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This is the best thing I’ve ever read in my whole goddamn life.

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I’d pay top dollar to watch this for an hour

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Fury: the world needs a new iron man

Peter:

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It's 4th of July and I'm fucking watching pathoma....#regerts

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Just saying, but if you’re procrastinating putting in the work that you must, you aren’t hungry enough to change your situation. The universe shouldn’t have to give you the same lesson 20 times before you get it together. Stop treating your life like a game and make discipline your best friend. Nobody can help you out better than yourself.

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Official count down to USMLE has begun

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These are hilarious! NGL major preference for adults here. Other adult bonuses:

Don’t need naps

Can go on hikes for longer

Can be left alone for longer

Less fragile

Teeth don’t randomly fall out

Majority of teenage hormonal bullshit is over

Surprise fear periods done with

No more growing in size or coat

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Looking back on this tumblr and realizing not much has changed for me...im hella more confident though...and maybe a bit more prepared. Alot more angry though lol

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Reminding myself that progress takes time. Getting frustrated early won’t help nor does overplanning. The only way to make better progress is to consistently work hard. Not just when inspiration hits.

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my study buddy always falls asleep

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Dear lord, please motivate my ass to pass this last block exam... thanks sincerely, a very exhausted, stressed med student

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Who Is Doris Payne?

Long before Joanne the Scammer, there was Doris Payne, notorious jewel thief. 

Payne was born in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia in 1940. Born to a Black father and a Cherokee mother, she grew up in an intensely violent environment where her father beat her mother. 

Through the abuse, her mother was too poor to leave the man who beat on her as a young Doris watched on. She knew then that she’d never depended on a man in this way and that she would do whatever it took to break free.

By the time the domestic abuse turned bloody, Payne had developed a little trick that she played on store owners around Slab Fork after once being treated less than by a white store owner. 

At the time, Doris’ mother agreed to buy Doris a watch if she got all A’s in school. And when she did and went to pick out the watch, the store owner attended to her, but only until a white man crossed the threshold of his store. 

 Asking Doris to leave, watch still in her possession, she nearly left before calling out to the store owner that he’d forgotten his watch. And what was a childish attempt to embarrass the man, turned into an adrenaline rush of a game which she showed to her friends. But as things grew worse at home, she turned her sights to actual theft: stealing a piece of jewelry, pawning it, and giving the cash to her mother to leave town.

But stealing jewels and gems wasn’t really a means of survival after that point. For Doris, a lot of it was something of revenge. Doris stole not just for the thrills and cash—she stole to stick it to the White Man. 

To tell show his cracka ass that she, as a Black woman, could manipulate and outsmart them. To fool them. To turn a poor Black girl from West Virginia into a British trust fund heiress, operating in social circles where, at the time, she would have been working for as a maid.

“Stealing jewelry, it was just exciting. It also became a social outlet for me. That was my everything. I could just be anybody I wanted to be… for a minute.”

Payne’s defiance brought her all around the world, from Geneva, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, the French Riviera and more. To Cartier, Bulgari, Tiffany, and Chopard. Stealing became an all-access pass into culture and wealth a Black woman of her day couldn’t imagine being a part of. Perhaps it was not the most moral way into this lifestyle, but it damn sure is marvelous to look back on.

Amazingly, she is an active criminal even today, despite being well into her eighties. Payne has been the subject of public fascination for the most part of her criminal career. There is a considerable amount of literature written on her and a documentary made on her life and exploits.

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IF A CREEP WANTS YOUR NUMBER

A series of fake numbers to leave behind.

1-888-447-5594 - Easter egg number for finishing God of War, contains a dramatic speech. Personal favorite.

605-475-6968 - Rejection hotline, politely explains that whoever gave you this number turned ya down, buddy

888-276-6760 - The 24-hour Klu Klux Klanline where you can get a FREE INFORMATION BOOKLET!!!!1!

866-740-4531 - Only responds with “I am Groot”

206-569-5829 - Seattle radio station “Loser Line”. If they leave a weird voicemail, it could get broadcast over the airwaves.

Stay safe, people.

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i forget how miserable i am around classmates

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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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