[anglaised]

it is so annoying being so self aware about all my issues like okay what now girl

[santa-ana-winds]

[petaltexturedskies]

I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[komsomolka]

Family selfishness is more cruel than personal selfishness. A person who would be ashamed to sacrifice another’s well-being for their own sake considers it their duty to exploit others' misfortunes and hardships for the good of the family. [...]

The most common and incorrect justification for doing something wrong is to say you are doing it for the good of the family. Miserliness, corruption, oppression of workers, dishonest dealing – they can all be justified by love for the family. [...]

There is nothing either good or bad in love for one’s family, just as in love for oneself; both are quite natural phenomena. Love for one’s family can be a vice if it transcends certain limits, but it can never be a virtue.

Lev Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom.

[depsidase]

[tamamita]

Man who was a Blackwater Mercenary, 3 times Iraq veteran, who served as a guard at Abu Ghraib, one time Afghanistan veteran, who said he loved it, and got a Nazi tattoo to celebrate it, and was accused a couple months ago of sexual assault and abuse - which the Yankee left were cool with and defended - is also a rapist

[tamamita]

I sincerely believe you should go to hell

[anonymousmorris]

Graham Platner ran on an anti-zionist, universal public healthcare, no foreign interventions, pro labor union, etc.

Susan Collin is running on a pro Israel platform, voted for the original Iraq war, voted for the anti boycott act (the one against bds), and voted for additional ice funding as well as the big beautiful bill.

[hotchocolate-coldchocolate]

the thing is that it didn't have to be graham platner. there were other democratic candidates with good policies and less baggage but they weren't relatable enough to the main voter base there (white male)

[hellallamerican]

a ton of people have unexpectedly followed me over the last 2 days so here is my rent-lowering gunshot:

the american south is the most racially diverse and poorest region of the united states, and any political sentiment that treats the south is stupid or expendable is inherently racist and classist. a lot of y'all are racist and classist. the south is also the heart of american culture. argue with a wall. you cannot deny that everybody in the entire world does not emulate artists from atlanta. there is vested interest in keeping the south poor and uneducated BECAUSE this is the most racially diverse region in this country. if you actually give a fuck about progress, you would fight for the south, not mock us.

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 50*50 cm “autumn, field and pine” 2023

[blessicablimpson]

Anastasia Trusova — “Through The Walls”, 2020

Acrylic on linen (70 x 70 cm)

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «sunset over lavender» 2025

[sandersstudies]

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

[sandersstudies]

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

[hotchocolate-coldchocolate]

the way the announcers were talking about cabo verde tonight was very strange btw

[hotchocolate-coldchocolate]

everyone looks like someone but me, does anyone else feel this way?

[wifegideonnav]

the fact that op turned off rbs is very very funny to me. anyway i want this post on my blog too.

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

:/

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[landsccape]

[uncleromeo]

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.