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Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

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Switching between these every day

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if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast. end of story.

if a surgeon says your child has to fast, they have to fast. even if they are rreeeaaaallly hungry. even if they beg for food. even if they cry. even if they throw a tantrum. even if they scream for hours.

if a surgeon says you have to fast, you have to fast.

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

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A lot of problems can be solved just by removing some foods, some people, and some habits from your life. Read that again.

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obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

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I love you primordial deities

I love you titans and titanesses

I love you lesser known/worshiped deities

💕💕💕💕

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sometimes paganism is walking down to the coffee shop and getting a self-care drink as a devotional activity for your deity

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You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be homophobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be transphobic.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be racist.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be anti-imaginate.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and be a nazi.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and mock ANY of the gods.

You can't be a hellenic polytheist and hate ANY of the gods.

Pick a side. The gods or hatefulness.

You. Can't. Choose. Both.

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This spring I want someone to put pretty little flowers in my hair

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i need everyone to hear the story of colman domingo meeting his husband bc it's just the most beautiful thing i've ever heard

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I like when people like a character so way too much that it transcends even self shipping or kinning and becomes more of a patron saint that you pray to type of deal

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i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

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Blessed April everyone 🌸 🌿🕯🐇

May this month bring you warmth, safety, joy and all the abundance your heart desires. 💓 May you find moments of peace and connection with what truly nourishes your soul. May Dionysus bless us all with love and celebration🍷 (Also one month until Beltane yay☀️🍀)

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Pro-tip if like me you don't know how to properly do offering and you have some teas, you can always offer the steam of the tea for "ouranic" deities and the tea bag (or at least the remaining herbs and plants) for "chthonic" deities. And because many deities are both you can give both and still drink your tea (because, we are not going to lie here, good healthy teas are often expensive)