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if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

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I love stories that are about like the inherent intimacy of going through a really intense experience with someone, and it’s less common but I think it can be interesting too if the character otherwise doesn’t really like that person or share nearly anything in common with them but still feels tied to them in a certain way because they’re the only other person who’ll ever really understand and share that part of them

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I REALLY LIKE BEING TRANSGENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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if the 3rd graders who come to my job can understand that we have to shear our sheep for their benefit as well as ours, idk why the grown adults at peta can’t.

intentional fearmongering and misinformation about domestic livestock doesn’t even hurt the big companies– yknow, the ones whose practices may actually be harmful. it hurts the family farmers, the local farms who actually put effort into caring for their animals.

are you one of those people mislead by peta and other biased sources? well, here’s some facts, from someone who works directly with sheep:

domestic sheep need to be sheared. they don’t shed like wild sheep– like literally, at all. if we don’t shear them, it just keeps growing. which leads to problems like heat exhaustion, the wool gets too heavy for them, it can grow up around their eyes and hold dirt & debris there and blind them. it matts and rips and is horrible for the animals.

shearing is not a violent process. at all. we demonstrate our shearing every year to the public and small children and it is not traumatic for anyone involved, esp not the sheep. here’s how it works:

when you get a sheep off balance, they freeze. its just how sheep do, if you throw off their equilibrium they’re just like “alright. this is my life now.” so the shearer wrangles the sheep, and as soon as they get her off her feet and either on her back or her bottom, they freeze. ours sits them down like people and its hilarious to see!

then, using electric shears that have the same safety features as the kind you use to shave people hair, the shearer shaves the fleece off in one big piece. they’ll move the sheep around to get to some spots, and when they’re done, they just let go and step back. the sheep stands up and toddles off, and viola! done!

just like with human haircuts, sometimes they get nicks from the razor. it’s never enough to warrant concern–its just like when you nick yourself shaving in the shower. it doesn’t hurt them much at all, happens very rarely if at all, and it heals within a day or two. sheeps’ skin makes lanolin, an oil that helps heal these minor wounds as well as keep their wool healthy. its used in a lot of our products as well– namely lotion!

we shear our sheep the first weekend of april. once a year, in that sweet spot so that they won’t be too hot in summer but it gives it time to grow back and keep em warm in the winter. you know the first thing our sheep do every time they get sheared?

they go to the nearest fence post and scratch all those itchy spots they couldn’t reach through their wool.

it is good, healthy, nontraumatic and helpful for humans to shear domestic sheep as long as its done correctly, which isn’t hard to do. if anyone tells you otherwise, they don’t know what they’re talking about.

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Women of Sinners - Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Natalia Dyer at The Cartier Queen's Cup Polo in England | June 15, 2025

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Everyone is so confused by they/them until you do not use they/them, then suddenly it's the only pronouns they understand

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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my losers secret santa for @clownbrainrot!! sorry its a little late, it ended up taking longer than i thought even with the limited colors. hope you still like it!! : )

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stancy + fondness

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I don’t care whether Stephen King knew what bisexuality was in 1986 he still wrote Richie that way

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AYO “COVER GIRL” EDEBIRI

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“FAT DYKES RULE” at the new york city dyke march, june 2000

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Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield The Hellfire Club, Stranger Things

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Them <3

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Here’s your 1,000mg prescription of reassurance