[onlycheffings]

Pas a deux

[cleaningouttherooms]

I feel like the common literacy advice to "read critically" is very daunting when you first start reading (especially in self study) non fiction or theory and you keep experiencing the common "agree with the last position you heard" problem. this problem persists for much longer than people like to think it does - how are you supposed to question opinions you hear if the thesis of every book you read is the first opinion you ever encountered on a topic? how do you know what to think when everyone tells you they're right? this is just my experience but for me the two things that helped the most were:

to read criticism; reviews of books, someone's 10 note tumblr post, essays that respond to those ideas, twitter threads, your friend who took a class one time, etc. simply put, the more you steal people's opinions, the more you can sharpen your own. this gave me an idea of what the stakes are, how to pick and choose useful and useless aspects of a text, and, metatextually, what kind of aspects of a text can be criticized, a scope that is much much bigger than I initially thought, and:

to focus on a single topic at first. it's seductive to want to read everything because of the way people write those theory essential reading lists but only reading one seminal book on each topic is not a way to develop your understanding. by starting with various books that deal with a specific topic that interests you (for me, 19th century french psychiatry) you can get a better sense of the various approaches to a topic, the way historians contradict and respond to each other, the difference between an academic book, a news article, an anonymous anarchist library essay, and a communist propaganda leaflet on the same topic, and most importantly: you realize, as you accumulate knowledge, that published writings are often wrong and false! and realising the scope of this helps you be more confident in doubting and questioning any piece of writing in a critical way.

[wolf-aid]

My head hurts from hunger Please donate

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Simply this post explains what I am going through now please help me and donate I want to buy some food for our children please donate if you can I am verified by gazavetters Number 25 on the list

[wolf-aid]

Please don't ignore us and the hunger we are going through Please share and donate too

[wolf-aid]

Why does no one care? Why is everyone ignoring me? Why like this, guys? I swear to you that if you were going through the hunger that we are going through here, but only we are not passing numbers on screens. The whole world is ignoring me, so please do not be one of those who ignore me Donate here 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Donate to Help Ibrahim's family escape the Gaza war, organized by Ibrahim Yasser

Hello I am Ibrahim, 15 years old, I seek your help and assistance to save… Ibrahim Yasser needs your support for Help Ibrahim's family e

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Please please help my brother, i love him so dearly and i want him to live. Ibrahim, someday we will meet and eat wonderful food together, i promise.

[wolf-aid]

Oh my sister Azura I wish so and also it would be so awesome but everyone is ignoring me and not donating to me please guys help me and also thank you so much my sister for your kindness to me I love you too please donate to me

[wolf-aid]

You know I am very tired and also I need some sleep please my dear friend share this post if you have not shared it and also send me some money please I am not begging just writing these words to get some food from and Please donate and do not ignore us. The planes are not stopping. Let's not forget that the situation is getting more dangerous. Please share this post.

[wolf-aid]

Dear friends we are very close to 53000 please donate just 500 euros to get there please help me and my family we are dying here our children are crying just for food please help us and donate please donate We die slowly, donate

[iftadwascool]

a lot // Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage

[ava-deb]

SHUT THE FUCK UP

[finalgirlguy]

imagine having a crush on your sexy boss who’s 3 times your age. and sometimes her nails dig marks in your arms and sometimes she hugs you when you’re scared but it’s just for the cameras. all of this is happening to my friend ava

[finalgirlguy]

btw from deborah’s pov this is a nightmare. imagine your entire life you have been sabotaged and boycotted bc you are a woman. imagine you’re ambitious, and because of that, because you dared to want anything at all, the world constantly punished you and mocked you. imagine if the one time you got close to having what you wanted the people closest to you betrayed you and abandoned you. imagine seeing yourself in a woman, and she’s the parts of you you hate the most, but she’s also good, she’s you if you weren’t so fucked up, she’s the first person in years you let yourself be vulnerable with. imagine to get the ONE thing you’ve always wanted you have to be the horrible person you always knew you were, but she finally learnt how to be cruel from you. imagine again, after 50 years, you got what you always wanted, but everyone close to you leaves you again. imagine you’re going to die alone, and you’ve always known that, and any idea otherwise was just a silly dream. ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING TO MY FRIEND DEBORAH. AND SHE ALSO THINKS SHE’S TOO OLD TO BE BISEXUAL

[sacred-portal]

[mohd33]

The ceasefire in #Gaza is closer than before . We have been wishing and waiting for this moment for a long time. Our souls are tired of waiting and our greatest ambitions have become to stop the killing machine that made us see death in all its forms, from burning, torture, hunger and cold. I hope you support my sister who suffers from the lack of all the special requirements for a pregnant woman. Thank you for always supporting me. news | vetted | Details about my sister situation

Urgent : Helping a family stuck in Gaza and a pregnant woman

I am Ibrahim iwais, a father of sons ,  brothers and sisters in Gaza.This is a desperate request for help evacuating my family from Gaza so

[transmutationisms]

only $5 raised yesterday!

[transmutationisms]

please help mohammed raise enough to evacuate his most vulnerable family members when rafah re-opens in the ceasefire deal!

[sacred-portal]

[aapokriff]

[wildspringday]

you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you're lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website

[woodmeat]

Y'all self conches about titty veins? Lol

[dapperalbinobudgie]

We’re self conscious about everything

[woodmeat]

I’ll suck a blood clot out that MF like I’m Los Feratu

[herpsandbirds]

American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) swimming in a freshwater spring, family Alligatoridae, Florida, USA

photograph by Shelly Collins

[cronehoney]

I --

[runningbacks]

mad men//edward hopper

[newgodpho]

[sydrichie]