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utterly obsessed

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he is INSANE

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You enter a bar. The friendly barkeep gives you a knowing glance and leans in conspiratorially. “What ho, weary traveler! I hear tell you’re seeking information. I may have the information you seek, but - perchance you have something that might jog my memory?”

Do you:

Offer coin

Offer catnip

Offer a good head scratch

Hang head sadly and walk away

”You charlatan! I will have the information by force!”

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hey y’all one of my fav black woman nail techs woke up to her shop being shot up and now she has to pay to replace all of the glass in the front of her shop out of pocket. if you have it on you could you please consider sending her a couple dollars to help ease the burden of this unexpected expense? her cashapp is https://cash.app/$graffitichick and her venmo is https://venmo.com/lauren-boyd-25.

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Animals sketched in little waistcoats make me feel every emotion

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why don’t you go dip a hunk of bread into a bowl of hot homemade soup and maybe you’ll calm down buddy

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So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us

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I wish ppl would give a shit abt the fact that to stimulus check excludes adult dependants, like imagine everyone (theoretically) getting money except you, who are specifically excluded bc ppl think you're useless and a burden, and ppl kinda just shrug it off. 50 yrs from now ppl are gonna discuss that in history texts and see it for what it is

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I rediscovered a pre-vegetarian favorite by happening to have all of the necessary on hand.

Quorn Meatless Chicken Pieces and sugar snap peas, cooked in a bit of butter and a goodly amount of honey and sriracha with a dah of salt. Atop basmati rice cooked in veggie broth.

So effing good.

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it would be a shame if this got lost in the news cycle

Not everyone was left satisfied, however.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, whose office has filed several claims against Purdue and the Sacklers over the last three years, said they must be held accountable for their actions.

“A company like Purdue that has so egregiously violated the public trust should not be allowed to continue forward as a public trust corporation,” Grewal said in a statement after the plea. “The Sacklers should not be allowed to buy their way out of liability.”

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in my history of comics class for the webcomics unit i sat there thinking please can we not bring up homestuck. so everybody in this class can continue believing that i am a normal human being. but somebody DID bring it up. and then i was like. fine. i wont say anything. ill continue being normal. but when the class discussion boiled down to “this comic is influential but none of us know anything about it so we cant say anything meaningful” i was like fine. fine. takes the deepest swig imaginable from my flash and unmutes my mic. i hear youre all in need of an expert

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People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.

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This is great 🙌🏾

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maybe its bc i live in a place where forestry is one of the dominant industries but like tree planting rly isnt good. like the majority of the time its done by forestry companies to “offset” what they’ve cut down, and they almost always just plant fir & spruce monocrops and then they prevent the rest of the forest from naturally regenerating by spraying glyphosate, because they want to kill off the hardwoods that grow back since softwoods are worth more to the pulp industry… anything a company does that is supposedly “green” never is.

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them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: