disposable. Because I care about you, and everyone else, enough to give you a real chance to actually correct your harmful behaviors by being honest about the harm they cause. Because I believe people can make hurtful mistakes while still being genuine unintended mistakes, and that they can change.

Hint, hint.

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Important Addition: not every post is meant for you or targeting you (aka Bean Soup Theory)

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

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Cora Latz and Etta Perkins were a lesbian couple who met in 1972 and were together until Perkins’ death in 1998. In 1973, they held a commitment ceremony; in 1998, they privately renewed their vows with the staff who cared for them at the Jewish Home for the Aged.

GLBT Historical Society

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Next time you're around when the mail gets delivered, ask your delivery person if they're understaffed or not.

But don't hold them up too much, they have a lot of work to do.

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jewish vintage social justice buttons - x

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